[FFe] KDE Frameworks 5.50.0 into Cosmic Archive

[Rik Mills]

This bug report is a Feature Freeze Exception request on behalf of the Kubuntu team for KDE Frameworks 5.50.0 (updated from 5.49.0).

https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.50.0.php

As is usual with a KDE Frameworks release, this is a mixture of new some new features and incremental important bugfixes.

We currently have this staged in ppa:kubuntu-ppa/staging-frameworks if you wish to inspect the packages.

We have also run autotests for amd64 and i386, which as far as we can test considering test infra differences seem ok, or at least do not cause additional regressions. However, should issues occur on those or other architectures, we commit to fixing those issues for release.

We also have testers that have been running a system with this staged update and have reported no problems.

The following packages form the KDE Frameworks set:

attica-kf5
baloo-kf5
bluez-qt
breeze-icons
extra-cmake-modules
frameworkintegration
kactivities-kf5
kactivities-stats
kapidox
karchive
kauth
kbookmarks
kcmutils
kcodecs
kcompletion
kconfig
kconfigwidgets
kcoreaddons
kcrash
kdbusaddons
kdeclarative
kded
kdelibs4support
kdesignerplugin
kdesu
kdewebkit
kdnssd-kf5
kdoctools
kemoticons
kfilemetadata-kf5
kglobalaccel
kguiaddons
kholidays
khtml
ki18n
kiconthemes
kidletime
kimageformats
kinit
kio
kirigami2
kitemmodels
kitemviews
kjobwidgets
kjs
kjsembed
kmediaplayer
knewstuff
knotifications
knotifyconfig
kpackage
kparts
kpeople
kplotting
kpty
kross
krunner
kservice
ksyntax-highlighting
ktexteditor
ktextwidgets
kunitconversion
kwallet-kf5
kwayland
kwidgetsaddons
kwindowsystem
kxmlgui
kxmlrpcclient
modemmanager-qt
networkmanager-qt
oxygen-icons5
plasma-framework
prison-kf5
purpose
qqc2-desktop-style
solid
sonnet
threadweaver

[Michael Marley (mamarley)]

I have been using this since it was staged several days ago and haven't had any problems. I believe that some combination of this and VLC 3.0.4 even fixed a previous issue I had been seeing where applications would hang while playing notification sounds through Phonon.

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

+1. Created a new VM with Cosmic Daily.
Fully updated.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/staging-frameworks
Updated again
180 packages installed without errors.
Successfully tested Dolphin, FF, Kate, Konsole, ksysguard, and System Settings.

[Darin Miller (darinmiller)]

+2 FW 5.50 great on Dell Inspiron 7559 laptop.

[Rik Mills (rikmills)]

Looking at the changelogs, on balance I think the benefits of taking this update outweigh any regression risk. Should there be issues there will be time to cherry pick any fixes.

So +1 from me.