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KDE Ships Plasma 5.4.2, bugfix Release for October

Tuesday, 6 October 2015  |  Jriddell

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.4.2. Plasma 5.4 was released in August 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:

Full Plasma 5.4.2 changelog

Live Images

The easiest way to try it out is with a live image booted off a USB disk. You can find a list of Live Images with Plasma 5 on the KDE Community Wiki.

Package Downloads

Distributions have created, or are in the process of creating, packages listed on our wiki page.

Source Downloads

You can install Plasma 5 directly from source. KDE's community wiki has instructions to compile it. Note that Plasma 5 does not co-install with Plasma 4, you will need to uninstall older versions or install into a separate prefix.

Feedback

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Discuss Plasma 5 on the KDE Forums Plasma 5 board.

You can provide feedback direct to the developers via the #Plasma IRC channel, Plasma-devel mailing list or report issues via bugzilla. If you like what the team is doing, please let them know!

Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Comments:

Nice work, but what about the picture frame plasmoid? - Erik - 2015-10-07

<p>Thanks for your work. Would it be possible to port the picture frame plasmoid to Plasma 5? Or has it already been ported?</p><p>https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/PictureFrame</p>

Picture frame is there - MirceaKitsune - 2015-10-23

<p>@Erik: The Picture Frame plasmoid is apparently back in precisely this version... together with RSS Now and Weather. I took a look at the package and it's there... currently I'm still at 5.4.1 and haven't tested or can fully confirm this yet.</p>