KDE Frameworks 5.81.0

Saturday, 10 April 2021

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.81.0.

KDE Frameworks are 83 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

• [SearchStore] Explicitly narrow timestamps for range query
• Add now mandatory args parameter to QProcess::startDetached()
• [MetadataMover] Update filename terms when moving/renaming file (bug 433116)

BluezQt

• Fix unity compile support

Breeze Icons

• Added branches with leaves to Kmymoney icon
• Add a few symlinks for "configure" and "help-donate" (bug 435150)
• Add KMyMoney Pie-Chart Icon
• Link svn-* icons to new vcs-* icons
• Add vcs-* icons for Kate
• Make lock icon filled status consistent (bug 244542)
• Remove 22 brightness icons in 16 size folder
• Fix location of brightness icons
• Add high-brightness and low-brightness icons

Extra CMake Modules

• ECMGenerateExportHeader: do sanity check for version argument values
• Fix warning about wayland-scanner code arg

KActivities

• Activate activity manager asynchronously

KAuth

• Un-overload HelperProxy::progressStep() signal

KCMUtils

• Add loaded signal to KCModuleData to handle delayed loading

KCompletion

• Un-overload KLineEdit::returnPressed(const QString &) signal => returnKeyPressed
• Un-overload KCompletionBox::activated(const QString &) signal => textActivated
• Un-overload KComboBox::returnPressed(const QString &) signal, by deprecating returnPressed()

KConfig

• Relicense file to LGPL-2.0-or-later
• kconfig_compiler: Explicitly open input file for reading
• kconfig_compiler: change how paramString() creates strings

KConfigWidgets

• Introduce KHamburgermenu (bug 368421)

KCoreAddons

• Enable Unicode support in QRegularExpression where needed

KCrash

• Document why we close FDs

KDED

• Make kded shut down cleanly during systemd session teardown

KDELibs 4 Support

• KComponentData: add a link to the KF5 porting notes

KFileMetaData

• Enable Unicode support in QRegularExpression where needed

KGlobalAccel

• Only use unistd/getuid when available
• Don't let kglobalaccel run if KDE_SESSION_UID mismatches

KHolidays

• Make it compile with unity cmake support
• Handle negative years in easter and pascha calculations (bug 434027)

KIconThemes

• Revert "avoid race condition on loading the plugin"
• Revert "add private header to avoid extern in .cpp file"
• Don't register our engine per default
• More robust handling of missing global KDE themes
• Ensure qrc + QDir::searchPaths work for icons (bug 434451)
• More robust and complete setup of the scaled test environment
• Produce output with the request devicePixelRatio
• Properly render non-square icons
• Remove the assumption that SVG icons are squares in icon loading
• Retain non-square icon sizes in KIconEngine::actualSize()
• Revert icon size behavior changes
• Align handling of non-square icons with how Qt behaves

KIO

• FileCopyJob: fix regression when copying a data: URL
• Handle errors during xattr copy in a more robust way
• Port ktelnetservice away from kdeinitexec
• Handle .theme files correctly (bug 435176)
• Remove KCoreDirListerCache::validUrl, let the job emit error instead
• PreviewJob: Initialize cachesSize with 0, only pass size > 0 to shmget, improve createThumbnail (bug 430862)
• KNewFileMenu: use destination side to stat destination (bug 429541)
• MimeTypeFinderJob: don't put job on hold for local files
• FileCopyJob: port to the async AskUserActionInterface
• Fix crash in ApplicationLauncherJob(service) when service is null
• Don't try to get mimetypes on empty urls
• Fix appending file extensions in KFileWidget

Kirigami

• Add a humanMoment unit to Kirigami.Units
• Make the luma conversion of a color api accessible
• Auto fire SearchField's accepted, with optional extra delay (bug 435084)
• Make globaltoolbar colorset customizable
• Lower duration to change color for ActionButton
• Fix focus handling in OverlaySheet to be managed as one FocusScope (bug 431295)
• BasicListItem: partially silence binding loop
• [FormLayout] Use layout boundaries on twin layout hints (bug 434383)
• Make SwipeNavigator only allow the active page to be focused
• Consider Ubuntu Touch to be mobile
• [controls/Avatar]: Get rid of 'both point size and pixel size' set warning
• Remove link to deprecated ApplicationHeader
• the visible part should always at least be as tall as item (bug 433815)
• Fix potential crash in SizeGroup (bug 434079)
• turn contentItemParent into a FocusScope (bug 433991)

KJobWidgets

• Introduce KUiServerV2JobTracker

KNewStuff

• qtquickengine: Do not forward intermediate states
• quickengine: Emit entryEvent signal with enum which is exposed to QML
• Create a NewStuff.Action component, add NewStuff.Settings global
• Less risk of infinite spinner on uninstalling KPackage based things (bug 434371)

KNotification

• Relicense files to LGPL-2.0-or-later
• Don't close resident notifications when action is invoked
• Implement inline replies on Android
• Add an inline reply notification to the example
• Add KNotificationReplyAction for using inline-reply Notification API

KParts

• Add a new signal to replace the now deprecated completed(bool)

KRunner

• Deprecate concept of delayed runners & related methods
• Deprecate methods to remove matches in RunnerContext

KService

• Deprecate KPluginInfo::fromKPartsInstanceName, completely unused

KTextEditor

• Don't warn about unsaved changes when closing if blank and unsaved (bug 391208)
• Use QPalette::highlight for the scrollbar minimap slider (bug 434690)
• Avoid gaps in indentation line drawing
• Don't use F9 & F10 as shortcuts
• Use Okular's QScroller settings
• Add basic touchscreen support
• [Vimode] Improve sentence text object
• [Vimode] Fix paragraph text object in visual mode
• Restrict horizontal range of cursor to avoid unintentionally wrapping (bug 423253)
• Turn on line numbers & modification markers
• Update remove-trailing-spaces modeline
• Add option to keep spaces to the left of cursor when saving (bug 433455)
• Remove unneeded options setting
• Search: Enable Unicode support in QRegularExpression
• [Vimode] Show search wrapepd hint for # and * motions
• [Vimode] Use ViewPrivate::showSearchWrappedHint() for consistency;
• Move showSearchWrappedHint() to KTextEditor::ViewPrivate
• [Vimode] Only display "Search wrapped" message for n/N motions
• Ensure we use unicode regex where needed
• Fix spellcheck word detection for non-ASCII (bug 433673)
• Fix auto-completion for non ASCII words (bug 433672)

KTextWidgets

• Deprecate the KFind::highlight(int, int, int) signal
• Deprecate the KFind::highlight(QString &, int, int) signal
• Enable Unicode support in QRegularExpression where needed

KWallet Framework

• Un-overload OrgKdeKWalletInterface::walletClosed(int) signal

KWayland

• Bump required PlasmaWaylandProtocols
• Fix DTD check errors and a typo
• Add the activity management protocol client implementation

KWindowSystem

• Add MediaPause key to mapping (bug 403636)

Plasma Framework

• Deprecate AppletScript::description()
• [widgets/arrows] Fix viewBox size and naturalSize in SvgItems
• Add a humanMoment unit to the various Units
• Add PageIndicator
• [pluginloader] Add methods to list containments using KPluginMetaData
• Deprecate PluginLoader::listEngineInfoByCategory
• Mark Plasma Style as internal
• Add notes about classes that will hopefully be dropped in KF6
• [lineedit.svg] Remove empty space around borders and use 3px corner radius
• [PC3 TextField] set on placeholder text
• [PC3 TextField] mirrored -> control.mirrored
• [PC3] Refactor TextField
• Make compositing-off margins in the panel same size of compositing on
• widgets>lineedit.svg: remove double ring
• Change ContrastEffect check to AdaptiveTransparency in A.T. check (bug 434200)
• Revert recent theme changes (bug 434202)
• Port to singleton Units

QQC2StyleBridge

• Respect highlighted property (bug 384989)
• Fix size of toolbuttons
• [DialogButtonBox] Improve implicit size behavior

Syntax Highlighting

• LaTeX: allow Math env within another Math env
• java: add assert and var keywords
• cmake.xml: Updates for CMake 3.20
• PHP: add preg_last_error_msg() function and classes that was previously a resource
• Js: numeric separator ; fix Octal ; add new classes
• Try to fix Qt 5.14 based compile
• Make it possible to compile with Qt 6
• Fix #5 and add Path style with alternate value (${xx:-/path/})
• Python: add match and case keywords (Python 3.10)
• Bump rust.xml to version 12
• Do not spellcheck in Rust code
• Markdown: add folding in sections
• Fix BracketMatching color in Breeze Dark theme
• Added more checking and number support
• Added proper escaping support with error handling
• Yet another DetectSpaces at MultiLineText
• Removed Variable context; not needed
• Added Error displaying for Placeables
• Included ##Comments
• Optimisations (DetectIdentifier, etc.)
• Fixed Attribute handling
• Added support for identifiers
• Multiline text is now working
• Added support for fluent language files
• Add findloc Fortran function

ThreadWeaver

• exception.h: fix export header include to work in namespace-prefixed include

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 5.81.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.81.0 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 5.81.0 requires Qt 5.14.

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

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