{"id":2306,"date":"2015-04-22T19:42:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-new.kubuntu.org\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2015-07-19T01:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T01:17:07","slug":"kubuntu-15-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/news\/kubuntu-15-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubuntu 15.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kubuntu 15.04 has been released. This features the beautiful new Plasma 5 desktop from KDE.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"text-align: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cinHeN9YLLo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>Getting Kubuntu 15.04<\/h1>\n<table style=\"background: #D2FCFF; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; padding: 0.5em;\">\n<p class=\"line862\"><strong>Upgrading from 14.10<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p class=\"line862\"><strong>Download a Disk Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p class=\"line862\">To upgrade to Kubuntu 15.04 run <strong>Muon Update Manager<\/strong> and click on <strong>Upgrade<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"https\" href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/VividUpgrades\/Kubuntu\">Full instructions to upgrade from 14.10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">Please note upgrade from Kubuntu Plasma5 14.10 is not supported and is unlikely to work, these users will need to reinstall. We apologize for the inconvenience.<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<p class=\"line862\"><a class=\"http\" href=\"\/getkubuntu\">Download a bootable image<\/a> and put it onto a <a class=\"https\" href=\"https:\/\/userbase.kde.org\/Kubuntu\/Installation#Preparing_the_installation_media\">USB drive or DVD<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"Designed_to_be_a_Breeze.2C_Plasma_5_is_now_the_default\">Designed to be a Breeze, Plasma 5 is now the default<\/h2>\n<p class=\"line862\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www-new.kubuntu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3d27\/15-04_desktop.png\" rel=\"lightbox[2306]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2347 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www-new.kubuntu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3d27\/15-04_desktop-300x169.png\" alt=\"15-04_desktop\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plasma 5<\/strong>, the next generation of KDE&#8217;s desktop has been rewritten to make it smoother to use while retaining the familiar setup. The <a class=\"https\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kde.org\/announcements\/plasma-5.2.0.php\">second set of updates to Plasma 5<\/a> are now stable enough for everyday use and is the default in this version of Kubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"KDE_Applications_14.12\">KDE Applications 14.12<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www-new.kubuntu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/b33b\/15-04_applications.png\" rel=\"lightbox[2306]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2346 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www-new.kubuntu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/b33b\/15-04_applications-300x296.png\" alt=\"15-04_applications\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKubuntu comes with <a class=\"https\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kde.org\/announcements\/announce-applications-14.12.0.php\">KDE Applications 14.12<\/a> containing all your favourite apps from KDE. This is the 14.12.2 update with bugfixes and translation updates. Several applications have been ported to <a class=\"https\" href=\"https:\/\/dot.kde.org\/2013\/09\/25\/frameworks-5\">KDE Frameworks 5<\/a> but those which aren&#8217;t should fit in seamlessly.<br \/>\nNon-KDE applications include <a class=\"http\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.documentfoundation.org\/2015\/01\/29\/libreoffice-4-4-the-most-beautiful-libreoffice-ever\/\">LibreOffice 4.4<\/a> and <a class=\"https\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/37.0.1\/releasenotes\/\">Firefox 37<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"Known_Problems\">Known Problems<\/h2>\n<p class=\"line867\"><a class=\"http\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/56WvLe\">Bugs tagged Kubuntu 15.04<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/AOx7bx\">tagged for the next release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"line862\">(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1413521\">1413521<\/a>) oem config not shown on first boot<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"line862\">(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1154535\">1154535<\/a>) Continue button needs an extra click during oem install<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"line862\">(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1413203\">1413203<\/a>) breeze icon theme cannot be used for x-cursor-theme<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"line862\">(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1429475\">1429475<\/a>) Kubuntu Vivid Ubiquity slideshow is missing translations<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"line862\">(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1434052\">1434052<\/a>) kwallet wants to migrate empty kwallet4<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"line862\">(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1404239\">1404239<\/a>) use_libarchive_for_zip_files causes problems<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"line862\">(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1423011\">1423011<\/a>) Konversation 1.6 beta logs are stored in a different place than 1.5 logs<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1436973\">1436973<\/a>) konsole crashes on closing due to kuniqueapplication<\/li>\n<li>(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1182784\">1182784<\/a>) Switzerland keyboard setup fails<\/li>\n<li>(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1436952\">1436952<\/a>) X crashes on some runs of Kubuntu live image returning in SDDM login<\/li>\n<li>(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1442512\">1442512<\/a>) Apport-kde crash when reporting bug<\/li>\n<li>(<a class=\"interwiki\" title=\"Bug\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/1437846\">1437846<\/a>) akonadi mysql 5.6 crash with signal 11 (<a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/akonadi\/+bug\/1437846\/comments\/11\">workaround<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"Feedback\">Feedback<\/h2>\n<p>We would like to thank the whole KDE Plasma team for a beautiful new desktop<\/p>\n<p>You can give us feedback on <a class=\"https\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/107577785796696065138\/posts\">Google +<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/107577785796696065138\/posts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2350 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www-new.kubuntu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3900\/Google-Plus.png\" alt=\"Google Plus\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a> or <a class=\"https\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kubuntu.org\">Facebook<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kubuntu.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2351 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www-new.kubuntu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/760a\/Facebook.gif\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a> or <a class=\"https\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kubuntu\">Twitter<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kubuntu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2352 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www-new.kubuntu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2dcf\/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a> or <a class=\"https\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/kubuntu\">Linkedin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/kubuntu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2353 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www-new.kubuntu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/c4ce\/Linkedin.png\" alt=\"Linkedin\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kubuntu 15.04 has been released. This features the beautiful new Plasma 5 desktop from KDE. Getting Kubuntu 15.04 Upgrading from 14.10 Download a Disk Image To upgrade to Kubuntu 15.04 run Muon Update Manager and click on Upgrade. Full instructions to upgrade from 14.10. Please note upgrade from Kubuntu Plasma5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[200,201,175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}