They were expected for yesterday, October 8, but the developers of the Plasma graphical environment, among other software, have launched today, a few minutes ago, KDE Applications 20.08.2. It is the second maintenance version of this series and, as such, it has come, above all, to correct the errors and regressions that have been discovered in the set of applications that was launched for the first time in August of this year. It does not come with any new features.
Therefore, it is not a very exciting event, unless in the list of improvements we see a fix that fixes a bug in a program that we use a lot and was making our lives impossible. In the case of a second point update, the theory tells us that have fixed fewer bugs that the previous versionBut anything improving the software is good news (especially for those of us who still hope that software like Kdenlive will be as reliable as it was months ago).
KDE Applications 20.08.2, 2020nd August XNUMX App Maintenance Update
Among the latests Moravia's compositions what's new included, Nate Graham had already advanced some such as Gwenview photo importer no longer crashes when trying to exit, Kate's File menu no longer loses menu items after closing a tab or middle-clicking on a tab in Kate now closes it again. Today, with the launch already being officialAs We can see Also that they have introduced changes in digiKam 7.1, Labplot 2.8, KDevelop 5.6, Calindori 1.2, Kid3 3.8.4, in addition to other fixes in Heaptrack 1.2, KDiff3 1.8.4, Tellico 3.3.3, Konversation 1.7.6 and in the plugins of Markdown Viewing.
KDE Applications 20.08.2 has already been announced by its developers, but at the time of this writing it is only available in code form. Soon, the distributions will include them in their repositories, starting with KDE neon and following those that use the development model known as Rolling Release. They will probably also hit the KDE Backports repository in the next few days, but for this to be the case, the developers must believe they have done a good job. Otherwise, we will have to wait for the release of KDE Applications 20.08.3.