KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.24.0.

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

The list of supported platforms for each framework is now more explicit.
Android has been added to the list of supported platforms in all frameworks where this is the case.

Baloo

DocumentUrlDB::del Only assert when children of dir actually exist
Ignore malformed Queries which have a binary operator without first argument

Breeze Icons

Many new or improved icons
fix bug 364931 user-idle icon was not visible (bug 364931)
Add a program to convert symbolically linked files to qrc aliases

Extra CMake Modules

Integrate relative library paths to APK
Use "${BIN_INSTALL_DIR}/data" for DATAROOTDIR on Windows

KArchive

Ensure extracting an archive does not install files outside the extraction folder,
for security reasons. Instead, extract such files to the root of the extraction folder.

KBookmarks

Cleanup KBookmarkManagerList before qApp exits, to avoid deadlocks with the DBus thread

KConfig

Deprecate authorizeKAction() in favor of authorizeAction()
Fix reproducibility in builds by ensuring utf-8 encoding

KConfigWidgets

KStandardAction::showStatusbar: Return the intended action

KDeclarative

Make epoxy optional

KDED

[OS X] make kded5 an agent, and build it as a regular application

KDELibs 4 Support

Remove KDETranslator class, there's no kdeqt.po anymore
Document the replacement for use12Clock()

KDesignerPlugin

Add support for KNewPasswordWidget

KDocTools

Allow KDocTools to always locate at least its own installed stuff
Use CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR to look for docbook instead of share
Update qt5options manpage docbook to qt 5.4
Update kf5options manpage docbook

KEmoticons

Move glass theme to kde-look

KGlobalAccel

Use QGuiApplication instead of QApplication

KHTML

Fix applying inherit value for outline shorthand property
Handle initial and inherit for border radius
Discard property if we caught an invalid length|percent as background-size
cssText must output comma separated values for those properties
Fix parsing background-clip in shorthand
Implement background-size parsing in shorthand
Mark properties as set when repeating patterns
Fix background properties inheritance
Fix applying Initial and Inherit for background-size property
Deploy the khtml kxmlgui file in a Qt resource file

KI18n

Also search catalogs for stripped variants of values in env var LANGUAGE
Fix parsing of env var values WRT modifier and codeset, done in wrong order

KIconThemes

Add support for loading and using an icontheme in a RCC file automatically
Document icon theme deployment on MacOS and Windows, see https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kiconthemes/html/index.html

KInit

Allow timeout in reset_oom_protection while waiting for SIGUSR1

KIO

KIO: add SlaveBase::openPasswordDialogV2 for better error checking, please port your kioslaves to it
Fix KUrlRequester opening file dialog in wrong directory (bug 364719)
Fix unsafe KDirModelDirNode* casts
Add cmake option KIO_FORK_SLAVES to set default value
ShortUri filter: fix filtering of mailto:user@host
Add OpenFileManagerWindowJob to highlight file within a folder
KRun: add runApplication method
Add soundcloud search provider
Fix an alignment issue with the OS X native "macintosh" style

KItemModels

Add KExtraColumnsProxyModel::removeExtraColumn, will be needed by StatisticsProxyModel

KJS

kjs/ConfigureChecks.cmake - set HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H properly

KNewStuff

Make sure we have a size to offer (bug 364896)
Fix "Download dialog fails when all categories missing"

KNotification

Fix notify by taskbar

KNotifyConfig

KNotifyConfigWidget: add disableAllSounds() method (bug 157272)

KParts

Add switch to disable KParts' handling of window titles
Add donate menu item to help menu of our apps

Kross

Fix name of QDialogButtonBox's enumerator "StandardButtons"
Remove the first attempt to load library because we will try libraryPaths anyway
Fix crash when a method exposed to Kross returns QVariant with non-relocatable data
Do not use C-style casts into void* (bug 325055)

KRunner

[QueryMatch] Add iconName

KTextEditor

Show Scrollbar Text Preview after a delay of 250ms
hide preview and stuff on view content scrolling
set parent + toolview, I think this is needed to avoid task switcher entry in Win10
Remove "KDE-Standard" from encoding box
Folding preview on per default
Avoid dashed underline for preview & avoid poisoning of line layout cache
Always enable "Show preview of folded text" option
TextPreview: Adjust the grooveRect-height when scrollPastEnd is enabled
Scrollbar preview: use groove rect if scrollbar does not use full height
Add KTE::MovingRange::numberOfLines() just like KTE::Range has
Code folding preview: set popup height so that all hidden lines fit
Add option to disable preview of folded text
Add modeline 'folding-preview' of type bool
View ConfigInterface: support 'folding-preview' of type bool
Add bool KateViewConfig::foldingPreview() and setFoldingPreview(bool)
Feature: Show text preview when hovering over folded code block
KateTextPreview: add setShowFoldedLines() and showFoldedLines()
Add modelines 'scrollbar-minimap' [bool], and 'scrollbar-preview' [bool]
Enable mini-map scrollbar by default
New feature: Show text preview when hovering over the scrollbar
KateUndoGroup::editEnd(): pass KTE::Range by const ref
Fix vim-mode shortcut handling, after behaviour changes in Qt 5.5 (bug 353332)
Autobrace: don't insert ' character in text
ConfigInterface: add scrollbar-minimap config key to enable/disable scrollbar mini map
Fix KTE::View::cursorToCoordinate() when top message widget is visible
Refactoring of the Emulated Command Bar
Fix drawing artifacts when scrolling while notifications are visible (bug 363220)

KWayland

Add a parent_window event to Plasma Window interface
Properly handle destroying a Pointer/Keyboard/Touch resource
[server] Delete dead code: KeyboardInterface::Private::sendKeymap
[server] Add support for setting the clipboard selection DataDeviceInterface manually
[server] Ensure that Resource::Private::get returns nullptr if passed a nullptr
[server] Add resource check in QtExtendedSurfaceInterface::close
[server] Unset SurfaceInterface pointer in referenced objects when being destroyed
[server] Fix error message in QtSurfaceExtension Interface
[server] Introduce a Resource::unbound signal emitted from unbind handler
[server] Don't assert when destroying a still referenced BufferInterface
Add destructor request to org_kde_kwin_shadow and org_kde_kwin_shadow_manager

KWidgetsAddons

Fix reading Unihan data
Fix minimum size of KNewPasswordDialog (bug 342523)
Fix ambiguous contructor on MSVC 2015
Fix an alignment issue under the OS X native "macintosh" style (bug 296810)

KXMLGUI

KXMLGui: Fix merge indices when removing xmlgui clients with actions in groups (bug 64754)
Don't warn about "file found in compat location" if it wasn't found at all
Add donate menu item to help menu of our apps

NetworkManagerQt

Do not set peap label based on peap version
Make network manager version checks in runtime (to avoid compile vs. run-time (bug 362736)

Plasma Framework

[Calendar] Flip arrow buttons on right-to-left languages
Plasma::Service::operationDescription() should return a QVariantMap
Don't include embedded contrainers in containmentAt(pos) (bug 361777)
fix the color theming for the restart system icon (login screen) (bug 364454)
disable taskbar thumbnails with llvmpipe (bug 363371)
guard against invalid applets (bug 364281)
PluginLoader::loadApplet: restore compatibility for misinstalled applets
correct folder for PLASMA_PLASMOIDS_PLUGINDIR
PluginLoader: improve error message about plugin version compatibility
Fix check to keep QMenu on screen for multiscreen layouts
New containment type for the systray

Solid

Fix check that CPU is valid
Handle reading /proc/cpuinfo for Arm processors
Find CPUs by subsystem rather than driver

Sonnet

Mark helper exe as non-gui app
Allow nsspellcheck to be compiled on mac per default