KDE Plasma 5.8.5 LTS Lands for Kubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10, Here's How to Update

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The Kubuntu team proudly announced today, January 5, 2017, the general availability of KDE’s Plasma 5.8.5 desktop on the backports repositories of the Kubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) and Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating systems.

This exciting announcement comes almost one month after users were invited to test drive the latest KDE Plasma 5.8.5 LTS desktop environment on their Kubuntu or Ubuntu installations by using the Backports Landing testing repository, as reported right here on Softpedia.

But the wait is now finally over, and you can update your KDE Plasma 5 environment to the KDE Plasma 5.8.5 bugfix release announced in December 2016, which attempts to ad… (read more)

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