KDE Frameworks 5.18.0 released

[David Faure]

09th January 2016. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.18.0.

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.

Baloo

  Fix several issue of mtime related search
  PostingDB Iter: Do not assert on MDB_NOTFOUND
  Balooctl status: Avoid showing 'Content indexing' about folders
  StatusCommand: Show the correct status for folders
  SearchStore: Gracefully handle empty term values (bug 356176)

Breeze Icons

  icon updates and additions
  22px size status icons for 32px too as you need it in the system tray
  Changed Fixed to Scalable value to 32px folders in Breeze Dark

Extra CMake Modules

  Make the KAppTemplate CMake module global
  Silence CMP0063 warnings with KDECompilerSettings
  ECMQtDeclareLoggingCategory: Include <QDebug> with the generated file
  Fix CMP0054 warnings

KActivities

  Streamlined the QML loading for KCM (bug 356832)
  Work-around for the Qt SQL bug that does not clean up connections properly 
(bug 348194)
  Merged a plugin that executes applications on activity state change
  Port from KService to KPluginLoader
  Port plugins to use kcoreaddons_desktop_to_json()

KBookmarks

  Fully initialize DynMenuInfo in return value

KCMUtils

  KPluginSelector::addPlugins: fix assert if 'config' parameter is default (bug 
352471)

KCodecs

  Avoid deliberately overflowing a full buffer

KConfig

  Ensure group is unescaped properly in kconf_update

KCoreAddons

  Add KAboutData::fromPluginMetaData(const KPluginMetaData &plugin)
  Add KPluginMetaData::copyrightText(), extraInformation() and 
otherContributors()
  Add KPluginMetaData::translators() and KAboutPerson::fromJson()
  Fix use-after-free in desktop file parser
  Make KPluginMetaData constructible from a json path
  desktoptojson: make missing service type file an error for the binary
  make calling kcoreaddons_add_plugin without SOURCES an error

KDBusAddons

  Adapt to Qt 5.6's dbus-in-secondary-thread

KDeclarative

  [DragArea] Add dragActive property
  [KQuickControlsAddons MimeDatabase] Expose QMimeType comment

KDED

  kded: adapt to Qt 5.6's threaded dbus: messageFilter must trigger module 
loading in the main thread

KDELibs 4 Support

  kdelibs4support requires kded (for kdedmodule.desktop)
  Fix CMP0064 warning by setting policy CMP0054 to NEW
  Don't export symbols that also exist in KWidgetsAddons

KDESU

  Don't leak fd when creating socket

KHTML

  Windows: remove kdewin dependency

KI18n

  Document the first argument rule for plurals in QML
  Reduce unwanted type changes
  Make it possible to use doubles as index for i18np*() calls in QML

KIO

  Fix kiod for Qt 5.6's threaded dbus: messageFilter must wait until the 
module is loaded before returning
  Change the error code when pasting/moving into a subdirectory
  Fix emptyTrash blocked issue
  Fix wrong button in KUrlNavigator for remote URLs
  KUrlComboBox: fix returning an absolute path from urls()
  kiod: disable session management
  Add autocompletion for '.' input which offers all hidden files/folders* (bug 
354981)
  ktelnetservice: fix off by one in argc check, patch by Steven Bromley

KNotification

  [Notify By Popup] Send along event ID
  Set default non-empty reason for screen saver inhibition; (bug 334525)
  Add a hint to skip notifications grouping (bug 356653)

KNotifyConfig

  [KNotifyConfigWidget] Allow selecting a specific event

Package Framework

  Make it possible to provide the metadata in json

KPeople

  Fix possible double deletion in DeclarativePersonData

KTextEditor

  Syntax h/l for pli: builtin functions added, expandable regions added

KWallet Framework

  kwalletd: Fix FILE* leak

KWindowSystem

  Add xcb variant for static KStartupInfo::sendFoo methods

NetworkManagerQt

  make it work with older NM versions

Plasma Framework

  [ToolButtonStyle] Always indicate activeFocus
  Use the SkipGrouping flag for the "widget deleted" notification (bug 356653)
  Deal properly with symlinks in path to packages
  Add HiddenStatus for plasmoid self-hiding
  Stop redirecting windows when item is disabled or hidden. (bug 356938)
  Don't emit statusChanged if it hasn't changed
  Fix element ids for east orientation
  Containment: Don't emit appletCreated with null applet (bug 356428)
  [Containment Interface] Fix erratic high precision scrolling
  Read KPluginMetada's property X-Plasma-ComponentTypes as a stringlist
  [Window Thumbnails] Don't crash if Composite is disabled
  Let containments override CompactApplet.qml

http://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.18.0.php
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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5