R14.0.11 Release Notes
R14.0.11 is the eleventh maintenance release of the R14.0 series,
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.
Important fixes
This section highlights some of the most important changes introduced by this
release.
New applications
Twin style SUSE2 - Twin decoration theme from SUSE 9.3/10.0/10.1.
Twin style DeKorator - a pixmap-based theme engine and styles for Twin.
TDEAsciiquarium - an ASCII art aquarium screensaver.
tdeio-gopher - tdeio slave for gopher protocol.
tdesshaskpass - a TDE version of ssh-askpass with TDEWallet support.
Enhancements
Added support for variable font DPI (range 64-512) in user session. This helps usability on high resolution screens.
Updated Akode's FFmpeg decoder to FFmpeg 4.x API.
Revamped Konqueror's KWeather sidebar look and functionality.
Extended KXkb's flags and label setup options.
Added "reverse wheel direction" checkbox to TCC --> Window Behavior --> Titlebar/Window actions, to allow to customize the direction of the wheel event selected.
Keyboard shortcuts for classic TDE Menu search function is now customizable.
KNemo now uses the "sys" backend by default and is usable again.
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 building of several packages without tdehw lib.
Fixed hanging of programs caused by non conforming SVG files.
Fixed video (V4L2) support in Kopete, camera can now be used.
Fixed detection of modern gdb in KDbg.
Fixed "Print to PDF" for GhostScript >= 9.51.
Fixed OpenDesktop support in TDE Get New Stuff.
Fixed building tdesdk with glibc >= 2.34.
Added support for poppler 21.08.0.
Fixed k3b SEGV caused by AAC processing of specific files.
Added new IRC network Libera.chat.
Security
KOrganizer no longer displays reminders on top of a locked screen (which could have revealed personal information).
Renamings
kbookreader: installation files have been renamed from "bookreader" to "kbookreader".
mplayerthumbs: installation files have been renamed from "mplayerthumbs" to "mplayer-thumbnailer".
Distro support
Added Fedora 34 and 35.
Dropped Debian Wheezy, Raspbian Jessie, Ubuntu Disco and Eoan.
Added Debian Bullseye, Ubuntu Impish.
Added Arch.
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
The CMake module was moved to a standalone package (cmake-trinity) and is no longer a submodule. The stand alone package is now used as a build dependency.
The "applications" folder has been rearranged in sub categories.
tqca-tls is now part of the tqca package.
Deb-like distros: switched build to ninja by default.