We just branched for Plasma 6.1 and released the beta, which means the window to add new features has now closed. But before it did, a ton of amazing stuff snuck in! Plasma 6.1 promises to be a large and impressive release. Probably the most impactful thing is triple buffering support on Wayland! This should…
The bug-fixing continued this week with the aim of getting Plasma 6.0.3 into a great state. Already the big bugs you folks found have almost all been fixed, and this week a lot of time was spent on some X11 regressions and various crashes that our new automatic crash reporting system was able to find…
This week the focus was on annoying longstanding issues, and a whole bunch of them are now history! If you've used KDE software for any significant amount of time, I bet you noticed and were annoyed by at least one of the issues mentioned below, and can now rejoice at their annihilation! This effort has…
Wow, it feels like it's been a while! And while many of KDE's contributors have been enjoying some holiday and vacation time, quite a lot happened too! We're getting pretty close to the projected February 28th release day for the KDE 6 megarelease, so all hands have been on the bug-fixing deck. Overall we're in…
Aaaaaand it's a big one! I challenge anyone to read this week's (well, these past two weeks') report and not find something they've been wanting for a long time. :) Plasma 6 (Includes all software to be released on the February 28th mega-release: Plasma, Gear-aligned apps, and Frameworks) General info - Open issues: 109 Per-screen…