Thursday, 20 April 2023
New apps join KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04 and unlock access to fledgling social
media platforms, online video streaming services, podcasts, and much
more. This new generation of apps are designed to work both on your
computer and mobile phone right out of the box.
But, of course, if you are also looking forward to new versions of the
KDE tools you already know and trust, those are here too! Classics like
Spectacle, Dolphin, Kdenlive, Kate, and Okular all boast shiny new
features, code optimizations, and performance improvements.
Read on to find out what's new and what has been improved in KDE Gear ⚙️
23.04:
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.04.0/
Changelog: https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/23.04.0/
Restore pd-cyclone, based on slightly newer distfile available online.
Cyclone is a library of PureData classes, bringing some level of compatibility
between Max/MSP and Pd environments. The original goal of cyclone was to create
a collection of Max/MSP objects for PureData. This was in the 2000s area,
Max/MSP version 4.6. Since then MAX evolved its architecture and file format to
something that is incompatible with PureData. Compatibility in patch file level
is limited to this very old version of Max/MSP.
WWW: http://puredata.info/downloads/cyclone/
PR: 261883
- Remove USE_PHP=hash which is available in default php installation of
all versions of php
* security/pear-Horde_Crypt_Blowfish: Remove OPTION MHASH
- Remove USE_PHP=json which is available in default php installation of
all versions of php
* devel/pear-PHPTAL: Remove OPTION JSON
* www/ilias: Remove OPTION SCORM2004
- Remove USE_PHP=mssql which is no longer available in php from php80
and later and has been replaced with sqlsrv module which is Windows
only
* www/codeigniter: Remove OPTION MSSQL
* www/moodle311: Remove OPTION MSSQL
* www/moodle39: Remove OPTION MSSQL
* www/moodle40: Remove OPTION MSSQL
* www/moodle41: Remove OPTION MSSQL
- Remove USE_PHP=openssl which is available in default php installation
of all versions of php
* databases/phpmyadmin: Remove OPTION OPENSSL
* databases/phpmyadmin5: Remove OPTION OPENSSL
* security/pear-Horde_Crypt_Blowfish: Remove OPTION OPENSSL
* www/nextcloud: Remove OPTION SSL
* www/owncloud: Remove OPTION SSL
- Remove USE_PHP=pcre which is available in default php installation of
all versions of php
* sysutils/racktables: Remove OPTION PCRE
- Remove USE_PHP=postgresql which should be USE_PHP=pgsql and update
following ports
* www/typo3-11
* www/typo3-12
- Remove USE_PHP=pdf which is no longer available as php module
* databases/phpmyadmin: Remove OPTION PDF
- Remove USE_PHP=spl which is available in default php installation of
all versions of php
- Remove USE_PHP=sqlsrv which was never imported into FreeBSD as that is
Windows only php module
* www/typo3-11: Remove OPTION SQLSRV
* www/typo3-12: Remove OPTION SQLSRV
- Bump where DEFAULT OPTIONS are affected
Sponsored by: Bounce Experts
Approved by: portmgr(blanket)
JACK option added.
Enough code was bundled to use JACK, so it should be possible to output directly
to jackd, although this is experimental.
PR: 270760
Reported by: tatsuki_makino@hotmail.com (maintainer)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma
5, versioned 5.27.4.
Plasma 5.27 was released in February 2023 with many feature refinements
and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds three weeks' worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Breeze KStyle: make painted arrows more scalable, fix RTL delay menu
arrows.
* Discover Rpm-ostree: Improve handling of externally started
transactions.
* Plasma Audio Volume Control Applet: add missing function for "Show
virtual devices" menu item.
Changelog: https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.27.3-5.27.4
This error check should not be enabled by default and breaks
build with some applications such as FFmpeg
Reported by: VVD <vvd@unislabs.com>
Tested by: VVD <vvd@unislabs.com>
Sponsored by: Blinkinblox
After installing the oss package, a kernel panic occurs every time the
computer is shut down.
This is because the mixer RC script tries to save the mixer values after
the OSS module is unloaded. We can avoid this by making OSS unload after
this is done.
[crees] While here, pet rclint.
PR: ports/270709
CMake Error at /usr/local/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
Could NOT find Perl (missing: PERL_EXECUTABLE)
PR: 266007
Reported by: antoine (via exp-run)
Selected upstream changes:
- The minimum Qt version has been bumped from 5.9 to 5.12
- FFmpeg upgraded to version 5.1
- New Waveform visualisation for MythMusic
- DiSEqC support for SAT>IP
- Automatic channel groups per video source
- Nearly 300 continued code modernization and restructuring (not in commits below)
- Version 2 of the Services API is under development
Changelog: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_33
PR: 270344
