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August 10, 2019. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.61.0.

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

Link against KIOCore instead of KIOWidgets in kioslaves

[IndexCleaner] ignore non-existent entries inside config

BluezQt

Fix crash due to the q pointer never being initialized

Don't include bluezqt_dbustypes.h from installed headers

Breeze Icons

Add "user-others" icon (bug 407782)

Make "edit-none" a symlink to "dialog-cancel"

Delete redundant and monochrome versions of applications-internet

Add view-pages-* icons, as needed in Okular for page layout selection (bug 409082)

Use clockwise arrows for *refresh* and update-* icons (bug 409914)

Extra CMake Modules

android: Allow overriding ANDROID_ARCH and ANDROID_ARCH_ABI as envvars

Notify users when not using KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS about prefix.sh

Provide a more sensible CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX default

Make the default build type "Debug" when compiling a git checkout

KActivitiesStats

Add Date term to KActivities Stats to filter on resource event date

KActivities

Simplify previous-/nextActivity code in kactivities-cli

KDE Doxygen Tools

Fix checking dirs for metainfo.yaml with non-ascii chars with Python 2.7

Log bad pathnames (via repr()) instead of crashing entirely

generate list of data files on the fly

KArchive

KTar::openArchive: Don't assert if file has two root dirs

KZip::openArchive: Don't assert when opening broken files

KCMUtils

adapt to UI changes in KPageView

KConfig

Security: remove support for $(...) in config keys with [] marker

Include definition for class used in header

KCoreAddons

Add KFileUtils::suggestName function to suggest a unique filename

KDeclarative

Scrollview - Don't fill the parent with the view (bug 407643)

introduce FallbackTapHandler

KRun QML proxy: fix path/URL confusion

Calendar events: allow plugins to show event details

KDED

kded5 desktop file: use valid type (Service) to suppress warning from kservice

KDELibs 4 Support

Designer plugin: use consistently "KF5" in group names & texts

Don't advertise using KPassivePopup

KDesignerPlugin

expose new KBusyIndicatorWidget

Remove designer plugin generation for KF5WebKit

KDE WebKit

Use preview of ECMAddQtDesignerPlugin instead of KF5DesignerPlugin

Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)

KFileMetaData

Get mobipocket extractor up-to-date, but keep disabled

KHolidays

Add public holidays' substitute days in Russia, for 2019-2020

Update holidays in Russia

KIconThemes

Restore "Check if group < LastGroup, as KIconEffect doesn't handle UserGroup anyway"

KIO

Deprecate suggestName in favour of the one in KCoreAddons

Fix can't enter directory error on some FTP servers with Turkish locale (bug 409740)

Kirigami

Revamp Kirigami.AboutPage

Consistently use Units.toolTipDelay instead of hardcoded values

properly size the card contents when the card size is constrained

hide ripple when we don't want items clickable

make handle follow arbitrary height of the drawer

[SwipeListItem] Take into account scrollbar visibility and form factor for handle and inline actions

Remove scaling of iconsize unit for isMobile

always show back button on layers>1

hide actions with submenus from more menu

default ActionToolBar position to Header

big z to not appear under dialogs

use opacity to hide buttons that don't fit

add the spacer only when it fills the width

fully retrocompatible with showNavigationButtons as bool

more granularity to globalToolBar.showNavigationButtons

KItemModels

David Faure is now the maintainer for KItemModels

KConcatenateRowsProxyModel: add note that Qt 5.13 provides QConcatenateTablesProxyModel

KPackage Framework

Offer metadata.json when requesting the package metadata

PackageLoader: Use the right scope for the KCompressionDevice

KPeople

declarative: refresh actions list when person changes

declarative: don't crash when the API is misused

personsmodel: Add phoneNumber

KService

Expose X-KDE-Wayland-Interfaces

Fix KService build on Android

KService: remove broken concept of global sycoca database

Remove very dangerous deletion code with kbuildsycoca5 --global

Fix infinite recursion and asserts when the sycoca DB is unreadable by user (e.g. root owned)

Deprecate KDBusServiceStarter. All usage in kdepim is now gone, DBus activation is a better solution

Allow KAutostart to be constructed using an absolute path

KTextEditor

Save and load page margins

Don't persist authentication

Re-map default "Switch input mode" shortcut to not conflict with konsolepart (bug 409978)

Make keyword completion model return HideListIfAutomaticInvocation by default

Minimap: Do not grab the left-mouse-button-click on up/down buttons

allow up to 1024 hl ranges instead of not highlighting the line at all if that limit is reached

fix folding of lines with end position at column 0 of a line (bug 405197)

Add option to treat some chars also as "auto bracket" only when we have a selection

Add an action to insert a non-indented newline (bug 314395)

Add setting to enable/disable text drag-and-drop (on by default)

KUnitConversion

Add Binary Data units (bits, kilobytes, kibibytes ... yottabytes)

KWallet Framework

Move kwalletd initialization earlier (bug 410020)

Remove kde4 migration agent completely (bug 400462)

KWayland

Use wayland-protocols

KWidgetsAddons

introduce concept of header and footer for kpageview

[Busy Indicator] Match duration of QQC2-desktop-style version

Add a warning dialog with a collapsible details section

new class KBusyIndicatorWidget similar to QtQuick's BusyIndicator

KWindowSystem

[platforms/xcb] Use XRES extension to get real window PID (bug 384837)

Port KXMessages away from QWidget

KXMLGUI

Add expanding spacers as a customization option for toolbars

Use monochrome action icons for KAboutData buttons

Remove visibilityChanged connection in favor of existing eventFilter

ModemManagerQt

Allow updating default DBus timeout on every interface

NetworkManagerQt

device: include reapplyConnection() in the interface

Plasma Framework

[ToolButtonStyle] Use same color group for hovered state

Handle colors file in fake plasma theme installer

Install plasma theme into local XDG_DATA_DIR for icon test

Apply busy indicator duration change of D22646 to the QQC2 style

Compile package structure plugins into expected subdirectory

Change Highlight to ButtonFocus

Fix running the dialognativetest without installing

Search for the plugin of the other plasmoid

[Busy Indicator] Match duration of QQC2-desktop-style version

Add missing components in org.kde.plasma.components 3.0

Update refresh and restart icons to reflect new breeze-icons versions (bug 409914)

itemMouse isn't defined in plasma.components 3.0

use clearItems when an applet gets deleted

Fix crash if switchSize is adjusted during initial setup

Improve plugin caching

Purpose

Phabricator: open a new diff automatically in the browser

Fix extraction. Patch by Victor Ryzhykh

QQC2StyleBridge

Fix broken guard that prevents styling sliders with negative values

Slow down the busy indicator's rotation speed

Fix "Type error" when creating a TextField with focus: true

[ComboBox] Set close policy to close on click outside instead of only outside parent (bug 408950)

[SpinBox] Set renderType (bug 409888)

Solid

Make sure solid backends are reentrant

Syntax Highlighting

TypeScript: fix keywords in conditional expressions

Fix generator and test paths of CMake

Add support for additional QML keywords not part of JavaScript

Update cmake highlighting

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. Get KDE Software on Your Linux Distro wiki page.



Compiling from sources

The complete source code for KDE Frameworks 5.61.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.61.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.61.0 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 5.61.0 requires Qt 5.11.

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.

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