José Manual Santamaría Lema de KDE has informed the Kubuntu community today about the upcoming availability of a multitude of updates for various KDE technologies in the Kubuntu backports.
It is already known that Kubuntu developers are constantly working to provide users with the best features, and now it seems that Kubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) users will soon have a chance to enjoy the KDE Plasma 5.9.5 desktop environment, which is the last in the series before the arrival of KDE Plasma 5.10 scheduled for the end of May.
Additionally, users will also receive the KDE Frameworks 5.33.0 packages, along with various more or less up-to-date applications, such as digiKam 5.5, Konversation 1.7, Yakuake 3.0.4, Krusader 2.6.0, Krita 3.1.3 and LabPlot 2.4.0. All of these apps are now available for testing on the Kubuntu backports.
“We have been working for the last few days on some improvements for the backports. They are available for testing in the backports-landing PPA: https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports-landing”Stated José Manuel Santamaría Lema, software developer at KDE.
KDE Plasma 5.8.6 LTS and KDE Frameworks 5.33.0 coming to Kubuntu 16.04 LTS
If you are using the Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, there is also good news for you because users of this platform will receive the KDE Plasma 5.8.6 LTS desktop environment, along with KDE Frameworks 5.33.0. All these updates will soon be available in the Kubuntu backports.
At this time, Kubuntu 16.04 LTS ships with KDE Plasma 5.5.5 and KDE Frameworks 5.18.0, while Kubuntu 17.04 uses the KDE Applications 16.12.3, KDE Frameworks 5.31.0 and KDE Plasma 5.9.4 packages.
Meanwhile, the development of the operating system Kubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) continues in rapid strides with the latest KDE technologies.