Tuesday, 9 November 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.23.3.
Plasma 5.23 was released in October 2021 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds two weeks’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
- Keyboardlayout: Fix missing Esperanto flag icon in the menu. Commit. Fixes bug #445077
- Plasma Networkmanager: OpenVPN: fix logic in auth dialog. Commit. Fixes bug #444882
- On FreeBSD do not try to execute powerdevil.backlighthelper.syspath action. Commit.
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