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KDE Plasma 5.8.2 LTS Desktop Environment Out Now for GNU/Linux with Bug Fixes

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Marius Nestor
Oct 18, 2016

KDE Plasma 5.8.2 LTS is here to bring a week’s worth of improvements and bug fixes submitted by various KDE contributors and developers for the long-term supported KDE Plasma 5.8 desktop environment, keeping it stable and reliable. This second point release arrives only a week after KDE Plasma 5.8.1 LTS’ announcement on October 11, 2016. Among the components that received improvements in the KDE Plasma 5.8.2 LTS update, we can mention KScreen, KWin, Plasma Desktop, Plasma Workspace, Plasma Networkmanager (plasma-nm), and kactivitymanagerd. The full changelog is attached at the end of the article for more details.

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Marius Nestor

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