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April 05, 2020. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.69.0.

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

[SearchStore] Use categorized logging

[QueryParser] Fix broken detection of end quote

[EngineQuery] Provide toString(Term) overload for QTest

[EngineQuery] Remove unused position member, extend tests

[SearchStore] Avoid long lines and function nesting

[baloosearch] Bail out early if specified folder is not valid

[MTimeDB] Consolidate time interval handling code

[AdvancedQueryParser] Test if quoted phrases are passed correctly

[Term] Provide toString(Term) overload for QTest

[ResultIterator] Remove unneeded SearchStore forward declaration

[QueryTest] Make phrase test case data driven and extend

[Inotify] Start the MoveFrom expire timer at most once per inotify batch

[UnindexedFileIndexer] Only mark file for content indexing when needed

[Inotify] Call QFile::decode only in a single place

[QML] Correctly watch for unregistration

[FileIndexScheduler] Update the content index progress more often

[FileIndexerConfig] Replace config QString,bool pair with dedicated class

[QML] Set the remaining time in the monitor more reliably

[TimeEstimator] Correct batch size, remove config reference

[FileIndexScheduler] Emit change to LowPowerIdle state

[Debug] Improve readability of positioninfo debug format

[Debug] Correct output of *::toTestMap(), silence non-error

[WriteTransactionTest] Test removal of positions only

[WriteTransaction] Extend position test case

[WriteTransaction] Avoid growing m_pendingOperations twice on replace

[FileIndexScheduler] Cleanup firstRun handling

[StorageDevices] Fix order of notification connect and initialization

[Config] Remove/deprecate disableInitialUpdate

Breeze Icons

Fix broken symlinks

Move corner fold to top right in 24 icons

Make find-location show a magnifier on a map, to be different to mark-location (bug 407061)

Add 16px LibreOffice icons

Fix configure when xmllint is not present

Fix stylesheet linking in 8 icons

Fix some stylesheet colors in 2 icon files

Fix symlinks to incorrect icon size

Add input-dialpad and call-voicemail

Add buho icon

Add calindori icon in the new pm style

Add nota icon

[breeze-icons] fix shadow in some user (applets/128) icons

Add call-incoming/missed/outgoing

Handle busybox's sed like GNU sed

Add transmission-tray-icon

Improve pixel alignment and margins of keepassxc systray icons

Revert "[breeze-icons] Add telegram-desktop tray icons"

Add small icons for KeePassXC

[breeze-icons] add TeamViewer tray icons

Add edit-reset

Change document-revert style to be more like edit-undo

Icons for emoji categories

Add flameshot tray icons

KAuth

Fix type namespace requirement

KBookmarks

Decouple KBookmarksMenu from KActionCollection

KCalendarCore

Fix fallback to vCalendar loading on iCalendar load failure

KCMUtils

listen to passiveNotificationRequested

workaround to never make applicationitem resize itself

KConfig

[KConfigGui] Check font weight when clearing styleName property

KconfigXT: Add a value attribute to Enum field choices

KCoreAddons

kdirwatch: fix a recently introduced crash (bug 419428)

KPluginMetaData: handle invalid mimetype in supportsMimeType

KCrash

Move setErrorMessage definition out of the linux ifdef

Allow providing an error message from the application (bug 375913)

KDBusAddons

Check correct file for sandbox detection

KDeclarative

Introduce api for passive notifications

[KCM Controls GridDelegate] Use ShadowedRectangle

[kcmcontrols] Respect header/footer visibility

KDocTools

Use bold italic at 100% for sect4 titles, and bold 100% for sect5 titles (bug 419256)

Update the list of the Italian entities

Use the same style for informaltable as for table (bug 418696)

KIdleTime

Fix infinite recursion in xscreensaver plugin

KImageFormats

Port the HDR plugin from sscanf() to QRegularExpression. Fixes FreeBSD

KIO

New class KIO::CommandLauncherJob in KIOGui to replace KRun::runCommand

New class KIO::ApplicationLauncherJob in KIOGui to replace KRun::run

File ioslave: use better setting for sendfile syscall (bug 402276)

FileWidgets: Ignore Return events from KDirOperator (bug 412737)

[DirectorySizeJob] Fix sub-dirs count when resolving symlinks to dirs

Mark KIOFuse mounts as Probably slow

kio_file: honour KIO::StatResolveSymlink for UDS_DEVICE_ID and UDS_INODE

[KNewFileMenu] Add extension to proposed filename (bug 61669)

[KOpenWithDialog] Add generic name from .desktop files as a tooltip (bug 109016)

KDirModel: implement showing a root node for the requested URL

Register spawned applications as an independent cgroups

Add "Stat" prefix to StatDetails Enum entries

Windows: Add support for file date creation

KAbstractFileItemActionPlugin: Add missing quotes in code example

Avoid double fetch and temporary hex encoding for NTFS attributes

KMountPoint: skip swap

Assign an icon to action submenus

[DesktopExecParser] Open {ssh,telnet,rlogin}:// urls with ktelnetservice (bug 418258)

Fix exitcode from kioexec when executable doesn't exist (and --tempfiles is set)

[KPasswdServer] replace foreach with range/index-based for

KRun's KProcessRunner: terminate startup notification on error too

[http_cache_cleaner] replace foreach usage with QDir::removeRecursively()

[StatJob] Use A QFlag to specify the details returned by StatJob

Kirigami

Hotfix for D28468 to fix broken variable refs

get rid of the incubator

disable mousewheel completely in outside flickable

Add property initializer support to PagePool

Refactor of OverlaySheet

Add ShadowedImage and ShadowedTexture items

[controls/formlayout] Don't attempt to reset implicitWidth

Add useful input method hints to password field by default

[FormLayout] Set compression timer interval to 0

[UrlButton] Disable when there is no URL

simplify header resizing (bug 419124)

Remove export header from static install

Fix about page with Qt 5.15

Fix broken paths in kirigami.qrc.in

Add "veryLongDuration" animation duration

fix multi row notifications

don't depend on window active for the timer

Support multiple stacked Passive Notifications

Fix enabling border for ShadowedRectangle on item creation

check for window existence

Add missing types to qrc

Fix undefined check in global drawer menu mode (bug 417956)

Fallback to a simple rectangle when using software rendering

Fix color premultiply and alpha blending

[FormLayout] Propagate FormData.enabled also to label

Add a ShadowedRectangle item

alwaysVisibleActions property

don't create instances when the app is quitting

Don't emit palette changes if the palette didn't change

KItemModels

[KSortFilterProxyModel QML] Make invalidateFilter public

KNewStuff

Fix layout in DownloadItemsSheet (bug 419535)

[QtQuick dialog] Port to UrlBUtton and hide when there's no URL

Switch to using Kirigami's ShadowedRectangle

Fix update scenarios with no explicit downloadlink selected (bug 417510)

KNotification

New class KNotificationJobUiDelegate

KNotifyConfig

Use libcanberra as primary means of previewing the sound (bug 418975)

KParts

New class PartLoader as replacement to KMimeTypeTrader for parts

KService

KAutostart: Add static method to check start condition

KServiceAction: store parent service

Properly read the X-Flatpak-RenamedFrom string list from desktop files

KTextEditor

Make it compile against qt 5.15

fix folding crash for folding of single line folds (bug 417890)

[VIM Mode] Add g<up> g<down> commands (bug 418486)

Add MarkInterfaceV2, to s/QPixmap/QIcon/g for symbols of marks

Draw inlineNotes after drawing word wrap marker

KWayland

[xdgoutput] Only send initial name and description if set

Add XdgOutputV1 version 2

Broadcast application menu to resources when registering them

Provide an implementation for the tablet interface

[server] Don't make assumptions about the order of damage_buffer and attach requests

Pass a dedicated fd to each keyboard for the xkb keymap (bug 381674)

[server] Introduce SurfaceInterface::boundingRect()

KWidgetsAddons

New class KFontChooserDialog (based on KFontDialog from KDELibs4Support)

[KCharSelect] Do not simplify single characters in search (bug 418461)

If we readd items we need to clear it first. Otherwise we will see duplicate list

Update kcharselect-data to Unicode 13.0

KWindowSystem

Fix EWMH non-compliance for NET::{OnScreenDisplay,CriticalNotification}

KWindowSystem: deprecate KStartupInfoData::launchedBy, unused

Expose application menu via KWindowInfo

Plasma Framework

Added Page element

[pc3/busyindicator] Hide when not running

Update window-pin, Add more sizes, Remove redundant edit-delete

Create a new TopArea element using widgets/toparea svg

Added plasmoid heading svg

Make highlighted property work for roundbutton

Prison

Also expose the true minimum size to QML

Add a new set of barcode size functions

Simplify minimum size handling

Move barcode image scaling logic to AbstractBarcode

Add API to check whether a barcode is one- or two-dimensional

QQC2StyleBridge

[Dialog] Use ShadowedRectangle

Fix sizing of CheckBox and RadioButton (bug 418447)

Use ShadowedRectangle

Solid

[Fstab] Ensure uniqueness for all filesystem types

Samba: Ensure to differentiate mounts sharing the same source (bug 418906)

hardware tool: define syntax via syntax arg

Sonnet

Fix Sonnet autodetect failing on Indian langs

Create ConfigView an unmanaged ConfigWidget

Syntax Highlighting

LaTeX: fix math parentheses in optional labels (bug 418979)

Add Inno Setup syntax, including embedded Pascal scripting

Lua: add # as additional deliminator to activate auto-completion with #something

C: remove ' as digit separator

add some comment about the skip offset stuff

optimize dynamic regex matching (bug 418778)

fix regex rules wrongly marked as dynamic

extend indexer to detect dynamic=true regexes that have no place holders to adapt

Add Overpass QL highlighting

Agda: keywords updated to 2.6.0 and fix float points

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

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Compiling from sources

The complete source code for KDE Frameworks 5.69.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.69.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.69.0 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 5.69.0 requires Qt 5.12.

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