Wayland

Plasma 6.8 retires X11 sessions upstream; Fedora's steering committee rejected a ticket asking to revert the update on Fedora 44 and 45, and Artix Linux made Wayland its Plasma default.

KDE released Plasma 6.7 on June 16, 2026, adding independent virtual desktops per monitor, a refreshed KDE 4-era Oxygen theme, and simultaneous HDR and ICC color management.

The Wayland compositor's 0.55 release shifts configuration to Lua while keeping the old Hyprlang format working, and lets users define custom window layouts directly in the config.

Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on April 23, shipping Rust-based coreutils and sudo as defaults, GNOME 50 without X11, and a 6 GB RAM floor that redefines the distribution's baseline for the next decade.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS enters beta on March 26, shipping Rust-based coreutils and sudo, GNOME 50 without X11, post-quantum SSH, and AMD ROCm in official repositories.

GNOME 50 completely removes X11 from Mutter, Shell, and GDM, making Wayland the sole display protocol. The release stabilizes VRR and fractional scaling, and will ship in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44.