14 DAY TRIAL // Today, September 10, 2016, the KDE project has announced the release of the KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 collection of over 70 add-on libraries for the Qt5 GUI toolkit.
KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 is the monthly release of this project for September 2016, and it is distributed as an essential part of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and KDE Applications software suite. It comes right after the release of KDE Applications 16.08.1, and just in time for next week's KDE Plasma 5.7.5 update.
According to the release notes, KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 is here to add multiple improvements to the Breeze icons, such as support for various open-source projects that aren't related to the KDE project like gThumb, Banshee, Pidgin, and Wine, as well as to the KTextEditor text editor and Plasma Framework component.
Additionally, we can notice many improvements to the Sonnet multilingual spell checker program, such as the addition of a tool to generate trigrams, better language detection, the ability to handle dictionaries that don't contain correct names, and various other performance updates and small but important bug fixes.
KDE Frameworks 5.27.0 to be released on October 8, 2016
Among other KDE applications and components that have received improvements in today's KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 release, we can mention KWayland for better Wayland support, KWallet Framework, Kross, KNotification, Attica, BluezQt, KCodecs, KConfig, KDeclarative, KConfigWidgets, KDocTools, KFileMetaData, KIdleTime, KXMLGUI, and KIO.
To see what exactly has been changed for each of these components, we recommend studying the full changelog (link above), and in the meantime, feel free to check the main software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution for the updated KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 packages. The next update, KDE Frameworks 5.27.0, will arrive on October 8, 2016. Please also note that KDE Plasma 5.7.5 should be out on September 13 and that it's the last in the series.