Saturday, 13 May 2023
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.106.0.
KDE Frameworks are 83 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 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
- baloosearch: Inform the user when the specified dir is not canonical (bug 447119)
- Aggressively resource constrain baloo_file
Breeze Icons
- Make monochrome MS-DOS executable icons respect the color scheme
- Increase moon size for redshift-status-on icon
- Add mimetype icons for alembic files
- Add new Partition Manager app icon
- Make media-flash icon actually look like a typical flash memory card (bug 468006)
- Add new icons for the pixelate and blur tools in Spectacle
Extra CMake Modules
- Query gradle plugin version from Qt
- ecm_process_po_files_as_qm: use own subdir ECMPoQm/ for build artifacts
- Fix generate_export_header tests failures with parallel jobs (bug 464348)
- ECMGenerateExportHeader: add USE_VERSION_HEADER arg (& related tune args)
- ECMGenerateExportHeader: avoid helper C++ macro shared across gen. headers
KArchive
- karchiveentry.h: add missing KArchive forward declaration
KCalendarCore
- Deprecate Calendar relations API
- Deprecate the notebook support
- Deprecated the non-functional and unused save/reload API
KCMUtils
- KCModuleQml: Set and inherit LayoutMirroring on an off-screen window
KConfig
- Add workaround to support config name with minus sign
KCoreAddons
- exportUrlsToPortal: let it work in a non-KDE session (bug 458643)
- exportUrlsToPortal: don't export when there are non-sendable non-local files
- KDirWatch: Don't append fileName to fileName in Delete event (bug 467095)
KDeclarative
- Guard nullable property access, and bind instead of assigning once
- CalendarEventsPlugin: fix wrong deprecation for signal alternateDateReady
KDE WebKit
- Remove CI support for kdewebkit
KFileMetaData
- Test HEIF in Exiv2Extractor
- Test JXL in Exiv2Extractor, extend JPEG coverage
- Remove usage of deprecated MP4::ItemListMap in taglib extractor
- Modernize and extend CMake check for Python3
- Make fb2 extractor compilation dependent on KF5Archive
KImageFormats
- Fix wrong alpha conversion (bug 468288)
KIO
- ApplicationLauncherJob: find mimetype before showing open with dialog
- KPropertiesDialog: Don't quote the path unnecessarily (bug 467369)
- KEncodingFileDialog: Sort the list of encodings by name
- WidgetsAskUserActionHandler: make sure all dialogs are created in the main thread (bug 364039)
- WidgetsAskUserActionHandler: create message dialog in the main thread (bug 465454)
- file: make sure to cancel reading if the worker was aborted (bug 358231)
- KFileItemActions: don't add service submenus that don't have active actions
- KCoreDirLister: AutoUpdate wasn't incremented when a new lister opened an already listed dir (bug 387663)
- SlaveInterface: Set button icon for "Continue Loading"
- Set ExitType when running applications as transient systemd services (bug 423756)
Kirigami
- Fix spacing issue in OverlaySheet
- GlobalToolBar: Fix enabled state of the BackButton in RTL mode
- CardsGridView: improve columns property codeblock
- SelectableLabel: Prevent it from participating in Tab chain
- Fix disabled text color in Material style with dark color scheme
- ActionButton: Fix reference to a tooltip attached property
- BreadcrumbControl: Fix wrong heading offset in RTL layout direction
- ContextDrawer: Remove top padding as well
- BreadcrumbControl: Fix errors from wrong indexing
- Fix accessibility of back and forward button
- fix dragging from toolbar (bug 467857)
- SwipeListItem: Fix for QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_MOBILE (bug 467884)
- OverlayDrawer: Fix z value being too high for OverlaySheets (bug 466219)
- Added keyboard search icon to SearchField
KNewStuff
- Remove unused dependencies
KPackage Framework
- Deprecate KPackage::Package::name, add default for parameters
KService
- Fix querying actions for service of a service action
- Parse actions last when creating a service
KTextEditor
- Fix Save Copy As.. not working anymore (bug 468672)
- Fix indenting removes characters if line has tabs at start (bug 468495)
- Printer: AlignVCenter line numbers
- Dont ignore folding when printing code (bug 417138)
- Use m_fontAscent instead of fm.ascent()
- Draw caret ourselves (bug 452853)
- Fix selection highlight for RTL text with custom line height (bug 464087)
- Include range.js when initializing the engine (bug 456701)
- Fix RTL text with format incorrectly shaped (bug 438755)
- xml-indent: Optimize getCode
KUnitConversion
- Add "kph" as a unit synonym for Kilometers per Hour
KXMLGUI
- kcheckaccelerators: Don't blindly cast to QWidget (bug 468576)
NetworkManagerQt
- Add Q_ENUM to VPN Connection enums
Plasma Framework
- Fix osd- icon IDs (bug 469303)
- Label: set horizontalAlignment explicitly
- Rename nepomuk icon to search (bug 416072)
Prison
- Fix PDF417 with binary content not producing any output with ZXing 2.0
QQC2StyleBridge
- Don't attempt to sync colors when application is shutting down
Solid
- Implement solid-hardware monitor mode for property changes
- Connect UPowerDevice propertyChanged signal to frontend
- Avoid cache bypass of
UPowerDevice::allProperties - Use values from PropertiesChanged instead of invalidating whole cache
Syntax Highlighting
- Backport theme changes to kf5
- Backport master hl file updates
- Add mimetype for markdown
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 5.106.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.106.0 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 5.106.0 requires Qt 5.15.2.
A detailed listing of all Frameworks with API documentation is on api.kde.org.
Get Involved
Those interested in following and contributing to the development of Frameworks can check out the git repositories and follow the discussions on the KDE Frameworks Development mailing list. 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 Libera Chat.
Supporting KDE
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