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diff --git a/README.5_17.05_02 b/README.5_17.06 index 5bb7f09..251a570 100644 --- a/README.5_17.05_02 +++ b/README.5_17.06 @@ -1,30 +1,42 @@ KDE5 ==== -Here is KDE 5_17.05_02 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.34.0, -Plasma 5.9.5 and Applications 17.04.1 on top of Qt 5.7.1. +Here is KDE 5_17.06 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.35.0, +Plasma 5.10.2 and Applications 17.04.2 on top of Qt 5.9.0. -Upgrading from the previous 5_17.05 is straight-forward. +Upgrading from the previous 5_17.05_02 is straight-forward. -KDE-5_17.05_02 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current. +KDE-5_17.06 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current. It will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed! Plasma 5 has mostly gotten rid of its Qt4 legacy. What is the NEWS in this batch of updates: -All new packages were compiled with the new gcc 7.1.0 compilers of -Slackware-current - and that went more smooth than I had anticipated. -- Old news of course is that the Plasma update to 5.9.5 happened two weeks - ago, in my KDE-5_17.05 release. -- Frameworks 5.34.0 is a maintenance release, see - https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.34.0.php -- Applications 17.04.1 is the first bugfix update for KDE Applications 17.04. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.04.1.php . +- I moved to Qt version 5.9.0. This is supposed to be a LTS release + (Long Term Support). +- As a result of the qt5 upgrade, lots of other packages in the 'deps' section + were recompiled (grantlee phonon polkit-qt5-1 qca-qt5 qt-gstreamer qtav) + or upgraded (OpenAL PyQt5 libdbusmenu-qt5 poppler qt5-webkit wayland). +- Plasma was updated to 5.10.2 bugfix release, see + https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.10.2.php . And if you want to + know more about what's new in Plasma 5.10, read it on + https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.10.0.php + I compiled plasma-nm against openconnect so that it picks up support for + it. However I did not add openconnect to the 'deps' section, you need + to install it separately if you need it. +- Frameworks 5.35.0 is a maintenance release, see + https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.35.0.php +- Applications 17.04.2 is a bugfix update for KDE Applications 17.04. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.04.2.php . +- In applications-extra the following packages were upgraded: digikam, + krita, kpmcore, partitionmanager. Calligra was recompiled against the + new gsl, marble and qt5 libraries. Further points of interest: - There are a couple of *runtime* dependencies that I did not add to the ktown repository, but you may want to consider installing them yourself: * vlc - will give phonon another backend to select from. * freerdp: access RDP servers through krdc. + * openconnect: support for Cisco's SSL VPN. All of these can be found in my regular package repository. - The following kde/kde4-extragear packages should be taken from slackware itself: kaudiocreator, kplayer, kwebkitpart. @@ -140,6 +152,9 @@ the way, they were split up, renamed or integrated and that is the reason for some of the 'removepkg' lines you'll see below. Here we go: +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.05_02 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.05 installed: - No further actions are needed. @@ -331,4 +346,4 @@ Note that these packages will already have been installed by KDE.SlackBuild ! Reboot your computer and login to a Plasma session. ============================================================================== - Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 21-may-2017 + Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 25-jun-2017 |