konversation 1.6-beta1 has been released!

November 30, 2014

konversation 1.6-beta1 is the first release of Konversation built on the new KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt 5 library sets, and intended to allow you to help us test and shake out the remaining issues in the ported code. With stability despite many changes under the hood as the primary goal, the 1.6 release will not bring any new features, though Frameworks 5 and Qt 5 offer a host of efficiency improvements over the old stack and will enable us to support hi-dpi scaling and Wayland going forward.

Known issues in this beta include a lack of addressbook integration support (the needed Frameworks dependencies have not yet been released), drag and drop support for tabs being disabled, and minor visual polish issues, including some visual assets not having been updated to match KDE’s new “Breeze” visual identity yet. We expect to resolve these issues in upcoming releases.

Changes from 1.5.1 to 1.6-beta1: