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KDE Plasma 5.16 Beta Released With Many Features

The KDE community today rolled out the beta of the Plasma 5.16 desktop upgrade and it's huge.

Plasma 5.16 is the big update bringing the new notification system, various Wayland support improvements including the initial EGLStreams handling, theme enhancements, look-and-feel enhancements, many settings enhancements, WireGuard support, and much more.

More details on today's Plasma 5.16 beta can be found at KDE.org.