KDE Plasma 5.6.5 Is the Last in the Series, KDE Plasma 5.7 Coming July 5

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, June 14, 2016, KDE has released the fifth and last maintenance update of the KDE Plasma 5.6 desktop environment series.

KDE Plasma 5.6.5 is the last bugfix update that users of the KDE Plasma 5.6 desktop environment will get, as the KDE developers will concentrate all of their efforts on the next major version, KDE Plasma 5.7. Therefore, you are urged to update as soon as the packages land in the main repos of your distro.

Looking at the release notes, which are a recommended reading for those who want to know what exactly has been changed, it appears that KDE Plasma 5.6.5 attempts to address several bugs that have been reported by users since last month’s KDE Plasma 5.6.4 maintenance update.

The most important components that have received improvements in this last update for KDE Plasma 5.6 are Plasma Workspace, Plasma NetworkManager (plasma-nm), Milou, KWin, P… (read more)

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