KDE's April 2020 Apps Update
A new bundle of KDE applications is here! In these releases, you can expect to
find more features, stability improvements, and more user-friendly tools that
will help you work more effectively.
There are dozens of changes to look forward to in most of your favorite
applications. Take Dolphin, for example. Windows Samba shares are now fully
discoverable.
On the topic of playing music: the Elisa music player is adding features by
leaps and bounds. This release brings a new “Now Playing” view, easy
accessibility through the system tray, and an option to minimize the playlist
whenever you want. Thanks to the recently-added visual shuffle mode, it’s much
easier to rearrange your music in the playlists.
These are just the highlights of what’s new in KDE’s applications this month.
Read on to find out about everything we’ve prepared for you.
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-04-apps-update/
New versions of KDE applications landing in December
The release of new versions for KDE applications is part of KDE’s continued
effort to bring you a complete and up-to-date catalog of fully-featured,
beautiful and useful programs for your system.
Available now are new versions of KDE’s file browser Dolphin; Kdenlive, one of
the most complete open source video editors; the document viewer Okular; KDE’s
image viewer, Gwenview; and all of your other favorite KDE apps and utilities.
All of these applications have been improved, making them faster and more
stable and they boast exciting new features. The new versions of KDE
applications let you be productive and creative, while at the same time making
use of KDE software easy and fun.
We hope you enjoy all the novel features and improvements worked into all of
KDE’s apps!
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2019-12-apps-update/
November 07, 2019.
Today KDE released the third stability update for KDE Applications 19.08. This
release contains only bugfixes and translation updates, providing a safe and
pleasant update for everyone.
More than a dozen recorded bugfixes include improvements to Kontact, Ark,
Cantor, K3b, Kdenlive, Konsole, Okular, Spectacle, Umbrello, among others.
Improvements include:
* In the video-editor Kdenlive, compositions no longer disappear when
reopening a project with locked tracks
* Okular's annotation view now shows creation times in local time zone
instead of UTC
* Keyboard control has been improved in the Spectacle screenshot utility
You can find the full list of changes here:
https://kde.org/announcements/fulllog_applications-aether.php?version=19.08.3
September 05, 2019.
Today KDE released the first stability update for KDE Applications 19.08. This
release contains only bugfixes and translation updates, providing a safe and
pleasant update for everyone.
More than twenty recorded bugfixes include improvements to Kontact, Dolphin,
Kdenlive, Konsole, Step, among others.
Improvements include:
* Several regressions in Konsole's tab handling have been fixed
* Dolphin again starts correctly when in split-view mode
* Deleting a soft body in the Step physics simulator no longer causes a crash
You can find the full list of changes here:
https://kde.org/announcements/fulllog_applications-aether.php?version=19.08.1
as defined in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 8.3
to GCC 9.1 under most circumstances now after revision 507371.
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, everything INDEX-11 shows with a dependency on lang/gcc9 now.
PR: 238330
July 11, 2019.
Today KDE released the third stability update for KDE Applications 19.04. This
release contains only bugfixes and translation updates, providing a safe and
pleasant update for everyone.
Over sixty recorded bugfixes include improvements to Kontact, Ark, Cantor, JuK,
K3b, Kdenlive, KTouch, Okular, Umbrello, among others.
Improvements include:
* Konqueror and Kontact no longer crash on exit with QtWebEngine 5.13
* Cutting groups with compositions no longer crashes the Kdenlive video editor
* The Python importer in Umbrello UML designer now handles parameters with default arguments
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/fulllog_applications-aether.php?version=19.04.3
a symbol matches multiple clauses the last one takes precedence. If the
catch-all is last it captures everything. In the case of Qt5 libraries
this caused all symbols to have a Qt_5 label while some should have
Qt_5_PRIVATE_API. This only affects lld because GNU ld always gives the
catch-all lowest priority.
Older versions of Qt5Webengine exported some memory allocation symbols from
the bundled Chromium. Version 5.9 stopped exporting these [1] but the
symbols were kept as weak wrappers for the standard allocation functions to
maintain binary compatibility. [2][3] The problem is that the call to the
standard function in these weak wrappers is only resolved to the standard
function if there's a call to this standard function in other parts of
Qt5Webengine, because only then is there a non-weak symbol that takes
precedence over the weak one. If there's no such non-weak symbol the call
in the weak wrapper resolves to the weak wrapper itself creating an infinite
call loop that overflows the stack and causes a crash. Some of the
allocation functions are variants of C++ new and delete and it probably
depends on the compiler whether these variants are used in other parts of
Qt5Webengine.
Remove the weak wrappers (make them Linux specific). This isn't binary
compatible but we are already breaking that with the changes to the symbol
versions.
[1] 5c2cbfccf9
[2] 2ed5054e3a
[3] 009f5ebb4b
Bump all ports that depend on Qt5.
PR: 234070
Exp-run by: antoine
Approved by: kde (adridg)
Release Announcement:
https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-18.12.1.php
Today KDE released the first stability update for KDE Applications 18.12.
This release contains only bugfixes and translation updates, providing a
safe and pleasant update for everyone.
About 20 recorded bugfixes include improvements to Kontact, Cantor, Dolphin,
JuK, Kdenlive, Konsole, Okular, among others.
Improvements include:
* Akregator now works with WebEngine from Qt 5.11 or newer
* Sorting columns in the JuK music player has been fixed
* Konsole renders box-drawing characters correctly again
You can find the full list of changes here:
https://www.kde.org/announcements/fulllog_applications-aether.php?version=18.12.1
Ports that build out of source now simply can use "USES=cmake"
instead of "USES=cmake:outsource". Ports that fail to build
out of source now need to specify "USES=cmake:insource".
I tried to only set insource where explictely needed.
PR: 232038
Exp-run by: antoine
defined via Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 7.4 t
GCC 8.2 under most circumstances.
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, as a double check, everything INDEX-11 showed depending on lang/gcc7.
PR: 231590
From now on, ports that depend on Qt4 will have to set
USES= qt:4
USE_QT= foo bar
ports depending on Qt5 will use
USES= qt:5
USE_QT= foo bar
PR: 229225
Exp-run by: antoine
Reviewed by: mat
Approved by: portmgr (antoine)
Differential Revision: →https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15540
This is the current version of KDE Applications <foo>.
Note that users of KDE SC4 should stick with <foo>-kde4.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14823
This is done for
* consistency,
* and to simplify the import of the newer KDE Plasma5 desktop and KDE applications
Bumps the dependencies.
Reviewed by: adridg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12979
