{"id":175487,"date":"2025-07-01T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/?p=175487"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:20:25","slug":"kde-plasma-6-4-2-desktop-environment-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/kde-plasma-6-4-2-desktop-environment-released\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Plasma 6.4.2 Desktop Environment Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Only a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/kde-plasma-6-4-1-desktop-environment-released\/\">Plasma 6.4.1 was released<\/a>, the KDE team rolled out version 6.4.2 as the second bugfix update to its <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/kde-plasma-6-4-desktop-environment-released\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"173381\">6.4 series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the most notable changes is a tweak to Powerdevil, KDE&#8217;s power management service for handling sleep, suspend, and brightness, where a partial revert was made to handle a systemd limitation affecting AD-managed systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In light of this, for users on Plasma Mobile needing alarm wakeups from suspend, distributions may need to manually adjust the &#8220;<em>plasma-powerdevil.service<\/em>&#8221; systemd unit to enable &#8220;<em>CAP_WAKE_ALARM<\/em>&#8221; support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, KWin, Plasma\u2019s window manager, sees multiple fixes\u2014including better handling of night light adjustments, improved accessibility keyboard management, and safeguards against invalid brightness overrides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/plasma642-desktop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/plasma642-desktop-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"KDE Plasma 6.4.2 Desktop Environment\" class=\"wp-image-176597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/plasma642-desktop-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/plasma642-desktop-380x238.jpg 380w, https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/plasma642-desktop-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/plasma642-desktop-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/plasma642-desktop.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gamers and multitaskers will also appreciate that KWin no longer stacks deleted windows, preventing potential glitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from that, the Plasma 6.4.2 desktop includes the following key fixes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Discover<\/strong>: A bug causing incorrect delegate references in the sources page has been resolved.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>KScreen<\/strong>: Brightness values are now properly rounded in the display settings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Plasma Desktop<\/strong>: The &#8220;<em>New<\/em>&#8221; badge in Kickoff now uses a more visually distinct positive background color, and folder view labels have been fixed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Plasma Mobile<\/strong>: Notifications and pop-ups behave more reliably, and the do-not-disturb mode has been patched.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NetworkManager<\/strong>: WireGuard connections stored privately can now activate automatically.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Audio Volume Control<\/strong>: The compact applet no longer suffers from layout issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the hood, several background improvements enhance performance and security. Flatpak Permissions no longer risk a use-after-free issue when fetching system-installed apps, and libplasma now includes additional theme colors for better app integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/announcements\/plasma\/6\/6.4.2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release announcement<\/a> or visit KDE Plasma 6.4.2\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/announcements\/changelogs\/plasma\/6\/6.4.1-6.4.2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full changelog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, if you\u2019re using a rolling release distro, keep an eye on your distribution\u2019s repositories\u2014version 6.4.2 is expected to land there in the coming days or weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plasma 6.4.2 addresses key bugs in KWin, Plasma Desktop, and Powerdevil, including wakeup alarm handling, display brightness control, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[1254,4066,6380],"class_list":["post-175487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-news","tag-kde","tag-plasma","tag-plasma-6-4"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}