KDE released Plasma 6.7.2 on June 30, 2026, a routine bugfix update to the Plasma 6.7 series that first shipped earlier in June. As with all Plasma point releases, this is translations and fixes only, no new features, but a few of the fixes address problems common enough to be worth flagging directly.

The Most Common KWin Crash, Fixed

The headline fix resolves what KDE describes as the most common crash within KWin, the Plasma Wayland compositor, tied specifically to variable refresh rate (VRR) handling on multi-monitor setups. VRR crashes had been a recurring, frustrating report from users running mixed-refresh-rate monitor configurations under Wayland, and this is the point release where that specific crash path gets closed.

# Check your current Plasma version after updating
plasmashell --version

KWin received the bulk of this release’s attention overall, with additional fixes touching Wayland output handling, DRM rendering paths, and general output management beyond just the VRR crash.

AMD GPU Fixes

Two AMD-specific fixes landed in this release. Hardware rotation is now disabled on older AMD GPUs to prevent display issues that had been tracked under KDE bug #521764. Separately, SDR MHC2 color profiles that were failing to apply correctly when a calibration matrix was present have been fixed, relevant to anyone using color-calibrated displays on AMD hardware.

Chromium-Based App Improvements

Full-screen video playback performance in Chromium-based applications gets a boost in this release, alongside a Wayland-specific workaround for freezes in Chromium caused by its own buffer handling. This benefits any Electron-based app as well as Chrome and Chromium itself when run under a Plasma Wayland session, a category of application that has historically had rougher edges under Wayland than native Qt or GTK apps.

# Chromium apps commonly affected: Chrome, Discord, VS Code, Slack, Signal Desktop

Smaller Fixes Worth Knowing About

The release also touches the Vietnamese Lunar calendar implementation, Plasma Bigscreen, the Plasma NetworkManager applet (plasma-nm), xdg-desktop-portal-kde, the newer print manager, Plasma Welcome, plasma-keyboard, and kde-cli-tools. None of these are individually headline changes, but together they represent the kind of broad, incremental polish that accumulates across a Plasma 6.x point release cycle.

Getting the Update

# Arch and other rolling releases typically have it within days
sudo pacman -Syu

# Fedora KDE spin
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

# openSUSE Tumbleweed
sudo zypper dup

Packaging timelines vary by distribution: rolling releases like Arch and openSUSE Tumbleweed generally pick up new Plasma point releases within days, while fixed-release distributions may hold back a version or two behind depending on their own update cadence and testing process. KDE’s own live images and Docker images are also available directly for anyone who wants to try 6.7.2 without waiting on distribution packaging.