Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/1105130/

The KDE Project announced, in 2025, that Plasma 6.7 would
be the last version of the desktop environment that would support X11
sessions. Those who keep up with KDE’s announcements no doubt expected it when
Plasma 6.8
dropped X11 support as promised. What seems to have come as a surprise, at
least to a number of Fedora KDE Plasma
Desktop users, is that the Fedora 44 release—which shipped in
April with Plasma 6.6—received
an update to Plasma 6.8 that swept away the X11 session without much warning.
Despite the surprise, it is gone for good: the Fedora Engineering Steering
Committee (FESCo) has voted
against a request to revert the update for Fedora 44 and the just-released
Fedora 45.