Release Notes For R14.1.5
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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.
R14.1.5 is the fifth maintenance release of the R14.1.x series.
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 functionalities and enhancements
- twin: add support for tiling when multiple monitors are in use. Tiling now works within each screen geometry (TDE/tdebase#612, TDE/tdebase#624, TDE/tdebase#628)
- twin: more user friendly tiling band settings (TDE/tdebase#620)
- kicker: various aesthetic improvements and new options (TDE/tdebase#576)
- kdrc: add paste command, allowing sending clipboard content as text (TDE/tdenetwork#104)
- add support for OpenLDAP 2.5 (TDE/libtdeldap#19, TDE/kcmldap#15, TDE/kcmldapcontroller#18, TDE/kcmldapmanager#13, TDE/kerberostray#14)
- codeine: add mute toggle button to volume slider (TDE/codeine#33)
- kolourpaint: use smooth resize as default selection at start (TDE/tdegraphics#126)
- ark: fix support for unzip v6 date format (TDE/tdeutils#104)
- improvements to various TDE-branded icons/pictures/artwork (TDE/tde#238)
- tdeartwork: new Flying Konqi wallpaper (TDE/tdeartwork#52, TDE/tdeartwork#54)
- tde-style-baghira: add option to center the popup menu (TDE/tde-style-baghira#28)
- tdepim: add support for libgpgme 2.0 (TDE/tdepim#162, TDE/tdepim#165)
- kalzium: replace use of legacy nums library with new zarith library (TDE/tdeedu#63, TDE/tdeedu#64)
- k9copy: add support for ffmpeg 8.0 (TDE/k9copy#37, TDE/k9copy#38, TDE/k9copy#39)
Bug fixes
- tqt: fix secondary event loop using 100% CPU in particular situations (TDE/tdebase#635, TDE/tqt#229, TDE/tqt#231, TDE/tqt#232)
- kdesktop: fixed deadlock situation and unresponsive lock (TDE/tdebase#641, TDE/tdebase#646)
- tdebase: fix crash in tderandrtray on display reconnect (TDE/tdebase#660)
- branding: make TDE xsession name compliant to XDG specification (TDE/tdebase#637, TDE/tdebase#638, TDE/xdg-desktop-portal-tde#14)
- Use normal mouse pointer instead of the dot-pointer when local mouse pointer is enabled in krdc (TDE/tdenetwork#103)
- showfoto: fix application usability (TDE/digikam#50, TDE/digikam#51)
- bibletime: fix text rendering in display windows (TDE/bibletime#32)
- k3b: fix detection of normalize and sox external programs (TDE/k3b#58, TDE/k3b#60)
- koffice: fix FTBFS of filters/xsltfilter against libxml 2.13+ (TDE/koffice#96, TDE/koffice#97)
- kpdf: fix a few SEGV faults (TDE/tdegraphics#127, TDE/tdegraphics#130, TDE/tdegraphics#132, TDE/tdegraphics#133)
- kopete: fix some basic bugs with account creation and libgsm backend (TDE/tdenetwork#110)
- amarok: fix occasional SEGV on collection rescan (TDE/amarok#87, TDE/amarok#88)
Distro support
- Debian: add support for Trixie, drop support for Buster. Also add support for Forky for nightly builds (PSB/PTB) (TDE/tde-packaging#459)
- Ubuntu: add support for Questing, drop support for Mantic (TDE/tde-packaging#446)
- OpenSUSE: add support for Leap 16 and drop support for Leap 15.5
Drop autotools support
- digikam (TDE/digikam#52, TDE/digikam#54)
- krecipes (TDE/krecipes#27)
- ksquirrel (TDE/ksquirrel#33)
- ktorrent (TDE/ktorrent#38)
Info for developers/packagers
- General renames, code improvements, obsolete code removal (TDE/tde#229)
- DEB specific: moved tde cdbs files into metapackage tde-cdbs (TDE/tde-packaging#442, TDE/tde-packaging#443, TDE/tde#233)
- sip4-tqt: add spec for linux-clang (TDE/sip4-tqt#35, TDE/sip4-tqt#36)
- pytdeextensions: various improvements to build code (TDE/pytdeextensions#20, TDE/pytdeextensions#21, TDE/pytdeextensions#22)
- Gentoo: several updates to building scripts
- kxsldbg has been carved out from tdewebdev and converted into a standalone application (TDE/tdewebdev#65, TDE/tde-i18n#67, TDE/tde#241). Since version 1.1.43, libxslt is built --without-debugger by default, so if you wish to package kxsldbg for recent distributions, you will also need to custom build libxslt. Also from version 2.14 of libxml2, some code has been removed and this will likely make kxsldbg unbuildable without further changes.
Additional info
- R14.1.5 release notes on TGW
- TGW full issue and PR list, by module
- Detailed commit change log
Getting TDE
Installation instructions and binary packages are (or will be soon) available for:
- Debian (Bullseye, Bookworm, Trixie + Forky/Sid PSB/PTB only)
- Ubuntu (Bionic, Focal, Jammy, Noble, Oracular, Plucky, Questing)
- Devuan (Chimaera, Daedalus, Excalibur)
- Raspbian (Bullseye, Bookworm, Trixie)
- Arch
- RedHat/CentOs (RHEL 8/9/10)
- Fedora (42, 43)
- openSUSE (15.6, 16, Tumbleweed)
- Mageia (9)
- PCLinuxOS
Live CDs with TDE R14.1.5 preinstalled are or will be available soon on the LiveCDs page.
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 :-)
Previous release notes
Release notes for previous versions of TDE are avaiable at these links.
- Previous release (R14.1.4)
- Older R14.0.x release notes.
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.
Credits and acknowledgements
We thanks all the people that are (or have been) involved in making TDE the great desktop environment that it is.
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.
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.
TODO
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.