KDE Frameworks 5.8.0 has been released



Here the announcement:

13th March 2015. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.8.0.

KDE Frameworks are 60 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.

New frameworks:
KPeople, provides access to all contacts and the people who hold them
KXmlRpcClient, interaction with XMLRPC services

General

A number of build fixes for compiling with the upcoming Qt 5.5

KActivities

Resources scoring service is now finalized

KArchive

Stop failing on ZIP files with redundant data descriptors

KCMUtils

Restore KCModule::setAuthAction

KCoreAddons

KPluginMetadata: add support for Hidden key

KDeclarative

Prefer exposing lists to QML with QJsonArray
Handle non default devicePixelRatios in images
Expose hasUrls in DeclarativeMimeData
Allow users to configure how many horizontal lines are drawn

KDocTools

Fix the build on MacOSX when using Homebrew
Better styling of media objects (images, ...) in documentation
Encode invalid chars in paths used in XML DTDs, avoiding errors

KGlobalAccel

Activation timestamp set as dynamic property on triggered QAction.

KIconThemes

Fix QIcon::fromTheme(xxx, someFallback) would not return the fallback

KImageFormats

Make PSD image reader endianess-agnostic.

KIO

Deprecate UDSEntry::listFields and add the UDSEntry::fields method which returns a QVector without costly conversion.
Sync bookmarkmanager only if change was by this process (bug 343735)
Fix startup of kssld5 dbus service
Implement quota-used-bytes and quota-available-bytes from RFC 4331 to enable free space information in http ioslave.

KNotifications

Delay the audio init until actually needed
Fix notification config not applying instantly
Fix audio notifications stopping after first file played

KNotifyConfig

Add optional dependency on QtSpeech to reenable speaking notifications.

KService

KPluginInfo: support stringlists as properties

KTextEditor

Add word count statistics in statusbar
vimode: fix crash when removing last line in Visual Line mode

KWidgetsAddons

Make KRatingWidget cope with devicePixelRatio

KWindowSystem

KSelectionWatcher and KSelectionOwner can be used without depending on QX11Info.
KXMessages can be used without depending on QX11Info

NetworkManagerQt

Add new properties and methods from NetworkManager 1.0.0

Plasma framework

Fix plasmapkg2 for translated systems
Improve tooltip layout
Make it possible to let plasmoids to load scripts outside the plasma package
...

Buildsystem changes (extra-cmake-modules)

Extend ecm_generate_headers macro to also support CamelCase.h headers

  KDE Frameworks 5.8.0 released