Release of KDE Frameworks 5.32.0

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March 11, 2017. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.32.0.

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

Implement nested tags

Breeze Icons

Added icons for Plasma Vault

Renamed icons for encrypted and decrypted folders

Add torrents icon 22px

Add nm-tray icons (bug 374672)

color-management: removed undefined links (bug 374843)

system-run is now an action until <= 32px and 48px an app icon (bug 375970)

Extra CMake Modules

Detect inotify

Revert "Automatically mark classes with pure virtual functions as /Abstract/."

KActivitiesStats

Allow to plan ahead and set the order for an item not yet in the list

KArchive

Fix Potential leak of memory pointed to by 'limitedDev'

KCMUtils

Fixed potential crash in QML KCMs when application palette changes

KConfig

KConfig: stop exporting and installing KConfigBackend

KConfigWidgets

KColorScheme: default to application scheme if set by KColorSchemeManager (bug 373764)

KConfigDialogManager: get change signal from metaObject or special property

Fix KCModule::setAuthAction error checking

KCoreAddons

Exclude (6) from emoticons recognition

KDirWatch: fix memory leak on destruction

KDELibs 4 Support

Fix bug in kfiledialog.cpp that causes crashing when native widgets are used

KDocTools

meinproc5: link to the files, not to the library (bug 377406)

Remove the KF5::XsltKde static library

Export a proper shared library for KDocTools

Port to categorized logging and clean includes

Add function to extract a single file

Fail the build early if xmllint is not available (bug 376246)

KFileMetaData

New maintainer for kfilemetadata

[ExtractorCollection] Use mimetype inheritance to return plugins

add a new property DiscNumber for audio files from multi-disc albums

KIO

Cookies KCM: disable "delete" button when there is no current item

kio_help: Use the new shared library exported by KDocTools

kpac: Sanitize URLs before passing them to FindProxyForURL (security fix)

Import remote ioslave from plasma-workspace

kio_trash: implement renaming of toplevel files and dirs

PreviewJob: Remove maximum size for local files by default

DropJob: allow to add application actions on an open menu

ThumbCreator: deprecate DrawFrame, as discussed in https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129921/

KNotification

Add support for flatpak portals

Send desktopfilename as part of notifyByPopup hints

[KStatusNotifierItem] Restore minimized window as normal

KPackage Framework

Finish support for opening compressed packages

KTextEditor

Remember file type set by user over sessions

Reset filetype when opening url

Added getter for word-count configuration value

Consistent conversion from/to cursor to/from coordinates

Update file type on save only if path changes

Support for EditorConfig configuration files (for details: http://editorconfig.org/)

Add FindEditorConfig to ktexteditor

Fix: emmetToggleComment action doesn't work (bug 375159)

Use sentence style capitalization with label texts of edit fields

Reverse meaning of :split, :vsplit to match vi and Kate actions

Use C++11 log2() instead of log() / log(2)

KateSaveConfigTab: put spacer behind last group on Advanced tab, not inside

KateSaveConfigTab: Remove wrong margin around content of Advanced tab

Borders config subpage: fix scrollbar visibility combobox being off-placed

KWidgetsAddons

KToolTipWidget: hide tooltip in enterEvent if hideDelay is zero

Fix KEditListWidget losing the focus on click of buttons

Add decomposition of Hangul Syllables into Hangul Jamo

KMessageWidget: fix behaviour on overlapping calls of animatedShow/animatedHide

KXMLGUI

Don't use KConfig keys with backslashes

NetworkManagerQt

Sync introspections and generated files with NM 1.6.0

Manager: Fix emitting deviceAdded twice when NM restarts

Plasma Framework

set default hints when repr doesn't export Layout.* (bug 377153)

possible to set expanded=false for a containment

[Menu] Improve available space correction for openRelative

move setImagePath logic into updateFrameData() (bug 376754)

IconItem: Add roundToIconSize property

[SliderStyle] Allow providing a "hint-handle-size" element

Connect all connections to action in QMenuItem::setAction

[ConfigView] Honor KIOSK Control Module restrictions

Fix disabling the spinner animation when Busy indicator has no opacity

[FrameSvgItemMargins] Don't update on repaintNeeded

Applet icons for the Plasma Vault

Migrate AppearAnimation and DisappearAnimation to Animators

Align bottom edge to top edge of visualParent in the TopPosedLeftAlignedPopup case

[ConfigModel] Emit dataChanged when a ConfigCategory changes

[ScrollViewStyle] Evaluate frameVisible property

[Button Styles] Use Layout.fillHeight instead of parent.height in a Layout (bug 375911)

[ContainmentInterface] Also align containment context menu to panel

Prison

Fix min qt version

Solid

Floppy disks now show up as "Floppy Disk" instead of "0 B Removable Media"

Syntax Highlighting

Add more keyword. Disable spellchecking for keywords

Add more keyword

Add *.RHTML file extension to Ruby on Rails highlighting (bug 375266)

Update SCSS and CSS syntax highlight (bug 376005)

less highlighting: Fix single line comments starting new regions

LaTeX highlighting: fix alignat environment (bug 373286)

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 5.32.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.32.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.32.0 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 5.32.0 requires Qt 5.6.

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

You can discuss and share ideas on this release in the comments section of the dot article.

Supporting KDE

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About KDE

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