Neptune 5.5 is Released, See what's New
Neptune is an open source distribution of Linux based on the world’s most popular operating system, Ubuntu, and built around the modern and productive KDE Plasma desktop environment, which uses a very attractive theme and layout.
Coming only a month after the Neptune 5.4 release that introduced a new dark theme and updated several components, Neptune 5.5 bumps the kernel version to Linux kernel 4.17.8 and updates the graphics stack to Mesa 18.1.6, AMDGPU DDX 18.0.1, Nouveau DDX 1.0.15, and ATI/Radeon DDX 18.0.1.
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"This update represents the current state of Neptune 5 and renews the ISO file so if you install Neptune you don't have to download tons of Updates," writes Leszek Lesner in today's announcement. "In this update we improved hardware support further by providing Linux Kernel 4.17.8 with improved drivers and bugfixes."
Other main changes in this version are the update of KDE Frameworks to version 5.49 and KDE Applications to version 18.08. As the new KF5 version is not compatible with Qt 5.7 anymore we had to backport its patches to version 5.45.
- Plasma Desktop has been updated to 5.12.6 to provide bugfixes.
- Chromium 68 fixes issues with html5 audio & video playback and provides a redesigned player.
- LibreOffice is now available in version 6.1.
- Intel Microcode is now available in the newest security fixed release.
