I’m trying a live boot of the newly released Ubuntu Budgie 26.04 prior to upgrading my current install. I noticed that a visible Raven menu doesn’t collapse/hide when other windows are clicked or given focus. It only hides after clicking the desktop area which requires full screen apps to be minimised to reach. Secondary, with the out of box desktop layout (menu at top), the raven toolbar button is covered by the raven menu when displayed and can’t be used to hide the menu.
“Panel > Visibility > Intelligent Auto Hide” option in Crystal Dock should resolve this annoyance.
You’re likely to come across a few others as well, but this will help you get to grips with this new version of UB – the raccoon isn’t exactly an easy creature to handle. 
Thanks @Jlb.
It was more a bug report I was making, particuarly on the 1st point where Raven doesn’t close when other windows are clicked or take the focus.
This is likely to just be a live-session issue. On install crystal-dock is correctly configured with intellihide.
In my experience, you can close the raven menu by the toolbar button even if the menu is (partially) covering the panel, but you have to move mouse cursor at the very right-top corner for clicking. Anyway, it is annoying that the raven menu covers the panel.
What are the icons in the center of the top panel? Open apps? I don’t see them in my live session.
Just click anywhere to close Raven.
“Icon Task List” applet, I presume.
Yes, it is “Icon Task List” applet, thanks. But closing Raven does not work that easily.
Remember raven can be toggled with the Super+a keyboard shortcut.
It can also be toggled by Super+n shortcuts which shows the Notifications tab, if it opens Raven.
One thing to consider is that there may be cases when user wants to have Raven open when he/she/whoever uses another app. However then the other windows should not be covered by Raven, but resized to visible area. At least I like to have a usage monitor (including CPU, RAM, swap and possibly network usage) visible in constantly visible top panel of Xfce. That way I notice if something is taking a lot of resources and I know to react to it. Having the information in Raven and checking it occasionally there has the advantage that the usage monitoring itself does not take CPU resources all the time.
Have a look in budgie-welcome … there are a variety of system info like applets … mine which is directly displayed on the panel, others in an applet that displays in a popover
Sorry, I should have specified “anywhere on the desktop”
Otherwise “Super a/n”.