KDE Frameworks 5.12.0 released

[David Faure]

10th July 2015. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.12.0.

KDE Frameworks are 60 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.

Extra CMake Modules

  Improve error reporting of query_qmake macro

BluezQt

  Remove all devices from adapter before removing the adapter (bug 349363)
  Update links in README.md

KActivities

  Adding the option not to track the user when in specific activities (similar 
to the 'private browsing' mode in a web browser)

KArchive

  Preserve executable permissions from files in copyTo()
  Clarify ~KArchive by removing dead code.

KAuth

  Make it possible to use kauth-policy-gen from different sources

KBookmarks

  Don't add a bookmark with url is empty and text is empty
  Encode KBookmark URL to fix compatibility with KDE4 applications

KCodecs

  Remove x-euc-tw prober

KConfig

  Install kconfig_compiler into libexec
  New code generation option TranslationDomain=, for use with 
TranslationSystem=kde; normally needed in libraries.
  Make it possible to use kconfig_compiler from different sources

KCoreAddons

  KDirWatch: Only establish a connection to FAM if requested
  Allow filtering plugins and applications by formfactor
  Make it possible to use desktoptojson from different sources

KDBusAddons

  Clarify exit value for Unique instances

KDeclarative

  Add QQC clone of KColorButton
  Assign a QmlObject for each kdeclarative instance when possible
  Make Qt.quit() from QML code work
  Merge branch 'mart/singleQmlEngineExperiment'
  Implement sizeHint based on implicitWidth/height
  Subclass of QmlObject with static engine

KDELibs 4 Support

  Fix KMimeType::Ptr::isNull implementation.
  Reenable support for KDateTime streaming to kDebug/qDebug, for more SC
  Load correct translation catalog for kdebugdialog
  Don't skip documenting deprecated methods, so that people can read the 
porting hints

KDESU

  Fix CMakeLists.txt to pass KDESU_USE_SUDO_DEFAULT to the compilation so it 
is used by suprocess.cpp

KDocTools

  Update K5 docbook templates

KGlobalAccel

  private runtime API gets installed to allow KWin to provide plugin for 
Wayland.
  Fallback for componentFriendlyForAction name resolving

KIconThemes

  Don't try to paint the icon if the size is invalid

KItemModels

  New proxy model: KRearrangeColumnsProxyModel. It supports reordering and 
hiding columns from the source model.

KNotification

  Fix pixmap types in org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.xml
  [ksni] Add method to retrieve action by its name (bug 349513)

KPeople

  Implement PersonsModel filtering facilities

KPlotting

  KPlotWidget: add setAutoDeletePlotObjects, fix memory leak in 
replacePlotObject
  Fix missing tickmarks when x0 > 0.
  KPlotWidget: no need to setMinimumSize or resize.

KTextEditor

  debianchangelog.xml: add Debian/Stretch, Debian/Buster, Ubuntu-Wily
  Fix for UTF-16 surrogate pair backspace/delete behavior.
  Let QScrollBar handle the WheelEvents (bug 340936)
  Apply patch from KWrite devel top update pure basic HL, "Alexander Clay" 
<tuireann at EpicBasic.org>

KTextWidgets

  Fix enable/disable ok button

KWallet Framework

  Imported and improved the kwallet-query command-line tool.
  Support to overwrite maps entries.

KXMLGUI

  Don't show "KDE Frameworks version" in the About KDE dialog

Plasma Framework

  Make the dark theme completely dark, also the complementary group
  Cache naturalsize separately by scalefactor
  ContainmentView: Do not crash on an invalid corona metadata
  AppletQuickItem: Do not access KPluginInfo if not valid
  Fix occasional empty applet config pages (bug 349250)
  Improve hidpi support in the Calendar grid component
  Verify KService has valid plugin info before using it
  [calendar] Ensure the grid is repainted on theme changes
  [calendar] Always start counting weeks from Monday (bug 349044)
  [calendar] Repaint the grid when show week numbers setting changes
  An opaque theme is now used when only the blur effect is available (bug 
348154)
  Whitelist applets/versions for separate engine
  Introduce a new class ContainmentView

Sonnet

  Allow to use highlight spellchecking in a QPainTextEdit

http://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.12.0.php

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5