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This Week in Plasma 

This Week in Plasma: Time Zone Offsets and Type-Ahead on the Desktop

Saturday, 21 March 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week several new features landed, in addition to a number of user interface improvements and some nice performance improvements and bug fixes. Check ‘em out: Read More

This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters

Saturday, 14 March 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week something very special landed for Plasma 6.7: the ability to type characters not on your physical keyboard by pressing-and-holding the keys that it does have: Read More

This Week in Plasma: Polish and Stability

Saturday, 7 March 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This was another week of focusing on bug-fixing and UI polishing. Not massively flashy stuff, but critical for the long-term stability of the platform. Check out the work: Read More

This Week in Plasma: Vietnamese lunar calendar and rounder highlights

Saturday, 28 February 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, in addition to the typical post-Plasma-release bug-fix spree, folks started working on UI improvements and features. Two notable examples are highlighted in the title, and found below: Read More

This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here!

Saturday, 21 February 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released Plasma 6.6! So far it’s getting great reviews, even on Phoronix. 😁 Read More

This Week in Plasma: Finalizing 6.6

Saturday, 14 February 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.6! It’s due to be released in just a few days and it’s a great release with tons of impactful features, UI improvements, and bug fixes. I hope everyone loves it! Read More

This Week in Plasma: beefed-up Window List widget

Saturday, 7 February 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team continued polishing up Plasma 6.6 for release in a week and a half. With that being taken care of, a lot of fantastic contributions rolled in on other diverse subjects, adding cool features and improving user interfaces. Check ’em out here: Read More

This Week in Plasma: getting 6.6 ready for release

Saturday, 31 January 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we reached that part of every Plasma release cycle where the bug fixes and polish for the upcoming release are still coming in hot and heavy, but people have also started to land their changes for the next release. So there’s a bit of both here! Read More

This Week in Plasma: fixing all the things

Saturday, 24 January 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team focused almost entirely on bug fixing. And let’s let the results speak for themselves: we fixed 18 high and very high priority Plasma bugs, or 28% of all open ones! Lots of polishing for Plasma 6.6 to make it a great release. Read More

This Week in Plasma: dark mode switch and global push-to-talk

Saturday, 17 January 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we closed the door on features for Plasma 6.6, which opened another one for those features to land in 6.7. As a result, several features were merged for Plasma 6.7, including some particularly juicy ones! Read More