Release of KDE Frameworks 5.3.0

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October 07, 2014. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.3.0.

KDE Frameworks are 60 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

KActivities

Added DBus interface to load plugins at runtime

KArchive

Add convenience method KArchive::file()

Compilation fixes for MSVC

KBookmarks

Fix encoding issue in KIO places dialog (bug 337642)

KCMUtils

Fix initial size of KCMultiDialog (bugs 337494, 325897)

KCompletion

Fixed size hint and positioning of clear button in highDpi mode

KConfig

KConfigLoader: fix sharing of KSharedConfig objects

KConfigWidgets

Now provides the kf5_entry.desktop files it needs for KLanguageButton

KCoreAddons

Kdelibs4Migration: allow distributions to set KDE4_DEFAULT_HOME_POSTFIX so that the kde4 home is found properly.

Compilation fixes for MSVC and gcc 4.5

Turn KFormat into a Q_GADGET so we can expose its properties to QML indirectly

KEmoticons

Add unicode characters to Glass emoticon theme

KGuiAddons

Make KFontUtils::adaptFontSize be a bit more exact

KI18n

Remove leftover Perl dependency

KIO

Now includes kio_trash

Add new KIO job, KIO::fileSystemFreeSpace, that allows you to get a filesystem's total and available space.

kshorturifilter: Remove redundant forward slashes from the beginning of an URI

Add searchprovider definitions for the qwant search engine

File dialog: fix relative paths being turned into HTTP URLs

Fix thumbnails for mimetype groups.

KJS

Implement Math.Clz32

U+0000 through U+001F is not allowed as char, but as escaped unicode sequence (bug 338970)

KNotifications

Avoid infinite recursion in KStatusNotifierItem / QSystemTray.

KService

Many many fixes to KPluginInfo

Add functions to convert between lists KPluginMetaData and KPluginInfo

KTextEditor

Multiple memory leaks fixed

Avoid auto-completion to interfere with search/replace text (bug 339130), and more autocompletion fixes

Many fixes to the VIM mode

KWidgetAddons

KPageListView: fixes for high-dpi mode

KPageWidget: margin fixes

KWindowSystem

NETWinInfo now provides convenient wrapper for WM_PROTOCOLS.

NETWinInfo now provides convenient wrapper for input and urgency hints of WM_HINTS property.

Solid

New freedesktop backend, not yet default but due to replace the upower/udev/systemd backends

Extra-cmake-modules

New module ECMGeneratePkgConfigFile, for frameworks to install a pkgconfig file.

New option ECM_ENABLE_SANITIZERS, to enable clang sanitizers. Example: ECM_ENABLE_SANITIZERS='address;undefined'

New option BUILD_COVERAGE, to enable code coverage.

Frameworkintegration

Fixed for compilation with Qt 5.4

Fixed a few standard shortcuts

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

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 5.3.0 requires Qt 5.2.

The complete source code for KDE Frameworks 5.3.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.3.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.3.0 Info Page. 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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About KDE

KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and macOS.

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