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KDE Plasma 5.11.5 Linux Desktop Environment Released as the Last in the Series

Users are urged to update their systems as soon as possible

Jan 2, 2018 18:31 GMT  ·  By
KDE Plasma 5.11.5
   KDE Plasma 5.11.5

The KDE Project has released on Tuesday the fifth and last maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 5.11 desktop environment series.

Coming one and a half months after the KDE Plasma 5.11.4 release, KDE Plasma 5.11.5 is here with more than 30 bug fixes and improvements across various of its components, such as the KWin window and composite manager, KScreenlocker screen locker, Oxygen and Breeze themes, Plasma Discover package manager, as well as Plasma Desktop, Plasma Workspace, and Plasma Addons.

"Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.11.5. Plasma 5.11 was released in January with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience," reads today's announcement. "This release adds a three week's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important."

Highlights of this release include a fix for a software rendering crash in the KScreenlocker screen locker on the Wayland display manager, better GTK+ support for the Breeze theme, improved error handling and readability for Plasma Discover, the addition of a missing icon in the AppMenu applet, additional GTK+ 3 support for KDE GTK Config, X11/XCB compile support for Oxygen, and much more.

KDE Plasma 5.11 has reached end of life

Now that KDE Plasma 5.11.5 is out, it means that the short-lived KDE Plasma 5.11 desktop environment series reached end of life and won't receive further updates. However, users are urged to update to this release as soon as the new packages arrive in the stable software repositories of their favorite GNU/Linux distributions, or download and compile the sources themselves.

The KDE Project is currently working on the next major release of the desktop environment, KDE Plasma 5.12, which will be a long-term supported series that should receive updates for at least one and a half years. Right now, KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS is in Alpha stages of development, but a Beta release will be out at the end of this week. KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS is hitting the streets on January 30, 2018.