R14.0.12 is the twelfth 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. 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