Release AnnouncementsKDE Frameworks 5.59.0

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June 08, 2019. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.59.0.

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

Don't try to index SQL database dumps

Exclude .gcode and virtual machine files from indexing consideration

BluezQt

Add Bluez API to DBus XML parser/generator

Breeze Icons

gcompris-qt too

Make falkon icon a real SVG

add missing icons from the apps, to be redone https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407527

add icon for kfourinline from app, needs updating too

add kigo icon https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407527

add kwave icon from kwave, to be redone in breeze style

Symlink arrow-*-double to go-*-skip, add 24px go-*-skip

Change input-* device icon styles, add 16px icons

Add dark version of new Knights icon which escaped from my previous commit

Create new icon for Knights based on Anjuta's icon (bug 407527)

add icons for apps which miss them in breeze, these should be updated to be more breezy but they are needed for the new kde.org/applications for now

kxstitch icon from kde:kxstitch, to be updated

don't glob everything and the kitchen sink

make sure to also assert ScaledDirectories

Extra CMake Modules

Create specific directory for Qt logging categories file

Don't enable QT_STRICT_ITERATORS on Windows

Framework Integration

ensure to search also in the legacy location

search in the new location for knsrc files

KArchive

Test reading and seeking in KCompressionDevice

KCompressionDevice: Remove bIgnoreData

KAr: fix out-of-bounds read (on invalid input) by porting to QByteArray

KAr: fix parsing of long filenames with Qt-5.10

KAr: the permissions are in octal, not decimal

KAr::openArchive: Also check ar_longnamesIndex is not < 0

KAr::openArchive: Fix invalid memory access on broken files

KAr::openArchive: Protect against Heap-buffer-overflow in broken files

KTar::KTarPrivate::readLonglink: Fix crash in malformed files

KAuth

Don't hardcode dbus policy install dir

KConfigWidgets

Use locale currency for donate icon

KCoreAddons

Fix compilation for python bindings (bug 407306)

Add GetProcessList for retrieving the list of currently active processes

KDeclarative

Fix qmldir files

KDELibs 4 Support

Remove QApplication::setColorSpec (empty method)

KFileMetaData

Show 3 significant figures when displaying doubles (bug 343273)

KIO

Manipulate bytes instead of characters

Fix kioslave executables never exiting, when setting KDE_FORK_SLAVES

Fix desktop link to file or directory (bug 357171)

Test current filter before setting a new one (bug 407642)

[kioslave/file] Add a codec for legacy filenames (bug 165044)

Rely upon QSysInfo to retrieve the system details

Add Documents to the default list of Places

kioslave: preserve argv[0], to fix applicationDirPath() on non-Linux

Allow to drop one file or one folder on KDirOperator (bug 45154)

Truncate long filename before creating a link (bug 342247)

Kirigami

[ActionTextField] Make QML tooltip consistent

base on height for items that should have a top padding (bug 405614)

Performance: compress color changes without a QTimer

[FormLayout] Use even top and bottom spacing for separator (bug 405614)

ScrollablePage: Make sure the scrolled view gets the focus when it's set (bug 389510)

Improve keyboard-only usage of the toolbar (bug 403711)

make the recycler a FocusScope

KNotification

Handle apps which set the desktopFileName property with filename suffix

KService

Fix assert (hash != 0) sometimes when a file is deleted by another process

Fix another assert when the file disappears under us: ASSERT: "ctime != 0"

KTextEditor

Don't delete entire previous line by backspace in pos 0 (bug 408016)

Use native dialog overwrite check

Add action to reset font size

show static word wrap marker always if requested

Ensure highlighted range begin/end marker after unfold

Fix: don't reset Highlight when saving some files (bug 407763)

Auto indentation: Use std::vector instead of QList

Fix: Use default indentation mode for new files (bug 375502)

remove duplicated assignment

honor auto-bracket setting for balance check

improve invalid character check on loading (bug 406571)

New menu of syntax highlighting in the status bar

Avoid infinite loop in "Toggle Contained Nodes" action

KWayland

Allow compositors to send discrete axis values (bug 404152)

Implement set_window_geometry

Implement wl_surface::damage_buffer

KWidgetsAddons

KNewPasswordDialog: add periods to message widgets

NetworkManagerQt

Don't fetch device statistics upon construction

Plasma Framework

Make Breeze Light/Dark use more system colors

Export SortFilterModel sort column to QML

plasmacore: fix qmldir, ToolTip.qml no longer part of module

signal availableScreenRectChanged for all applets

Use simply configure_file to generate the plasmacomponents3 files

Update *.qmltypes to current API of QML modules

FrameSvg: also clear mask cache on clearCache()

FrameSvg: make hasElementPrefix() also handle prefix with trailing -

FrameSvgPrivate::generateBackground: generate background also if reqp != p

FrameSvgItem: emit maskChanged also from geometryChanged()

FrameSvg: prevent crash when calling mask() with no frame yet created

FrameSvgItem: emit maskChanged always from doUpdate()

API dox: note for FrameSvg::prefix()/actualPrefix() the trailing '-'

API dox: point to Plasma5 versions on techbase if avail

FrameSvg: l & r borders or t & b don't need to have same height resp. width

Purpose

[JobDialog] Also signal cancellation when window is closed by the user

Report cancelling a configuration as finished with an error (bug 407356)

QQC2StyleBridge

Remove DefaultListItemBackground and MenuItem animation

[QQC2 Slider Style] Fix wrong handle positioning when initial value is 1 (bug 405471)

ScrollBar: Make it work as a horizontal scroll bar as well (bug 390351)

Solid

Refactor the way device backends are built and registered

[Fstab] Use folder-decrypted icon for encrypting fuse mounts

Syntax Highlighting

YAML: only comments after spaces and other improvements/fixes (bug 407060)

Markdown: use includeAttrib in code blocks

fix highlighting of "\0" in C mode

Tcsh: fix operators and keywords

Add syntax definition for the Common Intermediate Language

SyntaxHighlighter: Fix foreground color for text without special highlighting (bug 406816)

Add example app for printing highlighted text to pdf

Markdown: Use color with higher contrast for lists (bug 405824)

Remove .conf extension from "INI Files" hl, to determine the highlighter using MIME type (bug 400290)

Perl: fix the // operator (bug 407327)

fix casing of UInt* types in Julia hl (bug 407611)

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 5.59.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.59.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.59.0 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 5.59.0 requires Qt 5.10.

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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