KDE Plasma 6.8, arriving in about a week, focuses on last-minute polish and some early work for Plasma 6.9. The most visible change makes tiled windows use square (non-rounded) corners so they abut cleanly against neighboring windows - a regression reversal prompted by a 2024 bug report that asked for rounded corners to be disabled while tiling, matching how Windows behaves. Visuals shared in This Week in Plasma illustrate the tidier tiled-window appearance.
Several stability and accuracy fixes are included across the 6.8/6.7.6 cycle: KWin crashes triggered by Nvidia driver 610.57.04 and newer have been addressed; a crash that could occur when dragging a widget onto a panel is fixed; specific crash scenarios tied to apps closing have been patched; remote-desktop authentication is now compatible with FreeRDP 3.32 and later; and the System Monitor and its widgets now measure GPU memory usage more accurately. Additional tweaks and bug fixes continue to land as the release approaches; This Week in Plasma has the fuller changelog for those wanting more detail.
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