Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 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:
* Discover: Address the keyboard shortcut tooltip.
* Sort Unsplash POTD image categories alphabetically.
* Info Center: Unbreak about CPU value when solid is missing a
product string.
[1] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.22.4/
Make it possible to run firefox with KDE filedialogs.
The call for parse_app_info_from_flatpak_info uses the /proc/$PID/root
file to access the flatpak information file.
We neither have support for /proc/$PID/root nor flatpaks or snaps.
With this fix and deskutils/plasma5-xdg-desktop-portal-kde it is now possible
to run firefox using the KDE file dialogs.
> GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 firefox
2.5.0
- Upgrade XMPCore to Adobe XMP SDK CC 2016.07
- Support for iOS in XMPFiles
- New DOM based API’s are added in XMP Core to access metadata tree
hierarchy. (not exposed yet in Exempi)
- Added support XMP/metadata in utf-8 encoded uncompressed SVG files in XMPFiles.
- Added support of GIF handler in XMPFiles.
- Added support for reconciliation of iXML’s TRACK_LIST and its components to get
microphone data.
- Added support for IFDs of type 13 in TIFF.
- Added support for MPEG4 videos shot from Google Nexus 5 camera.
- Restructured the implementation of XDCAM Handler to support File Access Mode (FAM)
and Simple Access Mode (SAM)
- Added inbuilt support for iXML namespace in XMPCore.
- Modified the alias tiff:ImageDescription for dc:description as language alternative
array instead of simple property.
- Lot of bug fixes in XMPFiles and XMPCore.
- Removed Exempi provided support for GIF in favour of Adobe's.
- New: API NS_XML constant
Internal:
- Added tests for Adobe SDK.
- Fixed warnings and other issues and Adobe SDK.
- Compile with much more warnings enabled.
2.4.5 - 2018/03/07
- Bug #105204: [CVE-2018-7730] fix a buffer overflow in the PSD parser.
- Bug #105205: [CVE-2018-7728] fix a buffer overflow in the TIFF parser.
- Bug #105206: [CVE-2018-7729] fix a buffer overflow in PostScript parser.
- Bug #105247: [CVE-2018-7731] fix a null dereference in WEBP parser.
2.4.4 - 2018/02/04
- Bug #102197: Properly initialize pointers in WEBP.
- Bug #102151: Fix an infinite loop in RIFF parser.
- Bug #102483: Fix an infinite loop in QuickTime parser.
- Bug #102484: Fix an infinite loop in ASF parser.
- Bug #104885: Adjust minimum version for gcc in documentation.
2.4.3 - 2017/08/03
- Bug #100397: Fix a buffer overrun, memcpy() on overlapping
regions, use after free in the exception handling.
- Bug #101913: Fix a fatal assert with corrupt WEBP.
- Bug #101914: Fix a crash on a corrupt file.
2.4.2 - 2017/01/29
- Properly define BanAllEntityUsage.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888765
2.4.1 - 2017/01/23
- Bug #99494: Restore error reporting.
Internal:
- Added test for xmp_parse()
- Renamed test3 to testiterator and more comprehensive test for
iterator to detect thing like bug 99480
Release notes:
- In 2.4.0 the XMP iterator corrected behaviour when used for
XMP_ITER_JUSTLEAFNAME: The returned values are now set to they
actual schema NS instead of the top level one.
This required fixed in third party packages:
https://github.com/python-xmp-toolkit/python-xmp-toolkit/issues/67
This changes is the result of a bug fix in Adobe SDK.
See bug #99480
2.4.0 - 2017/01/07
- Bug #89449: Upgrade XMPCore to Adobe XMP CC 2014.12.
- New flag to optimize layout on MPEG4 files.
- GoPro MPEG4 video files support.
- Improved JPEG support.
- iXML support in WAVE files.
- Several bugs and memory leaks fixes.
- Changes from Adobe XMP CC 2013.06.
- Pluggable file handlers (not exposed yet in Exempi)
- Support for Exif 2.3 properties
- New RIFF file handler
- Better Postscript support.
- Lot of bug fixes.
- New API: added XMP_OPEN_OPTIMIZEFILELAYOUT for new SDK.
- Now require (partial) C++11 support to compile (gcc 4.4.7 tested)
- New: WebP format handler (contributed: Frankie Dintino, The Atlantic)
Internal:
- Exempi is now automatically build and the test run by Travis CI.
2.3.0 - 2016/03/15
- New: API xmp_datetime_compare().
- New: API xmp_string_len() to get the length of the XmpString.
- Bug #94065:
- New: API xmp_files_can_put_xmp_xmpstring() and xmp_files_can_put_xmp_cstr()
variants.
- New: API xmp_files_put_xmp_xmpstring() and xmp_files_put_xmp_cstr()
variants.
- New: API xmp_files_get_xmp_xmpstring() variant.
- Test: check the status of the PDF handler.
- Bug #90380: Fix potential crash with corrupt TIFF file.
- Bug #14612: Better Solaris compilation fix.
- Fix header to pass -Wstrict-prototypes
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/
Go another round with the dependency-cleanup:
- ECM and doctools are still more only a build-dep
- Qt testlibs is a build-dep
This touches plenty of ports outside of KDE Frameworks
that did **not** list their full dependencies and could
get away with it because frameworks pulled in too much.
This update introduced a new build time dependency on inkscape,
used to generate icons during build.
I also added USES desktop-file-utils and shared-mime-info,
suggested by poudriere and it looks like they are really needed
since the port is installing a deskstop file and a mime info file.
PR: 257021
- Boost is a build-dep for all of these ports, using header-only
libraries; there **are** library-uses of Boost in KDE PIM, just
not here.
- ECM is a build-dep that is not needed at runtime.
- Qt testlib is a build-dep.
Tuesday, 6 July 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma
5, versioned 5.22.3.
Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 with many feature refinements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds two weeks' worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Dr Konqi: Repair query construction.
* Plasma Disks: Don’t notify on instabilities.
* [Task Manager] Load album art background asynchronously.
Full Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.22.2-5.22.3/
Release 21.07.0:
core:
* JBIG2Stream: Do not consider a size-0 to be an error. Issue #535
* PSOutputDev: fix off-by-one error for image masking in L1/L2 output. Issue #1088
* CairoOutputDev: Fix memory leak on broken files
* Minor code improvements
build system:
* set C standard to 11 without extensions
Exp-run by: antoine
PR: 256981
Maliit provides a flexible and cross-platform input method framework for mobile
and embedded text input, including a virtual keyboard. It has a plugin-based
client-server architecture where applications act as clients and communicate
with the Maliit server via input context plugins.
WWW: http://maliit.github.io/
Maliit provides a flexible and cross-platform input method framework for
mobile and embedded text input, including a virtual keyboard. It has a
plugin-based client-server architecture where applications act as
clients and communicate with the Maliit server via input context
plugins.
WWW: https://maliit.github.io/
The QtFeedback module offers classes that allow you to manage tactile feedback
and device vibration.
WWW: https://github.com/qt/qtfeedback
This port will be required by maliit-keyboard, the defacto standard
virtual keyboard for Plasma Wayland Desktop
Presage is an intelligent predictive text entry system.
Presage (formerly known as Soothsayer) generates predictions by modelling
natural language as a combination of redundant information sources. Presage
computes probabilities for words which are most likely to be entered next by
merging predictions generated by the different predictive algorithms. Presage’s
modular and extensible architecture allows its language model to be extended
and customized to utilize statistical, syntactic, and semantic predictive
algorithms.
WWW: https://presage.sourceforge.io/
This port will be required by maliit-keyboard, the defacto standard
virtual keyboard for Plasma Wayland Desktop
Tuesday, 22 June 2021.
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.22.2.
Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 with many feature refinements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Discover: Flatpak: properly notify about updates.
* [Task Manager] Show window title in tooltip when player title is different
* KWin: Wayland: Implement activities window rule.
View full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.22.1-5.22.2
Per discussion with bapt on helping pkg handle the changing of these
deps and avoiding impossible upgrade senarios.
PR: 246767
Reviewed by: manu, bapt
Approved by: x11
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30824
Tuesday, 15 June 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma
5, versioned 5.22.1.
Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 with many feature refinements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* KWin: Platforms/drm: support NVidia as secondary GPU with CPU copy.
* Weather applet: Point bbcukmet to new location API.
* Wallpapers: Add milky way.
View full changelog at
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.22.0-5.22.1
Plasma 5.22 is here, and it is more reliable and stable than ever. By
cleaning up and refactoring code in the background, the Plasma desktop
gives you greater responsiveness and performance, helping you become
even more productive without hiccups or surprises. Enjoy a smoother
experience with KDE’s Plasma 5.22 desktop.
Plasma 5.22 has become more pleasurable to use through improvements to
the design and greater smoothness and consistency in transparencies,
blurs, icons, and animations. Moving things to accessible locations,
offering hints and visual cues, and creating new settings allows you to
customize your work environment to make it fit perfectly to your needs.
Following the true KDE spirit, the push for a more stable and attractive
desktop does not mean you have to renounce control over how you want it
to look or behave. Plasma 5.22, as always, packs all the flexibility and
tools for customization you have come to expect and love, and some more
to boot.
Meanwhile, the push to move Plasma in its entirety to Wayland (the
display protocol of the future) continues in full swing. So much so that
popular distros are starting to ship Plasma with Wayland by default. By
using Wayland behind the scenes, Plasma is able to include features and
bug fixes not possible to implement on X11, offering you a better
experience and more stability.
Full announcement and changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.22.0/
Thursday, 10 June 2021
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
The full changelog can be found here:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.04.2/
