This is a maintenance update for this part of KDE

Mar 4, 2015 09:35 GMT  ·  By

KDE Applications 14.12 has been released by its makers, and it’s a regular maintenance update. It comes with a ton of bug fixes and will be soon available in various repositories.

The new organization of the KDE project still requires users to adjust to the new way things are done. The three major components of the projects are now KDE Frameworks 5, KDE Plasma, and KDE Applications. The Plasma is actually the desktop and KDE Applications is pretty self-explanatory. The KDE Framework is actually the underpinning of the entire project, basically what you would call under the hood.

Up until the end of 2014, it was simple to name the current KDE version, but that's no longer possible. The Plasma, Applications, and frameworks components now have different version numbers and are released at various intervals. This makes it a little bit difficult for users to keep track of everything that’s made available.

KDE Applications 14.12.3 is a maintenance upgrade

This is the third update for KDE Applications in just a few months and it looks like the devs are moving much faster now that KDE has a different structure.

"Today KDE released the third stability update for KDE Applications 14.12. This release contains only bugfixes and translation updates, providing a safe and pleasant update for everyone. With 19 recorded bugfixes it also includes improvements to the anagram game Kanagram, Umbrello UML Modeller, the document viewer Okular and the geometry application Kig. This release also includes Long Term Support versions of Plasma Workspaces 4.11.17, KDE Development Platform 4.14.6 and the Kontact Suite 4.14.6," the devs said.

If you don't find the packages available in the repositories, you can always download the source from the official website and compile it yourself, although that’s not really recommended unless you know what you're doing. It's a very complex piece of software and it takes some expertise to install it manually.

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