KDE Gear 23.04.3 and Frameworks 5.108 available in Kubuntu Backports

[Schwarzer Kater]

Above mentioned updates for our preferred desktop environment are availabe for Kubuntu 23.04 in the Kubuntu Backports PPA.

Thank you very much!


Amongst others KDE Gear includes applications like the Dolphin file manager, the Gwenview image viewer, the Kate text editor and the Konsole terminal emulator.

Link to the complete changelog for KDE Gear 23.04.3 :
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/23.04.3/

Link to the complete changleog for KDE Frameworks 5.108 :
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.108.0/

You can find the installation instructions on the Kubuntu Backports PPA website, but here they are again:

Open the Konsole terminal emulator and enter
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
reboot

After this any future updates that the Kubuntu Backports PPA provide for your Kubuntu version will be automatically installed when you update your system.


As always I strongly recommend that you have prepared some way to revert your system to a previous state if something goes wrong, e.g.:

One can install ppa-purge before and use it to get rid of the Kubuntu Backports' packages again.
Or use a Timeshift system backup.
Or use LVM/ext4 with snapshots or btrfs with snapshots as your file system.
Or use a Clonezilla volume backup.
Or …


You can also find an overview about the different versions of the KDE Plasma desktop environment and its components in Kubuntu here:
Overview: Kubuntu, its parent and some of its siblings

[Beerislife]

I'll probably wake up to the Neon update in the morning!

[Schwarzer Kater]

You also get them both in KDE neon now.

But I am really impressed how sometimes the Kubuntu Backports-team is faster (and naturally TUXEDO OS 2 will always be a bit later than KDE neon)…