[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-plasma-68-ends-x11-sessions-as-kde-turns-30":10,"sections":45},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":34,"tags":35,"sources":40,"feedback":44,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":44,"total_tokens":44},11758,"plasma-68-ends-x11-sessions-as-kde-turns-30","Plasma 6.8 Ends X11 Sessions as KDE Turns 30","KDE's 30th anniversary release removes native X11 sessions from Plasma, leaving XWayland to run legacy apps and Wayland to carry the desktop.","KDE's Plasma 6.8 no longer lets users start a new X11 session, ending native support for the 42-year-old display protocol on one of Linux's major desktops.\n\nThe project released the update on October 14, the 30th anniversary of KDE, and called it the \"30th Anniversary Edition.\" KDE also debuted a movie to mark the date. Plasma now relies fully on Wayland, the newer system that draws windows and handles input. Legacy X11 apps will keep working through XWayland, a compatibility layer that runs them inside a Wayland session. KDE's own applications will also keep supporting X11 when run under other desktop environments. Anyone who stays on Plasma 6.7 will keep their existing sessions.\n\nThe release is not only a removal. Plasma 6.8 adds better support for window decorations such as shadows and rounded corners on third-party apps, along with a more streamlined Union theming system. Nvidia triple buffering, a technique that can smooth frame delivery, is now on by default. The Kup backup utility is integrated into Plasma, and a new command-line tool, kscreenctl, lets power users adjust display configurations.\n\nThe move was expected. GNOME dropped X11 sessions by default in 2025, so the two best-known Linux desktops have now both turned away from it, and the Wayland shift looks settled rather than contested.\n\nThe break is at the session level, not the application level. Most people will notice it only if they depend on a workflow that needs a true X11 session, and for them the options are Plasma 6.7 or another desktop environment, where KDE's apps still run on X11.","[\"kde\",\"wayland\",\"linux\",\"x11\"]","2026-10-15T22:21:06.000Z","2026-10-18T11:53:47.944Z","2026-10-18T11:53:48.199Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The closing paragraph says \"for now\" is KDE's own phrasing, but the source gives that wording in Ars Technica's voice and not as a KDE statement, so remove or correct the attribution. Also tone down the unsupported inferences (the claim that the two biggest Linux desktop projects dropped X11, and the speculation that one display system makes features easier to ship) or mark them clearly as analysis.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"The 'for now' misattribution and the speculative inferences are gone, but the closing line 'The source does not say how long Plasma 6.7 will keep receiving updates' is a leftover sourcing note that admits a gap in a reader-facing story, and the 'Analysis:' label reads like an editing artifact. 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