The final version of KDevelop 5.5 has been released. KDevelop is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and many other programming languages.
KDevelop 5.5 released
We are happy to announce the availability of KDevelop 5.5 today bringing half a year of work mainly on stability, performance, and future maintainability.
New features have not been added. The existing ones have received small improvements:
Improved C++ language support
- Fix missing header guard warning for a standalone header being always present. ( commit)
- Don't crash when signatures don't match in AdaptSignatureAssistant. ( commit)
- Clazy: add configurable predefined checkset selections. ( commit)
- Clang-tidy: add configurable predefined checkset selections. ( commit)
- Don't get confused when encountering parse errors in default args. ( commit. See bug #369546)
- Fix ClangUtils::getDefaultArguments when encountering macros. ( commit. fixes bug #369546)
- Skip clang-provided override items from code completion. ( commit)
- Unbreak move-into-source for non-class functions. ( commit)
- Lambda init captures are visited starting with clang 9.0.0. ( commit)
- Try a bit harder to find types for look-ahead completion. ( commit)
Improved PHP language support
- Fix uses of function call parameters after closures. ( commit)
- Add support for PHP 7.4's typed properties. ( commit. code review D26254)
- Support importing functions and constants from other namespaces. ( commit. fixes bug #408609. code review D25956)
- Fix rename of a variable. ( commit. fixes bug #317879. code review D25587)
- Add support for "array of type". ( commit. code review D24921)
- Add support for class constant visibility. ( commit)
- I18n: update message to new default. ( commit)
Improved Python language support
Other Changes
- Welcome page: remove background in active window when plugin is disabled. ( commit)
- No longer install modeltest.h, not used externally and deprecated. ( commit)
- Fix "invalid project name" hint not always showing. ( commit)
- Use default scheme option of KColorSchemeManager if available. ( commit)
- Read the global color scheme name from its file. ( commit)
- Fix qmljs comment parsing. ( commit)
- This fixes the comment formatting for the Doxygen variants:. ( commit)
- Qmakebuilder: remove unused kcfg files. ( commit)
- Fix reformat for long strings. ( commit)
- Introduce shell-embedded message area, to avoid dialog windows. ( commit)
- Clazy, clang-tidy: share code via new private KDevCompileAnalyzerCommon. ( commit)
- Make tar archives reproducible by setting Pax headers. ( commit. code review D25494)
- Kdevplatform: remove About data feature. ( commit)
- Support for rebasing. ( commit)
- Add a setting to disable the close buttons on tabs. ( commit)
- CMake: Show project name in showConfigureErrorMessage. ( commit)
- TemplatePreview: Enable word-wrap for messagebox and Lines Policy Label. ( commit)
- Filetemplates: load and show tooltip for custom options. ( commit)
- Pass environment variables from process environment and set up with flatpak environment. ( commit)
- Remove usage of columns argument in arch detection since old LTS systems may not have that flag. ( commit)
- Pass the android toolchain file path to CMake as a local file path not as a URI. ( commit. code review D21936)
- Formater: Hide KTextEditor minimap for the formater preview. ( commit)
- Shell: use KAboutPluginDialog in LoadedPluginsDialog. ( commit)
- Mention all fetch project sources in the documentation. ( commit. fixes bug #392550. code review D25342)
- Script launcher: add env profile configure dialog button to config UI. ( commit. fixes bug #410914)
- Cmake: FindClang: Detect llvm-project.git checkout. ( commit)
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