KDevelop 3.4 has been released

KDevelop 3.4 has been released, bringing many new features to KDE's Integrated Development Environment. The first major release in over a year closes more than 500 bugs.

KDevelop 3.4.x Features

• Improved Qt4 support
  
  • Specify Qt installation dir upon project creation
    
  • Properly open the right designer for .ui files
    
  • Call the right qmake in qmake projects
    
  • Use Qt4 style includes
    
  • New Options for Qt4's QT variable in the project configuration
    
  • Handle Qt4 resource files in QMake Manager
    
  
  

• Improved QMake Manager
  
  • New Parser which doesn't replace the project file contents
    
  • Parses and displays the Qt4 buildsystem properly
    
  • Scopes
    
    • Display Scopes as tree nodes in the Overview
      
    • Add/Remove all types of Scopes (simple, Function and Include's)
      
    • Excluding files inside a scope is much easier
      
    • Support for disabling subprojects inside scopes, including proper display in the GUI
      
    
    
  • File Handling
    
    • Support of relative filenames
      
    • Support for file paths containing variables
      
    
    
  • Supports Subproject that are outside of the top-project dir
    
  • Support for all documented and a couple of undocumented QMake Features
    
    • Supports SUBDIRS = somename, somename.subdir = the_real_dir
      
    • Supports SUBDIRS = somefile.pro
      
    
    
  • New and Fixed Build options
    
    • Run qmake recursively
      
    • Dist-Clean
      
    • Build File
      
    
    
  
  

• Improved debugger
  
  • Brand-new memory viewer
    
  • Project is automatically rebuilt with starting debugger
    
  • Variables widget
    
    • Reliably work in presence of shadowed variables
      
    • New "format" menu, supporting extra "binary" and "character" formats, with keyboard shortcuts for each format.
      
    • Keyboard shortcut for deleting watches.
      
    
    
  • Stack widget
    
    • The content is now split in columns
      
    • Stack frames are fetched incrementally, allowing to debug programs stuck in infinite recursion.
      
    
    
  • Breakpoints improvements
    
    • Breakpoint types renamed for clarity
      
    • Watchpoints are now always set on address, not expression
      
    • On watchpoint hit, a message box is shown
      
    • Breakpoint conditions are correctly reloaded from session file
      
    • Breakpoints added manually are shown in breakpoint list too
      
    • Address breakpoints now work
      
    
    
  • GDB output window allows to filter out "internal" commands.
    
  • Face lift for "attach" dialog. Now it has search line.
    
  • Fixes
    
    • Never disable the "Interrupt" action
      
    • Specify gdb location using full executable name, not just directory
      
    
    
  • Uses GDB MI interface for faster and more robust operation.
    
  
  

• Improved Ctags support
  
  • It is now possible to have multiple tag files active at the same time, making it possible to do lightning quick searches in external sources.
    
  
  

• Improved UI
  
  • Simple IDEAl UI mode is now the default
    
    • It's faster and has less bugs
      
    • Takes less screen estate
      
    • The viewspace can be split, allowing KDevelop to show files side by side.
      
    • IntelliJ IDEA - alike toolview keyboard navigation (with <alt+1>, <alt+2>, etc.)
      
    • Better keyboard navigation and focusing
      
    
    
  
  

• Improved Code Reformatting
  
  • Less bugs (updated to AStyle 1.19)
    
  • Support for all AStyle options
    
  • Improved option settings dialog
    
  • Global and per project settings
    
  • Format multiple files at once
    
  
  

• C++ Support
  
  • switch header/implementation
    
    • works inside the single file
      
    • works correctly with methods with typedef'ed return values
      
    • works with constant functions
      
    • aware of using directives when locating the functions from the namespace
      
    
    
  • Persistant Class Store (Code Completion databases)
    
    • KDE class importer correctly finds kdelibs location
      
    • Qt4 class importer added
      
    • autodetected paths now overrideable
      
    
    
  • code hinting
    
    • status bar shows the type of the expression under the cursor
      
    
    
  • c++ parser
    
    • Modify the parser to extract comments from the code, attach them to corresponding items, and store them into the AST
      
    • Fix a case where the cpp parser suddenly ate all RAM when facing macro-heavy files
      
    
    
  • code model
    
    • make the code-model and repository store more information like templates and comments, and provide them.
      
    • the code-model now completely works with nested classes that are forward-declared in one file, and completely declared in another(file-groups are managed now, and code-model-items that are physically from one file, can now be attached to another, so some search-functions had to be improved).
      
    
    
  • code completion
    
    • is much more reliable
      
    • was rewritten in big parts
      
    • works within template-classes
      
    • works within functions of classes that are imported by using-directives
      
    • can parse much more complex expressions and can easily be extended to understand additional operators(using an abstract operator-class)
      
    • supports class-templates, function-templates, and even implicit template-instantiation for function-templates
      
    • evaluates all types in the completion-entry-list and shows their template-processed(real) types
      
    • calltips and the completion-list show the corresponding comments
      
    • the completion-entry-list now shows the members sorted by their access-rights, and shows a note behind members that are protected/private
      
    • Fixes the bug of KDevelop crashing while completing a class which has itself as base-class and a few other little bugs
      
    
    
  • new context-menus that evaluate the expression under the cursor and allow to browse the code and the code-model using all types and variables involved
    
  • new class wizard
    
    • bug fixes
      
    • creation of headers only
      
    
    
  
  

• Class View and Navigator
  
  • Add function-name-highlighting to the class-view and navigator
    
  • Make the navigator provide an own KCompletion so it is possible to write function-names without scope and get them completed
    
  • Restore ClassView state after refresh. The ClassView will now no longer close after each successful build
    
  
  

• QuickOpen
  
  • Arbitrary parts of the scope can now be used as a filter while searching for classes or functions
    
  • Quick open class has an additional selection dialog for cases when more than one class with given name exist
    
  
  

• Ruby Support
  
  • Rails application template
    
  • The parser recognizes classes in the modules
    
  • Use irb as a shell
    
  • Fix documentation TOC links so they work correctly for Rails and QtRuby
    
  • Use the Run menu option to start WEBrick.
    
  • the parser
    
    • recognizes "self.method"
      
    • does not loop in certain cases
      
    
    
  
  

• PHP Support
  
  • New PHP Parser / code competition
    
  • Fix bugs in the php support language that cause some crashes
    
  
  

• Konsole
  
  • Does not syncs with the active document dir anymore
    
  
  

• Grep (Find in Files)
  
  • Define more filetypes (incl. ruby) to search within
    
  • allow pattern to be a regular expression
    
  
  

• Outputviews
  
  • Support for Intel Fortran Compiler and Portland Group's PGI Fortran compiler (pgf90/pgf95)
    
  
  

• Application Wizard
  
  • Uses utf8 for created files - no encoding problems anymore
    
  
  

• Valgrind integration
  
  • Use the environment variables as set in the run options
    
  
  

• Misc
  
  • Add toolbar and menu entry for "Goto Last Edit Position"
    
  • Improved support for encodings
    
    • KDevelop will now obey the selected encoding in the File Open dialog
      
    • The OpenWith plugin now offers all available encodings in "Open As"
      
    • The encoding for each open file is saved with the session, and will be used to open that file the next time the project is loaded
      
    • Default encoding can be set per project in the Project Options - this will be the default when opening a file
      
    • File Open encoding will default to the open project's default
      
    
    
  • Moved plugin selection dialog out of project setting dialog and into main menu Settings menu and made it profile-based
    
  • Use profile engine to specify the default plugin set for a freshly created or imported project
    
  • Honor the UI Designer embedding setting
    
  
  

Packages are available for Kubuntu and openSUSE with unofficial builds for several others on the download page