KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.11.0. KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries

New in this release

Extra CMake Modules

• New arguments for ecm_add_tests(). (bug 345797)

Framework Integration

• Use the correct initialDirectory for the KDirSelectDialog
• Make sure the scheme is specified when overriding the start url value
• Only accept existing directories in FileMode::Directory mode

KAuth

• Make KAUTH_HELPER_INSTALL_ABSOLUTE_DIR available to all KAuth users

KCodecs

• KEmailAddress: Add overload for extractEmailAddress and firstEmailAddress which returns an error message.

KCompletion

• Fix unwanted selection when editing the filename in the file dialog (bug 344525)

KConfig

• Prevent crash if QWindow::screen() is null
• Add KConfigGui::setSessionConfig() (bug 346768)

KCoreAddons

• New KPluginLoader::findPluginById() convenience API

KDeclarative

• support creation of ConfigModule from KPluginMetdata
• fix pressAndhold events

KDELibs 4 Support

• Use QTemporaryFile instead of hardcoding a temporary file.

KDocTools

• Update translations
• Update customization/ru
• Fix entities with wrong links

KEmoticons

• Cache the theme in the integration plugin

KGlobalAccel

• [runtime] Move platform specific code into plugins

KIconThemes

• Optimize KIconEngine::availableSizes()

KIO

• Do not try to complete users and assert when prepend is non-empty. (bug 346920)
• Use KPluginLoader::factory() when loading KIO::DndPopupMenuPlugin
• Fix deadlock when using network proxies (bug 346214)
• Fixed KIO::suggestName to preserve file extensions
• Kick off kbuildsycoca4 when updating sycoca5.
• KFileWidget: Don't accept files in directory only mode
• KIO::AccessManager: Make it possible to treat sequential QIODevice asynchronously

KNewStuff

• Add new method fillMenuFromGroupingNames
• KMoreTools: add many new groupings
• KMoreToolsMenuFactory: handling for "git-clients-and-actions"
• createMenuFromGroupingNames: make url parameter optional

KNotification

• Fix crash in NotifyByExecute when no widget has been set (bug 348510)
• Improve handling of notifications being closed (bug 342752)
• Replace QDesktopWidget usage with QScreen
• Ensure KNotification can be used from a non-GUI thread

Package Framework

• Guard the structure qpointer access (bug 347231)

KPeople

• Use QTemporaryFile instead of hardcoding /tmp.

KPty

• Use tcgetattr & tcsetattr if available

Kross

• Fix loading of Kross modules "forms" and "kdetranslation"

KService

• When running as root preserve file ownership on existing cache files (bug 342438)
• Guard against being unable to open stream (bug 342438)
• Fix check for invalid permissions writing file (bug 342438)
• Fix querying ksycoca for x-scheme-handler/* pseudo-mimetypes. (bug 347353)

KTextEditor

• Allow like in KDE 4.x times 3rdparty apps/plugins to install own highlighting XML files into katepart5/syntax
• Add KTextEditor::Document::searchText()
• Bring back use of KEncodingFileDialog (bug 343255)

KTextWidgets

• Add a method to clear decorator
• Allow to use custom sonnet decorator
• Implement "find previous" in KTextEdit.
• Re-add support for speech-to-text

KWidgetsAddons

• KAssistantDialog: Re-add the Help button that was present in KDELibs4 version

KXMLGUI

• Add session management for KMainWindow(bug 346768)

NetworkManagerQt

• Drop WiMAX support for NM 1.2.0+

Plasma Framework

• Calendar components can now display week numbers (bug 338195)
• Use QtRendering for fonts in password fields
• Fix AssociatedApplicationManager lookup when a mimetype has (bug 340326)
• Fix panel background coloring (bug 347143)
• Get rid of "Could not load applet" message
• Capability to load QML kcms in plasmoid config windows
• Don't use the DataEngineStructure for Applets
• Port libplasma away from sycoca as much as possible
• [plasmacomponents] Make SectionScroller follow the ListView.section.criteria
• Scroll bars no longer automatically hide when a touch screen is present (bug 347254)

Sonnet

• Use one central cache for the SpellerPlugins.
• Reduce temporary allocations.
• Optimize: Do not wipe dict cache when copying speller objects.
• Optimise away save() calls by calling it once at the end if needed.