KDE Applications 17.08 Reaches End of Life, KDE Apps 17.12 Coming December 14 | Linux Today

KDE Applications 17.08 Reaches End of Life, KDE Apps 17.12 Coming December 14

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Marius Nestor
Nov 9, 2017

KDE Applications 17.08.3 is the last stability update for KDE Applications 17.08, bringing a total of 41 bug fixes for various core components and applications, among which we can mention Ark, Gwenview, Kdenlive, KGpg, Kontact, Kleopatra, KMail, KNotes, KWave, Okular, and Spectacle, along with updated translations. Among the improvements included in this release, we can mention a workaround for a Samba 4.7 regression related to password-protected SMB shares, a fix for an Okular crash that occurred after certain rotation jobs, as well as support for the Ark archive manager to preserve file modification dates when extracting ZIP archives.

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Marius Nestor

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