Release of KDE Frameworks 5.29.0

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December 12, 2016. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.29.0.

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

This release includes Prison, a new framework for barcode generation (including QR codes).

General

FreeBSD was added to metainfo.yaml in all frameworks tested to work on FreeBSD.

Baloo

Performance improvements when writing (4 * speedup for writing out data)

Breeze Icons

Make BINARY_ICONS_RESOURCE ON by default

add vnd.rar mime for shared-mime-info 1.7 (bug 372461)

add claws icon (bug 371914)

add gdrive icon instead of a generic cloud icon (bug 372111)

fix bug "list-remove-symbolic use wrong image" (bug 372119)

other additions and improvements

Extra CMake Modules

Skip Python bindings test if PyQt isn't installed

Only add the test if python is found

Reduce the CMake minimum required

Add ecm_win_resolve_symlinks module

Framework Integration

find QDBus, needed by appstream kpackage handler

Let KPackage have dependencies from packagekit & appstream

KActivitiesStats

Properly sending the resource linked event

KDE Doxygen Tools

Adapt to quickgit -> cgit change

Fix bug if group name is not defined. Can still break under bad conditions

KArchive

Add errorString() method to provide error info

KAuth

Add timeout property (bug 363200)

KConfig

kconfig_compiler - generate code with overrides

Properly parse function keywords (bug 371562)

KConfigWidgets

Ensure menu actions get the intended MenuRole

KCoreAddons

KTextToHtml: fix bug "[1] added at the end of a hyperlink" (bug 343275)

KUser: Only search for an avatar if loginName isn't empty

KCrash

Align with KInit and don't use DISPLAY on Mac

Don't close all file descriptors on OS X

KDesignerPlugin

src/kgendesignerplugin.cpp - add overrides to generated code

KDESU

Unsets XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in processes run with kdesu

KFileMetaData

Actually find FFMpeg's libpostproc

KHTML

java: apply the names to the right buttons

java: set names in permission dialog

KI18n

Check properly pointer inequality from dngettext (bug 372681)

KIconThemes

Allow showing icons from all categories (bug 216653)

KInit

Set environment variables from KLaunchRequest when starting new process

KIO

Ported to categorized logging

Fix compilation against WinXP SDK

Allow uppercase checksums matching in Checksums tab (bug 372518)

Never stretch the last (=date) column in the file dialog (bug 312747)

Import and update kcontrol docbooks for code in kio from kde-runtime master

[OS X] make KDE's trash use the OS X trash

SlaveBase: add documentation about event loops and notifications and kded modules

KNewStuff

Add new archive management option (subdir) to knsrc

Consume the new error signals (set job errors)

Handle oddity regarding files disappearing when just created

Actually install the core headers, with CamelCases

KNotification

[KStatusNotifierItem] Save / restore widget position during hide / restore it window (bug 356523)

[KNotification] Allow annotating notifications with URLs

KPackage Framework

keep installing metadata.desktop (bug 372594)

manually load metadata if absolute path is passed

Fix potential failure if package is not appstream compatible

Let KPackage know about X-Plasma-RootPath

Fix generating the metadata.json file

KPty

More utempter path searching (including /usr/lib/utempter/)

Add library path so utempter binary is found in Ubuntu 16.10

KTextEditor

Prevent Qt warnings about an unsupported clipboard mode on Mac

Use syntax definitions from KF5::SyntaxHighlighting

KTextWidgets

Don't replace window icons with the result of a failed lookup

KWayland

[client] Fix nullptr dereference in ConfinedPointer and LockedPointer

[client] Install pointerconstraints.h

[server] Fix regression in SeatInterface::end/cancelPointerPinchGesture

Implementation of PointerConstraints protocol

[server] Reduce overhead of pointersForSurface

Return SurfaceInterface::size in global compositor space

[tools/generator] Generate enum FooInterfaceVersion on server side

[tools/generator] Wrap wl_fixed request args in wl_fixed_from_double

[tools/generator] Generate implementation of client side requests

[tools/generator] Generate client side resource factories

[tools/generator] Generate callbacks and listener on client side

[tools/generator] Pass this as q pointer to Client::Resource::Private

[tools/generator] Generate Private::setup(wl_foo *arg) on client side

Implementation of PointerGestures protocol

KWidgetsAddons

Prevent crashing on Mac

Don't replace icons with the result of a failed lookup

KMessageWidget: fix layout when wordWrap is enabled without actions

KCollapsibleGroupBox: don't hide widgets, override focus policy instead

KWindowSystem

[KWindowInfo] Add pid() and desktopFileName()

Oxygen Icons

Add application-vnd.rar icon (bug 372461)

Plasma Framework

Check for metadata validity in settingsFileChanged (bug 372651)

Don't flip tabbar layout if vertical

Remove radialGradient4857 (bug 372383)

[AppletInterface] Never pull focus away from fullRepresentation (bug 372476)

Fix SVG icon ID prefix (bug 369622)

Solid

winutils_p.h: Restore compatibility with WinXP SDK

Sonnet

Also search for hunspell-1.5

Syntax Highlighting

Normalize XML license attribute values

Sync syntax definitions from ktexteditor

Fix folding region merging

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 5.29.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.29.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.29.0 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 5.29.0 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.

Supporting KDE

KDE is a Free Software community that exists and grows only because of the help of many volunteers that donate their time and effort. KDE is always looking for new volunteers and contributions, whether it is help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing documentation, translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are gratefully appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the Donations page for further information or become a KDE e.V. supporting member through our new Join the Game initiative.

About KDE

KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and macOS.

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