Release of KDE Frameworks 5.40.0

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November 11, 2017. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.40.0.

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

Consider DjVu files to be documents (bug 369195)

Fix spelling so WPS Office presentations are recognized correctly

Breeze Icons

add folder-stash for the stash Dolphin toolbar icon

KArchive

Fix potential mem leak. Fix logic

KCMUtils

no margins for qml modules from qwidget side

Initialize variables (found by coverity)

KConfigWidgets

Fix icon of KStandardAction::MoveToTrash

KCoreAddons

fix URL detection with double urls like "http://www.foo.bar<http://foo.bar/>"

Use https for KDE urls

KDELibs 4 Support

full docu for disableSessionManagement() replacement

Make kssl compile against OpenSSL 1.1.0 (bug 370223)

KFileMetaData

Fix display name of Generator property

KGlobalAccel

KGlobalAccel: fix support numpad keys (again)

KInit

Correct installation of start_kdeinit when DESTDIR and libcap are used together

KIO

Fix display of remote:/ in the qfiledialog

Implement support for categories on KfilesPlacesView

HTTP: fix error string for the 207 Multi-Status case

KNewFileMenu: clean up dead code, spotted by Coverity

IKWS: Fix possible infinite loop, spotted by Coverity

KIO::PreviewJob::defaultPlugins() function

Kirigami

syntax working on older Qt 5.7 (bug 385785)

stack the overlaysheet differently (bug 386470)

Show the delegate highlighted property as well when there's no focus

preferred size hints for the separator

correct Settings.isMobile usage

Allow applications to be somewhat convergent on a desktop-y system

Make sure the content of the SwipeListItem doesn't overlap the handle (bug 385974)

Overlaysheet's scrollview is always ointeractive

Add categories in gallery desktop file (bug 385430)

Update the kirigami.pri file

use the non installed plugin to do the tests

Deprecate Kirigami.Label

Port gallery example use of Labels to be consistently QQC2

Port Kirigami.Controls uses of Kirigami.Label

make the scrollarea interactive on touch events

Move the git find_package call to where it's used

default to transparent listview items

KNewStuff

Remove PreferCache from network requests

Don't detach shared pointers to private data when setting previews

KMoreTools: Update and fix desktopfiles (bug 369646)

KNotification

Remove check for SNI hosts when chosing whether to use legacy mode (bug 385867)

Only check for legacy system tray icons if we're going to make one (bug 385371)

KPackage Framework

use the non installed service files

KService

Initialize values

Initialize some pointer

KTextEditor

API dox: fix wrong names of methods and args, add missing \since

Avoid (certain) crashes while executing QML scripts (bug 385413)

Avoid a QML crash triggered by C style indentation scripts

Increase size of trailing mark

fix some indenters from indenting on random characters

Fix deprecation warning

KTextWidgets

Initialize value

KWayland

[client] Drop the checks for platformName being "wayland"

Don't duplicate connect to wl_display_flush

Wayland foreign protocol

KWidgetsAddons

fix createKMessageBox focus widget inconsistency

more compact password dialog (bug 381231)

Set KPageListView width properly

KWindowSystem

KKeyServer: fix handling of Meta+Shift+Print, Alt+Shift+arrowkey etc

Support flatpak platform

Use KWindowSystem's own platform detection API instead of duplicated code

KXMLGUI

Use https for KDE urls

NetworkManagerQt

8021xSetting: domain-suffix-match is defined in NM 1.2.0 and newer

Support "domain-suffix-match" in Security8021xSetting

Plasma Framework

manually draw the circle arc

[PlasmaComponents Menu] Add ungrabMouseHack

[FrameSvg] Optimize updateSizes

Don't position a Dialog if it's of type OSD

QQC2StyleBridge

Improve compilation as a static plugin

make the radiobutton a radiobutton

use qstyle to paint the Dial

use a ColumnLayout for menus

fix Dialog

remove invalid group property

Fix formatting of the md file so it matches the other modules

behavior of combobox closer to qqc1

workaround for QQuickWidgets

Sonnet

Add assignByDictionnary method

Signal if we are able to assign dictionary

Syntax Highlighting

Makefile: fix regexpr matching in "CXXFLAGS+"

ThreadWeaver

CMake cleanup: Don't hardcode -std=c++0x

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 5.40.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.40.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.40.0 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 5.40.0 requires Qt 5.7.

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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