[$] The year in Plasma and what's ahead

A lot has happened in the KDEPlasma desktop environment in the last year. Marco Martin, a KDE contributorwho spends most of his time working on Plasma, took the stage at Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria to givean update on Plasma's major new features, some of the minor-but-interestingones, and a preview of what's coming soon. The biggest upcoming change, droppingX11 support from Plasma, has been well-advertised; but there are also plansafoot to further improve remote-desktop support and more.