Editing KDevelop (section)

==History==
KDevelop 0.1 was released in 1998,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-announce&amp;m=90648146015087&amp;w=2|title=ANNOUNCE: kdevelop-0.1.tar.gz|date=1998-09-22|publisher=KDE|access-date=2013-09-22}}</ref> with 1.0 following in late 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tech.slashdot.org/story/99/12/06/0252212/kdevelop-10-released|title=Kdevelop 1.0 released - Slashdot|website=tech.slashdot.org|date=6 December 1999 |access-date=2017-01-17}}</ref> 1.x and 2.x were developed over a period of four years from the original codebase.

It is believed that Sandy Meier originated KDevelop. Ralf Nolden is also known to be an early developer of the project. In 1998 Sandy Meier started KDevelop and worked 8 weeks alone on this project. Since then, the KDevelop IDE is publicly available under the GPL and supports many programming languages.

Bernd Gehrmann started a complete [[rewrite (programming)|rewrite]] and announced KDevelop 3.x in March 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&amp;m=98598814600661&amp;w=2 |title=A new IDE for a new millennium |publisher=KDE |date=2001-03-30 |access-date=2013-09-22}}</ref> Its first release was together with [[K Desktop Environment 3.2]] in February 2004, and development of KDevelop 3.x continued until 2008.

KDevelop 4.x, another complete rewrite with a more object-oriented programming model,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/kdevelop4-moved/|title=KDevelop4 moved|date=29 November 2009 |access-date=29 November 2009}}</ref> was developed from August 2005 and released as KDevelop 4.0.0 in May 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apaku.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/finally-kdevelop-4-0-final-published/|title=Finally KDevelop 4.0 final published|date=1 May 2010|access-date=2010-05-01}}</ref> The last feature update of this branch was version 4.7.0 in September 2014,<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-470-released|title = KDevelop 4.7.0 Released| date=13 September 2014 }}</ref> with bugfix releases continuing until KDevelop 4.7.4 in December 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-474-released|title=KDevelop 4.7.4 released|publisher=KDevelop|website=www.kdevelop.org|date=13 December 2016 |access-date=2017-01-17}}</ref>

KDevelop 5 development began in August 2014 as a continuation of the 4.x codebase, ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.kdevelop.org/frameworks/kdevelop-master-now-depends-kde-frameworks-5|title = KDevelop master now depends on KDE Frameworks 5!| date=27 August 2014 }}</ref> The custom C++ parser used in earlier versions, which had poor support for C++11 syntax, was replaced by a new Clang-based backend. The integrated [[CMake|CMakeFile]] interpreter was also removed in favour of [[JSON]] [[metadata]] produced by the upstream CMake tool.

Semantic language support was added for QML and JavaScript, using the parser from [[Qt Creator]], alongside a new [[Qmake|QMake]] project-manager backend.<ref name=":0" />

The first stable 5.x release was KDevelop 5.0.0 in August 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-500-released|title=KDevelop 5.0.0 release|publisher=KDevelop|website=www.kdevelop.org|date=23 August 2016 |access-date=2017-01-17}}</ref> In October 2016, official Microsoft Windows builds were released for the first time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-501-windows-released|title=KDevelop for Windows: Official 5.0.1 beta installer available now|publisher=KDevelop|website=www.kdevelop.org|date=9 October 2016 |access-date=2017-01-17}}</ref>