The KDE Project group has announced today the immediate availability of the fourth maintenance update for the short-lived release KDE Plasma 5.13.
Arriving three weeks after the third update, KDE Plasma 5.13.4 continues to improve the stability and performance of the KDE Plasma 5.13 environment by adding a total of 48 changes and fixes across various components such as Plasma Desktop, Plasma Discover, Plasma Workstation, KScreen, KWin, Plasma Add-ons, Info Center, Breeze Plymouth , and many others.
“Today, KDE is releasing an update that fixes bugs in KDE Plasma 5. Plasma 5.13 was released in June with many improvements and new modules that complete the desktop experience. This release adds two weeks' worth of translations and fixes from KDE contributors. The fixes are small but important ,” the announcement reads.
Among the highlights of the KDE Plasma 5.13.4 update include the ability to respect the ghns KIOSK restrictions in the new KDE control modules, it also adds support for the Plasma Discover package manager to sort packages by date release, showing the newer firsts, and a patch for the font rendering feature that will now no longer change preview images when rendered.
KDE Plasma 5.13.5 arrives September 4 as the latest maintenance update
A maintenance update is pending for KDE Plasma 5.13. KDE Plasma version 5.13.5 is expected on September 4, 2018, marking the end of the KDE Plasma 5.13 lifecycle. It will be replaced by KDE Plasma 5.14, scheduled for release on October 9 of the same year.
Until then, it is recommended that users update their KDE Plasma 5.13 installations to the fourth maintenance update as soon as the packages reach the stable repositories of the different Linux distributions.