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In this article we are going to see how your Drupal team can do code reviews and available tools or libraries which help people in the team to do the code reviews seamlessly. It’s pretty important to follow a few guidelines as well, so that all people or developers in the team are on the same page. Firstly, for the code reviews to be at their best, the committed code should be more organis

In this article, we are going to see how some tools & libraries will make people's lives easier during the development & code review process. And to make developer life easier, developers look for tools or libraries which can automated code review and if needed make any corrections in the code automatically. Here comes the PHP codesniffer and Drupal coder module. If you are maintaini

In this article, we are going to see how people can store access keys and tokens securely, in the case of your drupal application that is managed on pantheon. Generally, all the Access keys or Tokens or any Secret third party auth information should not be stored in the database or within the project web root, Its safe to store it encrypted and within a file, and keep the file outside of the proj

And I’d say it’s a pretty good release! As with all large sets of changes, there are a couple of regressions we’re tracking, particularly around the areas of external monitor brightness and multi-screen performance. They are being actively investigated. Other than those, so far all the issues have been fairly minor, requiring people to jump through various hoops to experience them. We’re still working on fixing them, of course! I’ll be writing up another post soon on these issues, discussing how they snuck into the final release, and what we can learn from the experience.

But in the meantime, here’s the Plasma team’s work from this week:

Notable UI Improvements

Removed some unintentional extra padding around everything on System Settings’ Touchpad page (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 6.2.1. Link):

Notable Bug Fixes

Fixed a regression in Plasma that caused pop-ups of widgets on a Plasma panel to get positioned partially off screen, but only if their parent panel was very small and positioned against on the left or top screen edge (Niccolò Venerandi, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)

Fixed a regression in the new “control all screens’ brightness” feature that caused the brightness slider for external screens to get duplicated with certain screens (Jakob Petsovits, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)

Fixed two minor window focus regressions caused by an intentional change in KWin’s multi-monitor focus behavior (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 6.2.1. Link 1 and link 2)

Fixed a porting regression that caused the virtual desktop switcher OSD to not appear when it should have (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)

Fixed a porting regression that caused the first entry in the clipboard to temporarily not be removable after editing it (Fushan Wen, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)

Fixed a porting regression that caused auto-mounted encrypted disks to mount normally as expected, but not show up correctly in Plasma’s Disks & Devices widget (Bohdan Onofriichuk, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)

Fixed three Plasma crashes affecting the System Tray and Disks & Devices widget under various circumstances (Fushan Wen, Plasma 6.2.1. Link 1, link 2, and link 3)

Fixed a case where Plasma could crash in brightness-related code (Jakob Petsovits, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)

Fixed a bug in our KPipeWire library (which lives in Plasma) that caused screen recordings in Spectacle using the default VP9 video codec to be cut off at the end on slower systems (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)

Fixed a bug that caused configuration pages of System Monitor widgets to not be scrollable when needed (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)

Fixed an unusual bug that caused the system to fail to log out within the first 50 seconds after logging in, but only when the splash screen was disabled (David Edmundson, Plasma 6.2.1. Link 1 and link 2)

System Settings’ Wallpapers page now has a visible title as expected (Méven Car, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)

The Baloo file indexer service no longer tries to pointlessly index the content of .obj 3D model files (Someone going by the pseudonym “Archaeopteryx Lithographica”, Frameworks 6.8. Link)

Other bug information of note:

• 2 Very high priority Plasma bug (same as last week). Current list of bugs
• 35 15-minute Plasma bugs (up from 30 last week). Current list of bugs
• 107 KDE bugs of all kinds fixed over the last week. Full list of bugs

Performance & Technical

Further optimized Discover’s launch speed (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 6.3.0 Link)

How You Can Help

If you’re a developer, work on fixing Plasma 6.2 regressions!

If you’re an enthusiastic user, don’t sweat them and upgrade anyway. It’s a fantastic release.

Otherwise, visit https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to discover additional ways to be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite! Or consider donating instead! That helps too.

I have decided to start using sourcehut for a few of my projects. The first projects landing there are bugz-mode and a68-mode, two Emacs modes. The first implements a quite efficient and comfortable interface to bugzilla. The second is a programming mode for Algol 68.

Let's see how it goes!

https://git.sr.ht/~jemarch

Check out the important work our volunteers accomplished at today's Free Software Directory (FSD) IRC meeting.

Check out the important work our volunteers accomplished at today's Free Software Directory (FSD) IRC meeting.

It's been a while since I've posted about arm64 hardware. The last machine I spent my own money on was a SolidRun Macchiatobin, about 7 years ago. It's a small (mini-ITX) board with a 4-core arm64 SoC (4 * Cortex-A72) on it, along with things like a DIMM socket for memory, lots of networking, 3 SATA disk interfaces.

The Macchiatobin was a nice machine compared to many earlier systems, but it took quite a bit of effort to get it working to my liking. I replaced the on-board U-Boot firmware binary with an EDK2 build, and that helped. After a few iterations we got a new build including graphical output on a PCIe graphics card. Now it worked much more like a "normal" x86 computer.

I still have that machine running at home, and it's been a reasonably reliable little build machine for arm development and testing. It's starting to show its age, though - the onboard USB ports no longer work, and so it's no longer useful for doing things like installation testing. :-/

So...

I was involved in a conversation in the #debian-arm IRC channel a few weeks ago, and diederik suggested the Radxa Rock 5 ITX. It's another mini-ITX board, this time using a Rockchip RK3588 CPU. Things have moved on - the CPU is now an 8-core big.LITTLE config: 4*Cortex A76 and 4*Cortex A55. The board has NVMe on-board, 4*SATA, built-in Mali graphics from the CPU, soldered-on memory. Just about everything you need on an SBC for a small low-power desktop, a NAS or whatever. And for about half the price I paid for the Macchiatobin. I hit "buy" on one of the listed websites. :-)

A few days ago, the new board landed. I picked the version with 24GB of RAM and bought the matching heatsink and fan. I set it up in an existing case borrowed from another old machine and tried the Radxa "Debian" build. All looked OK, but I clearly wasn't going to stay with that. Onwards to running a native Debian setup!

I installed an EDK2 build from https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588 onto the onboard SPI flash, then rebooted with a Debian 12.7 (Bookworm) arm64 installer image on a USB stick. How much trouble could this be?

I was shocked! It Just Worked (TM)

I'm running a standard Debian arm64 system. The graphical installer ran just fine. I installed onto the NVMe, adding an Xfce desktop for some simple tests. Everything Just Worked. After many years of fighting with a range of different arm machines (from simple SBCs to desktops and servers), this was without doubt the most straightforward setup I've ever done. Wow!

It's possible to go and spend a lot of money on an Ampere machine, and I've seen them work well too. But for a hobbyist user (or even a smaller business), the Rock 5 ITX is a lovely option. Total cost to me for the board with shipping fees, import duty, etc. was just over £240. That's great value, and I can wholeheartedly recommend this board!

The two things that are missing compared to the Macchiatobin? This is soldered-on memory (but hey, 24G is plenty for me!) It also doesn't have a PCIe slot, but it has sufficient onboard network, video and storage interfaces that I think it will cover most people's needs.

Where's the catch? It seems these are very popular right now, so it can be difficult to find these machines in stock online.

FTAOD, I should also point out: I bought this machine entirely with my own money, for my own use for development and testing. I've had no contact with the Radxa or Rockchip folks at all here, I'm just so happy with this machine that I've felt the need to shout about it! :-)

Here's some pictures...

Python 3.13 is here! Our regular guests, Geir Arne Hjelle and Christopher Trudeau, return to discuss the new version. This year, Geir Arne coordinated a series of preview articles with members of the Real Python team and a showcase tutorial, "Python 3.13: Cool New Features for You to Try." Christopher's video course "What's New in Python 3.13" covers the topics from the article and shows the new features in action.

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Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-41.

Why I use KDE

Tags: tech, kde, foss, ux

Looks like we properly live by the “simple by default, powerful when needed” tagline. Now there are also challenges, this article gives a nice balanced view.

https://www.osnews.com/story/140538/why-i-use-kde/

It’s Not Easy Being Green: On the Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages

Tags: tech, programming, performance, energy

Nice paper which debunks the choice of the language as an important factor for energy efficiency. The previous papers had a too simple model, this one puts forth a more complete causal model. There are many factors at play regarding energy efficiency, the programming language itself is not really one of them.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05460

Google’s new phones can’t stop phoning home

Tags: tech, google, android, surveillance

It’s really time to get as many people as possible out of those toxic ecosystems…

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/08/water-thats-not-wet/#pixelated

It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word - The Atlantic

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, business, scam

Indeed, we should stop listening to such people who are basically pushing fantasies in order to raise more money.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

The Static Site Paradox

Tags: tech, web, self-hosting, complexity

Excellent point, we made the web too complex for regular users. This is actually an issue in term of access and democracy for people to write content there.

https://kristoff.it/blog/static-site-paradox/

HTML for People

Tags: tech, web, html, self-hosting

There is hope! Nice intro for regular people who want to get into publishing a web site. Good way to bring some democracy back to the web.

https://htmlforpeople.com/

A modest critique of Htmx

Tags: tech, web, frontend, htmx

I don’t think I would side with the conclusion. It’s a worthwhile article to get a better idea of the pain points around htmx.

https://chrisdone.com/posts/htmx-critique/

My Wayland Your Wayland Our Wayland

Tags: tech, linux, wayland, foss, governance

Yes, the governance of Open Source projects can be tricky. This is part of the job though, and properly embraced we all go further. An example from the Wayland space.

https://www.supergoodcode.com/My-Wayland-Your-Wayland-Our-Wayland/

Modern PATH environment variable

Tags: tech, unix, system

Indeed, we should likely revisit what we put in our PATH environment variable. Some of it is old cruft which is now unnecessary.

https://blog.izissise.net/posts/env-path/

Iterating through matched characters in modern C++: views::filter and coroutine

Tags: tech, c++, coroutine, performance

Several ways to deal with the task, which are the performance implications? Clearly coroutines aren’t the best tool for the job here.

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/10/06/iterating-through-matched-characters-in-modern-c-viewsfilter-and-coroutine/

Approaches to concurrent programming

Tags: tech, multithreading

This is a neat broad introduction about the problems you will encounter when multiple threads are involved and how to approach them.

https://underlap.org/approaches-to-concurrent-programming

Why You Shouldn’t Forget to Optimize the Data Layout

Tags: tech, cpu, performance, memory

Data layout is essential for performance reasons. It is too often overlooked. If you want real speed you need to help the memory subsystem.

https://cedardb.com/blog/optimizing_data_layouts/

Building Real-Time Global Illumination

Tags: tech, gpu, graphics, shader

Another good tutorial about global illumination. Make sure to read part 2 as well.

https://jason.today/gi

Transforming colors with matrices

Tags: tech, colors, shader

Neat little introduction on color manipulation using matrices. Mentions the things to pay attention to.

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/transforming-colors-with-matrices.html

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

Tags: tech, data-visualization

Nice catalogue of ideas for data visualisation tasks.

https://datavizcatalogue.com/

This Post Is Not About Python

Tags: tech, tech-lead, engineering, decision-making

Nice post, and indeed it’s not about Python if you read until the end. It shows that it’s important to be able to make informed choices and not just pick your tech stack based on knee-jerk reactions.

https://jerf.org/iri/post/2024/not_about_python/

Put business logic in the application, not the database

Tags: tech, databases, design, performance

I’m not sure I’m sold on this one. Interesting food for thought but I’ll have to mull it over for a while I think. I’m concerned about the performance implications of querying like this.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2269523/put-business-logic-in-the-application-not-the-database.html

Understanding and effectively mitigating code review anxiety

Tags: tech, codereview, psychology, cognition, anxiety, research

Still very early days on this topic, clearly more studies are required. Still this one is interesting and indicates are clear link between code review anxiety and code review avoidance. If you’re often procrastinating or rubber stamping code reviews, a workshop to reduce biases and showing you can manage your anxiety could improve things greatly.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-024-10550-9

From software to reality?

Tags: tech, science

The latest Nobel prizes indeed say something about the presence of computer scientists in other fields. Do we risk to delve too much on theoretical model? For sure using computers helps a lot, we have to be careful about not loosing empirical validation in the process.

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/10/09/from-software-to-reality/

Bye for now!

This tutorial explains how to use Python to automate tasks in WordPress. It includes various functions to perform tasks such as creating, extracting, updating and deleting WordPress posts, pages and media items (images) directly from Python.

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Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors

In September, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 7.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 7.0h to the next month.
• Adrian Bunk did 51.75h (out of 9.25h assigned and 55.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 13.0h to the next month.
• Arturo Borrero Gonzalez did 10.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 10.0h from previous period).
• Bastien Roucariès did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
• Ben Hutchings did 20.0h (out of 12.0h assigned and 12.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 4.0h to the next month.
• Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
• Daniel Leidert did 23.0h (out of 26.0h assigned), thus carrying over 3.0h to the next month.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 23.5h (out of 22.25h assigned and 37.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 36.5h to the next month.
• Guilhem Moulin did 22.25h (out of 20.0h assigned and 2.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 0.25h to the next month.
• Lucas Kanashiro did 10.0h (out of 5.0h assigned and 15.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 10.0h to the next month.
• Markus Koschany did 40.0h (out of 40.0h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 6.5h (out of 14.5h assigned and 9.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 17.5h to the next month.
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 24.75h (out of 21.0h assigned and 3.75h from previous period).
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 19.0h (out of 19.0h assigned).
• Sean Whitton did 0.75h (out of 4.0h assigned and 2.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 5.25h to the next month.
• Sylvain Beucler did 16.0h (out of 42.0h assigned and 18.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 44.0h to the next month.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 11.0h (out of 11.0h assigned).
• Tobias Frost did 17.0h (out of 7.5h assigned and 9.5h from previous period).

Evolution of the situation

In September, we have released 52 DLAs.

September marked the first full month of Debian 11 bullseye under the responsibility of the LTS Team and the team immediately got to work, publishing more than 4 dozen updates.

Some notable updates include ruby2.7 (denial-of-service, information leak, and remote code execution), git (various arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities), firefox-esr (multiple issues), gnutls28 (information disclosure), thunderbird (multiple issues), cacti (cross site scripting and SQL injection), redis (unauthorized access, denial of service, and remote code execution), mariadb-10.5 (arbitrary code execution), cups (arbitrary code execution).

Several LTS contributors have also contributed package updates which either resulted in a DSA (a Debian Security Announcement, which applies to Debian 12 bookworm) or in an upload that will be published at the next stable point release of Debian 12 bookworm. This list of packages includes cups, cups-filters, booth, nghttp2, puredata, python3.11, sqlite3, and wireshark. This sort of work, contributing fixes to newer Debian releases (and sometimes even to unstable), helps to ensure that upgrades from a release in the LTS phase of its lifecycle to a newer release do not expose users to vulnerabilities which have been closed in the older release.

Looking beyond Debian, LTS contributor Bastien Roucariès has worked with the upstream developers of apache2 to address regressions introduced upstream by some recent vulnerability fixes and he has also reached out to the community regarding a newly discovered security issue in the dompurify package. LTS contributor Santiago Ruano Rincón has undertaken the work of triaging and reproducing nearly 4 dozen CVEs potentially affecting the freeimage package. The upstream development of freeimage appears to be dormant and some of the issues have languished for more than 5 years. It is unclear how much can be done without the aid of upstream, but we will do our best to provide as much help to the community as we can feasibly manage.

Finally, it is sometimes necessary to limit or discontinue support for certain packages. The transition of a release from being under the responsibility of the Debian Security Team to that of the LTS Team is an occasion where we assess any pending decisions in this area and formalize them. Please see the announcement for a complete list of packages which have been designated as unsupported.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 108 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 76 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 40 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 118 months)
  • Akamai - Linode (for 112 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 102 months)
  • Plat’Home (for 101 months)
  • CINECA (for 76 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 58 months)
  • Deveryware (for 45 months)
  • EDF SA (for 30 months)
  • Dataport AöR (for 5 months)
  • CERN (for 3 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 123 months)
  • Nantes Métropole (for 117 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 109 months)
  • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 109 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 103 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 92 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 87 months)
  • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 70 months)
  • Cloudways by DigitalOcean (for 60 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 58 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 52 months)
  • Platform.sh SAS (for 52 months)
  • Moxa Inc. (for 46 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 44 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 42 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 42 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 33 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 30 months)
  • THINline s.r.o. (for 6 months)
  • Copenhagen Airports A/S
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 123 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 123 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 120 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 120 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 119 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 118 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 118 months)
  • Greenbone AG (for 117 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 117 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 116 months)
  • Entr’ouvert (for 107 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 105 months)
  • Tesorion (for 100 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 99 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 99 months)
  • Bearstech (for 91 months)
  • LiHAS (for 91 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 86 months)
  • Supagro (for 81 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 80 months)
  • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 66 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 58 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 55 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 51 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 46 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 42 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 37 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 36 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU Résif (for 35 months)
  • Alter Way (for 28 months)
  • Institut Camille Jordan (for 18 months)
  • SOBIS Software GmbH (for 3 months)

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 280. This version includes the following changes:

[ Chris Lamb ] * Drop Depends on deprecated python3-pkg-resources. (Closes: #1083362)

You find out more by visiting the project homepage.

Friday, 11 October 2024

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.7.0.

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

• Delete 32px colorful folder action icon symlink. Commit. Fixes bug #478493
• Add new knotes-symbolic.svg icon (22/32/48). Commit. Fixes bug #398901
• Format system-suspend-inhibited, system-suspend-uninhibited. Commit.
• Redesign system-suspend-inhibited, system-suspend-uninhibited. Commit.
• Fix recoloring in applications-multimedia-symbolic and applications-engineering-symbolic. Commit. Fixes bug #492879
• Add show-background icon. Commit. See bug #472863

Extra CMake Modules

• Merge output targets from multiple qt6_target_qml_sources() calls. Commit.
• Don't install QML files on Android. Commit.
• Propagate OUTPUT_TARGETS of qt6_target_qml_sources to the caller. Commit.
• Port Qt doc generation to qhelpgenerator. Commit.
• Correctly forward the OUTPUT_TARGETS argument of qt6_add_qml_module(). Commit.
• Set install destination for object files. Commit.
• Upstream FindGLIB2.cmake changes from Qt. Commit.
• KDEClangFormat: Ignore source files being in _install folder. Commit.
• Reenable individual targets for clang-format to enable better status reporting an parallelization. Commit.

KArchive

• K7zip: prevent crash when archive has no modification times for files. Commit.

KAuth

• Silence false positive clazy checks. Commit.

KCMUtils

• Drop obsolete includes and HAVE_X11. Commit.
• Always show title and caption in tooltip if truncated. Commit.

KColorScheme

• Follow system color scheme on Linux. Commit.
• Fix build against a static Qt. Commit.

KConfig

• Make unit tests work with a static Qt build. Commit.

KConfigWidgets

• General/widgetStyle -> KDE/widgetStyle. Commit.

KCoreAddons

• Make unit tests work with a static Qt build. Commit.
• Kcoreaddonsplugin: Link against Qt6::Network. Commit.
• Restore KProcess on Android. Commit.
• Don't build kprocesstest for Android/iOS. Commit.
• Fix build on ios. Commit.

KDBusAddons

• Kdbusservice: Don't unregister service name slightly before exit. Commit. Fixes bug #492300

KDeclarative

• Qpixmapitem: prevent a crash when there are no window yet. Commit.

KDocTools

• Provide option to enable relocatable docbook files on non WIN32 platforms. Commit.

KGuiAddons

• KCountryFlagEmoji: Improve fitting to the icon's bounding box. Commit.
• KCountryFlagEmoji: Fix emoji representation for non-country codes. Commit.
• KCountryFlagEmoji: Add test and demo cases for non-coutry codes. Commit.
• Fix window insets foreground coloring on older Android versions. Commit.
• Fix build with Qt < 6.7. Commit.
• Fix color luma computation for Android window insets. Commit.
• WaylandClipboard: fix QMimeData::urls() not working. Commit.
• Update version for window insets API to match reality. Commit.
• Add QML bindings for KWindowInsetsControllert. Commit.
• Add KWindowInsetsController. Commit.
• WaylandClipboard: make sure format list doesn't have duplicate items. Commit.

KHolidays

• Holiday_si_sl: added missing Slovenian commemoration day. Commit.

KI18n

• Make KTranscript work in static builds. Commit.
• Make QML API unit test work with static Qt builds. Commit.

KImageformats

• Fix endianness bug in PCX reader on big endian architectures. Commit.
• Fixed read of BGR32 and RGB555 formats. Commit.
• FIxed comparison of unsigned expression. Commit.
• Raw: Getting the image size does not need unpacking. Commit.

KIO

• [OpenFileManagerWindowJob] Fix crash when falling back to KRunStrategy. Commit. Fixes bug #486494
• Previewjob: Use .cache as temp folder, delete temp file after use. Commit. Fixes bug #494096. See bug #494061
• KFileItemActions: Try reading X-KDE-Show-In-Submenu as bool instead of string. Commit.
• KFilePlacesView: have setUrl() handle trailing slashes in place URLs. Commit.
• KFilePlacesItem: Use Solid to find home mount point. Commit.
• Fileitem,file_unix: simplify types for stat. Commit.
• Remove one level of three nesting in kdevtemplate. Commit.
• Knewfilemenutest: cleanup. Commit.
• Knewfilemenutest: test files and folders in ~/Templates. Commit.
• ConnectionBackenp: fix passing errorString. Commit.
• Knewfilemenu: Make ~/Templates work by simply placing files and folders there. Commit. Fixes bug #191632
• KFilePlacesItem: Cache groupType. Commit.
• Previewjob: avoid calling mkdir for path with two slashs. Commit.

Kirigami

• Add since info for new API. Commit.
• Re-enable cachegen on Android. Commit.
• Create CMake config file only once all build parameters are known. Commit.
• Fix unit tests when using a static build. Commit.
• PlatformTheme: fix crash when item is being destroyed. Commit.
• OverlaySheet: make default title vertically center aligned. Commit. Fixes bug #489357
• Fix clang-format version imcompatibilities and avoid turning formatting of. Commit.
• Dialog: Take header width into account, small fix for footerToolbar width. Commit.
• Workaround on incorrect palette update. Commit. Fixes bug #493654
• Platform: Check if weak pointer is expired in PlatformThemeChangeTracker ctor. Commit. Fixes bug #493652
• Dialog: Use footer buttons width if its wider than content. Commit.
• Fix sidebar text color in systemsettings. Commit.
• Use disabled text colors also for inherit-ing Theme instances. Commit. Fixes bug #433256
• Autotests/tst_theme: Add a test that verifies only one signal emission happens. Commit.
• Autotests/tst_theme: Remove waiting for events. Commit.
• Autotests/tst_theme: Explicitly mark root test objects as not inheriting. Commit.
• Add PlatformThemeChangeTracker to BasicTheme::sync(). Commit.
• Platform: Replace PlatformTheme::queueChildUpdate with ChangeTracker::Data flag. Commit.
• Platform: Don't use queued signals for batching change signals in PlatformTheme. Commit.
• Fix NavigationTabBar sizing on mobile. Commit.
• ContextualHelpButton: Clip to avoid text overflow. Commit.
• ContextualHelpButton: Fix flickering when the popup covers the button. Commit. Fixes bug #489688
• ColumnView currently allows having a QObject item inside its children list. Commit.
• ToolBarLayout: Add support for actions that are separators. Commit.

KNewStuff

• Don't emit twice slotEntryChanged. Commit. See bug #492557
• Qtquick: make sort/filter buttons like Discover/kcms. Commit.

KNotifications

• Fix Android notification permission check. Commit.
• Ensure notification permission request callback is run on the right thread. Commit.

KNotifyConfig

• Port to Qt Multimedia. Commit.
• Knotifyeventlist: Set the config paths in the right order. Commit.

KPackage

• Don't double emit emitResult(). Commit. Fixes bug #492557

KRunner

• Add querying property to RunnerManager. Commit.
• Convert to newer REUSE.toml format. Commit.

KStatusNotifieritem

• Document flatpak manifest requirements. Commit.

KSVG

• Fix typo in docs. Commit.

KTextEditor

• Port away from deprecated KPluralHandlingSpinBox. Commit.
• Fix unexpected space indentation in Go var group. Commit. Fixes bug #487054
• Read dir kateconfig on view creation. Commit. Fixes bug #489600
• Fix pressing on } inserts two lines instead of one. Commit. Fixes bug #479717
• Dont remove trailing spaces in markdown by default. Commit. Fixes bug #451648
• Multicursors: Avoid indenting the sameline twice. Commit.
• Blockmode: repair indent when the cursor is in the first column. Commit.
• Multicursor: Fix indent with multiple cursors. Commit.
• With latest syntax definition, more tests pass for ruby. Commit.
• Use more views. Commit.
• Avoid double signal emission. Commit.
• Less deprecated calls, works locally. Commit.
• Store multiline ranges spanning multiple blocks in TextBuffer. Commit.
• Remove MovingRange caching in TextBlock. Commit.
• Add hint the file might got moved. Commit. Fixes bug #476071
• Dont create selection highlights with multiple selections. Commit.
• Optimize killLine for multiple cursors. Commit.
• Completion: Allow async population of documentation. Commit.
• More const to avoid wrong use of these members. Commit.
• Ensure modify the renderer that is used for printing. Commit. Fixes bug #465526. Fixes bug #488605. Fixes bug #487081. Fixes bug #483550
• Fix text insertion with multiple cursors at same position. Commit. Fixes bug #492869
• Add command names for "Remove Spaces" and "Keep Extra Spaces". Commit.
• Minimap now follows the theme also for search matches. Commit.
• Run clang-format. Commit.
• Fix merging of selections in opposite directions. Commit. See bug #492869
• Fix secondary cursor at boundary of selection doesn't get removed. Commit. See bug #492869
• Fix warnings. Commit.

KTextWidgets

• Use static regex for reusable objects. Commit.
• Remove unused Q_D macro. Commit.

KUserFeedback

• Build master ECM as part of the Flatpak build. Commit.

KWidgetsAddons

• Fix crash with older Qt. Commit. Fixes bug #493060
• Fix build against a static Qt. Commit.
• KDateComboBox: emit dateEntered() on FocusOut. Commit.

Network Manager Qt

• Correctly read manually-specified ipv6 addresses from Networkmanager. Commit. Fixes bug #476008. Fixes bug #453453
• Simplify loops and avoid creating iterator on temporary. Commit.
• Use static regex for reusable objects. Commit.

Purpose

• [imgur] Restrict to actually supported MIME types. Commit.
• Add extraJsonTranslationPaths.txt file for purpose specific translations. Commit.
• Ensure KPlugin object contains no unstandardized keys. Commit.

QQC2 Desktop Style

• Kquickstyleitem: Don't crash if colors changed and style option is null. Commit.
• Kirigamiintegration: Track changes to PlatformTheme where needed. Commit.
• TextFieldContextMenu: Open menu by keyPressed at TextField.cursorRectangle position. Commit.

Solid

• Fstab: add missing signal override. Commit.
• Fstab: Emit accessibilityChanged only when actually changed. Commit.
• Get rid of implicit QString and QChar conversions. Commit.
• Get rid of implicit QByteArray to const char* conversions. Commit.
• [Fstab] Minor cleanups (new style connect, extraneous include). Commit.
• [Fstab] Remove mntent wrapper macros. Commit.
• [Fstab] Remove remnants of Solaris support. Commit.

Sonnet

• Fail if none of the plugins can be build. Commit.

Syndication

• Search for private link dependencies in static builds. Commit.

Syntax Highlighting

• Upload the uncompressed files. Commit.
• Odin: add missing items, fix attribute, add directive. Commit.
• Swift: fix detection of end of protocol method declaration. Commit. Fixes bug #493459
• Indexer: treats 1-character StringDetect as a DetectChar for unreachable rules and the merge suggestion. Commit.
• Indexer: check that WordDetect does not contain spaces at the beginning and end of text. Commit.
• Simplify installed xml syntax files to speed up reading. Commit.
• Indexer: replace some QString with QStringView and QLatin1Char with char16_t literal. Commit.
• Indexer: fix default value for char with LineContinuation. Commit.
• Orgmode.xml: Fix orgmode syntax highlighting not ending properly. Commit.
• Jira, Markdown, Org Mode: use rhtml syntax with erb language. Commit.
• Haml: complete the syntax and fix the highlighting of Ruby line following the change in ruby.xml. Commit.
• Ruby: fix %W, dot member, some parenthesis ; add ?c, escape char, etc. Commit. Fixes bug #488014
• Gleam: Minor modifications to syntax and example file. Commit.
• Remove truncase from Common Lisp. Commit.

Executive director Zoë Kooyman will be speaking on a panel at The Tech We Want Online Summit on Thursday, October 17 at 13:30 UTC.

We have just switched on the upgrade for KDE neon to rebase on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

We do this every two years and the 22.04 LTS base was getting increasingly crusty with old Pipewire causing problems and packages like Krita not compiling at all.

Follow the Noble Upgrade instructions or just click the notification that should appear soon.

This week as part of my "Editor Experience" work for LocalGov Drupal, I worked on creating a feature to allow editors to clone pages of their sites.

The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 24.10 has been released, featuring the new and beautiful KDE Plasma 6.1 simple by default, powerful when needed.

Codenamed “Oracular Oriole”, Kubuntu 24.10 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 6.11 based kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.116 and 6.6.0, KDE Plasma 6.1 and many updated KDE gear applications.

Kubuntu 24.10 with Plasma 6.1

Kubuntu has seen many updates for other applications, both in our default install, and installable from the Ubuntu archive.

Applications for core day-to-day usage are included and updated, such as Firefox, and LibreOffice.

For a list of other application updates, and known bugs be sure to read our release notes.

Wayland as default Plasma session.

The Plasma wayland session is now the default option in sddm (display manager login screen). An X11 session can be selected instead if desired. The last used session type will be remembered, so you do not have to switch type on each login.

Download Kubuntu 24.10, or learn how to upgrade from 24.04 LTS.

Note: For upgrades from 24.04, there may a delay of a few hours to days between the official release announcements and the Ubuntu Release Team enabling upgrades.

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