KDevelop-Project诞生于1998年，其目的是为KDE提供一个易用的集成开发环境(Integrated Development Environment)。此后，KDevelop IDE采用GPL进行发布， 它支持很多 程序设计语言.

该版本改进内容包括：

• MovingRange` support (Thanks to David Nolden)
• Grep Plugin rewrite with replace functionality (Thanks to Silvere Lestang, Julien Desgats, Benjamin Port)
• QtHelp plugin now supports arbitrary .qch files (Thanks to Benjamin Port)
• ManPage plugin (Thanks to Benjamin Port, Yannick Motta)
• new look for code assistants (Thanks to Olivier JG)
• filter for the project model view (Thanks to Eugene Agafonov)
• improved “Problems” toolview, along with “TODO/FIXME” browsing (Thanks to Dmitry Risenberg)
• better standards compliance in the C++ macro implementation (Thanks to Dmitry Risenberg)
• argument dependent lookup for the C++ plugin (Thanks to Ciprian Ciubotariu)
• open with external application by default (esp. useful for Qt Designer .ui files)
• PHP: rainbow colors for all vars (and no nested functions or similar), esp. useful for scripts without Classes/Functions
• code cleanup for working sets
• better handling of locked sessions (locked session gets activated or the user gets asked whether he wants to remove the lock file)
• improved Snippets editing usability