Release Notes For R14.1.3

Overview

The Trinity Desktop Environment is a complete software desktop environment designed for Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring a traditional desktop model, and is free/libre software.

R14.1.3 is the third maintenance release of the R14.1.x series.

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Highlights

This section lists some of the most important changes introduced by this release.
Several items in this list refer to a multitude of commits, so direct link to them has not been provided to avoid cluttering the overall page.
Please refer to the detailed commit change log for further information.

New applications

• xdg-desktop-portal-tde: partial implementation (Account, Email, FileChooser) of the XDG Desktop Portal API for TDE (TDE/xdg-desktop-portal-tde)
  
  
  
• twin-style-mallory: a twin window decoration based on the original KDE Alloyon windec theme (TDE/twin-style-mallory)
  
  
  
• tde-ebook-reader: a modern e-book reader for TDE (TQt port of FBReader) (TDE/tde-ebook-reader)
  
  
  
• universal-indent-gui-tqt: a GUI frontend for several code formatters, beautifiers and indenters (TQt port of UniversalIndentGUI) (TDE/universal-indent-gui-tqt)
  
  
  

New functionalities and enhancements

• tdebase: new touchpad module for TDE Control Centre (TDE/tdebase#481, TDE/tdebase#521, TDE/tdebase#533, TDE/tdebase#539)
  
• konsole: add Solarized dark and light color schemes (TDE/tdebase#486)
  
• twin and kicker: add support for window tiling to the taskbar and window's popup menus (TDE/tdebase#522)
  
• khotkeys: allow to run either as kded module or standalone application (TDE/tdebase#326, TDE/tdebase#536, TDE/tdebase#537, TDE/tdebase#538)
  
• improve visibility of Control Center modules. Modules for which there is no underlying hardware can now be hidden (TDE/tdelibs#300, TDE/tdebase#527, TDE/tdebase#534)
  
• add support to various applications for back/forward actions using history mouse buttons (TDE/tde#174)
  
• add `Copy Full Path` action to popup menu in konqueror (TDE/tdebase#523) and Dolphin (TDE/dolphin#33)
  
• add support for Python 3.13 (TDE/tde-common-admin#34, TDE/sip4-tqt#27, TDE/pytqt#33, TDE/tdeedu#47, TDE/koffice#80)
• superkaramba: add GB and percent format strings for memory sensors (TDE/tdeutils#85) and GPU load sensor (TDE/tdeutils#86)
  
• tdebase: provide DCOP interface and global shortcuts for suspending the system (TDE/tdebase#502)
  
• tdebase: allow remote network folders to be moved to and restored from the Trash folder (TDE/tdebase#520)
• knetattach: add SFTP connection option (TDE/tdebase#519)
  
• kspread: add VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP functions (TDE/koffice#66)
• added support for webp images (TDE/tdelibs#277, TDE/digikam#25, TDE/gwenview#42)
• konqueror: add support for .webp thumbnails (TDE/tdebase#380, TDE/tdebase#487)
• kate: use simple paths for local files in `modified on disk` dialog (TDE/tdelibs#284)
• arts: use AudioIOSun on Solaris and NetBSD (TDE/arts#22)
• tdebase: improve granularity of keyboard and style related timers (TDE/tdebase#513, TDE/tdebase#518)
• codeine: improve the layout of xine parameters configuration dialog (TDE/codeine#18)
  
• tdelibs kimgio: add support for TIFF transparency (TDE/tdelibs#282, TDE/tdelibs#302)
• kate PHP syntax: allow `heredoc` closing identifiers to be indented (TDE/tdelibs#267)
• gwenview external tools: replace deprecated gimp-remote with gimp (TDE/gwenview#46)
• improve support for JasPer 3/4 (TDE/tdelibs#306, TDE/libksquirrel#21)
• switch from libpcre to libpcre2 regular expressions (TDE/tdelibs#295, TDE/tdebase#524, TDE/kbarcode#20)
• add support for libpoppler 24.04 (TDE/tdegraphics#97)

Bug fixes

• konsole: fix text width calculation (TDE/tdebase#516)
• tqt3: several memory leak fixes and other small changes (TDE/tqt3#148)
• tdelibs: improve autostart support logic for KDE programs (TDE/tdelibs#283, TDE/tdelibs#293, TDE/tdelibs#294)
• kmail: fix handling of attachments with a `#` in the filename (TDE/tdepim#119, TDE/tdepim#120)
• tde-style-polyester: fix loading of twin decoration (TDE/tde-style-polyester#11)
• twin-style-fahrenheit: fix loading of twin decoration (TDE/twin-style-fahrenheit#3)
• kjobviewer: fix incorrect autostart rule (TDE/tdebase#492, TDE/tdebase#493)
• fix compatibility with ffmpeg 7.x (TDE/akode#18, TDE/akode#19, TDE/k3b#47)
• tdemultimedia: fix support for libtag2 in FLAC plugin (TDE/tdemultimedia#77, TDE/tdemultimedia#81)
• codeine: scale capture preview if it exceeds screen bounds (TDE/codeine#15)
• icon dialog window: fixed display of icon names for filenames with multiple dots in the icon dialog window (TDE/tdelibs#298)
• codeine: fix crash when showing context menu in DVDs (TDE/codeine#19)
• codeine: fix filter in "Open file" dialog (TDE/codeine#21)
• codeine: fix disappearing channel selection when modifying toolbar settings (TDE/codeine#24, TDE/codeine#25)
• tdepim: fix import encoding for vCard v4 in KAddressBook (TDE/tdepim#130)
• ksirc: fix functionality of internal perl scripts, de facto making ksirc usable again (TDE/tdenetwork#86)
  
• kate syntax: highlights alerts (FIXME, TODO) for Rust language (TDE/tdelibs#308)
• tdelibs: fix crash in tdeio scheduler when job or slave are invalid (TDE/tdelibs#309)
• amarok: fix unsigned overflow in Debug::Block dtor (TDE/amarok#67)
• amarok: replace custom MP4 metadata parser with TagLib. This prevent crash when trying to play MP4 files (TDE/tdemultimedia#82, TDE/amarok#66)

Distro support

• OpenMandriva (OMV): add support for OMV 5 and OMV Cooker (TDE/tde#171)
• Ubuntu: add support for Oracular and dropped support for Kinetic (TDE/tde-packaging#329)
• Fedora: add support for version 41

CMake conversions

• kmyfirewall (TDE/kmyfirewall#17, TDE/kmyfirewall#18, TDE/kmyfirewall#19, TDE/kmyfirewall#20, TDE/kmyfirewall#21)
• piklab (TDE/piklab#16, TDE/piklab#17)

Drop autotools support

• gwenview (TDE/gwenview#36, TDE/gwenview#39)
• smb4k (TDE/smb4k#20, TDE/smb4k#22, TDE/smb4k#23, TDE/smb4k#24)
• soundkonverter (TDE/soundkonverter#21, TDE/soundkonverter#22, TDE/soundkonverter#23)
• tde-guidance (TDE/tde-guidance#19)

Info for developers/packagers

• partial work on merging tqtinterface into TQt3 + several TQt/TDE related renamings (TDE/tde#165)
• add support for relative paths in `_tde_internal_setup_path` (TDE/tde-cmake#108)
• add support for gcc14 builds (several PRs)
• compizconfig-python-trinity, mp4v2 and pyrex have been removed from the DEB extra dependencies repository (TDE/extra-dependencies#29, TDE/extra-dependencies#31)

Additional info

• R14.1.3 release notes on TGW
• TGW issue list
• Detailed commit change log

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Getting TDE

Installation instructions and binary packages are (or will be soon) available for:

• Debian (Buster, Bullseye, Bookworm + Trixie/Sid PSB only)
• Ubuntu (Bionic, Focal, Jammy, Lunar, Mantic, Noble, Oracular)
• Devuan (Beowulf, Chimaera, Daedalus)
• Raspbian (Buster, Bullseye, Bookworm)
• Arch
• RedHat/CentOs (RHEL 8/9)
• Fedora (39, 40, 41)
• OpenSUSE (15.5, Tumbleweed)
• Mageia (9)
• PCLinuxOS

Live CDs with TDE R14.1.3 preinstalled are or will be available soon on the LiveCDs page.

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Donate and support TDE

We sincerely thanks all the people who have donated to TDE in recent and far past.
Please consider helping to keep us online with a donation on our donations page. Every little helps :-)

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Previous release notes

Release notes for previous versions of TDE are avaiable at these links.

Previous release (R14.1.2)

Older R14.1.x release notes.

R14.1.1

R14.1.0

Older R14.0.x release notes.

R14.0.13

R14.0.12

R14.0.11

R14.0.10

R14.0.9

R14.0.8

R14.0.7

R14.0.6

R14.0.5

R14.0.4

R14.0.3

R14.0.2

R14.0.1

R14.0.0

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FreeBSD Support

TDE continues to offer support for FreeBSD by providing updated "TDE port maps" data for each invidivual port and the "tde-ports-map" script used to synchronize the contents with the standard /usr/ports location. "tde-meta" port has been added to simplify building and installation of ports using the new framework: this meta port does not contain any code but depends on all ports of the TDE umbrella.

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Credits and acknowledgements

We thanks all the people that are (or have been) involved in making TDE the great desktop environment that it is.

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Infrastructure

We would like to thank IntegriCloud for kindly providing a powerful physical server based on a secure POWER9 architecture that serves as the TDE primary host and as a very powerful builder for ppc64el packages.

We would like to thank vpsFree for kindly providing free hosting for some of the TDE services, most notably our self-hosted TDE Gitea Workspace and TDE Weblate Translation Workspace.

We would like to thank all the mirrors for kindly providing free hosting for the TDE packages and archive.

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Translators

We would like to thank all the people who have used the TDE Weblate Translation Workspace to improve translations for many languages. We are looking forward for further contributions in future.

• Chinese (Simplified)
  • G-Src (10)
  • 梁维康 (62)

• Czech
  • Slávek Banko (138)

• German
  • Etienne Ruedin (32)

• Italian
  • Michele Calgaro (1223)
  • stefano (317)

• Polish
  • Eryk Michalak (92)
  • Jan Stolarek (32)
  • Marek W (170)

• Portuguese
  • Hugo Carvalho (101)

• Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Diogo Leal (4)

• Russian
  • Andrei Stepanov (1615)
  • Andrey Ivanov (225)

• Spanish (Argentina)
  • Alejo Fernández (6483)

• Ukrainian
  • Roman Savochenko (100)

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Contribute to TDE development

The TDE development team is small but friendly. If you wish to participate in the TDE development process, please visit the Get involved page for additional information.

There are many things you can contribute to, from documentation review to bug fixes as well as brand new software features or applications.

Feedback from our users is also an integral part of a large scale, user-experience oriented project such as TDE. Whether you want to report a bug, suggest an improvement or simply let us know your opinion about TDE, please feel free to contact us. Three good places to start communication are the official TGW site (user guide here), the project's mailing lists and the bug tracker.