14 DAY TRIAL // The development team behind the open-source and cross-platform KDevelop IDE (Integrated Development Environment) was proud to announce on the first day of December the availability of the third point release for KDevelop 5.0 stable series.
KDevelop 5.0.3 arrives one and a half months after the second maintenance update, but it's a small bugfix release that attempts to patch a total of nine issues reported by users since then. However, it's a recommended update for all users.
"We are happy to announce the release of KDevelop 5.0.3, the third bugfix and stabilization release for KDevelop 5.0. An upgrade to 5.0.3 is strongly recommended to all users of 5.0.0, 5.0.1 or 5.0.2," reads the release announcement.
Here's what's new in KDevelop 5.0.3
If you're curious to know what was changed in KDevelop 5.0.3, we can tell you that it improves GitHub handling authentication, addresses various behavior irregularities in the Documentation view, as well as some tab order issues in the Problems view.
A crash that occurred when attempting to exit the application was patched as well in the KDevelop 5.0.3 bugfix release, which also makes the "Forward declare" problem solution assistant to appear only when it's supposed to.
KDevelop 5.0.3 also improves the overall performance of the software by addressing an issue that might have borked the user interface when attempting to create a large number of parse jobs.
Last but not least, the Qt Help functionality was improved to no longer jump to the wrong function, some minor improvements landed in the standard library info for kdev-python, and the MSVC (Microsoft Visual C++) startup script should now work as expected.
You can download the KDevelop 5.0.3 binaries for GNU/Linux and Windows operating systems right now from our website, along with the source archive if you fancy compiling the app yourself.