From kde-announce  Wed Oct 15 10:49:57 2014
From: Jonathan Riddell <jr () jriddell ! org>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:49:57 +0000
To: kde-announce
Subject: [kde-announce] Plasma 5.1
Message-Id: <20141015104957.GB13034 () starsky ! 19inch ! net>
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Today, KDE releases Plasma 5.1.0, the first release containing new
features since the release of Plasma 5.0 this summer. Plasma 5.1
sports a wide variety of improvements, leading to greater stability,
better performance and new and improved features. Thanks to the
feedback of the community, KDE developers were able to package a large
number of fixes and enhancements into this release, among which more
complete and higher quality artwork following the new-in-5.0 Breeze
style, re-addition of popular features such as the Icon Tasks
taskswitcher and improved stability and performance.

Those travelling regularly will enjoy better support for time zones in
the panel's clock, while those staying at home a revamped clipboard
manager, allowing you to easily get at your past clipboard's
content. The Breeze widget style is now also available for Qt4-based
applications, leading to greater consistency across applications. The
work to support Wayland as display server for Plasma is still ongoing,
with improved, but not complete support in 5.1. Changes throughout
many default components improve accessibility for visually impaired
users by adding support for screenreaders and improved keyboard
navigation.

Aside from the visual improvements and the work on features, the focus
of this release lies also on stability and performance improvements,
with over 180 bugs resolved since 5.0 in the shell alone. Plasma 5.1
requires KDE Frameworks 5.3, which brings in another great amount of
fixes and performance improvements on top of the large number of fixes
that have gone into Plasma 5.1. If you want to help to make more of
this happen, consider a donation to KDE, so we can support more
developers getting together to make great software.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.1/

Enjoy it

Jonathan
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