Plasma 5.8.1 now available
Plasma 5.8.1 is now available in our Neptune Plasma repository.
For information take a look at the Releasenotes.
Plasma 5.8 final version available
The final version of Plasma 5.8.0 is now available in our Neptune Plasma repository.
For information take a look at the Releasenotes.
Plasma 5.8 Beta 1 + KF 5.26 now available
KDE Plasma 5.8 Beta 1 (5.7.95) is now available in our plasma 5 repos together with the update to KDE Frameworks 5.26
Feel free to test Plasma 5.8 Beta 1 as this becomes the first LTS for Plasma 5 with 18 months support.
Existing Neptune Plasma 5 users just have to perform a normal update to get this new version.
Chromium 53 Update available
We updated Chromium to version 53 which comes with some bugfixes and an enormous speed improvement up to 40% in browsing.
It also includes important security fixes so that we encourage any Neptune user to update to this new release.
KDE Plasma 5.7.4 + KDE Applications 16.08.1
KDE Plasma 5.7.4 with the usual bugfixes is now in our plasma 5 repo.
Most of the KDE Applications 16.08.1 are also now in our kdeapps repo.
See the official announcements of KDE Plasma 5.7.4 and KDE Applications 16.08.1 for more information.
Feel free to test out and give feedback.
Plasma 5 users will get the update through the normal update process with our update manager
apper.
Neptune 4.5.2 ISO available
We are proud to announce version 4.5.2 of Neptune.
This is another upgrade to our install media from the Neptune 4.5 series. Besides the usual updates (Effective: 01.09.2016) there are some new features. One would be Pulseaudio that we decided to include by default to make sure to support as many soundcardconfigurations out of the box as possible. For the best known configuration we also ship a new default-settings-pulseaudio package.
Besides that we ship a new LTS Kernel version 3.18.40 with plenty of bugfixes new drivers and other improvements.
Plasma 5 ISO updated
We now offer an updated Plasma 5 ISO which includes the greatest and latest of our Testing version of Neptune.
This includes most stuff from Plasma 5.7 (without Workspace and Desktop still) aswell as new KF5 5.23 and Updates to KDE Applications 16.04.
It also includes the new LTS kernel 4.4.14, Chromium 51 and a bunch of security fixes and updates till 8th of July 2016.
You can get the updated ISO from our Download Page.
Enjoy
Neptune 4.5.1 ISOs are available now
Neptune 4.5.1 ISOs are available for download now and update the system since the Neptune 4.5 release to the state of 3. May 2016.
The biggest issue fixed in this release is the usb booting from USB 3 ports. Besides that this new maintainance release features KDE SC 4.14.16 as desktop.
The Plasma 5 version was updated to Plasma 5.6.2 with KDE Frameworks 5.21.
Happy Easter
The Neptune team wishes everyone Happy Easter.
As a little present we present you a big desktop update. KDE SC 4.14s KDE-Workspace was upgraded to version 4.11.14. Besides that we also upgraded Chromium to version 49.
Plasma 5 Users can enjoy the brand new version 5.6.
Neptune 4.5 Release
We are proud to announce Neptune 4.5 the 5th service release to the Neptune 4.x series.
This version comes with some core updates to the system including LTS Kernel 3.18.25, Systemd 227,
libc6 2.19, Mesa 10.5.9, Alsa 1.0.27 and more. For the first time we also offer a testing version
of our Plasma 5 version based on Plasma 5.5.3 as seperate ISO download.
The usual software Updates like Chromium updated to version 46 and Icedove to 38.5 are also included.
We replaced TrueCrypt with VeraCrypt which is compatible with TrueCrypt Containers.