Tuesday, 30 November 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.23.4.
Plasma 5.23 was released in October 2021 with many feature refinements
and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds three weeks' worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Breeze style: Reduce groove opacity for greater contrast with
scrollbar/slider/etc.
* Applets/weather: Make cursor a pointing hand when hovering over
source link.
* Plasma Systemmonitor: Don’t make right click popup modal.
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.23.4/
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.23.3-5.23.4/
Tuesday, 9 November 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.23.3.
Plasma 5.23 was released in October 2021 with many feature refinements
and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds two weeks' worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Keyboardlayout: Fix missing Esperanto flag icon in the menu.
* Plasma Networkmanager: OpenVPN: fix logic in auth dialog.
* On FreeBSD do not try to execute powerdevil.backlighthelper.syspath action.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.23.2-5.23.3/
Tuesday, 26 October 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.23.2.
Plasma 5.23 was released in October 2021 with many feature refinements
and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
Plasma Browser Integration: [History Runner] Skip blob URLs.
[Folder View] Fix executing file without prompting. Fixes bug #435560
Desktop as folder: restore functionality of the “delete” action. Fixes bug #442765
View full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.23.1-5.23.2
Plasma 5.23 was released in October 2021 with many feature refinements
and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Discover: Flatpak, do not crash when a source is disabled.
* KScreenLocker: Fix sleep and hibernate actions.
* Plasma Desktop: Fix “clear emoji history” action.
View full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.23.0-5.23.1
Thursday, 14 October 2021
25 years ago today, Matthias Ettrich sent an email to the
de.comp.os.linux.misc newsgroup explaining a project he was working
on. The latest and direct result of that email (plus a quarter of a
century of relentless experimentation, development and innovation)
has just landed in KDE’s repositories.
This time around, Plasma renews its looks and, not only do you get a
new wallpaper, but also a gust of fresh air from an updated theme:
Breeze - Blue Ocean. The new Breeze theme makes KDE apps and tools
not only more attractive, but also easier to use both on the desktop
and your phone and tablet.
Of course, looks are not the only you can expect from Plasma 25AE:
extra speed, increased reliability and new features have also found
their way into the app launcher, the software manager, the Wayland
implementation, and most other Plasma tools and utilities.
Read on to find out all the details that make the new Plasma 25AE so
deserving of a celebration [1]
Full announcement:
[1] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.23.0/
Tuesday, 31 August 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.22.5.
Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 with many feature refinements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* KDE GTK Config: Make sure to actually commit GSettings changes.
* KSystemStats: Fix handling of IPV6 addresses. Fixes bug #436296
* [applets/digitalclock] Let long timezones list scroll.
Fixes bug #439147
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.22.4-5.22.5/
- while here: reformat & sort the USES/USE_FOO lines consistently
Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 with many feature refinements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds three weeks' worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Discover: Address the keyboard shortcut tooltip.
* Sort Unsplash POTD image categories alphabetically.
* Info Center: Unbreak about CPU value when solid is missing a
product string.
[1] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.22.4/
Tuesday, 6 July 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma
5, versioned 5.22.3.
Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 with many feature refinements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds two weeks' worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Dr Konqi: Repair query construction.
* Plasma Disks: Don’t notify on instabilities.
* [Task Manager] Load album art background asynchronously.
Full Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.22.2-5.22.3/
Tuesday, 22 June 2021.
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.22.2.
Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 with many feature refinements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Discover: Flatpak: properly notify about updates.
* [Task Manager] Show window title in tooltip when player title is different
* KWin: Wayland: Implement activities window rule.
View full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.22.1-5.22.2
Tuesday, 15 June 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma
5, versioned 5.22.1.
Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 with many feature refinements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* KWin: Platforms/drm: support NVidia as secondary GPU with CPU copy.
* Weather applet: Point bbcukmet to new location API.
* Wallpapers: Add milky way.
View full changelog at
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.22.0-5.22.1
Plasma 5.22 is here, and it is more reliable and stable than ever. By
cleaning up and refactoring code in the background, the Plasma desktop
gives you greater responsiveness and performance, helping you become
even more productive without hiccups or surprises. Enjoy a smoother
experience with KDE’s Plasma 5.22 desktop.
Plasma 5.22 has become more pleasurable to use through improvements to
the design and greater smoothness and consistency in transparencies,
blurs, icons, and animations. Moving things to accessible locations,
offering hints and visual cues, and creating new settings allows you to
customize your work environment to make it fit perfectly to your needs.
Following the true KDE spirit, the push for a more stable and attractive
desktop does not mean you have to renounce control over how you want it
to look or behave. Plasma 5.22, as always, packs all the flexibility and
tools for customization you have come to expect and love, and some more
to boot.
Meanwhile, the push to move Plasma in its entirety to Wayland (the
display protocol of the future) continues in full swing. So much so that
popular distros are starting to ship Plasma with Wayland by default. By
using Wayland behind the scenes, Plasma is able to include features and
bug fixes not possible to implement on X11, offering you a better
experience and more stability.
Full announcement and changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.22.0/
The cursor icon could get stuck on the "resize" icon when moving over
side panels in for example x11-fm/dolphin.
See [1] for the details of the bug.
[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436473
Obtained from: 40d558e96d
Tuesday, 4 May 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.21.5.
Plasma 5.21 was released in February 2021 with many feature refinements
and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
Fix crash when stopping PipeWire streaming.
Fix crash on drag-and-drop over panel.
Lockscreen: also activate lock screen windows.
Platforms/drm: Fix crash in EglGbmBackend::presentOnOutput().
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.5/
The april bugfix release for KDE Plasma is here. This wasn't
done immediately for the 5.21.3 ports commit that I landed
yesterday because I wasn't paying attention to latest
releases. Release notes are at
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.4/
This updates the KDE Plasma parts to release 5.21.3. There is one
new port, plasma5-systemmonitor, which is the upcoming replacement
for KDE sysguard. It is not installed by default.
Release notes are at
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.3/
Previous commits tidying up DOCS options left some non-
applications consumers without the necessary kdoctools
dependency, so (re)introduce that now.
Tuesday, 5 January 2021.
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.20.5. Plasma
5.20 was released in October with many feature refinements and new modules to
complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Plasma NM: Fix password entry jumping to different networks with wifi scanning, by pausing the scan when appropriate.
* Plasma PA: Read text color from proper theme.
* Plasma Workspace: Move keyboard positioning in the keyboard itself.
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.5/
Tuesday, 1 December 2020.
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.20.4 Plasma
5.20 was released in October 2020 with many feature refinements and new modules
to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Use plasma theme icons in kickoff leave view.
* Weight main categories properly.
* Discover: Display title in application page.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.3-5.20.4-changelog/
Tuesday, 10 November 2020.
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.20.3 Plasma
5.20 was released in October 2020 with many feature refinements and new modules
to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a fortnight’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Plasma Disks: Actually erase devices.
* Plasma Network Management: Do not show absurdedly high speeds on first update.
* Fix missing “Switch User” button on lockscreen with systemd 246.
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.3/
Tuesday, 27 October 2020.
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.20.2 Plasma
5.20 was released in October 2020 with many feature refinements and new modules
to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Daemon: improve consistency of the lid behaviour.
* Fix bug: Some user profile fields won’t apply unless they all have unique
new values.
Full Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.1-5.20.2-changelog/
Tuesday, 20 October 2020.
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.20.1. Plasma
5.20 was released in October 2020 with many feature refinements and new modules
to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* KSysGuard: Divide network speeds by 2 to match reality.
* Powerdevil: Ignore players from KDE Connect when suspending.
* Bluedevil kcm: Set sane default size.
Full Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.0-5.20.1-changelog
Everyday utilities and tools, such as the Panels, Task Manager, Notifications
and System Settings, have all been overhauled to make them more usable,
efficient, and friendlier.
Meanwhile, developers are hard at work adapting Plasma and all its bits and
pieces to Wayland. Once done, Plasma will not only be readier for the future,
but will also work better with touchscreens and multiple screens with different
refresh rates and DPIs. Plasma will also offer better support for
hardware-accelerated graphics, be more secure, and enjoy many more advantages.
Although still work in progress, 5.20 already offers users many of the benefits
of Plasma on Wayland.
Read on to find out more about the new features and improvements included in
Plasma 5.20...
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.0
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.5-5.20.0-changelog
--
Thanks to mikael@ for the new port sysutils/plasma5-plasma-disks
Tuesday, 1 September 2020. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.19.5. Plasma 5.19 was released in June 2020 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Powerdevil: On wakeup from suspend restore remembered keyboard brightness.
* KSysGuard: Correctly handle monitors list changing.
* xdg-desktop-portal-kde: enable printing of multiple copies.
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.4-5.19.5-changelog
Tuesday, 28 July 2020. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.19.4. Plasma 5.19 was released in June 2020 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds three week's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Plasma Networkmanager: Make hotspot configuration dialog bigger.
* Only open KCM in systemsettings if it can be displayed. Fixes bug #423612
* Plasma Vault: Reset password field when the user clicks Ok. Fixes bug #424063
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.3-5.19.4-changelog
Tuesday, 7 July 2020. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.19.3. Plasma 5.19 was released in June 2020 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a fortnight's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* KWin: Make sure tablet coordinates take decorations into account. Fixes bug #423833
* Fix a KCM crash when no file manager is installed. Fixes bug #422819
* Powerdevil: Fix compilation with Qt 5.15, this hit the time bomb too.
Full Plasma 5.19.3 changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.2-5.19.3-changelog
Tuesday, 23 June 2020. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.19.2. Plasma 5.19 was released in June 2020 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Fix KRunner positioning on X11 with High DPI and Qt scaling on Plasma.
* Fix case of monitored service in startplasma's shutdown.
* KSysGuard: Expose better size hints.
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.1-5.19.2-changelog
Tuesday, 16 June 2020. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.19.1. Plasma 5.19 was released in June 2020 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Dr Konqi: Map neon in platform guessing.
* Battery applet not showing up in tray.
* Fix confirmLogout setting for SessionManagement.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.0-5.19.1-changelog
Tuesday, 9 June 2020.
Plasma 5.19 is out! If we gave alliterative names to Plasma releases, this one
could be "Polished Plasma". The effort developers have put into squashing bugs
and removing annoying papercuts has been immense.
In this release, we have prioritized making Plasma more consistent, correcting
and unifying designs of widgets and desktop elements; worked on giving you more
control over your desktop by adding configuration options to the System
Settings; and improved usability, making Plasma and its components easier to
use and an overall more pleasurable experience.
Read on to discover all the new features and improvements of Plasma 5.19…
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.0
Tuesday, 5 May 2020. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.18.5. Plasma 5.18 was released in February 2020 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* KCM Colors fix apply button always disabled.
* [Notifications] Don't show do not disturb end date beyond 100 days.
* xdg-desktop-portal-kde: ScreenSharing: close dialogs when session is
closed.
Full Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.18.4-5.18.5-changelog
Tuesday, 31 March 2020. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.18.4. Plasma 5.18 was released in February 2020 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* [Image Wallpaper] Fix thumbnail generation when model is reloaded in-flight.
* [applets/systemtray] Clear item from shown/hidden list when disabling entry.
* [GTK Config] Construct font style by hand instead of relying on Qt function.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.18.3-5.18.4-changelog
Their assets were not installed in the right place due to differences
between our cp and GNU cp.
- While here add NO_ARCH
PR: 244970
Submitted by: timon@timon.net.nz
Reported by: Bengt Ahlgren <bengta@sics.se>
Approved by: kde (tcberner)
Tuesday, 10 March 2020. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.18.3. Plasma 5.18 was released in February 2020 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a fortnight's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* libkscreen: handle when backend fails to load/initialize.
* Discover Flatpak: build with older libflatpaks.
* Discover: Make sure we don't crash.
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.18.3
Tuesday, 25 February 2020. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.18.2. Plasma 5.18 was released in February 2020 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Discover: fix build on old flatpak versions.
* Unify KSysGuard cpu clock speed names.
* Emojier: improve the fallback mechanism to detect languages.
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.18.1-5.18.2-changelog.php
Tuesday, 18 February 2020. Today KDE releases a feature update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.18.1. Plasma 5.18 was released in February 2020 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.18.0-5.18.1-changelog.php
Tuesday, 11 February 2020.
Plasma 5.18 LTS is out!
A brand new version of the Plasma desktop is now available. In Plasma 5.18 you
will find neat new features that make notifications clearer, settings more
streamlined and the overall look more attractive. Plasma 5.18 is easier and
more fun to use, while at the same time allowing you to be more productive when
it is time to work.
Apart from all the cool new stuff, Plasma 5.18 also comes with an LTS status.
LTS stands for "Long Term Support". This means 5.18 will be updated and
maintained by KDE contributors for the next two years (regular versions are
maintained for 4 months). If you are thinking of updating or migrating your
school, company or organization to Plasma, this version is your best bet, as
you get the most stable version of Plasma *and* all the new features too.
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.18.0
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.17.5-5.18.0-changelog.php
Tuesday, 7 January 2020. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.17.5. Plasma 5.17 was released in October 2019 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Fix for KDecoration crash in systemsettings. Commit. Fixes bug #411166.
* Fix regression in "Port the pager applet away from QtWidgets".
* Revert "[sddm-theme] Fix initial focus after SDDM QQC2 Port".
Full Plasma 5.17.5 changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.17.4-5.17.5-changelog.php
Tuesday, 3 December 2019. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.17.4. Plasma 5.17 was released in October 2019 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Discover: Fwupd, don't whine when we have unsupported hardware.
* Unbreak build with Qt 5.14.
* Fix Cuttlefish mouse click selection in icon grid.
Changelog: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.17.3-5.17.4-changelog.php
Tuesday, 12 November 2019. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.17.3. Plasma 5.17 was released in October 2019 with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a fortnight's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* Fix binding loop in lockscreen media controls. Commit. Fixes bug #413087.
* [GTK3/Firefox] Fix scrollbar click region. Commit. Fixes bug #413118.
* [effects/startupfeedback] Fallback to small icon size when no cursor size is configured.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.17.2-5.17.3-changelog.php
Plasma 5.17 is the version where the desktop anticipates your needs. Night
Color, the color-grading system that relaxes your eyes when the sun sets, has
landed for X11. Your Plasma desktop also recognizes when you are giving a
presentation, and stops messages popping up in the middle of your slideshow. If
you are using Wayland, Plasma now comes with fractional scaling, which means
that you can adjust the size of all your desktop elements, windows, fonts and
panels perfectly to your HiDPI monitor.
The best part? All these improvements do not tax your hardware! Plasma 5.17 is
as lightweight and thrifty with resources as ever.
Important startup change:
With Plasma 5.17 the startup script has been renamed. People who use the
.xinitrc method to start Plasma have to call the new binary.
Previously:
exec ck-launch-session startkde
Change to:
exec ck-launch-session startplasma-x11
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.17.0.php
Fix a DEV_WARNING, we were setting USE_GNOME without setting USES=gnome. This
is part of the patch in bug 240343.
PR: 240343
Submitted by: Ting-Wei Lan <lantw44@gmail.com>
Tuesday, 3 September 2019. Today KDE releases a Bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.16.5. Plasma 5.16 was released in June with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
* [weather] [envcan] Add additional current condition icon mappings.
* [Notifications] Group only same origin and show it in heading.
* Volume Control: Fix speaker test not showing sinks/buttons.
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.16.4-5.16.5-changelog.php
Tuesday, 30 July 2019. Today KDE releases a Bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5,
versioned 5.16.4. Plasma 5.16 was released in June with many feature
refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds three week's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's
contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.16.3-5.16.4-changelog.php
as defined in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 8.3
to GCC 9.1 under most circumstances now after revision 507371.
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, everything INDEX-11 shows with a dependency on lang/gcc9 now.
PR: 238330
