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KDE Plasma 5.16 Released With A Lot Of Polishing, File Manager Improvements

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 11 June 2019 at 08:57 AM EDT. 36 Comments

KDE Plasma 5.16 is out today as the latest major update to the modern KDE desktop.

KDE Plasma 5.16.0 brings with it a rewritten notification system, KWin fixes, DPI scaling fixes, NVIDIA EGLStreams support, a NVIDIA CPU usage fix, restoring the option to reboot into the UEFI settings, WireGuard support, Dolphin file manager improvements, and much more.

More details on KDE Plasma 5.16 at KDE.org.

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