Today, July 28, at least two new versions of major software were due to arrive. The launches of the new versions of the Mozilla browser and the KDE desktop coincide on many occasions, and today they have launched Firefox 79 and, about an hour later, plasma 5.19.4. This is the fourth maintenance update in this series and, as such, it comes to correct errors that have been found in previous versions, but without new highlights.
KDE has posted several posts about this release, one of them to report the new arrival and another where all the new features are collected, 24 changes in total this time you can see in this link. We are going to put a summary of the most important, some that Nate Graham advanced during the weekends in which he publishes his notes "This week in KDE".
Plasma 5.19.4 Highlights
- Fixed a recent regression that caused wallpapers downloaded using the Get New [Item] dialog to be inapplicable.
- Fixed a recent regression that caused Plasma to overwrite the system locale even if nothing had been changed.
- When cracking a Plasma Vault, if the password has been made visible, it is now hidden again the moment you submit it so that it is not visible but not erasable on the screen for a few seconds.
- Applying a global theme now also changes colors appropriately for GTK applications.
- KRunner and Kickoff, Kicker and Application Dashboard can once again be used to open configuration windows that are not directly visible in System Preferences, such as the Trash or Breeze theme configuration pages.
- The "Text Only" display style for the new system monitor widgets now works correctly.
plasma 5.19.4 is now available in code form, but KDE does not plan to do the backport, which means that Kubuntu + Backports PPA users will not be able to use it for a few months. It will appear as an update in the next few hours in KDE neon, and will be added soon by other distributions whose development model is Rolling Release.