14 DAY TRIAL // Today, September 13, 2016, the KDE development team proudly announced the release and immediate availability of the last maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 5.7 desktop environment series.
Yes, you're reading it right, KDE Plasma 5.7.5 is here, and it brings the bug fixes for the month of September, improving the themes list to be compatible with the SDDM 0.14 display manager, the status notifier items and Weather widget in Plasma Workspace, the Breeze icons, as well as the Wayland integration (KWayland-integration).
Core KDE Plasma 5 components like Plasma Addons, the KWin window manager, the Oxygen theme, plasma-integration, kde-cli-tools (command-line utilities), and Plasma NetworkManager (plasma-nm) also received various improvements in today's KDE Plasma 5.7.5 update, which is already available in the Arch Linux repositories.
KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS coming up next
Now that the development of KDE Plasma 5.7 is over, it's time for us, KDE users, to look further to the next major release of the modern, functional, and beautiful desktop environment for our favorite GNU/Linux operating systems, KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS. Yes, LTS, as in Long Term Support, because it will be supported until 2018.
Those who would like to get an early taste of the KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop environment will be able to install the Beta development milestone in two days from the moment of writing this article, on September 15. After that, the final release of KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS is hitting the streets for the rest of the world on October 4, 2016, with many goodies.
As for KDE Plasma 5.7.5, watch the official software repositories of your Linux-based operating system for the updated packages in the next few days. Also, if you're curious to know what exactly has been changed in this last maintenance update, don't hesitate to check out the full changelog.