Release Notes For R14.1.0

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Overview

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.

R14.1.0 marks the end of the previous R14.0.x series and the start of the new R14.1.x one.

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Changes highlight

This section highlights some of the most important fixes introduced by this release.
Several items in this list refer to a multitude of commits, so direct link to them has not been provided to avoid cluttering the overall page.
Please refer to the detailed commit change log for further information.

New applications

  • tdebluez: provides modern Bluetooth functionality (TDE/tdebluez)
  • kplayer: multimedia player with mplayer backend (TDE/kplayer)
  • tdehwdevicetray: provides an easy access to storage devices and their operations
  • ksplash: added new Moodin-based theme "Architecture" (bug 2553)
  • icewm-based Helix theme (TDE/artwork#2)
  • icewm-based Brise theme (TDE/artwork#6) (bug 2833)

New functionalities

  • Added support for Python 3 throughout TDE
  • Added support for LUKS disks. Common LUKS operations can now be handled via GUI, tdeio_media_mounthelper and DCOP calls
  • Added support for PKI (X.509, PKCS, cryptographic card devices) as part of tdehw library and libtdeldap
  • New notification interface for storage device plug/unplugged events (through tdehwdevicetray)
  • Expanded DCOP interface for mediamanager with several new fuctions available, which allow finer control over storage device operations
  • Added support for hybrid suspend (aka suspend to RAM + suspend to disk)
  • Ark: added support for lzip/tar-lzma files
  • tdelibs: added passive notification panel (commit 9cca7662)
  • Added MIT license to the set of distributed licenses and new application to show TDE license information (TDE/tdelibs#197, TDE/tdebase#318)
  • New "session panel" in Kate to ease managing multiple sessions and switching among them. Note: the format for save session files has changed, but existing session will transparently be imported and updated to the newer format
  • konqueror: added "double-click moves to parent folder" feature (commit 3aa5fc08)
  • konqueror: new sorting/grouping actions for listviews
  • konqueror: added support for locale based file sorting
  • New TCC configuration module for Trash and additional options to control the trash size policy
  • KSSLCertificate: added CRL handling support
  • tdemultimedia/tdeutils: added initial basic support for PulseAudio
  • tdefilereplace: several new options and functions added (sorting results, max depth, save/restore search results and search strings)
  • krusader: added support for xz archives
  • kweather: added support for XDG icon names, revamped configuration dialog, add support for system icon theme
  • ksnapshot: added option to view/edit the image in KolourPaint or in another application (TDE/tdegraphics#50)
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