Nate Graham, a developer engaged in quality control in the KDE project, published the latest report on the development of KDE. Additionally, it was announced that the KDE Plasma 6.4 branch has transitioned to beta testing and the code base is now frozen, allowing only bug fixes with no functional changes. The release of KDE Plasma 6.4 is scheduled for June 17.
Notable improvements incorporated in KDE Plasma 6.4 this week before freezing the code base:
- Implemented the ability to activate an expanded dynamic brightness range in the composite manager Kwin that mimics HDR without actually supporting HDR. Read more.
- Added a setting to limit the maximum color depth.
- Introduced a widget for HDR calibration. Learn more.
- Applications using xwayland now have the option to manage keyboard and mouse operations without confirming each action, though this feature is initially disabled due to security concerns. Read details.
- The design of the System Monitor has been modernized, including the addition of GPU load indicators and diagrams showing free disk space. See changes.
- Text labels for input and output devices have been added to the volume control widget.
/Reports, release notes, official announcements.