Release of KDE Frameworks 5.18.0

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January 09, 2016. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.18.0.

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

Baloo

Fix several issue of mtime related search

PostingDB Iter: Do not assert on MDB_NOTFOUND

Balooctl status: Avoid showing 'Content indexing' about folders

StatusCommand: Show the correct status for folders

SearchStore: Gracefully handle empty term values (bug 356176)

Breeze Icons

icon updates and additions

22px size status icons for 32px too as you need it in the system tray

Changed Fixed to Scalable value to 32px folders in Breeze Dark

Extra CMake Modules

Make the KAppTemplate CMake module global

Silence CMP0063 warnings with KDECompilerSettings

ECMQtDeclareLoggingCategory: Include <QDebug> with the generated file

Fix CMP0054 warnings

KActivities

Streamlined the QML loading for KCM (bug 356832)

Work-around for the Qt SQL bug that does not clean up connections properly (bug 348194)

Merged a plugin that executes applications on activity state change

Port from KService to KPluginLoader

Port plugins to use kcoreaddons_desktop_to_json()

KBookmarks

Fully initialize DynMenuInfo in return value

KCMUtils

KPluginSelector::addPlugins: fix assert if 'config' parameter is default (bug 352471)

KCodecs

Avoid deliberately overflowing a full buffer

KConfig

Ensure group is unescaped properly in kconf_update

KCoreAddons

Add KAboutData::fromPluginMetaData(const KPluginMetaData &plugin)

Add KPluginMetaData::copyrightText(), extraInformation() and otherContributors()

Add KPluginMetaData::translators() and KAboutPerson::fromJson()

Fix use-after-free in desktop file parser

Make KPluginMetaData constructible from a json path

desktoptojson: make missing service type file an error for the binary

make calling kcoreaddons_add_plugin without SOURCES an error

KDBusAddons

Adapt to Qt 5.6's dbus-in-secondary-thread

KDeclarative

[DragArea] Add dragActive property

[KQuickControlsAddons MimeDatabase] Expose QMimeType comment

KDED

kded: adapt to Qt 5.6's threaded dbus: messageFilter must trigger module loading in the main thread

KDELibs 4 Support

kdelibs4support requires kded (for kdedmodule.desktop)

Fix CMP0064 warning by setting policy CMP0054 to NEW

Don't export symbols that also exist in KWidgetsAddons

KDESU

Don't leak fd when creating socket

KHTML

Windows: remove kdewin dependency

KI18n

Document the first argument rule for plurals in QML

Reduce unwanted type changes

Make it possible to use doubles as index for i18np*() calls in QML

KIO

Fix kiod for Qt 5.6's threaded dbus: messageFilter must wait until the module is loaded before returning

Change the error code when pasting/moving into a subdirectory

Fix emptyTrash blocked issue

Fix wrong button in KUrlNavigator for remote URLs

KUrlComboBox: fix returning an absolute path from urls()

kiod: disable session management

Add autocompletion for '.' input which offers all hidden files/folders* (bug 354981)

ktelnetservice: fix off by one in argc check, patch by Steven Bromley

KNotification

[Notify By Popup] Send along event ID

Set default non-empty reason for screen saver inhibition; (bug 334525)

Add a hint to skip notifications grouping (bug 356653)

KNotifyConfig

[KNotifyConfigWidget] Allow selecting a specific event

Package Framework

Make it possible to provide the metadata in json

KPeople

Fix possible double deletion in DeclarativePersonData

KTextEditor

Syntax h/l for pli: builtin functions added, expandable regions added

KWallet Framework

kwalletd: Fix FILE* leak

KWindowSystem

Add xcb variant for static KStartupInfo::sendFoo methods

NetworkManagerQt

make it work with older NM versions

Plasma Framework

[ToolButtonStyle] Always indicate activeFocus

Use the SkipGrouping flag for the "widget deleted" notification (bug 356653)

Deal properly with symlinks in path to packages

Add HiddenStatus for plasmoid self-hiding

Stop redirecting windows when item is disabled or hidden. (bug 356938)

Don't emit statusChanged if it hasn't changed

Fix element ids for east orientation

Containment: Don't emit appletCreated with null applet (bug 356428)

[Containment Interface] Fix erratic high precision scrolling

Read KPluginMetada's property X-Plasma-ComponentTypes as a stringlist

[Window Thumbnails] Don't crash if Composite is disabled

Let containments override CompactApplet.qml

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 5.18.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.18.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.18.0 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 5.18.0 requires Qt 5.3.

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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