Thursday, 12 August 2021
KDE Gear 21.08 improves KDE apps across the board, bringing you quick
and responsive utilities, creativity programs with powerful features,
and secure tools for all your work and play needs.
If this is your first time with KDE software, discover a whole new world
of free and secure programs, packed with incredible possibilities. If
you are already a KDE regular, check out all the fresh innovations we
have added to your favorite apps.
Either way, go forth and try new things!
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.0/
StreamVByte is an integer compression technique that applies SIMD
instructions (vectorization) to Google's varint approach. The net result
is faster than other byte-oriented compression techniques.
Saturday, 10 July 2021
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.84.0.
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.
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.84.0/
Exp-run by: antoine
PR: 257100
unrpa is a tool to extract files from RPA archive format, created by
Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine.
It can also be used as a library.
https://pypi.org/project/unrpa/
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/
Saturday, 12 June 2021
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.83.0.
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/5/5.83.0/
PR: 256665
Exp-run by: antoine
- ECM (extra-cmake-modules) is only ever a build-dep and was missing
in some places where it was previously pulled in implicitly
- Qt testlib is only a build-dep
While here
- conventionally, the _build and _run items in USE_KDE and USE_QT
are sorted to the end, and they start a new line in the Makefile
- remove tcberner's created-line (confirmed on IRC)
- use DISTVERSION everywhere
- reduce inter-framework dependencies using the tooling proposed by
tcberner in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27304
Some PORTREVISION may have jumped by more than 1, since this commit
is a squash of a long string of updates where I may have bumped a
port once for ecm_build, and a second time for other lightening-up.
- Update and consolidate schily's tools into more reasonable state
- Transfer maintenance to Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su>
From Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su> (new maintainer):
In 2018, Jörg Schilling consolidated all his projects into the
schilytools project and stopped providing new separate releases for the
individual projects (such as cdrtools, smake, star, and ved). Hence,
the FreeBSD ports of these projects have been stuck on outdated versions
for years.
With this changeset, the schilytools are added to the ports collection
as a collection of 10 ports:
devel/schilybase (libraries)
archivers/star
devel/sccs
devel/smake
devel/sunpromake
editors/ved
net/rscsi (split out from cdrtools for security reasons)
sysutils/cdrtools
sysutils/schilyutils (command line helpers, shells)
misc/schilytools (meta port for all of these)
Where appropriate, I've tried to keep existing patches and conventions
in tact. Some options have been renamed to more appropriate names,
others have been added or removed. The schilytools have been patched
not to install binaries with the same name as system binaries, though
some man pages with such names remain.
The split into slave ports largely follows the OpenCSW packages provided
by the author. Some differences are present:
* strar has been moved from schilyutils to star
* rscsi has been moved from cdrtools into a package on its own as it
needs to be installed setuid to function.
* mountcd is a Solaris only program and is not shipped
* man2html is not shipped as it's already available in textproc/man2html
* cdrecord, cdda2wav, and readcd are only installed setuid root if the
user specifically requests so using a non-default option
This changeset unobsoletes the editors/ved port.
This changeset obsoletes the sysutils/cdrtools-devel port as schilytools
provide a newer version than the old development version shipped therein.
This changeset overwrites the following ports, the maintainers have
previously been informed via PR and direct email but haven't responded.
They have also been added as reviewers to this changeset.
archivers/star (mm@freebsd.org)
devel/smake (no maintainer)
sysutils/cdrtools (marius@freebsd.org)
sysutils/cdrtools-devel (marius@freebsd.org)
PR: 256467
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30669
devel/folly is (silently) built with unresolved symbols because snappy disables RTTI info.
This later causes www/proxygen build failure.
PR: 256625
Approved by: vanilla (maintainer)
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/
USE_GCC=any has been equivalent to USE_GCC=yes in most cases (such
as i386 and amd64 since 12.x and depending on configuration 11.x,
most newer installations on other platforms, and 13.x across the
board).
Since commit 96c17633d9 Mk/bsd.gcc.mk is treating them as
different spellings of the same, so continue the deorbiting of the
USE_GCC=any form and simply replace it with USE_GCC=yes.
This should not make any functional difference at all.
Discussed with: mat, linimon, pkubaj
I have not had time to properly maintain this port in ages, and do not
think this will change in the foreseeable future.
Someone needs to push bug 228239 beyond the finishing line (there is
some confusion about whether the patch in Debian is enough or not), and
hopefully investigate whether a p7zip fork should be adopted, or
persuade the 7-Zip maintainer to publish the code for their Linux
version (see comment #11 in the PR I mentioned).
PR: 228239
May 13, 2021. 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.
Changelogs:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/releases/21.04.1/
The POSTGRESQL_DUMP_ENABLED option looks for the pg_dumpall command
which is not in the PATH, so we append the PREFIX in the script.
PR: 255509
Submitted by: Einar Bjarni Halldórsson <einar@isnic.is>
Saturday, 8 May 2021
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.82.0.
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 and changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.82.0/
PR: 255711
Exp-run by: antoine
This includes the following changes:
- Report an error if a file name is empty.
- Make '-o' behave like '-c', but writing to file instead of stdout.
- Do not open output if input is a terminal.
- Replace 'decompressed', 'compressed' with 'out', 'in' in output.
- Several fixes and improvements, improved test coverage.
On the way switch from PORTVERSION to DISTVERSION and add a LICENSE_FILE
(while the license itselfs does not change from GPLv2).
PR: 255463
Submitted by: Gian-Simon Purkert <gspurki@gmail.com>
For ports that already use the licenses framwork, merge the content of
RESTRICTED/NO_CDROM/LEGAL* entries into LICENSEs.
Approved by: rene
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30010
BrotliCFFI contains Python CFFI bindings for the reference Brotli
encoder/decoder. This allows Python software to use the Brotli compression
algorithm directly from Python code.
WWW: https://github.com/python-hyper/brotlicffi
2021-04-30 www/py-django111: Django 1.11 is End-of-Life since April 2020. Switch to Django 2.2+ as soon as possible.
2021-04-30 archivers/par2cmdline-tbb: Unmaintained upstream, does not build with oneTbb. Use archivers/par2cmdline instead
Major changes:
Fix for CVE-2021-3421, CVE-2021-20271 and CVE-2021-20266
additional fixes for important bugs
Full changelog: https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.16.1.3
Security: CVE-2021-3421
Security: CVE-2021-20271
Security: CVE-2021-20266
MFH: 2021Q2
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/
