a bugfix, translation and maintenance update. Release note can be found
at http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3.1.php
We would like to thank all our contributors and testers. My personal
thanks to miwi and makc for coaching me through my first KDE commit.
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.3.0 (Codename: "Caizen") release
notes can be found at:
http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php.
We'd like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters.
Tested by: pointyhat-exp-run (pav/miwi)
-Update libtool and libltdl to 2.2.6a.
-Remove devel/libtool15 and devel/libltdl15.
-Fix ports build with libtool22/libltdl22.
-Bump ports that depend on libltdl22 due to shared library version change.
-Explain what to do update in the UPDATING.
It has been tested with GNOME2, XFCE4, KDE3, KDE4 and other many wm/desktop
and applications in the runtime.
With help: marcus and kwm
Pointyhat-exp: a few times by pav
Tested by: pgollucci, "Romain Tartière" <romain@blogreen.org>, and
a few MarcusCom CVS users. Also, I might have missed a few.
Repocopy by: marcus
Approved by: portmgr
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader
9.1.1 and Acrobat 9.1.1 and earlier versions. These
vulnerabilities would cause the application to crash and could
potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected
system.
Security: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-07.html
Security: CVE-2009-0198
Security: CVE-2009-0509
Security: CVE-2009-0510
Security: CVE-2009-0511
Security: CVE-2009-0512
Security: CVE-2009-0888
Security: CVE-2009-0889
Security: CVE-2009-1855
Security: CVE-2009-1856
Security: CVE-2009-1857
Security: CVE-2009-1858
Security: CVE-2009-1859
Security: CVE-2009-1861
modular xorg.
- supply corresponding USE_XORG for all imake-using ports that need it
- USE_IMAKE no longer implies USE_XLIB in absence of USE_XORG
- retire USE_X_PREFIX which is not really used anywhere after the
above change
- a few minor nits like whitespace and SF macro
Tested by: 2 tinderbox runs by pav
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- CVE-2009-1492
The getAnnots Doc method in the JavaScript API in Adobe Reader
and Acrobat 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1, and earlier allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or
execute arbitrary code via a PDF file that contains an
annotation, and has an OpenAction entry with JavaScript code
that calls this method with crafted integer arguments.
- CVE-2009-1493
The customDictionaryOpen spell method in the JavaScript API in
Adobe Reader 8.1.4 and 9.1 on Linux allows remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute
arbitrary code via a PDF file that triggers a call to this
method with a long string in the second argument.
Security: CVE-2009-1492
Security: CVE-2009-1493
Security: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-06.html
See original release announcement for details:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.2.3.php
New ports:
devel/kdebindings4:
Meta port of KDE bindings for C#, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby.
Currently only Python bindings are supported.
devel/kdebindings4-python, devel/kdebindings4-python-krosspython,
devel/kdebindings4-python-pykde4:
Python bindings for KDE.
print/kdeutils4-printer-applet:
printer-applet is a system tray utility. It shows current print jobs,
shows printer warnings and errors and shows when printers that have
been plugged in for the first time are being auto-configured by
hal-cups-utils. It replaces kjobviewer in KDE 3.
print/system-config-printer-kde
A port of Gnome system-config-printer to KDE.
multimedia/phonon port has been split into phonon itself, phonon-xine
and phono-gstreamer backends. After updating phonon port you have
to install at least one backend. phonon-xine backend is recommended
for KDE.
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.2.0 (Codename: "The Answer") release
notes can be found at:
http://kde.org/announcements/4.2/index.php.
New supported languages include Arabic, Icelandic, Basque,
Hebrew, Romanian, Tajik and several Indian languages (Bengali India,
Gujarati, Kannada, Maithili, Marathi) indicating a rise in popularity in
this part of Asia.
New ports for KDE 4.2.0:
arabic/kde4-l10n Arabic
hebrew/kde4-l10n Hebrew
misc/kde4-l10n-bn_IN Bengali (India)
misc/kde4-l10n-eu Basque
misc/kde4-l10n-gu Gujarati
misc/kde4-l10n-is Icelandic
misc/kde4-l10n-kn Kannada
misc/kde4-l10n-mai Maithili
misc/kde4-l10n-mr Marathi
misc/kde4-l10n-ro Romanian
misc/kde4-l10n-tg Tajik
math/eigen2 Lightweight library for vector and matrix math
graphics/kipi-plugins-kde4 KDE4 kipi graphics plugins
sysutils/policykit-kde PolicyKit manager for KDE
Unfortunately FreeBSD 6.4 support is dropped.
We'd like to say thanks for feedback and help to:
Matt Tosto, Kris Moore, stickibit, David Johnson, Markus Brueffer,
David Naylor, Thomas Schlesinger, Warren Liddell, Thomas Abthorpe,
Diego Depaoli, Mats Andreassen, portmgr for exp-run and repocopies.
- Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libglut since the shlib
version number went from 4 to 3.
- Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libXaw as libXaw.so.8 isn't
installed anymore.
- Couple of ports fixes (mostly missing xorg components added to USE_XORG).
Qt4 ports have been updated from 4.4.1 to 4.4.3. With this update
new port misc/qt4-l10n has been added. This port provides localisation
support for Qt4 developers tools designer, linguist, etc.
Approved by: miwi (mentor)
following way:
print/ghostscript-gnu -> print/ghostscript7
print/ghostscript-gnu-nox11 -> print/ghostscript7-nox11
print/ghostscript-gnu-commfont -> print/ghostscript7-commfont
print/ghostscript-gpl -> print/ghostscript8
print/ghostscript-gpl-nox11 -> print/ghostscript8-nox11
japanese/ghostscript-gnu-jpnfont -> print/ghostscript7-jpnfont
korean/ghostscript-gnu-korfont -> print/ghostscript7-korfont
* USE_GHOSTSCRIPT now supports a version number which the port
requires. The valid value is "7" or "8". If other value is
specified, value of WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_VER is used.
* WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_GNU has been removed in favor of
WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_VER. The valid value of WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_VER is
"7" or "8", and the default value is "8".
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.1.1 release notes can be found at
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1to4_1_1.php.
KDE Community ships sirst translation and service release of the 4.1
dree desktop, containing numerous bugfixes, Performance Improvements
and Translation Updates.
Pretty much all applications have received the developers' attention,
resulting in a long list of bugfixes and improvements. The most significant
changes are:
* Significant performance, interaction and rendering correctness
improvements in KHTML and Konqueror, KDE's web browser
* User interaction, rendering and stability fixes in Plasma,
the KDE4 desktop shell
* PDF backend fixes in the document viewer Okular
* Fixes in Gwenview, the image viewer's thumbnailing, more
robust retrieval and display of images with broken metadata
* Stability and interaction fixes in KMail
New Ports:
- graphics/kcoloredit
* KColorEdit is a palette files editor. It can be used
for editing color palettes and for color choosing and
naming.
- graphics/kgraphviewer
* KGraphViewer is a GraphViz DOT graph viewer for KDE. The
GraphViz programs are free-software layout engines for graphs.
KGraphViewer displays the graphs in a modern, user-friendly GUI
with all the power of a well integrated KDE application.
- graphics/kiconedit
* KIconEdit is designed to help create icons for KDE using the standard
icon palette.
- graphics/skanlite
* Skanlite is a simple image scanning application that does nothing
more than scan and save images. Skanlite can open a save dialog for
every image scanned or save the images immediately in a specified
directory with auto-generated names and format. The user can also
choose to show the scanned image before saving.
of KDE 3.5.10 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 3.5.10 release
notes can be found at:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.10.php
While not a very exciting release in terms of features,
3.5.10 brings a couple of nice bugfixes and translation
updates to those who choose to stay with KDE 3.5. The
fixes are thinly spread across KPDF with a number of crash
fixes, KGPG and probably most interesting various fixes
in kicker, KDE3's panel:
* Improved visibility on transparent backgrounds
* Themed arrow buttons in applets that were missing them
* Layout and antialiasing fixes in various applets
Approved by: portmgr (erwin/pav)
of KDE 3.5.9 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 3.5.9 release
notes can be found at:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.9.php
After the KDE 4.1.0 import the team found time to make
KDE 3.5.9 ready for the Ports tree.
KDE 3.5.9 was released six months ago and 3.5.10 is coming
soon. We are not sure we have time to get 3.5.10 for FreeBSD
7.1/6.4 release, but we would have minimum 3.5.9 for those
people who prefer to stay with KDE3.
Of course Thanks to all Testers.
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.1.0 release notes can be found at
http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.1/.
Some note:
* Prefix
KDE4 will be install into a custom prefixes namely ${LOCALBASE}/kde4.
KDE4 and KDE3 can co-exist
* Sound
For sound to work, it is necessary to have dbus and hal enabled
in your system. Please see the respective documentation on how
to enable these.
For more Informations see the HEADS UP at ports@ and kde-freebsd@
or our wiki page http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4/Install.
Have fun!
Note:
With this update several ports specific problems
have been fixed. Qt4 headers and libraries have
been moved to include/qt4 and lib/qt4. bsd.qt.mk
defines QT_INCDIR and QT_LIBDIR now, which could
be used in qt4-dependent ports if required.
Thanks to: Max Brazhnikov Danny Pansters
| A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader and
| Acrobat 8.1.2. This vulnerability would cause the application to
| crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of
| the affected system.
Security: CVE-2008-2641
Security: CVE-2008-0883
Security: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-15.html
