KDE Plasma 5.7 Officially Released with Great Wayland Improvements, Many Changes

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, July 5, 2016, KDE has had the enormous pleasure of announcing the availability of the final KDE Plasma 5.7 desktop environment release.

Yes, that’s right, the Beta testing phase is now over, and the final release of the highly anticipated KDE Plasma 5.7 desktop environment, which is used by default in numerous GNU/Linux operating systems, including openSUSE Leap, PCLinuxOS, Fedora, and many others, has hit the streets.

There are numerous improvements implemented in this version, most of them for the next-generation Wayland display server, which we hope will become the norm for the most prominent distros later this year, as well as various other goodies and countless bug fixes. For example, the first thing you’ll notice after upgrading to KDE Plasma 5.7 is the all-new, unified login screen.

The tray area has been revamped a little, there’s a new task manager with improved performance, the Oxygen and Air Plasma themes have received various enhancements, and s… (read more)

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