Falkon 3.0.0 released!

First release of Falkon is finally out!

Falkon is a new KDE web browser, previously known as QupZilla. Following this release, there will only be one last final QupZilla release.

If you were previously using QupZilla, you can manually migrate your profiles to Falkon by moving the config directory (usually in ~/.config/qupzilla/).
There is no automatic migration.

Apart from some under the hood changes, like changing build system from qmake to CMake or using XDG paths, there aren't many differencies from QupZilla.
There is a new extension - Vertical Tabs, but it will also be available later this week in last QupZilla release.

It is possible to write Falkon extensions in Python, but since the bindings are generated using PySide2 which is not yet released and thus not packaged by distributions, it won't be currently available for users.

Windows and macOS support is not yet finished, it will be available later.

Download: falkon-3.0.0.tar.xz (sig signed with EBC3FC294452C6D8)

Bluedevil 2.1.1 released

I am happy to announce a new Bluedevil release.

This is mainly a bugfix release with two minor new features. The first one is a new page in a pairing wizard. Instead of closing the wizard when it finishes, a success page is now shown to the user to indicate device setup was completed.
The other addition is a new warning message in KCM. Instead of "No Bluetooth adapters have been found." you will now see "Your Bluetooth adapter is powered off." when you actually have a Bluetooth adapter, but it is powered off.

This is also a last release of kdelibs4 Bluedevil.

What's next?
Bluedevil is now released as part of Plasma 5.
If everything goes by the plan, there will be bigger changes for Plasma 5.3 release. Bluedevil will use a new BluezQt library instead of libbluedevil. As BluezQt offers a QML API, I have also been working on a new Bluetooth plasmoid. The plasmoid's code is based on a network management plasmoid. It will probably need some new icons, but otherwise I think it looks quite good.

Here are some screenshots:

Expanded device details with action buttons

Connected devices are displayed in own section

Bugs fixed in 2.1.1:

• don't try to infinitely kill monolithic when it fails #343682
• fix directly opening files from obexftp (eg. images in gwenview)
• fix one crash in kded module #342581
• fix obexftp browse files on old S60 devices #342259

Download:
bluedevil: bluedevil-2.1.1.tar.xz

Bluedevil 2.1 released

I am happy to announce that new version of Bluedevil is out!

On 3rd December, I have released Bluedevil 2.0. It was a first stable release that supported Bluez 5 and it contained mainly crash fixes over 2.0-rc1. Unfortunately, there was also a big regression.
Libbluedevil was automatically enabling (power on) all adapters that have been found. However, this behavior was causing issues that even if the user disabled Bluetooth, it was enabled again after reboot. So the libbluedevil was adjusted not to automatically change powered state of any adapters. The problem is that Bluez is not enabling adapters at startup, so as a result, Bluetooth was now always disabled on startup.

In the new 2.1 release, powered state of all adapters is saved and restored in Bluedevil daemon. Another change is that the alias of adapter will be used in every place where name of adapter is displayed. It was always possible to change alias of adapter in KCM, but it wasn't actually used anywhere.

There is also one small improvement in kio_obexftp. It will show icons of storage types in root folder of obexftp filesystem. It should work correctly with Nokia (S40, Symbian) and Android (KitKat, Lollipop) devices. If you find any issue with the icons, please let me know.

Storage icons on Android phone

Bugs fixed in 2.1:

• remember powered state of all adapters #337193
• monolithic (Bluetooth icon) will now be correctly hidden in system tray when all adapters are powered off #341768
• monolithic will now be removed from system tray when there are no adapters
• action to send files over Bluetooth will now be shown only for file that can actually be sent (only local files)
• PIN in pairing wizard will now be accepted only after clicking "Matches" button
• kio_obexftp should now better handle errors and correctly reconnect after losing connection #321560
• kio_bluetooth will not crash when trying to access invalid device

Download:
bluedevil: bluedevil-2.1.tar.xz
libbluedevil: libbluedevil-2.1.tar.xz