Over a month after Plasma 6.4.4 was released, the KDE team rolled out version 6.4.5 as the fifth bugfix update to the 6.4 series before Plasma 6.5, scheduled for the end of next month. As expected from a point release, it focuses squarely on fixing bugs and tightening up stability.
With that said, a significant portion of the changes have been implemented in KWin, Plasma’s window manager. On the Wayland side, developers addressed several issues with color management, rendering intent, and output handling.
Fixes also include better handling of disabled outputs, more reliable gamma LUT usage with AMD GPUs, and ensuring animations wrap up properly. X11 users get attention too, with Spectacle pop-up menus now blacklisted from fading effects to avoid glitches.
Other fixes reach across the desktop. Discover sees its “delete settings” button working correctly again, while Info Center now properly detects NVIDIA drivers. Plasma Desktop itself got several corrections, like handling the Escape key in panel edit mode and fixing layout behavior in FolderView.
Plasma Addons cleaned up duplicate applet handling in the Notes plugin, preventing multiple widgets from fighting over the same note file. Notifications have also undergone refinements, ensuring that translation domains and chart components function as expected.
Lastly, on the applications side, Plasma Dialer was adapted for Qt 6.10, Plasma Mobile fixed its “do not disturb” state logic, and the Plasma System Monitor now centers kill dialogs properly within windows. Plus libksysguard and libplasma received fixes—one addressing a network packet capture issue, the other improving notification text when removing the system tray.
For more information, refer to the release announcement or visit KDE Plasma 6.4.5’s full changelog.
As always, if you’re using a rolling release distro, keep an eye on your distribution’s repositories—version 6.4.5 is expected to land there in the coming days or weeks.
