Plasma 5.27 LTS for Jammy 22.04 LTS available via PPA
We have had many requests to make Plasma 5.27 available in our backports PPA for Jammy Jellyfish 22.04. However, for technical reasons this would have broken upgrades to Kinetic 22.10 while that upgrade path existed. Now that Kinetic is end of life, it is possible to allow opt in backports…
Plasma 5.25 for Jammy 22.04 available via PPA
We have had many requests to make Plasma 5.25 available in our backports PPA for Jammy Jellyfish 22.04. Providing backports of new Plasma versions to a LTS release always must be an ‘opt-in’ process, however we are aware that many of our users now are accustomed to adding our backports…
Plasma 5.25 Beta available for testing
Are you using Kubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, our current Stable release? Or are you already running our development builds of the upcoming 22.10 Kinetic Kudu? We currently have Plasma 5.24.90 (Plasma 5.25 Beta) available in our Beta PPA for Kubuntu 22.04, and in the Ubuntu archive and daily ISO build…
Plasma 5.23 Anniversary Edition Beta available for testing
Are you using Kubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo, our current Stable release? Or are you already running our development builds of the upcoming 21.10 Impish Indri? We currently have Plasma 5.22.90 (Plasma 5.23 Anniversary Edition Beta) available in our Beta PPA for Kubuntu 21.04, and 21.10 development series. However this is…
Kubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla reaches end of life
Kubuntu Groovy Gorilla was released on October 22nd, 2020 with 9 months support. As of July 22nd, 2021, 20.10 reached ‘end of life’. No more package updates will be accepted to 20.10, and it will be archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks. The official end of life announcement for…
Plasma 5.22 available for Hirsute Hippo 21.04 in backports PPA
We are pleased to announce that Plasma 5.22.0, is now available in our backports PPA for Kubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo. The release announcement detailing the new features and improvements in Plasma 5.22 can be found here. To upgrade: Add the following repository to your software sources list: ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports or if…
Plasma 5.22 Beta (5.21.90) available for testing
Are you using Kubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo, our current Stable release? Or are you already running our development builds of the upcoming 21.10 Impish Indri? We currently have Plasma 5.21.90 (Plasma 5.22 Beta) available in our Beta PPA for Kubuntu 21.04, and 21.10 development series. However this is a beta…
Kubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver reaches end of Kubuntu support
As the recently released Kubuntu 21.04 with beautiful Plasma 5.21 makes its way into the world, inevitably other things come to their end. Kubuntu 18.04 LTS was released in April 2018, and reached ‘End of Life’ for its 3 years of flavour support on 1st May 2021. All Kubuntu users…
Backports PPA: KDE Frameworks 5.81.0 for Hirsute
KDE Frameworks 5.81.0 for 21.04 Hirsute Hippo is now available in our backports PPA. Frameworks releases are a mixture of bugfixes, new features, and general improvements to the KDE base libraries. As such, keen adopters who might like to install this backport can check the changelog to what has been…
Kubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo Released
The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 21.04 has been released, featuring the ‘beautiful’ KDE Plasma 5.21: simple by default, powerful when needed. Codenamed “Hirsute Hippo”, Kubuntu 21.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality,…