Saturday, 11 March 2017
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.32.0.
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 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
- Implement nested tags
Breeze Icons
- Added icons for Plasma Vault
- Renamed icons for encrypted and decrypted folders
- Add torrents icon 22px
- Add nm-tray icons (bug 374672)
- color-management: removed undefined links (bug 374843)
- system-run is now an action until <= 32px and 48px an app icon (bug 375970)
Extra CMake Modules
- Detect inotify
- Revert "Automatically mark classes with pure virtual functions as /Abstract/."
KActivitiesStats
- Allow to plan ahead and set the order for an item not yet in the list
KArchive
- Fix Potential leak of memory pointed to by 'limitedDev'
KCMUtils
- Fixed potential crash in QML KCMs when application palette changes
KConfig
- KConfig: stop exporting and installing KConfigBackend
KConfigWidgets
- KColorScheme: default to application scheme if set by KColorSchemeManager (bug 373764)
- KConfigDialogManager: get change signal from metaObject or special property
- Fix KCModule::setAuthAction error checking
KCoreAddons
- Exclude (6) from emoticons recognition
- KDirWatch: fix memory leak on destruction
KDELibs 4 Support
- Fix bug in kfiledialog.cpp that causes crashing when native widgets are used
KDocTools
- meinproc5: link to the files, not to the library (bug 377406)
- Remove the KF5::XsltKde static library
- Export a proper shared library for KDocTools
- Port to categorized logging and clean includes
- Add function to extract a single file
- Fail the build early if xmllint is not available (bug 376246)
KFileMetaData
- New maintainer for kfilemetadata
- [ExtractorCollection] Use mimetype inheritance to return plugins
- add a new property DiscNumber for audio files from multi-disc albums
KIO
- Cookies KCM: disable "delete" button when there is no current item
- kio_help: Use the new shared library exported by KDocTools
- kpac: Sanitize URLs before passing them to FindProxyForURL (security fix)
- Import remote ioslave from plasma-workspace
- kio_trash: implement renaming of toplevel files and dirs
- PreviewJob: Remove maximum size for local files by default
- DropJob: allow to add application actions on an open menu
- ThumbCreator: deprecate DrawFrame, as discussed in https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129921/
KNotification
- Add support for flatpak portals
- Send desktopfilename as part of notifyByPopup hints
- [KStatusNotifierItem] Restore minimized window as normal
KPackage Framework
- Finish support for opening compressed packages
KTextEditor
- Remember file type set by user over sessions
- Reset filetype when opening url
- Added getter for word-count configuration value
- Consistent conversion from/to cursor to/from coordinates
- Update file type on save only if path changes
- Support for EditorConfig configuration files (for details: http://editorconfig.org/)
- Add FindEditorConfig to ktexteditor
- Fix: emmetToggleComment action doesn't work (bug 375159)
- Use sentence style capitalization with label texts of edit fields
- Reverse meaning of :split, :vsplit to match vi and Kate actions
- Use C++11 log2() instead of log() / log(2)
- KateSaveConfigTab: put spacer behind last group on Advanced tab, not inside
- KateSaveConfigTab: Remove wrong margin around content of Advanced tab
- Borders config subpage: fix scrollbar visibility combobox being off-placed
KWidgetsAddons
- KToolTipWidget: hide tooltip in enterEvent if hideDelay is zero
- Fix KEditListWidget losing the focus on click of buttons
- Add decomposition of Hangul Syllables into Hangul Jamo
- KMessageWidget: fix behaviour on overlapping calls of animatedShow/animatedHide
KXMLGUI
- Don't use KConfig keys with backslashes
NetworkManagerQt
- Sync introspections and generated files with NM 1.6.0
- Manager: Fix emitting deviceAdded twice when NM restarts
Plasma Framework
- set default hints when repr doesn't export Layout.* (bug 377153)
- possible to set expanded=false for a containment
- [Menu] Improve available space correction for openRelative
- move setImagePath logic into updateFrameData() (bug 376754)
- IconItem: Add roundToIconSize property
- [SliderStyle] Allow providing a "hint-handle-size" element
- Connect all connections to action in QMenuItem::setAction
- [ConfigView] Honor KIOSK Control Module restrictions
- Fix disabling the spinner animation when Busy indicator has no opacity
- [FrameSvgItemMargins] Don't update on repaintNeeded
- Applet icons for the Plasma Vault
- Migrate AppearAnimation and DisappearAnimation to Animators
- Align bottom edge to top edge of visualParent in the TopPosedLeftAlignedPopup case
- [ConfigModel] Emit dataChanged when a ConfigCategory changes
- [ScrollViewStyle] Evaluate frameVisible property
- [Button Styles] Use Layout.fillHeight instead of parent.height in a Layout (bug 375911)
- [ContainmentInterface] Also align containment context menu to panel
Prison
- Fix min qt version
Solid
- Floppy disks now show up as "Floppy Disk" instead of "0 B Removable Media"
Syntax Highlighting
- Add more keyword. Disable spellchecking for keywords
- Add more keyword
- Add *.RHTML file extension to Ruby on Rails highlighting (bug 375266)
- Update SCSS and CSS syntax highlight (bug 376005)
- less highlighting: Fix single line comments starting new regions
- LaTeX highlighting: fix alignat environment (bug 373286)
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
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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 5.32.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.32.0 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 5.32.0 requires Qt
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.
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