KDE Frameworks 5.42.0 released

[David Faure]

13th January 2018. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.42.0.

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.

General changes

  Fixes for cmake 3.10+ AUTOMOC warnings
  More widespread use of categorized logging, to turn off debug output by default (use kdebugsetting to re-enable it)

Baloo

  balooctl status: process all arguments
  Fix multiple word tag queries
  Simplify rename conditions
  Fix incorrect UDSEntry display name

Breeze Icons

  Fix icon name "weather-none" -> "weather-none-available" (bug 379875)
  remove Vivaldi icon cause the origin app icon fits perfect with breeze (bug 383517)
  add Some missing mimes
  Breeze-icons add document-send icon (bug 388048)
  update album artist icon
  add labplot-editlayout support
  remove duplicates and update dark theme
  add gnumeric breeze-icon support

Extra CMake Modules

  Use readelf to find project dependencies
  Introduce INSTALL_PREFIX_SCRIPT to easily set up prefixes

KActivities

  avoid crash in kactivities if no dbus connection is available

KConfig

  API docs: explain how to use KWindowConfig from a dialog constructor
  Deprecate KDesktopFile::sortOrder()
  Fix the result of KDesktopFile::sortOrder()

KCoreAddons

  Extend CMAKE_AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES also for own build
  Match license keys by spdx

KDBusAddons

  Fix absolute path detection for cmake 3.5 on Linux
  Add cmake function 'kdbusaddons_generate_dbus_service_file'

KDeclarative

  Qml controls for kcm creation

KDED

  Use cmake function 'kdbusaddons_generate_dbus_service_file' from kdbusaddons to generate dbus service file
  Add used property to service file defintion

KDELibs 4 Support

  Inform the user if the module can not be registered with org.kde.kded5 and exit with error
  Mingw32 compile fix

KDocTools

  add entity for Michael Pyne
  add entities for Martin Koller to contributor.entities
  fix debian entry
  add entity Debian to general.entities
  add entity kbackup, it was imported
  add entity latex, we have already 7 entities in different index.docbooks in kf5

KEmoticons

  Add scheme (file://). It's necessary when we use it in qml and we added all

KFileMetaData

  remove extractor based on QtMultimedia
  Check for Linux instead of TagLib and avoid building the usermetadatawritertest on Windows
  Restore # 6c9111a9 until a successful build and link without TagLib is possible
  Remove the taglib dependency, caused by a left-over include

KHTML

  Finally allow to disable debug output by using categorized logging

KI18n

  do not treat ts-pmap-compile as exectuable
  Fix a memory leak in KuitStaticData
  KI18n: fix a number of double lookups

KInit

  Remove impossible to reach code

KIO

  Properly parse dates in cookies when running in non-English  locale (bug 387254)
  [kcoredirlister] Fix sub path creation
  Reflect trash state in iconNameForUrl
  Forward QComboBox signals instead of QComboBox lineedit signals
  Fixed webshortcuts showing their file path instead of their human-readable name
  TransferJob: fix for when the readChannelFinished has already been emitted before start is called() (bug 386246)
  Fix crash, presumably since Qt 5.10? (bug 386364)
  KUriFilter: don't return an error on non-existing files
  Fix creation of paths
  Implement a kfile dialog where we can add custom widget
  Verify that qWaitForWindowActive doesn't fail
  KUriFilter: port away from KServiceTypeTrader
  API dox: use class names in titles of example screenshots
  API dox: also deal with KIOWIDGETS export macros in QCH creation
  fix handling of KCookieAdvice::AcceptForSession (bug 386325)
  Created 'GroupHiddenRole' for KPlacesModel
  forward socket error string to KTcpSocket
  Refactor and remove duplicate code in kfileplacesview
  Emit 'groupHiddenChanged' signal
  Refactoring the hidding/showing animation use within KFilePlacesView
  User can now hide an entire places group from KFilePlacesView (bug 300247)
  Hidding place groups implementation in KFilePlacesModel (bug 300247)
  [KOpenWithDialog] Remove redundant creation of KLineEdit
  Add undo support to BatchRenameJob
  Add BatchRenameJob to KIO
  Fix doxygen code block not ending with endcode

Kirigami

  keep the flickable interactive
  proper prefix for icons as well
  fix form sizing
  read wheelScrollLines from kdeglobals if existing
  add a prefix for kirigami files to avoid conflicts
  some static linking fixes
  move plasma styles to plasma-framework
  Use single quotes for matching characters + QLatin1Char
  FormLayout

KJobWidgets

  Offer QWindow API for KJobWidgets:: decorators

KNewStuff

  Limit request cache size
  Require the same internal version as you're building
  Prevent global variables from been using after freeing

KNotification

  [KStatusNotifierItem] Don't "restore" widget position on its first show
  Use positions of legacy systray icons for Minimize/Restore actions
  Handle positions of LMB clicks on legacy systray icons
  do not make the context menu a Window
  Add explanatory comment
  Lazy-instanciate and lazy-load KNotification plugins

KPackage Framework

  invalidate the runtime cache on install
  experimental support for rcc files loading in kpackage
  compile against Qt 5.7
  Fix up package indexing and add runtime caching
  new KPackage::fileUrl() method

KRunner

  [RunnerManager] Don't mess with ThreadWeaver thread count

KTextEditor

  Fix wildcard matching for modelines
  Fix a regression caused by changing backspace key behavior
  port to non-deprecated API like already used at other place (bug 386823)
  Add missing include for std::array
  MessageInterface: Add CenterInView as additional position
  QStringList initializer list cleanup

KWallet Framework

  Use correct service executable path for installing kwalletd dbus service on Win32

KWayland

  Fix naming inconsistency
  Create interface for passing server decoration palettes
  Explicitly include std::bind functions
  [server] Add a method IdleInterface::simulateUserActivity
  Fix regression caused by backward compatibility support in data source
  Add support for version 3 of data device manager interface (bug 386993)
  Scope exported/imported objects to the test
  Fix error in WaylandSurface::testDisconnect
  Add explicit AppMenu protocol
  Fix exlude generated file from automoc feature

KWidgetsAddons

  Fix crash in setMainWindow on wayland

KXMLGUI

  API dox: make doxygen cover session related macros & functions again
  Disconnect shortcutedit slot on widget destruction (bug 387307)

NetworkManagerQt

  802-11-x: support for PWD EAP method

Plasma Framework

  [Air theme] Add task bar progress graphic (bug 368215)
  Templates: remove stray * from license headers
  make packageurlinterceptor as noop as possible
  Revert "Don't tear down renderer and other busy work when Svg::setImagePath is invoked with the same arg"
  move kirigami plasma styles here
  disappearing scrollbars on mobile
  reuse KPackage instance between PluginLoader and Applet
  [AppletQuickItem] Only set QtQuick Controls 1 style once per engine
  Don't set a window icon in Plasma::Dialog
  [RTL] - align properly the selected text for RTL (bug 387415)
  Initialize scale factor to the last scale factor set on any instance
  Revert "Initialize scale factor to the last scale factor set on any instance"
  Don't update when the underlying FrameSvg is repaint-blocked
  Initialize scale factor to the last scale factor set on any instance
  Move if check inside #ifdef
  [FrameSvgItem] Don't create unneccessary nodes
  Don't tear down renderer and other busy work when Svg::setImagePath is invoked with the same arg

Prison

  Also look for qrencode with debug suffix

QQC2StyleBridge

  simplify and don't try to block mouse events
  if no wheel.pixelDelta, use global wheel scroll lines
  desktop tabbars have different widths for each tab
  ensure a non 0 size hint

Sonnet

  Don't export internal helper executables
  Sonnet: fix wrong language for suggestions in mixed-language texts
  Remove anchient and broken workaround
  Don't cause circular linking on Windows

Syntax Highlighting

  Highlighting indexer: Warn about context switch fallthroughContext="#stay"
  Highlighting indexer: Warn about empty attributes
  Highlighting indexer: Enable errors
  Highlighting indexer: report unused itemDatas and missing itemDatas
  Prolog, RelaxNG, RMarkDown: Fix highlighting issues
  Haml: Fix invalid and unused itemDatas
  ObjectiveC++: Remove duplicate comment contexts
  Diff, ObjectiveC++: Cleanups and fix highlighting files
  XML (Debug): Fix incorrect DetectChar rule
  Highlighting Indexer: Support cross-hl context checking
  Revert: Add GNUMacros to gcc.xml again, used by isocpp.xml
  email.xml: add *.email to the extensions
  Highlighting Indexer: Check for infinite loops
  Highlighting Indexer: Check for empty context names and regexps
  Fix referencing of non-existing keyword lists
  Fix simple cases of duplicate contexts
  Fix duplicate itemDatas
  Fix DetectChar and Detect2Chars rules
  Highlighting Indexer: Check keyword lists
  Highlighting Indexer: Warn about duplicate contexts
  Highlighting Indexer: Check for duplicate itemDatas
  Highlighting indexer: Check DetectChar and Detect2Chars
  Validate that for all attributes an itemData exists

Security information

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