KaOS 2019.09 stable version has been released as an update of a rolling release, this version of the package has been synchronized desktop environment Plasma Desktop upgrade to the latest version, including Frameworks 5.61.0, Plasma 5.16.5 and KDE Applications 19.08.1, these software are built on Qt 5.13.1. This is driven by the Linux kernel version 5.2. It also comes with the latest Calamares 3.2.13-based version of the graphical installer, make up the two main vulnerabilities.
- 19.08 Applications KDE News includes improvements to the Dolphin information panel. For example, when you display the media file in the main panel, you can choose to automatically play media files, and you can select and copy text displayed in the panel, Okular supports ePub documents in this version has also been some improvements.
- Other components of this updated version includes LibreOffice6.2, NetworkManager 1.20.0, Poppler0.80.0, GNU Nano 4.4, Go 1.13, Git 2.23.0, GStreewer 1.16.0, Python3.7.4, Nettle 3.5.1, KBD 2.2. 0 and Libevent2.1.11. KaOS repository is no longer available Qt4.
- The Linux kernel has built-in ucode, in order to achieve a fully automated Early Microcode update.
- KaOS includes a special tool, for the ISO file written to USB. IsoWriter can not only write USB, it can also be restored after the USB for ISO. Compared with the downloaded ISO file, the new features in this release is to verify the integrity of the written usb flash drive. This can also be done in Dolphin, right-click the iso file, select Options, then select Verify ISO Write.
KaOS is a desktop Linux distribution, which feature the latest version of the KDE desktop environment and other popular applications using the Qt toolkit. It was originally based on Arch Linux, but since April 2013, developers began to create their own packages, these packages are now available from KaOS own software warehouse. KaOS a rolling update mode, and only for the 64-bit computer system.