KDE Plasma 5.27.8 is the latest bugfix release for the long-term supported KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment series. It brings many improvements and fixes to enhance the stability, security, and performance of your KDE Plasma desktop.
In this article, we will highlight some of the key features and changes that KDE Plasma 5.27.8 offers.
What’s New in KDE Plasma 5.27.8?
KDE Plasma 5.27.8 is a maintenance update that adds five months worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
- KRunner: make debut on X11 faster.
- Powerdevil: don’t automatically suspend by default if running in a virtual machine.
- System Settings: Remove soft hyphens in keywords used for searching.
- Improved support for the new cross-desktop accent color standard to the KDE desktop portal implementation (xdg-desktop-portal-kde).
- Improved Hybrid Sleep and monitoring of NVIDIA GPUs on multi-GPU systems with Plasma System Monitor.
- Fixed a bug preventing the Night Color feature from being properly deactivated after waking up your computer from sleep at a time when it should’ve turned off automatically.
- Improved taking screenshots with the Spectacle app on Plasma X11 sessions.
- Workaround for a weird issue that may cause the Plasma desktop to crash or slow down when frequently changing monitor arrangements.
- Improved the Alt+Tab functionality through windows on Plasma Wayland sessions to no longer go in reverse when Caps Lock is on.
- Fixed a crash in the KWin window and composite manager that occurred when clicking on a window decoration tooltip.
- Disabled auto-suspend for virtual machines to prevent them from hanging.
- Improved the Accessibility page in System Settings to no longer asks you to save the changes if you haven’t made any.
- Fixed several crashes and issues in Plasma, Spectacle, Widget Explorer, and Plasma Discover.
For more details and a full changelog, you can visit the official announcement page.
READ ALSO: Nitrux 3.0.0: A Stunning Linux Distro with a Unique Desktop Experience
How to Get KDE Plasma 5.27.8?
If you are already using KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS, you should be able to update to KDE Plasma 5.27.8 in the coming days as it makes its way into the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distributions.
Alternatively, you can try KDE Plasma 5.27.8 with a live image booted off a USB disk or a Docker image. These are quick and easy ways to test Plasma without installing it on your system.
You can also install KDE Plasma 5.27.8 directly from source if you are feeling adventurous and want to customize your desktop experience. You can find the community instructions to compile it HERE.
Why Choose KDE Plasma?
KDE Plasma is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. KDE Plasma offers a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites, and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics, and software development.
KDE Plasma is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE Plasma’s full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Windows, and macOS.
KDE Plasma is also a community that exists and grows only because of the help of many volunteers that donate their time and effort. KDE Plasma is always looking for new volunteers and contributions, whether it is help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing documentation, translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are gratefully appreciated and eagerly accepted.
If you like what KDE Plasma is doing, please let them know! Your feedback is greatly appreciated. You can give them feedback and get updates on their social media channels or discuss Plasma 5 on the KDE Forums or provide feedback direct to the developers via the Plasma IRC channel, Plasma-devel mailing list or report issues via Bugzilla.
Conclusion
KDE Plasma 5.27.8 is a bugfix release that improves the stability, security, and performance of your KDE Plasma desktop environment. It also adds support for some new features and standards that enhance your desktop experience. If you are using KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS, we recommend that you update to KDE Plasma 5.27.8 as soon as possible.
We hope you enjoyed this article and found it useful. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them below.
SOURCE:
- 9 to 5 Linux: KDE Plasma 5.27.8 Improves Hybrid Sleep and Monitoring of NVIDIA GPUs
- Ubunlog: Plasma 5.27.8, now available, fixes another handful of bugs in the latest version of Plasma 5
- Reddit: KDE Plasma 5.27.8, Bugfix Release for September