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This Week in Plasma: Vietnamese lunar calendar and rounder highlights

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/28/this-week-in-plasma-vietnamese-lunar-calendar-and-rounder-highlights/

Published: February 28, 2026 02:12

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, in addition to the typical post-Plasma-release bug-fix spree, folks started working on UI improvements and features. Two notable examples are highlighted in the title, and found below: Notable new…

This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here!

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/21/this-week-in-plasma-6.6-is-here/

Published: February 21, 2026 00:03

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released Plasma 6.6! So far it’s getting great reviews, even on Phoronix. 😁 As usual, this week the major focus was on triaging bug reports from people upgrading to the new release, and then…

This Week in Plasma: Finalizing 6.6

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/14/this-week-in-plasma-finalizing-6.6/

Published: February 14, 2026 00:03

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.6! It’s due to be released in just a few days and it’s a great release with tons of impactful features, UI improvements, and bug fixes. I hope everyone loves…

This Week in Plasma: beefed-up Window List widget

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/07/this-week-in-plasma-beefed-up-window-list-widget/

Published: February 7, 2026 00:03

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team continued polishing up Plasma 6.6 for release in a week and a half. With that being taken care of, a lot of fantastic contributions rolled in on other diverse subjects, adding cool…

This Week in Plasma: getting 6.6 ready for release

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/31/this-week-in-plasma-getting-6.6-ready-for-release/

Published: January 31, 2026 00:03

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we reached that part of every Plasma release cycle where the bug fixes and polish for the upcoming release are still coming in hot and heavy, but people have also started to land their changes for…

This Week in Plasma: fixing all the things

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/24/this-week-in-plasma-fixing-all-the-things/

Published: January 24, 2026 00:03

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team focused almost entirely on bug fixing. And let’s let the results speak for themselves: we fixed 18 high and very high priority Plasma bugs, or 28% of all open ones! Lots of polishing…

This Week in Plasma: dark mode switch and global push-to-talk

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/17/this-week-in-plasma-dark-mode-switch-and-global-push-to-talk/

Published: January 17, 2026 00:03

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we closed the door on features for Plasma 6.6, which opened another one for those features to land in 6.7. As a result, several features were merged for Plasma 6.7, including some particularly juicy…

This Week in Plasma: car of the year edition

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/10/this-week-in-plasma-car-of-the-year-edition/

Published: January 10, 2026 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Let’s thank Lubos Krystynek, Rafal Krawczyk, and John Veness for stepping up to help with this week’s issue. Thanks, guys! This week, the first car running KWin won the “Car of the Year” award. Yes, really —…

This Week in Plasma: new year, new accessibility features!

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/03/this-week-in-plasma-new-year-new-accessibility-features/

Published: January 3, 2026 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Plasma developers are starting to trickle back from their vacations, and are polishing up and merging work that was nearing completion late last year. Among them are some impactful accessibility features, plus…

8 years of “This Week in Plasma”

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/28/8-years-of-this-week-in-plasma/

Published: December 28, 2025 06:15

Happy holidays to all in the KDE universe who celebrate them! As 2025 draws to a close, I thought it would be a good time to take stock. “This Week in Plasma” began 8 years ago as a development report for KDE’s Usability & Productivity goal, which had just…

This Week in Plasma: ambient light sensor support

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/20/this-week-in-plasma-ambient-light-sensor-support/

Published: December 20, 2025 07:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week many KDE contributors wound down their activities in preparation for some well-deserved rest. But that didn’t stop the merging of some impactful work anyway! This will be 2025’s year’s last This Week…