It’s that time of the year when we get to take a closer look at the new features and improvements of the next major release of KDE’s Plasma desktop environment, KDE Plasma 6.7, due out in June 2026.

Some of the biggest changes in KDE Plasma 6.7 include the ability to type characters that aren’t on your physical keyboard, a switch on the Plasma Panel to instantly go from light mode to dark mode, a global push-to-talk feature, and a full-featured print queue viewer app.

KDE Plasma 6.7 also introduces a dedicated setup UI for configuring shared printers on Windows networks, a new rounded style for selection highlights in Breeze-themed apps like Dolphin, Okular, and KMail, and support for installing custom sound themes from downloaded files.

There’s also the ability to set a global keyboard shortcut to clear the notification history and a dedicated global action for un-tiling a quick-tiled window, the ability to sort windows in the Window List widget, and support for the KWin window manager to remember tiling padding per screen.

Talking about KWin, it received a “multi-GPU swapchain” feature for Vulkan support, support for “3D LUTs” to reduce resource usage on GPUs that support hardware color pipelines, and support for the xx-fractional-scale-v2 Wayland protocol, which improves visual fidelity by reducing gaps between adjacent items.

Moreover, KWin received support for the ext-background-effect-v1 Wayland protocol, which enables support for standardized background effects like blur. This change alone opens the door for visual consistency across Plasma apps that use these effects.

There are also many improvements in KDE Plasma 6.7, such as the ability to exclude windows from screen recording using permanent window rules, revamped OpenVPN and OpenConnect VPN settings, as well as the ability to reverse the ordering of items in the System Tray widget.

On top of that, KDE Plasma 6.7 improves handling of loop devices in the Disks & Devices widget, enables the “Global Shortcuts” KRunner plugin by default, improves detection of multiple GPUs in the Plasma System Monitor app, and improves the Mouse Mark effect on touchscreens.

But wait, there’s more! KDE Plasma 6.7 also improves the robustness with which sandboxed apps can initiate screencasting and remote desktop requests, lets you limit the Wi-Fi band for networks in infrastructure mode, and supports network activity monitoring on FreeBSD systems.

Of course, KDE Plasma 6.7 will also introduce numerous improvements to the System Settings app, the Plasma Discover package manager, as well as the multitude of Plasma widgets used on the Plasma Panel, including the Kickoff application menu, Bluetooth, Brightness and Color, and more.

The final release of the KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment is expected on June 16th, 2026. Until then, a first beta development version will be available for public testing on May 14th, followed by a second beta on May 28th. KDE Plasma 6.7 will depend on KDE Frameworks 6.26 and Qt 6.10.