KDE Plasma 5.13.1 is coming soon to a Linux distro near you

Jun 19, 2018 13:14 GMT  ·  By

The KDE Project announced today the general availability of the first point release of the KDE Plasma 5.13 desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems.

The KDE Plasma 5.13 desktop environment launched a week ago as the best release of the acclaimed desktop designed for GNU/Linux distributions, introducing new lock and login screens, redesigned system settings, Plasma Browser Integration, Plasma Discover enhancements, and many other improvements and changes.

Now, users can update their KDE Plasma 5.13 installations to the first point release, KDE Plasma 5.13.1, which brings more than 20 bug fixes across various components, such as Plasma Discover, Plasma Add-ons, Plasma Desktop, Plasma Networkmanager (plasma-nm), KWin, and KDE Hotkeys.

"Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.13.1. Plasma 5.13 was released in June with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience," reads today's announcement. "This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important."

Highlights of KDE Plasma 5.13.1

Highlights of the KDE Plasma 5.13.1 release include support for newer Flatpak releases in Plasma Discover, multimonitor blur improvements in KWin, text readability improvements in Fonts KCM, blur support on Wayland when using scaling in KWin, as well as various fixes around tooltip in Plasma Desktop and icon size in plasma-nm.

A full changelog is attached below if you're curious to know what exactly was improved in this first point release of the KDE Plasma 5.13 desktop environment, which is available now from KDE Project's website if you plan on compiling it yourself. Otherwise, you should check the software repositories of your favorite distro in the coming days.

Also today, the Qt Project released the first point release of the Qt 5.11 application framework, which is needed for building the KDE Plasma 5.13 desktop environment. You can download Qt 5.11.1 right now through our web portal or install it from the main repositories of your GNU/Linux operating system. We recommend all users to update their installations at their earliest convenience.

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