14 DAY TRIAL // KDE announced this weekend the general availability of the monthly maintenance update to their open-source KDE Frameworks project, a collection of over 70 add-on libraries for Qt 5 providing common functionality for many KDE apps.
KDE Frameworks 5.31.0 is here with a total of 72 changes across most of its components, including Attica, which now supports display_name in categories, the Breeze icons, the framework integration, as well as KArchive archive manager and KAuth.
"KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.31.0. 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.
Several minor issues have also been fixed in the KDE Frameworks 5.31.0 release for the KConfig, KConfigWidgets, KCoreAddons, KDeclarative, KEmoticons, KIconThemes, KIO, KItemViews, KNewStuff, KNotification, and KPackage Framework components.
Plasma Framework received the most improvements
As expected, Plasma Framework received the most improvements in this new KDE Frameworks monthly maintenance update, and you can study the entire changelog at the end of the article.
Best of all, KDE Frameworks 5.31.0 adds Qt 5.8 support to the C++ highlighting, but it also addresses various small bugs for Sonnet, Solid, KXMLGUI, KWindowSystem, KWidgetsAddons, KTextEditor, and the extra CMake modules.
As usual, the KDELibs 4 support received a few improvements, and users are urged to update their KDE Plasma desktop environments to the KDE Frameworks 5.31.0 release as soon the new packages arrive in the stable software repositories of their favorite distros.
You should also check out the release announcement if you plan on compiling KDE Frameworks 5.31.0 on your GNU/Linux operating system, where you'll be able to download the source tarballs.
In related news, we'd like to remind you that the second maintenance update to the KDE Applications 16.12 software suite series is now available for your KDE Plasma desktop environment, and you should update as soon as possible.