Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

KDE Plasma 5.6 Beta Released

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 2 March 2016 at 06:12 PM EST. Add A Comment

The KDE community has banded together to release the Plasma 5.6 beta today.

KDE Plasma 5.6 is bringing improvements to the default Breeze theme as well as to the light and dark versions, task manager improvements, smoother widgets, a weather widget has finally returned to Plasma 5, and plenty of Wayland improvements. Plasma 5.6 has also been prepping Plymouth boot screen and GRUB boot-loader screens designed around the Breeze theme in aiming to complete the KDE computing experience.

More details on today's KDE Plasma 5.6 beta can be found via dot.kde.org. KDE Plasma 5.6.0 will be officially released later this month on 22 March.

Add A Comment

KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Ships With Dozens Of Bug Fixes

KDE's Busy Week With Landing Explicit Sync & Many Other Changes

KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released With Many Improvements & Fixes

KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support

KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.