 After a few hard months of work, the KDE community is pleased to announce Plasma 5.8 Long Term Support Edition. This version will be supported for at least 18 months, so if you haven't tried Plasma Desktop yet, take a look at some of its unique features. With Desktop widgets, you can easily organize your files, monitor the system and quickly launch favorite apps and more. Plasma lets you easily search your desktop for applications, folders, music, video files, everything you have. Plasma's default theme, Breeze, has a unified look across all common application toolkits. Download wallpapers, window styles, widgets, desktop effects and many other resources straight to your desktop from the KDE Store. Using KDE Connect, you'll be notified on your desktop about text messages, can easily transfer files and even use your phone as a remote control. Plasma is simple by default, but you can customize it however you like with new widgets, panels, screens and styles. But this isn't all, Plasma 5.8 brings even more features and improvements to your desktop. This release brings an all-new artwork design giving you a complete Breeze startup to shut down experience. Support for Semetic right-to-left written languages such as Hebrew and Arabic have been greatly improved. Plasma wallpaper plugins such as slide shows and animated wallpapers can now be used on the lock screen. This release received many bug fixes and multi-screen support and should significantly improve your experience with docking stations and projectors. Media controls that were previously available only in the Task Manager tooltips are now accessible in context menus as well. Additionally, dropping the files onto the Task Manager entries themselves will now open up the associated application. The virtual desktop switcher, pager and window list tablets have been rewritten for greater speed using the new Task Manager backend introduced in Plasma 5.7. Plasma Discover has gained a brand new interface based on KDE's versatile set of cross-platform UI components. Global shortcut configuration has been simplified and can now be configured to jump to specific tasks within an application. And modifier-only shortcuts allow you to open application menus just by pressing the MetaKey. If you enjoy using Plasma, please consider donating to KDE so we can continue to work together and make the best free software possible.