KDE Plasma 6.8 To Support System Monitor With Intel Xe, Plasma 6.7 Sees More Crash Fixes

KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing for next month's Plasma 6.7 stable desktop release due out in mid-June while also beginning more feature work toward Plasma 6.8.

This Week in Plasma is out with its newest issue to highlight the interesting developments in recent days. This week some of the Plasma highlights include:

- Coming for Plasma 6.8 and not next month's Plasma 6.7 release is support for the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver within the System Monitor app and widgets. It's a bit surprising it has taken so long for the KDE System Monitor app to support interfacing with the Xe kernel driver used on modern Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware. The bug report over the lack of Xe integration was opened last year.

- With Plasma 6.8 in Discover when deleting data/settings for no-longer-installed Flatpak apps, it now moves the data/settings to the trash rather than permanently deleting it immediately.

- Plasma 6.6.6 has a fix for where Plasma could crash when switching activities using the Activity Pager widget.

- Plasma 6.7 also has some new crash fixes such as when plugging in or unplugging screens, when installing Flatpak apps from a downloaded .flatpakref file, a Plasma crash case when the Weather Report widget is checking for weather updates, or various other conditions.

- KWin has seen a few memory leak fixes for Plasma 6.7.

- Various bug fixes for Plasma 6.7.

More details via This Week in Plasma.