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Fedora removes Plasma 6.8 X11 session and FESCo rejects reversal
An update of Fedora 44 to Plasma 6.8 removed the X11 session with little warning, and FESCo declined to revert the change in Fedora 44 and Fedora 45. The report is an automatic translation of LWN feed content and cites a KDE announcement from 2025.
According to the report, the KDE Project announced in 2025 that Plasma 6.7 would be the last desktop release with X11 session support, and that Plasma 6.8 would remove it. What surprised some users of the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop was how the removal arrived: Fedora 44, released in April with Plasma 6.6, received an update to Plasma 6.8 that removed the X11 session without much notice.
The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) voted against a request to revert the update in Fedora 44 and also in the newly released Fedora 45. The X11 session therefore does not return in either release. The source is an automatic translation of LWN content, so check the original text and the official Fedora and KDE notes to confirm dates, version numbers and technical details before citing the case.
Original source: Remoção da sessão X11 do Plasma surpreende alguns usuários do Fedora