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/
Travis <hcoyote@ghostar.org> has expressed that he'd like to release the
maintainership of his ports. We thank Travis for all their efforts and
hope to welcome him back in the future.
PR: 257740
- freetype2 will no longer ship freetype-config (which was a pkg-config
wrapper) in the near future -- use pkg-config to gather the required
flags.
PR: 251512
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
Big thank you to Florian Walpen <dev@submerge.ch> and
Goran Mekić <meka@tilda.center> for working on Jack2.
PR: 251125
Submitted by: Florian Walpen <dev@submerge.ch> (original version)
Previously, configure script was passing certain optimization options
by default; now it is protected by --enable-native switch which users
have to specify explicitly:
-C_FLAGS=$C_FLAGS" -O3 -ffast-math `/bin/sh ./build/opt.sh \"$CC\" -march=native`"
+C_FLAGS=$C_FLAGS" -O2"
Take one step further and replace -O2 with our default CFLAGS which are
essentially the same, but safer (https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1307).
We must, however, force -msse2 on i386 for the build to succeed there;
other architectures might or might not need similar treatment as well.
PR: 257520
Submitted by: maintainer (who is also upstream author)
* Changed the default options for audio to ALSA
* Added databases/qt5-sqldrivers-sqlite3 as a LIB_DEPEND.
It'll be installed automatically if you use something like KDE,
but straberry will fail to load if you use a minimalist WM for example.
PR: 257440
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/
