KDE ships first Beta of Frameworks 5

April 1st, 2014. Today KDE makes available the first beta of Frameworks 5. 
This release is part of a series of releases leading up to the final version 
planned for June 2014 following the second alpha last month. This release 
marks the freeze of source incompatible changes and the introduction of the 
Frameworks 5 Porting Aids.

*Frameworks 5 Porting Aids*
To ease the porting of KDE Platform 4 based applications, the Frameworks team 
has brought the 'Porting Aids' group into existence. These Frameworks contain 
kdelibs4 modules and API's that are being deprecated in KF5 and are provided 
only to assist applications in porting to KF5. As such these Frameworks will 
only have a limited support period, currently planned to be three release 
cycles. Application developers are strongly encouraged to port away from 
these Frameworks during this support period to prevent dependency on obsolete 
and unsupported code. Once support is ended, some unofficial development may 
continue on some modules, but they will not be part of the officially 
supported Frameworks release.

Currently, the following Frameworks belong to this group:
* khtml
* kjs
* kjsembed
* krunner
* kmediaplayer
* kdelibs4support
 
kdelibs4support contains deprecated API's from modules which no longer exist 
or deprecated classes from existing modules.

See the announcement on kde.org for more information and links to downloads.
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-frameworks5-bet...

For information about Frameworks 5, see this earlier article on the dot.
http://dot.kde.org/2013/09/25/frameworks-5_______________________________________________
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