KDE Frameworks 5.59.0

Saturday, 8 June 2019

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.59.0.

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

• Don't try to index SQL database dumps
• Exclude .gcode and virtual machine files from indexing consideration

BluezQt

• Add Bluez API to DBus XML parser/generator

Breeze Icons

• gcompris-qt too
• Make falkon icon a real SVG
• add missing icons from the apps, to be redone https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407527
• add icon for kfourinline from app, needs updating too
• add kigo icon https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407527
• add kwave icon from kwave, to be redone in breeze style
• Symlink arrow--double to go--skip, add 24px go-*-skip
• Change input-* device icon styles, add 16px icons
• Add dark version of new Knights icon which escaped from my previous commit
• Create new icon for Knights based on Anjuta's icon (bug 407527)
• add icons for apps which miss them in breeze, these should be updated to be more breezy but they are needed for the new kde.org/applications for now
• kxstitch icon from kde:kxstitch, to be updated
• don't glob everything and the kitchen sink
• make sure to also assert ScaledDirectories

Extra CMake Modules

• Create specific directory for Qt logging categories file
• Don't enable QT_STRICT_ITERATORS on Windows

Framework Integration

• ensure to search also in the legacy location
• search in the new location for knsrc files

KArchive

• Test reading and seeking in KCompressionDevice
• KCompressionDevice: Remove bIgnoreData
• KAr: fix out-of-bounds read (on invalid input) by porting to QByteArray
• KAr: fix parsing of long filenames with Qt-5.10
• KAr: the permissions are in octal, not decimal
• KAr::openArchive: Also check ar_longnamesIndex is not < 0
• KAr::openArchive: Fix invalid memory access on broken files
• KAr::openArchive: Protect against Heap-buffer-overflow in broken files
• KTar::KTarPrivate::readLonglink: Fix crash in malformed files

KAuth

• Don't hardcode dbus policy install dir

KConfigWidgets

• Use locale currency for donate icon

KCoreAddons

• Fix compilation for python bindings (bug 407306)
• Add GetProcessList for retrieving the list of currently active processes

KDeclarative

• Fix qmldir files

KDELibs 4 Support

• Remove QApplication::setColorSpec (empty method)

KFileMetaData

• Show 3 significant figures when displaying doubles (bug 343273)

KIO

• Manipulate bytes instead of characters
• Fix kioslave executables never exiting, when setting KDE_FORK_SLAVES
• Fix desktop link to file or directory (bug 357171)
• Test current filter before setting a new one (bug 407642)
• [kioslave/file] Add a codec for legacy filenames (bug 165044)
• Rely upon QSysInfo to retrieve the system details
• Add Documents to the default list of Places
• kioslave: preserve argv[0], to fix applicationDirPath() on non-Linux
• Allow to drop one file or one folder on KDirOperator (bug 45154)
• Truncate long filename before creating a link (bug 342247)

Kirigami

• [ActionTextField] Make QML tooltip consistent
• base on height for items that should have a top padding (bug 405614)
• Performance: compress color changes without a QTimer
• [FormLayout] Use even top and bottom spacing for separator (bug 405614)
• ScrollablePage: Make sure the scrolled view gets the focus when it's set (bug 389510)
• Improve keyboard-only usage of the toolbar (bug 403711)
• make the recycler a FocusScope

KNotification

• Handle apps which set the desktopFileName property with filename suffix

KService

• Fix assert (hash != 0) sometimes when a file is deleted by another process
• Fix another assert when the file disappears under us: ASSERT: "ctime != 0"

KTextEditor

• Don't delete entire previous line by backspace in pos 0 (bug 408016)
• Use native dialog overwrite check
• Add action to reset font size
• show static word wrap marker always if requested
• Ensure highlighted range begin/end marker after unfold
• Fix: don't reset Highlight when saving some files (bug 407763)
• Auto indentation: Use std::vector instead of QList
• Fix: Use default indentation mode for new files (bug 375502)
• remove duplicated assignment
• honor auto-bracket setting for balance check
• improve invalid character check on loading (bug 406571)
• New menu of syntax highlighting in the status bar
• Avoid infinite loop in "Toggle Contained Nodes" action

KWayland

• Allow compositors to send discrete axis values (bug 404152)
• Implement set_window_geometry
• Implement wl_surface::damage_buffer

KWidgetsAddons

• KNewPasswordDialog: add periods to message widgets

NetworkManagerQt

• Don't fetch device statistics upon construction

Plasma Framework

• Make Breeze Light/Dark use more system colors
• Export SortFilterModel sort column to QML
• plasmacore: fix qmldir, ToolTip.qml no longer part of module
• signal availableScreenRectChanged for all applets
• Use simply configure_file to generate the plasmacomponents3 files
• Update *.qmltypes to current API of QML modules
• FrameSvg: also clear mask cache on clearCache()
• FrameSvg: make hasElementPrefix() also handle prefix with trailing -
• FrameSvgPrivate::generateBackground: generate background also if reqp != p
• FrameSvgItem: emit maskChanged also from geometryChanged()
• FrameSvg: prevent crash when calling mask() with no frame yet created
• FrameSvgItem: emit maskChanged always from doUpdate()
• API dox: note for FrameSvg::prefix()/actualPrefix() the trailing '-'
• API dox: point to Plasma5 versions on techbase if avail
• FrameSvg: l & r borders or t & b don't need to have same height resp. width

Purpose

• [JobDialog] Also signal cancellation when window is closed by the user
• Report cancelling a configuration as finished with an error (bug 407356)

QQC2StyleBridge

• Remove DefaultListItemBackground and MenuItem animation
• [QQC2 Slider Style] Fix wrong handle positioning when initial value is 1 (bug 405471)
• ScrollBar: Make it work as a horizontal scroll bar as well (bug 390351)

Solid

• Refactor the way device backends are built and registered
• [Fstab] Use folder-decrypted icon for encrypting fuse mounts

Syntax Highlighting

• YAML: only comments after spaces and other improvements/fixes (bug 407060)
• Markdown: use includeAttrib in code blocks
• fix highlighting of "0" in C mode
• Tcsh: fix operators and keywords
• Add syntax definition for the Common Intermediate Language
• SyntaxHighlighter: Fix foreground color for text without special highlighting (bug 406816)
• Add example app for printing highlighted text to pdf
• Markdown: Use color with higher contrast for lists (bug 405824)
• Remove .conf extension from "INI Files" hl, to determine the highlighter using MIME type (bug 400290)
• Perl: fix the // operator (bug 407327)
• fix casing of UInt* types in Julia hl (bug 407611)

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 5.59.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.59.0 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 5.59.0 requires Qt .

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

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