# KDE Plasma 6

KDE Plasma 6 is the sixth generation of the KDE Plasma desktop environment. It is the successor of KDE Plasma 5 and was first released on 28 February 2024.

## Overview

KDE Plasma 6 was designed to not be a very large departure from KDE Plasma 5, instead being a series of improvements. KDE Plasma 6 is built using Qt 6, KDE Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear 24.02. In addition, support for the Wayland protocol was mainstreamed as the default graphical session, with X11 support made secondary. It introduces a new sound theme, Ocean, replacing Oxygen's sound theme as the default. Plasma 6 on Wayland has partial support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) and color blindness correction filters. The Discover app and settings were also improved and the 3D cube desktop effect was brought back.

## New features

Compared to the latest Plasma 5 release, the sixth generation brings the following new features:
* The panel floats by default. Panels can be configured using auto-hide mode and be resized, including being turned into a dock.
* Plasma Search allows customizing the ordering of search results, supports timezones conversion and matches the text in both the current system language and English.
* Support for the Astronomical and Umm al-Qura Calendars in the calendar applet.
* Support for use of both password and fingerprint authentication at the same time.
* Support for sound themes.

## History

The first Technology Preview of Plasma 6 was released on 28 February 2024.

### Releases

Releases of new versions are planned every 4 months (3 times a year) initially. Though it may move to 2 releases a year in the future.
Normal releases will stop receiving bugfixes as soon as the following release is available. The exception to this rule are LTS releases.
Plasma 6 releases :
| Version | Date | Key features |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.0" | Old version, not maintained: 6.0 | 28 Feb 2024 | First release of KDE Plasma 6.0 (also known as KDE MegaRelease 6) |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.0.1" | Old version, not maintained: 6.0.1 | 5 Mar 2024 | First bugfix release for KDE Plasma 6.0 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.0.2" | Old version, not maintained: 6.0.2 | 12 Mar 2024 | Second bugfix release for KDE Plasma 6.0 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.0.3" | Old version, not maintained: 6.0.3 | 26 Mar 2024 | Third bugfix release for KDE Plasma 6.0 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.0.4" | Old version, not maintained: 6.0.4 | 16 Apr 2024 | Fourth bugfix release for KDE Plasma 6.0 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.1" | Old version, not maintained: 6.1 | 18 Jun 2024 | Remote desktop, better widget editing, persistent apps, synchronizing keyboard LEDs with accent color. |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.1.1" | Old version, not maintained: 6.1.1 | 25 Jun 2024 | First bugfix release for KDE Plasma 6.1 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.1.2" | Old version, not maintained: 6.1.2 | 2 Jul 2024 | Second bugfix release for KDE Plasma 6.1 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.1.3" | Old version, not maintained: 6.1.3 | 16 Jul 2024 | Third bugfix release for KDE Plasma 6.1 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.1.4" | Old version, not maintained: 6.1.4 | 12 Aug 2024 | Fourth bugfix release for KDE Plasma 6.1 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.1.5" | Old version, not maintained: 6.1.5 | 10 Sep 2024 | Fifth bugfix release for KDE Plasma 6.1 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.2" | Old version, not maintained: 6.2 | 8 Oct 2024 | Drawing tablet calibration wizard and test mode, improved HDR support, support for PostmarketOS packages in Discover, overhauled Accessibility page in System Settings. |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.2.1" | Old version, not maintained: 6.2.1 | 15 Oct 2024 | First bugfix release for Plasma 6.2 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.2.2" | Old version, not maintained: 6.2.2 | 22 Oct 2024 | Second bugfix release for Plasma 6.2 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.2.3" | Old version, not maintained: 6.2.3 | 5 Nov 2024 | Third bugfix release for Plasma 6.2 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.2.4" | Old version, not maintained: 6.2.4 | 26 Nov 2024 | Fourth bugfix release for Plasma 6.2 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.2.5" | Old version, not maintained: 6.2.5 | 31 Dec 2024 | Fifth bugfix release for Plasma 6.2 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.3" | Old version, not maintained: 6.3 | 11 Feb 2025 | Improved drawing tablet settings page, overhauled fractional scaling, support for ICC color profile on Night Light, improved hardware monitoring with added support for GPU statistics on FreeBSD, improved customization settings. |
| class="templateVersion c swatch-latest" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Latest version" data-sort-value="6.3.1" | Latest version: 6.3.1 | 18 Feb 2025 | First bugfix release for Plasma 6.3 |
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