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<\/p>\nAdventurous users, testers and developers running Artful 17.10 or our development release Bionic 18.04 can now test the beta version of Plasma 5.12 LTS.<\/p>\n
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An upgrade to the required Frameworks 5.42 is also provided.<\/p>\n
As with previous betas, this is experimental and is only suggested for people who are prepared for possible bugs and breakages.<\/strong><\/p>\n In addition, please be prepared to use ppa-purge<\/strong> to revert changes, should the need arise at some point.<\/p>\n Read more about the beta release<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you want to test then:<\/p>\n and then update packages with<\/p>\n A Wayland session can be made available at the SDDM login screen by installing the package Note: Due to Launchpad builder downtime and maintenance due to Meltdown\/Spectre fixes, limiting us to amd64\/i386 architectures, these builds may be superseded with a rebuild once the builders are back to normal availability.<\/p>\n The primary purpose of this PPA is to assist testing for bugs and quality of the upcoming final Plasma 5.12 LTS release, due for release by KDE on 6th Febuary<\/a>.<\/p>\n It is anticipated that Kubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS will ship with Plasma 5.12.4, the latest point release of 5.12 LTS available at release date.<\/p>\n Bug reports on the beta itself should be reported to bugs.kde.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Packaging bugs can be reported as normal to: Kubuntu PPA bugs: https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/kubuntu-ppa<\/a><\/p>\n Should any issues occur, please provide feedback on our mailing lists [1] or IRC [2]<\/p>\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa\/beta<\/code><\/strong><\/p>\nsudo apt update<\/code>
\nsudo apt full-upgrade<\/code><\/strong><\/p>\nplasma-workspace-wayland<\/code>. Please note the information on Wayland sessions in the KDE announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n