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    <figcaption><a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.17.90">KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Beta</a></figcaption>
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<p>Thursday, 16 January 2020.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.17.90">Plasma 5.18 LTS Beta</a> is out!</p>
<p>This new version of your favorite desktop environment adds neat new features that make your life easier, including clearer notifications, streamlined settings for your system and the desktop layout, much improved GTK integration, and more. Plasma 5.18 is easier and more fun, while at the same time allowing you to do more tasks faster.</p>
<p>Apart from all the cool new stuff, Plasma 5.18 also comes with LTS status. LTS stands for "Long Term Support" and this means 5.18 will be updated and maintained by KDE contributors for the next couple of years (regular versions are maintained for 4 months). So, if you are thinking of updating or migrating your school, company or organization to Plasma, this version is your best bet. You get the most recent stable version of Plasma for the long term.</p>
<p>Read on to discover everything that is new in Plasma 5.18 LTS…</p>
<h2 id="desktop">Plasma</h2>
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<h2 id="notifications">Notifications</h2>
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• The timeout indicator on notification popups has been made circular and surrounds the close button
• A draggable icon in the "file downloaded" notification has been added, so you can quickly drag it to places
• Plasma now shows you a notification warning when a connected Bluetooth device is about to run out of power

<h2 id="system-settings">System Settings</h2>
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<h2 id="discover">Discover</h2>
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<li>Discover's default keyboard focus has been switched to the search field</li>
<li>It's now possible to search for add-ons from the main page</li>
<li>Added nested comments for addons</li>
<li>Made design improvements to the sidebar header and reviews</li>
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<h2 id="more">More</h2>

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<h2 id="lts">New Since 5.12 LTS</h2>
<p>For those upgrading from our previous Long Term Support release here are some of the highlights from the last two years of development:</p>
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<a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.17.5-5.17.90-changelog.php">Full Plasma 5.18 LTS Beta changelog</a>
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<h2>Live Images</h2>
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The easiest way to try it out is with a live image booted off a USB disk. Docker images also provide a quick and easy way to test Plasma.            </p>
<a href='https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Live_Images' class="learn-more">Download live images with Plasma 5</a>
<a href='https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Docker_Images' class="learn-more">Download Docker images with Plasma 5</a>
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    &lt;h2&gt;Package Downloads&lt;/h2&gt;
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        Distributions have created, or are in the process of creating, packages listed on our wiki page.            &lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;a href='https://community.kde.org/Get_KDE_Software_on_Your_Linux_Distro' class=&quot;learn-more&quot;&gt;Get KDE Software on Your Linux Distro wiki page&lt;/a&gt;
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    &lt;h2&gt;Source Downloads&lt;/h2&gt;
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        You can install Plasma 5 directly from source.            &lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;a href='https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source' class='learn-more'&gt;Community instructions to compile it&lt;/a&gt;
    &lt;a href='http://www.kde.org/info/plasma-5.15.90.php' class='learn-more'&gt;Source Info Page&lt;/a&gt;
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<h2>Feedback</h2>
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