KDE Ships Frameworks 6.10.0
Thursday, 9 January 2025
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.10.0.
KDE Frameworks are 72 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.
New in this version
Breeze Icons
- Create-app-symlinks.py: add cuttlefish (org.kde.iconexplorer). Commit.
- Add new pcmanfm-qt icon. Commit.
- Add open-link-symbolic icon. Commit.
- Add snap package icon. Commit.
- Add symbolic version of preferences-security. Commit.
- Add symbolic version of preferences-desktop-emoticons. Commit.
- Tests: ignore missing index.theme in ScalableTest::test_scalableDuplicates(). Commit.
Extra CMake Modules
- Make building docs optional. Commit.
- Add since documentation. Commit.
- ECMAddAndroidApk: add "PACKAGE_NAME" argument. Commit.
- ECMGenerateHeaders: set IWYU export pragma also for helper prefixed headers. Commit.
- Also allow to disable the nasty Android threads workaround via env vars. Commit.
- ECMGenerateHeaders: Set include-what-you-use pragma. Commit.
- Simplify moving QM catalog loading to the main thread. Commit.
KBookmarks
- Remove unimplemented methods. Commit.
KCalendarCore
- Add missing log categories. Commit.
KIconThemes
- Use Qt API to fully override the engine. Commit.
KImageformats
- Avif: color profiles improvements. Commit.
- Update heif.json. Commit.
- HEIF plug-in extended to read AVCI format. Commit.
- Readme updated with some clarification. Commit.
- DDS: enable plugin by default. Commit.
- PSD: Added support to MCH1 and MCH2. Commit.
- XCF: Fix OSS Fuzz issue 42527849. Commit.
- JXR: Fix loss of HDR data on write for format RGBA16FPx16_Premultiplied. Commit.
- DDS: Fix for OSS Fuzz issue 384974505. Commit.
- DDS: improved read/write support. Commit.
- Read / Write test: added NULL device test. Commit.
- DDS: multiple FP improvements. Commit.
- PFM: fix error when loading images with comments. Commit.
- DDS: fix buffer overflow in readCubeMap. Commit.
- Re-added DDS plugin support. Commit. See bug #380956
Kirigami
- Expose auto exclusive from AbstractButton to Kirigami.Action. Commit.
- Mnemonic: Emit sequence change also when it gets disabled. Commit.
- ListSectionHeader: set Accessible.role to Heading. Commit.
- Controls/Card: set title as default Accessible.name. Commit. See bug #497971
- FormLayout: Set mnemonic only if buddy is visible and doesn't have one. Commit.
- FormLayout: Activate buddy with ShortcutFocusReason. Commit.
- Qmltest: Avoid Qt module include. Commit.
- SearchDialog: Add emptyHelpfulAction. Commit.
- FormLayout: Make use of animateClick in shortcut activation. Commit.
- Don't overwrite menubar position. Commit.
- Platformtheme: Set Accent color in highlight. Commit.
- Fix documentation referring to not existing Theme.smallSpacing. Commit.
- Ensure sidebar "y" position is only shifted when menubar/header is visible. Commit.
KNotifications
- NotifyByAndroid: Set CONTEXT_NOT_EXPORTED. Commit.
KQuickCharts
- Remove unimplemented methods. Commit.
KTextEditor
- Fix default shortcuts for mac os. Commit.
- Rewrite Kate::TextBlock::mergeBlock m_cursors merging code. Commit.
- Use one targetBlock->m_lines.insert instead of many targetBlock->m_lines.push_back. Commit.
- Add testNoFlippedRange and testBlockSplitAndMerge to movingrange_test. Commit.
- Preprocess lineEndings before pasting. Commit.
- "Paste From File" feature for Kate to select a file and insert it's contents into the current file. Commit. Fixes bug #496902
- Remove unnecessary multicursor clipboard code. Commit.
- Try to split clipboard text across multiple cursors when pasting. Commit. Fixes bug #497863
- Optimize kill lines for large number of cursors. Commit.
- Fix full line selection behaviour of the C++ versions of the editing commands. Commit.
- Remove not needed include. Commit.
- Ensure content like from document doesn't make the dialog size explode. Commit. Fixes bug #497328
- Store QTextLayout inline. Commit. See bug #483363