07th October 2014. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.3.0.

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.

KActivities

Added DBus interface to load plugins at runtime

KArchive

Add convenience method KArchive::file()
Compilation fixes for MSVC

KBookmarks

Fix encoding issue in KIO places dialog (bug 337642)

KCMUtils

Fix initial size of KCMultiDialog (bugs 337494, 325897)

KCompletion

Fixed size hint and positioning of clear button in highDpi mode

KConfig

KConfigLoader: fix sharing of KSharedConfig objects

KConfigWidgets

Now provides the kf5_entry.desktop files it needs for KLanguageButton

KCoreAddons

Kdelibs4Migration: allow distributions to set _KDE4_DEFAULT_HOME_POSTFIX
so that the kde4 home is found properly.
Compilation fixes for MSVC and gcc 4.5
Turn KFormat into a Q_GADGET so we can expose its properties to QML indirectly

KEmoticons

Add unicode characters to Glass emoticon theme

KGuiAddons

Make KFontUtils::adaptFontSize be a bit more exact

KI18n

Remove leftover Perl dependency

KIO

Now includes kio_trash
Add new KIO job, KIO::fileSystemFreeSpace, that allows you to get a filesystem's total and available space.
kshorturifilter: Remove redundant forward slashes from the beginning of an URI
Add searchprovider definitions for the qwant search engine
File dialog: fix relative paths being turned into HTTP URLs
Fix thumbnails for mimetype groups.

KJS

Implement Math.Clz32
U+0000 through U+001F is not allowed as char, but as escaped unicode sequence (bug 338970)

KNotifications

Avoid infinite recursion in KStatusNotifierItem / QSystemTray.

KService

Many many fixes to KPluginInfo
Add functions to convert between lists KPluginMetaData and KPluginInfo

KTextEditor

Multiple memory leaks fixed
Avoid auto-completion to interfere with search/replace text (bug 339130), and more autocompletion fixes
Many fixes to the VIM mode

KWidgetAddons

KPageListView: fixes for high-dpi mode
KPageWidget: margin fixes

KWindowSystem

NETWinInfo now provides convenient wrapper for WM_PROTOCOLS.
NETWinInfo now provides convenient wrapper for input and urgency hints of WM_HINTS property.

Solid

New freedesktop backend, replacing the upower/udev/systemd backends

Extra-cmake-modules

New module ECMGeneratePkgConfigFile, for frameworks to install a pkgconfig file.
New option ECM_ENABLE_SANITIZERS, to enable clang sanitizers. Example: ECM_ENABLE_SANITIZERS='address;undefined'
New option BUILD_COVERAGE, to enable code coverage.

Frameworkintegration

Fixed for compilation with Qt 5.4
Fixed a few standard shortcuts