KDE Plasma 6.7.1 has been released as the first maintenance update to the 6.7 series, arriving one week after Plasma 6.7 with bug fixes across the desktop shell, KWin, Discover, Plasma NetworkManager, System Monitor, Bigscreen, and KDE’s desktop portal implementation.
As expected for a point release, it focuses on fixing issues reported after Plasma 6.7, with KWin receiving the largest share of changes. The compositor and window manager fixes cover graphics, Wayland, DRM, and crash-related areas. These include fixes for screencasting crashes, Vulkan buffer importing, OpenGL ES shaders, direct scanout behavior, and DRM backend handling.
There are also added workarounds for color pipelines on AMD and NVIDIA systems, a fixed addFB2 fallback issue, a corrected virtio driver name, and an addressed potential workspace scene crash.
KWin includes fixes for X11 and Wayland behavior, such as preventing focus on unmanaged X11 windows, ignoring irrelevant preferred mode changes for xdg-decoration, correcting input method content type mapping, and restoring compatibility for shaders used by scripts. The KWin X11 package also makes Night Light optional.
Discover, KDE’s software center, gets rpm-ostree-related fixes. The update makes Discover wait longer before checking deployments, limits filesystem watcher triggers, and fixes the generation of valid appstream:// URLs for Flatpak applications.
Moreover, the Kickoff application launcher now properly shows the sidebar highlight when switching on hover, while another Kickoff fix adjusts implicit sizing in its full representation.
The Task Manager fixes badge overflow at extreme margins, and the keyboard settings module no longer shows “undefined” as a variant for keyboards without variant information. Gamepad input emulation is disabled by default.
Plasma NetworkManager includes fixes for showing network details and displaying the tray icon correctly for virtual wired devices. Plasma System Monitor fixes table-related issues, including invalid index handling, cleanup of sorted columns after hiding a column, and removal of duplicate sorted column entries.
Regarding Plasma Workspace, Klipper now resets the search field when its popup is closed, panel alignment scripting reads and writes the correct configuration, and the calendar component fixes an issue where the current day could be highlighted incorrectly in UTC+x time zones before UTC midnight. The update also includes wallpaper-related fixes and a notification rotation fix.
Plasma Bigscreen, KDE’s interface for TV-style devices, fixes search behavior to ensure the keyboard appears when needed. Plus, the Plasma Keyboard component improves handling of diacritics, dead keys, compose keys, and key repeat behavior.
Other updated components include Info Center, KRDP, Milou, Oxygen, Plasma Login Manager, Print Manager, Spectacle, and KDE’s Union styling and UI layer.
For additional details, see the release announcement or check out the full changelog. KDE Plasma 6.7.1 is available now, with source packages published by KDE and binary updates expected to arrive through Linux distributions according to their own release schedules.
The next point release, KDE Plasma 6.7.2, is expected in a week, on June 30.
