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The upcoming KDE Plasma 5.24 desktop environment - slated for release on February 8, 2022 - will introduce support for fingerprint readers, allowing users to authenticate in to their Plasma sessions faster, easier, and more securely.
KDE Plasma 5.22.4 is packed with many improvements to make the KDE Plasma 5.22 desktop environment series more stable and reliable, including improved login screen authentication on systems using systemd-homed to no longer fail when entering the wrong password.
GNOME 40.3 has been released as the third maintenance update to the latest and greatest GNOME 40 desktop environment series, featuring many bug fixes. Check it out!
The latest release of Linux Mint includes changes to the Update Manager to prevent users from procrastinating important security updates.
Linux Mint 20.2 "Uma" beta ISOs are undergo testing and are due soon. As with the other versions in the Linux Mint 20.x series, this update will be supported until April/May of 2025. Once security updates stop, you won’t be safe - especially if you connect to the Internet with the device.
Cinnamon 5.0 has been released with many improvements that make the desktop environment more secure, stable and reliable, including new GUI and CLI tools for checking, listing, and performing updates of Cinnamon Spices.
Linux Mint 20.2 'Uma' is set for a beta release by mid-June, with a selection of useful new features and improvements. Just like the rest of the 20.x series, 20.2 will be supported until around April or May of 2025. At this point, users will need to upgrade if they want their system to remain secure.
The KDE Project has released KDE Frameworks 5.82 as the monthly update for May 2021 of their open-source collection of over 80 add-on libraries to Qt that provides various common functionality for KDE apps and the KDE Plasma desktop environment. The release brings over 200 changes, improvements and bug fixes.
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