Following last month's release of the first KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta , a second beta milestone was released today ahead of the stable release coming later in October.

KDE Plasma 6.5.0 is due for release on 21 October while out today is the Plasma 6.4.91 "Beta 2" release. As a reminder, new to Plasma 6.5 is support for GPU underlays, addressing a 22 year old feature request around its clipboard, rounded bottom corners for windows by default, and various other desktop polishing. There is also Wayland picture-in-picture support, Wayland pointer warping support, and various other Wayland enhancements along with an assortment of other incremental desktop improvements.

With KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta 2 is predominantly more bug fixes as well as a new grayscale option :

Downloads and more details on today's second beta of Plasma 6.5 Beta 2 via KDE.org .