Thursday, 21 April 2022
Welcome to KDE Gear ⚙️ 22.04!
Skip to What’s New
KDE Gear ⚙️ 22.04 brings you all the updates added to a long list of KDE
apps over the last four months. KDE programs allow you to work, create
and play without having to submit yourself to extortionate licenses and
intrusive advertising, or surrender your privacy to unscrupulous
corporations.
Below you will discover a selection of the changes added in the last
four months to software designed to make your life better. But remember,
there is much, much more: games, social media apps, utilities for
communicating, developing and creating stuff… All these things have been
worked on to give you more stability and boost your productivity.
If you want to see a full list of everything we have done, check out the
complete changelog.
WARNING: There’s a lot!
All the details can be found here:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.04.0/
Upstream upgrades git from 2.34.1 to 2.34.2.
The original checksum is verified by manually editing git version of the patch file.
Approved by: portmgr (blanket)
Thursday, 3 March 2022
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:
* kcron: Improve temporary file handling
* kio-extras: SFTP can use random access
* kontact: Fix Manager Crash when clicking New
Distro and app store packagers should update their application packages.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.3/
Release Notes:
https://community.kde.org/KDE_Gear/21.12_Release_notes
Thursday, 3 February 2022
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.
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.2/
Update the CONFLICTS definitions of ports in the following categories:
- accessibility
- archivers
- audio
- benchmarks
- biology
- cad
- chinese
- comms
- converters
An attempt has been made to use generic conflicts patterns that do not
have to be updated whenever a new version of a conflicting port is
added to the ports system.
There is a misunderstanding that the port being built/installed has to
be omitted from the conflicts pattern. This is not true - the port
being built is implicitly non-conflicting due to logic in bsd.port.mk.
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
wl-gammarelay-rs is a simple program that provides DBus interface to
control display temperature and brightness under Wayland without
flickering. Like wl-gammarelay, but written in Rust, runs on a single
thread, has three times less SLOC and uses DBus (for simplicity).
https://github.com/MaxVerevkin/wl-gammarelay-rs
Thursday, 6 January 2022
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.
Distro and app store packagers should update their application packages.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.1/
From [1]
What's this?
This is a set of git repositories based on the last public
commits available for Qt 5.15 branches with a curated collection
of patches on top to ensure open source products can be used
comfortably until users transition to their Qt 6-based ports.
Which patches does it include?
This collection of patches includes patches that fix at least
one of the following:
* Security issues
* Crashes
* Functional defects
We only include patches that have been approved upstream in the
Qt project. If a patch cannot be merged upstream for technical
reasons (e.g. the class no longer exists), it can also be
merged.
The patches to merge will be decided based on their relevance
towards Open Source products and their viability.
PR: 260548
Exp-run by: antoine
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33446
[1] https://community.kde.org/Qt5PatchCollection
KDE Gear 21.12 has landed and comes with a massive number of updates and
new versions of applications and libraries. Literally, dozens of classic
KDE everyday tools and the specialised sophisticated apps you use to
work, be creative and play, are getting refreshers with design
improvements, new features and performance and stability enhancements.
What's new:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.12.0/#whatsnew
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.0/
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.08.3/
The conflict checks compare the patterns first against the package
names without version (as reported by "pkg query "%n"), then - if
there was no match - agsinst the full package names including the
version (as reported by "pkg query "%n-%v").
Many CONFLICTS definitions used patterns like "bash-[0-9]*" to filter
for the bash package in any version. But that pattern is functionally
identical with just "bash".
Approved by: portmgr (blanket)
While here, make sure gtk-update-icon-cache is only on run dependency
where added as a dependency
Enforce gtk3 to depend on gtk-update-icon-cache (previously it was
inheriting the dependency)
Thursday, 7 October 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:
* kmail: Fix an infinite SSL error dialog loop
* konqueror: Make it compatible with KIO 5.86.0 and don’t open every
URL in a new window
* libksane: Fix multi page detection with certain scanners
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.2/
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/
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/
