Release of KDE Frameworks 5.28.0

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November 15, 2016. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.28.0.

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

New framework: syntax-highlighting

Breeze Icons

update kstars action icons (bug 364981)

Breeze Dark is listed as Breeze in System Settings wrong .themes file (bug 370213)

Extra CMake Modules

Make KDECMakeSettings work with KDE_INSTALL_DIRS_NO_DEPRECATED

Don't require the python bindings dependencies for ECM

Add the PythonModuleGeneration module

KActivitiesStats

Ignoring link status when sorting UsedResources and LinkedResources model

KDE Doxygen Tools

[CSS] reverse changes done by doxygen 1.8.12

Add doxygenlayout file

Update way of defining group names

KAuth

Make sure we can do more than one request

Make sure we get to know about progress by reading the program output

KConfig

Make sure we don't break compilation with past broken units

Don't be fatal on File field not being properly parsed

KCoreAddons

Display bad url

Load user avatars from AccountsServicePath if it exists (bug 370362)

KDeclarative

[QtQuickRendererSettings] Fix default to be empty instead of "false"

KDELibs 4 Support

Make the France flag actually use all the pixmap

KDocTools

Fix 'checkXML5 generates html files in workdir for valid docbooks' (bug 371987)

KIconThemes

Support non integer scale factors in kiconengine (bug 366451)

KIdleTime

Disabled spamming the console output with 'waiting for' messages

KImageFormats

imageformats/kra.h - overrides for KraPlugin capabilities() and create()

KIO

Fix HTTP date format sent by kio_http to always use the C locale (bug 372005)

KACL: fix memory leaks detected by ASAN

Fix memory leaks in KIO::Scheduler, detected by ASAN

Removed duplicate clear button (bug 369377)

Fix editing autostart entries when /usr/local/share/applications doesn't exist (bug 371194)

[KOpenWithDialog] Hide TreeView header

Sanitize the symlink name buffer size (bug 369275)

Properly finish DropJobs when triggered is not emitted (bug 363936)

ClipboardUpdater: fix another crash on Wayland (bug 359883)

ClipboardUpdater: fix crash on Wayland (bug 370520)

Support non integer scale factors in KFileDelegate (bug 366451)

kntlm: Distinguish between NULL and empty domain

Don't show overwrite dialog if file name is empty

kioexec: use friendly filenames

Fix focus ownership if url is changed before showing the widget

Major performance improvement when turning previews off in the file dialog (bug 346403)

KItemModels

Add python bindings

KJS

Export FunctionObjectImp, used by khtml's debugger

KNewStuff

Separate sort roles and filters

Make it possible to query installed entries

KNotification

Don't deref an object we haven't referenced when notification has no action

KNotification will no longer crash when using it in a QGuiApplication and no notification service is running (bug 370667)

Fix crashes in NotifyByAudio

KPackage Framework

Make sure we're looking both for json and desktop metadata

Guard against Q_GLOBAL_STATIC being destroyed at app shutdown

Fix dangling pointer in KPackageJob (bug 369935)

Remove discovery associated to a key when removing a definition

Generate the icon into the appstream file

KPty

Use ulog-helper on FreeBSD instead of utempter

search harder for utempter using basic cmake prefix as well

workaround find_program ( utempter ...) failure(s)

use ECM path to find utempter binary, more reliable than simple cmake prefix

KRunner

i18n: handle strings in kdevtemplate files

KTextEditor

Breeze Dark: Darken current-line background color for better readability (bug 371042)

Sorted Dockerfile instructions

Breeze (Dark): Make comments a bit lighter for better readability (bug 371042)

Fix CStyle and C++/boost indenters when automatic brackets enabled (bug 370715)

Add modeline 'auto-brackets'

Fix inserting text after end of file (rare case)

Fix invalid xml highlighting files

Maxima: Remove hard-coded colors, fix itemData Label

Add OBJ, PLY and STL syntax definitions

Add syntax highlighting support for Praat

KUnitConversion

New Thermal and Electrical Units and Unit Convenience Function

KWallet Framework

If Gpgmepp is not found, try to use KF5Gpgmepp

Use Gpgmepp from GpgME-1.7.0

KWayland

Improved relocatability of CMake export

[tools] Fix generation of wayland_pointer_p.h

[tools] Generate eventQueue methods only for global classes

[server] Fix crash on updating focused keyboard surface

[server] Fix possible crash on creation of DataDevice

[server] Ensure we have a DataSource on the DataDevice in setSelection

[tools/generator] Improve resource destruction on server side

Add request to have focus in a PlasmaShellSurface of Role Panel

Add auto-hiding panel support to PlasmaShellSurface interface

Support passing generic QIcon through PlasmaWindow interface

[server] Implement the generic window property in QtSurfaceExtension

[client] Add methods to get ShellSurface from a QWindow

[server] Send pointer events to all wl_pointer resources of a client

[server] Don't call wl_data_source_send_send if DataSource is unbound

[server] Use deleteLater when a ClientConnection gets destroyed (bug 370232)

Implement support for the relative pointer protocol

[server] Cancel previous selection from SeatInterface::setSelection

[server] Send key events to all wl_keyboard resources of a client

KWidgetsAddons

move kcharselect-generate-datafile.py to src subdir

Import kcharselect-generate-datafile.py script with history

Remove outdated section

Add Unicode copyright and permission notice

Fix warning: Missing override

Add symbol SMP blocks

Fix "See also" references

Add missing Unicode blocks; improve ordering (bug 298010)

add character categories to the data file

update the Unicode categories in the data file generation script

adjust the data file generation file to be able to parse the unicode 5.2.0 data files

forward port fix for generating translations

let the script to generate the data file for kcharselect also write a translation dummy

Add the script to generate the data file for KCharSelect

new KCharSelect application (using kcharselect widget from kdelibs now)

KWindowSystem

Improved relocatability of CMake export

Add support for desktopFileName to NETWinInfo

KXMLGUI

Allow using new style connect in KActionCollection::addAction

ModemManagerQt

Fix include dir in pri file

NetworkManagerQt

Fix include dir in pri file

Fix moc error due to Q_ENUMS being used in a namespace, with Qt branch 5.8

Plasma Framework

make sure OSD doesn't have Dialog flag (bug 370433)

set context properties before reloading the qml (bug 371763)

Don't reparse the metadata file if it's already loaded

Fix crash in qmlplugindump when no QApplication is available

Don't show "Alternatives" menu by default

New bool to use activated signal as toggle of expanded (bug 367685)

Fixes for building plasma-framework with Qt 5.5

[PluginLoader] Use operator<< for finalArgs instead of initializer list

use kwayland for shadows and dialog positioning

Remaining missing icons and network improvements

Move availableScreenRect/Region up to AppletInterface

Don't load containment actions for embedded containments (system trays)

Update applet alternatives menu entry visibility on demand

Solid

Fix unstable ordering of query results yet again

Add a CMake option to switch between HAL and UDisks managers on FreeBSD

Make UDisks2 backend compile on FreeBSD (and, possibly, other UNIXes)

Windows: Don't display error dialogs (bug 371012)

Security information

Syntax highlighting engine for Kate syntax definitions This is a stand-alone implementation of the Kate syntax highlighting engine. It's meant as a building block for text editors as well as for simple highlighted text rendering (e.g. as HTML), supporting both integration with a custom editor as well as a ready-to-use QSyntaxHighlighter sub-class.

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 5.28.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.28.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.28.0 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 5.28.0 requires Qt 5.5.

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.

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About KDE

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