polkit-qt-1 0.113.0 Released

Some 5 years after the previous release KDE has made a new release of polkit-qt-1, versioned 0.113.0.

Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a component for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems. It provides an organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones.   Polkit has an authorization API intended to be used by privileged programs (“MECHANISMS”) offering service to unprivileged programs (“CLIENTS”).

Polkit Qt provides Qt bindings and UI.

This release was done ahead of additions to KIO to support Polkit.

SHA-256:
5b866a2954ef10ffb66156e2fe8ad0321b5528a8df2e4a91b02f5041ce5563a7
GPG fingerprint:
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Notable changes since 0.112.0
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– Add support for passing details to polkit
– Remove support for Qt4

https://download.kde.org/stable/polkit-qt-1/

Thanks to Heiko Becker for his work on this release.

Full changelog

  •  Bump version for release
  •  Don’t set version numbers as INT cache entries
  •  Move cmake_minimum_required to the top of CMakeLists.txt
  •  Remove support for Qt4
  •  Remove unneded documentation
  •  authority: add support for passing details to polkit
    https://phabricator.kde.org/D18845
  •  Fix typo in comments
  •  polkitqtlistener.cpp – pedantic
  •  Fix build with -DBUILD_TEST=TRUE
  •  Allow compilation with older polkit versions
  •  Fix compilation with Qt5.6
  •  Drop use of deprecated Qt functions REVIEW: 126747
  •  Add wrapper for polkit_system_bus_name_get_user_sync
  •  Fix QDBusArgument assertion
  • do not use global static systembus instance

 

KDE.org Applications Site

I’ve updated the kde.org/applications site so KDE now has web pages and lists the applications we produce.

In the update this week it’s gained Console apps and Addons.

Some exciting console apps we have include Clazy, kdesrc-build, KDebug Settings (a GUI app but has no menu entry) and KDialog (another GUI app but called from the command line).

This KDialog example takes on a whole new meaning after watching the Chernobyl telly drama.

And for addon projects we have stuff like File Stash, Latte Dock and KDevelop’s addons for PHP and Python.

At KDE we want to be a great place to be a home for your project and this is an important part of that.