Also a competitor for Oracle Forms and FileMaker apps

Oct 10, 2016 21:30 GMT  ·  By

The development team of the Kexi open-source visual database applications creator distributed as part of the Calligra office suite for KDE-based GNU/Linux distributions announced the release of Kexi 3.0.0.

Kexi 3.0.0 is a major milestone of the open-source database manager suite, which is considered the perfect replacement for proprietary alternatives from Windows or Mac OS X platforms, including but not limited to Microsoft Access, Oracle Forms, and FileMaker, and it includes a large number of improvements and enhancements compared to the previous versions.

"For benefit and convenience of fellow software engineers, we're sharing frameworks originally developed within the Kexi Project (that is KDb, KProperty, KReport). There are marked with the same version 3.0.0 and are prepared for general, standalone usage. So this combined release marks a major milestone for two efforts: porting to Qt 5 started in 2014, development of the three frameworks started in 2008," reads the announcement.

Kexi is now fully ported to the latest Qt 5 technologies

The most important change in the Kexi 3.0.0 release is the porting of the entire project to the latest Qt 5 technologies, so that it can be used in the most modern KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment releases. Another interesting change is that Kexi 3.0.0 is now mature enough to be used as a standalone application and not part of an entire office suite, such as Calligra.

Kexi 3.0.0 consists of three frameworks, namely KDb, KProperty, and KReport. The entire development cycle brought us both an Alpha and a Beta snapshot, which included a large number of bug fixes and improvements for Kexi and the frameworks mentioned above, which you can see in detail in the changelog attached below. As usual, you can download Kexi 3.0.0 sources right now via our website, or install it from the stable repos of your GNU/Linux distribution.

Kexi 3.0.0 Changelog