Saturday, 13 January 2024
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.114.0.
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
- [IndexCleaner] Remove no-op recursion over includedFolders
- [ExtractorProcess] Remove unused members
- [TimeEstimator] Cleanup, remove QObject depency
- Use forward declaration for Baloo::Database
- Remove inacurate mimetype check in xattrindexer and indexcleaner
Extra CMake Modules
- Fixes to FindLibGit2.cmake (bug 478669)
KActivities
- Drop unused KF5WindowSystem from cli
KCodecs
- KEmailAddress: Only trim surrounding whitespace between E-Mail addresses instead of also replacing all whitespace within E-Mail address names with a single ASCII space
KCoreAddons
- Fix license text loading on Android
KHolidays
- Introduce holidays observed in Kenya
KImageFormats
- avif: new quality settings
- Update CI template
- HEIF plug-in extended to support HEJ2 format
KIO
- kpropertiesdialog: don't trip over malformed Exec (bug 465290)
- WidgetsAskUserActionHandler: fix backport (bug 448532)
- WidgetsAskUserActionHandler: Use QPointer to check the validity of parent widgets (bug 448532)
Kirigami
- Make drawer actions accessible
KJobWidgets
- KUiServerV2JobTracker: prevent potenial use-after-free (bug 471531)
KRunner
- DBusRunner: Use /runner as default for X-Plasma-DBusRunner-Path property
Plasma Framework
- [CI] Fix pipeline include
Purpose
- Adapt to KAccounts API change
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 5.114.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.114.0 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 5.114.0 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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