14 DAY TRIAL // The KDE Community announces that the new KDE Frameworks 5.4.0 has been released and is packed with a large number of fixes and improvements.
The KDE project is now formed of three major components: KDE Frameworks, KDE Plasma, and KDE Applications. The KDE Frameworks are the backbone for the other ones, but it's also the release with the lowest interest for the average user. It impacts the entire project, but it's usually just stuff under the hood.
"KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner," say the developers in the official announcement.
KDE Frameworks 5.4.0 is not really something regular users can install. It's possible, but it's not recommended unless you really know what you are doing or it you've done it before. You can download the source packages for KDE Frameworks 5.4.0 from Softpedia. It will take a while until it becomes available in repositories and it's likely that Kubuntu and Arch Linux will be the first to received them.