KDE Frameworks 5.40 Software Stack Brings OpenSSL 1.1 Support, over 80 Changes

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The KDE Project announced the monthly update of their KDE Frameworks 5 open-source software stack, a collection of over 70 add-on libraries for Qt 5 providing a wide range of common functionality.

KDE Frameworks 5.40.0 is here as the latest stable release of the software stack used in Linux-based operating systems that want to offer their users support for KDE apps, and it looks like it brings over 80 bug fixes and improvements across various of the included components.

Among the highlights, we can mention that KDELibs 4 support was enhanced with support for OpenSSL 1.1.0 in the KSSL library, HTTPS support is now used for all KDE URLs, improved recognition of WPS Office presentations, support for categories in KfilesPlacesView, as well as better support for the Wayland display server.

Support for the Flatpak universal binary format was added to the KWindowSystem component, NetworkManagerQt’s… (read more)

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