diff --git a/news.rdf b/news.rdf index b9d40e7..04be928 100644 --- a/news.rdf +++ b/news.rdf @@ -1,1805 +1,1805 @@ KDE/FreeBSD http://FreeBSD.kde.org/ Managing a great desktop environment for a great operating system. en-us kde@FreeBSD.org (webmaster) Copyright (c) 2006-2018 FreeBSD.kde.org webmaster Newer Plasma in Area51 2018/10/06

The latest KDE Plasma releases, 5.13 and the upcoming 5.14, need a newer libinput than is available in the official FreeBSD ports tree. There is a branch plasma5-5.13 with the necessary updates applied, for users wishing to use the latest Plasma releases from Area51.

Qt 5.11.2 Landed 2018/09/25

The Qt ports have been updated to version 5.11.2. This continues to be a "frankenQt" with an older QtWebEngine port.

KDE Frameworks 5.50 Landed 2018/09/17

The latest monthly version of KDE Frameworks is available in the official FreeBSD ports tree.

SDDM security fix 2018/09/11

The SDDM port has been updated to version 0.17_1, to backport fixes from the 0.18 branch related to session-reuse. Users are encouraged to upgrade, although the default configuration in FreeBSD is not affected.

KDE Applications updated 2018/09/06

The first monthly bugfix release for KDE Applications 18.08 has landed in the official ports tree. Users can update normally.

KDE Applications updated 2018/08/25

The august update to KDE Applications, including the packages of extragear maintained by the KDE-FreeBSD team, has landed in the official ports tree. Users can update normally.

KDE Frameworks 5.49 Landed 2018/08/23

The latest monthly version of KDE Frameworks is available in the official FreeBSD ports tree.

KDE Frameworks 5.48 Landed 2018/07/19

The latest monthly version of KDE Frameworks is available in the official FreeBSD ports tree.

KDE Frameworks 5.47 Landed 2018/06/15

Less than a week after their official release, the latest monthly version of KDE Frameworks is available in the official FreeBSD ports tree.

KDE Applications Updated 2018/06/10

The latest update to KDE Applications -- a wide range of productivity, home, office and entertainment applications -- has been committed to the official FreeBSD ports tree. Look for KDE Applications 18.04.2 updates to be available from packages as well in a few days time.

Welcome Modern KDE to FreeBSD 2018/05/03

The long-, long-awaited up-to-date KDE Plasma Desktop and all of the KDE Applications have landed in the official ports tree. The x11/kde5 metaport installs KDE Frameworks, KDE Plasma Desktop, and KDE Applications (all of those are metaports as well, do take a look at the configuration options to get the applications you want).

QtWebEngine Landed 2017/08/2017

The long-awaited QtWebEngine -- the Qt port of the Blink engine that also powers the Chromium browser -- has landed in the official ports tree. This completes the portfolio of Qt5 modules on FreeBSD, and paves the way for browser- and application updates that depend on a reasonably-modern web-rendering engine.

Calligra, Krita updated to 3.0, KF5 2017/06/18

The first applications built on KDE Frameworks 5 are beginning to arrive on FreeBSD. The Calligra suite of office and productivity applications and Krita, the painting application, have been updated to their respective 3.0 releases.

Users may want to uninstall calligra and kdiagram before building the newer version.

KDE Frameworks 5.35 in Area51 2017/06/11

The latest release of KDE Frameworks 5.35 has been added to the plasma5/ branch of the Area51 repository. Users of the experimental ports repository can upate and rebuild KDE Frameworks as usual.

New Area51 2017/06/08

The repository used by the KDE-FreeBSD team for preparing KDE (related) ports has migrated to GitHub, alongside the XOrg@ and gnome@ ports trees. The first updates from that repository have been integrated into the main ports tree, with CMake 3.8.2 and fixes for Qt4 on ARM leading the way.

Various Migrations 2017/05/31

Two parts of the KDE/FreeBSD initiative have migrated to other homes this week. The website has largely moved to the KDE Community Wiki. This will make it easier to keep the website up-to-date and for incidental contributions by users. The source repository for the unoffical KDE ports -- which is where they are developed before being added to the main FreeBSD ports tree -- is now in github, alongside similar ports trees from xorg@ and gnome@. This simplifies the workflow of contributing updates to the KDE ports in the tree and unifies that workflow with the official ports tree.

KDE Frameworks 5.34 landed 2017/05/20

The official ports for KDE Frameworks 5 have been updated to the latest release. Users of KDE Frameworks ports can update as usual.

KDE CVE-2017-8422 2017/05/10

The KDE ports affected by CVE-2017-8422, x11/kdelibs4 and devel/kf5-kauth, have been updated with the fix for the identity-spoofing bug. Users are advised to update the affected ports.

 Oxygen icons converging 2017/04/03

The Oxygen icons which have colored the KDE4 desktop on FreeBSD for a long time are updated regularly upstream. However, they are no longer the Oxygen icons for KDE4, but for KDE Applications with KDE Frameworks 5. This means that icon updates do not happen for KDE4 from ports.

The KDE-FreeBSD team has renamed the port of the Oxygen icons from kde4-icons-oxygen to kf5-oxygen-icons5, and updated the port with the latest upstream release. This is another small step in preparing for KDE Applications. While the port is now named "kf5-", it is not, in fact, based on Qt5 or KDE Frameworks 5, and can be used in a KDE4 environment with no change. The KDE4 ports have been adjusted to use this newer version, even though the mix of KDE4 and KDE Frameworks 5 looks a little strange.

KDE4 Updates 2017/03/29

Although KDE4 software -- based on kdelibs4 -- is no longer actively developed upstream, KDE4 is the only complete version of KDE software currently available from ports. It receives occasional updates upstream, and therefore occasional updates in FreeBSD.

KDE4 has been updated to the latest workspace release, 4.11.22, and latest kdelibs release, 4.14.30.

KDE Frameworks 5 and Applications 2017/03/26

KDE Frameworks 5 in ports have been update to the latest release from KDE.org, version 5.32. The ports infrastructure has been updated to be ready for the current release of KDE Applications, version 16.12.3. The latter are not yet available in official ports, but they are in the unofficial ports tree in area51, in the plasma5/ branch.

This update ensures that when the KDE Applications for KF5 land, the infrastructure is ready for them.

 Qt 5.7.1, KDE Frameworks 5.31 landed 2017/02/18

The KDE-FreeBSD team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Qt 5.7.1 and KDE Frameworks 5.31 in the official FreeBSD ports tree; check out FreshPorts for the latest ports news.

This release adds one new KDE Framework, Kirigami 2. It also massages the Qt4 and Qt5 ports to live together more harmoniously. In particular, it adds misc/qtchooser, which allows developers and sysadmins to manage multiple concurrent Qt installations. We advise users to consult the UPDATING entry for 20170218.

KDE Plasma 5.9.2 in area51 2017/02/14

The KDE-FreeBSD team loves announcing that area51 is all up-to-date with the latest software releases from the KDE community. The unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD now contains KDE Frameworks 5.31, KDE Plasma Desktop 5.9.2 and KDE Applications 16.12.

KDE Frameworks 5.30 landed 2017/01/26

The official FreeBSD ports tree has been updated with this month's KDE Frameworks release, version 5.30. New in this release on the FreeBSD side is the inclusion of x11/kf5-kwayland, which opens the door to Wayland-compatible applications using the KDE Frameworks.

KDE Plasma 5.8.5 in area51 2016/12/27

The KDE-FreeBSD team has updated the unofficial ports tree, area51, with the latest release of KDE Plasma, 5.8.5. This version is available from the unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD, area51, in the plasma5/ branch.

KDE Frameworks 5.29.0 landed 2016/12/19

The KDE-FreeBSD team is proud to introduce the KDE Frameworks ports into the official FreeBSD ports tree. The KDE Frameworks are 70 libraries that build on top of Qt5 and provide lightweight, modular support for all kinds of functionality for Qt5 applications. The KDE Frameworks also serve as the platform on which KDE Plasma 5 and KDE Applications are built.

This release includes all of the KDE Frameworks except for kf5-wayland (because it requires Wayland, which isn't in the ports tree yet) and kf5-bluez (because it doesn't make sence on FreeBSD's Bluetooth stack).

Qt 5.6.2 landed 2016/10/28

The KDE-FreeBSD team is happy to announce that the latest Qt LTS (Long-Term Support) version, Qt 5.6.2, has been committed to the official FreeBSD ports tree. This marks the next step towards importing KDE Frameworks 5 into the official tree. Users of Qt5 ports can update as usual.

KDE Frameworks 5.27.0 in area51 2016/10/08

The latest KDE Frameworks release -- this month is 5.27 -- is available in the unofficial KDE-FreeBSD ports repository, area51. Users of the plasma5/ branch in that repository can update as usual. or from the bleeding-edge packages provided by the KDE-FreeBSD team.

KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS in area51 2016/10/05

The KDE community has published an LTS (long term support) release of KDE Plasma 5.8. This version is available from the unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD, area51.

More updates in area51 2016/09/09

The unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD, area51, continues to keep pace with upstream KDE releases. This week, it has been updated with Plasma 5.7.4 and KDE Applications 16.08.1. Users of the plasma5 branch of the area51 repository can update normally.

KDE Applications 16.08.0 in area51 2016/08/19

The unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD, area51, has been updated with the newest release of KDE Frameworks, version 5.25, and with the latest release of KDE Applications, 16.08.0. Users of the plasma5 branch of the area51 repository can update normally.

KDE Plasma 5.7.3 in area51 2016/08/07

The unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD, area51, has been updated with the newest releases of KDE Plasma, version 5.7.3. Users of the plasma5 branch of the area51 repository can update normally.

KDE Frameworks, Plasma, Applications updated in area51 2016/06/12

The unofficial ports for KDE-FreeBSD, area51, have been updated with the newest releases from the KDE community: KDE Frameworks 5.24.0, KDE Plasma 5.7.1, and KDE Applications 16.04.3. All of these ports live in the plasma5 branch of the area51 repository.

New Committer 2016/06/06

Tobias Berner, long-time KDE-FreeBSD contributor, has been accepted as a FreeBSD ports-committer. This means that the team of people actively working on not just area51 ports, but also the official ports, has expanded by one. This is expected to improve the speed at which unofficial ports get turned into official ports.

KDE Plasma 5.6.5 in area51 2016/06/13

The unofficial ports repository area51 has been updated with the latest release of KDE Plasma, 5.6.5. Users of the unofficial repository can simply build new packages with poudriere. There is no estimate yet on when these ports will end up in the official ports tree.

KDE Frameworks 5.23.0 in area51 - Jun 13th, 2016 + 2016/06/13

The unofficial ports repository area51 has been updated with KDE Frameworks 5.23.0 which were released today. The plasma5-branch now holds the latest Frameworks, and Plasma 5.6.4 and KDE Applications 16.04.1.

K-F Minor Updates Landed - May 25th, 2016 + 2016/05/25

Recently a whole bunch of small fixes were made in the ports maintained by the KDE-FreeBSD team. The kdehier and kdeprefix ports have finally been retired. New Qt5 ports have been added for the Qt examples, and Qt Designer has been updated.

Updates in area51 - April 20th, 2016 + 2016/04/20

The unofficial ports repository area51 has been updated with a number of KDE Frameworks 5 and related ports: KDE Frameworks 5 has been updated to version 5.21.0, released April 9th. KDE Plasma 5 has been updated to 5.6.3, released April 19th. KDE Applications have been updated to the newly-released 16.04.

CMake 3.5.2 has landed - April 18th, 2016 + 2016/04/18

The latest version of CMake, 3.5.2, has been added to the official ports tree.

KDevelop 4.7.3 has landed - April 15th, 2016 + 2016/04/15

KDevelop has been updated in the official ports tree to the latest version, 4.7.3, released for KDE4.

DigiKam 4.14.0 has landed - April 14th, 2016 + 2016/04/14

DigiKam and related ports have been updated in the official ports tree to 4.14.0.

This is a huge leap, as we are moving from 4.2.0 (released in August 2014) to 4.14.0 (released in October 2015). Version 4.14.0 is the last KDE4-based release, and 5.0.0 will be based on KDE Frameworks 5.

Plasma 5.6.1 in area51 - March 30th, 2016 + 2016/03/30

The regular bugfix release of Plasma 5.6.1 has been added to the unnoficial ports tree in the area51 repository. The plasma5-branch in the repository builds the most modern and up-to-date Plasma shell.

Plasma 5.6.1 in area51 - March 30th, 2016 + 2016/03/30

The regular bugfix release of Plasma 5.6.1 has been added to the unnoficial ports tree in the area51 repository. The plasma5-branch in the repository builds the most modern and up-to-date Plasma shell.

digiKam 4.14 in area51 - March 29th, 2016 + 2016/03/29

The latest version of digiKam for KDE4 technology, digiKam 4.14, has been added to the unofficial ports tree in area51. The trunk of that repository reflects what is "up next" for merging into the official ports.

Plasma 5.6 in area51 - March 23rd, 2016 + 2016/03/26

Just a day after the release of Plasma 5.6, it has been added to the unofficial ports tree in the area51 repository. The plasma5-branch in the repository builds the most modern and up-to-date Plasma shell. The KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 are now co-installable with KDE4 from official ports, now that the installation of headers has been untangled (since March 16th).

CMake 3.5.0 has landed - March 19th, 2016 + 2016/03/19

Official ports have been updated to CMake 3.5.0. This brings CMake completely up-to-date with the upstream release.

KDE4 reorganization has landed - March 16th, 2016 + 2016/03/16

Official ports have been updated with a new structure for KDE4 installation. The header installation location for kdelibs4-based ports has changed to include/kde4 instead of include (which consequently causes several other ports to have their installation paths changed too).

The idea behind this is to reduce path conflicts between KDE4 ports and the upcoming KDE Frameworks 5 ports that will be installed into include/KF5.

Plasma 5.6 beta in area51 - March 5th, 2016 + 2016/03/5

The Plasma 5.6 beta release has been added to the area51 repository. This means that the plasma5-branch in area51 now builds and installs a beta. Users can Update their plasma5-plasma port from the unnoficial ports tree. Use r12023 for the Plasma 5.5.5 release.

KDE 4.14.9 in area51 - March 4th, 2016 + 2016/03/04

The KDE4 ports in area51 have been updated to KDE4 4.14.9. This does not match an official release, but updates kdelibs to the most recent released versions. Most KDE ports do not update and remain 4.14.3. KDevelop has been updated to the latest version based on KDE4 libraries. Users can update the trunk branch in the unofficial repository to try these newer ports. Work is underway to merge this update with the official ports tree.

Plasma 5.5.5 in area51 - March 3rd, 2016 + 2016/03/03

Plasma 5.5.5 has been added to the area51 repository, keeping up with the monthly release cycle. Users can Update their plasma5-plasma port from the unnoficial ports tree.

Frameworks 5.19 and other updates in area51 - February 19th, 2016 + 2016/02/19

The monthly release of KDE Frameworks has also arrived in area51. Together with the newest KDE Frameworks ports, KDE Applications to 15.12.2 and KDevelop 5.0 has been updated to beta2. All these ports can be found in the unofficial ports tree in the plasma5 branch.

Calligra update in area51 - February 8th, 2016 + 2016/02/08

The Calligra suite has been updated to version 2.9.11 today. This is available in the unofficial ports repository area51, in trunk.

Plasma 5.5.4 in area51 - January 27th, 2016 + 2016/01/27

Hot on the heels of Qt 5.5.1 landing in the official ports tree, Plasma 5.5.4 has been added to the area51 repository. Users can Update their plasma5-plasma port from the unnoficial ports tree.

Qt 5.5.1 in ports - January 27th, 2016 + 2016/01/27

In the official ports tree, Qt has been updated to Qt 5.5.1. This is the culmination of months of porting effort, careful testing, exp-runs and package-disentangling. Users of Qt5 on FreeBSD now have the latest official Qt5 release available to them. Users are advised to consult the UPDATING file, as some ports have been split up. Special thanks to Yuri Victorovich, who did an independent port of Qt 5.5.1 and whose work has been incorporated in this update.

Users of Qt4 are unaffected by this change.

 Frameworks 5.18 in area51 - January 15th, 2016 + 2016/01/15

The monthly release of KDE Frameworks has also arrived in area51. Together with the newest KDE Frameworks ports, Plasma has been updated to 5.5.3 and KDE Applications to 15.12.1. All these ports can be found in the unofficial ports tree.

Applications, Calligra, Frameworks, Plasma updated in area51 - December 21st, 2015 + 2015/12/21

Many of the KDE-related ports in area51 have been updated once again. The Calligra suite has been updated to version 2.9.10. KDE Applications are version 15.12.0. The Plasma desktop has updated to (the weekly release) Plasma 5.5.1. All these ports can be found in the unofficial ports tree.

Frameworks 5.17 in area51 - December 13th, 2015 + 2015/12/13

Just a day after their release by the KDE community, the KDE Frameworks 5 ports have been updated to the latest version, KDE Frameworks 5.17.0. These ports are intended for testing before eventually entering the official ports tree. These new ports are available in area51 in the plasma5 branch.

Plasma 5.5 in area51 - December 10th, 2015 + 2015/12/10

The Plasma 5 Desktop ports have been updated to the latest Plasma 5.5. This does not affect the KDE Frameworks or Applications in area51. These ports are intended for testing before eventually entering the official ports tree. These new ports are available in area51 in the plasma5 branch.

Frameworks 5.16 and Plasma 5.4.3 in area51 - November 25th, 2015 + 2015/11/25

The KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 Desktop ports have been updated to the newly-released KDE Frameworks 5.16.0 and Plasma 5.4.3. There are also ports of the Applications 15.12 beta. These ports are intended for testing before eventually entering the official ports tree. These new ports are available in area51 in the plasma5 branch.

Frameworks 5.15 and Plasma 5.4.2 in area51 - October 11th, 2015 + 2015/10/11

The KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 Desktop ports have been updated to the newly-released KDE Frameworks 5.15.0 and Plasma 5.4.2, following the official releases at the beginning of October. These ports are intended for testing before eventually entering the official ports tree. These new ports are available in area51 in the plasma5 branch.

New Frameworks 5.14.0 in area51 - September 12th, 2015 + 2015/09/12

The "bleeding edge" repository for KDE Frameworks 5 ports has been updated to the newly-released KDE Frameworks 5.14.0 and Plasma 5.4.1. These new ports are intended for testing before eventually entering the official ports tree, and have been built by the KDE-FreeBSD team on FreeBSD 9.3 x86, 10.2 amd64 and 11 amd64. These new ports are available in area51 in the plasma5 branch.

Preparations for Frameworks and Plasma5 - July 10th, 2015 + 2015/07/10

Work continues apace on the "bleeding edge" ports for the next generation of KDE Frameworks, Applications and the Plasma5 workspace. This is available through area51, the bleeding-edge development area for KDE/FreeBSD ports.

 Welcome Qt5 5.4.1 - March 18th, 2015 + 2015/03/18

Qt5 has been in the ports tree for a little over a year, and today the KDE/FreeBSD team is happy to present the latest version, Qt 5.4.1, alongside Qt 4.8.6.

 Welcome KDE SC 4.14.3 - March 12th, 2015 + 2015/03/12

The KDE Community proudly announces the latest -- and also the last planned -- release of Plasma Workspaces 4.11.14 and KDE Applications and Platform 4.14.3. This version of Plasma Workspaces includes a fix for CVE-2014-8651.

 KDevelop 4.7.1 - February 21st, 2015 + 2015/02/21

The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to introduce the latest version of the KDevelop IDE, version 4.7.1

 Welcome KDE SC 4.14.2 - November 19th, 2014 + 2014/11/19

The KDE Community proudly announces the latest release of Plasma Workspaces 4.11.13 and KDE Applications and Platform 4.14.2.

 Security fix for Qt4 and Qt5 - July 21st, 2014 + 2014/07/21

A fix for CVE-2014-0190 has been committed to the Qt4 and Qt5 ports. Users are advised to rebuild qt4-imageformats and qt5-gui.

 Welcome KDE SC 4.12.5 - May 10th, 2014 + 2014/05/10

The KDE Community proudly announces the latest releases of Plasma Workspaces 4.11.9 and KDE Applications 4.12.5.

 Welcome KDE SC 4.12.4 - April 3rd, 2014 + 2014/03/03

The KDE Community proudly announces the latest releases of Plasma Workspaces 4.11.8 and KDE Applications 4.12.4.

 Welcome Qt5! - March 3rd, 2014 + 2014/03/03

KDE/FreeBSD team is happy to present Qt5 in ports! We introduce Qt 5.2.1.

 Welcome KDE SC 4.12.2 - February 18th, 2014 + 2014/02/18

The KDE Community proudly announces the latest releases of Plasma Workspaces 4.11.6 and KDE Applications 4.12.2.

 Calligra updated to 2.7.5 December 16th, 2013

The Calligra suite has been updated to version 2.7.5.

 KDE Telepathy: the new KDE integrated messaging framework May 2nd, 2013

Please welcome KDE Telepathy 0.6.1 (net-im/kde-telepathy), the new KDE project aiming to integrate real time communication deeply into KDE Workspaces. You can find a comprehensive introduction on dot.kde.org.

 Calligra 2.6.2: new features, and the new Calligra Author March 29th, 2013

Today we committed an important update to the Calligra Suite, result of thousand of commits which provide new features, polishing of the user interaction and tons of bug fixes.
Also, please welcome Calligra Author as the new member of the suite: it will support a writer in the process of creating an eBook from concept to publication.

For more information, read the official announcement.

 Welcome KDE SC 4.10.1! March 27th, 2013

The KDE Community proudly announces the latest releases of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. Improved usability and performance, along with many visual refinements, help the Software Compilation make a further leap in quality. Read more on the official announcement.

 KDevelop reaches 4.4.1 February 5th, 2013

The KDevelop 4.4 release comes packed with new features, bug fixes and improved performance. Also, new in this release is a shiny welcome screen for improved usability and an easier entry into the KDevelop world. As usual, the official announcement is the best source for information.

 Calligra 2.5.5 released February 5th, 2013

The last bugfix release in the 2.5 branch of Calligra was committed to the ports; it brings several improvements and thus we recommend everybody to update.

 KDE SC 4.9.5 comes to ports February 3rd, 2013

The KDE/FreeBSD team presents KDE SC 4.9.5, featuring, among new features and a lot of bug fixes, the new game Pairs, and split ports in the kdemultimedia and kdenetwork modules, allowing you to choose what you really want to install.

 Qt 4.8.4 and QtCreator 2.6.1 now available February 3rd, 2013

The KDE/FreeBSD team presents Qt 4.8.4, and QtCreator 2.6.1, which now ships with a QML designer. Updating is strongly encouraged.

 Calligra 2.5.2 bugfix release available September 16th, 2012

Yet another Calligra release hit the ports tree. This new version fixes some serious bugs introduced in the first two 2.5.* releases. More details can be found in the official announcement.

 Calligra 2.5.1 released September 1st, 2012

Shortly after 2.5 announcement, here comes the first bugfix release. You'll find an overview of the most important fixes in the official announcement.

 Calligra 2.5 committed to ports August 26th, 2012

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce version 2.5 of Calligra, coming to the ports tree after a short testing period which showed it to be quite stable.

For the productivity part of the suite (word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program) the target user of version 2.5 is still the student or academic user. This version has a number of new features that will make it more suitable for these users.
The artistic applications of the Calligra Suite are the most mature ones and are already used by professional users everywhere.

As usual, detailed release notes can be found in the official announcement. You're strongly invited to update, as this release also solves a security issue.

Meanwhile, new translations were added:

 - editors/calligra-l10n-gl (Gallegan)
Calligra 2.5 RC available for testing July 19th, 2012

While waiting for the final release, the KDE/FreeBSD team invites you to test the release candidate of the Calligra Suite version 2.5 via the area51 repository:

 $ svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51
 # sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -o /usr/ports
 # portmaster editors/calligra

The official announcement can be found here: http://www.calligra.org/news/calligra-2-5-release-candidate.

 Calligra Suite 2.4.3 now available July 5th, 2012

KDE office suite, Calligra, has been updated to its latest version, 2.4.3. You're all invited to upgrade, and to have a look at the release notes. Meanwhile, release 2.5.0 is approaching, with cool new features!

 KDE SC 4.8.4 available June 14th, 2012

The last update in the 4.8 series was just committed to ports. You might want to read the release announcement.

Meanwhile, we were able to fix two serious bugs in Akonadi which were preventing KMail 2 and other Akonadi-enabled software from working properly. KDE-Pim 4.8.4 should now be safe to use.

Happy updating!

 Qt updated to 4.8.2 June 2nd, 2012

Just a quick update to let you know that tonight we updated our Qt version to 4.8.2. Upstream changelog can be found here: https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/blobs/4.8/dist/changes-4.8.2.

 Calligra 2.4.2 now in ports May 31st, 2012

After a short incubation period, Calligra Suite has landed in the ports collection with his brand new 2.4.2 release. Users of KOffice should move on to this new suite, deinstalling any KOffice port and installing equivalent Calligra ones (as noted in UPDATING).

To answer most people's question: future work on Calligra will indeed include splitting it into several ports featuring single applications.

 Qt 4.8.1 and KDE SC 4.8.3 in ports, at last! May 25th, 2012

The long awaited KDE SC 4.8.3 was just committed to ports, along with Qt 4.8.1, Phonon 4.6.0, PyQt 4.9.1, and many more updates you shouldn't care about. What you should be aware of is that KDE-Pim was finally updated and put in sync with the Software Compilation. As UPDATING suggests, if you want to stick with 4.4.11.1, you can replace deskutils/kdepim4 with deskutils/kdepim44.

 CFT: Qt 4.8.1 and KDE SC 4.8.2 April 7th, 2012

While we wait for the ports feature freeze to be over, we invite you to test the upcoming updates in the KDE land:

  • Qt 4.8.1;
  • PyQt4 4.9.1;
  • KDE SC 4.8.2.

 $ svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51
 # sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -kmpq /usr/ports

Since Qt started using the raster graphics system engine by default (and the native one seems not to be an option anymore), you should add...

 kern.ipc.shmmni=1024
 kern.ipc.shmseg=1024

...to /boot/loader.conf.

 Kdevelop 4.3.0 available for testing April 4th, 2012

Thanks to the contribution of Luca Pizzamiglio, Kdevelop was updated to 4.3.0 in area51, and you're free to test it:

 $ svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51
 # sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -m /usr/ports
 # portmaster devel/kdevelop-kde4

If no problems are found, it will probably be committed when KDE SC 4.8.2 comes to the tree.

 KDE SC 4.7.4 released January 25th, 2012

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce KDE Software Compilation 4.7.4, which concludes the 4.7 series. We invite you to read the original announcement.

Have a nice upgrade!

 CFT: Qt 4.8 ready for testing January 11th, 2012

We'd like to inform you all that area51 trunk is now featuring Qt 4.8. While it should be working (yet untested, feedback welcome), we suggest you not to test it along with KDE SC 4.7, as it won't work fine.

 KDE SC 4.7.3 available in ports November 14th, 2011

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.7.3 for FreeBSD. We invite you to read the original announcement.

Differently from the last update (from 4.6.5 to 4.7.2), this is an incremental, minor version update which should not require big interventions or cause big changes for users.

 KDE SC 4.7.2 available in ports October 16th, 2011

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.7.2 for FreeBSD. We invite you to read the original announcement.

A lot of effort was put into this and previous 4.7 releases both by the KDE and FreeBSD teams. Here's a list of some of the improvements:

  • some modules were split in smaller chunks, letting you install what you really want;
  • startup time was reduced of approximately 15 seconds;
  • KWin is now much lighter (on some systems almost doubled performance was registered);
  • auto-login via KDM is now supported;
  • Phonon-GStreamer will stop notifying you with annoying messages;
  • Kopete finally supports GoogleTalk;
  • Kalzium now installs with its molecular editor;
  • Zeitgeist support was added.

Along with this update, also Qt and PyQt4 were updated, respectively to 4.7.4 and 4.8.5.

More than ever, we'd like to say thanks to all testers and contributors, who were very helpful during this long porting process.

 CFT: KDE SC 4.7.1 September 15th, 2011

We're happy to let you know that KDE SC 4.7.1 is ready for a public test.

You can get it via SVN checkout:

 $ svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51
 # sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -a /usr/ports

If you want to also test KDE PIM 4.7.1, run (at this exact point):

 # sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -m /usr/ports

Alternatively, if you're on amd64, you can use precompiled packages:

 # PACKAGEROOT=http://packages.FreeBSD.kde.org portmaster -P x11/kde4

Warning: if you’re using a recent -CURRENT (after libraries soversion bump), you'll need to adjust your libmap.conf to use those packages.

Please read carefully the UPDATING-area51 notes.

We'd like to say thanks to Li-Wen Hsu (lwhsu@) for hosting and syncing the packages.

 KDE SC 4.7 roadmap August 26th, 2011

What’s keeping KDE 4.7 still out of FreeBSD? Well, the high number of tarballs (and thus ports) in which it was split for this release. Actually they’re not too much, but they require a deep scan to update dependencies. We’ll probably be ready for a Call for tests in few days, and we would even like to provide test packages to make the process easier and get more feedback!
KDE PIM 4.7 will also be available, but it probably won’t be ready to be committed along with other ports.

 KDE SC 4.6.5 in ports July 7th, 2011

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce KDE Software Compilation 4.6.5. Read the original announcement and the changelog.

 KDE SC 4.6.4 releasd June 14th, 2011

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce KDE SC 4.6.4. Read the full announcement here.

 KDE SC 4.6.3 in ports May 16th, 2011

We're pleased to announce the update to KDE Software Compilation 4.6.3. Read the full announcement here.

Special thanks to Raphael Kubo da Costa for his work on this update.

 KDE SC 4.6.2 in ports April 7th, 2011

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce April updates for KDE Software Compilation: 4.6.2, codename "Congrats". Read the full announcement here:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6.2.php.

Special thanks to Raphael Kubo da Costa who ported the release.

 KDE SC 4.6.1, Qt 4.7.2... March 25th, 2011

What a big set of updates the one committed today by kde@! We are pleased to announce:

  • Qt 4.7.2;
  • PyQt4 4.8.3;
  • KDE SC 4.6.1, featuring an improved ksysguardd on its own (sysutils/ksysguardd, with no dependencies) that can be used for remote monitoring of systems;
  • KOffice 2.3.1 (yes, further upgrade of this is planned);
  • KDevelop 4.2.0;
  • a few other ports you’re probably not interested in, but that you really want to upgrade.

Official KDE release announcement can be found here.

As always, we’d like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters. Writing a list would probably leave someone out, so drop an eye on our mailing list if you want their names.

 PC-BSD sponsors KDE/FreeBSD with a build machine March 6th, 2011

The KDE/FreeBSD team is receiving assistance from PC-BSD again. During last months things have gone a bit slowly: the main problem was we missed a package build system. Luckily, miwi@ managed to find a solution with Kris Moore’s help, and now we’re back on full speed.

We’d like to say thanks to Kris Moore, Josh Paetzel, Dru Lavigne, the PC-BSD project and of course iXsystems for their generous donation of a test machine for KDE.

 KDE SC 4.6 roadmap March 1st, 2011

As you may know, we’ve had 4.6.0 in testing for about a month while the ports tree was in feature freeze. Now that it is open again, we are already dealing with 4.6.1 update, then we’re not going to commit 4.6.0 to ports just to replace it with 4.6.1 in few days. In addition to not having to build KDE SC twice (not all that fun), you won’t experience some youth problems which should have been fixed in the latest release.

As a side note, we’re starting work on Qt 4.7.2, which will soon come to ports.

Enjoy the wait! :)

 Call for tests: KDE SC 4.6.0 January 31st, 2011

The FreeBSD KDE Team is happy to let you know that KDE SC 4.6.0 has been released a few days ago, and the release is ready for a public test. Before you ask, no, we do not want to put KDE 4.6.0 in the ports tree before FreeBSD 8.2/7.4 is released.

What's new:
KDE SC 4.6.0 provides major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications and KDE Platform. Theses releases, version 4.6, provide many new features in each of KDE's three product lines. The official release notes for these releases can be found at http://kde.org/announcements/4.6.

You can get KDE SC 4.6 via SVN checkout:

 $ svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/PORTS
 $ svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/PYQT
 $ svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/KDE
 $ svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools

Then run:

 # sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -kmp /usr/ports

Please read carefully the UPDATING-area51 notes.

Happy updating!!

 KDE Software Compilation 4.4.5 in ports June 29th, 2010

KDE SC ports have been updated to 4.4.5. See official announcement for details.

 KDE Software Compilation 4.4.4 in ports June 2nd, 2010

KDE SC ports have been updated to 4.4.4. See official announcement for details.

New ports:

 astro/marble (split from misc/kdeedu4):
     Virtual globe and world atlas for KDE.
 
 graphics/kphotoalbum-kde4:
     Image viewer and organizer for KDE.
KDE Software Compilation 4.4.3, Qt 4.6.2 and others May 11th, 2010

After a long delay due to ports freeze in preparation for FreeBSD 7.3 release, and then subsequent updates for X.Org and GNOME ports, the eagerly awaited KDE SC 4.4.3 with Qt 4.6.2 has been committed to ports! Besides, KOffice ports have been updated to 2.1.2 and PyQt4 to 4.7.3. We had to resurrect multimedia/phonon* ports and now they are installed by default instead of Qt 4 Phonon.

Please, read carefully /usr/ports/UPDATING before upgrading your ports!

New ports:

 accessibility/ktts (split from accessibility/kdeaccessibility):
     KDE subsystem for conversion of text to audible speech.
 
 devel/kdebindings4-ruby:
     Ruby bindings for KDE.
 
 x11/plasma-scriptengine-python (split from x11/kdebase4-workspace):
     Allows to run Python plasmoids.
 
 x11/plasma-scriptengine-ruby:
     Allows to run Ruby plasmoids.
 
 www/kwebkitpart:
     A web browser component for KDE (KPart).
Qt 4.6.1 is in ports January 22nd, 2010

Qt 4.6.1 has been committed to ports. See original list of changes for Qt 4.6.1 and Qt 4.6.0.

 KDE 4.3.4 is in ports December 1st, 2009

KDE 4.3.4 and Qt 4.5.3 have been committed to ports.

The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.3.4 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.3.4 notes can be found here.

With this update, we also updated Qt and PyQt4 bindings.

We'd like to say thanks to all helpers, testers and submitters.

Happy updating!

 KDE 4.3.1 is in ports September 1st, 2009

KDE 4.3.1 has been committed to ports.

The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.3.1 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.3.1 notes can be found here.

We'd like to say thanks to all helpers, testers and submitters.

Happy updating!

 KDE 4.3.0 in ports August 5th, 2009

KDE 4.3.0 has been committed to ports.

The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.3.0 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.3.0 (codename: "Caizen") release notes can be found here.

We'd like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters.

Happy updating!

 KDE 4.2.4 in ports June 3rd, 2009

KDE 4.2.4 has been committed to ports.

We're happy to announce that KDE 4.2.4 is now available in the FreeBSD ports tree. KDE 4.2.4 is only a bugfix release. A full changelog is available here.

Happy updating!

 KDE 4.2.3 in ports May 9th, 2009

KDE 4.2.3 has been committed to ports.

For more information see original announcement and changelog.

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:
     System tray utility which shows current print jobs, printer warnings and
     errors and shows when printers 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.

Special thanks for help and feedback to Dima Panov, Matt Tosto, Kris Moore and Josh Paetzel.

 KDE 4.2.2 in ports April 2nd, 2009

KDE 4.2.2 has been committed to ports.

We're happy to announce that KDE 4.2.2 is now available in the FreeBSD ports tree. KDE 4.2.2 is only a bugfix release. A full changelog is available here.

Happy updating!

 KDE/FreeBSD repository moved March 21st, 2009

The area51 repository has moved. This has been done to increase performance and reliability. It can now be accessed at http://area51.pcbsd.org. For more information, see area51 instructions.

Our thanks go to Kris and Josh at PC-BSD for providing the hosting for this repository.

Please note: the old repository has been powered down with immediate effect, due to severe hardware problems. It will not be coming back online at all.

 KDE 4.2.1 in ports March 9th, 2009

KDE 4.2.1 has been committed to ports.

UPDATING:

 20090309:
   AFFECTS: users of multimedia/phonon
   AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org
 
   multimedia/phonon port has been split into phonon itself, phonon-xine
   and phonon-gstreamer backends. After updating phonon port you have
   to install at least one backend. phonon-xine backend is recommended
   for KDE.
KDE 4.2.0 in ports February 12th, 2009

The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.2.0 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 ports:

 math/eigen2:
     Lightweight library for vector and matrix math.
 
 graphics/kipi-plugins-kde4:
     KIPI graphics plugins.
 
 sysutils/policykit-kde:
     PolicyKit manager for KDE.

New translations:

 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.

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, portmgr for -exp run and repocopies, Diego Depaoli, Mats Andreassen.

 CFT: KDE 4.1.3 November 9th, 2008

A few days ago Max made KDE 4.1.3 ready for FreeBSD. We can't commit it to the ports tree because we are still on ports slush, but I'd like to invite you to test it from area51. Feedback is welcome, of course.

Warning:
to get KDE 4.1.3 use:

 $ svn co https://kf.athame.co.uk/kde-FreeBSD/tags/kde_4_1
to get KDE 4.1.3

In the next days we'll start our work with Qt 4.5 and KDE 4.2.

The official KDE 4.1.3 release notes can be found here:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1.3.php.

 CFT: KDE 4.1.2 October 3rd, 2008

The KDE team released KDE 4.1.2 two days later than planned. We are in ports slush and can't update KDE until it has ended. If you can't wait to get KDE 4.1.2, you can now download it from our area51 repo. The full KDE changelog can be seen here:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1_1to4_1_2.php.

We removed FAM support completely. This gives a bit more speed and the programs start faster. Thanks to Kris Moore (PC-BSD) who tested this patchset, we also removed the KDE debug modules.

Also, Hannes Hauswedell reported a tweak. He experienced high CPU usage by kded4 and slowdowns with Konqueror as file browser, so he recommends to radically lower the DirWatch rate of kded4 by adding the following to your $HOME/.kde4/share/config/kdedrc:

 [DirWatch]
 PollInterval=60000

This is explained here.

So, if you want to get the ports, please read these instructions (note: you first need to update Qt to 4.4.2).

 CFT: Qt 4.4.2 released September 19th, 2008

Yesterday Qt 4.4.2 was released. area51 is already updated, and I would like some testers before we commit it to the ports tree after the freeze.

You can find the changelog here:
http://trolltech.com/developer/resources/notes/changes/changes-4.4.2.

Note on area51:
you now need Subversion to checkout area51:

 $ svn co https://kf.athame.co.uk/kde-FreeBSD/trunk/area51

Happy testing!

 K-F 'area51' repository has moved September 4th, 2008

The KDE/FreeBSD repository 'area51' has now moved to a new server. Please see https://kf.athame.co.uk/access.php for more details.

The webpages here referring to the old location will be updated soon.

 KDE 4.1.1 now available September 3rd, 2008

The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.1.1 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 first translation and service release of the 4.1 free 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 KDE 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.
KDE 3.5.10 now available August 29th, 2008

Hot on the heels of KDE 3.5.9, the KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release 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, KDE's panel:

  • improved visibility on transparent backgrounds;
  • themed arrow buttons in applets that were missing them;
  • layout and antialiasing fixes in various applets.

 KDE 3.5.9 now available August 18th, 2008

The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release 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 KDE 3.

 Call for testers: KDE 3.5.9 August 14th, 2008

Max has spent some time dragging KDE 3 into shape, and we would like to make it available for test. Max writes: "KDE 3.5.9 was released six months ago and 3.5.10 is coming soon. I'm not sure we have time to get 3.5.10 for FreeBSD 7.1/6.4 release, but we can do KDE 3.5.9.
KDE 3.5.9 is ready in area51 repo, it builds fine on tinderbox (7.0-RELEASE, i386). It will be nice to test it on other platforms and releases. If there is no problem we can update KDE 3 ports anytime."

area51 was switched to IPv6-only recently. If you have IPv6 connection, you can access area51 via anonymous CVS:

 $ cvs -d:ext:anoncvs@orm.arved.priv.at:/home/kde-FreeBSD co area51

If you have no IPv6, you can get an area51 checkout snapshot here.

 KDE 4.1.0 packages now available August 13th, 2008

Packages are now available for KDE 4.1.0 on the FreeBSD FTP servers. Users who don't wish to build from source can now use these to quickly have a KDE 4.1.0 desktop.

 KDE 4.1.0 for FreeBSD now available August 9th, 2008

On behalf of the FreeBSD KDE team, it is my great pleasure to announce that KDE 4 has been merged into the FreeBSD ports tree. The official KDE 4.1.0 release notes can be found at http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.1 and FreeBSD users should also refer to the KDE 4.1 on FreeBSD notes.

 KDE 4.1.0 coming soon to ports August 7th, 2008

KDE 4.1.0 is now undergoing final testing in preparation for committing to ports. The repocopy from KDE 3 has been made, but users should not attempt to install the KDE 4.1.0 ports until a HEADS UP notification has been posted to the project mailing list and the ports mailing list.

 Qt 4.4.1 in ports August 5th, 2008

Qt 4.4.1 has been committed to ports. New Qt 4 modules are available now: qt4-assistant-adp, qt4-phonon, qt4-phonon-gst, qt4-clucene, qt4-help, qt4-help-tools, qt4-webkit, qt4-xmlpatterns, qt4-xmlpatterns-tools.

A detailed list of all changes may be found at:

UPDATING:

 20080805:
   AFFECTS: Users of devel/qt4
   AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org
 
   Qt 4 has been updated to 4.4.1. With this update several ports specific
   problems have been fixed. Qt 4 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 Qt 4 dependent ports if required. Before you start
   the update of your ports, please force update of qmake4 and qt4-corelib ports:
 
         portmaster devel/qmake4 devel/qt4-corelib
         portupgrade -f devel/qmake4 devel/qt4-corelib
KDE 4.1.0 ports progressing July 31st, 2008

KDE 4.1.0 porting is progressing.

At the moment, the ports are ready for testing before they are committed to the FreeBSD ports tree. If you want to help test them to speed up the process, visit the FreeBSD wiki and provide feedback.

See a screenshot of the test packages in action.

 KDE 3.5.8 in ports October 30th, 2007

KDE 3.5.8 has been committed to ports.

For more information about KDE 3.5.8, see the KDE 3.5.8 info page.

 KDE 3.5.7 in ports July 4th, 2007

KDE 3.5.7 has been committed to ports.

UPDATING:

 20070704:
   AFFECTS: users of x11/kdebase3
   AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org
 
   The media kioslave now mounts all filesystems that support charset conversion
   with charset conversion turned on, set to the locale from the user's
   environment (LANG). If you are using a customized kernel configuration, make
   sure all *_iconv kernel modules are available. At the time of writing, these
   are cd9660_iconv, udf_iconv, msdosfs_iconv and ntfs_iconv.

For more information about KDE 3.5.7, see the KDE 3.5.7 info page.

 KOffice 1.6.3 in ports July 4th, 2007

KOffice 1.6.3 has been committed to ports.

For more information, read the official announcement and the changelog.

 KDE 3.5.6 in ports March 13th, 2007

KDE 3.5.6 has been committed to ports.

UPDATING:

 20070313:
   AFFECTS: users of x11/kdebase3
   AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org
 
   The HAL option has been turned on by default and the fstabbackend
   patches which have kept the fstab backend for the media kioslave
   at the status quo of KDE 3.5.3 have been removed. This means that
 
   MOUNTING DEVICES THROUGH KDE WILL NO LONGER WORK WITHOUT HAL.
 
   Thus if you wish to use device icons or the media:/ view in Konqueror,
   make sure to turn on the HAL option in the x11/kdebase3 port and also
   read /usr/ports/UPDATING entry 20061219 and
   http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19 for more information on
   using HAL.

For more information about KDE 3.5.6, see the KDE 3.5.6 info page.

 KOffice 1.6.2 in ports March 13th, 2007

KOffice 1.6.2 has been committed to ports.

For more information, read the official announcement and the changelog.

 KDE 3.5.5 in ports December 19th, 2006

KDE 3.5.5 has been committed to ports.

UPDATING:

 20061219:
   AFFECTS: users of x11/kdebase3
   AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org
 
   If you choose to enable the HAL backend for the media kioslave,
   you should enable D-Bus, HAL and PolicyKit during system startup.
   To do this, add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf:
 
   dbus_enable="YES"
   polkitd_enable="YES"
   hald_enable="YES"
 
   Notes / known problems about mounting devices in media:/ with HAL enabled:
 
   - Your user must be in group operator in order to be able to mount removable
     media.
 
   - Removable media drives (such as CD-ROM drives) *MUST NOT* be listed in
     /etc/fstab in order to be mountable.
 
   - If you mount a volume by double-clicking it, it may appear empty. Refresh
     the fileview in Konqueror to see the files.
 
   - Mounting floppies is currently not supported.
 
   You can still mount them in KDE if...
 
   - You have an fstab entry for your floppy pointing to a mountpoint
     owned by your user (i.e. somewhere in your homedir).
 
   - The vfs.usermount sysctl is set to 1.
 
   ...by creating a floppy device icon on your KDE desktop and selecting
   the above-mentioned fstab entry in the device dropdown list on the
   device tab.
 
   - Mounting volumes from fixed drives is prohibited for non-superusers
     by default.

For more information about KDE 3.5.5, see the KDE 3.5.5 info page.