R14.1.3 Release Notes
This document tracks some of the most important changes introduced in release R14.1.3, the third maintenance release of the R14.1.x series.
The full release notes on TDE wiki contains screenshots of some of the new features.
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
Full release notes (with screenshots) on TDE wiki
This release notes on TGW
TGW issue and PR list
Detailed commit change log