14 DAY TRIAL // The KDE Project released today the fifth and last point release for the KDE Plasma 5.15 desktop environment, marking the end of life of the series.
KDE Plasma 5.15.5 comes only a month after the KDE Plasma 5.15.4 point release to address more issues and improve various parts of the desktop environment, including the Plasma Discover package manager, KWin window and composite manager, Plasma Desktop, Plasma Workspace, Plasma Audio Volume Control, Plasma Networkmanager, Plasma Addons, System Settings, and Breeze GTK.
Highlights of this last point release include breeze_cursors as default cursor theme in Breeze GTK, better support for the Flatpak universal binary format, improvements for non-BMP emoji characters in KWin and non-metric locales Weather add-on, compatibility fixes for Qt 5.13 and Qt 4, as well as improvements to Folder View, Kickoff, and Widget Explorer. More details are available in the full changelog.
"Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.15.5. 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.
KDE Plasma 5.15 reaches end of life
With the KDE Plasma 5.15.5 point release, the KDE Plasma 5.15 desktop environment now reaches end of life, which means that it will no longer receive maintenance updates. All KDE Plasma 5.15 users are urged to update to the KDE Plasma 5.15.5 release as soon as it arrives in the software repositories of their favorite GNU/Linux distributions.
The KDE Project is already working on the next major release of the acclaimed desktop environment for Linux-based operating system, KDE Plasma 5.16, which is expected to hit the streets next month on June 11th. KDE Plasma 5.16 will be available for public beta testing on May 16th, and it will be supported until September 2019.