Between September 8 and 10, 2026, KDE released three updates—Plasma 6.7.5 bugfix release, Frameworks 6.30, and Gear 26.08.1 app bundle—plus announced Plasma 6.8 beta testing. System76 also released COSMIC Desktop 1.8 with touchscreen improvements on September 10.
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The KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.7.5 on September 8, the fifth maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment series, with improvements and bug fixes across the desktop stack [reddit.com#1][lxer.com#1][linuxiac.com#1]. Linuxiac said many changes were in KWin, including several Wayland-related fixes, while LXer described the release as a maintenance update with “various improveme
The KDE Project on September 9 announced KDE Frameworks 6.30, its latest monthly update to more than 70 Qt add-on libraries that provide core functionality for KDE Plasma and KDE applications [linuxiac.com#1]. The release improves file handling in KIO, cached thumbnail processing, HTTP upload memory use and progress reporting, and includes fixes for KWallet, Baloo, Plasma System Monitor and Kiriga
KDE released KDE Gear 26.08.1 on September 10, the first maintenance update for the 26.08 series of its open-source application bundle, with fixes across KDE apps including Kdenlive, Okular, KDE Connect, Dolphin and NeoChat [linuxiac.com#1][9to5linux.com#1][reddit.com#1]. The update focuses on crash fixes, stability improvements and usability corrections, not new features [linuxiac.com#1][9to5linu
KDE Plasma 6.8 entered public beta testing on Sept. 10, giving users and distribution testers an early build of the next Plasma desktop release with new features, improvements and bug fixes [9to5linux.com#1][phoronix.com#1]. Phoronix reported that the stable Plasma 6.8 release is scheduled for Oct. 14, the date of the KDE project's 30th anniversary [phoronix.com#1]. The beta adds Kup as Plasma's b
System76 released COSMIC Desktop 1.8 on September 10, 2026, updating the Rust-based desktop environment it develops for Pop!_OS [linuxiac.com#1][9to5linux.com#1][phoronix.com#1]. The release includes changes to COSMIC Compositor, COSMIC Files, COSMIC Greeter, COSMIC Panel, COSMIC Player, COSMIC Settings and COSMIC Applets [9to5linux.com#1]. The main compositor change is touch input support in cosm