We are proud to announce the long-awaited release of LXQt 0.8.0. This release brings full Qt5 compatibility to LXQt. Qt4 support is still available, although it will be dropped entirely next release. In the five months since the release of LXQt 0.7.0, we have seen a surge of interest and several new developers have joined us. Collaboration with other desktop environments has been very promising and we are very excited to be able to pick up new KDE Frameworks libraries to replace custom, duplicated and often sub-par functionality. The release highlights are available below. For a list of full changes in each component, please see our commit history on http://git.lxde.org/ - Full Qt 5 support. Run cmake with -DUSE_QT5 to enable it. - New component: lxqt-admin. This brings an optional set of basic admin tools such as configuration for date & time as well as users and groups. - New theme: Plasma Next. Based on KDE Plasma Next theme. - New theme: Dark Alpha, by Inti Alonso. - Much improved support for multiple displays. - Support for RGBA transparency if compositing is available. - lxqt-config-randr has been removed. It has been replaced by lxqt-config-monitor. - pcmanfm-qt: Support single-click to activate items - pcmanfm-qt: Support drag & drop on the desktop - pcmanfm-qt: Implement integration with the ark archive manager - pcmanfm-qt: Improve readability in icon view - lxqt-panel: Support reordering of taskbar buttons - lxqt-panel: Support "urgency" hint - lxqt-panel: Add support for OSS in volume control, if available - lxqt-powermanagement: Improved compatibility with systemd/logind - Integrate with compton if available (disabled by default) - Add support for setting a default UI font - Lots of performances improvements. - Lots and lots of bugfixes. For more information on the LXQt project, please visit: * http://lxqt.org Source downloads for LXQt 0.8.0 are available at: * http://lxqt.org/downloads/0.7.0/ Please report any issues to our main issue tracker. * https://github.com/lxde/lxde-qt Official packages are available for over 10 distributions. For version control, please see our git repositories on: * http://git.lxde.org/ * https://github.com/lxde/ (read-only mirror) We are always looking for new contributors. If you are interested in joining us, please take a look at our CONTRIBUTING document: * https://github.com/lxde/lxde-qt/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING The LXDE team