KDE Gear 21.04
Thursday, 22 April 2021
Welcome to KDE Gear ⚙️ 21.04!
KDE produces literally dozens of apps for work, play, education, and
creativity. Kontact, for example, gives you control over all your email,
contact, and agenda; Itinerary keeps you up to date with everything you
need regarding your trips; the KAlgebra graphing calculator works
equally well on your desktop and your phone; Cantor provides you with an
intuitive way of analyzing data and graphing the results; and Kdenlive
makes cutting and building sophisticated-looking videos not only easy,
but fun as well.
These are but a few of the apps releasing new updates today. When
combined with the KDE’s powerful Plasma desktop, they provide you with
most, if not all, the tools you need to be productive in a versatile and
flexible Linux^WFreeBSD environment.
But you don’t even need to run Linux! Many of the apps in this
announcement work on Windows, macOS, and Android as well. This is what
convergent means for KDE: use your favorite apps anywhere, on any
system, on your work computer, mobile or even on your TV!
And, remember: KDE’s apps, the Plasma desktop, Plasma Mobile, Plasma
BigScreen and all the rest of KDE’s software are free and open source.
No licensing, no hidden costs, no spying. Share them with your friends,
install them at work, or use them in your school lab. It is your
software to enjoy where and how you want.
Full announcement and changelogs:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.04/
20.12.3 Releases
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature
plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE’s release service.
Some of our projects release on their own timescale and some get released
en-masse. The 20.12.2 bundle of projects was released today with dozens of
bugfixes and will be available through app stores and distros soon. See the
20.12.2 releases page for details.
Some of the fixes in today’s bugfix releases include:
* Ark no longer crashes when closing the window while loading a TAR archive
* Dolphin calculates the folder size on FUSE and network file systems correctly now
* Konsole no longer crashes when exiting all tabs at the same time
* Dictionaries can be added in Kiten’s config dialog
* Umbrello doesn’t crash anymore if exiting when a widget in a diagram is selected
Release Notes:
https://community.kde.org/Releases/20.12_Release_Notes
Full Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/fulllog_releases-20.12.2/
- astro/libkgeomap has been removed as there are no consumers left
- deskutils/kdepim-apps-libs has been reintegrated into other ports
There are a handful of new ports available:
- astro/kosmindoormap: Library and QML component for rendering multi-level OSM indoor maps
- deskutils/itinerary: KDE Itinerary is a digital travel assistant
- devel/kpublictransport: Access realtime public transport data
- graphics/kontrast: Color contrast checker
- textproc/markdownpart: KPart for rendering Markdown content
Some of our projects release on their own timescale and some get released
en-masse. The 20.08.3 bundle of projects was released today with dozens of
bugfixes and will be available through app stores and distros soon. See the
20.08.3 releases page for details.
Some of the fixes in today’s releases:
* Gwenview no longer accidentally shows the thumbnail view as a separate window with newer Qt versions
* Sending SMS with KDEConnect has been restored
* Fixed a possible Okular crash when selecting text in annotations
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-11-apps-update/
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/fulllog_releases-20.08.3/
Dozens of KDE apps are getting new releases from KDE’s release service. New
features, usability improvements, re-designs and bug fixes all contribute to
helping boost your productivity and making this new batch of applications more
efficient and pleasant to use.
Dozens of KDE apps are getting new releases from KDE’s release service. New
features, usability improvements, re-designs and bug fixes all contribute to
helping boost your productivity and making this new batch of applications more
efficient and pleasant to use.
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-08-apps-update/
From the changelog [1]:
Some of the fixes included in this release are:
* kio-fish: Only store password in KWallet if the user asked for it.
* The Umbrello Fixes for adding multiline c++ comment support.
* The scrolling behavior in the Okular document viewer has been
improved and is more usable with free-spinning mouse wheels
* A regression that sometimes caused the JuK music player to
crash on start has been fixed
* The Kdenlive video editor has received many stability updates,
including a fix to the DVD chapter creation and a fix that
improves the handling of timecodes, improved handling of missing
clips, draw “photo” frame on image clips to differentiate from
video clips., and previews in the timeline
* KMail now correctly handles existing maildir folders when adding
a new maildir profile and no longer crashes when adding too many
recipients
* Import and export of Kontact settings has been enhanced to include
more data
[1] https://kde.org/announcements/changelog-releases.php?version=20.04.1
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
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
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
* math/analitza
* math/cantor
* math/kalgebra
* math/kbruch
* math/kcalc
* math/kig
* math/kmplot
* math/rocs
This is the current version of KDE Applications <foo>.
Note that users of KDE SC4 should stick with <foo>-kde4.
In order to make room for the up-to-date version of the KDE Desktop and its
applications move the KDE Application ports based on Qt4.
PR: 225992
Exp-run by: antoine
Reviewed by: rakuco, adridg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14413
The kde@ team presents KDE SC 4.14.3, the last planed release
of the KDE SC 4 series.
In addition to the updates provided by the KDE SC developers, this
update also addresses numerous FreeBSD and PORTS specific
issues, found and solved by the kde@ team and area51 testers,
most notorously Tobias C. Berner <tcberner@gmail.com>
PR: 197751
PR: 197871
PR: 184996
Reviewed by: rakuco (mentor)
Differential: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1950
USE_KDE4=kdehier component has been deprecated, new components added:
baloo - Baloo core libraries
baloo-widgets - Baloo widgets library
kfilemetadata - KDE library for extracting file metadata
New ports:
graphics/kqtquickcharts - QtQuick plugin to render interactive charts
misc/artikulate - Pronunciation trainer for KDE
(not usable currently, links to both
GStreamer 1.x and 0.10.x via dependencies)
sysutils/baloo[-widgets] - KDE framework for searching and
managing user metadata
sysutils/kfilemetadata - Library for extracting file metadata
l10n ports:
- Farsi (Persian) and Indonesian translations has been readded
- Vietnamese didn't pass threshold for inclusion into release
astro/kstars:
- switch dependency from math/eigen2 to math/eigen3
- add PYKDE option for updating supernovae data
deskutils/kdepim4:
- update dependencies: add libkgapi and baloo,
remove now needless clucene, link-grammar, strigi
- add patch to fix build with gcc42
- update COMMENT and description for all KDE PIM ports
devel/ruby-krossruby:
- remove BROKEN, it builds with ruby 2.x now
editors/kate:
- add patch to disable memory-hungry build of the kate tests [1]
graphics/okular:
- add dependency on graphics/libkscreen
math/cantor:
- add optional dependency on lang/luajit for LuaJIT backend
- fix gfortran detection [2]
misc/kdehier4:
- adapt to new pkg world. Now the purpose of kdehier4 only
to link some stuff between KDE4_PREFIX and LOCALBASE.
science/kalzium:
- switch dependency from math/eigen2 to math/eigen3
- add dependence on science/chemical-mime-data
x11-themes/kdeartwork4
- switch dependency from math/eigen2 to math/eigen3
among other changes:
- drop deprecated USE_KDE4=kdehier
- drop @dirrm from plist
- clean up pkg-descr
- convert to options helpers
- other portlint fixes
The area51 repository features commits by alonso, rakuco and myself.
PR: 187150 [1]
Reported by: pe.freethread@live.com
Patch by: Tobias Berner <tcberner@gmail.com>
PR: 180674 [2]
Reported by: torsten.eichstaedt@web.de
PR: 194316
Exp-run: antoine
KDE ports:
- Convert to USES=tar:xz
devel/p5-perlqt, multimedia/kdemultimedia4-ffmpegthumbs:
- Convert LIB_DEPENDS to new style
devel/p5-perlqt, devel/p5-perlkde:
- Don't remove directories installed by perl port
net/kdnssd:
- moved to net/zeroconf-ioslave (renamed upstream)
x11/kdelibs4:
- Clean up non-standard shared mime files and directories after deinstall
The area51 repository features commits by Alonso Schaich
<alonsoschaich@fastmail.fm> and makc.
deskutils/kdepim4:
- Add depedency on coreutils, kleopatra needs md5sum and sha1sum programs [1]
misc/kdehier4:
- add tests directory (r343428 commit to Templates/BSD.local.dist)
security/kwallet:
- moved to security/kwalletmanager (renamed upstream)
x11/kdelibs:
- remove workaround, which is not needed after global fix in
Mk/bsd.kde4.mk (r315373)
PR: ports/187259 [1]
Submitted by: Tobias Berner <tcberner@gmail.com>
Among changes:
- Switch KDE4_PREFIX to ${LOCALBASE}
- Remove now needless misc/kde4-shared-mime-info port
- Add stage support
- Remove ancient CONFLICTS (KDE 4.9 and less) and LATEST_LINK
- Squeeze MASTER_SITES/MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR
- Convert LIB_DEPENDS to new style
- Use options helpers
- Drop support for FreeBSD 7.x
- Remove Qt/KDE 3 related workarounds
- Remove local patches and use upstream version scheme for libraries
- sysutils/kdeadmin4, net/kdenetwork4, devel/kdesdk4,
and x11-clocks/kdetoys4 ports have been split.
- devel/kcachegrind is now a part of KDE SC [1]
- more logs in area51 repo...
New ports:
devel/kde-dev-scripts: KDE development scripts
devel/kde-dev-utils: KDE development utilities
games/klickety: Tetris themed solitaire
games/picmi: Single player logic-based puzzle game
textproc/libkomparediff2: Library to compare files and strings
The area51 repository features commits by Schaich Alonso, avilla, rakuco
and myself.
PR: ports/186491
Exp-run: by bdrewery
Approved by: beat (former maintainer) [1]
Proudly brought to you by the KDE on FreeBSD team. We're sorry to ship two
KDE updates in just a few days, but the work on 4.10.5 was very light
compared to 4.10.4 so it was ready much faster.
The release announcement can be found in [1].
[1] http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.10.5.php
The biggest news for us on FreeBSD is that the Ruby bindings should work
with Ruby 1.9 now.
I will probably add a note to UPDATING later about this, but as avilla@
pointed out, the clang support we mentioned that was improved in 4.10.4
requires a rebuild of the ports that depend on kdelibs4. Most of them are
covered by this update, but those which are not part of the Software
Compilation need to be rebuilt manually to make sure the previous issues
(proper symbol visibility being the most annoying of them) are solved.
With commits from avilla@, makc@, rakuco@ and Schaich Alonso.
The upstream announcement can be found in [1].
[1] http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.10.4.php
clang support should be more stable now, with clang being recognized by
kdelibs4 and being passed the correct flags to build other ports.
Additionally, all ports being committed have been verified to build with
-CURRENT's clang 3.3 on an amd64 tinderbox (special thanks go to swills@ for
providing it).
Work on the newly-released 4.10.5 will begin shortly.
- kdegames4 port has been split.
- kdeutils4-printer-applet and system-config-printer-kde have been
replaced by print/kde4-print-manager.
- Recover misc/kde4-l10n-mr from attic.
- New USE_KDE4 components: kactivities, libkdegames, nepomuk-core,
and nepomuk-widgets.
- Provide sharedmime component with magic: ports don't need to
run update-mime-database themselves now.
- Switch some ports to out-of-source build.
- Update port comments.
- Adjust dependence on Qt4 components.
- x11/kde4 installs modern kdepim4 now.
- Remove redundant aspell and hspell from kdelibs4, both
can be enabled in textproc/enchant if needed.
- Remove stale bits from bsd.kde4.mk
The area51 repository features commits by Schaich Alonso and myself.
Contributors:
- Tobias Berner
- kdebindings ports have been renamed to match upstream.
- kdemultimedia and kdenetwork have been split.
- New port games/pairs added.
- Trim Makefile header
- Convert to new option framework
- New USE_KDE4 components: libkcddb, libkcompactdisc
- Update:
databases/akonadi to 1.9.0
devel/grantlee to 0.3.0
textproc/rasqal to 0.9.30
textproc/redland-bindings to 1.0.16.1
textproc/soprano to 2.9.0
x11-toolkits/attica to 0.4.1
The area51 repository features commits by Schaich Alonso, avilla, dbn,
jhale, makc and rakuco.
Contributors:
- Oleg Sidorkin
- Tobias Berner
- Kurt Jaeger
