It's been a while since there has been any Slackware news to pass along, but this week they've finally landed the KDE Plasma 6 desktop in this legendary Linux distribution.

The KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop packages have been merged for Slackware. Yes, Plasma 6.7 released today as the next upgrade to pursue for Slackware.

The Slackware change-log noted of the long-awaited upgrade of Plasma 6 in Slackware:

"Well folks, it seems that the stars have aligned to bring us a bunch of long-awaited updates, including ffmpeg8 and Plasma 6! This has been developed in a side tree for several weeks, and I'll be happy to get that off my plate and have a greatly reduced todo list. Many thanks to alienBOB for getting the tree in good shape, helping when I got stuck, and for being a good manager who inspires me to do my best work. :-) And we both extend our thanks to the illustrious LuckyCyborg who ported the build scripts to Plasma 6 in the first place and then maintained Plasma 6 for Slackware users to test for a couple of years. And thanks to everyone else who helped out with either of the Slackware Plasma 6 projects that these updates grew out of. Have fun!"

In addition to KDE Plasma 6 and FFmpeg 8, Slackware also landed the GCC 15.3 compiler, GStreamer 1.28.4, the Linux 7.1 kernel is in testing, and also an updated XLibre X Server in testing.