Thursday, 2 September 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 with updated translations,
including:
* konsole: Fix KXmlGUI toolbars and Konsole MainWindow size.
* elisa: Fix the “Files” view.
* skanlite: Fix image saving when preview is not shown.
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.1/
Full Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.08.1/
Tuesday, 31 August 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.22.5.
Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 with many feature refinements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* KDE GTK Config: Make sure to actually commit GSettings changes.
* KSystemStats: Fix handling of IPV6 addresses. Fixes bug #436296
* [applets/digitalclock] Let long timezones list scroll.
Fixes bug #439147
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.22.4-5.22.5/
- while here: reformat & sort the USES/USE_FOO lines consistently
- Add WANT_LAZARUS_DEVEL option if you want built apps using lazarus trunk
version from ports. This variable can be added to /etc/make.conf. Otherwise,
stable version of lazarus will be used.
- WANT_LAZARUS_DEVEL will use editors/lazarus-devel or editors/lazarus-qt5-devel
ports instead of editors/lazarus or lazarus-qt5 ones
it allows users to set their desired compression level when packaging
in make.conf
PR: 257427
Suggested by: Trond Endrestol <Trond.Endrestol@ximalas.info>
Friday, 13 August 2021
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.85.0.
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/5/5.85.0/
PR: 257837
Exp-run by: antoine
Binutils is not present anymore on elfv2 systems.
Fixes build of audio/invada-studio-plugins-lv2:
/usr/local/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-B/usr/local/bin'
/usr/local/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information
libxul.so clearly links against libepoll-shim, and we have reports
of firefox failing to start without libepoll-shim. this also affects
mail/thunderbird (once we land it), so fix the problem in bsd.gecko.mk.
First reports are against firefox 90, set the version cutoff
accordingly.
PR: 257490
Reported by: Maxim Filimonov
Keep the new flag though.
This error can occur in some other cases such as building on a
mismatched host kernel+userland. Some further study is needed
and it may be possible to automatically set UNAME_r.
An example of this happening is with recent Poudriere changes:
- Poudriere <= 3.3 used to set UNAME_r in /etc/login.conf's environment
during *jail creation*.
- Poudriere >= 3.4 only sets it in the environment during *jail
runtime*.
Creating a jail with Poudriere 3.4 and then using Poudriere 3.3 on it
would fail to have UNAME_r properly set. It would read OSVERSION from
/usr/include/sys/param.h to find the installed files release. The ports
framework, and builds, need `uname` to be correct for the *jail/chroot*
and not be of the running kernel.
Add a footshoot enabler while here which should not be used for any
reason as it can create packages targetting the release of the running
kernel rather than the chroot/jail's expected version.
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/
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
- To make it possible to easily import mlt-7 move the current port to
a versioned directory.
- Add Mk/Uses/mlt.mk to make it easily possible to depend on a given mlt
version:
USES=mlt:6
will get you a dependency on multimedia/mlt6, while
USES=mlt:7
will get you a dependency on the soon to be added multimedia/mlt7
- Switch the port to use cmake as a build system
- While here, provide some more options to make it possible to have
a leaner package if required
- Bump consumers after rename of the dependency
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/
- Improve the text (fix typos) in another .warning message
- And an extra newline after "backward compatibility for users"
.if/.endif block for better readability, kill EOL whitespace
- Replace UTF-8 non-breaking space (C2 A0) with normal ASCII one
TL;DR: new uniq package file extension: '.pkg'
Full changelog for pkg:
- add a new "snap" prefix, to deal with pkg base snapshots
- pkg repo now accepts packages with different compression formats
- pkg now have a single extension: ".pkg" and a backward compatible
symlink is created when the package is created to help transitioning
- Default compression level for zstd is now set to 19
- the default compression level is now a configuration option
- plenty of portability fixes
- fix plenty of typos
- expose the name of the package to lua and shell scripts
- plist:
remove internal support for @*exec (this is now in the ports tree)
remove support for @ignore
remove support for @dirrm/@dirrmtry
remove support for @pkgdep
remove stub support for @stopdaemon
remove stub support for @display
remove stub support for @mtree
remove stub support for @conflict
- VUXML: fetch .xz compressed version of the file by default
- triggers are deferred to later command (firstboot is planned) if run
with pkg -r
- pkg triggers commands has been added and can execute the deferred
triggers for example at firstboot
Changes in the framework:
- Add a backward compatibility layer, so people are not forced to move
to pkg 1.17 yet (new quarter we will enforce the switch for triggers
anyway, but it gives time to people to switch)
- Introduce a new PKG_COMPRESSION_FORMAT for users to specify the
compression format they are willing to use when creating packages:
txz, tar, tgz, tbz, tzst are the valid ones (note that tzst is only
usable on FreeBSD 13 and 14)
- Add a backward compatibility for people who specified the compression
format already via PKG_SUFX and issue a warning to tell them about the
deprecation of PKG_SUFX
in next version of pkg, we now use a uniq extension: '.pkg' whatever the
compression is, the problem is some bootstrap pkg(7) does not handle
that yet, notably on freebsd 11.4 and 12.2.
We already have a compatibility layer by creating a symlink on the old
extension, which works but the signature itself will not exist with the
old extension. Add a workaround in the ports tree to symlink the new
signature to the old expected signature.
Given at the moment we are doing that things are not yet signed by
default we do create a dead symlink, but at the moment the repo are
published the right signature will be there.
glvnd is becoming increasingly required by mesa and various FreeBSD
Ports implementation decisions. Remove the tuple to avoid unexpected
and unsupported combinations.
Reviewed by: x11 (manu, zeising)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30930
Poudriere's CCACHE_STATIC_PREFIX feature (not Mk/) avoids installing
ccache for each port using the native jail ABI and instead copies in a
host static binary. It uses NO_CCACHE_DEPEND to avoid installing
ccache. For example, this is used for ccache-memcached where the
dependency chain would make using ccache unfeasible.
Poudriere sets CCACHE_WRAPPER_PATH, rather than the new CCACHE_PKG_PREFIX.
Because CCACHE_BIN is now computed from CCACHE_PKG_PREFIX rather than
CCACHE_WRAPPER_PATH, CCACHE_BIN was incorrect. Now compute
CCACHE_PKG_PREFIX from CCACHE_WRAPPER_PATH if it is set, otherwise
fallback to using LOCALBASE and computing CCACHE_BIN and
CCACHE_WRAPPER_PATH from there.
PR 257151
Fixes: 6b641f4eb4 ("Mk: Document and simply user-modifiable ...")
