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Korora KDE Changelog

What's new in Korora KDE 23

Feb 7, 2016
  • Cinnamon 2.8
  • This new release of Cinnamon includes lots of refinements. Refer to the Cinnamon Release Announcement for more details.
  • GNOME 3.18
  • GNOME 3.18 brings Google Drive integration in Files, automatic screen brightness and Touchpad gestures. GNOME 3.18 also has improved support for the Wayland compositor. Refer to the GNOME Release Announcement for more details.
  • KDE Plasma 5.5.4
  • A modern, stable desktop environment, KDE Plasma 5.5.4 sees a large number of improvements including better dpi support and improved memory use plus many bug fixes. Refer to the KDE Plasma Announcement for more details.
  • Mate 1.12
  • This release mainly focused on bug fixes and improving support for GTK3. Refer to the Mate Release announcement for more details.
  • Xfce 4.12
  • This release mainly focused on polishing the desktop and improving the user experience in various ways. Refer to the Xfce Tour for more details.

New in Korora KDE 23 Beta (Nov 9, 2015)

  • A modern, stable desktop environment, KDE Plasma 5.4.2 sees a large number of improvements including better dpi support and improved memory use plus many bug fixes. Based on Fedora 23.

New in Korora KDE 22 (Aug 2, 2015)

  • Plasma 5, the successor to KDE Plasma 4, is now the default workspace in the Korora KDE edition. It has a new theme called Breeze, which has cleaner visuals and better readability, improves certain work-flows and provides overall more consistent and polished interface. Changes under the hood include switch to Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5 and migration to a fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack based on OpenGL(ES).
  • Faster and better dependency management with DNF:
  • With Korora 22 we're introducing a major change under the hood; we're now using DNF and hawkey to manage packages. DNF is much like the Yum software package manager (it's largely command-line compatible), but re-written and re-engineered to provide optimal performance and (along with Hawkey) provide a strict API definition for plugins and extending projects. DNF also makes use of the libsolv library initially pioneered by the openSUSE Project to provide faster and better dependency management.
  • It also boasts a better performance and memory footprint vs. Yum, and is designed to have a cleaner codebase and be easier to maintain.
  • Elasticsearch:
  • Elasticsearch is full-featured and very popular self-standing open source indexing server, and now it's available by with just a "yum install elasticsearch" - no, wait, make that "dnf install elasticsearch" :-)
  • GNU Compiler Collection 5:
  • Korora 22 comes with GCC 5.1 as the primary compiler suite.
  • Captive Portal Detection:
  • Korora GNOME, by default, enables a captive portal detection that requests known content from a trusted Fedora server. If the request is redirected, a window automatically appears for you to interact with the portal's login webpage.
  • To disable this feature, remove /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-fedora.conf
  • Developer orientated firewall:
  • Developers often run test servers that run on high numbered ports, and interconnectivity with many modern consumer devices also requires these ports. The firewall in Korora GNOME, firewalld, is configured to allow these things.
  • Ports numbered under 1024, with the exceptions of sshd and clients for Samba and DHCPv6, are blocked to prevent access to system services. Ports above 1024, used for user-initiated applications, are open by default.

New in Korora KDE 21 (Feb 7, 2015)

  • A modern, stable desktop environment, KDE 4.14 sees a large number of improvements but fewer new features as development focus shifts to the new KDE Frameworks 5 (expected to be the default in Korora 22).

New in Korora KDE 21 Beta (Jan 3, 2015)

  • A modern, stable desktop environment, KDE 4.14 sees a large number of improvements but fewer new features as development focus shifts to the new KDE Frameworks 5 (expected to be the default in Korora 22). Refer to the KDE Software Compilation Announcement for more details.

New in Korora KDE 20 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • GNOME 3.10 represents another iteration to the new desktop which is also targeting native Wayland support.
  • KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11 brings a host of bug fixes, speed ups and improvements to the native applications including Kontact, KScreen and KGet.
  • Application Installer brings a new interface for installing packages in GNOME.
  • NetworkManager should be able to configure bond master and bridge interfaces with commonly used options and recognise their existing configuration on startup without disrupting their operation.
  • LVM has introduced thin provisioning technology, which provides greatly improved snapshot functionality in addition to thin provisioning capability. This change will make it possible to configure thin provisioning during OS installation.
  • Plasma-nm replaces the current network applet in KDE with a new one and bring the latest features in NetworkManager to KDE.
  • SSD Cache is updated thanks to the recent kernel to support (fast) SSD caching of (slow) ordinary hard disks.
  • VirtManager user interface for managing virtual machines has the ability to easily manage snapshots.