A new stable version of KDE Frameworks 5 is available for testing

Aug 7, 2014 14:59 GMT  ·  By

The KDE Community has announced that the first update for KDE Frameworks 5 has been released, bringing a number of new features and packages

The first update for KDE Frameworks 5 is now out and the developers are making great progress. The project is advancing rapidly and it will soon replace the KDE branches that are used today in various distros.

“KDE has today made the first update to KDE Frameworks 5. Frameworks are our addon libraries for Qt applications which provide numberous useful features using peer reviewed APIs and regular monthly updates. This release has 60 different frameworks adding features from Zip file support to Audio file preview,” say the devs.

According to the changelog, major refactorings and improvements of the vi-mode have been implemented for KTextEditor, KAuth is now based on PolkitQt5-1, a new migration agent for Kwallet has been added, and Plasma is now using OpenGL.

You also have to keep in mind that KDE Frameworks 5.1 is a sophisticated piece of software and you really need to know what you are doing if you decide to compile it.

You can download the source packages for KDE Frameworks 5.1 from the official website. It's likely that some of the distros out there, like Arch Linux, will soon integrate this release into their repositories.