The KDE Project announced today the release of KDE Plasma 6.1.2, the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment, featuring additional bug fixes and minor enhancements.
KDE Plasma 6.1.2 arrives just a week after KDE Plasma 6.1.1, improving the Overview effect by making window title labels more readable and adding bell sounds to the Ocean and Oxygen sound themes.
This update also fixes hover and highlight effects in the sidebar listing sub-pages on the Accessibility page in System Settings and correctly hides the sub-category column in System Settings when opening a different page that doesn’t reside in a sub-category using another application.
As primarily a bugfix release, it addresses a regression that affected the layout of Plasma Discover’s “Share” dialog, a KWin crash on systems with graphics hardware over 15 years old, and a memory leak in Plasma triggered by receiving notifications.
Also fixed in KDE Plasma 6.1.2 is a regression that could cause individual hover pop-ups on widgets to get covered up by the panel settings dialog when in edit mode, a regression that could cause Plasma’s “Show Alternatives” pop-up to get stuck in the open state, and a regression that caused the “Add Widgets…” button on empty panels to be aligned incorrectly and located in the wrong place.
On top of that, this release addresses a regression that caused undoing the deletion of a panel outside of global edit mode to make it get stuck in edit mode and an issue that could cause the Plasma desktop to freeze when a thick panel contained certain combinations of widgets with specific pop-up sizes.
Check out the full changelog for more details about the changes included in this update. Meanwhile, keep an eye on the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution for the KDE Plasma 6.1.2 packages and update your installations as soon as possible for a more reliable Plasma desktop experience.
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