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Linux Release Roundup: Ubuntu Touch OTA-6, Linux 4.18 in EOL, Plasma 5.14.4 is available

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As part of the relentless drive to talk about Linux release roundup, there are many important news I've outlined here in one article.

December will see the arrival of the Ubuntu Touch OTA-6

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After the great system stability achieved by Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 - launched by UBPorts developers on October 13 - developers are now working on the OTA-6 and are scheduled to launch on December 7. This gives an optimistic growth in the operating system and the development of its capabilities Later. If you own Ubuntu Phone and want to contribute to its experience you can do so by clicking here.

Many improvements will be received by the new Morph browser, and web applications will be able to access files stored on devices, and many other improvements (Welcome Wizard updated, Event dialog in the calendar, etc).

Linux 4.18 in EOL: upgrade to Linux 4.19

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Linux 4.18 is specifically in EOL, said Greg Kroah-Hartman, The kernel maintainer. As you know, the 4.18 kernel was released in August and improved many aspects of Linux, where support was provided for the Radeon Vega GPUs.

In addition, Hartmanoggi announced that the latest version of the series will be the 4.18.20 kernel. Then you will need to upgrade to Linux 4.19.5 kernel from here (the latest version of Linux 4.19 kernel).

Plasma 5.14.4 released

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The fourth point of the Plasma 5.14.4 series was released by the KDE Project, including several improvements to the Plasma Discover graphic package manager and Flatpak. Here for better compatibility than some wallpapers, contrast in Folder View has been improved as well as the update of the weather add-on.

In addition, a total of 45 components have been improved, including Plasma Desktop, Plasma Addons, Plasma Discover, Plasma Networkmanager (plasma-nm), KWin and kactivitymanagerd, plasma-integration-integration, Plasma Audio Control, Breeze, KScreen, Plasma Workspace. To see the rest you can go from here.

The latest version of the KDE Plasma 5.14.5 series will be released on January 8, 2019. Shortly thereafter, Plasma 5.15 will be launched.

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