14 DAY TRIAL // As expected, KDE announced today, October 13, 2016, the general availability of the second point release of their KDE Applications 16.08 software suite for the latest KDE Plasma 5 desktop environments.
That's right, we're talking about KDE Applications 16.08.2, which comes five weeks after the first maintenance update, promising to address over 30 issues and annoyances that have been reported by users since KDE Applications 16.08.1, which launched last month on the 8th of September.
The improvements implemented in the KDE Applications 16.08.2 update try to polish various of the KDE apps that are shipping on the software suite dedicated to KDE Plasma 5 desktops, among which we can mention Dolphin file manager, Okular document viewer, Ark archive manager, KolourPaint painting program, KGpg GnuPG interface, KDE PIM backend, and Kdenlive.
"Today KDE released the second stability update for KDE Applications 16.08. This release contains only bugfixes and translation updates, providing a safe and pleasant update for everyone," reads today's announcement. "More than 30 recorded bugfixes include improvements to KDE PIM, Ark, Dolphin, KGpg, KolourPaint, Okular, among others."
KDE Development Platform has been updated to version 4.14.25
Also included in today's KDE Applications 16.08.2 release is an update to the long-term supported (LTS) version of KDE Development Platform, build 4.14.25, which is a set of tools and technologies that should help you build applications for the KDE desktop environment more efficiently and faster.
KDE Applications 16.08.2 comes with source packages that you'll have to build for your GNU/Linux distribution, so we recommend that you wait for the new version to land in the stable software repositories of your operating system before attempting to update from the KDE Applications 16.08.1 release.
There will be one more maintenance update released for the KDE Applications 16.08 series, version 16.08.3, which, at the moment of writing this article, is scheduled to launch on November 10, 2016. After that, the KDE project should start working on the new KDE Applications branch, whose version number is yet to be announced.