14 DAY TRIAL // The KDE Project announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.33.0, a new monthly update of the collection of over 70 add-on libraries for Qt application developers, needed for the KDE Plasma desktop and KDE Applications software suite.
KDE Frameworks 5.33.0 continues the improvements made in last month's KDE Frameworks 5.32.0 release, and continues to fix bugs across many of its core components and applications. These include Plasma Framework, NetworkManagerQt, KWayland, KTextEditor, and syntax highlighting.
Various small improvements are also present in KDE Frameworks 5.33.0 for KWidgetsAddons, KService, KParts, KNotification, KItemModels, KIO, KHTML, KFileMetaData, KDocTools, KDeclarative, KDBusAddons, KConfig, KAuth, KActivitiesStats, BluezQt, Baloo, KDE Doxygen tools, extra CMake modules.
"KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.33.0. KDE Frameworks are 70 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," reads the release announcement.
Coming soon to a KDE Plasma 5 desktop near you
The KDE Frameworks project is a very important part of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment, and the 5.33.0 release is coming soon to a GNU/Linux operating system near you. It should land soon in the KDE Neon, Arch Linux and OpenSuSE Tumbleweed repos, so make sure that you update your systems on a regular basis.
Those who fancy installing KDE Frameworks 5.33.0 from sources can download the complete source code right now from the official announcement linked above, where the KDE developers also provide installation instructions for various distros, along with installations for building from source.
For a more complete KDE Plasma experience, we recommend that you also have installed the latest KDE Plasma 5.9.4 desktop environment and KDE Applications 16.12.3 software suite, along with KDE Frameworks 5.33.0, of course, on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution.