Plasma 6.4.5 fixes brightness issues on AMD GPUs in the penultimate maintenance update of this series.

  • Window management with customizable tiles per virtual desktop and more precise panels.
  • More useful notifications: Do Not Disturb mode, actions from notifications, and speed graphs.
  • HDR with Assistant, EDR, and visual enhancements; Spectacle and KRunner gain practical features.
  • More robust Wayland with new protocols and stability-focused 6.4.x revisions.
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plasma 6.4.5

KDE just launched the fifth maintenance update of the v6.4 of its graphical environment, specifically plasma 6.4.5This isn't the last in this series, as they made the decision a while ago to increase the number of maintenance releases from 5 to 6, while also stopping releasing LTS versions. KDE said something like, "Oh well, no one uses them," and now there are only regular releases.

Continuing with the Fibonacci series (1-1-2-3-5-8) schedule, Plasma 6.4.5 has arrived five weeks after the previous version, and the last in this series, 6.4.6, will arrive in just under two months and 8 weeks. The following is a list of the most outstanding news from Plasma 6.4.5.

Plasma 6.4.5 Highlights

  • Fixed a bug that caused the screen to flicker with brightness on devices with AMD GPUs.
  • Fixed a crash or unexpected shutdown that occurred when opening the notification history when it contained a notification.
  • Improved reliability when restoring display settings.
  • The task manager theme has been improved.
  • Improved support for flatpak applications by fixing a bug that moved the .desktop file to the home directory.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Spectacle menus to appear in screenshots on X11, a patch backported from future Plasma releases.
  • Updated command line tool plasma-apply-desktoptheme to improve their behavior.
  • Fixed an issue where NVIDIA GPUs were incorrectly named in the Information Center.
  • Improvements have been made to the Languages ​​page in System Preferences.
  • Several more corrections that can be found in the articles of the KDE Blog, specifically those mentioned by Plasma.

Plasma 6.4.5 was released today, but the time it arrives on different distributions will depend on the philosophy of each one.