** Description changed: - KDE Plasma is affected by a Qt bug that causes image slideshows to leak - memory, eventually exhausting all available memory and crashing the - system: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368838 + [Impact] - This principally affects people who use the popular slideshow wallpaper - feature. Thankfully, there's a Qt patch to fix it the issue: - https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/224684/ + * Due to a Qt bug, using an image slideshow for the wallpaper causes a memory leak that eventually causes the system to freeze. The severity of the leak is proportional to the speed with which images are changed in the slideshow. + * Given the popularity of the image slideshow wallpaper feature, this is a high-profile, easily reproducible issue. + * See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368838 and https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/224684/ - It's slated to go into Qt 5.11. We should strongly consider cherry- - picking it into 5.9.x to get this important fix into our users' hands as - soon as possible. + * An attempt was made to backport the fix prior to Bionic's release, + but this was overlooked or unsuccessful (see the history here). As a + result, it now needs to be done as an SRU. + + [Test Case] + + * Use KDE Plasma + * Right-click on the desktop and choose "Configure Desktop" + * Change the wallpaper type to "Slideshow" and choose a folder full of images + * Click Apply + * Wait a few days; Plasma will eventually totally freeze + + [Regression Potential] + + * Regressions are unlikely given that the specific backport patch has + been well-tested by many in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368838, + and the actual code fix in Qt was released to users in Qt 5.11 months + ago.
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