Today February 3, KDE had a release scheduled. There are actually many releases, all of which are part of KDE Gear 21.12.2. This is the second update point of the KDE App Set December 2021, and it has arrived with no outstanding new features. The important novelties are launched in April, August and December, and the rest of the months are used to correct the bugs that are found in the project's applications.
The release of KDE Gear 21.12.2 it has become official this noon, and in the full list of news appear a total of 113 changes. As usual, it is not surprising that Kdenlive has been the one that has fixed the most bugs, since the video editor of the project is adding a lot and very fast, so there is also a lot to fix quickly. Among the most used and well-known applications, Okular has corrected six bugs and Kate five.
KDE Gear 21.12.2 now available, soon in your distribution
The thing to keep in mind, at least when it comes to software for Linux, is that just because something has been announced doesn't mean we can already (easily) use it on our operating system. The project has released the code of KDE Gear 21.12.2, and will also add it soon, if it hasn't already, to KDE neon and the KDE Backports repository. To receive the new versions before in Kubuntu, you have to add the repository.
KDE Gear 21.12.3 will be released in March, which will be the last point update in this series, and a month later KDE Gear 22.04.0 will arrive, the next major update that will introduce new functions. If you are interested in knowing what that series will bring, we recommend reading here on Ubunlog “This Week in KDE” articles that are published on weekends, usually Saturdays.