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KDE Frameworks 5.11.0 has been released



12th June 2015. 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 with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the·
Frameworks 5.0 release announcement.

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

KActivities

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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.
  KDE Frameworks 5.11.0 released