Release Notes For R14.0.4

Introduction

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.

R14.0.4 is the fourth maintenance release of the R14.0 series, and is built on and improves the previous R14.0.3 version.
Maintenance releases are intended to promptly bring bug fixes to users, while preserving overall stability through the avoidance of both new features and major codebase re-factoring.

Previous R14.0 Release Notes

You can read the R14.0.3 release notes here, R14.0.2 release notes here, R14.0.1 release notes here and the original R14.0.0 release notes here.

R14.0.4 Release Notes

This section highlights some of the most important fixes introduced by this maintenance release.

Fixed handling of certificate "permanent" acceptance
Fixed screensaver activation and computer suspend code interaction
Fixed occasional Konqueror crashes on kjs/regexp
Fixed utf8 handling in tdeabc, libkcal, CardDAV
Fixed invisible (miniature) icons in the tray
Fixed positioning of main panel to the screen side when the clock is displayed in the system tray
Fixed crash of some non-TDE applications due to wrong X symbolic color database
Fixed "ESC" support in TDEPowersave countdown dialog
Switch to new jabber protocol in Kopete
Improved startup of tdehw dbus daemon
Improved support for TQt python scripts
Improved handling of folder location in save dialog
Relaxed time limit for computer suspend settings in TDEPowersave
Updated METAR URL in KWeather
Added CUPS 2.2 support
Added FFMPEG3 support
Added GCC 6.x support
Added GStreamer 1.x support
Added rar 5.x support
Fixed security issues

The complete list of bugs fixed in this release is available here.

A detailed commit change log is also available here.

FreeBSD Support

Support for FreeBSD is still partial and some new issues have arisen with the latest versions of FreeBSD. The TDE team will try their best to improve support for FreeBSD but progress will probably be slow. Additional developers or contributors willing to help porting the remaining features and applications are always welcome.

Getting TDE

Installation instructions and binary packages are immediately available for Debian and Ubuntu. Packages for RedHat/CentOs, Fedora, Mageia, OpenSUSE, and PCLinuxOS are being built by their respective maintainers and will be made available at a later date.

Live CDs with TDE R14.0.4 preinstalled are available on the LiveCDs page.

User Feedback

Feedback from our users is an integral part of a large, 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. Two good places to start communication are the project's mailing lists and bug tracker.

Developers Wanted

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.

Contribute to the TDE Project

Creating TDE requires significant computing resources and bandwidth. Please consider helping to keep us online with a donation on our donations page. Without your financial assistance, TDE would not be possible!

Press Contact Information

Project Founder/Administrator: Timothy Pearson, kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net