KDE Plasma 5.7.3 Improves Plasma Desktop and Discover, Fixes VPN Issues

The KDE project has had the great pleasure of announcing the general availability of the third of five maintenance releases for the KDE Plasma 5.7 desktop environment.

It would appear that the KDE Plasma 5.7 desktop, which is the latest stable and most advanced version of the modern KDE graphical interface for Linux desktops, has a very rapid development cycle with new maintenance updates released every two weeks.

As such, in only one month from its official unveiling, KDE Plasma 5.7 received three point releases already. KDE Plasma 5.7.3 is the latest one, announced today, August 2, 2016, and it comes exactly two weeks after the July 19 announcement of the KDE Plasma 5.7.2 update, which arrived as well two weeks after the first KDE Plasma 5.7 release.

If you're wondering what's new in the KDE Plasma 5.7.3 update, we can tell you that it brings, even more, improvements to some of the core components ...