This week we had the beta release for our upcoming release of the next iterations of our Plasma workspaces. This also includes KWin 5.0 which has the first major transition since the introduction of Compositing back in 2008. The changes in KWin are huge as we ported to Qt 5 and with that also to XCB and QtQuick2. Personally I comare it to having exchanged the engine, the tires, adding new spoilers and getting a new finish for our car. But after such a huge change there will be the one or other screw which needs to be tightened to get the fastest car in the race.

And that’s where we need YOU. We cannot find all the small issues. We need you as a tester to know what to fix. So please give a try to our beta, our daily packages and weekly isos and try as hard as possible to break KWin. I want that KWin 5.0 has at least the same quality as KWin 4.11 and I’m sure you want that, too.

Head over to David’s blog post for general testing instructions. Of course KWin bugs should be reported against product “kwin” on bugzilla.