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KDE Frameworks 5.63.0 has been released



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New modules: kcalendarcore and kcontacts

Breeze Icons

Improve KFloppy icon (bug 412404)
Add format-text-underline-squiggle actions icons (bug 408283)
Add colorful preferences-desktop-filter icon (bug 406900)
Add app icon for the Kirogi Drone control app
Added scripts to create a webfont out of all breeze action icons
Add enablefont and disablefont icon for kfontinst KCM
Fix large system-reboot icons rotating in an inconsistent direction (bug 411671)

Extra CMake Modules

new module ECMSourceVersionControl
Fix FindEGL when using Emscripten
ECMAddQch: add INCLUDE_DIRS argument

Framework Integration

ensure winId() not called on non-native widgets (bug 412675)

kcalendarcore

New module, previously known as kcalcore in kdepim

KCMUtils

Suppress mouse events in KCMs causing window moves
adjust margins of KCMultiDialog (bug 411161)

KCompletion

[KComboBox] Properly disable Qt's builtin completer [regression fix]

KConfig

Fix generating properties that start with an uppercase letter

KConfigWidgets

Make KColorScheme compatible with QVariant

kcontacts

New module, previously part of KDE PIM

KCoreAddons

Add KListOpenFilesJob

KDeclarative

Delete QQmlObjectSharedEngine context in sync with QQmlObject
[KDeclarative] Port from deprecated QWheelEvent::delta() to angleDelta()

KDELibs 4 Support

Support NetworkManager 1.20 and do actually compile the NM backend

KIconThemes

Deprecate the global [Small|Desktop|Bar]Icon() methods

KImageFormats

Add files for testing bug411327
xcf: Fix regression when reading files with "unsupported" properties
xcf: Properly read image resolution
Port HDR (Radiance RGBE) image loader to Qt5

KIO

[Places panel] Revamp the Recently Saved section
[DataProtocol] compile without implicit coversion from ascii
Consider the usage of WebDAV methods sufficient for assuming WebDAV
REPORT also supports the Depth header
Make QSslError::SslError KSslError::Error conversion reusable
Deprecate the KSslError::Error ctor of KSslError
[Windows] fix listing the parent dir of C:\foo, that's C:\ and not C:
Fix crash on exit in kio_file (bug 408797)
Add == and != operators to KIO::UDSEntry
Replace KSslError::errorString with QSslError::errorString
Move/copy job: skip stat'ing sources if the destination dir isn't writable (bug 141564)
Fixed interaction with DOS/Windows executables in KRun::runUrl
[KUrlNavigatorPlacesSelector] Properly identify teardown action (bug 403454)
KCoreDirLister: fix crash when creating new folders from kfilewidget (bug 401916)
[kpropertiesdialog] add icons for the size section
Add icons for "Open With" and "Actions" menus
Avoid initializing an unnecessary variable
Move more functionality from KRun::runCommand/runApplication to KProcessRunner
[Advanced Permissions] Fix icon names (bug 411915)
[KUrlNavigatorButton] Fix QString usage to not use [] out of bounds
Make KSslError hold a QSslError internally
Split KSslErrorUiData from KTcpSocket
Port kpac from QtScript

Kirigami

always cache just the last item
more z (bug 411832)
fix import version in PagePoolAction
PagePool is Kirigami 2.11
take into account dragging speed when a flick ends
Fix copying urls to the clipboard
check more if we are reparenting an actual Item
basic support for ListItem actions
introduce cachePages
fix compatibility with Qt5.11
introduce PagePoolAction
new class: PagePool to manage recycling of pages after they're popped
make tabbars look better
some margin on the right (bug 409630)
Revert "Compensate smaller icon sizes on mobile in the ActionButton"
don't make list items look inactive (bug 408191)
Revert "Remove scaling of iconsize unit for isMobile"
Layout.fillWidth should be done by the client (bug 411188)
Add template for Kirigami application development
Add a mode to center actions and omit the title when using a ToolBar style (bug 402948)
Compensate smaller icon sizes on mobile in the ActionButton
Fixed some undefined properties runtime errors
Fix ListSectionHeader background color for some color schemes
Remove custom content item from ActionMenu separator

KItemViews

[KItemViews] Port to non-deprecated QWheelEvent API

KJobWidgets

cleanup dbus related objects early enough to avoid hang on program exit

KJS

Added startsWith(), endsWith() and includes() JS String functions
Fixed Date.prototype.toJSON() called on non-Date objects

KNewStuff

Bring KNewStuffQuick to feature parity with KNewStuff(Widgets)

KPeople

Claim Android as a supported platform
Deploy default avatar via qrc
Bundle plugin files on Android
Disable DBus pieces on Android
Fix crash when monitoring a contact that gets removed on PersonData (bug 410746)
Use fully qualified types on signals

KRunner

Consider UNC paths as NetworkShare context

KService

Move Amusement to Games directory instead of Games > Toys (bug 412553)
[KService] Add copy constructor
[KService] add workingDirectory(), deprecate path()

KTextEditor

try to avoid artifacts in text preview
Variable expansion: Use std::function internally
QRectF instead of QRect solves clipping issues, (bug 390451)
next rendering artifact goes away if you adjust the clip rect a bit (bug 390451)
avoid the font choosing magic and turn of anti aliasing (bug 390451)
KadeModeMenuList: fix memory leaks and others
try to scan for usable fonts, works reasonable well if you use no dumb scaling factor like 1.1
Status bar mode menu: Reuse empty QIcon that is implicitly shared
Expose KTextEditor::MainWindow::showPluginConfigPage()
Replace QSignalMapper with lambda
KateModeMenuList: use QString() for empty strings
KateModeMenuList: add "Best Search Matches" section and fixes for Windows
Variable expansion: Support QTextEdits
Add keyboard shortcut for switching Input modes to edit menu (bug 400486)
Variable expansion dialog: properly handle selection changes and item activation
Variable expansion dialog: add filter line edit
Backup on save: Support time and date string replacements (bug 403583)
Variable expansion: Prefer return value over return argument
Initial start of variables dialog
use new format API

KWallet Framework

HiDPI support

KWayland

Sort files alphabetically in cmake list

KWidgetsAddons

Make OK button configurable in KMessageBox::sorry/detailedSorry
[KCollapsibleGroupBox] Fix QTimeLine::start warning at runtime
Improve naming of KTitleWidget icon methods
Add QIcon setters for the password dialogs
[KWidgetAddons] port to non-deprecated Qt API

KWindowSystem

Set XCB to required if building the X backend
Make less use of deprecated enum alias NET::StaysOnTop

KXMLGUI

Move "Full Screen Mode" item from Settings menu to View menu (bug 106807)

NetworkManagerQt

ActiveConnection: connect stateChanged() signal to correct interface

Plasma Framework

Export Plasma core lib log category, add a category to a qWarning
[pluginloader] Use categorized logging
make editMode a corona global property
Honor global animation speed factor
properly install whole plasmacomponent3
[Dialog] Apply window type after changing flags
Change reveal password button logic
Fix crash on teardown with Applet's ConfigLoader (bug 411221)

QQC2StyleBridge

Fix several build system errors
take margins from qstyle
[Tab] Fix sizing (bug 409390)

Syntax Highlighting

Add syntax highlighting for RenPy (.rpy) (bug 381547)
WordDetect rule: detect delimiters at the inner edge of the string
Highlight GeoJSON files as if they were plain JSON
Add syntax highlighting for SubRip Text (SRT) Subtitles
Fix skipOffset with dynamic RegExpr (bug 399388)
bitbake: handle embedded shell and python
Jam: fix identifier in a SubRule
Add syntax definition for Perl6 (bug 392468)
support .inl extension for C++, not used by other xml files at the moment (bug 411921)
support *.rej for diff highlighting (bug 411857)

Security information

The released code has been GPG-signed using the following key:
pub rsa2048/58D0EE648A48B3BB 2016-09-05 David Faure
Primary key fingerprint: 53E6 B47B 45CE A3E0 D5B7 4577 58D0 EE64 8A48 B3BB
  KDE Frameworks 5.63.0 released