Over a month after its previous 6.2.4 release, the KDE team rolled out a new (and latest) bugfix update to its Plasma 6.2 series, version 6.2.5. There are no new features. Instead, the update improves what’s already there by eliminating bugs and optimizing the user experience.
Among the most noteworthy enhancements, KDE’s lock screen module, KScreenLocker, now more gracefully manages the background when the screen is hidden, ensuring consistent behavior with fewer visual hiccups.
Furthermore, a fix in the Powerdevil Daemon prevents crashes in the “unloadAllActiveActions()” function, reinforcing the system’s ability to manage power states without sudden interruptions.
The KDE team also dedicated special attention to Discover, KDE’s software management hub. By refining how update descriptions are displayed, developers eliminated a scenario that had caused text overlaps.
In addition, various corner cases have been addressed across KDE’s many components. For example, KDE GTK Config will no longer attempt to create buttons when the underlying factory fails to load, saving resources and avoiding potential slowdowns.
Plasma Addons received improvements to how it displays applet information, and kpipewire now flushes its encoder queue even when streaming cannot provide updates, thereby reducing unpredictable stalls in media playback or recording.
On the networking side, krdp was fine-tuned to close sessions properly before removing them and introduces a dummy clipboard to avoid crashes. Meanwhile, KWin, KDE’s window manager, introduced a host of fixes that solidify compositing, geometry handling for fractional scaling, and event processing.
As you can guess, these changes help create a more dependable windowing experience, ensuring that everything from screen transitions to window interactions feels natural and intuitive.
Refinements in libplasma make wallpaper templates more dependable, and the update ensures that calls to “setDestroyed” properly affect all child applets. Plasma Desktop has also become more robust, with improvements to backend handling for mouse settings and clearer descriptions of what locking sticky keys does.
Moreover, the Plasma Firewall and Plasma Network Manager each received small but essential patches, promoting smoother operation in their respective areas.
In Plasma System Monitor, layout tweaks and default visibility settings make creating and editing performance-monitoring pages simpler. Plasma Workspace likewise benefits from refined interface alignment, better system tray event handling, and enhanced application menus that cooperate more seamlessly with Wayland.
Finally, xdg-desktop-portal-kde now manages file chooser filters more intelligently, accounts for canceled future events in screenshots, and can wake up dormant applications via notifications.
If you are already running KDE Plasma 6.2, upgrading to 6.2.5 is a snap. Follow your distribution’s guidelines for installing the latest packages, and you can benefit from these improvements immediately.
For more information, refer to the release announcement. Plasma 6.2.5 full changelog is here.
As I mentioned at the beginning, this is the latest update in the 6.2 series. Moving forward, the KDE team is fully focused on the upcoming 6.3 release, set to launch on February 11. Stay tuned.
