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KDE Frameworks 5.4.0 has been released



6th November 2014. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.4.0.

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.

Attica

Fix build with Qt 5.4

KArchive

Add support for rcc files

KAuth

Fix install dir when using KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS

KCMUtils

Fix KPluginSelector not adding non .desktop file plugins

KConfigWidgets

Fix URL in KHelpClient::invokeHelp

KCoreAddons

Various build fixes (QNX, Ubuntu 14.04)

KDeclarative

Optimize IconItem in QIconItem in memory and speed

KIO

New job KIO::mkpath()
New job KIO::PasteJob, handles pasting+dropping URLs and data; KIO::paste
replaces KIO::pasteClipboard
New function KIO::pasteActionText, to handle the paste action
When clicking on a script or desktop file in a file manager, let the user
choose between executing and vieweing as text
KUrlRequester: fixing handling of start directory
Offer also overwrite option when copying multiple files and there is a
conflict (regression compared to kdelibs4)
KDirLister: do not kill+restart running update jobs.
KDirLister: don't emit refreshItems for items that haven't changed.
Prevent incorrect disk full error messages on mounts where we cannot
determine the amount of free space.
Fix running the file type editor

KNewStuff

Many small fixes and cleanups

KNotifications

Add support for custom icons (convenience method KNotification::Event with
icon name)

KTextEditor

Implement "go to last editing position" action
Guard against a possibly broken code folding state on disk

KWallet

Emit 'walletListDirty' signal when the 'kwalletd' directory is deleted

KWidgetsAddons

New function KMimeTypeEditor::editMimeType(), to launch keditfiletype5

KXmlGui

Now supports finding ui files in resources (default location:
:/kxmlgui5/)

Plasma frameworks

Fixes in the Dialog QML component size and position
Fixes in the Slider and ProgressBar QML components
New icons

Solid

[not communicated]

Buildsystem changes

New modules FindWaylandScanner and FindQtWaylandScanner, including macros
ecm_add_qtwayland_client_protocol and ecm_add_qtwayland_server_protocol

Frameworkintegration

implement support for setting custom labels in file dialogs
  KDE Frameworks 5.4.0 released