The version of the KDE desktop that we currently have on hand it is an LTS, which means that it will be available for a longer time. On the other hand, the next one will be the big jump to the 6s (Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Qt5.27), so we have no choice: we have to stay at XNUMX and, those of us who are on the latest version, will soon have to update to the plasma 5.27.6 which It has been released a few moments ago.
This is the sixth maintenance update of the latest version (there will be no more) of Plasma 5, and it has arrived eight weeks after the previous one. This is what Fibonacci dictates, and after this point-seven will be launched, but already 13 weeks apart. What follows is a list with some of the news that have arrived with Plasma 5.27.6.
Some of the novelties of Plasma 5.27.6
- The Magic Lamp window minimization effect now works and looks better with floating panels, hidden panels, and multi-screen layouts.
- When tiling windows, the spacing value you choose now affects the spacing between windows, not just between windows and screen borders.
- The "Software Sources" button on the Discover settings page now works.
- Discover will no longer sometimes display a mysterious error message saying “No metadata URIs for vendor directory”.
- When using a Global Menu, GTK applications now display their menus correctly right after being launched, without the need for refocusing.
- The "Window to Next/Previous Screen" global actions now resend windows to the correct screens.
- KRunner's search results for very short 2 and 3 character strings should now be a bit better and more relevant.
- The System Preferences sidebar now has better keyboard navigation, allowing you to use the arrow keys instead of the tab keys if you prefer, or if you're using a device with a d-pad and no tab keys obvious.
- In the Plasma Wayland session:
- Some blurry and transparent context menus in Breeze-themes no longer sometimes show strange visual glitches.
- When using a fractional scale factor, you should no longer see line glitches everywhere.
- Fixed a source of Powerdevil crashing when screens are sleeping.
- Fixed some cursor handling bugs that could cause cursors to look incorrect in XWayland apps.
- When using a horizontal bottom panel, the thumbnails of Task Manager tooltip windows no longer sometimes appear in the wrong location.
- In the Plasma X11 session, dragging files into Task Manager Tasks in such a way that you end up right-clicking while still dragging no longer sometimes causes drag and drop to break.
- When using the optional ddcutil support in Powerdevil, changing the brightness via any of the current methods now prioritizes changing the brightness of a laptop's built-in display, rather than just adjusting the brightness of an external display. Support for on-screen brightness control is being studied and may appear in the future.
- Category names in the Widget Explorer are translated again.
- KRunner no longer sometimes crashes when trying to calculate certain math expressions, or just typing numbers in general.
- The latest change has just been introduced to ensure that Discover always gets the correct version numbers for updatable Flatpak applications.
- Fixed the "Add New Page" dialog in System Monitor so that it does not break visually when using a language with translated strings longer than English.
- Fixed a source of excessive CPU usage in Plasma caused by window movement (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.27.6).
- System Preferences 'Login Screen (SDDM)' page shows UI errors again (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.27.6).
The availability already has been announced, but that usually just means that developers can start working with their code. Moments after reporting an arrival like this, KDE neon usually receives new packages within hours, if not minutes. The rest of the distributions will wait a while that will depend on their philosophy, and the first to offer Plasma 5.27.6 will be, with permission from neon, the Rolling Releases. The next version should be Plasma 5.27.7, since it will arrive in September and Plasma 6 is not expected before October.