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Restructuring of main modules in TGW has been completed
by Michele Calgaro 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

Dear all, as previously announced here: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… this weekend we have moved the core packages to a new 'core' sub folder. 1) If you don't have any local branches and you just use the source code as is, you just need to run: ./scripts/switch_all_submodules_to_head_and_clean as usual to get your local copy properly updated. It will take longer than usual because all the 19 core packages will need to be cloned again. You may have to remove old directories in tde/.git/modules/main (not in tde/.git/modules/main/core) at the end of the update which are no longer used. The new cloned module git info will be in tde/.git/modules/main/core 2) If you are a developer and you are using worktrees, you can follow the procedure above as well and all should be fine. 3) If you are a developer using standard git repositories (no worktrees) and you have local branches that you would like to keep, things are more complicated and will require manual work. We recommend to: A) make a full backup of your local repository copy B) run ./scripts/switch_all_submodules_to_head_and_clean, this will update your local copy creating new copies of the core modules C) merge your local branches from the original backup into your new copy of the core modules. 4) If you don't want to clone the repositories at all, you will need to manually move folders and edit various git configurations files. It works and you don't lose any information, but it is a tricky process and requires good knowledge of git and its configuration. Do it at your own risk! Cheers Michele

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Restructuring of main modules in TGW
by Michele Calgaro 11 Nov '20

11 Nov '20

Hi everyone, please be informed that this coming Saturday the structure of the code repository will undergo some changes. All the main modules will be moved under a "core" folder, as detailed by the following PR: https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/pulls/38 The change will alter the hierarchy of submodules for the main TDE repository. As a precautionary measure, it is recommended you backup your local copy of the affected repositories in case you have some local branches not published anywhere. If you don't have any local unpublished branch, you don't have much to worry since you can always clone the repository again. A follow up announcement will be sent once the PR has been merged, so you will know when the new structure is in place. The affected modules are: tdeaccessibility, tdeadmin, tdebase, tdeedu, tdegraphics, tdelibs, tdenetwork, tdesdk, tdeutils, tdewebdev, tdeaddons, tdeartwork, tdebindings, tdegames, tde-i18n, tdemultimedia, tdepim, tdetoys, tdevelop Cheers Michele

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Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.9 Released!
by Slávek Banko 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of TDE R14.0.9. Albeit being a maintenance release, this version brings along a bunch of new applications to expand the offer of the TDE desktop and provide a more modern look. TDE 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. Born as a fork of KDE 3.5 back in 2010, TDE is now a fully independent project with its own personality and development team, available for various Linux distros, BSD and DilOS. This release comes with new styles providing better look and feel (Baghira, Domino, Ia Ora), new widgets (KoolDock and TastyMenu), new utilities (KXMLEditor, Mathemagics, Qalculate) and new applications (Codeine, TDEDocker, TDEPacman). It also adds support for Xine 1.2.10, improves compatibility with PulseAudio, fixes various bugs, adds support for brightness control from keyboard and integrates CVE-2020-17507 to prevent buffer overflow in XBM parsers. The full version of the Release Notes is available at https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.9 The complete list of bugs fixed in this release is available at these locations (please note that the two lists complement each others, they are not duplicates): * TGW issue list https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/29 * Bugzilla reports https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=3085&hide_resolve… * A detailed commit change log is also available at https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Changelog_For_R14.0.9 We would like to thank all the people who have contributed to the preparation of this release and we are looking forward for further contributions in future. -- Slávek Banko TDE Team

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Planned short outage of the tde-vps machine
by Slávek Banko 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Dear developers and users, we would like to inform you that a short outage of the tde-vps machine is planned on vpsFree.org. This affects the services that are provided on tde-vps: + TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) + TDE Weblate Translation Workspace (TWTW) + main redirector for package repositories The outage should be short - from 2020-10-22 03:05 UTC, it should not exceed two hours. See: https://lists.vpsfree.cz/pipermail/outage-list/2020-October/000910.html Thank you for your understanding. Slávek Banko TDE Team --

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TDE R14.0.9 is coming soon
by Slávek Banko 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

Dear developers and users, We would like to inform that the release of R14.0.9 is planned for the end of October. In addition to some new cmake conversions, many cleanups, many minor fixes and translation updates, several applications from KDE 3.x have been ported and will be added in this release! If you want to contribute, now is a good time to test and also to work on translations. The freezing of dependencies and core packages is scheduled for October 16, applications freeze for October 23 and final freeze for October 30. I hope everything goes well. Thank you for your support and help. Slávek Banko TDE Team --

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Migration of mailing lists to a new server
by Slávek Banko 04 Sep '20

04 Sep '20

The TDE Team is pleased to announce the introduction of brand new mailing lists on the @trinitydesktop.org domain. The new mail server is located on the tde-box machine donated to the project by Integricloud. The archive of the previous mailing lists has been imported into the new one, so there is no loss of previous posts. Additionally, for the announcements and users MLs, the archive of their predecessors (kubuntu-kde3.5-announce and kubuntu-kde3.5-users) have also been imported. The archives are therefore really complete. Accounts subscribed to the original MLs have not been migrated, because the consent previously granted to receive posts from those MLs cannot automatically be considered as an approval for the new MLs. Therefore users of MLs are encourage to subscribe to the new MLs as soon as possible. To ensure a smooth migration, an agent that forwards posts between old and new MLs has been setup. This allows time to subscribe to new MLs and unsubscribe from old MLs without missing any posts. The migration agent will be active until the end of October 2020, after which posts will no longer be forwarded and the old MLs may be deactivated any time. To subscribe to the new MLs either use the webinterface: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/ or send a blank mail to the addresses of the individual MLs: announcements-join(a)trinitydesktop.org users-join(a)trinitydesktop.org devels-join(a)trinitydesktop.org commits-join(a)trinitydesktop.org To unsubscribe from the original MLs, send a blank email to the addresses of individual MLs: trinity-announce-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net trinity-commits-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net -- Slávek Banko TDE Team

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TDE celebrating its 10th anniversary with new R14.0.8 release!
by Slávek Banko 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Ten years ago today, the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) saw the release of its first version (3.5.11). Lot of things have happened since that day but TDE has continued to grow and flourish throughout the years. Today the project is healthier than ever, with dedicated self-hosted servers, regular releases, modern collaboration tools and a vibrant community of users and enthusiasts. The development team is pleased to celebrate TDE's 10th birthday by announcing the immediate availability of the new TDE R14.0.8 release. TDE 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. R14.0.8 is the eighth maintenance release of the R14.0 series, and is built on and improves the previous R14.0.7 version. Maintenance releases are intended to promptly bring bug fixes to users, while preserving overall stability through the avoidance of both major new features and major codebase re-factoring. R14.0.8 Release Notes This section highlights some of the most important fixes introduced by this maintenance release. Bug fixes * Fixed avahi support * Fixed parsing of CPU cores frequency on some hardware * Fixed parsing of battery information on some hardware * Fixed detection of closing thelid on some hardware * Fixed incorrect update of KNote "last modified" field * Fixed several FTBFS caused by newer library versions * Fixed K3B crashes when trying to write an audio CD with cd text * Fixed tdenetworkmanager crashes Enhancements * Many translation updates * Several packages have been migrated to CMake build system * For some packages have been dropped the automake build system * Added option to disable tdekbdledsync * Added option to select default file manager * The selected default terminal is also used for Open terminal here * Improved LibreSSL support * Improved musl libc support * Improved support for DilOS distribution * Improved support for XDG folders * Improved support for Pinebook Pro * Initial work to support reproducible builds * Initial support for translating desktop files using Weblate * Using Ninja build for Cmake building on FreeBSD * Dropped Kerry and code related to Beagle search Security * CVE-2019-14744: Solved similar cases of arbitrary code execution from .desktop files The full version of the release notes is available at https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.8 The complete list of bugs fixed in this release is available at these locations (please note that two lists complement each others, they are not duplicates): * TGW issue list https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/27 * Bugzilla reports https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=3060&hide_resolve… A detailed commit change log is also available at https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Changelog_For_R14.0.8 Useful notes on upgrading Please read through the following notes before upgrading. If applicable to your system, follow the recommended steps. https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/index.php?title=Release_Notes_For_R14.0.8#U… 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 may be already available or will be soon. Live CDs with TDE R14.0.8 preinstalled are or will be available soon on the LiveCDs page. FreeBSD Support TDE continues to offer support for FreeBSD, although still partial given some of the new issues that 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. Credits and acknowledgements We thanks all the people that are (or have been) involved in making TDE the great desktop environment that it is. We would like to thank IntegriCloud for kindly providing a powerful physical server based on a secure POWER9 architecture that serves as the new TDE primary host and as a very powerful builder for ppc64el packages. We would like to thank vpsFree for kindly providing free hosting for some of the TDE services, most notably our self-hosted TDE Gitea Workspace and TDE Weblate Translation Workspace. We would like to thank all the people who have contributed to improve translations for many languages. We are looking forward for further contributions in future. https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.8#Translators Contribute to TDE development 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. There many things you can contribute to, from documentation review to bug fixes as well as brand new software features or applications. Feedback from our users is also 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. Three good places to start communication are the official TGW site at https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea (user guide at https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/TDE_Gitea_Workspace ),the mailing lists at https://www.trinitydesktop.org/mailinglist.php and the bug tracker at https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/. Donate 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 at https://www.trinitydesktop.org/donate.php. Without your financial assistance, TDE would not be possible! Join us in congratulating TDE on its 10th birthday!!

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Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.7 Released!
by Slávek Banko 30 Dec '19

30 Dec '19

The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new TDE R14.0.7 release. TDE 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. R14.0.7 is the seventh maintenance release of the R14.0 series, and is built on and improves the previous R14.0.6 version. Maintenance releases are intended to promptly bring bug fixes to users, while preserving overall stability through the avoidance of both major new features and major codebase re-factoring. R14.0.7 Release Notes This section highlights some of the most important fixes introduced by this maintenance release. Bug fixes * Fixed some SAK related bugs * Fixed TLS support in recent distros * Clean up links to non functional old websites * Fixed several FTBFS caused by newer library versions * Fixed annoying crashes in TDevelop Enhancements * Several packages have been migrated to CMake build system * General polishing of TDE look and brand * Several translation updates * Better support for XDG standard * Improved detection of ruby version * Added support for a new location of the ICEauthority file * Added support for recent versions of libpqxx * Added support for MySQL 8.x * Added initial support for DilOS builds * Added initial support for build with musl libc * Added support for build with LibreSSL * Restored both AIM and MSN protocols in kopete * Revived NetBSD support for various packages Security * CVE-2019-14744: Prevent arbitrary code execution from .desktop files * CVE-2018-19872: Fix crash in tqimage for certain malformed ppm image files The full version of the release notes is available at https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.7 The complete list of bugs fixed in this release is available at these locations (please note that two lists complement each others, they are not duplicates): * TGW issue list https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/10 * Bugzilla reports https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=3010&hide_resolve… A detailed commit change log is also available at https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Changelog_For_R14.0.7 Useful notes on upgrading Please read through the following notes before upgrading. If applicable to your system, follow the recommended steps. https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/index.php?title=Release_Notes_For_R14.0.7#U… 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 may be already available or will be soon. Live CDs with TDE R14.0.7 preinstalled are or will be available soon on the LiveCDs page. FreeBSD Support TDE continues to offer support for FreeBSD, although still partial given some of the new issues that 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. Credits and acknowledgements We thanks all the people that are (or have been) involved in making TDE the great desktop environment that it is. We would like to thank IntegriCloud for kindly providing a powerful physical server based on a secure POWER9 architecture that serves as the new TDE primary host and as a very powerful builder for ppc64el packages. We would like to thank vpsFree for kindly providing free hosting for some of the TDE services, most notably our self-hosted TDE Gitea Workspace and TDE Weblate Translation Workspace. We would like to thank all the people who have contributed to improve translations for many languages. We are looking forward for further contributions in future. https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.7#Translators Contribute to TDE development 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. There many things you can contribute to, from documentation review to bug fixes as well as brand new software features or applications. Feedback from our users is also 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. Three good places to start communication are the official TGW site at https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea (user guide at https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/TDE_Gitea_Workspace ),the mailing lists at https://www.trinitydesktop.org/mailinglist.php and the bug tracker at https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/. Donate 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 at https://www.trinitydesktop.org/donate.php. Without your financial assistance, TDE would not be possible!

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Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.6 Released!
by Slávek Banko 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new TDE R14.0.6 release. TDE 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. R14.0.6 is the sixth maintenance release of the R14.0 series, and is built on and improves the previous R14.0.5 version. Maintenance releases are intended to promptly bring bug fixes to users, while preserving overall stability through the avoidance of both major new features and major codebase re-factoring. R14.0.6 Release Notes This section highlights some of the most important fixes introduced by this maintenance release. Bug fixes * Reboot and shutdown now works with other DM (other than TDM) as long as logind is present * Passwords with special characters are now accepted * Fixed bugs with pdf handling and displaying * Improved TDM log file handling * Fixed GUI related glitches and missing icons in various places * Fixed annoying double notification when inserting some special removable media * Fixed few KOrganizer crashes * Fixed Kdesktop unresponsive behaviour when multiple users log into the same machine at the same time * Fixed support for array of object path key maps in dbus-1-tqt * Fixed SSL initialization for OpenSSL >= 1.1 Enhancements * Added support for safe conversion from TQString to char* * Added support for global LDFLAGS set at the system level * Several packages have been migrated to CMake build system * Improved GCC visibility detection in CMake builds * Created a CMake framework for updating translation templates * Added support for Weblate web based translation (yet to be officially announced) * Improved TDE related CMake capabilities * Improved support for large files detection * Better detection of dynamic loaded libraries location Security * Fix security issue CVE-2018-19870 * Fix security issue CVE-2018-19873 * Fix security issue CVE-2018-7225 * Fix security issue CVE-2018-20021 * Fix security issue CVE-2018-20022 The full version of the release notes is available at https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.6 The complete list of bugs fixed in this release is available at these locations: * Bugzilla reports http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=2885&hide_resolved… * TGW issue list https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/2 A detailed commit change log is also available at https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Changelog_For_R14.0.6 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 may be already available or will be soon. Live CDs with TDE R14.0.6 preinstalled are or will be available soon on the LiveCDs page. Previous R14.0 Release Notes Release notes for previous versions of TDE are avaiable here. R14.0.5 https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.5 R14.0.4 https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.4 R14.0.3 https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.3 R14.0.2 https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.2 R14.0.1 https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.1 R14.0.0 https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.0 FreeBSD Support TDE continues to offer support for FreeBSD, although still partial given some of the new issues that 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. Credits and acknowledgements We thanks all the people that are (or have been) involved in making TDE the great desktop environment that it is. We would like to thanks vpsFree.org for kindly providing free hosting for some of the services used to make Trinity Desktop a better software, most notably the main redirector, which makes distribution of new versions significantly faster, Slavek's preliminary builds and our self-hosted TDE Gitea Workspace. Contribute to TDE development 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. There many things you can contribute to, from documentation review to bug fixes as well as brand new software features or applications. Feedback from our users is also 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. Three good places to start communication are the project's mailing lists at https://www.trinitydesktop.org/mailinglist.php , TDE Gitea Workspace at https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea and bug tracker at https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org. Donate 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 at https://www.trinitydesktop.org/donate.php . Without your financial assistance, TDE would not be possible!

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TDE Gitea Workspace Available!
by Slávek Banko 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool. TGW is a Gitea-based, GitHub-style, self-hosted copy of the official source code repositories that is synchronized with the main server on a hourly basis. It offers wider bandwidth and a collaboration workflow that helps achieving the aim of providing: * fast access to the source code, both through Git or web interface * an easy tool for users and external developers to propose code changes and improvements * a quick way for code sharing and collaboration amongst developers * a simple workflow for reviewing, testing and merging code patches TGW has been thought to serve the needs of the following groups: * people who want to have fast anonymous read-only access to the TDE source code * users who intend to report bugs and propose ideas for ehnancement * contributors who intend to submit code changes for inclusion into TDE official source code * developers who want to cooperate on some common functionality or bug fix TDE core developers are already using TGW on a daily basis and they hope more and more users and contributors will join them soon. Read more about TGW and how to use it on the wiki https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/TDE_Gitea_Workspace and access the workspace at https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea . Credits and acknowledgements We thanks all the people that are (or have been) involved in making TDE the great desktop environment that it is. We would like to officially thanks vpsFree.org for kindly providing free hosting space for the TDE Gitea Workspace.

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