KDE Plasma 5.26.2 Disables Animated Wallpaper Feature on X11 Due to Severe Memory Leak
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KDE Plasma 5.26.2 Disables Animated Wallpaper Feature on X11 Due to Severe Memory Leak
KDE Plasma 5.26.2 is here a week after KDE Plasma 5.26’s first point release to address more bugs and critical security issues, including a severe memory leak when using the xcb_glx integration for the new animated wallpaper feature on X11. As such, the animated wallpaper feature has been disabled on X11, for now.
Moreover, KDE Plasma 5.26.2 implements a fallback mechanism so that Plasma can switch to the default wallpaper when the image URL is empty, fixes an issue that could cause input to not be detected when using the new mouse button rebinding feature, and fixes a crash in Plasma Vault’s listing callback.
Update (by Roy)
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KDE Plasma 5.26.2, Bugfix Release for October
Tuesday, 25 October 2022. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.26.2.
Plasma 5.26 was released in October 2022 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
The Register today:
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KDE 5.26 gets a second point release (yes, already) • The Register
KDE 5.26.2 is out with an emergency fix for a memory leak – so if you already have the new version, you should update. If you don't have 5.26, we're here to tell you how.
The version first appeared on October 11 with a bunch of new features that we described when we looked at the beta in September. Version 5.26.1 followed a week later with some relatively minor bug fixes. Another week after that, version 5.26.2 is here, and sadly, the developers had to disable one of the fun new bits: animated wallpapers.
If you use Wayland, it's fine, but on X11 this leaks memory, and 5.26.2 turns the feature off. We suspect it will reappear in version 5.26.3 if the team can trace the leak.