Release of KDE Frameworks 5.47.0

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June 09, 2018. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.47.0.

KDE Frameworks are 70 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the Frameworks 5.0 release announcement.

This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.

New in this Version

Baloo

Terminate query execution early if subterm returns empty result set

Avoid crash when reading corrupt data from document terms db (bug 392877)

handle string lists as input

Ignore more types of source files (bug 382117)

Breeze Icons

updated handles and overflow-menu

Extra CMake Modules

Android toolchain: allow to specify extra libs manually

Android: Don't define qml-import-paths if it's empty

KArchive

handle zip files embedded within zip files (bug 73821)

KCMUtils

[KCModuleQml] Ignore disabled controls when tabbing

KConfig

kcfg.xsd - do not require a kcfgfile element

KConfigWidgets

Fix the "Default" color scheme to match Breeze again

KDeclarative

Set kcm context property on the correct context

[Plotter] Don't render if m_node is null (bug 394283)

KDocTools

Update the list of Ukrainian entities

add entity OSD to general.entites

Add entities CIFS, NFS, Samba, SMB to general.entities

Add Falkon, Kirigami, macOS, Solid, USB, Wayland, X11, SDDM to general entities

KFileMetaData

check that ffmpeg is at least version 3.1 that introduce the API we require

search for album artist and albumartist tags in taglibextractor

popplerextractor: don't try to guess the title if there isn't one

KGlobalAccel

Make sure ungrab keyboard request is processed before emitting shortcut (bug 394689)

KHolidays

holiday_es_es - Fix day of the "Comunidad de Madrid"

KIconThemes

Check if group < LastGroup, as KIconEffect doesn't handle UserGroup anyway

KImageFormats

Remove duplicated mime types from json files

KIO

Check if destination exists also when pasting binary data (bug 394318)

Auth support: Return the actual length of socket buffer

Auth support: Unify API for file descriptor sharing

Auth support: Create socket file in user's runtime directory

Auth support: Delete socket file after use

Auth support: Move task of cleaning up socket file to FdReceiver

Auth support: In linux don't use abstract socket to share file descriptor

[kcoredirlister] Remove as many url.toString() as possible

KFileItemActions: fallback to default mimetype when selecting only files (bug 393710)

Introduce KFileItemListProperties::isFile()

KPropertiesDialogPlugin can now specify multiple supported protocols using X-KDE-Protocols

Preserve fragment when redirecting from http to https

[KUrlNavigator] Emit tabRequested when path in path selector menu is middle-clicked

Performance: use the new uds implementation

Don't redirect smb:/ to smb:// and then to smb:///

Allow accepting by double-click in save dialog (bug 267749)

Enable preview by default in the filepicker dialog

Hide file preview when icon is too small

i18n: use plural form again for plugin message

Use a regular dialog rather than a list dialog when trashing or deleting a single file

Make the warning text for deletion operations emphasize its permanency and irreversibility

Revert "Show view mode buttons in the open/save dialog's toolbar"

Kirigami

Show action.main more prominently on the ToolBarApplicationHeader

Allow Kirigami build without KWin tablet mode dependency

correct swipefilter on RTL

correct resizing of contentItem

fix --reverse behavior

share contextobject to always access i18n

make sure tooltip is hidden

make sure to not assign invalid variants to the tracked properties

handle not a MouseArea, dropped() signal

no hover effects on mobile

proper icons overflow-menu-left and right

Drag handle to reorder items in a ListView

Use Mnemonics on the toolbar buttons

Added missing files in QMake's .pri

[API dox] Fix Kirigami.InlineMessageType -> Kirigami.MessageType

fix applicationheaders in applicationitem

Don't allow showing/hiding the drawer when there's no handle (bug 393776)

KItemModels

KConcatenateRowsProxyModel: properly sanitize input

KNotification

Fix crashes in NotifyByAudio when closing applications

KPackage Framework

kpackage_install_*package: fix missing dep between .desktop and .json

make sure paths in rcc are never derived from absolute paths

KRunner

Process DBus replies in the ::match thread (bug 394272)

KTextEditor

Don't use title case for the "show word count" checkbox

Make the word/char count a global preference

KWayland

Increase org_kde_plasma_shell interface version

Add "SkipSwitcher" to API

Add XDG Output Protocol

KWidgetsAddons

[KCharSelect] Fix table cell size with Qt 5.11

[API dox] Remove usage of \overload, resulting in broken docs

[API dox] Tell doxygen "e.g." does not end the sentence, use ".\ "

[API dox] Remove unneeded HTML escaping

Don't automatically set the default icons for each style

Make KMessageWidget match Kirigami inlineMessage's style (bug 381255)

NetworkManagerQt

Make information about unhandled property just debug messages

WirelessSetting: implement assignedMacAddress property

Plasma Framework

Templates: consistent naming, fix translation catalog names & more

[Breeze Plasma Theme] Fix kleopatra icon to use color stylesheet (bug 394400)

[Dialog] Handle dialog being minimized gracefully (bug 381242)

Purpose

Improve Telegram integration

Treat inner arrays as OR constraints rather than AND

Make it possible to constrain plugins by a desktop file presence

Make it possible to filter plugins by executable

Highlight the selected device in the KDE Connect plugin

fix i18n issues in frameworks/purpose/plugins

Add Telegram plugin

kdeconnect: Notify when the process fails to start (bug 389765)

QQC2StyleBridge

Use pallet property only when using qtquickcontrols 2.4

Work with Qt<5.10

Fix height of tabbar

Use Control.palette

[RadioButton] Rename "control" to "controlRoot"

Don't set explicit spacing on RadioButton/CheckBox

[FocusRect] Use manual placement instead of anchors

It turns out the flickable in a scrollview is the contentItem

Show focus rect when CheckBox or RadioButton are focused

hacky fix to scrollview detection

Don't reparent the flickable to the mousearea

[TabBar] Switch tabs with mouse wheel

Control must not have children (bug 394134)

Constrain scroll (bug 393992)

Syntax Highlighting

Perl6: Add support for extensions .pl6, .p6, or .pm6 (bug 392468)

DoxygenLua: fix closing comment blocks (bug 394184)

Add pgf to the latex-ish file formats (same format as tikz)

Add postgresql keywords

Highlighting for OpenSCAD

debchangelog: add Cosmic Cuttlefish

cmake: Fix DetectChar warning about escaped backslash

Pony: fix identifier and keyword

Lua: updated for Lua5.3

Security information

The released code has been GPG-signed using the following key: pub rsa2048/58D0EE648A48B3BB 2016-09-05 David Faure <faure@kde.org> Primary key fingerprint: 53E6 B47B 45CE A3E0 D5B7 4577 58D0 EE64 8A48 B3BB

Installing binary packages

On Linux, using packages for your favorite distribution is the recommended way to get access to KDE Frameworks. Binary package distro install instructions.



Compiling from sources

The complete source code for KDE Frameworks 5.47.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.47.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.47.0 Info Page.

Building from source is possible using the basic cmake .; make; make install commands. For a single Tier 1 framework, this is often the easiest solution. People interested in contributing to frameworks or tracking progress in development of the entire set are encouraged to use kdesrc-build. Frameworks 5.47.0 requires Qt 5.8.

A detailed listing of all Frameworks and other third party Qt libraries is at inqlude.org, the curated archive of Qt libraries. A complete list with API documentation is on api.kde.org.

Contribute

Those interested in following and contributing to the development of Frameworks can check out the git repositories , follow the discussions on the KDE Frameworks Development mailing list and contribute patches through review board . Policies and the current state of the project and plans are available at the Frameworks wiki . Real-time discussions take place on the #kde-devel IRC channel on freenode.net

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