14 DAY TRIAL // With a three-day delay, the KDE Framework 5.28.0 collection of add-on libraries for the Qt 5 GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit used in the latest KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment arrived today, November 15, 2016.
As expected, KDE Frameworks 5.28.0 brings a month's worth of bug fixes and general improvements to many of the included components and libraries, among which we can mention Breeze icons, KActivitiesStats, KDE Doxygen tools, the extra CMake modules, KAuth, KConfig, KCoreAddons, KDeclarative, KDocTools, KIconThemes, KIdleTime, KImageFormats, KItemModels, KJS, KNewStuff, and KNotification.
"KDE Frameworks are 70 add-on 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."
KWayland and Plasma Framework got the most improvements
It appears that KDE's plans to bring the Plasma desktop environment to the next-generation Wayland display server, which is currently being slowly adopted by various GNU/Linux distributions, starting with the upcoming Fedora 25 OS, due for release on November 22, 2016, continues today with numerous improvements to the KWayland component.
Plasma Framework, KTextEditor, KIO and KWidgetsAddons also received a bunch of fixes, and components like KPackage Framework, KPty, KRunner, KUnitConversion, KWallet Framework, KWindowSystem, KXMLGUI, ModemManagerQt, NetworkManagerQt, and Solid got minor improvements. Check out the full changelog attached below for all the technical details about the new changes.
KDE Frameworks 5.28.0 should soon make its way into the software repositories of various Linux-based operating systems that offer the latest KDE Plasma 5 desktop and KDE Applications 16.08 software suite to their users, including KDE Neon, Arch Linux and OpenSuSE Tumbleweed. For the best KDE experience, we recommend updating your installation to KDE Frameworks 5.28.0 as soon as possible.