The KDE Project released Plasma 6.7.0 on June 16, 2026, the latest stable version of its desktop environment for Linux. The release is dedicated to the memory of Eric Laffoon, former project lead on Quanta Plus and Kommander.
The change most people had been waiting years for is per-screen virtual desktops. Until now virtual desktops were global across every monitor. With 6.7 you can manage them independently on each display, so a multi-monitor setup can have a dedicated desktop on one screen without touching the others.
The rest of the headline features:
- Revamped Plasma Bigscreen, built to mirror Plasma onto a large TV and drive it from across the room.
- Full-featured print queue viewer, a dedicated app for managing print jobs, with job-count badges on the system tray icon.
- Global push-to-talk, a keyboard shortcut to mute and unmute your mic the way gaming apps do it.
- Wayland session restore, bringing back your open windows after a reboot.
- Multi-GPU swapchain for Vulkan, which improves support on machines with more than one graphics card.
Plenty of smaller conveniences land too. You can type characters that aren’t on your physical keyboard by press-and-hold, and a Plasma Panel switch flips you from light mode to dark mode instantly. You can exclude specific windows from screen recordings using permanent window rules, and there’s a dedicated setup UI for configuring shared printers on Windows networks.
On the visual side, the Air theme from the KDE 4 era is back and the Oxygen theme has been improved, both restored with adaptive opacity and the classic wallpapers. Breeze-themed apps such as Dolphin, Okular and KMail get a new rounded style for selection highlights. As a tech preview, KDE ships Union, the new CSS-based style engine that unifies styling across Plasma, QtQuick and QtWidgets. It’s opt-in for now and can be enabled in System Settings.
KWin, the window and compositing manager, gets its share: it remembers tiling padding per screen, supports 3D LUTs to offload work onto GPUs with hardware color pipelines, and adds the Wayland xx-fractional-scale-v2 protocol (better visual fidelity with fractional scaling) and ext-background-effect-v1 (standardized background effects like blur). There’s also support for using an ICC profile while HDR mode is active, plus control over adaptive backlight modulation on AMD laptops.
A grab bag of other changes: duplicating network connections, syncing mouse and stylus pointers, picking a preferred calendar app, reversing System Tray item order, the KRunner Global Shortcuts plugin enabled by default, and improvements across KRunner, Kickoff, Discover, System Settings and several panel widgets.
Who is this for? Anyone running multiple monitors, anyone who records their screen or streams (thanks to push-to-talk and window exclusion), and people who miss the classic KDE 4 look. Plasma 6.7 will land in distribution repositories gradually, so keep your installs up to date. If you want the background, read the history of KDE, from the 1996 K Desktop Environment all the way to Plasma 6.