From 394d9846d2db078719b94c7a9a67dad1f0666bdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michele Calgaro Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:37:53 +0900 Subject: Added final version of release notes for R14.0.12. Signed-off-by: Michele Calgaro (cherry picked from commit 6628e2597bb180c2a5b017342442ca70f7b97489) --- doc/khelpcenter/releasenotes/r14.0.12.docbook | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/khelpcenter/releasenotes/r14.0.12.docbook b/doc/khelpcenter/releasenotes/r14.0.12.docbook index fb7ee7600..69ec96ad5 100644 --- a/doc/khelpcenter/releasenotes/r14.0.12.docbook +++ b/doc/khelpcenter/releasenotes/r14.0.12.docbook @@ -1,12 +1,87 @@ -R14.0.12 Release Notes (draft) +R14.0.12 Release Notes R14.0.12 is the twelfth maintenance release of the R14.0 series, -and is built on and improves the previous versions. -Maintenance releases are intended to promptly bring bug fixes and -new features to users, while preserving overall stability through the -avoidance of both major API or feature changes and major codebase re-factoring. +and is built on and improves the previous maintenance versions. +Maintenance releases are intended to promptly bring bug fixes and new +features to users, while preserving overall stability through the avoidance +of both major API or feature changes and major codebase re-factoring. + -The ongoing temporary list of changes introduced by this release can be found here. + +Important fixes + +This section highlights some of the most important changes introduced by this +release. + + + + New applications + + Polkit-agent-tde - a D-Bus service that provides a TDE based polkit authentication agent + Polkit-tqt - a library that lets developers use the PolicyKit API through a nice TQt-styled interface + tdemarkdown part - an embeddable lightweight markdown document viewer + + + + + Enhancements + + Some improvements on Konsole terminal emulation + Quanta: improved support for complex characters/dead keys in VPL editor + KSSL: added Let's Encrypt certificates support + Kxkb: systray label can now have a transparent background + Konsole: added real transparency checkbox option + Quanta: added support for HTML 5 + Sip4-tqt: initial support for python 3 + Tdebase: added dispwin (Argyll) support to set the ICC profile + Translation updates (thanks to all translators) + Several packages have been migrated to CMake build system + Dropped automake build system for various packages + Continued overall look polishing + + + + + Bug fixes + + Fixed timeout on dbus' service startup response on first call + Fixed hanging of system on shutdown caused by conflicts between tdm and plymouth + Added support for Poppler >= 21.11 + TCC: make sure correct encoding is used for editing bashrc (affects gtk-qt-engine) + Fixed issue with ICEAuthority ownership stealing when programs were run using tdesu in a user session + KMail: redirecting messages now uses the default account + Amarok: fixed default scoring script error caused by using a feature deprecated in latest Ruby version + Kaffeine: fixed detection of libdvdcss + Kexi: added support for postgresql 12 and later + + + + + Distro support + + Gentoo: several improvements and addition to supported ebuilds + Debian: dropped Jessie + Ubuntu: dropped Trusty (14.04), added Jammy (22.04). + + + + +The full list of changes is available at these links: + + TGW issue list + Bugzilla bug list + Detailed commit change log + Full release notes on TDE wiki + + +Additional info for developers/packagers + + Minimum required version of CMake raised to 3.1 + c++11 features are now allowed in the code base + cmake-trinity: added TQT_CMAKE_DIR variable, for installing and importing exported CMake targets for TQt dependent libraries + cmake-trinity: added ability to specify necessary CXX features + + -- cgit v1.2.3