KDE Frameworks 5.20.0: Plasma welcomes many improvements

The KDE developers have announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.20.0, which includes a total of 70 additional Qt libraries.KDE Framework 5.20.0 is part of an established series of monthly releases where developers can port their KDE4 applications to Qt5 and KF5, bringing improvements and bug fixes as well as various new features.The new version of KDE Frameworks 5 will be released on the second Saturday or Sunday of each month, and KDE Frameworks 5.20.0 was pushed to the official channel on March 13th.

KDE Frameworks 5.20.0 brings the latest KDE Plasma 5.5.5 desktop environment, as well as version 15.12.2 of the KDE application package.Release Notes says:

KDE released KDE Frameworks 5.20.0 today, adding 70 Qt libraries under friendly license terms, providing mature, peer reviewed and fully tested common functions, and moreCheck out the Frameworks 5.0 release announcement.

KDE Frameworks 5.20.0 is a "big update" that mentions over 130 improvements in the changelog, covering Plasma and KWallet frameworks, KActivities, KTextEditor, KAuth, KCoreAddons, KHTML, KInit, KIO, Sonnet, KWindowSystem, KDocTools, KConfig, KI18n, KJS, KService, and KNewStuff.

In addition, KXMLGUI, KItemModels, KIconThemes, KDED, KDeclarative, KFileMetaData, KPeople, Package Framework and Framework Integration (framework integration) have also ushered in improvements.KDELibs 4 support has also been enhanced, and the Breeze icon set has received a plethora of new icons.

The complete source code of KDE Frameworks 5.20.0 has been open for download. Interested netizens can go to the project website to download various popular GNU/Linux distributions, such as Kubuntu, Arch Linux, Fedora, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Gentoo Linux, Mageia, and ROSA.