KDE Frameworks 5.66.0

Saturday, 11 January 2020

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.66.0.

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

All frameworks

• Port from QRegExp to QRegularExpression
• Port from qrand to QRandomGenerator
• Fix compilation with Qt 5.15 (e.g. endl is now Qt::endl, QHash insertMulti now requires using QMultiHash...)

Attica

• Don't use a verified nullptr as a data source
• Support multiple children elements in comment elements
• Set a proper agent string for Attica requests

Baloo

• Correctly report if baloo_file is unavailable
• Check cursor_open return value
• Initialise QML monitor values
• Move URL parsing methods from kioslave to query object

BluezQt

• Add Battery1 interface

Breeze Icons

• Change XHTML icon to be a purple HTML icon
• Merge headphones and zigzag in the center
• Add application/x-audacity-project icon (bug 415722)
• Add 32px preferences-system
• Add application/vnd.apple.pkpass icon (bug 397987)
• icon for ktimetracker using the PNG in the app repo, to be replaced with real breeze SVG
• add kipi icon, needs redone as a breeze theme svg [or just kill off kipi]

Extra CMake Modules

• [android] Fix apk install target
• Support PyQt5 compiled with SIP 5

Framework Integration

• Remove ColorSchemeFilter from KStyle

KDE Doxygen Tools

• Display fully qualified class/namespace name as page header (bug 406588)

KCalendarCore

• Improve README.md to have an Introduction section
• Make incidence geographic coordinate also accessible as a property
• Fix RRULE generation for timezones

KCMUtils

• Deprecate KCModuleContainer

KCodecs

• Fix invalid cast to enum by changing the type to int rather than enum

KCompletion

• Deprecate KPixmapProvider
• [KHistoryComboBox] Add method to set an icon provider

KConfig

• kconfig EBN transport protocol cleanup
• Expose getter to KConfigWatcher's config
• Fix writeFlags with KConfigCompilerSignallingItem
• Add a comment pointing to the history of Cut and Delete sharing a shortcut

KConfigWidgets

• Rename "Configure Shortcuts" to "Configure Keyboard Shortcuts" (bug 39488)

KContacts

• Align ECM and Qt setup with Frameworks conventions
• Specify ECM dependency version as in any other framework

KCoreAddons

• Add KPluginMetaData::supportsMimeType
• [KAutoSaveFile] Use QUrl::path() instead of toLocalFile()
• Unbreak build w/ PROCSTAT: add missing impl. of KProcessList::processInfo
• [KProcessList] Optimize KProcessList::processInfo (bug 410945)
• [KAutoSaveFile] Improve the comment in tempFileName()
• Fix KAutoSaveFile broken on long path (bug 412519)

KDeclarative

• [KeySequenceHelper] Grab actual window when embedded
• Add optional subtitle to grid delegate
• [QImageItem/QPixmapItem] Don't lose precision during calculation

KFileMetaData

• Partial fix for accentuated characters in file name on Windows
• Remove unrequired private declarations for taglibextractor
• Partial solution to accept accentuated characters on windows
• xattr: fix crash on dangling symlinks (bug 414227)

KIconThemes

• Set breeze as default theme when reading from configuration file
• Deprecate the top-level IconSize() function
• Fix centering scaled icons on high dpi pixmaps

KImageFormats

• pic: Fix Invalid-enum-value undefined behaviour

KIO

• [KFilePlacesModel] Fix supported scheme check for devices
• Embed protocol data also for Windows version of trash ioslave
• Adding support for mounting KIOFuse URLs for applications that don't use KIO (bug 398446)
• Add truncation support to FileJob
• Deprecate KUrlPixmapProvider
• Deprecate KFileWidget::toolBar
• [KUrlNavigator] Add RPM support to krarc: (bug 408082)
• KFilePlaceEditDialog: fix crash when editing the Trash place (bug 415676)
• Add button to open the folder in filelight to view more details
• Show more details in warning dialog shown before starting a privileged operation
• KDirOperator: Use a fixed line height for scroll speed
• Additional fields such as deletion time and original path are now shown in the file properties dialog
• KFilePlacesModel: properly parent tagsLister to avoid memleak. Introduced with D7700
• HTTP ioslave: call correct base class in virtual_hook(). The base of HTTP ioslave is TCPSlaveBase, not SlaveBase
• Ftp ioslave: fix 4 character time interpreted as year
• Re-add KDirOperator::keyPressEvent to preserve BC
• Use QStyle for determining icon sizes

Kirigami

• ActionToolBar: Only show the overflow button if there are visible items in the menu (bug 415412)
• Don't build and install app templates on android
• Don't hardcode the margin of the CardsListView
• Add support for custom display components to Action
• Let the other components grow if there's more things on the header
• Remove dynamic item creation in DefaultListItemBackground
• reintroduce the collapse button (bug 415074)
• Show application window icon on AboutPage

KItemModels

• Add KColumnHeadersModel

KJS

• Added tests for Math.exp()
• Added tests for various assignment operators
• Test special cases of multiplicate operators (*, / and %)

KNewStuff

• Ensure the dialog title is correct with an uninitialised engine
• Don't show the info icon on the big preview delegate (bug 413436)
• Support archive installs with adoption commands (bug 407687)
• Send along the config name with requests

KPeople

• Expose enum to the metaobject compiler

KQuickCharts

• Also correct the shader header files
• Correct license headers for shaders

KService

• Deprecate KServiceTypeProfile

KTextEditor

• Add "line-count" property to the ConfigInterface
• Avoid unwanted horizontal scrolling (bug 415096)

KWayland

• [plasmashell] Update docs for panelTakesFocus to make it generic
• [plasmashell] Add signal for panelTakesFocus changing

KXMLGUI

• KActionCollection: provide a changed() signal as a replacement for removed()
• Adjust keyboard shortcut configuration window's title

NetworkManagerQt

• Manager: add support for AddAndActivateConnection2
• cmake: Consider NM headers as system includes
• Sync Utils::securityIsValid with NetworkManager (bug 415670)

Plasma Framework

• [ToolTip] Round position
• Enable wheel events on Slider {}
• Sync QWindow flag WindowDoesNotAcceptFocus to wayland plasmashell interface (bug 401172)
• [calendar] Check out of bounds array access in QLocale lookup
• [Plasma Dialog] Use QXcbWindowFunctions for setting window types Qt WindowFlags doesn't know
• [PC3] Complete plasma progress bar animation
• [PC3] Only show progress bar indicator when the ends won't overlap
• [RFC] Fix Display Configuration icon margins (bug 400087)
• [ColorScope] Work with plain QObjects again
• [Breeze Desktop Theme] Add monochrome user-desktop icon
• Remove default width from PlasmaComponents3.Button
• [PC3 ToolButton] Have the label take into account complementary color schemes (bug 414929)
• Added background colors to active and inactive icon view (bug 370465)

Purpose

• Use standard ECMQMLModules

QQC2StyleBridge

• [ToolTip] Round position
• Update size hint when font changes

Solid

• Display first / in mounted storage access description
• Ensure mounted nfs filesystems matches their fstab declared counterpart (bug 390691)

Sonnet

• The signal done is deprecated in favour of spellCheckDone, now correctly emitted

Syntax Highlighting

• LaTeX: fix brackets in some commands (bug 415384)
• TypeScript: add "bigint" primitive type
• Python: improve numbers, add octals, binaries and "breakpoint" keyword (bug 414996)
• SELinux: add "glblub" keyword and update permissions list
• Several enhancements to gitolite syntax definition

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 5.66.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.66.0 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 5.66.0 requires Qt .

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

Get Involved

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