KDE Frameworks 5.58.0

Monday, 13 May 2019

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.58.0.

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

• [baloo_file] Wait for extractor process to start
• [balooctl] Add command to show files failed to index (bug 406116)
• Add QML to source code types
• [balooctl] Capture the constant totalsize in the lambda
• [balooctl] Switch multiline output to new helper
• [balooctl] Use new helper in json output
• [balooctl] Use new helper for simple format output
• [balooctl] Factor out file index status collection from output
• Keep empty Json metadata docs out of DocumentData DB
• [balooshow] Allow referencing files by URL from hardlink
• [balooshow] Suppress warning when URL refers to unindexed file
• [MTimeDB] Allow timestamp newer than the newest document in range match
• [MTimeDB] Use exact match when exact match is requested
• [balooctl] Cleanup handling of different positional arguments
• [balooctl] Extend options help text, improve error checking
• [balooctl] Use more understandable names for size in status output
• [balooctl] clear command: Remove bogus check for documentData, cleanup
• [kio_search] Fix warning, add UDSEntry for "." in listDir
• Use hex notation for DocumentOperation flag enum
• Calculate total DB size correctly
• Postpone term parsing until needed, do not set both term and searchstring
• Don't add default valued date filters to json
• Use compact Json format when converting query URLs
• [balooshow] Do not print a bogus warning for a non-indexed file

Breeze Icons

• Add non-symbolic 16px versions of find-location and mark-location
• Symlink preferences-system-windows-effect-flipswitch to preferences-system-tabbox
• Add "edit-delete-remove" icon symlink and add 22px version of "paint-none" and "edit-none"
• Use consistent default Kickoff user icon
• Add an icon for Thunderbolt KCM
• Sharpen Z's in system-suspend* icons
• Improve "widget-alternatives" icon
• Add go-up/down/next/previous-skip
• Update KDE logo to be closer to original
• Add alternatives icon

Extra CMake Modules

• Bug fix: find c++ stl using regex
• Unconditionally enable -DQT_STRICT_ITERATORS, not just in debug mode

KArchive

• KTar: Protect against negative longlink sizes
• Fix invalid memory write on malformed tar files
• Fix memory leak when reading some tar files
• Fix uninitialized memory use when reading malformed tar files
• Fix stack-buffer-overflow read on malformed files
• Fix null-dereference on malformed tar files
• Install krcc.h header
• Fix double delete on broken files
• Disallow copy of KArchiveDirectoryPrivate and KArchivePrivate
• Fix KArchive::findOrCreate running out of stack on VERY LONG paths
• Introduce and use KArchiveDirectory::addEntryV2
• removeEntry can fail so it's good to know if it did
• KZip: fix Heap-use-after-free in broken files

KAuth

• Force KAuth helpers to have UTF-8 support (bug 384294)

KBookmarks

• Add support for KBookmarkOwner to communicate if it has tabs open

KCMUtils

• Use size hints from the ApplicationItem itself
• Fix Oxygen background gradient for QML modules

KConfig

• Add Notify capability to KConfigXT

KCoreAddons

• Fix wrong "Unable to find service type" warnings
• New class KOSRelease - a parser for os-release files

KDeclarative

• [KeySequenceItem] Make the clear button have the same height as shortcut button
• Plotter: Scope GL Program to lifespan of scenegraph node (bug 403453)
• KeySequenceHelperPrivate::updateShortcutDisplay: Don't show english text to the user
• [ConfigModule] Pass initial properties in push()
• Enable glGetGraphicsResetStatus support by default on Qt >= 5.13 (bug 364766)

KDED

• Install .desktop file for kded5 (bug 387556)

KFileMetaData

• [TagLibExtractor] Fix crash on invalid Speex files (bug 403902)
• Fix exivextractor crash with malformed files (bug 405210)
• Declare properties as meta type
• Change properties attributes for consistency
• Handle variant list in formatting functions
• Fix for Windows' LARGE_INTEGER type
• Fix (compilation) errors for Windows UserMetaData implementation
• Add missing mimetype to taglib writer
• [UserMetaData] Handle changes in attribute data size correctly
• [UserMetaData] Untangle Windows, Linux/BSD/Mac and stub code

KGlobalAccel

• Copy container in Component::cleanUp before iterating
• Don't use qAsConst over a temporary variable (bug 406426)

KHolidays

• holidays/plan2/holiday_zm_en-gb - add Zambia holidays
• holidays/plan2/holiday_lv_lv - fix Midsummer's Day
• holiday_mu_en - Holidays 2019 in Mauritius
• holiday_th_en-gb - update for 2019 (bug 402277)
• Update Japanese holidays
• Add public holidays for Lower Saxony (Germany)

KImageFormats

• tga: don't try to read more than max_palette_size into palette
• tga: memset dst if read fails
• tga: memset the whole palette array, not only the palette_size
• Initialize the unread bits of _starttab
• xcf: Fix uninitialized memory use on broken documents
• ras: Don't overread input on malformed files
• xcf: layer is const in copy and merge, mark it as such

KIO

• [FileWidget] Replace "Filter:" with "File type:" when saving with a limited list of mimetypes (bug 79903)
• Newly created 'Link to Application' files have a generic icon
• [Properties dialog] Use the string "Free space" instead of "Disk usage" (bug 406630)
• Fill UDSEntry::UDS_CREATION_TIME under linux when glibc >= 2.28
• [KUrlNavigator] Fix URL navigation when exiting archive with krarc and Dolphin (bug 386448)
• [KDynamicJobTracker] When kuiserver isn't available, also fall back to widget dialog (bug 379887)

Kirigami

• [aboutpage] hide Authors header if there are no authors
• Update qrc.in to match .qrc (missing ActionMenuItem)
• Make sure we don't squeeze out the ActionButton (bug 406678)
• Pages: export correct contentHeight/implicit sizes
• [ColumnView] Also check for index in child filter..
• [ColumnView] Don't let mouse back button go back beyond first page
• header has immediately the proper size

KJobWidgets

• [KUiServerJobTracker] Track kuiserver service life time and re-register jobs if needed

KNewStuff

• Remove pixelated border (bug 391108)

KNotification

• [Notify by Portal] Support default action and priority hints
• [KNotification] Add HighUrgency
• [KNotifications] Update when flags, urls, or urgency change
• Allow to set urgency for notifications

KPackage Framework

• Add missing properties in kpackage-generic.desktop
• kpackagetool: read kpackage-generic.desktop from qrc
• AppStream generation: make sure we look up for the package structure on packages that have metadata.desktop/json too

KTextEditor

• Review kate config pages to improve maintenance friendliness
• Allow to change the Mode, after changing the Highlighting
• ViewConfig: Use new generic config interface
• Fix bookmark pixmap painting on icon bar
• Ensure the left border miss no change of the count of line number digits
• Fix to show folding preview when move the mouse from bottom to top
• Review IconBorder
• Add input methods to input method status bar button
• Paint the folding marker in proper color and make it more visible
• remove default shortcut F6 to show icon border
• Add action to toggle folding of child ranges (bug 344414)
• Retitle button "Close" to "Close file" when a file has been removed on disk (bug 406305)
• up copy-right, perhaps that should be a define, too
• avoid conflicting shortcuts for switching tabs
• KateIconBorder: Fix folding popup width and height
• avoid view jump to bottom on folding changes
• DocumentPrivate: Respect indention mode when block selection (bug 395430)
• ViewInternal: Fix makeVisible(..) (bug 306745)
• DocumentPrivate: Make bracket handling smart (bug 368580)
• ViewInternal: Review drop event
• Allow to close a document whose file was deleted on disk
• KateIconBorder: Use UTF-8 char instead of special pixmap as dyn wrap indicator
• KateIconBorder: Ensure Dyn Wrap Marker are shown
• KateIconBorder: Code cosmetic
• DocumentPrivate: Support auto bracket in block selection mode (bug 382213)

KUnitConversion

• Fix l/100 km to MPG conversion (bug 378967)

KWallet Framework

• Set correct kwalletd_bin_path
• Export path of kwalletd binary for kwallet_pam

KWayland

• Add CriticalNotification window type to PlasmaShellSurface protocol
• Implement wl_eglstream_controller Server Interface

KWidgetsAddons

• Update kcharselect-data to Unicode 12.1
• KCharSelect's internal model: ensure rowCount() is 0 for valid indexes

KWindowSystem

• Introduce CriticalNotificationType
• Support NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED
• Document that modToStringUser and stringUserToMod only deal with english strings

KXMLGUI

• KKeySequenceWidget: Don't show English strings to the user

NetworkManagerQt

• WireGuard: Do not require 'private-key' to be non-empty for 'private-key-flags'
• WireGuard: workaround wrong secret flag type
• WireGuard: private-key and preshared-keys can be requested together

Plasma Framework

• PlatformComponentsPlugin: fix plugin iid to QQmlExtensionInterface
• IconItem: remove remaining & unused smooth property bits
• [Dialog] Add CriticalNotification type
• Fix wrong group names for 22, 32 px in audio.svg
• make the mobile text toolbar appear only on press
• use the new Kirigami.WheelHandler
• Add more icon sizes for audio, configure, distribute
• [FrameSvgItem] Update filtering on smooth changes
• Air/Oxygen desktoptheme: fix progressbar height using "hint-bar-size"
• Fix stylesheet support for audio-volume-medium
• Update audio, drive, edit, go, list, media, plasmavault icons to match breeze-icons
• Align z's to pixel grid in system.svg
• use the mobiletextcursor from proper namespace
• [FrameSvgItem] Respect smooth property
• Oxygen desktoptheme: add padding to hands, against jagged outline on rotation
• SvgItem, IconItem: drop "smooth" property override, update node on change
• Support gzipping of svgz also on windows, using 7z
• Air/Oxygen desktoptheme: fix hand offsets with hint-*-rotation-center-offset
• Add invokable public API for emitting contextualActionsAboutToShow
• Breeze desktoptheme clock: support hand shadow offset hint of Plasma 5.16
• Keep desktoptheme SVG files uncompressed in repo, install svgz
• separate mobile text selection to avoid recursive imports
• Use more appropriate "Alternatives" icon and text
• FrameSvgItem: add "mask" property

Prison

• Aztec: Fix padding if the last partial codeword is all one bits

QQC2StyleBridge

• Avoid nesting Controls in TextField (bug 406851)
• make the mobile text toolbar appear only on press
• [TabBar] Update height when TabButtons are added dynamically
• use the new Kirigami.WheelHandler
• Support custom icon size for ToolButton
• It compile fine without foreach

Solid

• [Fstab] Add support for non-network filesystems
• [FsTab] Add cache for device file system type
• [Fstab] Preparatory work for enabling filesystems beyond NFS/SMB
• Fix no member named 'setTime_t' in 'QDateTime' error while building (bug 405554)

Syntax Highlighting

• Add syntax highlighting for fish shell
• AppArmor: don't highlight variable assignments and alias rules within profiles

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 5.58.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.58.0 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 5.58.0 requires Qt .

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

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