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KDE Frameworks 5.12.0 has been released



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"


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
  KDE Frameworks 5.12.0 released