Plasma 5.8.9?

[chimak111]

My Kubuntu 16.04 with the kubuntu-backports ppa enabled is still on 5.8.8.

$ plasmashell --version
plasmashell 5.8.8

5.8.9 was released on 7 February 2018: https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.9.php

[chimak111]

I got these updates on 2018-02-14

Upgrade: plasma-workspace:amd64 (4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04~ppa2, 4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1.1~ubuntu16.04~ppa1),
libtaskmanager6:amd64 (4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04~ppa2, 4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1.1~ubuntu16.04~ppa1), 
libplasma-geolocation-interface5:amd64 (4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04~ppa2, 4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1.1~ubuntu16.04~ppa1), 
google-chrome-stable:amd64 (64.0.3282.140-1, 64.0.3282.167-1), libvorbisfile3:amd64 (1.3.5-3, 1.3.5-3ubuntu0.1), 
libkworkspace5-5:amd64 (4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04~ppa2, 4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1.1~ubuntu16.04~ppa1), 
sddm-theme-breeze:amd64 (4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04~ppa2, 4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1.1~ubuntu16.04~ppa1), 
libvorbisenc2:amd64 (1.3.5-3, 1.3.5-3ubuntu0.1), libvorbis0a:amd64 (1.3.5-3, 1.3.5-3ubuntu0.1), 
libweather-ion7:amd64 (4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04~ppa2, 4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1.1~ubuntu16.04~ppa1)

And these today, 2018-02-14

libapt-inst2.0:amd64 (1.2.24, 1.2.25), apt:amd64 (1.2.24, 1.2.25), libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 (1.2.24, 1.2.25), 
apt-utils:amd64 (1.2.24, 1.2.25), apt-transport-https:amd64 (1.2.24, 1.2.25)

I then switched to the main server but there weren't any additional updates.

[acheron]

My Kubuntu 16.04 with the kubuntu-backports ppa enabled is still on 5.8.8.

The plasma-workspace update to 4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1.1~ubuntu16.04~ppa1 you got contains the main security update patches 5.8.9 was released for.

https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+...-archive-extra

plasma-workspace (4:5.8.8-0ubuntu1.1~ubuntu16.04~ppa1) xenial; urgency=medium

* SECURITY UPDATE: Plasma Desktop: Arbitrary command execution in the
removable device
- debian/patches/CVE-2018-6791.patch
Make sure device paths are quoted
- CVE-2018-6791
* SECURITY UPDATE: Plasma: Notifications can expose user IP address
- debian/patches/CVE-2018-6790.patch
Sanitise notification HTML
- CVE-2018-6790

The rest of plasma 5.8.9 with less/non critical changes will follow, sometime in the next few days or week I hope. At the moment main focus is on 18.04.

[chimak111]

Thanks for explaining