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In the news: Plasma 6.3 Ready for Public Beta Testing; Budgie 10.10 Scheduled for Q1 2025 with a Surprising Desktop Update; Serpent OS Arrives with a New Alpha Release; Firefox 134 Offers Improvements for Linux Version; HashiCorp Cofounder Unveils Ghostty, a Linux Terminal App; Fedora Asahi Remix 41 Available for Apple Silicon; Systemd Fixes Bug While Facing New Challenger in GNU Shepherd; AlmaLinux 10.0 Beta Released; and Gnome 47.2 Now Available.
Plasma 6.3 Ready for Public Beta Testing
Plasma 6.3 is ready for beta testing, and it has plenty to offer by way of new features and improvements over current offerings. According to the official blog post (https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/11/this-week-in-plasma-final-plasma-6.3-features/) from the KDE team, there are updates to Bluedevil, Breeze, Breeze-gtk, Discover, DrKonqi, Flatpak permissions, and much more.
After picking through the list, some of the more exciting changes include a new UI for cloning panels that could make it considerably easier to create the exact desktop UI you need; improved Do Not Disturb functionality; a new desktop context menu entry, Show Target; more consistency with close buttons throughout Plasma; an improved look for desktop widgets (with them now being slightly translucent to give them a more modern look); and plenty of bug fixes.
Another interesting change is found within Plasma Discover (the front end for the package manager). Discover will now display for users when apps are packaged directly by the developers or have been verified by a third party. Discover will also highlight any sandboxed apps that have had permissions altered during an update.
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