According to the official KDE blog’s “This Week in Plasma” update published today, the KDE development team is in the final polishing phase ahead of the KDE Plasma 6.7 stable release, which remains on schedule for June 16th, 2026. This week’s work was focused almost entirely on bug fixing, addressing a number of long-standing issues across the desktop.

At a glance: KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta has been available for public testing since May 14th, followed by a second beta on May 28th. The final stable release is confirmed for June 16th, 2026, and will require KDE Frameworks 6.26 and Qt 6.10.

What’s Been Fixed This Week

The team tackled four notable regressions and usability issues that will be resolved in the final 6.7 release. Here is a closer look at each improvement:

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Kickoff Application Launcher — Smarter Scrolling

When hovering over a partially visible item in the Kickoff launcher, the view will no longer unexpectedly scroll automatically to fully reveal it. This addresses a usability annoyance reported in KDE Bugzilla (#426015), contributed by Christoph Wolk.

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Spectacle Screenshot Tool — OCR and Clipboard Conflict Resolved

When using Spectacle’s OCR text recognition feature, the system will now automatically disable the automatic image-to-clipboard function. Previously, the screenshot itself would overwrite the clipboard before the extracted text could be placed there. Fix contributed by Tobias Fella (KDE Bugzilla #520758).

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App Launch Feedback Animation — Ends Correctly from Terminal

A long-standing regression caused the animated startup feedback to keep running well after an application had already opened — particularly when apps were launched from a terminal window. In Plasma 6.7 the animation now correctly terminates once the app is ready. (KDE Bugzilla #459986; fix by Nicolas Fella, Vlad Zahorodnii, and Akseli Lahtinen.)

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VNC Screen Sharing — Modifier Keys Now Transmitted Correctly

A regression in the VNC-based screen sharing stack had been preventing modifier keys such as Ctrl and Alt from being sent to remote machines. This issue has now been resolved, restoring proper remote-control functionality over VNC connections.

Additional Notable Changes in Plasma 6.7

Beyond the bug fixes highlighted this week, Plasma 6.7 carries a wider set of improvements announced since the release cycle began. These include the return of Plasma Bigscreen as a new module targeting TV and living-room PC setups, and the first public tech preview of Union — a new CSS-based style and theming engine for QML and Kirigami applications.

Other headline features planned for 6.7 include a panel switch to instantly toggle between light and dark mode, a global push-to-talk shortcut, a full-featured print queue viewer, a dedicated setup UI for shared printers on Windows networks, support for installing custom sound themes from downloaded files, and new controls for configuring the virtual keyboard’s trigger behavior.

The current stable series, Plasma 6.6.5, was released on May 12th and remains available to users who are not yet on the development track. Users who wish to try Plasma 6.7 before its final release can install the beta from KDE’s testing repositories.

Sources: KDE Blogs — “This Week in Plasma: Fixing all the things” (June 6, 2026); 9to5Linux; Linuxiac; Phoronix.