Thursday, 21 April 2022
Welcome to KDE Gear ⚙️ 22.04!
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KDE Gear ⚙️ 22.04 brings you all the updates added to a long list of KDE
apps over the last four months. KDE programs allow you to work, create
and play without having to submit yourself to extortionate licenses and
intrusive advertising, or surrender your privacy to unscrupulous
corporations.
Below you will discover a selection of the changes added in the last
four months to software designed to make your life better. But remember,
there is much, much more: games, social media apps, utilities for
communicating, developing and creating stuff… All these things have been
worked on to give you more stability and boost your productivity.
If you want to see a full list of everything we have done, check out the
complete changelog.
WARNING: There’s a lot!
All the details can be found here:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.04.0/
- Update Stellarium to the latest version 0.22.0
- Introduce WEBENGINE option: it helps to query various websites such
as Wikipedia, VSX AAVSO, GCVS SAI, etc. for extra information about
selected object and display it in the plugin's window
- Because of the above, reword MORE_STARS option description to avoid
using the word `extra' twice in the option selection dialog
- Convert LIB_DEPENDS to BUILD_DEPENDS, as this is a header-only
library and the actual usage of dependencies is optional and depends
on the consumer
- Patch most linux-only #ifdefs to also include FreeBSD
Thursday, 3 March 2022
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations,
including:
* kcron: Improve temporary file handling
* kio-extras: SFTP can use random access
* kontact: Fix Manager Crash when clicking New
Distro and app store packagers should update their application packages.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.3/
Release Notes:
https://community.kde.org/KDE_Gear/21.12_Release_notes
Thursday, 3 February 2022
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations.
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.2/
Fix conflicts entries based on a script that searches for duplicate
files installed by several ports.
Some patters seem to make ports conflict with themselves, but this is
actually not the case due to the check-*-conflicts logic implemented
in bsd.port.mk, which excludes self-conflicts.
PHP based ports have been ignored in this commit as requested by the
committers currently working on the php-8.1 import.
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
There have been lots of missing CONFLICTS_INSTALL entries, either
because conflicting ports were added without updating existing ports,
due to name changes of generated packages, due to mis-understanding
the format and semantics of the conflicts entries, or just due to
typoes in package names.
This patch is the result of a comparison of all files contained in
the official packages with each other. This comparison was based on
packages built with default options and may therefore have missed
further conflicts with optionally installed files.
Where possible, version numbers in conflicts entries have been
generalized, some times taking advantage of the fact that a port
cannot conflict with itself (due to logic in bsd.port.mk that
supresses the pattern match result in that case).
A few ports that set the conflicts variables depending on complex
conditions (e.g. port options), have been left unmodified, despite
probably containing outdated package names.
These changes should only affect the installation of locally built
ports, not the package building with poudriere. They should give an
early indication of the install conflict in cases where currently
the pkg command aborts an installation when it detects that an
existing file would be overwritten,
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Thursday, 6 January 2022
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations.
Distro and app store packagers should update their application packages.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.1/
2022-01-01 astro/google-earth: Needs newer version to connect to server
2022-01-01 net/tramp: Not updated in 5 years and now part of Emacs
2022-01-01 archivers/p7zip-codec-rar: Unmaintained for years and has known vulnerabilities
Disable OnlineQueries plugin because it pulls in Qt's WebEngine via
autodetection and there is no standard way to disable it right now.
While here, hook the tests to our framework.
In da36e63724 a dependency on qt5-declarative was made
available in kf5-kconfig. This leads to the generation of
further desktop files in some of the Gear ports.
KDE Gear 21.12 has landed and comes with a massive number of updates and
new versions of applications and libraries. Literally, dozens of classic
KDE everyday tools and the specialised sophisticated apps you use to
work, be creative and play, are getting refreshers with design
improvements, new features and performance and stability enhancements.
What's new:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.12.0/#whatsnew
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.0/
Qt testlib was implicitly a dependency for the build (tests are
mandatory), not listed in the port. Dropping testlib from quazip
changed the dependency tree.
Not bumping PORTREVISION, because the after the previous bump
it couldn't have built.
PR: 260298
Reported by: Eric Camachat
Release notes are here:
https://github.com/stachenov/quazip/releases/tag/v1.2
There are a handful of internal changes that don't affect us
(allowing QtZip, for instance) or don't show up in our use of
quazip (-lz in pkgconfig file). There's one relevant change
to close() that **might** affect consumers, but then I'd expect
bug reports from the consumers about failures on load/save.
While here, move the libraries needed only for testing to _build.
Bumping PORTREVISION of consumers.
Reported by: portscout
Some KDE Gear applications set a different version for the
shared library than the rest of them. Those ports manually
overwrote the variable used in the plist sub.
Make them use a kde.mk defined value, so that only one place
needs to be changed on updates.
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.08.3/
The conflict checks compare the patterns first against the package
names without version (as reported by "pkg query "%n"), then - if
there was no match - agsinst the full package names including the
version (as reported by "pkg query "%n-%v").
Many CONFLICTS definitions used patterns like "bash-[0-9]*" to filter
for the bash package in any version. But that pattern is functionally
identical with just "bash".
Approved by: portmgr (blanket)
The extension-helpers package includes convenience helpers to assist
with building Python packages with compiled C/Cython extensions. It
is developed by the Astropy project but is intended to be general
and usable by any Python package.
WWW: https://extension-helpers.readthedocs.io/
PyERFA is the Python wrapper for the ERFA library (Essential Routines for
Fundamental Astronomy), a C library containing key algorithms for astronomy,
which is based on the SOFA library published by the International Astronomical
Union (IAU). All C routines are wrapped as Numpy universal functions, so
that they can be called with scalar or array inputs.
WWW: https://github.com/liberfa/pyerfa
Google Earth needs version 7.1.8 or later required to run[1] since October 2020.
In order to update the port we need _at least_ linux ports for:
* libproxy
* gstreamer
* gstreamer-plugin-base
* libmodman
* orc
But in the end it fails at runtime because our linuxolator glibc is too old
(GLIBC_2.17 vs GLIBC_2.18).
[1] https://support.google.com/earth/thread/43329999/ending-support-for-earlier-versions-of-google-earth?hl=en
PR: 251635
- Update GNU Astronomy Utilities to the latest version 0.16
- Use `install-strip' so that installed library gets stripped
- Do not try to run the tests across entire source code, they
are confined to a single subdirectory (makes the build log
less noisy)
Reported by: upstream maintainer via information bulletin
While here, make sure gtk-update-icon-cache is only on run dependency
where added as a dependency
Enforce gtk3 to depend on gtk-update-icon-cache (previously it was
inheriting the dependency)
Thursday, 7 October 2021
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations,
including:
* kmail: Fix an infinite SSL error dialog loop
* konqueror: Make it compatible with KIO 5.86.0 and don’t open every
URL in a new window
* libksane: Fix multi page detection with certain scanners
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.2/
Do not install original Almagest catalog files, which is just raw data
converted into `star_names.fab' and `dso_names.fab' files that can be
used by Stellarium.
While here, group option description variables together and sort them
in alphabetical order.
It corresponds to the 9th step of the procedure described in section
7.1 of Committer's Guide.
Approved by: ygy (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32152
Thursday, 2 September 2021
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations,
including:
* konsole: Fix KXmlGUI toolbars and Konsole MainWindow size.
* elisa: Fix the “Files” view.
* skanlite: Fix image saving when preview is not shown.
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.1/
Full Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.08.1/
Thursday, 12 August 2021
KDE Gear 21.08 improves KDE apps across the board, bringing you quick
and responsive utilities, creativity programs with powerful features,
and secure tools for all your work and play needs.
If this is your first time with KDE software, discover a whole new world
of free and secure programs, packed with incredible possibilities. If
you are already a KDE regular, check out all the fresh innovations we
have added to your favorite apps.
Either way, go forth and try new things!
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.0/
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.
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.84.0/
Exp-run by: antoine
PR: 257100
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases.
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.04.3/
