14 DAY TRIAL // The KDE Project announced today the second point release of the KDE Plasma 5.11 desktop environment, versioned 5.11.2, a minor maintenance update that fixes a total of 15 bugs.
Coming only one week after the first point release, KDE Plasma 5.11.2 addresses various issues reported by users in the Plasma Discover package manager, as well as the System Settings, Plasma Desktop, Plasma Workspace, Plasma Networkmanager (plasma-nm), Plasma Addons, and KDE GTK Config components.
Highlights of this release include changing the default DPI X font to 96 on the Wayland session, support for appropriately accessing the system's GTK+ settings, better support for adding remote sources in Discover, support for updating the colors in System Settings, and a few improvements to the Dictionary Engine.
KDE Plasma 5.11.3 expected to arrive on November 7
As you can see, the KDE Plasma 5.11.2 point release doesn't bring any major changes, which can only mean that the KDE team did a very good job with the KDE Plasma 5.11 desktop environment, which was released earlier this month with revamped System Settings, Plasma Vault, notification history, and more Wayland improvements.
However, KDE Plasma 5.11 is a short-lived branch, which means that it will only receive a total of five maintenance updates, and the next one, KDE Plasma 5.11.3, is expected to arrive in two weeks time, on November 7, 2017. After that, only two point releases remain, KDE Plasma 5.11.4 for November 28 and KDE Plasma 5.11.5 for January 2, 2018.
With the release of the KDE Plasma 5.11.5 maintenance update on the second day of 2018, the KDE Plasma 5.11 desktop environment will also reach end of life as the development of the KDE Plasma 5.12 release kicks off, which will be an LTS (Long Term Support) branch. Meanwhile, you should update to KDE Plasma 5.11.2 as soon as possible.