Includes KDE Plasma 5.15.4 and Qt 5.12.2

Apr 22, 2019 20:52 GMT  ·  By

The Kubuntu 19.04 official Ubuntu flavor has been released as part of the Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) operating system series with various updated components and improvements.

Featuring the same internal changes as Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo), the Kubuntu 19.04 operating system is here to offers users an updated KDE experience powered by the KDE Plasma 5.15.4 desktop environment and KDE Applications 18.12.3 software suite, built against the Qt 5.12.2 application framework.

Of course, several of the pre-installed applications have received updated versions as part of the Kubuntu 19.04 release, including Mozilla Firefox 66.0 as default web browser and LibreOffice 6.2.2 as default office suite. The Latte Dock 0.8.8, KDevelop 5.3.2, and Krita 4.1.7 apps are also available.

Configuration GUI for Wacom drivers, experimental Plasma Wayland session

Also new in the Kubuntu 19.04 release is the implementation of a configuration GUI in the KDE Plasma desktop environment to allow users to set up drivers for their Wacom tablets, as well as an experimental Plasma Wayland session that can be enabled by installing the plasma-workspace-wayland package.

"A Plasma Wayland session can be made available for testing by installing the package plasma-workspace-wayland, however this is not supported. Users needing a stable desktop experience should select the normal 'Plasma' (without Wayland) option at login," explained the developers in the release notes.

Under the hood, Kubuntu 19.04 is powered by the latest Linux 5.0 kernel series, just like Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) and the rest of the official flavors. You can download Kubuntu 19.04 right now from the official website or via our free portal software if you want to install it on your personal computer.

Of course, it's also possible to update from Kubuntu 18.10 using our tutorial here. Kubuntu 19.04 will be supported for nine months, until January 2020, and it's only supported on 64-bit systems.

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