KDE Plasma 5.6 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

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kde-plasma-5-6The KDE Project has had the great pleasure of announcing the release and general availability of the major KDE Plasma 5.6 desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems.

Early adopters have been able to test the Beta of KDE Plasma 5.6 since the beginning of the month, but now the acclaimed and highly anticipated desktop environment has been promoted to the stable channel and declared ready for deployment in production environments.

“Today KDE releases a feature-packed new version of its desktop user interface, Plasma 5.6,” reads the announcement. “This release of Plasma brings many improvements to the task manager, KRunner, activities, and Wayland support as well as a much more refined look and feel.”