plasma-desktop is outdated

[Tommy_CZ]

plasma-desktop is outdated, in ubuntu repositories and even in kubuntu-backports.
I do not know where to report it, so I report it here.

Ubuntu has version 5.5.5, kubuntu backports 5.6.5 and latest (LTS) version is 5.8.2.

[Valorie Zimmerman (valorie-zimmerman)]

Hello,

We do have Plasma 5.8.3 packaged and in active testing right now, for both 17.04 and 16.10. More extensive testing will be necessary for backporting to 16.04.

If you are interested in helping us with testing and quality control, please join the Kubuntu-devel mail list [1] or the #kubuntu-devel IRC channel and speak up.

Thanks,

Valorie

1. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel

[Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)]

The desktop has to my knowledge in at least the last five years never been officially updated – just via the Kubuntu-Developers/Packagers PPA.

Ubuntu has shortend it's Release-cycle a while ago to a period of 9 month to catch up, even with overlapping LTS-Releases.

As usual in other Linux-Distributions – A release once it's published only get's security-~ and bug-fixes.

To tackle such there are now LTS-Releases of Qt and KDE. Especially in terms of KDE (Plasma.KF,Apps) OpenSuse has been urging the KDE-Devs to provide such. These would be able to arrive via the official backports.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Kubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Kubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Kubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1643374

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Kubuntu PPA because there has been no activity for 60 days.]