Today, October 8, 2016, KDE announced the monthly release of the KDE Frameworks project, a collection of over 70 add-on libraries to the Qt5 GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit.
KDE Frameworks 5.27.0 is now the latest version, and the most advanced one, bringing a large number of improvements to many the core components included in the suite. However, the most important change in KDE Frameworks 5.27 is the implementation of a new MIME types icons (see the screenshot attached on the right for more details). KDE Frameworks 5.27.0 has been released today for the KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop.
“KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.27.0. KDE Frameworks are 70 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms,” reads today’s announcement. “This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.”
Plasma Framework, KTextEditor, and KIO received multiple bug fixes
As mentioned before many of the components that come pre-installed with the KDE Frameworks project received various improvements, and among the them we can mention KTextEditor, Plasma Framework, KIO, KPty, KWallet Framework, KXmlRpcClient, NetworkManagerQt, KPeople, KParts, Package Framework, KNewStuff, KItemViews, KFileMetaData, KDocTools, KCrash, and KCoreAddons.
Additionally, the KConfig, KCodecs, KArchive, KActivities, BluezQt, Baloo, the KDE Doxygen tools, the extra CMake modules, and KDELibs 4 support also received several improvements, along with the Breeze and Oxygen icons. Lastly, KWayland now supports Surface enter and leave events for the Wayland session. Below, we’ve attached the entire changelog for all the technical details about the new changes. KDE Frameworks 5.27.0 should soon arrive in the stable repos of your favorite distro, so update as soon as that happens.
