Powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.9.13 kernel, PCLinuxOS 2017.03 KDE Edition includes the KDE Plasma 5.8.6 LTS (Long Term Support) desktop environment, as well as the KDE Applications 16.12.2 software suite, and KDE Frameworks 5.31.0. PCLinuxOS is a rolling GNU/Linux operating system, but like any other rolling distro is gets ISO snapshots that bring all the recently released software and security updates. As such, PCLinuxOS 2017.03 KDE Edition ships with all the packages released during the past month.