KDE Neon provides the latest KDE software on a solid Ubuntu base. Suitable for KDE developers and early adopters. The first images were released in January 2016. KDE Neon 5.8 was released (with Plasma 5.8) October 4, 2016. KDE Neon User LTS edition was released December 9, 2016. KDE neon 5.11 was released October 10, 2017.