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Kubuntu developers officially announces the release of Kubuntu 14.10 Beta 2 "Utopic Unicorn" with final build of KDE 4.14 along with Plasma 5 and Plasma 4 desktop. Well if you compare this beta release with beta 1 then you won't find much difference between them. The only advantage of getting Kubuntu 14.10 beta 2 "Utopic Unicorn" is to access Plasma 5 desktop preview.

According to official announcement, Kubuntu 14.10 Beta 2 "Utopic Unicorn" finally available for download and testing with Plasma 4 desktop and KDE 4.14. The Plasma 4 desktop is recommended by Kubuntu community which runs software with which you are familiar and also provides updates and bug fixes but no new features are included in Plasma 4 desktop.

This release also provides Plasma 5 desktop packages which allows you to upgrade Plasma 4 to Plasma 5. The developers are still working on Plasma 5 desktop and provides updates for it at a regular interval. Apart from Plasma desktop, the second beta release of Kubuntu 14.10 also includes final KDE 4.14 Applications and Platform with several bug fixes. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The development team also publishes some of the known issues of Kubuntu 14.10 Beta 2 "Utopic Unicorn" such as no install icon on desktop, ubiquity-dm does not allow alive desktop on live system, permission issue, no web browser in app menu, khelpcenter docs misses any themeing, plasma5 phonon kcm misses icons and no sddm kcm. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in software world ?

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The KDE Community officially announces the release second bug fix release of upcoming Plasma 5 with new features and improvements. Few months ago, Plasma 5 was released with many new features and proposed upcoming features. The Plasma desktop is becoming quite popular among KDE users because of extreme advanced user interface.

According to official announcement, Plasma 5 or Plasma 5.0.2 comes with addition of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. Well the fixes are very small but much important such as fixing text which couldn't be translated, using correct icons and fixing overlapping files with KDELibs 4 software. This release also includes support for new translations which are more compatible with other languages. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of Plasma 5.2 update with several bugfixes and improvements. As you know that Plasma 5.2 was release earlier this year and now this update comes with refined features along with addition of new modules to complete desktop experience.

According to official announcement, Plasma 5.2 comes with fixed powerdevil from using full CPU, fixed crash when switching to/from Breeze widget style. It doesn't turn off the screen or suspend the computer when watching videos in a web browser. It shows correct prompt for a fingerprint reader swipe and also show correct connection name in Plasma Network Manager.

The KScreen receives fixes like fixed crash when multiple EDID requests for the same output are enqueued and fixed visual representation of output rotation. The Plasma Desktop gets improved rubber band feel and consistency with Dolphin. It also uses smooth transformation for scaling down the user picture. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.7.0 with new changes and improvements in KDE Apps. As you all know that this is just a maintenance release of stable KDE Frameworks 5.x version. KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provides a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.7.0 comes with number of fixes for compiling with upcoming Qt 5.5 along with several fixes in KDE aaplications including fixes in KActivities, KArchive, KAuth, KCMUtils, KCodecs, KConfig, KConfigWidgets, KCoreAddons, KDBusAddons, KDeclarative, KdedKGlobalAccel and KIO applications.

The KActivities app includes fixed starting and stopping activities and fixed activity preview showing wrong wallpaper occasionally. You can now create temporary files in the temp dir rather than in current directory in KArchive whereas KCodecs receives support for CP949 to KCharsets. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

The Plasma Framework receives fixed errorneously opening a broken context menu when middle clicking Plasma popup and fixed keyboard shortcuts. It also includes trigger button switch on mouse wheel and restore hint-apply-color-scheme support. If you wish to checkout complete list of all changes then you can review them on release notes page.

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KDE community officially announces the release of KDE Plasma 5.1.0 which is the first release after Plasma 5.0. This release might disappoint its users as it brings some of the popular feature which already exist in previously release Plasma 5.0 version. The KDE developers give their best efforts to fix large number of issues along with other enhancements.

According to official announcement, KDE Plasma 5.1.0 comes with wide variety of improvements, leading to greater stability, better performance and new and improved features. The popular feature which you are going to face in this release includes Icon Tasks taskswitcher along with improved stability and performance.

This release also includes better support for time zones for those who travel a lot whereas for all home users, a revamped clipboard manager is added which allows its users to get their past clipboard's content. The Breeze widget style is now also available for Qt4-based applications, leading to greater consistency across applications. The work to support Wayland as display server for Plasma is still ongoing, with improved, but not complete support in 5.1.

The main highlighted feature of this release is the visual improvements and the work on features. The main objective of this release rely on stability and performance improvements with over 180 bugfixes. To run Plasma 5.1, you need KDE Frameworks 5.3 as it brings lot of fixes and improvements which allows Plasma 5.1 work smoothly. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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