A new update has been released for KDE Frameworks

Jan 9, 2015 13:33 GMT  ·  By

KDE Frameworks 5.6.0 has been announced by the KDE Community, and as usual, it lands with a ton of improvements that should make this a very interesting release.

The KDE Software Compilation or KDE SC has been split in three separate categories, KDE Frameworks, KDE Plasma, and KDE Applications. Frameworks is made of all the libraries and core components of the project, KDE Plasma is the desktop, and KDE Applications is pretty self-explanatory and it includes pretty much all of the regular apps associated with the project.

One of the reasons for this split has to do with the efficiency of the development cycle. Developers don't have to wait anymore until all the components are ready for deployment. That means KDE Frameworks, KDE Plasma, and KDE Applications will now have different version numbers from now on.

KDE Frameworks 5.6.0 is out

Most users don't really know about KDE Frameworks and they don't realize that it's actually a critical part of the KDE ecosystem. Sure enough, some of the releases are usually just about various fixes, but each one is very important.

"KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.6.0. KDE Frameworks are 60 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. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner," reads the announcement.

The devs said that the ActivityInfo QML object has been added, a couple of KCoreAddons have been improved, the notifications have been improved, the Plasma network also comes with a number of fixes, and quite a few of the other components have been modified.

You also have to keep in mind that KDE Frameworks 5.6.0 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 5.6.0 from Softpedia.

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