KDE Frameworks 5.84.0

Saturday, 10 July 2021

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.84.0.

KDE Frameworks are 83 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 KDE Frameworks release announcement.

This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.

New in this version

Attica

  • State library license in yaml file
  • Add http headers to Metadata (and set it from BaseJob)

Breeze Icons

  • Icons for stickers
  • Add network icons
  • Add Icons for advanced trimming tools in kdenlive
  • Add Qt Resource mime icon

Extra CMake Modules

  • Make pre-commit hook executable
  • [fastlane] Add mapping for serbian
  • Set the C++17 standard starting from 5.84
  • Bump the C++ standard we compile with to 17
  • Override atime and ctime in tar PaxHeaders
  • Add prefix.sh.fish file for fish shell

KDE Doxygen Tools

  • Change sorting of product in frontpage to always include frameworks
  • Add link to hig in header to be consistent with develop.kde.org header

KCalendarCore

  • Assign and compare more Incidence::Private members (bug 437670)
  • When sorting to-dos, treat undefined dtDues as later than defined dtDues
  • Generate pkgconfig file
  • Return start datetimes for non-recurring incidences (bug 410520)

KCMUtils

  • Make KPluginMetaData accessible from KCModuleProxy class
  • Allow loading of KCModules using KPluginMetaData

KCodecs

  • Add Base45 decoding

KConfigWidgets

  • Expose model of KColorSchemeManager
  • Update API docs with respect to KXMLGuiFactor::showConfigureShortcutsDilaog()
  • Deprecate KStatefulBrush::brush(const QWidget*)
  • Fix tiny black rectangles with rounded corners
  • Fix filtering in KCommandBar
  • KRecentFilesAction: document that local file URLs in the temp dir are ignored (bug 423302)

KCoreAddons

  • Add new KAboutComponent for third party libs, data, etc
  • Fix incorrect HAVE_SYS_INOTIFY_H check
  • kfuzzymatcher: Add matchedRanges to get ranges where matches occurred
  • KPluginMetaData: Remove ServiceTypes from JSON code sample
  • KPluginMetaData: Create findPluginById method which prefers file name

KDBusAddons

  • Improve KDBusService error message for missing session bus

KDeclarative

  • Allow compiling against Qt configured with -no-opengl or -no-qml-debug
  • [GridDelegate] Remove lightening overlay on hover (bug 438462)

KDE DNS-SD

  • Install headers to path prefix matching the C++ namespace KDNSSD

KDocTools

  • Hook up customizations for sq (Albanian) and de-duplicate
  • Add entity for krename

KDE GUI Addons

  • Relicense file to LGPL-2.0-or-later
  • Add information about utilities provided by KGuiAddons
  • UrlHandler: fix url concatenation when using docs.kde.org
  • Support static builds

KHolidays

  • Add Bangladesh holiday
  • holiday_fi_fi - adjust midsummer festival “Juhannuspäivä” (bug 438542)

KImageFormats

  • avif: Disable all strict decoder checks

KIO

  • PreviewJob: take devicePixelRatio parameters as qreal
  • Remove QDomDocument from davPropFind/davPropPatch
  • [KFilePlacesModel] Check group visibility in closestItem
  • Fix wrong include in kterminallauncherjob.h, which made it unusable from outside KIO
  • KFileItem: add a new method isMostLocalUrl() that returns a struct
  • Deprecate KDesktopFileActions::executeService()
  • KProcessRunner: Use setStartupId also on Wayland for xdg_activation_v1
  • Deprecate MultiGetJob, for lack of usage
  • KProcessRunner: Make sure we are connected as we request
  • Deprecate KIO slave loading using .protocol files
  • Remove obsolete protocol files
  • KProtocolInfo::icon use x-scheme-handler as fallback
  • [kopenwithdialog] Improve executable-related error messages (bug 437880)

Kirigami

  • Allow static link without sources
  • Bundle plugins on Android
  • Only emit sync signal if we have finished construction (bug 438682)
  • Port CardsListView to use reuseItems instead of the DelegateRecycler
  • Expose Labels of BasicListItem for greater end-user control
  • [OverlaySheet] Add side margins when trying to span window width
  • Respect an Action’s visible property in GlobalDrawer even when collapsed (bug 438365)

KNewStuff

  • Download missing BSD-2-Clause, CC0-1.0 and LGPL-3.0-or-later licenses
  • Forward the error code signal from Engine through to QML
  • Sort and capitalise items in the knewstuff-dialog tool’s sidebar
  • Align messagebox icon to the top (closer to how widget ones look)
  • Add an icon to the messageboxsheet
  • Quick little @since for the new enum value
  • Registering the error codes from KNSCore to allow them to be used easily in QtQuick
  • Handle a 503 for OPDS opensearch urls, and schedule a reload
  • Forward the httpjob’s error through xmlloader
  • Handle the provider file failing on a 503, and schedule reloading
  • Add in a status signal forward for 503 errors for httpjob
  • Handle “temporarily down” situations (http 503) more gracefully

KNotification

  • Let SNI users be activated using xdg_activation_v1
  • notifybysnore: add inline notifications support to Windows backend

KPackage Framework

  • KF5PackageMacros: Only include ECM manually if config vars are missing
  • Deprecate kpackage/version.h header
  • KF5PackageMacros: Install JSON metadata file if it exists in source

KPeople

  • Add find_dependency for QtWidgets
  • KF5PeopleWidgets: use ki18n_wrap_ui for UI files, as needed by ki18n usage
  • Move licensing stuff to a .license file
  • persondata: use QUrl::scheme() instead of ‘left of ://’
  • Remove defunct akonadidatasource plugin
  • Move EmailDetailsWidget class out of plugins dir

KService

  • Pump minimum Bison version to 3.0
  • Workaround flatpak having fixed modify date for all files

KTextEditor

  • prevent modelContentChanged() triggered due to insertText
  • Fix possible mark leak in katedocument
  • Fix mark handling in katedocument.cpp
  • Ensure first column has a fixed size always
  • Dont reduce width of compl widget, increase only
  • completion: Don’t change pos of the widget
  • Improve minimap performance
  • Make completion more efficient
  • Always emit delayedUpdateOfView to fix update issues
  • Update mode config page UI when a filetype’s name is changed
  • improve handling of repainting for ranges
  • Set devicePixelRatio for drag pixmap
  • Automatically show config page of newly created filetype (bug 417507)
  • Mark TextRange and TextCursor classes as final
  • katetextrange: Use non-virtual functions internally
  • Un-overload DocumentPrivate::textInserted() signal
  • Un-overload KateViewEncodingAction::triggered(QTextCodec *codec) signal
  • Dont use m_marks directly when clearing marks
  • Remove multiple loops for updating marks
  • ensure KateHighlight objects survive long enough
  • Take into account wordCompletionRemoveTail in completionRange() default implementation (bug 436170)

KWidgetsAddons

  • KPasswordDialog: add access to revealPasswordAvailable of password lineedit
  • Add two-finger gesture

KXMLGUI

  • Refine KActionCollection::setComponentName warning
  • showConfigureShortcutsDialog: use configure(true) instead of show()
  • Hide tooltip instantly before showing whatsthis (bug 438580)
  • KToolTipHelper available since 5.84
  • Improve positioning of what’s this tooltips in menus
  • Fix tooltips sometimes not showing up in menus
  • Do not show a tooltip for actions that have a submenu
  • Make ToolTips expandable
  • Make DBus dependency on Windows and Mac optional

Oxygen Icons

  • Ethernet port icon
  • 2 more “new” system settings icons
  • thunderbolt preferences icon
  • search icon updated
  • more improvements to last day icon
  • more size versions of new screen
  • more work on sytemsetings icons
  • improved consistency and contrast

Plasma Framework

  • [PC3/ScrollView] Fix assignation of Scrollbars
  • PC3 Page: Improve implicit size calculation
  • Add function to hide tooltip immediately
  • Add compatibility code when GLVND is not available (bug 438444)
  • KF5PlasmaMacros: Only include ECM manually if config vars are missing
  • [Calendar] Store plugin manager as QPointer (bug 385011)
  • Connect to global shortcut changes (bug 438662)
  • SvgRectsCache: do not query elements twice
  • pluginloader: Remove deprecated version checks
  • CMake: do not expand variables beforehand
  • fix graphics of tooltips (bug 438121)
  • KF5PlasmaMacros: Only try to install desktop files if they exist
  • Revert “Fix Label having non-integer sizes”

Purpose

  • Remove custom KPluginLoader de-duplication logic
  • Propagate implicitHeight properly

QQC2StyleBridge

  • Bind default font of Label (bug 438436)
  • kirigami-integration: use default font size for smallText on Windows
  • Revert “[scrollview] Consider scroll bars when calculating implicit size”

Solid

  • Add a minimum version to find_package(BISON)
  • Find the base mount point of a partition that has bind mounts (bug 349617)
  • UDisks backend: improve the description of volume and storage devices (bug 410891)

Syntax Highlighting

  • Indexer: suggest more RangeDetect instead of RegExpr
  • Use cstyle indenter for PHP (HTML)
  • Haskell: fix comment in an import and some improvement
  • Indexer: checks that the rules of a context are all reachable at least once
  • all rules are now final classes
  • Indexer: (#12) remove check for unused keyword lists
  • Python: add bytes literals
  • GLSL: based on GLSL 4.6
  • Bash/Zsh: fix file descriptor and group in sub-shell, noglob and some Control Flow
  • Python: highlight errors in numbers and some optimizations
  • Remove unneeded LGPL-2.0-only license text
  • GLSL: add types, qualifiers and reserved keywords
  • fix copyright to be the expected array
  • Falcon theme
  • improve INI highlighting for string values
  • add highlighting for the Swift language
  • rework function matching
  • some more fixes to Julia syntax
  • Julia highlighting fixes
  • enable unicode support for regex in highlightings
  • Add Dart language

Security information

The released code has been GPG-signed using the following key: pub rsa2048/58D0EE648A48B3BB 2016-09-05 David Faure faure@kde.org Primary key fingerprint: 53E6 B47B 45CE A3E0 D5B7 4577 58D0 EE64 8A48 B3BB

Installing binary packages

On Linux, using packages for your favorite distribution is the recommended way to get access to KDE Frameworks. Get KDE Software on Your Linux Distro wiki page

Compiling from sources

The complete source code for KDE Frameworks 5.84.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.84.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.84.0 Info Page.

Building from source is possible using the basic cmake .; make; make install commands. For a single Tier 1 framework, this is often the easiest solution. People interested in contributing to frameworks or tracking progress in development of the entire set are encouraged to use kdesrc-build. Frameworks 5.84.0 requires Qt 5.15.

A detailed listing of all Frameworks and other third party Qt libraries is at inqlude.org, the curated archive of Qt libraries. A complete list with API documentation is on api.kde.org.

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