announcements
september 2020
kwin-lowlatency 5.18.6 (LTS) released!
yes, you just heard it. the first non-.5 release of kwin-lowlatency for Plasma 5.18 is out.
9/29 11:00 PM (UTC -5)
kwin-lowlatency 5.19.5-2 and 5.19.90 (5.20 beta)!
apparently the 100% CPU usage bug is gone in this version, but not sure how.
9/27 1:08 AM (UTC -5)
august 2020
kwin-lowlatency 5.19.5 kind of released - warning for Intel users
a high CPU usage on lock screen bug has been found, and it seems to possibly affect Intel users, despite only a single reproduction. therefore this is a partial release, with 5.19.5-2 coming soon with a possible fix.
9/02 5:46 PM (UTC -5)
accidental Spanish rewrite! D: (now fixed)
the early announcements are now back in their original English language, thanks to a backup. I apologize for the mishap.
8/12 3:07 PM (UTC -5)
july 2020
Manjaro has updated to Plasma 5.19
as of today, Manjaro updated Plasma to the latest version, which means that the aforementioned KWin-lowlatency "special package" for Manjaro is no longer necessary.
7/19 2:11 PM (UTC -5)
kwin-lowlatency 5.19.3 and a note for Manjaro users
this release brings the multi-monitor unredirection slowdown fix to a stable version.
7/07 12:42 PM (UTC -5)
june 2020
kwin-lowlatency 5.19.2 released!
again, just another bump with upstream changes.
6/23 5:06 PM (UTC -5)
kwin-lowlatency 5.19.1 released
kwin-lowlatency 5.19.1 is out. once again I am late but this is because I tried to squash the slowdown bug, after pretty much half year.
6/18 7:23 PM (UTC -5)
changes to privacy policy!
the privacy policy has been updated to limit IP address logging.
6/09 2:05 PM (UTC -5)
kwin-lowlatency 5.19.0... perhaps?
kwin-maybelowlatency 5.19.0 is out. yeah I am late again and the Arch Linux KWin guy beat me by several hours.
6/09 1:11 PM (UTC -5)
may 2020
kwin-lowlatency 5.18.5-2 released
this is because Gentoo devs applied some minor fixes to vanilla KWin, and I didn't want the Gentoo package to desync.
5/23 9:40 PM (UTC -5)
kwin-lowlatency 5.18.5 released
yep, but just to bring the unredirect window/app rule back.
5/05 12:10 PM (UTC -5)
april 2020
tildearrow and IPv6 - a short story!
summary: tildearrow may be going IPv6-ready soon. this is only the beginning.
4/21 8:05 PM (UTC -5)
kwin-lowlatency 5.18.4-4 released and information about previous patches
this is a release with an updated patch maker to target 5.18.4.1.
4/08 12:24 PM (UTC -5)
kwin-lowlatency 5.18.4-3 released
this is a hotfix provided by the KWin team that was applied in the vanilla KWin package by the Arch Linux maintainers ahead of time.
4/08 3:46 AM (UTC -5)
kwin-highlatency 5.18.4 released!
well... what's the point of offering low latency solutions when high latency and stuttering are state of the art!
4/01 9:29 AM (UTC -5)