On August 15, KDE He launched the KDE Applications 19.08. We didn't see them on Discover. three weeks later threw v19.08.1. They also didn't appear on Discover. Today they launched KDE Applications 19.08.2 And, although they have not yet appeared in the software center of the operating systems that use Plasma as the graphical environment, this WILL appear in Discover ... or it should. KDE Community doesn't upload new versions of their applications to their Backports repository until they release a couple of maintenance releases of the series, and that's exactly what they released today.
How to Live Aligned with maintenance release, KDE applications v19.08.2 does not include highlights, but they do continue to fix bugs that were found in v19.08 and v19.08.1. In total, as explained in the article on your list of novelties, 123 bugs have been fixed that will make using KDE applications more reliable. In addition to the list of news and as usual, also They have published another article announcing its launch.
KDE Applications 19.08.2 is coming to Discover in the next few hours
About six months ago, Rik from the KDE Community explained to me how / when KDE Applications are released: on release day they are available in code form, but we won't be able to install them from Discover unless we use KDE neon. To use them in Kubuntu or any other operating system we have to wait until they release a couple of maintenance versions, which usually means that we have to wait two months. Being in October and having launched in August, this second maintenance version should be arriving at Discover in the next few hours. The opposite would be strange.
KDE Applications 19.08 is the second version of 2019 of the KDE application suite and it came with many improvements that you can see in the related article that I leave below these lines.
