Are you using Kubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo, our current Stable release? Or are you already running our development builds of the upcoming 19.10 Eoan Ermine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We currently have Plasma 5.16.90<\/a> (Plasma 5.17 Beta) available in our Beta PPA<\/a> for Kubuntu 19.04 and 19.10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a Beta Plasma release, so testers should be aware that bugs and issues may exist.<\/strong> If you are prepared to test, then…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n Add the PPA and then upgrade<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Then reboot. If you cannot reboot from the application launcher,<\/p>\n\n\n\n from the terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In case of issues, testers should be prepare to use ppa-purge to remove the PPA and revert\/downgrade packages. <\/strong><\/em><\/p> IMPORTANT: This is especially required if you plan to upgrade a Disco system to Eoan when it is released, as Eoan will ship with Plasma 5.16 by default. Attempting to upgrade a system to Eoan without 1st purging the beta PPA will fail, due the PPA packages being built against and so requiring an older version of Qt than is found in Eoan.<\/strong><\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Kubuntu is part of the KDE community<\/a>, so this testing will benefit both Kubuntu as well as upstream KDE Plasma software, which is used by many other distributions too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please review the release announcement<\/a> and changelog.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Test Case]<\/p> * General tests: * Specific tests: Testing involves some technical set up to do, so while you do not need to be a highly advanced K\/Ubuntu user, some proficiently in apt-based package management is advisable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Testing is very important to the quality of the software Ubuntu and Kubuntu developers package and release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We need your help to get this important beta release in shape for Kubuntu and the KDE community as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks! Please stop by the Kubuntu-devel IRC channel<\/a> or Telegram group<\/a> if you need clarification of any of the steps to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n [1] – irc:\/\/irc.freenode.net\/kubuntu-devel Are you using Kubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo, our current Stable release? Or are you already running our development builds of the upcoming 19.10 Eoan Ermine? We currently have Plasma 5.16.90 (Plasma 5.17 Beta) available in our Beta PPA for Kubuntu 19.04 and 19.10. This is a Beta Plasma release, so testers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197"}],"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\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4220,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\n\n\n\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa\/beta && sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
systemctl reboot<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
– Does plasma desktop start as normal with no apparent regressions over 5.15.5 or 5.16.5?
– General workflow – testers should carry out their normal tasks, using the plasma features they normally do, and test common subsystems such as audio, settings changes, compositing, desktop affects, suspend etc.<\/p>
– Check the changelog:
– Identify items with front\/user facing changes capable of specific testing. e.g. “clock combobox instead of tri-state checkbox for 12\/24 hour display.”
– Test the ‘fixed’ functionality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
[2] – https:\/\/t.me\/kubuntu_support
[3] – https:\/\/lists.ubuntu.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/kubuntu-devel
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