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 WWW links to LinuxFoundation.org were hopelessly bitrotten,
point to the GNOME GitLab instead which is still wrong-ish,
but the links and documentation might be updated there.
Reported (and fixed already) upstream as well.
PR: 251536
Reported by: Edward Sanford Sutton III
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/
There is a complicated interplay between ALSA and FLITE in
the qt5-speech port, and ALSA options in other parts of the
Qt stack. This patch tries to offer enough knobs to manage
the game.
PR: 245614
Submitted by: tcberner
Reported by: John Hein
This regeneration is required as the new gitlab version changed
the address and the directory the source files can be downloaded.
This commit also applies some small fixes to make sure all ports using
gitlab are buildable.
Reviewed by: mat
Approved by: portmgr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29628
20.12.3 Releases
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature
plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE’s release service.
GZIP compression ratio and Git footer have changed e.g.,
method crc date time compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
-defla 944caee6 Dec 7 21:15 12482 71680 82.5% scdoc-1.11.1.tar
+defla 944caee6 Feb 17 23:20 12510 71680 82.5% scdoc-1.11.1.tar
---
-2.26.2
+2.30.0
Some of our projects release on their own timescale and some get released
en-masse. The 20.12.2 bundle of projects was released today with dozens of
bugfixes and will be available through app stores and distros soon. See the
20.12.2 releases page for details.
Some of the fixes in today’s bugfix releases include:
* Ark no longer crashes when closing the window while loading a TAR archive
* Dolphin calculates the folder size on FUSE and network file systems correctly now
* Konsole no longer crashes when exiting all tabs at the same time
* Dictionaries can be added in Kiten’s config dialog
* Umbrello doesn’t crash anymore if exiting when a widget in a diagram is selected
Release Notes:
https://community.kde.org/Releases/20.12_Release_Notes
Full Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/fulllog_releases-20.12.2/
- astro/libkgeomap has been removed as there are no consumers left
- deskutils/kdepim-apps-libs has been reintegrated into other ports
There are a handful of new ports available:
- astro/kosmindoormap: Library and QML component for rendering multi-level OSM indoor maps
- deskutils/itinerary: KDE Itinerary is a digital travel assistant
- devel/kpublictransport: Access realtime public transport data
- graphics/kontrast: Color contrast checker
- textproc/markdownpart: KPart for rendering Markdown content
Gammy is a GUI tool for adjusting pixel brightness and temperature automatically
or manually.
It can dim the screen if its content is too bright, or brighten it otherwise.
This can help your eyes adjust when switching between dark and light windows,
especially at night or in suboptimal lighting conditions.
WWW: https://getgammy.com/
Submitted by: Mina Galić
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27462
sctd is based on sct (accessibility/sct) by Ted Unangst. It calculates sunrise
and sunset based on geo-pos lat/lon and sets the temperature accordingly.
The transition logic is based on Redshift.
WWW: https://github.com/amir/sctd
Some of our projects release on their own timescale and some get released
en-masse. The 20.08.3 bundle of projects was released today with dozens of
bugfixes and will be available through app stores and distros soon. See the
20.08.3 releases page for details.
Some of the fixes in today’s releases:
* Gwenview no longer accidentally shows the thumbnail view as a separate window with newer Qt versions
* Sending SMS with KDEConnect has been restored
* Fixed a possible Okular crash when selecting text in annotations
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-11-apps-update/
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/fulllog_releases-20.08.3/
Dozens of KDE apps are getting new releases from KDE’s release service. New
features, usability improvements, re-designs and bug fixes all contribute to
helping boost your productivity and making this new batch of applications more
efficient and pleasant to use.
As gnome@ is lacking active committers at the moment, transfer some of its
ports [1] up the stack to the desktop@ group, in hope that this way we get some
updates in as the set of people that "should feel responsible" grows.
As soon as gnome@ grows some committers again, this can (and should) of course
be reverted again.
[1] The list of ports chosen in this move consits of all the ports that are
required to build x11/kde5.
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26362
Dozens of KDE apps are getting new releases from KDE’s release service. New
features, usability improvements, re-designs and bug fixes all contribute to
helping boost your productivity and making this new batch of applications more
efficient and pleasant to use.
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-08-apps-update/
feedbackd provides a DBus daemon (feedbackd) to act on events to provide
haptic, visual and audio feedback. It offers a library (libfeedback) and
GObject introspection bindings to ease using it from applications.
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd
ld: error: duplicate symbol: GlobalFDSet
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(GlobalFDSet)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x148)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: MessagePausedList
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(MessagePausedList)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x138)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: MessageQueue
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(MessageQueue)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x10)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: SpeechdOptions
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(SpeechdOptions)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x60)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: SpeechdStatus
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(SpeechdStatus)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0xF8)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: client_specific_settings
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(client_specific_settings)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x140)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: custom_log_kind
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(custom_log_kind)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x230)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: custom_logfile
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(custom_logfile)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x228)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: debug_logfile
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(debug_logfile)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x238)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: element_free_mutex
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(element_free_mutex)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x8)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: fd_settings
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(fd_settings)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x120)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: fd_uid
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(fd_uid)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x130)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: language_default_modules
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(language_default_modules)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x128)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: last_p5_block
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(last_p5_block)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x18)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: logfile
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(logfile)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x220)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: logging_mutex
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(logging_mutex)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x110)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: output_layer_mutex
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(output_layer_mutex)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x118)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: p_msg_lc
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(p_msg_lc)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x28)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: p_msg_uid_lc
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(p_msg_uid_lc)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x30)
ld: error: duplicate symbol: pause_requested
>>> defined at speechd.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-speechd.o:(pause_requested)
>>> defined at server.c
>>> speech_dispatcher-server.o:(.bss+0x50)
Going from 2.28.0 to 2.36.0 there is an ABI breakage:
the 'atspi_text_notify_reading_position' symbol has been removed.
I couldn't find any software in the ports tree that is using it
From the changelog [1]:
Some of the fixes included in this release are:
* kio-fish: Only store password in KWallet if the user asked for it.
* The Umbrello Fixes for adding multiline c++ comment support.
* The scrolling behavior in the Okular document viewer has been
improved and is more usable with free-spinning mouse wheels
* A regression that sometimes caused the JuK music player to
crash on start has been fixed
* The Kdenlive video editor has received many stability updates,
including a fix to the DVD chapter creation and a fix that
improves the handling of timecodes, improved handling of missing
clips, draw “photo” frame on image clips to differentiate from
video clips., and previews in the timeline
* KMail now correctly handles existing maildir folders when adding
a new maildir profile and no longer crashes when adding too many
recipients
* Import and export of Kontact settings has been enhanced to include
more data
[1] https://kde.org/announcements/changelog-releases.php?version=20.04.1
KDE's April 2020 Apps Update
A new bundle of KDE applications is here! In these releases, you can expect to
find more features, stability improvements, and more user-friendly tools that
will help you work more effectively.
There are dozens of changes to look forward to in most of your favorite
applications. Take Dolphin, for example. Windows Samba shares are now fully
discoverable.
On the topic of playing music: the Elisa music player is adding features by
leaps and bounds. This release brings a new “Now Playing” view, easy
accessibility through the system tray, and an option to minimize the playlist
whenever you want. Thanks to the recently-added visual shuffle mode, it’s much
easier to rearrange your music in the playlists.
These are just the highlights of what’s new in KDE’s applications this month.
Read on to find out about everything we’ve prepared for you.
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-04-apps-update/
Very big thanks go again to kai@ who provided the www/qt5-webengine upgrade (to 5.14.0).
Notably, video capture support was re-enabled.
Announcement:
https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-5.14-has-released
PR: 244964
Exp-run by: antoine
New versions of KDE applications landing in December
The release of new versions for KDE applications is part of KDE’s continued
effort to bring you a complete and up-to-date catalog of fully-featured,
beautiful and useful programs for your system.
Available now are new versions of KDE’s file browser Dolphin; Kdenlive, one of
the most complete open source video editors; the document viewer Okular; KDE’s
image viewer, Gwenview; and all of your other favorite KDE apps and utilities.
All of these applications have been improved, making them faster and more
stable and they boast exciting new features. The new versions of KDE
applications let you be productive and creative, while at the same time making
use of KDE software easy and fun.
We hope you enjoy all the novel features and improvements worked into all of
KDE’s apps!
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2019-12-apps-update/
November 07, 2019.
Today KDE released the third stability update for KDE Applications 19.08. This
release contains only bugfixes and translation updates, providing a safe and
pleasant update for everyone.
More than a dozen recorded bugfixes include improvements to Kontact, Ark,
Cantor, K3b, Kdenlive, Konsole, Okular, Spectacle, Umbrello, among others.
Improvements include:
* In the video-editor Kdenlive, compositions no longer disappear when
reopening a project with locked tracks
* Okular's annotation view now shows creation times in local time zone
instead of UTC
* Keyboard control has been improved in the Spectacle screenshot utility
You can find the full list of changes here:
https://kde.org/announcements/fulllog_applications-aether.php?version=19.08.3
A URL ending a sentence, with a full stop after it, causes pain
for renderers such as freshports.org and other clients that may hyperlink
them.
Since the same URL is just below it in the pkg-descr WWW URL, amend
the sentence to point to it instead.
PR: 240385
Reported by: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin gmail com>
Approved by: portmgr (blanket: just fix it)
September 05, 2019.
Today KDE released the first stability update for KDE Applications 19.08. This
release contains only bugfixes and translation updates, providing a safe and
pleasant update for everyone.
More than twenty recorded bugfixes include improvements to Kontact, Dolphin,
Kdenlive, Konsole, Step, among others.
Improvements include:
* Several regressions in Konsole's tab handling have been fixed
* Dolphin again starts correctly when in split-view mode
* Deleting a soft body in the Step physics simulator no longer causes a crash
You can find the full list of changes here:
https://kde.org/announcements/fulllog_applications-aether.php?version=19.08.1
as defined in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 8.3
to GCC 9.1 under most circumstances now after revision 507371.
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, everything INDEX-11 shows with a dependency on lang/gcc9 now.
PR: 238330
July 11, 2019.
Today KDE released the third stability update for KDE Applications 19.04. This
release contains only bugfixes and translation updates, providing a safe and
pleasant update for everyone.
Over sixty recorded bugfixes include improvements to Kontact, Ark, Cantor, JuK,
K3b, Kdenlive, KTouch, Okular, Umbrello, among others.
Improvements include:
* Konqueror and Kontact no longer crash on exit with QtWebEngine 5.13
* Cutting groups with compositions no longer crashes the Kdenlive video editor
* The Python importer in Umbrello UML designer now handles parameters with default arguments
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/fulllog_applications-aether.php?version=19.04.3
Eliminate LINUXNAME from port Makefiles. This was just a helper variable
without special meaning outside port Makefiles but several developers have
copied it to new ports where it was then unused, apparently thinking that
it did have some special meaning.
This adds some new ports:
converters/linux-c7-fribidi required by x11-toolkits/linux-c7-pango.
graphics/linux-c7-libglvnd required by graphics/linux-c7-dri.
graphics/linux-c7-wayland required by graphics/linux-c7-dri.
print/linux-c7-freetype unbundled from emulators/linux_base-c7 because it
depends on graphics/linux-c7-png now.
Mesa OpenGL libraries in graphics/linux-c7-dri now support libglvnd (GL
Vendor-Neutral Dispatch library) which allows some applications to use
Mesa while others use Nvidia OpenGL. The x11/nvidia-driver* ports have
been changed so versions above 390.42 now use CentOS libglvnd and no longer
install a bundled copy.
PR: 229431
Submitted by: pkubaj (partly)
