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Almost two years after the release of KDevelop 4.7, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 5.0. KDevelop is an integrated development environment focusing on support of the C++, Python, PHP and JavaScript/QML programming languages. Many important changes and refactorings were done for version 5.0, ensuring that KDevelop remains maintainable and easy to extend and improve over the next years. Highlights include much improved new C/C++ language support, as well as polishing for Python, PHP and QML/JS.

Hello!

I have the pleasure to announce the new stable release of KDevelop 4.7.3. This is a bug fix
release increasing the stability of our KDE 4 based branch. Please update to
this version if you are currently using 4.7.2 or older. You can download the sources from the KDE mirrors at:

http://download.kde.org/stable/kdevelop/4.7.3/src/

Many thanks to everyone involved in this new release!

Three months after the first KDevelop 5.0 Beta release, I have the pleasure to announce our second beta release! We have worked hard on improving the stability and performance of our new KDevelop 5.0 based on Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5. We also continued to port many features from our old C++ language support to the new Clang-based C/C++ plugin, which is still an ongoing effort.

Due to a regression in kdev-python 1.7.2-py3 related to module search paths, I have prepared a new release which fixes this issue. All users of the 1.7-py3 series, especially the 1.7.2-py3 version are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. The issue only affects the Python 3 series, for Python 2 kdev-python 1.7.2 is still the recommended and up-to-date release.

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You can download the tarball from the KDE mirrors: http://download.kde.org/stable/kdevelop/kdev-python/1.7.3/src/kdev-python-v1.7.3-py3.tar.xz.mirrorlist.

After more than a year of continuous work by our community, I'm very pleased to finally announce the first beta release of KDevelop 5.0.0. This release is made up of hundreds of commits, and marks a huge step forward:

• We have ported our huge code base to Qt 5 and KDE frameworks 5 (KF5).
• We replaced our legacy C++ parser and semantic analysis plugin with a much more powerful one that is based on Clang from the LLVM project.
• We removed the hand-written CMake interpreter and now leverage meta data provided by upstream CMake itself.
• We finally integrated semantic language support for QML and JavaScript, as well as a project manager for QMake.
• Finally, we cleaned up many areas of our code base and improved the performance of some work flows significantly.

Hey all,

I'm happy to announce the availability of KDevelop 4.7.2. This is a bug fix
release increasing the stability of our KDE 4 based branch. Please update to
this version if you are currently using 4.7.1 or older.

Download from:
http://download.kde.org/stable/kdevelop/4.7.2/src/

SHA sums:

SHA256Sum: 5801a38a9abfebead18b74c0a0f5a6d68118b297c96ef1e2f75c8bfae3463b19
kdevelop-4.7.2.tar.xz
SHA256Sum: 2dff2f54f631296c87007be84a0dc439d328d473717577c0d1450a9fc7e6e828
kdevelop-php-docs-1.7.2.tar.xz

Hello all!

it's my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 4.7.1. This release contains many improvements and bug fixes - everyone is urged to upgrade. Distributions should already provide updated packages, otherwise you can download via:

• kdevplatform 1.7.1
• kdevelop 4.7.1
• kdev-python 1.7.1-py3
• kdev-python 1.7.1-py2
• kdev-php 1.7.1
• kdev-php-docs 1.7.1

Thanks to all contributors, users and bug reporters for making this release possible!

Today, the KDevelop team is proud to announce the final release of KDevelop 4.7.0. It is, again, a huge step forwards compared to the last release in terms of stability, performance and polishedness. This release is special, as it marks the end of the KDE4 era for us. As such, KDevelop 4.7.0 comes with a long-term stability guarantee. We will continue to improve it over the coming years, but will refrain from adding new features. For that, we have the upcoming KDevelop 5, based on KDE frameworks 5 and Qt 5, which our team is currently busy working on. See below for more on that topic.

Important KDevelop 4.7.0 Changes

This new release of KDevelop comes with many important changes that should ensure it will stay usable for the foreseeable future. The CMake support was improved and extended to ensure that all idioms needed for KF5 development are available. The unit test support UI was polished and several bugs fixed. In the same direction, some noteworthy issues with the QtHelp integration were addressed. KDevelop's PHP language support now handles namespaces better and can understand traits aliases. Furthermore, some first fruits of the Google summer of code projects are included in this release. These changes pave the path toward better support for cross compile toolchains. Feature-wise, KDevelop now officially supports the Bazaar (bzr) version control system. On the performance front, it was possible to greatly reduce the memory footprint when loading large projects with several thousand files in KDevelop. Additionally, the startup should now be much faster.

Good news everyone!

Our master branches are now officially depending on KDE Frameworks 5 and thus also Qt 5. People who build KDevelop regularly from the git master branches are suggested to switch to the stable 4.7/1.7 branches for the short term. The release of the final KDevelop 4.7.0 will be announced in the next days. This will be the last KDE4 based feature release of KDevelop. All future development will be targeted at the new Qt5 version.

Finally, after months of work, the KDevelop team is happy to release a first beta of the 4.7 version. It comes packed with new features, lots of bug fixes as well as many performance improvements.