Release of KDE Frameworks 5.41.0

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December 10, 2017. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.41.0.

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

Strip down and re-write the baloo tags KIO slave (bug 340099)

BluezQt

Do not leak rfkill file descriptors (bug 386886)

Breeze Icons

Add missing icon sizes (bug 384473)

add install and uninstall icons for discover

Extra CMake Modules

Add the description tag to the generated pkgconfig files

ecm_add_test: Use proper path sep on Windows

Add FindSasl2.cmake to ECM

Only pass the ARGS thing when doing Makefiles

Add FindGLIB2.cmake and FindPulseAudio.cmake

ECMAddTests: set QT_PLUGIN_PATH so locally built plugins can be found

KDECMakeSettings: more docu about the layout of the build dir

Framework Integration

Support downloading the 2nd or 3rd download link from a KNS product (bug 385429)

KActivitiesStats

Start fixing libKActivitiesStats.pc: (bug 386933)

KActivities

Fix race that starts kactivitymanagerd multiple times

KAuth

Allow to only build the kauth-policy-gen code generator

Add a note about calling the helper from multithreaded applications

KBookmarks

Do not show edit bookmarks action if keditbookmarks is not installed

Port from deprecated KAuthorized::authorizeKAction to authorizeAction

KCMUtils

keyboard navigation in and out QML kcms

KCompletion

Do not crash when setting new line edit on an editable combo box

KComboBox: Return early when setting editable to previous value

KComboBox: Reuse the existing completion object on new line edit

KConfig

Don't look for /etc/kderc every single time

KConfigWidgets

Update default colors to match new colors in D7424

KCoreAddons

Input validation of SubJobs

Warn about errors when parsing json files

Install mimetype definitions for kcfg/kcfgc/ui.rc/knotify & qrc files

Add a new function to measure the length by text

Fix KAutoSave bug on file with white space in it

KDeclarative

Make it compile on windows

make it compile with QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII/QT_NO_CAST_FROM_BYTEARRAY

[MouseEventListener] Allow accepting mouse event

use a single QML engine

KDED

kded: remove dbus calls to ksplash

KDocTools

Update Brasilian Portuguese translation

Update Russian translation

Update Russian translation

Update customization/xsl/ru.xml (nav-home was missing)

KEmoticons

KEmoticons: port plugins to JSON and add support for loading with KPluginMetaData

Do not leak symbols of pimpl classes, protect with Q_DECL_HIDDEN

KFileMetaData

The usermetadatawritertest requires Taglib

If the property value is null, remove the user.xdg.tag attribute (bug 376117)

Open files in TagLib extractor readonly

KGlobalAccel

Group some blocking dbus calls

kglobalacceld: Avoid loading an icon loader for no reason

generate correct shortcut strings

KIO

KUriFilter: filter out duplicate plugins

KUriFilter: simplify data structures, fix memory leak

[CopyJob] Don't start all over after having removed a file

Fix creating a directory via KNewFileMenu+KIO::mkpath on Qt 5.9.3+ (bug 387073)

Created an auxiliary function 'KFilePlacesModel::movePlace'

Expose KFilePlacesModel 'iconName' role

KFilePlacesModel: Avoid unnecessary 'dataChanged' signal

Return a valid bookmark object for any entry in KFilePlacesModel

Create a 'KFilePlacesModel::refresh' function

Create 'KFilePlacesModel::convertedUrl' static function

KFilePlaces: Created 'remote' section

KFilePlaces: Add a section for removable devices

Added baloo urls into places model

Fix KIO::mkpath with qtbase 5.10 beta 4

[KDirModel] Emit change for HasJobRole when jobs change

Change label "Advanced options" > "Terminal options"

Kirigami

Offset the scrollbar by the header size (bug 387098)

bottom margin based on actionbutton presence

don't assume applicationWidnow() to be available

Don't notify about value changes if we are still in the constructor

Replace the library name in the source

support colors in more places

color icons in toolbars if needed

consider icon colors in the main action buttons

start for an "icon" grouped property

KNewStuff

Revert "Detach before setting the d pointer" (bug 386156)

do not install development tool to aggregate desktop files

[knewstuff] Do not leak ImageLoader on error

KPackage Framework

Properly do strings in the kpackage framework

Don't try to generate metadata.json if there's no metadata.desktop

fix kpluginindex caching

Improve error output

KTextEditor

Fix VI-Mode buffer commands

prevent accidental zooming

KUnitConversion

Port from QDom to QXmlStreamReader

Use https for downloading currency exchange rates

KWayland

Expose wl_display_set_global_filter as a virtual method

Fix kwayland-testXdgShellV6

Add support for zwp_idle_inhibit_manager_v1 (bug 385956)

[server] Support inhibiting the IdleInterface

KWidgetsAddons

Avoid inconsistent passworddialog

Set enable_blur_behind hint on demand

KPageListView: Update width on font change

KWindowSystem

[KWindowEffectsPrivateX11] Add reserve() call

KXMLGUI

Fix translation of toolbar name when it has i18n context

Plasma Framework

The #warning directive is not universal and in particular is NOT supported by MSVC

[IconItem] Use ItemSceneHasChanged rather than connect on windowChanged

[Icon Item] Explicitly emit overlaysChanged in the setter rather than connecting to it

[Dialog] Use KWindowSystem::isPlatformX11()

Reduce the amount of spurious property changes on ColorScope

[Icon Item] Emit validChanged only if it actually changed

Suppress unnecessary scroll indicators if the flickable is a ListView with known orientation

[AppletInterface] Emit change signals for configurationRequired and -Reason

Use setSize() instead of setProperty width and height

Fixed an issue where PlasmaComponents Menu would appear with broken corners (bug 381799)

Fixed an issue where context menus would appear with broken corners (bug 381799)

API docs: add deprecation notice found in the git log

Synchronize the component with the one in Kirigami

Search all KF5 components as such instead as separate frameworks

Reduce spurious signal emissions (bug 382233)

Add signals indicating if a screen was added or removed

install Switch stuff

Don't rely in includes of includes

Optimize SortFilterModel role names

Remove DataModel::roleNameToId

Prison

Add Aztec code generator

QQC2StyleBridge

determine QQC2 version at build time (bug 386289)

by default, keep the background invisible

add a background in ScrollView

Solid

Faster UDevManager::devicesFromQuery

Sonnet

Make it possible to crosscompile sonnet

Syntax Highlighting

Add PKGUILD to bash syntax

JavaScript: include standard mime types

debchangelog: add Bionic Beaver

Update SQL (Oracle) syntax file (bug 386221)

SQL: move detecting comments before operators

crk.xml: added <?xml> header line

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 5.41.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.41.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.41.0 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 5.41.0 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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