KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler

Ahead of the stable release of Plasma 6.8 due out on 14 October that also marks the 30th anniversary of the KDE project, out today is the much anticipated beta release.

KDE Plasma 6.8 brings many exciting improvements including vRAM usage optimizations, dwell clicker support on Wayland, Wayland commit-timing protocol support for KWin, improvements for the Union theme engine, better remote desktop support, multi-GPU handling improvements, the new kscreenctl tool, server-side drop shadow support, multi-monitor improvements, and a lot of other polishing throughout. Especially from the Wayland angle there has been a lot of polishing and fine tuning for Plasma 6.8.

Plasma 6.8 also ships with Kup as the backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop.

Downloads and more details on today's KDE Plasma 6.8 beta release via KDE.org.