KDE It is now fully equipped to prepare the Mega-Launch of 6, which will take place in less than two weeks. Plasma 28, Frameworks 6, and February 6 applications will arrive on February 2024, and on some systems, such as KDE neon, they will also move up to Qt6 that same day. They are looking to the future, but Nate Graham's latest note makes it clear that they have not forgotten what we have at hand right now.
plasma 5.27.10 I arrive on December 5, it will be 11 weeks on Tuesday. In normal developments, that is, up to those that reach point-five or the LTS that are also normal, the Fibonacci series is usually followed (differences of weeks counted by 1-1-2-3-5-8), but the case Plasma 5.27 is different. Not only is it LTS, but it is also the last version to start with a 5 and with a year behind it there is nothing newer. The Fibonacci series should be respected, but there have been cases in which they have been released 6 weeks apart and we will see when a plasma 5.27.11 of which three corrections have been advanced to us today.
News that will arrive in Plasma 5.27.11
- Fixed a way KWin could crash in Plasma Wayland session (Xaver Hugl).
- Files copied to the clipboard are now available to isolated applications that use the portal system, so they can be pasted into those applications (Karol Kosek).
- After opening the lid of a laptop, the brightness of the backlit keyboard is now correctly restored to the same value as it was before closing the lid (Werner Sembach).
KDE 6 Mega-Release
- When a popup panel is open, clicking on an empty area of the panel will now close it (David Edmundson).
- When we try a Global Menu and all of the apps' windowed menus are hidden, if we later change our mind and remove the Global Menu, all of those apps' windowed menus now automatically reappear instead of staying hidden until they are manually shown again (David Edmundson).
- When any of the physically connected displays are marked as disabled, opening the Display & Monitor page of System Preferences now always displays an enabled display, rather than ever displaying one of the disabled displays (David Edmundson).
- Added Breeze icons for OpenVPN and Cisco VPN configuration files (Kai Uwe Broulik).
Correction of minor bugs
- Fixed several common, random-appearing bugs in the Plasma Activities (Harald Sitter) backend code.
- Fixed a major issue that, on most distributions, caused various file types to open by default in the wrong applications (for example, images would open in Okular instead of Gwenview) until the first time the user changed any of the file associations (Harald Sitter).
- Fixed a visual bug in Gwenview that could cause image thumbnails to overlap when using a fractional scaling factor (David Edmundson).
- In Spectacle, drawing annotations with a touchscreen or stylus no longer draws extra random straight lines in strange places (Marco Martin).
- Shift+dragging windows to customize them now works even if you have configured the keyboard to do something exotic like emulate the Caps Lock key by pressing both Shift keys at the same time (Xaver Hugl).
- Fixed a case where the cursor did not disappear as expected in some WINE (Vlad Zahorodnii) games.
- Fixed a memory leak in Spectacle when recording the screen (Aleix Pol Gonzalez).
This week a total of 135 bugs have been fixed.
After the Mega-Launch
- Gwenview now has a minimal "Spotlight View" mode where all the normal user interface is hidden, and all you see is the image and the window title bar (Ravi Saifullin, Gwenview 24.05):
- The warning on the System Preferences Proxy page no longer mistakenly warns that Chromium-based browsers do not respect it, which is no longer true (Someone with the pseudonym "Chaotic Abide", kio-extras 25.04).
- Fixed the most common bug in Discover for Plasma 6.1 (Ivan Tkachenko, Plasma 6.1).
- The System Preferences lock screen page now has a clearer user interface for selecting times (Kristen McWilliam, Plasma 6.1).
- There is now a KWin window rule that can be used to control the state of Adaptive Sync for individual windows (Ravil Saifullin, Plasma 6.1).
- KWin now supports direct scanning when run nested within another composer (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 6.1).
- Significant performance improvements have been made to Gwenview thumbnail generation and file listing in general (Arjen Hiemstra, Mega-Release 6).
- Significant performance improvements have been made to Spectacle's rectangular region mode (Noah Davis, Spectacle 24.05).
- The spaces used in Plasma and Kirigami-based applications are no longer based on font sizes, and are now simply hard-coded to various static values, as they are in QtWidgets-based applications. (Noah Davis, Kirigami 6.0).
When will this all come to KDE?
plasma 5.27.11 It should arrive this month, although I cannot confirm it because it is not in the official information. Plasma 28, KDE Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear 6 will arrive on February 24.02.0. The next major update of the applications will land in May, and the next one will probably return to the usual schedule of April-August-December.
To enjoy all this as soon as possible we have to add the repository backports of KDE, use an operating system with special repositories like Kde neon or any distribution whose development model is Rolling Release.
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