14 DAY TRIAL // The KDE Project released today the second maintenance update to its latest KDE Plasma 5.15 desktop environment with more bug fixes and minor improvements.
The KDE Plasma 5.15.2 update is here just one week after the KDE Plasma 5.15 desktop environment got its first point release to add yet another layer of bug fixes in an attempt to improve the overall stability and reliability of the popular graphical desktop used by numerous GNU/Linux distributions.
"Plasma 5.15 was released in February 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 today's announcement.
Highlights of the KDE Plasma 5.15.2 point release include support for displaying the version of the host GNU/Linux distribution on the About Distro page in Info Center, as well as support for displaying "variant" information and LOGO configuration from os-release in the About System page in Info Center.
The Kickoff applications menu also got a couple of fixes, the screen filtering for the Global Menu applet was improved as well, and the selection of multiple files should now work properly. Updated components include Plasma Workspace, Plasma Desktop, KWin, Plasma Discover, Plasma Add-ons, Info Center, KDE GTK Config, and xdg-desktop-portal-kde.
KDE Plasma 5.15.3 point release coming March 12th, 2019
The next scheduled point release for the KDE Plasma 5.15 desktop environment is KDE Plasma 5.15.3, due for release in two weeks from the moment of writing, on March 12th, 2019. After that, only two point releases remain, KDE Plasma 5.15.4 on April 2nd and KDE Plasma 5.15.5 on May 7th, which also marks the end of life of this series.
Until then, the KDE Plasma 5.15.2 release should soon be available for installation from the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distributions, so we recommend updating your KDE Plasma 5.15 installations as soon as possible. More details about the changes included in this update are available here.