# R14.0.12 Release Notes

R14.0.12 is the twelfth maintenance release of the R14.0 series, and is built on and improves the previous maintenance versions.

Maintenance releases are intended to promptly bring bug fixes and new features to users, while preserving overall stability through the avoidance of both major API or feature changes and major codebase re-factoring.

## Important fixes

This section highlights some of the most important changes introduced by this release.

- New applications

  - Polkit-agent-tde - a D-Bus service that provides a TDE based polkit authentication agent

  - Polkit-tqt - a library that lets developers use the PolicyKit API through a nice TQt-styled interface

  - tdemarkdown part - an embeddable lightweight markdown document viewer

- Enhancements

  - Some improvements on Konsole terminal emulation

  - Quanta: improved support for complex characters/dead keys in VPL editor

  - KSSL: added Let's Encrypt certificates support

  - Kxkb: systray label can now have a transparent background

  - Konsole: added real transparency checkbox option

  - Quanta: added support for HTML 5

  - Sip4-tqt: initial support for python 3

  - Tdebase: added dispwin (Argyll) support to set the ICC profile

  - Translation updates (thanks to all translators)

  - Several packages have been migrated to CMake build system

  - Dropped automake build system for various packages

  - Continued overall look polishing

- Bug fixes

  - Fixed timeout on dbus' service startup response on first call

  - Fixed hanging of system on shutdown caused by conflicts between tdm and plymouth

  - Added support for Poppler >= 21.11

  - TCC: make sure correct encoding is used for editing bashrc (affects gtk-qt-engine)

  - Fixed issue with ICEAuthority ownership stealing when programs were run using tdesu in a user session

  - KMail: redirecting messages now uses the default account

  - Amarok: fixed default scoring script error caused by using a feature deprecated in latest Ruby version

  - Kaffeine: fixed detection of libdvdcss

  - Kexi: added support for postgresql 12 and later

- Distro support

  - Gentoo: several improvements and addition to supported ebuilds

  - Debian: dropped Jessie

  - Ubuntu: dropped Trusty (14.04), added Jammy (22.04).

The full list of changes is available at these links:

- TGW issue list

- Bugzilla bug list

- Detailed commit change log

- Full release notes on TDE wiki

Additional info for developers/packagers

- Minimum required version of CMake raised to 3.1

- c++11 features are now allowed in the code base

- cmake-trinity: added TQT_CMAKE_DIR variable, for installing and importing exported CMake targets for TQt dependent libraries

- cmake-trinity: added ability to specify necessary CXX features