As expected, KDE recently announced the availability of the fifth maintenance release for the KDE Plasma 5.9 desktop environment, the final version of which would be 5.9.5.
KDE Plasma 5.9.5 arrives a month after the update is released KDE Plasma 5.9.4, which is being used by many GNU / Linux users at the moment. But now it is possible to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.9.5, a version that adds more than 60 enhancements to multiple key components of the desktop environment.
“KDE has released an update for KDE Plasma 5 today, with version number 5.9.5. Plasma 5.9 was released in January with many refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. In addition, this version adds new translations and corrections from the KDE contributors ", they point at the official announcement of the new version.
KDE Plasma 5.10 will arrive at the end of May 2017
Among the most important components that were improved in the maintenance version KDE Plasma 5.9.5 we can mention optimizations for window manager KWIN, for the Plasma Discover package manager, Plasma Desktop, Plasma Workspace and Plasma Networkmanager (plasma-nm).
Among other things, there have also been improvements to the Milou search application, as well as to the KScreen monitor management software and to the libksysguard library. On the other hand, the multimedia controller (Media Controller) will be able to handle and search for tracks longer than 30 minutes in the new version of KDE Plasma.
All the news in KDE Plasma 5.9.5 were detailed in the release notes if you want to know them in detail.
On the other hand, even if you now install the new KDE Plasma 5.9.5 version, the KDE developers are working hard on the next big version of this popular desktop environment, KDE Plasma 5.10, which is scheduled to arrive on May 30, But before that, around May 11, we will surely see a preliminary beta version that we can put to the test.