This is a maintenance update for KDE Plasma

May 26, 2015 13:37 GMT  ·  By

The KDE Community has just revealed that Plasma 5.3.1, the desktop for the KDE project, has been made available, and it comes with a large number of changes and various small fixes.

After the successful release of KDE Plasma 5.3, the best version so far in the new Plasma development cycle, the developers have pushed out the door the first maintenance version. It doesn't come with a huge changelog, but it does bring a fix for the "Show desktop" function which was broken, making a lot of KDE users very happy.

The latest KDE Plasma 5.x is a serious facelift for the project, and it has been already adopted by quite a few Linux distros. It's not all that surprising that that has happened since KDE is a very popular desktop environment. It took a while until developers from various OSes felt that it's stable enough, but it's finally here and very few distros still used the old KDE SC 4.x.

KDE Plasma 5.3.1 is full of fixes

Each new update for KDE is a good idea to upgrade your system, even if it's just a maintenance one. Even if it's just a maintenance version, all the changes and fixes implemented should come real handy.

"Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.3.1. Plasma 5.3 was released in January with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important for example: show desktop has now been fixed," reads the official announcement.

According to the changelog, a presentwindows crash on disabling closebuttons has been fixed, the apt notifier gets initialized for Muon, a popup menu has been fixed, a redundant proxy has been removed, and a ton of other fixes have been implemented.

The new KDE Plasma update will take a while to land in repositories. You can also download the latest KDE Plasma 5.3.1 source packages from Softpedia.