KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Gets Its First Point Release with Many Wayland Improvements

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, October 11, 2016, the KDE Project proudly announced the general availability of the first point release of the KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop environment, versioned 5.8.1.

KDE Plasma 5.8.1 is the first of nine maintenance updates that will be provided for the long-term supported KDE Plasma 5.8 desktop environment until its end of life in April 2018, and it looks like it addresses multiple issues reported by users since the release of KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS on October 4, 2016.

“Today KDE releases a feature update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.8.1. Plasma 5.8 was released in October with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience,” reads the announcement. “This release adds a week’s worth of new translations and fixes from KD… (read more)

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