{"id":173024,"date":"2025-06-13T17:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/?p=173024"},"modified":"2025-06-13T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:40:56","slug":"kde-frameworks-6-15-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/kde-frameworks-6-15-released\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Frameworks 6.15 Is Out, Here\u2019s What\u2019s New"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over a month after its previous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/kde-frameworks-6-14-released\/\">6.14 release<\/a>, KDE announced the launch of Frameworks 6.15, expanding its collection of add-on libraries to Qt and enhancing functionality available to developers across various platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most notable changes in this release is the widespread migration to QDoc syntax across nearly all frameworks. QDoc, Qt\u2019s documentation tool, replaces the older Doxygen-based system, ensuring better integration with Qt\u2019s own documentation and a more streamlined process for maintaining API references.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, several components\u2014including KArchive, KIO, and Kirigami\u2014have received critical bug fixes. For instance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>KArchive<\/strong> now properly handles malformed 7z files, preventing crashes and infinite loops.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>KIO<\/strong> has improved remote file thumbnail caching and fixed issues with file dialog navigation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kirigami<\/strong> (KDE\u2019s lightweight UI framework) has resolved rendering bugs and refined touch event handling for smoother mobile and tablet experiences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond stability improvements, KDE Frameworks 6.15 apps collection introduces several new capabilities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>LZIP compression support in KArchive<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>SunEvents support in KHolidays allows<\/strong> applications to track sunrise\/sunset times for location-aware features.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>KFormat::formatTime()<\/strong> in KCoreAddons offers more flexible time-formatting options.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Improved template handling in KTextEditor<\/strong>, fixing edge cases in script evaluation and field mirroring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, the release also includes build system refinements, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Better <strong>Python bindings<\/strong> detection and handling.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixes for <strong>FreeBSD compatibility<\/strong> in KCalendarCore.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CMake module improvements<\/strong>, including better handling of QDoc generation and warnings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who prefer to build from source, the entire codebase for Frameworks 6.15 is available for download from <a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/info\/kde-frameworks-6.15.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KDE\u2019s official website<\/a>. On Linux, the recommended approach is to install binary packages from your distribution\u2019s repositories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit the official <a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/announcements\/frameworks\/6\/6.15.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release announcement<\/a> for more detailed information about KDE Frameworks 6.15, including a full list of updates and bug fixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KDE Frameworks 6.15 brings KArchive LZIP support, Kirigami rendering fixes, KTextEditor template improvements, KIO remote thumbnail caching, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":173027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[1254,5514],"class_list":["post-173024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-news","tag-kde","tag-kde-frameworks"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}