KDE Frameworks 5.52.0

Saturday, 10 November 2018

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.52.0.

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

• Unbreak build with BUILD_QCH=TRUE
• Actually use fileNameTerms and xAttrTerms
• [Balooshow] Avoid out-of-bounds access when accessing corrupt db data
• [Extractor] Do not check QFile::exists for an empty url
• [Scheduler] Use flag to track when a runner is going idle
• [Extractor] Handle documents correctly where mimetype should not be indexed
• [Scheduler] Fix wrong usage of obsolete QFileInfo::created() timestamp (bug 397549)
• [Extractor] Make extractor crash resilient (bug 375131)
• Pass the FileIndexerConfig as const to the individual indexers
• [Config] Remove KDE4 config support, stop writing arbitrary config files
• [Extractor] Improve commandline debugging, forward stderr
• [Scheduler] Reuse fileinfo from FilteredDirIterator
• [Scheduler] Reuse mimetype from UnindexedFileIterator in indexer
• [Scheduler] Remove superfluous m_extractorIdle variable
• Perform checks for unindexed files and stale index entries on startup
• [balooctl] Print current state & indexing file when monitor starts (bug 364858)
• [balooctl] Monitor also for state changes
• [balooctl] Fix "index" command with already indexed, but moved file (bug 397242)

BluezQt

• Add Media and MediaEndpoint API header generation

Breeze Icons

• Change package manager icons to emblems
• Re-add monochrome link icon as action
• Improve emblem contrast, legibility and consistency (bug 399968)
• Support "new" mimetype for .deb files (bug 399421)

Extra CMake Modules

• ECMAddQch: help doxygen by predefining more Q*DECL** macros
• Bindings: Support using sys paths for python install directory
• Bindings: Remove INSTALL_DIR_SUFFIX from ecm_generate_python_binding
• Add support for the fuzzer sanitizer

KCMUtils

• support for multi pages kcms

KConfig

• Add mechanism to notify other clients of config changes over DBus
• Expose getter method for KConfig::addConfigSources

KConfigWidgets

• Allow KHelpCenter to open the right pages of KDE help when KHelpClient is invoked with an anchor

KCrash

• KCrash: fix crash (ironic heh) when used in an app without QCoreApplication

KDeclarative

• make push/pop part of ConfigModule API

KDED

• Remove useless "No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found" message

KDesignerPlugin

• Reference product "KF5" in widget metadata, instead of "KDE"

KDocTools

• API dox: add minimal docs to KDocTools namespace, so doxygen covers it
• Create a QCH file with the API dox, optionally, using ECMAddQCH
• Wait for docbookl10nhelper to be built before building our own manpages
• Use specified Perl interpreter instead of relying on PATH

KFileMetaData

• [ExtractorCollection] Use only best matching extractor plugin
• [KFileMetaData] Add extractor for generic XML and SVG
• [KFileMetaData] Add helper for XML encoded Dublin Core metadata
• implement support for reading ID3 tags from aiff and wav files
• implement more tags for asf metadata
• extract ape tags from ape and wavpack files
• provide a list of supported mimetypes for embeddedimagedata
• compare with QLatin1String and harmonize handling of all types
• Don't crash on invalid exiv2 data (bug 375131)
• epubextractor: Add property ReleaseYear
• refactor taglibextractor to functions specific for metadata type
• add wma files/asf tags as supported mimetype
• use own extractor for testing the taglibwriter
• add a string suffix to test data and use for unicode testing of taglibwriter
• remove compile time check for taglib version
• extend test coverage to all supported mimetypes for taglibextractor
• Use variable with already fetched text instead of fetching again

KGlobalAccel

• Fix keyboard layout change notifications (bug 269403)

KHolidays

• Add Bahrain Holiday File
• Make KHolidays work as static library too

KIconThemes

• Add a QIconEnginePlugin to allow QIcon deserialization (bug 399989)
• [KIconLoader] Replace heap-allocated QImageReader with stack-allocated one
• [KIconLoader] Adjust emblem border depending on icon size
• Center icons properly if size doesn't fit (bug 396990)

KIO

• Do not try to fallback to "less secure" SSL protocols
• [KSambaShare] Trim trailing / from share path
• [kdirlistertest] Wait a little longer for the lister to finish
• Display sorry message if file is not local
• kio_help: Fix crash in QCoreApplication when accessing help:// (bug 399709)
• Avoid waiting for user actions when kwin Focus stealing prevention is high or extreme
• [KNewFileMenu] Don't open an empty QFile
• Added missing Icons to Places Panel code from KIO
• Get rid of the raw KFileItem pointers in KCoreDirListerCache
• Add 'Mount' option to context menu of unmounted device in Places
• Add a 'Properties' entry in the places panel context menu
• Fix warning "macro expansion producing 'defined' has undefined behavior"

Kirigami

• Fix missing items in static builds
• basic support for hidden pages
• load icons from proper icon themes
• (many other fixes)

KNewStuff

• More useful error messages

KNotification

• Fixed a crash caused by bad lifetime management of canberra-based audio notification (bug 398695)

KParts

• Fix Cancel being not handled in deprecated BrowserRun::askEmbedOrSave
• Port to undeprecated variant of KRun::runUrl
• Port KIO::Job::ui() -> KJob::uiDelegate()

KWayland

• Add KWayland virtual desktop protocol
• Guard data source being deleted before processing dataoffer receive event (bug 400311)
• [server] Respect input region of sub-surfaces on pointer surface focus
• [xdgshell] Add positioner constraint adjustment flag operators

KWidgetsAddons

• API dox: fix "Since" note of KPageWidgetItem::isHeaderVisible
• Add a new property headerVisible

KWindowSystem

• Do not compare iterators returned from two separate returned copies

KXMLGUI

• Take 1..n KMainWindows in kRestoreMainWindows

NetworkManagerQt

• Add missing ipv4 setting options
• Add vxlan setting

Plasma Framework

• revert icons scaling on mobile
• Support mnemonic labels
• Remove PLASMA_NO_KIO option
• Properly look for fallback themes

Purpose

• Set Dialog flag for JobDialog

Solid

• [solid-hardware5] List icon in device details
• [UDisks2] Power down drive on remove if supported (bug 270808)

Sonnet

• Fix breakage of language guessing

Syndication

• Add missing README.md file (needed by various scripts)

Syntax Highlighting

• z/OS CLIST file syntax highlighting
• Creating new syntax highlighting file for Job Control Language (JCL)
• Remove open mode from too new Qt version
• inc version + fixup required kate version to current framework version
• keyword rule: Support for keywords inclusion from another language/file
• No spell checking for Metamath except in comments
• CMake: Add XCode related variables and properties introduced in 3.13
• CMake: Introduce new features of upcoming 3.13 release

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 5.52.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.52.0 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 5.52.0 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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