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KDE Plasma is a graphical desktop environment with customizable layouts and panels, supporting virtual desktops and widgets. It is available on most Linux distributions and FreeBSD.

Release Released Active Support Critical bug fixes Latest
5.26 2 months and 1 week ago
(11 Oct 2022)
Ends in 1 month and 3 weeks
(14 Feb 2023)
Ends in 1 month and 3 weeks
(14 Feb 2023)
5.26.3
(08 Nov 2022)
5.25 6 months ago
(14 Jun 2022)
Ended 2 months and 1 week ago
(11 Oct 2022)
Ended 2 months and 1 week ago
(11 Oct 2022)
5.25.5
5.24 (LTS) 10 months ago
(08 Feb 2022)
Ended 6 months ago
(14 Jun 2022)
Yes 5.24.6
(11 Jul 2022)
5.23 1 year and 2 months ago
(14 Oct 2021)
Ended 10 months ago
(03 Feb 2022)
Ended 10 months ago
(03 Feb 2022)
5.23.5
5.18 (LTS) 2 years and 10 months ago
(11 Feb 2020)
Ended 2 years and 6 months ago
(04 Jun 2020)
Ended 10 months ago
(11 Feb 2022)
5.18.8

KDE Plasma releases roughly three major feature releases a year, with one Long Term Support release every other year. There is a detailed schedule for future bug fix releases and major releases.

Release Cadence

  • Plasma 5.24 (LTS) bug fix support will end once the first Plasma 6.0 feature release comes out.
  • Bugfix tags/releases are made on Tuesdays in a Fibonacci sequence of weeks (1, 1, 2, 3, 5) after each previous release of the same series.

More information is available on the KDE Plasma website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running:
plasmashell -v

You can submit an improvement to this page on GitHub :octocat: . This page has a corresponding Talk Page.

A JSON version of this page is available at /api/kde-plasma.json. See the API Documentation for more.

This page was last updated on 20 November 2022.