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.

General

Qt >= 5.5 is now required

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Breeze Icons

update mail- 16px icons to recognize the icons better
update mic and audio status icons to have the same layout and size
New System Settings app icon
add symbolic status gnome icons
add gnome 3 symbolic icon support
Added icons for Diaspora and Vector, see phabricator.kde.org/M59
New icons for Dolphin and Gwenview
weather icons are status icons no app icons
add some links to xliff thanks gnastyle
add kig icon
add mimetype icons, krdc icon, other app icons from gnastyle
add certificate mimetype icon (bug 365094)
update gimp icons thanks gnastyle (bug 354370)
globe action icon is now no linked file please use it in digikam
update labplot icons according to mail 13.07. from Alexander Semke
add app icons from gnastyle
add kruler icon from Yuri Fabirovsky
fix broken svg files thanks fuchs (bug 365035)

Extra CMake Modules

Fix inclusion when there's no Qt5
Add a fallback method for query_qmake() when there's no Qt5 installation
Make sure ECMGeneratePriFile.cmake behaves like the rest of ECM
Appstream data changed its preferred location

KActivities

[KActivities-CLI] commands for starting and stopping an activity
[KActivities-CLI] setting and getting activity name, icon and description
Added a CLI application for controlling activities
Adding scripts to switch to previous and next activities
Method for inserting into QFlatSet now returns index along with the iterator
(bug 365610)
Adding ZSH functions for stopping and deleting non-current activities
Added isCurrent property to KActivities::Info
Using constant iterators when searching for activity

KDE Doxygen Tools

Many improvements to the output formatting
Mainpage.dox has now higher priority than README.md

KArchive

Handle multiple gzip streams (bug 232843)
Assume a directory is a directory, even if the permission bit is set wrong
(bug 364071)

KBookmarks

KBookmarkGroup::moveBookmark: fix return value when item is already at the
right position

KConfig

Add DeleteFile and RenameFile standard shortcut

KConfigWidgets

Add DeleteFile and RenameFile standard action
The config page has now scroll bars when needed (bug 362234)

KCoreAddons

Install known licenses and find them at runtime (regression fix) (bug 353939)

KDeclarative

Actually emit valueChanged

KFileMetaData

Check for xattr during config step, otherwise the build might fail (if
xattr.h is missing)

KGlobalAccel

Use klauncher dbus instead of KRun (bug 366415)
Launch jumplist actions via KGlobalAccel
KGlobalAccel: Fix deadlock on exit under Windows

KHTML

Support percentage unit in border radius
Removed prefixed version of background and border radius properties
Fixes in 4-values shorthand constructor function
Create string objects only if they will be used

KIconThemes

Greatly improve the performance of makeCacheKey, as it is a critical code
path in icon lookup
KIconLoader: reduce number of lookups when doing fallbacks
KIconLoader: massive speed improvement for loading unavailable icons
Do not clear search line when switching category
KIconEngine: Fix QIcon::hasThemeIcon always returning true (bug 365130)

KInit

Adapt KInit to Mac OS X

KIO

Fix KIO::linkAs() to work as advertised, i.e. fail if dest already exists
Fix KIO::put("file:///path") to respect the umask (bug 359581)
Fix KIO::pasteActionText for null dest item and for empty URL
Add support for undoing symlink creation
GUI option to configure global MarkPartial for KIO slaves
Fix MaxCacheSize limited to 99 KiB
Add clipboard buttons to checksums tab
KNewFileMenu: fix copying template file from embedded resource (bug 359581)
KNewFileMenu: Fix creating link to application (bug 363673)
KNewFileMenu: Fix suggestion of new filename when file already exist in
desktop
KNewFileMenu: ensure fileCreated() is emitted for app desktop files too
KNewFileMenu: fix creating symlinks with a relative target
KPropertiesDialog: simplify button box usage, fix behavior on Esc
KProtocolInfo: refill cache to find newly installed protocols
KIO::CopyJob: port to qCDebug (with its own area, since this can be quite
verbose)
KPropertiesDialog: add Checksums tab
Clean url's path before initializing KUrlNavigator

KItemModels

KRearrangeColumnsProxyModel: fix assert in index(0, 0) on empty model
Fix KDescendantsProxyModel::setSourceModel() not clearing internal caches
KRecursiveFilterProxyModel: fix QSFPM corruption due to filtering out
rowsRemoved signal (bug 349789)
KExtraColumnsProxyModel: implement hasChildren()

KNotification

Don't set parent of sublayout manually, silences warning

Package Framework

Infer the ParentApp from the PackageStructure plugin
Let kpackagetool5 generate appstream information for kpackage components
Make it possible to load metadata.json file from kpackagetool5

Kross

Remove unused KF5 dependencies

KService

applications.menu: remove references to unused categories
Always update the Trader parser from yacc/lex sources

KTextEditor

Do not ask for overwriting a file twice with native dialogs
added FASTQ syntax

KWayland

[client] Use a QPointer for the enteredSurface in Pointer
Expose Geometry in PlasmaWindowModel
Add a geometry event to PlasmaWindow
[src/server] Verify that surface has a resource before sending pointer enter
Add support for xdg-shell
[server] Properly send a selection clear prior to keyboard focus enter
[server] Handle no XDG_RUNTIME_DIR situation more gracefully

KWidgetsAddons

[KCharSelect] Fix crash when searching with no present data file (bug 300521)
[KCharSelect] Handle characters outside BMP (bug 142625)
[KCharSelect] Update kcharselect-data to Unicode 9.0.0 (bug 336360)
KCollapsibleGroupBox: Stop animation in destructor if still running
Update to Breeze palette (sync from KColorScheme)

KWindowSystem

[xcb] Ensure the compositingChanged signal is emitted if NETEventFilter is
recreated (bug 362531)
Add a convenience API to query the windowing system/platform used by Qt

KXMLGUI

Fix minimum size hint (cut-off text) (bug 312667)
[KToggleToolBarAction] Honor action/options_show_toolbar restriction

NetworkManagerQt

Default to WPA2-PSK and WPA2-EAP when getting security type from connection
settings

Oxygen Icons

add application-menu to oxygen (bug 365629)

Plasma Framework

Keep compatiable slot createApplet with Frameworks 5.24
Don't delete gl texture twice in thumbnail (bug 365946)
Add translation domain to wallpaper QML object
Don't manually delete applets
Add a kapptemplate for Plasma Wallpaper
Templates: register templates in own toplevel category "Plasma/"
Templates: Update techbase wiki links in READMEs
Define what Plasma packagestructures extend plasmashell
support a size for adding applets
Define Plasma PackageStructure as regular KPackage PackageStructure plugins
Fix: update wallpaper example Autumn's config.qml to QtQuick.Controls
Use KPackage to install Plasma Packages
If we pass a QIcon as an argument to IconItem::Source, use it
Add overlay support to Plasma IconItem
Add Qt::Dialog to default flags to make QXcbWindow::isTransient() happy (bug
366278)
[Breeze Plasma Theme] Add network-flightmode-on/off icons
Emit contextualActionsAboutToShow before showing the applet's
contextualActions menu (bug 366294)
[TextField] Bind to TextField length instead of text
[Button Styles] Horizontally center in icon-only mode (bug 365947)
[Containment] Treat HiddenStatus as low status
Add kruler system tray icon from Yuri Fabirovsky
Fix the infamous 'dialogs show up on the Task Manager' bug once more
fix network wireless available icon with an ? emblem (bug 355490)
IconItem: Use better approach to disable animation when going from invisible
to visible
Set Tooltip window type on ToolTipDialog through KWindowSystem API

Solid

Always update the Predicate parser from yacc/lex sources

Sonnet

hunspell: Clean up code for searching for dictionaries, add XDG dirs (bug
361409)
Try to fix language filter usage of language detection a bit