KDE Frameworks 5.83.0

Saturday, 12 June 2021

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.83.0.

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

• Embed JSON metadata in KIOSlaves
• Convert protocol files to JSON
• [balooctl] Allow clearing a document which has been deleted

BluezQt

• Add missing Qt5::DBus to qml plugin

Breeze Icons

• Added new KMyMoney icon again with some extra tweaks
• Add Goodvibes icon
• Add an icon for skanpage
• Tweaked the Rust mimetypes to better match the official branding (bug 434346)
• Made links relative
• Updated icons and added symlinks
• Separated icons to -left and -right

Extra CMake Modules

• Add LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL to license compatibility Matrix
• ecm_gperf_generate(): add option for target arg to add the gen. source to
• ecm_qt_declare_logging_category: catch alias targets before failing internally
• Add module to find libmount
• Drop FindFontConfig.cmake
• Make sure that dir path exists before attempting to copy file
• Attempt to find the Play store icon if it's not explicitly set
• Add address sanitizer for MSVC
• ecm_create_qm_loader: support target as alternative argument
• Don't pass through list rich text elements, Google Play can't handle those
• Fix doc build with Sphinx 4
• Use pkg_check_modules in FindTaglib.cmake
• Find PkgConfig quietly
• Handle text-less tags
• ECMAddAppIcon: support target as argument
• Fall back to English for missing translated elements
• ECMSetupVersion: phase out deprecated *_VERSION_STRING CMake variables
• Extend Android language mappings for translated metadata

KActivitiesStats

• Turns out the tier field was wrong, but not the subgroup

KArchive

• [KArchive] Use better wording for open error
• Use imported target for ZLib

KCalendarCore

• Allow sorting of todos by category (tag)
• Use UTC times when calculating the transition dates of standard and dst phases
• Remove conditional compilation for libical older than 3
• Fix Compat-libical3-eGroupware.ics

KCompletion

• Deprecate KLineEdit::passwordMode

KConfig

• kconfig_add_kcfg_files: catch alias targets before failing internally
• Don't write position data for maximized windows (bug 434116)

KConfigWidgets

• Deprecate KTipDatabase and KTipDialog
• [KHamburgerMenu] Ignore native menus
• Add KCommandBar - a hud-style dialog for quickly executing QActions

KContacts

• Allow setting email, phonenumber, impp from QML
• [addressee] Add property for photo
• Add properties to Picture

KCoreAddons

• kcoreaddons_add_plugin: make SOURCES argument optional
• KJob: if a delegate is already attached to a job, warn when setJob() is called
• Make KAboutData::productName accessible for KCrash
• Do not return duplicate plugins in KPluginLoader::findPlugins

KCrash

• Use target_sources() to add sources to targets
• write metadata to a cache file when applicable
• Pass Bugzilla product name to DrKonqi when explicitly set in the app
• init rlp struct and don't cast rlim_t to int

KDeclarative

• [KeySequenceItem] Display ampersands in shortcuts (bug 437718)

KFileMetaData

• [ExtractionResult] Remove automatic mimetype determination
• [ExternalWriter] Test property serialization
• [ExternalExtractor/Writer] Avoid unnecessary map value lookup from key
• [ExternalWriter] Fix infinite loop when serializing properties
• Avoid leaking a QObject in ExternalWriter
• [TaglibWriter] Fix memory leak when updating Cover images in ASF (WMA)

KGlobalAccel

• Revert "Prevent kglobalaccel5 getting activated on non-Plasma systems" (bug 437034)

KDE GUI Addons

• Fix crash in keysequence recorder due to out of bound access

KI18n

• ki18n_wrap_ui: catch alias targets before failing internally

KIdleTime

• add std::chrono overload for addIdleTimeout

KImageFormats

• avif: Adjust for libavif breaking change
• Enable HEIC plugin to save all ICC profiles
• Color profile loading/saving fixes
• xcf: Make sure offsets are not negative
• xcf: Fix Stack-buffer-overflow WRITE on broken files

KIO

• New job: KTerminalLauncherJob
• Remove the cache KCM
• Remove the Browser Identification KCM
• Fix outdated URL for RAE Search Provider
• KOpenWithDialog: expand category on selection (bug 437885)
• Support wayland's xdg_activation_v1
• [kopenwithdialog] Show better error message when specifying a non-executable file (bug 437880)
• Updating caching logic for thumbnails, to detect encrypted devices (bug 411919)
• Port ioslave template to use JSON metadata
• webshortcuts KCM: Remove unneeded rebuildKSycoca method call
• Remove ServiceTypes property from webshortcuts
• protocoltojson: Do not create empty array for ExtraNames value
• kio_file: remove pmount-related code
• Honor the port number when fetching favicons
• [KCoreDirLister] Guard uiDelegate(), it might be null (bug 437153)
• [src/widgets/kfileitemactions] Dont try to connect non-existing plugin
• Improve strings for file/folder and URL link functionality
• TCPSlaveBase: deprecate socket() and introduce tcpSocket()
• Allow selecting directories in KFileWidget (bug 419874)
• MimeTypeFinderJob: the StatJob details should include the mimetype (bug 398908)
• kio_file: pass the absolute path to QMimeDatabase::mimeTypeForFile()
• When finding a job delegate extension, also try the uiDelegate() of its parents (bug 436049)
• Capture sender object in connect() call instead of using sender()
• MimeTypeFinderJob: Resolve symlinks for a local file
• Put compatibility code which uses KMimeTypeTrader in deprecation wrappers
• PreviewJob: Create a larger SHM when necessary (bug 430862)
• [KUrlNavigator] Improve presentation of search results
• Port KFileItemActions::runPreferredApplications away from trader constraint
• Port KFileItemActions::associatedApplications away from trader constraint

Kirigami

• Update template app
• [ActionTextField] Switch actions to use small sizing rather than smallMedium
• fix(a11y): use semantically correct ellipses instead of semantically incorrect triple period
• use ecm_generate_qmltypes cmake macro
• SwipeNavigator hotfixes
• Fix back button in layers not asking Page::backRequested first before closing the page
• Split PageTab out of SwipeNavigator
• Split TabViewLayout out of SwipeNavigator
• [ActionTextField] Add more spacing between actions and text
• Improve look of card by making border a bit more subble
• [ActionTextField] Respect actions' enabled properties
• Adapt BasicListItemTest.qml to new API
• [BasicListItem] Offer vertical fill options for leading/trailing items
• Fix non-atomic updating of PlatformTheme colours
• Add BasicListItemTest case for leading+trailing items with skinny list items
• [BasicListItem] Increase icon size when showing or reserving space for subtitle
• [BasicListItem] Fix sizing for reserveSpaceForSubtitle: true case
• Fix BasicListItem.reserveSpaceForSubtitle to take into account textSpacing
• Fix rendering of small size borders of ShadowedTexture
• Add new fadeContent property to BasicListItem (bug 436816)
• Introduce Kirigami.Heading.type
• Disconnect before destroying items (bug 436707)
• [BasicListItem] Expose spacing between label and subtitle as property
• [BasicListItem] Increase spacing between label and subtitle
• Don't unnecessarily use the std::function overload of qmlRegisterSingletonType

KNewStuff

• Ensure XmlLoader works in the expected, asynchronous fashion
• Add functionality to have a local providers file
• Don't show Go to... action unless it has children
• Fix opensearch parsing
• Make Syndication optional and only build OPDS plugin when present
• Change the role names in the search preset to custom ones
• Add in tagfilters and filter out entries that are not openaccess for now
• Add 'restart' search preset so people can go back to the search they started out with
• Add recommended and subscription to the searchpreset types
• Ensure to use the 'self' link relation for resolving relative urls
• Add download size if said information is available
• Add concept of search presets to hold navigation links for opds feed
• Make sure the documents are valid feed documents
• Add the start link as an entry so we can at the least always return to the root of the opds catalog
• Fix some misunderstandings with Download Link information
• Make caching work a bit better, and ensure it shows the installed entries
• Make the download links a bit prettier
• Try to implement the loading of new feeds from entries
• Initial patch for opds support
• Adjust help text for knewstuff-dialog
• Engine: Deprecate configSearchLocations and setConfigLocationFallback methods
• Make knewstuff-dialog work more reliable
• KNSCore::Engine: Add method to list all available knsrc files
• KNSCore::Question: Use nested event loop for waiting

KParts

• Deprecate BrowserExtension::actionSlotMap()

KPeople

• Expose PersonsSortFilterProxyModel header
• Fix DBus check

KQuickCharts

• Implement monotonic cubic interpolation for line charts (bug 435268)
• Prevent an infinite loop in LegendLayout when minTotalWidth equals available
• Reduce severity of column not found to debug
• Expose preferredWidth as a property on LegendLayout and Legend

KRunner

• RunnerManager::runnerMetaDataList: Do not return duplicate plugin IDs

KService

• Do not crash if there's no Konsole
• Launch KCMs in kcmshell5 if systemsettings5 is not installed
• KToolInvocation: deprecate kdeinitExec()

KTextEditor

• Avoid bad negative search offsets
• Fix vim cursor gets stuck with 'b'
• Limit shortcut context to active view for Reuse Word Above/Below (bug 352902)
• ensure remove trailing spaces value is in range
• Revert "Add option to keep spaces to the left of cursor when saving" (bug 433455)
• Revert "Update remove-trailing-spaces modeline"
• Revert "compute lastChar only if needed"
• Revert "Use KTextEditor::Cursor instead of ints in removeTrailingSpaces"
• Add "Transpose Words" feature (bug 436621)
• Don't apply the offset for the quoted regexp, as it is not zero-length
• Fix on-the-fly spell checking with recent Qt (bug 436004)
• fix :e for vi-mode to properly open non-local files, too
• fix :e filename for untitled documents
• Fixup registering text hint providers
• Add a separator line after 'Automatic Selection'

KTextWidgets

• Ensure instances of derived Private classes are properly destructed
• Un-overload KReplace::replace() signal

KWayland

• Use protocol files from plasma-wayland-protocols
• Update Plasma Wayland Protocols dependency to 1.3.0
• Do not emit Surface::leave twice when an output is removed

KWidgetsAddons

• Ensure instances of derived Private classes are properly destructed
• Fix crash in KSelectAction (bug 436808)
• KFontChooser: always prepend the default font style in the styles list

KWindowSystem

• Provide KWindowSystem::lastInputSerial
• Include API for wayland's xdg_activation_V1
• Drop Qt5Widgets dependency if KWINDOWSYSTEM_NO_WIDGETS=ON

KXMLGUI

• Add KCommandBar to KXMLGui-using apps by default
• Remove the Attica requirement by using the store's new links
• Use new version-controlled enumerator deprecation warning macros
• Ensure instances of derived Private classes are properly destructed
• Don't translate urls (bug 436052)

ModemManagerQt

• Make it compile with current flags

NetworkManagerQt

• Fix missing definition for IPv6 property when building against older NM
• IPv6Setting: add option to disable IPv6
• fix(pppoe): add parent

Oxygen Icons

• high def new version printer
• more versions of the printer icon size 16x16
• more size versions of preferences-kde-connect

Plasma Framework

• Fix crash when there is already exactly 5 events displayed
• Remove call to setClearBeforeRendering
• Fix missing definition of HAVE_X11
• Change qqc2-desktop-style Units.fontMetrics property to a FontMetrics
• Support for blur behind plasmoids
• Filter configure action out of overflow menu correctly
• Allow building the project without deprecations
• PC3 TabButton: Center align text without icon, use icon property
• PC3 TabButton: Fix horizontal content alignment with max text width
• Fix events appearing in year or decade view (bug 436999)
• Check QAction enablement before triggering
• Introduce new SVG element: menubaritem
• Add sizeForLabels icon size to Units
• Fix Label having non-integer sizes
• [pluginloader] Deprecate listContainments and listContainmentsOfType
• Deprecate PluginLoader::listContainmentsForMimeType
• add missing signal is setConstraintHints
• Allow ExpandableListItem to not be expandable when it has no valid actions
• [dataengine] Emit sourceRemoved earlier (bug 435991)

QQC2StyleBridge

• [scrollview] Consider scroll bars when calculating implicit size
• User HoverHandler instead of MouseArea

Solid

• Ensure inherited PIMPL instances are properly destructed

Sonnet

• Add Malayalam trigram

Syntax Highlighting

• Rust syntax - Separate ControlFlow from Keywords
• Fix perl qw< > highlighting
• Update GAS syntax to highlight reg/instrs/jmp instrs

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 5.83.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.83.0 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 5.83.0 requires Qt 5.15.

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

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