Plasmashell crashes frequently

I have - Wayland was quite unstable with Plasma 5.27.

Which makes me think @bogi

Is it the same if you use X11 session?

I understand that - I only remember this from the latest Plasma 5 where the shell would occasionally restart - I cannot remember seeing it after the major version change to Plasma 6 (that may be be my memory playing tricks on me) - that is why I speculate, that it could somehow be hardware related.

Stable branch was updated February 23. - is this the update you are referring to?

I just checked - testing doesn’t have Plasma 6.6. yet - you would have to move to unstable to get past 6.5

 $ mbn info plasma-desktop -q
Branch         : archlinux
Name           : plasma-desktop
Version        : 6.6.1-1
Repository     : extra
Build Date     : Tue 24 Feb 2026 22:13:36 
Packager       : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Branch         : unstable
Name           : plasma-desktop
Version        : 6.6.1-1
Repository     : extra
Build Date     : Tue 24 Feb 2026 22:13:36 
Packager       : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Branch         : testing
Name           : plasma-desktop
Version        : 6.5.5-1
Repository     : extra
Build Date     : Tue 13 Jan 2026 21:11:15 
Packager       : Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava@archlinux.org>
Branch         : stable
Name           : plasma-desktop
Version        : 6.5.5-1
Repository     : extra
Build Date     : Tue 13 Jan 2026 21:11:15 
Packager       : Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava@archlinux.org>