KDE Plasma 5.15 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Six months in development, the KDE Plasma 5.15 desktop environment comes with a lot of changes to make your Plasma experience more enjoyable. These include various refinements to the configuration interfaces, new options for complex network configurations, redesigned icons, improved integration with third-party technologies and apps, and a much-improved Discover package manager. Highlights of the KDE Plasma 5.15 desktop environment include improved Plasma Discover graphical package manager with better support for the Flatpak and Snap universal binary formats, better handling of local packages, support for upgrading GNU/Linux distributions via the Plasma Update Notifier widget, new Sources page, as well as easier installation of available updates from the Updates page.