KDE Releases Plasma 6.2 Beta, Early Feature Work Begins For Plasma 6.3

KDE developers were busy this week in Germany for their annual Akademy developer conference but they still managed to release a Plasma 6.2 Beta as well as some early feature work toward Plasma 6.3.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting KDE development news for the past week. Some of the light news during this Akademy 2024 week included:

- KDE Plasma 6.2 beta was released in helping to push users to begin testing this next desktop iteration.

- Immutable tool view tabs have a new style with Plasma 6.3.

- Using the Meta + B shortcut can now switch power profiles by cycling through them when hitting the key sequence rather than just showing a selectable overlay.

- With Plasma 6.2 when using Shift + Delete to force-quit a process using SIGKILL in the KDE System Monitor will now explain what is happening.

- A performance bottleneck within KWin was fixed that could unnecessarily copy textures across GPU devices on multi-GPU systems.

- Various bug fixes including possible crash fixes.

More details on the kDE news this week via Nate's blog.