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authorJason Barron <jbarron@trolltech.com>2009-08-04 08:33:52 (GMT)
committerJason Barron <jbarron@trolltech.com>2009-08-04 09:02:17 (GMT)
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Merge commit 'qt/master-stable'
Conflicts: config.tests/unix/openssl/openssl.pri demos/embedded/embedded.pro examples/itemviews/chart/chart.pro examples/network/network.pro examples/painting/painterpaths/painterpaths.pro examples/threads/mandelbrot/mandelbrot.pro qmake/project.cpp src/3rdparty/libtiff/libtiff/tif_config.h src/corelib/arch/arch.pri src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp src/corelib/kernel/kernel.pri src/corelib/kernel/qcore_unix_p.h src/corelib/kernel/qobject.cpp src/corelib/thread/qthread_unix.cpp src/corelib/tools/qsharedpointer_impl.h src/corelib/tools/tools.pri src/gui/kernel/qaction.h src/gui/kernel/qapplication.cpp src/gui/painting/qregion.h src/gui/widgets/qlineedit.cpp src/gui/widgets/qlineedit_p.h src/network/socket/qnativesocketengine_unix.cpp tests/auto/qdir/tst_qdir.cpp tests/auto/qdiriterator/tst_qdiriterator.cpp tests/auto/qhttp/qhttp.pro tests/auto/qline/qline.pro tests/auto/qnetworkreply/tst_qnetworkreply.cpp tests/auto/qresourceengine/qresourceengine.pro tests/auto/qsharedpointer/qsharedpointer.pro tests/auto/qstring/qstring.pro tests/auto/qtcpsocket/qtcpsocket.pro tests/auto/qtcpsocket/tst_qtcpsocket.cpp
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1 files changed, 36 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/dist/changes-4.6.0 b/dist/changes-4.6.0
index 6c7e450..7a6decf 100644
--- a/dist/changes-4.6.0
+++ b/dist/changes-4.6.0
@@ -34,9 +34,15 @@ information about a particular change.
- Significant external contribution from Milan Burda for planned removal
of (non-unicode) Windows 9x/ME support.
+ - QRegion is no longer a GDI object by default. This means it is no
+ longer subjuect to gui-thread only nor does it potentially impact
+ the 10.000 GDI object limit per process. By explicitly calling
+ .handle() a GDI object will be created and memory managed by
+ QRegion. The native handle is for reading out only. Any GDI calls
+ made on the HRGN handle will not affect the QRegion.
****************************************************************************
-* Important Behavior Changes *
+* Important Behavior Changes *
****************************************************************************
- The experimental Direct3D paint engine has been removed. The reason for
@@ -71,19 +77,32 @@ information about a particular change.
QGraphicsItem::ItemSendsGeometryChanges (which is enabled by default by
QGraphicsWidget and QGraphicsProxyWidget).
-- QDesktopWidget on X11 no longer emits the resized(int) signal when screens
- are added or removed. This was not done on other platforms. Use the
- screenCountChanged signal instead
-
-- QUrl's parser is more strict when for hostnames in URLs. QUrl now
- enforces STD 3 rules:
-
- * each individual hostname section (between dots) must be at most
- 63 ASCII characters in length;
-
- * only letters, digits, and the hyphen character are allowed in the
- ASCII range; letters outside the ASCII range follow the normal
- IDN rules
-
- That means QUrl no longer accepts some URLs that were invalid
- before, but weren't interpreted as such.
+ - QDesktopWidget on X11 no longer emits the resized(int) signal when screens
+ are added or removed. This was not done on other platforms. Use the
+ screenCountChanged signal instead
+
+ - QUrl's parser is more strict when for hostnames in URLs. QUrl now
+ enforces STD 3 rules:
+
+ * each individual hostname section (between dots) must be at most
+ 63 ASCII characters in length;
+
+ * only letters, digits, and the hyphen character are allowed in the
+ ASCII range; letters outside the ASCII range follow the normal
+ IDN rules
+
+ That means QUrl no longer accepts some URLs that were invalid
+ before, but weren't interpreted as such.
+
+ - The Unix configure-time check for STL is stricter now in Qt
+ 4.6.0. This means some legacy STL implementations may fail to pass
+ the test and, therefore, Qt will automatically disable STL support.
+
+ This is a binary-compatible change: existing code will continue to
+ work without being recompiled. However, it affects the source code,
+ since some STL-compatibility API will not be enabled.
+
+ Platforms affected by this change:
+ * solaris-cc-* with the default (Cstd) C++ STL library
+ recommendation: use -library=stlport4
+ See Sun Studio's documentation for the effects of this option