KIO FUSE 5.0.1 released

[Fabian Vogt]

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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