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. For an introduction see the Frameworks 5.0 release announcement.

Breeze Icons

Many new icons
Add virtualbox mimetype icons and some other missing mimetypes
Add synaptic and octopi icon support
Fix cut icon (bug 354061)
Fix name of audio-headphones.svg (+=d)
Rating icons with smaller margin (1px)

Framework Integration

Remove possible file-name in KDEPlatformFileDialog::setDirectory()
Don't filter by name if we have mime types

KActivities

Remove dependency on Qt5::Widgets
Remove dependency on KDBusAddons
Remove dependency on KI18n
Remove unused includes
Shell scripts output improved
Added the data model (ActivitiesModel) showing the activities to the library
Build only the library by default
Remove the service and workspace components from the build
Move the library into src/lib from src/lib/core
Fix CMake warning
Fix crash in activities context menu (bug 351485)

KAuth

Fix kded5 dead lock when a program using kauth exits

KConfig

KConfigIniBackend: Fix expensive detach in lookup

KCoreAddons

Fix Kdelibs4 config migration for Windows
Add API to get Frameworks runtime version info
KRandom: Don't use up 16K of /dev/urandom to seed rand() (bug 359485)

KDeclarative

Don't call null object pointer (bug 347962)

KDED

Make it possible to compile with -DQT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII

KDELibs 4 Support

Fix session management for KApplication based applications (bug 354724)

KDocTools

Use unicode characters for callouts

KFileMetaData

KFileMetadata can now query and store information about the original email a saved file may have been an attachment of

KHTML

Fix cursor updating in view
Limit string memory use
KHTML java applet viewer: repair broken DBus call to kpasswdserver

KI18n

Use portable import macro for nl_msg_cat_cntr
Skip looking up . and .. to find the translations for an application
Restrict _nl_msg_cat_cntr use to GNU gettext implementations
Add KLocalizedString::languages()
Place Gettext calls only if catalog has been located

KIconThemes

Make sure variable is being initialized

KInit

kdeinit: Prefer loading libraries from RUNPATH
Implement "Qt5 TODO: use QUrl::fromStringList"

KIO

Fix KIO app-slave connection breaking if appName contains a '/' (bug 357499)
Try multiple authentication methods in case of failures
help: fix mimeType() on get()
KOpenWithDialog: show mimetype name and comment in "Remember" checkbox text (bug 110146)
A series of changes to avoid a directory relist after a file rename in more cases (bug 359596)
http: rename m_iError to m_kioError
kio_http: read and discard body after a 404 with errorPage=false
kio_http: fix mimetype determination when URL ends with '/'
FavIconRequestJob: add accessor hostUrl() so that konqueror can find out what the job was for, in the slot
FavIconRequestJob: fix job hanging when aborting due to favicon too big
FavIconRequestJob: fix errorString(), it only had the URL
KIO::RenameDialog: restore preview support, add date and size labels (bug 356278)
KIO::RenameDialog: refactor duplicated code
Fix wrong path-to-QUrl conversions
Use kf5.kio in the category name to match other categories

KItemModels

KLinkItemSelectionModel: Add new default constructor
KLinkItemSelectionModel: Make the linked selection model settable
KLinkItemSelectionModel: Handle changes to the selectionModel model
KLinkItemSelectionModel: Don't store model locally
KSelectionProxyModel: Fix iteration bug
Reset KSelectionProxyModel state when needed
Add a property indicating whether the models form a connected chain
KModelIndexProxyMapper: Simplify logic of connected check

KJS

Limit string memory use

KNewStuff

Show a warning if there's an error in the Engine

Package Framework

Let KDocTools stay optional on KPackage

KPeople

Fix deprecated API usage
Add actionType to the declarative plugin
Reverse the filtering logic in PersonsSortFilterProxyModel
Make the QML example slightly more usable
Add actionType to the PersonActionsModel

KService

Simplify code, reduce pointer dereferences, container-related improvements
Add kmimeassociations_dumper test program, inspired by bug 359850
Fix chromium/wine apps not loading on some distributions (bug 213972)

KTextEditor

Fix highlighting of all occurences in ReadOnlyPart
Don't iterate over a QString as if it was a QStringList
Properly initialize static QMaps
Prefer toDisplayString(QUrl::PreferLocalFile)
Support surrogate character sending from input method
Do not crash on shutdown when text animation is still running

KWallet Framework

Make sure KDocTools is looked-up
Don't pass a negative number to dbus, it asserts in libdbus
Clean cmake files
KWallet::openWallet(Synchronous): don't time out after 25 seconds

KWindowSystem

support _NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR (bug 349910)

KXMLGUI

Use non-native Language name as fallback
Fix session management broken since KF5 / Qt5 (bug 354724)
Shortcut schemes: support globally installed schemes
Use Qt's qHash(QKeySequence) when building against Qt 5.6+
Shortcut schemes: fix bug where two KXMLGUIClients with the same name overwrite each other's scheme file
kxmlguiwindowtest: add shortcuts dialog, for testing the shortcut schemes editor
Shortcut schemes: improve usability by changing texts in GUI
Shortcut schemes: improve scheme list combo (automatic size, don't clear on unknown scheme)
Shortcut schemes: don't prepend the guiclient name to the filename
Shortcut schemes: create dir before trying to save a new shortcut scheme
Shortcut schemes: restore layout margin, it looks very cramped otherwise
Fix memory leak in KXmlGui startup hook

Plasma Framework

IconItem: Don't overwrite source when using QIcon::name()
ContainmentInterface: Fix use of QRect right() and bottom()
Remove effectively duplicate code path for handling QPixmaps
Add API docs for IconItem
Fix stylesheet (bug 359345)
Don't wipe window mask on every geometry change when compositing is active and no mask has been set
Applet: Don't crash on remove panel (bug 345723)
Theme: Discard pixmap cache when changing theme (bug 359924)
IconItemTest: Skip when grabToImage fails
IconItem: Fix changing color of svg icons loaded from icon theme
Fix svg iconPath resolving in IconItem
If path is passed, pick the tail (bug 359902)
Add properties configurationRequired and reason
Move contextualActionsAboutToShow to Applet
ScrollViewStyle: Do not use margins of the flickable item
DataContainer: Fix slot checks before connect/disconnect
ToolTip: Prevent multiple geometry changes while changing contents
SvgItem: Don't use Plasma::Theme from rendering thread
AppletQuickItem: Fix finding own attached layout (bug 358849)
Smaller expander for the taskbar
ToolTip: Stop show timer if hideTooltip is called (bug 358894)
Disable animation of icons in plasma tooltips
Drop animations from tooltips
Default theme follows color scheme
Fix IconItem not loading non-theme icons with name (bug 359388)
Prefer other containments than desktop in containmentAt()
WindowThumbnail: Discard glx pixmap in stopRedirecting() (bug 357895)
Remove the legacy applets filter
ToolButtonStyle: Don't rely on an outside ID
Don't assume we find a corona (bug 359026)
Calendar: Add proper back/forward buttons and a "Today" button (bugs 336124, 348362, 358536)

Sonnet

Don't disable language detection just because a language is set
Disable automatic disabling of automatic spelling by default
Fix TextBreaks
Fix Hunspell dictionary search paths missing '/' (bug 359866)
Add /../share/hunspell to dictionary search path