KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell

Ars TechnicaOct 15, 2026Oct 15, 2026, 6:21 PM AST

KDE marked 30 years with Plasma 6.8, which drops the old X11 session and runs fully on Wayland. X11 apps still work through the XWayland layer, and the release adds Nvidia triple buffering by default, a remote desktop server with clipboard sync, and a system monitor that can pin processes to CPU cores. Plasma 6.7 users keep their existing X11 sessions for now.

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