In the course of this week version 4.9.1 got tagged which will be released at the beginning of next week. In preparation of this release a few more bugfixes got pushed into the 4.9 branch. Overall the 4.9.1 release will contain 24 bugfixes, four of them crash fixes. That’s quite impressive and good work, but it is also a pity, because most of these bugs could have been spotted during the beta tests. So I hope that in future more people will use the Project Neon Image to test our latest version.

Speaking of that, this week we have seen how important it is to get early feedback. My changes last week unfortunately broke KWin badly and we got the bug report for that introduced issue the next day which made it really easy to spot the erroneous commit through git bisect and helped to fix the issue in less than 24 hours after it hit master.

Summary

Crash Fixes

• 304881: The decoration kcm is not protected against an unloadable qml source
  This change will be available in version 4.9.1
  Git Commit

Critical Bug Fixes

• 305875: Decorations not visible
  This change will be available in version 4.10
  Git Commit

Bug Fixes

• 226881: better placement of ungrouped window
  This change will be available in version 4.9.1
  Git Commit
• 295254: Menus and tooltips are sometime displayed incompletely
  This change will be available in version 4.9.1
  Git Commit
• 305611: Bouncing cursor does not respect global icon size
  This change will be available in version 4.9.1
  Git Commit
• 304375: Zoom effect: screen image jumps when cursor is blinking
  This change will be available in version 4.9.1
  Git Commit
• 305874: Docks break showing desktop state
  This change will be available in version 4.9.1
  Git Commit