<p>The KDE Project announced, in 2025, that <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/">Plasma 6.7</a> 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 <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.8.0/">Plasma 6.8</a> dropped X11 support as promised. What seems to have come as a surprise, at least to a number of <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/kde/">Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop</a> users, is that the Fedora 44 release—which shipped in April with <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/">Plasma 6.6</a>—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 <a href="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/">Fedora Engineering Steering Committee</a> (FESCo) has <a href="https://forge.fedoraproject.org/fesco/tickets/issues/3707#issuecomment-1371370">voted against</a> a request to revert the update for Fedora 44 and the just-released Fedora 45.</p>
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