As expected, since the first and second Plasma point updates arrive within a week of each other, today February 21 was scheduled and has occurred the launch of plasma 5.27.1. This version (5.27) will be the last of series 5, so they have tried to make things as good as possible and fixed many bugs, but things can always be better. And with that objective, maintenance updates are released.
Plasma 5.27.1 has fixed some bugs like the ones you have in the following News list, and it should come as no surprise that there are some associated with Wayland. If I remember correctly, it was in 2020 when they considered switching to Wayland, and since then they have been taking steps to achieve their goal, but there is still work to be done. And that work is released version after version, both Plasma and Frameworks.
Some new features of Plasma 5.27.1
- In the Plasma Wayland session, when using a GPU that does not support atomic mode tuning, the cursor no longer disappears when it touches the bottom or right edge of the screen in WINE games.
- When Discover's Flatpak backend is installed and in use, it should now be significantly faster when using version 0.16.0 of the AppStream library.
- Holiday calendars no longer include astronomical events, so if we also have the astronomical events calendar plugin active, we will no longer see the same astronomical events twice on the same day.
- When searching for apps in the Portal-based app switcher dialog, all apps are now automatically searched instead of just the limited set of "recommended" apps that are displayed by default.
- Fixed a case where KWin could crash after waking up from sleep while using multiple screens with tiled windows on one screen waking up very slowly after waking up from sleep.
- Fixed a recent regression in version 5.27 that, under certain circumstances, could cause desktop icons to disappear after waking the system from sleep until Plasma was manually restarted.
- Fixed a recent regression in version 5.27 that caused Electron apps using XWayland (such as VSCode, Discord, and Element) to appear too small when using scaling.
- The new Flatpak permissions page in System Preferences will not create app-specific overrides correctly when using the system in a language other than English.
- Fixed a bug where Plasma could crash on waking from sleep if the set of connected displays changed while on sleep.
- Fixed problem with displaying information about NVIDIA GPUs in System Monitor.
- Fixed a recent regression in version 5.27 that caused the digital clock tooltip to redundantly display the current time and time zone even when no additional time zones were configured.
- The Networks widget will no longer unnecessarily display the loopback interface when using NetworkManager 1.42.
- Setting charge limits for batteries that support charge limits but not charge minimums now works.
plasma 5.27.1 has been launched a few moments ago, which means that your code is already available for developers to implement in their respective projects. Very soon it will be coming to KDE neon, KDE's own operating system, and also to the Backports repository for operating systems like Kubuntu. For Kubuntu 22.04 users, KDE will likely trigger downloads, but it will do so from the Backports Extra repository or something similar.
The next version of the KDE graphical environment will be Plasma 5.27.2, scheduled for February 28th. Later, point versions 3, 4, and 5 will arrive two, five, and eight weeks apart. After this they will release Plasma 6.0, the first version to be based on Qt6.