Hi, About three months after the first stable version, some bugs got reported and fixed, and it's time to put those fixes into a release now. If you don't have KIO FUSE installed yet (for distros: selected by default), this might be the time to change that!
If you don't know what KIO FUSE is about, you can read more on feverfew's blog at https://feverfew.home.blog/2019/05/16/kiofuse-gsoc-2019/ and the followup posts about development progress. Compared to v5.0.0, the following changed: - Changes to a directory while iterating it (opendir/readdir) don't break the iteration anymore - Some ioslaves with incompatible behaviour are rejected now. Previously, mounting those succeeded, but accessing files failed. Now mounting fails immediately and the fallback code is triggered. (bug 433300) - Mixup of UDS_URL/UDS_TARGET_URL got fixed. Now the baloosearch:/ protocol works and doesn't cause a crash anymore. Additionally, the relevant code got hardened. (bug 431079) - Tests which require kio-extras are now skipped if it's not available. Known issues: - Some applications like VLC and MPV claim support for certain protocols, which causes KIO to not use KIO FUSE in certain cases. Please mention which URL was actually passed to the application when reporting an issue. - Some protocols aren't compatible with KIO FUSE. fish:// got fixed in 21.04 (https://invent.kde.org/network/kio-extras/-/merge_requests/63). man:/ isn't compatible by design: To serve index documents, it claims directories are files. info:/ doesn't implement directories at all. - Poor throughput especially on high latency connections. Work is ongoing to improve the situation: https://invent.kde.org/system/kio-fuse/-/merge_requests/36 https://download.kde.org/stable/kio-fuse/5.0.1/kio-fuse-5.0.1.tar.xz https://download.kde.org/stable/kio-fuse/5.0.1/kio-fuse-5.0.1.tar.xz.sig Have a lot of fun, Fabian
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