KDE Frameworks 5.49.0

Saturday, 11 August 2018

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.49.0.

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

Attica

• Don't instantiate a QStringRef into a QString only to search in a QStringList
• Define elements when they're declared

Baloo

• [tags_kio] Fix multiple filename copies
• Revert "[tags_kio] Use UDS_URL instead of UDS_TARGET_URL."
• [tags_kio] Use UDS_URL instead of UDS_TARGET_URL
• [tags_kio] Query target filepaths instead of appending paths to the file UDS entry
• Support special URLs for finding files of a certain type
• Avoid manipulation of lists with quadratic complexity
• Use non deprecated fastInsert in baloo

Breeze Icons

• Add drive-optical icon (bug 396432)

Extra CMake Modules

• Android: Don't hardcode a random version of the Android SDK
• ECMOptionalAddSubdirectory: Provide a bit more detail
• Fix variable definition check
• Change the 'since' version
• Improve ECMAddAppIconMacro

Framework Integration

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KActivities

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KArchive

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KAuth

• Avoid warnings for PolkitQt5-1 headers
• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KBookmarks

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KCodecs

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KCompletion

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KConfig

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KConfigWidgets

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KCoreAddons

• Fix overflow in rounding code (bug 397008)
• API dox: remove not-to-be-there ":"s behind "@note"
• API dox: talk about nullptr, not 0
• KFormat: Replace unicode literal with unicode codepoint to fix MSVC build
• KFormat: correct @since tag for new KFormat::formatValue
• KFormat: Allow usage of quantities beyond bytes and seconds
• Correct KFormat::formatBytes examples
• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KCrash

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KDBusAddons

• Don't block forever in ensureKdeinitRunning
• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KDeclarative

• ensure we are always writing in the engine's root context
• better readability
• Improve API docs a bit
• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KDELibs 4 Support

• Fix qtplugins in KStandardDirs

KDocTools

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KEmoticons

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KFileMetaData

• API dox: add @file to functions-only header to have doxygen cover those

KGlobalAccel

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KDE GUI Addons

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KHolidays

• Install the sunrise/sunset computation header
• Added leap year day as (cultural) holiday for Norway
• Added ‘name’ entry for Norwegian holiday files
• Added descriptions for Norwegian holiday files
• more Japanese holiday updates from phanect
• holiday_jp_ja, holiday_jp-en_us - updated (bug 365241)

KI18n

• Reuse function that already does the same
• Fix the catalog handling and locale detection on Android
• Readability, skip no-op statements
• Fix KCatalog::translate when translation is same as original text
• a file has been renamed
• Let ki18n macro file name follow style of other find_package related files
• Fix the configure check for _nl_msg_cat_cntr
• Don't generate files in the source directory
• libintl: Determine if _nl_msg_cat_cntr exists before use (bug 365917)
• Fix the binary-factory builds

KIconThemes

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KIO

• Install kio related kdebugsettings category file
• rename private header to _p.h
• Remove custom icon selection for trash (bug 391200)
• Top-align labels in properties dialog
• Present error dialog when user tries to create directory named "." or ".." (bug 387449)
• API dox: talk about nullptr, not 0
• kcoredirlister lstItems benchmark
• [KSambaShare] Check file that's changed before reloading
• [KDirOperator] Use alternating background colors for multi-column views
• avoid memory leak in slave jobs (bug 396651)
• SlaveInterface: deprecate setConnection/connection, nobody can use them anyway
• Slightly faster UDS constructor
• [KFilePlacesModel] Support pretty baloosearch URLs
• Remove projects.kde.org web shortcut
• Switch KIO::convertSize() to KFormat::formatByteSize()
• Use non deprecated fastInsert in file.cpp (first of many to come)
• Replace Gitorious web shortcut by GitLab
• Don't show confirmation dialog for Trash action by default (bug 385492)
• Don't ask for passwords in kfilewidgettest

Kirigami

• support dynamically adding and removing title (bug 396417)
• introduce actionsVisible (bug 396413)
• adapt margins when scrollbar appears/disappear
• better management of the size (bug 396983)
• Optimise setting up the palette
• AbstractApplciationItem shouldn't have its own size, only implicit
• new signals pagePushed/pageRemoved
• fix logic
• add ScenePosition element (bug 396877)
• No need to emit the intermediary palette for every state
• hide->show
• Collapsible Sidebar Mode
• kirigami_package_breeze_icons: don't treat lists as elements (bug 396626)
• fix search/replace regexp (bug 396294)
• animating a color produces a rather unpleasant effect (bug 389534)
• color focused item for keyboard navigation
• remove quit shortcut
• Remove long-time deprecated Encoding=UTF-8 from desktop format file
• fix toolbar size (bug 396521)
• fix handle sizing
• Honor BUILD_TESTING
• Show icons for actions that have an icon source rather than an icon name

KItemViews

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KJobWidgets

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KJS

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KMediaPlayer

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KNewStuff

• Remove long-time deprecated Encoding=UTF-8 from desktop format files
• Change default sort order in the download dialog to Rating
• Fix DownloadDialog window margins to meet general theme margins
• Restore accidentally removed qCDebug
• Use the right QSharedPointer API
• Handle empty preview lists

KNotification

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KPackage Framework

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KParts

• API dox: talk about nullptr, not 0

KPeople

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KPlotting

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KPty

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KRunner

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KService

• API dox: talk about nullptr, not 0
• Require out-of-source build
• Add subseq operator to match sub-sequences

KTextEditor

• proper fix for the raw string indenting auto-quoting
• fix indenter to cope with new syntax file in syntaxhighlighting framework
• adjust test to new state in syntax-highlighting repository
• Show "Search wrapped" message in center of view for better visibility
• fix warning, just use isNull()
• Extend Scripting API
• fix segfault on rare cases where empty vector occurs for word count
• enforce clear of scrollbar preview on document clear (bug 374630)

KTextWidgets

• API docs: partial revert of earlier commit, didn't really work
• KFindDialog: give the lineedit focus when showing a reused dialog
• KFind: reset count when changing the pattern (e.g. in the find dialog)
• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KUnitConversion

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KWallet Framework

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KWayland

• Cleanup RemoteAccess buffers on aboutToBeUnbound instead of object destruction
• Support cursor hints on locked pointer
• Reduce unnecessary long wait times on failing signal spies
• Fix selection and seat auto tests
• Replace remaining V5 compat global includes
• Add XDG WM Base support to our XDGShell API
• Make XDGShellV5 co-compilable with XDGWMBase

KWidgetsAddons

• Fix KTimeComboBox input mask for AM/PM times (bug 361764)
• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KWindowSystem

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KXMLGUI

• Fix KMainWindow saving incorrect widget settings (bug 395988)
• Honor BUILD_TESTING

KXmlRpcClient

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

Plasma Framework

• if an applet is invalid, it has immediately UiReadyConstraint
• [Plasma PluginLoader] Cache plugins during startup
• Fix fading node when one textured is atlassed
• [Containment] Don't load containment actions with plasma/containment_actions KIOSK restriction
• Honor BUILD_TESTING

Prison

• Fix Mixed to Upper mode latching in Aztec code generation

Purpose

• Make sure debugging for kf5.kio.core.copyjob is disabled for the test
• Revert "test: A more "atomic" way of checking for the signal to happen"
• test: A more "atomic" way of checking for the signal to happen
• Add bluetooth plugin
• [Telegram] Don't wait for Telegram to be closed
• Prepare to use Arc's status colours in the revision drop-down list
• Honor BUILD_TESTING

QQC2StyleBridge

• Improve sizing of menus (bug 396841)
• Remove double comparison
• Port away from string-based connects
• check for valid icon

Solid

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

Sonnet

• Sonnet: setLanguage should schedule a rehighlight if highlight is enabled
• Use the current hunspell API

Syntax Highlighting

• CoffeeScript: fix templates in embedded JavaScript code & add escapes
• Exclude this in Definition::includedDefinitions()
• Use in-class member initialization where possible
• add functions to access keywords
• Add Definition::::formats()
• Add QVector<Definition> Definition::includedDefinitions() const
• Add Theme::TextStyle Format::textStyle() const;
• C++: fix standard floating-point literals (bug 389693)
• CSS: update syntax and fix some errors
• C++: update for c++20 and fix some syntax errors
• CoffeeScript & JavaScript: fix member objects. Add .ts extension in JS (bug 366797)
• Lua: fix multi-line string (bug 395515)
• RPM Spec: add MIME type
• Python: fix escapes in quoted-comments (bug 386685)
• haskell.xml: don't highlight Prelude data constructors differently from others
• haskell.xml: remove types from "prelude function" section
• haskell.xml: highlight promoted data constructors
• haskell.xml: add keywords family, forall, pattern
• Honor BUILD_TESTING

ThreadWeaver

• Honor BUILD_TESTING

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 5.49.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.49.0 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 5.49.0 requires Qt .

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

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