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KDE Plasma 6.7 brings the X11 era to a close

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Plenty of new shiny in the service of improved usability

The latest version of the KDE desktop - Plasma 6.7.0 - has arrived, bringing several shiny new functions – some of which have been a long time coming – and features the return of the popular Oxygen theme from KDE 4.

Since the KDE 6 “megarelease” two and a half years ago, the project's developers have been very busy. Fresh Plasma releases have come thick and fast. It's fewer than six months since the release of KDE Plasma 6.6.0 back in February.

This rate of change matters, as a massive implementation change is coming: as the team announced in November last year, the plan is that KDE Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-only. That means that this new release is the last to support X11. From some time early next year, KDE Plasma will be “Wayland or...

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