12th December 2016. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.29.0.
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· Frameworks 5.0 release announcement. New framework This release includes Prison, a new framework for barcode generation (including QR codes). General FreeBSD was added to metainfo.yaml in all frameworks tested to work on FreeBSD. Baloo Performance improvements when writing (4 * speedup for writing out data) Breeze Icons Make BINARY_ICONS_RESOURCE ON by default add vnd.rar mime for shared-mime-info 1.7 (bug 372461) add claws icon (bug 371914) add gdrive icon instead of a generic cloud icon (bug 372111) fix bug "list-remove-symcolic use wrong image" (bug 372119) other additions and improvements Extra CMake Modules Skip Python bindings test if PyQt isn't installed Only add the test if python is found Reduce the CMake minimum required Add ecm_win_resolve_symlinks module Framework Integration find QDBus, needed by appstream kpackage handler Let KPackage have dependencies from packagekit & appstream KActivitiesStats Properly sending the resource linked event KDE Doxygen Tools Adapt to quickgit -> cgit change Fix bug if group name is not defined. Can still break under bad conditions KArchive Add errorString() method to provide error info KAuth Add timeout property (bug 363200) KConfig kconfig_compiler - generate code with overrides Properly parse function keywords (bug 371562) KConfigWidgets Ensure menu actions get the intended MenuRole KCoreAddons KTextToHtml: fix bug "[1] added at the end of a hyperlink" (bug 343275) KUser: Only search for an avatar if loginName isn't empty KCrash Align with KInit and don't use DISPLAY on Mac Don't close all file descriptors on OS X KDesignerPlugin src/kgendesignerplugin.cpp - add overrides to generated code KDESU Unsets XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in processes run with kdesu KFileMetaData Actually find FFMpeg's libpostproc KHTML java: apply the names to the right buttons java: set names in permission dialog KI18n Check properly pointer inequality from dngettext (bug 372681) KIconThemes Allow showing icons from all categories (bug 216653) KInit Set environment variables from KLaunchRequest when starting new process KIO Ported to categorized logging Fix compilation against WinXP SDK Allow uppercase checksums matching in Checksums tab (bug 372518) Never stretch the last (=date) column in the file dialog (bug 312747) Import and update kcontrol docbooks for code in kio from kde-runtime master [OS X] make KDE's trash use the OS X trash SlaveBase: add documentation about event loops and notifications and kded modules KNewStuff Add new archive management option (subdir) to knsrc Consume the new error signals (set job errors) Handle oddity regarding files disappearing when just created Actually install the core headers, with CamelCases KNotification [KStatusNotifierItem] Save / restore widget position during hide / restore it window (bug 356523) [KNotification] Allow annotating notifications with URLs KPackage Framework keep installing metadata.desktop (bug 372594) manually load metadata if absolute path is passed Fix potential failure if package is not appstream compatible Let KPackage know about X-Plasma-RootPath Fix generating the metadata.json file KPty More utempter path searching (including /usr/lib/utempter/) Add library path so utempter binary is found in Ubuntu 16.10 KTextEditor Prevent Qt warnings about an unsupported clipboard mode on Mac Use syntax definitions from KF5::SyntaxHighlighting KTextWidgets Don't replace window icons with the result of a failed lookup KWayland [client] Fix nullptr dereference in ConfinedPointer and LockedPointer [client] Install pointerconstraints.h [server] Fix regression in SeatInterface::end/cancelPointerPinchGesture Implementation of PointerConstraints protcol [server] Reduce overhead of pointersForSurface Return SurfaceInterface::size in global compositor space [tools/generator] Generate enum FooInterfaceVersion on server side [tools/generator] Wrap wl_fixed request args in wl_fixed_from_double [tools/generator] Generate implementation of client side requests [tools/generator] Generate client side resource factories [tools/generator] Generate callbacks and listener on client side [tools/generator] Pass this as q pointer to Client::Resource::Private [tools/generator] Generate Private::setup(wl_foo *arg) on client side Implementation of PointerGestures protocol KWidgetsAddons Prevent crashing on Mac Don't replace icons with the result of a failed lookup KMessageWidget: fix layout when wordWrap is enabled without actions KCollapsibleGroupBox: don't hide widgets, override focus policy instead KWindowSystem [KWindowInfo] Add pid() and desktopFileName() Oxygen Icons Add application-vnd.rar icon (bug 372461) Plasma Framework Check for metadata validity in settingsFileChanged (bug 372651) Don't flip tabbar layout if vertical Remove radialGradient4857 (bug 372383) [AppletInterface] Never pull focus away from fullRepresentation (bug 372476) Fix SVG icon ID prefix (bug 369622) Solid winutils_p.h: Restore compatibility with WinXP SDK Sonnet Also search for hunspell-1.5 Syntax Highlighting Normalize XML license attribute values Sync syntax definitions from ktexteditor Fix folding region merging Security information The released code has been GPG-signed using the following key: pub rsa2048/58D0EE648A48B3BB 2016-09-05 David Faure <fa...@kde.org> Primary key fingerprint: 53E6 B47B 45CE A3E0 D5B7 4577 58D0 EE64 8A48 B3BB http://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.29.0.php -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5