The System76 and Pop!_OS developers continue quickly iterating on their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment.

Just a week since their COSMIC Epoch 1.4 with COSMIC Monitor improvements and fixes, COSMIC Epoch 1.5 is now available. COSMIC 1.5 now makes use of EXIF orientation data for the COSMIC background handling, the COSMIC Compositor fixes an issue with Chromium-based apps breaking with below 1.0 fractional scaling, better handling by the compositor during GPU resets, and the COSMIC Greeter can now use the cosmic-keymap-unstable-v1 Wayland protocol.

COSMIC Epoch 1.5 also brings various fixes to COSMIC Panel, including for the recently added Frosted Glass effect. There is also a COSMIC Panel fix for high CPU usage when the screen is locked.

Plus there are a wide variety of other fixes in COSMIC Epoch 1.5 as outlined on GitHub.