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/
These ports use KDE Frameworks and require kdoctools to build. Since
that is no longer an implicit build & run dependency, (re)introduce it
explicitly as a build-time dependency.
No revision bump tool that we have cleans them up or deals with
them, so we end up with duplicated lines. Instead of implementing
that just clean up the 51 ports that do this.
PORTREVISION and PORTEPOCH can be set to 0 explicitly instead if
you need a reminder or placeholder.
Local (testport) builds were failing like so:
ld: error: undefined symbol: testing::Message::GetString() const
>>> referenced by base.cc
>>> tests/CMakeFiles/mxnet_unit_tests.dir/cpp/misc/base.cc.o:(testing::AssertionResult::AppendMessage(testing::Message const&))
because the testing libraries were not being linked -- because
they're not even searched for when testing is not enabled.
Extend previous patch that put the searching-for-testlibs
behind a check, to apply the same check to building-tests.
Release 21.04.0:
core:
* Hide symbols by default
* TextSelectionDumper: fix word order for RTL text
* Fix rendering of text in some files. Issue #1052
* Implement rendering of Masks of Image subtype. Issue #1058
* Forms: fix unclicking standalone form buttons. Issue #1034
glib:
* Expose more fields from MediaRendition in PopplerMedia
* Use stock glib macro to define boxed type
* Remove incorrecly used volatile from enum type registration code
qt5:
* Fix crash in files with malformed signatures
* Fix memory leak when QImage constructor "fails"
qt6:
* Fix crash in files with malformed signatures
* Fix memory leak when QImage constructor "fails"
utils:
* pdfsig: New paragraph for "-sign" in manpage
* pdfimages: Do not assert in "too big images". Issue #1061
build system:
* Require cmake >= 3.10
* Require Qt 5 >= 5.9
* Require glib >= 2.56
* Require gtk 3 >= 3.22
* Require gdk-pixbuf >= 2.36
PR: poppler-21.04.0
Exp-run by: antoine
Saturday, 10 April 2021
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.81.0.
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.
Full Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.81.0/
PR: 254978
Exp-run by: antoine
