The refactored version of Kdenlive was released on 22 April 2019 in the KDE 19.04 Applications release. Release of the refactoring version was originally planned for August 2018 in the KDE 18.08 Applications release. By December 2017 the refactoring became the main focus of the development team with the release of the first usable preview.

In early 2017 the development team started working on a refactoring of the program, and by June 2017 a first preview was available. Port to KDE Frameworks 5 was finished with the release of 2015.04.0 as part of KDE Applications 5. Kdenlive started to plan a move into the KDE Projects and its infrastructure in 2014. Kdenlive 0.9.10 released on 1 October 2014 was the last KDE 4 release. This was completed with Kdenlive 0.7, released on 12 November 2008.

The development of Kdenlive moved on from the K Desktop Environment 3 version (which wasn't originally made for MLT) to KDE Platform 4, with an almost complete rewrite. The project was initially started by Jason Wood in 2002. As a whole it is distributed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license, while parts of the source code are available under different licenses such as GPL-2.0-or-later and GPL-3.0-or-later. Kdenlive packages are freely available for Linux, FreeBSD, and Microsoft Windows. With the release of Kdenlive 15.04.0 in 2015 it became part of the official KDE Projects suite. The project was started by Jason Wood in 2002, and is now maintained by a small team of developers. Kdenlive ( / ˌ k eɪ d ɛ n ˈ l aɪ v/ acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor ) is a free and open-source video editing software based on the MLT Framework, KDE and Qt. Microsoft Windows 7 and higher, x86-64 only

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