For the first time since 2018, a new stable release of the music player Amarok has taken place. This is the first stable version based on Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5.
The path to version 3.0 has been long. Most of the work on porting to Qt5/KF5 was done back in 2015, followed by slow polishing and refinement, stopping and starting again. The alpha version 3.0 was released in February 2021 and was used by many people, as well as nightly builds from git master available in various distributions. Now, in the last few months, all efforts have been made to prepare a full release.
In the coming months, minor releases with small fixes and additions are expected based on both new and existing bug reports and feature requests. Work on porting Amarok to Qt6/KDE Frameworks 6 will begin in the next few months to ensure a usable version by the end of 2024.
Since the transfer of the scripting framework from QtScript to QJSEngine is still in progress, previous Amarok 2.x scripts are often incompatible with the new version. The API scripting documentation on the community wiki is also partially outdated. Additionally, due to incompatibility and other issues, loading scripts in KNewStuff is currently disabled. Work on script support will be carried out after the release of the version with Qt6/KF6 suitable for use. Some information on websitet og articles in the community wiki, primarily written more than ten years ago, is also somewhat outdated. Some work on updating and organizing the documentation will be carried out over the next few months.
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