One month after the release of KDevelop 5.0.0, we are happy to release KDevelop 5.0.1 today, fixing a list of issues discovered with 5.0.0. The list of changes below is not exhaustive, but just mentions the most important improvements; for a detailed list, please see our git history.

An update to version 5.0.1 is highly recommended for everyone using 5.0.0.

Issues fixed in 5.0.1

Fix a deadlock in the background parser, which especially occured on projects containing both C++ and Python/JS/QML code and caused either parsing or the whole application to freeze randomly. [BR: 355100]

Do not display the "project is already open in a different session" dialog on starting up a session under some circumstances.

Fix a crash which sometimes happened when switching git branches on command line.

Fix a crash when starting debugger from command-line. [BR: 367837]

Mouseover highlight now uses the "Search highlight" color from the configuration dialog, instead of a hard-coded bright yellow. [BR: 368458]

Fix a crash in the PHP plugin when editing text in the line after a "TODO". [BR: 368257]

Fix working directory of Custom Makefile plugin [BR: 239004]

Fix a possible crash on triggering an assistant popup action [BR: 368270]

Fix a freeze under some circumstances when the welcome page is displayed. [BR: 368138]

Fix some translation issues.

Fix imports sometimes not being found in kdev-python without pressing F5 by hand [BR: 368556]

Issues fixed in the Linux AppImage

Ship the subversion plugin.

Fix QtHelp not working.

Ship various X11 libraries, which reportedly makes the binary run on relatively old systems now (SLES 11 and similar)

Disable the welcome page for now.

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The source code for 5.0.1 is available here: http://download.kde.org/stable/kdevelop/5.0.1/src/

Source archives are signed with the GPG key of Sven Brauch, key fingerprint 4A62 9799 32BB BCE5 E395 6ACF 68CA 8E38 C4BB 3F4B.

The AppImage pre-built binaries for Linux can be downloaded from here: http://download.kde.org/stable/kdevelop/5.0.1/bin/linux/