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May 13, 2019. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.58.0.

KDE Frameworks are over 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 KDE Frameworks web page.

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

[baloo_file] Wait for extractor process to start

[balooctl] Add command to show files failed to index (bug 406116)

Add QML to source code types

[balooctl] Capture the constant totalsize in the lambda

[balooctl] Switch multiline output to new helper

[balooctl] Use new helper in json output

[balooctl] Use new helper for simple format output

[balooctl] Factor out file index status collection from output

Keep empty Json metadata docs out of DocumentData DB

[balooshow] Allow referencing files by URL from hardlink

[balooshow] Suppress warning when URL refers to unindexed file

[MTimeDB] Allow timestamp newer than the newest document in range match

[MTimeDB] Use exact match when exact match is requested

[balooctl] Cleanup handling of different positional arguments

[balooctl] Extend options help text, improve error checking

[balooctl] Use more understandable names for size in status output

[balooctl] clear command: Remove bogus check for documentData, cleanup

[kio_search] Fix warning, add UDSEntry for "." in listDir

Use hex notation for DocumentOperation flag enum

Calculate total DB size correctly

Postpone term parsing until needed, do not set both term and searchstring

Don't add default valued date filters to json

Use compact Json format when converting query URLs

[balooshow] Do not print a bogus warning for a non-indexed file

Breeze Icons

Add non-symbolic 16px versions of find-location and mark-location

Symlink preferences-system-windows-effect-flipswitch to preferences-system-tabbox

Add "edit-delete-remove" icon symlink and add 22px version of "paint-none" and "edit-none"

Use consistent default Kickoff user icon

Add an icon for Thunderbolt KCM

Sharpen Z's in system-suspend* icons

Improve "widget-alternatives" icon

Add go-up/down/next/previous-skip

Update KDE logo to be closer to original

Add alternatives icon

Extra CMake Modules

Bug fix: find c++ stl using regex

Unconditionally enable -DQT_STRICT_ITERATORS, not just in debug mode

KArchive

KTar: Protect against negative longlink sizes

Fix invalid memory write on malformed tar files

Fix memory leak when reading some tar files

Fix uninitialized memory use when reading malformed tar files

Fix stack-buffer-overflow read on malformed files

Fix null-dereference on malformed tar files

Install krcc.h header

Fix double delete on broken files

Disallow copy of KArchiveDirectoryPrivate and KArchivePrivate

Fix KArchive::findOrCreate running out of stack on VERY LONG paths

Introduce and use KArchiveDirectory::addEntryV2

removeEntry can fail so it's good to know if it did

KZip: fix Heap-use-after-free in broken files

KAuth

Force KAuth helpers to have UTF-8 support (bug 384294)

KBookmarks

Add support for KBookmarkOwner to communicate if it has tabs open

KCMUtils

Use size hints from the ApplicationItem itself

Fix Oxygen background gradient for QML modules

KConfig

Add Notify capability to KConfigXT

KCoreAddons

Fix wrong "Unable to find service type" warnings

New class KOSRelease - a parser for os-release files

KDeclarative

[KeySequenceItem] Make the clear button have the same height as shortcut button

Plotter: Scope GL Program to lifespan of scenegraph node (bug 403453)

KeySequenceHelperPrivate::updateShortcutDisplay: Don't show english text to the user

[ConfigModule] Pass initial properties in push()

Enable glGetGraphicsResetStatus support by default on Qt >= 5.13 (bug 364766)

KDED

Install .desktop file for kded5 (bug 387556)

KFileMetaData

[TagLibExtractor] Fix crash on invalid Speex files (bug 403902)

Fix exivextractor crash with malformed files (bug 405210)

Declare properties as meta type

Change properties attributes for consistency

Handle variant list in formatting functions

Fix for Windows' LARGE_INTEGER type

Fix (compilation) errors for Windows UserMetaData implementation

Add missing mimetype to taglib writer

[UserMetaData] Handle changes in attribute data size correctly

[UserMetaData] Untangle Windows, Linux/BSD/Mac and stub code

KGlobalAccel

Copy container in Component::cleanUp before iterating

Don't use qAsConst over a temporary variable (bug 406426)

KHolidays

holidays/plan2/holiday_zm_en-gb - add Zambia holidays

holidays/plan2/holiday_lv_lv - fix Midsummer's Day

holiday_mu_en - Holidays 2019 in Mauritius

holiday_th_en-gb - update for 2019 (bug 402277)

Update Japanese holidays

Add public holidays for Lower Saxony (Germany)

KImageFormats

tga: don't try to read more than max_palette_size into palette

tga: memset dst if read fails

tga: memset the whole palette array, not only the palette_size

Initialize the unread bits of _starttab

xcf: Fix uninitialized memory use on broken documents

ras: Don't overread input on malformed files

xcf: layer is const in copy and merge, mark it as such

KIO

[FileWidget] Replace "Filter:" with "File type:" when saving with a limited list of mimetypes (bug 79903)

Newly created 'Link to Application' files have a generic icon

[Properties dialog] Use the string "Free space" instead of "Disk usage" (bug 406630)

Fill UDSEntry::UDS_CREATION_TIME under linux when glibc >= 2.28

[KUrlNavigator] Fix URL navigation when exiting archive with krarc and Dolphin (bug 386448)

[KDynamicJobTracker] When kuiserver isn't available, also fall back to widget dialog (bug 379887)

Kirigami

[aboutpage] hide Authors header if there are no authors

Update qrc.in to match .qrc (missing ActionMenuItem)

Make sure we don't squeeze out the ActionButton (bug 406678)

Pages: export correct contentHeight/implicit sizes

[ColumnView] Also check for index in child filter..

[ColumnView] Don't let mouse back button go back beyond first page

header has immediately the proper size

KJobWidgets

[KUiServerJobTracker] Track kuiserver service life time and re-register jobs if needed

KNewStuff

Remove pixelated border (bug 391108)

KNotification

[Notify by Portal] Support default action and priority hints

[KNotification] Add HighUrgency

[KNotifications] Update when flags, urls, or urgency change

Allow to set urgency for notifications

KPackage Framework

Add missing properties in kpackage-generic.desktop

kpackagetool: read kpackage-generic.desktop from qrc

AppStream generation: make sure we look up for the package structure on packages that have metadata.desktop/json too

KTextEditor

Review kate config pages to improve maintenance friendliness

Allow to change the Mode, after changing the Highlighting

ViewConfig: Use new generic config interface

Fix bookmark pixmap painting on icon bar

Ensure the left border miss no change of the count of line number digits

Fix to show folding preview when move the mouse from bottom to top

Review IconBorder

Add input methods to input method status bar button

Paint the folding marker in proper color and make it more visible

remove default shortcut F6 to show icon border

Add action to toggle folding of child ranges (bug 344414)

Retitle button "Close" to "Close file" when a file has been removed on disk (bug 406305)

up copy-right, perhaps that should be a define, too

avoid conflicting shortcuts for switching tabs

KateIconBorder: Fix folding popup width and height

avoid view jump to bottom on folding changes

DocumentPrivate: Respect indention mode when block selection (bug 395430)

ViewInternal: Fix makeVisible(..) (bug 306745)

DocumentPrivate: Make bracket handling smart (bug 368580)

ViewInternal: Review drop event

Allow to close a document whose file was deleted on disk

KateIconBorder: Use UTF-8 char instead of special pixmap as dyn wrap indicator

KateIconBorder: Ensure Dyn Wrap Marker are shown

KateIconBorder: Code cosmetic

DocumentPrivate: Support auto bracket in block selection mode (bug 382213)

KUnitConversion

Fix l/100 km to MPG conversion (bug 378967)

KWallet Framework

Set correct kwalletd_bin_path

Export path of kwalletd binary for kwallet_pam

KWayland

Add CriticalNotification window type to PlasmaShellSurface protocol

Implement wl_eglstream_controller Server Interface

KWidgetsAddons

Update kcharselect-data to Unicode 12.1

KCharSelect's internal model: ensure rowCount() is 0 for valid indexes

KWindowSystem

Introduce CriticalNotificationType

Support NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED

Document that modToStringUser and stringUserToMod only deal with english strings

KXMLGUI

KKeySequenceWidget: Don't show English strings to the user

NetworkManagerQt

WireGuard: Do not require 'private-key' to be non-empty for 'private-key-flags'

WireGuard: workaround wrong secret flag type

WireGuard: private-key and preshared-keys can be requested together

Plasma Framework

PlatformComponentsPlugin: fix plugin iid to QQmlExtensionInterface

IconItem: remove remaining & unused smooth property bits

[Dialog] Add CriticalNotification type

Fix wrong group names for 22, 32 px in audio.svg

make the mobile text toolbar appear only on press

use the new Kirigami.WheelHandler

Add more icon sizes for audio, configure, distribute

[FrameSvgItem] Update filtering on smooth changes

Air/Oxygen desktoptheme: fix progressbar height using "hint-bar-size"

Fix stylesheet support for audio-volume-medium

Update audio, drive, edit, go, list, media, plasmavault icons to match breeze-icons

Align z's to pixel grid in system.svg

use the mobiletextcursor from proper namespace

[FrameSvgItem] Respect smooth property

Oxygen desktoptheme: add padding to hands, against jagged outline on rotation

SvgItem, IconItem: drop "smooth" property override, update node on change

Support gzipping of svgz also on windows, using 7z

Air/Oxygen desktoptheme: fix hand offsets with hint-*-rotation-center-offset

Add invokable public API for emitting contextualActionsAboutToShow

Breeze desktoptheme clock: support hand shadow offset hint of Plasma 5.16

Keep desktoptheme SVG files uncompressed in repo, install svgz

separate mobile text selection to avoid recursive imports

Use more appropriate "Alternatives" icon and text

FrameSvgItem: add "mask" property

Prison

Aztec: Fix padding if the last partial codeword is all one bits

QQC2StyleBridge

Avoid nesting Controls in TextField (bug 406851)

make the mobile text toolbar appear only on press

[TabBar] Update height when TabButtons are added dynamically

use the new Kirigami.WheelHandler

Support custom icon size for ToolButton

It compile fine without foreach

Solid

[Fstab] Add support for non-network filesystems

[FsTab] Add cache for device file system type

[Fstab] Preparatory work for enabling filesystems beyond NFS/SMB

Fix no member named 'setTime_t' in 'QDateTime' error while building (bug 405554)

Syntax Highlighting

Add syntax highlighting for fish shell

AppArmor: don't highlight variable assignments and alias rules within profiles

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. Get KDE Software on Your Linux Distro wiki page.



Compiling from sources

The complete source code for KDE Frameworks 5.58.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.58.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.58.0 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 5.58.0 requires Qt 5.10.

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.

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