14 DAY TRIAL // The KDE Project project announced today the release and general availability of the fourth of fifth maintenance updates for the latest, short-lived KDE Plasma 5.13 desktop environment series.
Coming almost three weeks after the KDE Plasma 5.13.3 release, the KDE Plasma 5.13.4 maintenance update continues to improve the stability and performance of the KDE Plasma 5.13 desktop environment by adding total of 48 changes and bug fixes across various components, including the Plasma Desktop, Plasma Discover, Plasma Workstation, KScreen, KWin, Plasma Add-ons, Info Center, Breeze Plymouth, and others.
"Today KDE releases a Bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.13.4. Plasma 5.13 was released in June with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds two week'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 5.13.4 maintenance update include the ability to respect ghns KIOSK restriction in new KCMs (KDE Control Modules), support for the Plasma Discover graphical package manager to sort packages by release date, showing the newer ones first, and a patch for the font rendering functionality to no longer change when preview images are rendered. A detailed changelog is available here.
KDE Plasma 5.13.5 lands September 4, 2018, as last maintenance update
There's one more maintenance update scheduled to be released for the KDE Plasma 5.13 desktop environment, versioned 5.13.5, which is expected to hit the streets on September 4, 2018. KDE Plasma 5.13.5 will also mark the end of life of the short-lived KDE Plasma 5.13 series, which will be superseded by the forthcoming KDE Plasma 5.14 desktop environment, due for release on October 9, 2018.
Until then, we recommend all KDE Plasma 5.13 users to update their installations to the KDE Plasma 5.13.4 maintenance release as soon as the packages land in the stable software repositories of their favorite GNU/Linux distributions, which should happen in the next few days and weeks for users of KDE neon, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, Chakra GNU/Linux, and other distros.