KDE Announces Plasma 5.12.4 LTS Bugfix Release

Today The KDE Community announced the availability of Plasma 5.12.4, the latest bugfix release to the Plasma 5.12 long term support series. The release marks all the bugs squashed since the previous announcement for Plasma 5.12.3, and contains well over fifty fixes.

A customized Plasma 5.12 Desktop

Areas receiving some TLC this time around include:

• Breeze (Artwork, styles and assets for the Breeze visual style for the Plasma Desktop)
• Discover (KDE and Plasma resources management GUI)
• Plasma Addons (All kinds of addons to improve your Plasma experience)
• Info System (View information about your computer's hardware)
• KMenuEdit (Menu Editor for Plasma Workspaces)
• KWin (Easy to use, flexible composited Window Manger for Xorg windowing systems on Linux)
• Plasma Desktop (Plasma for the Desktop)
• Plasma Audio Volume Control (Plasma applet for audio volume management using PulseAudio)
• Plasma Workspace (Plasma Workspace: Various Components needed to run a Plasma based environment)

Highlights include fixing pixelated icon scaling for HiDPI screens, which had been a bug of note for a while now, so it's good to see that fixed. Also worth mentioning are all of the continued fixes for Plasma Discover, which just do not seem to be slowing down at all. And as I mentioned before, the speed of Discover's bug-fixing and new feature additions are rather impressive. Of course,continuing KWin, Desktop, and Workspace improvements are always a good thing to see.

This release marks the second-to-last Plasma bugfix release in the 5.12 series. Plasma 5.12.5, to be released on May 1, will represent the last of the series. Afterwards, work will begin in earnest on putting together the 5.13 series, which will introduce many new features that have been introduced since 5.12 was initially released back in February of this year.

You can read more about the release from the announcement page, as well as the more detailed 5.12.4 release notes.