KDE has released KDE Frameworks 5.6.0, which adds two new frameworks: KPackage and NetworkManagerQt

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.

This release adds two new frameworks:
* KPackage, a library to load and install packages of non binary files as they were a plugin
* NetworkManagerQt, a Qt wrapper for the NetworkManager API

Here are the other changes:

KActivities

Introducing the ActivityInfo QML object
Linking now supports special values alongside activity ids. Supported values:
* - :global - links to all activities
* - :current - links to the current activity

KCoreAddons

KDirWatch can now watch /dev/shm as well (bug 314982)
KDELibs4Migration now always returns an absolute path

KCrash

Fix build on FreeBSD

Kdelibs4Support

Add Lithuania to the list of Euro countries

KdeSU

Fix build on OSX and on FreeBSD

KHtml

6 bug fixes forward-ported from kdelibs4.

KIO

Add support for .hidden files, for users to hide some files from views. (feature 246260)
New method KRun::runService, like KRun::run but returns the PID of the newly started process.
kioexec: fixed many porting bugs, to make it work again
KRun::run: fixed porting bug, to make it work again in the case where KProcess is used directly
KRun: make klauncher runtime dependency optional
Fix compilation on MSVC
Performance: decrease memory consumption of UDSEntry
Actions in popupmenus: in case of multiple mimetypes selected, services that support all mimetypes
are now added to the menu.
New job: KIO::DropJob *KIO::drop(QDropEvent* ev, QUrl destUrl). Replaces KonqOperations::doDrop.
Restart directory watcher after a failed delete operation
Fix false warning about X-KDE-Protocols unused in desktop files without that field.
Merge various settings modules (KCMs) related to kio, into the kio framework.
When copying/moving out the trash, make the files writable.
KIO::file_move now does the chmod on the destination file before emitting result.

KNotifications

Remove NotifyBySound. NotifyByAudio implements the "Sound" notification already
Fix crash accessing dangling pointer in NotifyByPopup

KRunner

Do not detect anything with a '.' as a NetworkLocation (porting bug, bug 340140).
One can also uses a decimal point in a calculator.

KService

Fix build on MSVC.

KTextEditor

Fix build on MSVC.
vimode bugfixes
add syntax file for Oracle PL/SQL
ppd highlighting: better support for multiline values

KWidgetsAddons

Add runtime style element extension convenience functions for widgets: KStyleExtensions

KWindowSystem

Add OnScreenDisplay window type
Fix build on FreeBSD

Plasma-framework

Let month menu navigate in current year (bug 342327)
Expose new OnScreenDisplay window type in Dialog
Migrate Plasma::Package to KPackage
Fix labels not picking up changes to font settings at runtime
Fix text not properly updating its color when switching themes (especially darklight)
Fix placeholder text in textfields being too strong when using a light theme
Set visibility on mainItem to match Dialog
Load IconItem immediately upon componentComplete()
Use the same text colour for comboboxes as buttons
Performance improvements (less config-file reparsing, use shared config...)
roundToIconSize(0) now returns 0
Give undo notifications a title

Solid

Enable fstab and upower backends on FreeBSD
Power: Add aboutToSuspend signal

Buildsystem changes

ECM's KDEInstallDirs now supports KDE_INSTALL_* variables, which should
be used in preference to the CMAKE_INSTALL_* variables or the older
KDELibs4-compatible variables. The older forms of the variables are still
supported (and kept in sync) unless KDE_INSTALL_DIRS_NO_DEPRECATED
or KDE_INSTALL_DIRS_NO_CMAKE_VARIABLES are set to TRUE. See the
documentation for more details.

Add COMPATIBILITY argument to ecm_setup_version().
Lots of libraries will want to use SameMajorVersion to make sure
searching for version 1 of a library doesn't give you version 2, for
example.

Fix ECMQueryQmake when Qt5Core is missing.

Frameworkintegration

Fix handling of palette change events (bug 336813)

  KDE Frameworks 5.6.0 released