KDE Frameworks 5.42.0

Saturday, 13 January 2018

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.42.0.

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

General changes

• Fixes for cmake 3.10+ AUTOMOC warnings
• More widespread use of categorized logging, to turn off debug output by default (use kdebugsetting to re-enable it)

Baloo

• balooctl status: process all arguments
• Fix multiple word tag queries
• Simplify rename conditions
• Fix incorrect UDSEntry display name

Breeze Icons

• Fix icon name "weather-none" -> "weather-none-available" (bug 379875)
• remove Vivaldi icon cause the origin app icon fits perfect with breeze (bug 383517)
• add Some missing mimes
• Breeze-icons add document-send icon (bug 388048)
• update album artist icon
• add labplot-editlayout support
• remove duplicates and update dark theme
• add gnumeric breeze-icon support

Extra CMake Modules

• Use readelf to find project dependencies
• Introduce INSTALL_PREFIX_SCRIPT to easily set up prefixes

KActivities

• avoid crash in kactivities if no dbus connection is available

KConfig

• API docs: explain how to use KWindowConfig from a dialog constructor
• Deprecate KDesktopFile::sortOrder()
• Fix the result of KDesktopFile::sortOrder()

KCoreAddons

• Extend CMAKE_AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES also for own build
• Match license keys by spdx

KDBusAddons

• Fix absolute path detection for cmake 3.5 on Linux
• Add cmake function 'kdbusaddons_generate_dbus_service_file'

KDeclarative

• Qml controls for kcm creation

KDED

• Use cmake function 'kdbusaddons_generate_dbus_service_file' from kdbusaddons to generate dbus service file
• Add used property to service file definition

KDELibs 4 Support

• Inform the user if the module can not be registered with org.kde.kded5 and exit with error
• Mingw32 compile fix

KDocTools

• add entity for Michael Pyne
• add entities for Martin Koller to contributor.entities
• fix debian entry
• add entity Debian to general.entities
• add entity kbackup, it was imported
• add entity latex, we have already 7 entities in different index.docbooks in kf5

KEmoticons

• Add scheme (file://). It's necessary when we use it in qml and we added all

KFileMetaData

• remove extractor based on QtMultimedia
• Check for Linux instead of TagLib and avoid building the usermetadatawritertest on Windows
• Restore # 6c9111a9 until a successful build and link without TagLib is possible
• Remove the taglib dependency, caused by a left-over include

KHTML

• Finally allow to disable debug output by using categorized logging

KI18n

• do not treat ts-pmap-compile as executable
• Fix a memory leak in KuitStaticData
• KI18n: fix a number of double lookups

KInit

• Remove impossible to reach code

KIO

• Properly parse dates in cookies when running in non-English locale (bug 387254)
• [kcoredirlister] Fix sub path creation
• Reflect trash state in iconNameForUrl
• Forward QComboBox signals instead of QComboBox lineedit signals
• Fixed webshortcuts showing their file path instead of their human-readable name
• TransferJob: fix for when the readChannelFinished has already been emitted before start is called() (bug 386246)
• Fix crash, presumably since Qt 5.10? (bug 386364)
• KUriFilter: don't return an error on non-existing files
• Fix creation of paths
• Implement a kfile dialog where we can add custom widget
• Verify that qWaitForWindowActive doesn't fail
• KUriFilter: port away from KServiceTypeTrader
• API dox: use class names in titles of example screenshots
• API dox: also deal with KIOWIDGETS export macros in QCH creation
• fix handling of KCookieAdvice::AcceptForSession (bug 386325)
• Created 'GroupHiddenRole' for KPlacesModel
• forward socket error string to KTcpSocket
• Refactor and remove duplicate code in kfileplacesview
• Emit 'groupHiddenChanged' signal
• Refactoring the hidding/showing animation use within KFilePlacesView
• User can now hide an entire places group from KFilePlacesView (bug 300247)
• Hidding place groups implementation in KFilePlacesModel (bug 300247)
• [KOpenWithDialog] Remove redundant creation of KLineEdit
• Add undo support to BatchRenameJob
• Add BatchRenameJob to KIO
• Fix doxygen code block not ending with endcode

Kirigami

• keep the flickable interactive
• proper prefix for icons as well
• fix form sizing
• read wheelScrollLines from kdeglobals if existing
• add a prefix for kirigami files to avoid conflicts
• some static linking fixes
• move plasma styles to plasma-framework
• Use single quotes for matching characters + QLatin1Char
• FormLayout

KJobWidgets

• Offer QWindow API for KJobWidgets:: decorators

KNewStuff

• Limit request cache size
• Require the same internal version as you're building
• Prevent global variables from been using after freeing

KNotification

• [KStatusNotifierItem] Don't "restore" widget position on its first show
• Use positions of legacy systray icons for Minimize/Restore actions
• Handle positions of LMB clicks on legacy systray icons
• do not make the context menu a Window
• Add explanatory comment
• Lazy-instanciate and lazy-load KNotification plugins

KPackage Framework

• invalidate the runtime cache on install
• experimental support for rcc files loading in kpackage
• compile against Qt 5.7
• Fix up package indexing and add runtime caching
• new KPackage::fileUrl() method

KRunner

• [RunnerManager] Don't mess with ThreadWeaver thread count

KTextEditor

• Fix wildcard matching for modelines
• Fix a regression caused by changing backspace key behavior
• port to non-deprecated API like already used at other place (bug 386823)
• Add missing include for std::array
• MessageInterface: Add CenterInView as additional position
• QStringList initializer list cleanup

KWallet Framework

• Use correct service executable path for installing kwalletd dbus service on Win32

KWayland

• Fix naming inconsistency
• Create interface for passing server decoration palettes
• Explicitly include std::bind functions
• [server] Add a method IdleInterface::simulateUserActivity
• Fix regression caused by backward compatibility support in data source
• Add support for version 3 of data device manager interface (bug 386993)
• Scope exported/imported objects to the test
• Fix error in WaylandSurface::testDisconnect
• Add explicit AppMenu protocol
• Fix exclude generated file from automoc feature

KWidgetsAddons

• Fix crash in setMainWindow on wayland

KXMLGUI

• API dox: make doxygen cover session related macros & functions again
• Disconnect shortcutedit slot on widget destruction (bug 387307)

NetworkManagerQt

• 802-11-x: support for PWD EAP method

Plasma Framework

• [Air theme] Add task bar progress graphic (bug 368215)
• Templates: remove stray * from license headers
• make packageurlinterceptor as noop as possible
• Revert "Don't tear down renderer and other busy work when Svg::setImagePath is invoked with the same arg"
• move kirigami plasma styles here
• disappearing scrollbars on mobile
• reuse KPackage instance between PluginLoader and Applet
• [AppletQuickItem] Only set QtQuick Controls 1 style once per engine
• Don't set a window icon in Plasma::Dialog
• [RTL] - align properly the selected text for RTL (bug 387415)
• Initialize scale factor to the last scale factor set on any instance
• Revert "Initialize scale factor to the last scale factor set on any instance"
• Don't update when the underlying FrameSvg is repaint-blocked
• Initialize scale factor to the last scale factor set on any instance
• Move if check inside #ifdef
• [FrameSvgItem] Don't create unnecessary nodes
• Don't tear down renderer and other busy work when Svg::setImagePath is invoked with the same arg

Prison

• Also look for qrencode with debug suffix

QQC2StyleBridge

• simplify and don't try to block mouse events
• if no wheel.pixelDelta, use global wheel scroll lines
• desktop tabbars have different widths for each tab
• ensure a non 0 size hint

Sonnet

• Don't export internal helper executables
• Sonnet: fix wrong language for suggestions in mixed-language texts
• Remove ancient and broken workaround
• Don't cause circular linking on Windows

Syntax Highlighting

• Highlighting indexer: Warn about context switch fallthroughContext="#stay"
• Highlighting indexer: Warn about empty attributes
• Highlighting indexer: Enable errors
• Highlighting indexer: report unused itemDatas and missing itemDatas
• Prolog, RelaxNG, RMarkDown: Fix highlighting issues
• Haml: Fix invalid and unused itemDatas
• ObjectiveC++: Remove duplicate comment contexts
• Diff, ObjectiveC++: Cleanups and fix highlighting files
• XML (Debug): Fix incorrect DetectChar rule
• Highlighting Indexer: Support cross-hl context checking
• Revert: Add GNUMacros to gcc.xml again, used by isocpp.xml
• email.xml: add *.email to the extensions
• Highlighting Indexer: Check for infinite loops
• Highlighting Indexer: Check for empty context names and regexps
• Fix referencing of non-existing keyword lists
• Fix simple cases of duplicate contexts
• Fix duplicate itemDatas
• Fix DetectChar and Detect2Chars rules
• Highlighting Indexer: Check keyword lists
• Highlighting Indexer: Warn about duplicate contexts
• Highlighting Indexer: Check for duplicate itemDatas
• Highlighting indexer: Check DetectChar and Detect2Chars
• Validate that for all attributes an itemData exists

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 5.42.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.42.0 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 5.42.0 requires Qt .

A detailed listing of all Frameworks with API documentation is on api.kde.org.

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