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KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.7.0 with new changes and improvements in KDE Apps. As you all know that this is just a maintenance release of stable KDE Frameworks 5.x version. KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provides a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.7.0 comes with number of fixes for compiling with upcoming Qt 5.5 along with several fixes in KDE aaplications including fixes in KActivities, KArchive, KAuth, KCMUtils, KCodecs, KConfig, KConfigWidgets, KCoreAddons, KDBusAddons, KDeclarative, KdedKGlobalAccel and KIO applications.

The KActivities app includes fixed starting and stopping activities and fixed activity preview showing wrong wallpaper occasionally. You can now create temporary files in the temp dir rather than in current directory in KArchive whereas KCodecs receives support for CP949 to KCharsets. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

The Plasma Framework receives fixed errorneously opening a broken context menu when middle clicking Plasma popup and fixed keyboard shortcuts. It also includes trigger button switch on mouse wheel and restore hint-apply-color-scheme support. If you wish to checkout complete list of all changes then you can review them on release notes page.

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