14 DAY TRIAL // Plasma 5.3.2 has been revealed by the KDE Community, and the KDE desktop has received a number of important fixes that will be welcomed by the users.
Plasma is the name of the desktop for the KDE project, and it's one of the three components. The other two are KDE Applications and KDE Frameworks, and they are pretty interesting themselves, but it's hard to compete with the desktop, which usually gets all the attention. The separation into these three branches has been done a while back, and developers have already started to adopt the new version for their distros. In fact, most of the Linux operating systems that have KDE have already moved to the new branch.
On the other hand, Plasma 5.3.2 is just a simple maintenance update and it's just about bug fixes, although at least one of the fixes implemented is quite important and it should fix the shutdown scripts, an issue that was somewhat pressing.
Plasma 5.3.2 will arrive soon in repos
If you have a Linux distro powered by the latest Plasma, then you won't have to wait too long until it gets updated. The maintainers will soon pull the new changes and you'll be able to enjoy the improvements.
"Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.3.2. Plasma 5.3 was released in April 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," reads the announcement.
According to the changelog, 'Defaults' now set the title bar double-click action to 'Maximize', the Applet Alternatives dialog has been improved, the shutdown scripts are now working as they should, the notifier heading now adapts to the view size in Muon, the Plasma network manager got some improvements, and the workspace has received numerous fixes.
As usual, you can download KDE Plasma 5.3.2 source package if you want to compile it yourself.