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diff --git a/dist/changes-4.4.1 b/dist/changes-4.4.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4995a86 --- /dev/null +++ b/dist/changes-4.4.1 @@ -0,0 +1,619 @@ +Qt 4.4.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward +compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.4.0. + +The Qt version 4.4 series is binary compatible with the 4.3.x series. +The Qt for Embedded Linux version 4.4 series is binary compatible with +the Qtopia Core 4.3.x series. Applications compiled for 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, +and 4.3 will continue to run with 4.4. + +Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers +corresponding to tasks in the Task Tracker: + + http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker + +Each of these identifiers can be entered in the task tracker to obtain +more information about a particular change. + +**************************************************************************** +* General * +**************************************************************************** + +General Improvements +-------------------- + +- Documentation and Examples + * [202630] Fixed a problem in the network/http example: it couldn't + download anything if the URL had a space. + +Third party components +---------------------- + +- Updated Qt's libpng version to 1.2.29. + + +**************************************************************************** +* Library * +**************************************************************************** +- QAbstractItemView + * [199822] Fixed issue with broken extended selections. + +- QButtonGroup + * [209485] Prevented a crash caused by removing a button from its button + group while inside a slot triggered by the button's clicked() signal. + +- QDirModel + * [213519] Fix crashes when drag'n'dropping files into a subdirectory + +- QFtp + * [189374] Fixed a bug that would cause QFtp to fail to parse + dates if the application was being run on some locales, like fr_FR. + +- QGraphicsProxyWidget + * [208773] Input methods now work properly for embedded widgets. + * [207644] Fixed a bug where the painter was restored incorrectly. + +- QGraphicsScene + * [209125] QGraphicsScene::style() and QGraphicsWidget::style() fixes. + * [202774] [207076] Focus and activation fixes for embedded widgets. + * [212950] The scene no longer removes focus from the focus item if a + mouse press propagates to the scene (and then to the view). This was + a behavior regression to QWidget. + +- QString + * [205093] Printing QString after using replace()followed by truncate(-1) crashes + * [209078] Problem in QString::resize + +- QGraphicsView + * [209154] Mouse replay regressions since 4.3 have been fixed. + +- QObject + * Fixed a regression from 4.3 to 4.4 in QObject::receivers() where + the function would return >0 even after disconnection all + signals. + +- QScriptEngine + * [208489] Made the instanceof operator work when used with + QMetaObject wrappers created by newQMetaObject(). + * [206188] Fixed a bug that caused scripts to hang when using + "continue;" inside a switch-case block. + * [205473] Fixed a bug that caused slots to be called even when + argument conversion failed. + +- QSslSocket + * [212177] QSslSocket::peerVerifyError() supports all errors now. + * [212022] Fixed a bug that would cause no default CA certificates + to be present in static Qt builds. + * [212412] Fixed a bug that could cause a deadlock in + waitForReadyRead() in encrypted mode. + +- QtWebKit + * Ensured that relative URLs are converted to absolute URLs. + * Ensured that the cursor is changed into a resize cursor when hovering + over and dragging the resizeable frame borders. + * [206999] Fixed a problem which would make an empty URL being passed to + QWebPluginFactory::create() + * [208215] Fixed a bug that prevents linkClicked signal to be emitted + when opening a local HTML file. + * [208342] Ensured that the cursor is updated after a web frame or page + has finished loading. + * [210920] Fixed showing/hiding of the Web Inspector. + * [207050] Fixed input of characters into form elements using AltGr on Windows. + * Fixed a crash related to XML HTTP requests. + * Fixed QWebPage::acceptNavigationRequest not being called when opening new Windows. + * Fixed emission of linkClicked() signal when clicking on target=_blank links. + * Fixed painting artifacts when scrolling embedded widgets. + * Fixed logic errors in QWebHitTestResult::isNull() and QWebHistory::forward(). + * Fixed encoding of [ and ] in the host part of URLs + * Fixed a crash related to QWebPage::unsupportedContent. + * Fixed a memory leak on application shutdown. + * Fixed painting errors when scrolling embedded widgets. + * Fixed support for custom cursors set on a QWebView. + * Fixed various build problems on Mac OS X, Windows and Solaris + * Fixed crash with CSS text transformations. + * Fixed infinite recursion when converting DOM objects with cyclic references to QVariants. + +- QVariant + * [201918] QVariant convert to QDateTime warnings + +- QWidget + * Fixed a regression when setting masks for splashscreens on Mac OS X Tiger. + * [210544] Fixed a regression where Qt::WA_PaintOnScreen widgets were painted on + top of overlapping siblings. + * [211796] Fixed a crash occurring when calling render() from a resize event. + * [210960] Fixed a regression where an invisible top-level widget was resized when calling render(). + * [210822] Fixed a bug causing QGLWidgets to not behave correctly when setting window title. + * [208413] Fixed issues when creating a child widget of Qt::WA_PaintOnScreen widgets. + +- QWidgetAction + * [207433] Fix enabling and disabling toolbar containings actions widget. + +- QWorkspace + * [206368] Fixed a crash occurring when deleting a QWorkspaceChild. + +- QPainter + * [186327] Fixed inconsistent outline and fill drawing for drawPolygon in + raster paint engine, where the fill would be visible outside the outlines + or there would be missing pixels between outline and fill. + * [208530] Fixed some drawing issues with projective transform related to + near-plane clipping. + * [209095] Fixed infinite loop that could occur on certain architectures on + rare occasions when drawing outlines. + * [208090] Fixed issue with outline drawing where subsequent points on a + path or polygon are equal according to qFuzzyCompare, but treated as + different, causing stroke artifacts. + * [206785] Fixed potential pixmap drawing artifacts when drawing stretched + pixmaps at non-integer coordinates. + * Fixed potential rect/line drawing issue when drawing on non-integer + offsets in raster paint engine. + * [209462] Fixed regression when redirecting widgets to another paint device. + +- QPainterPath + * [209056] Fixes potential assert in the boolean operations (difference, + intersect, and union). + +- QRasterPaintEngine + * [208644] Fixed a crash in qt_intersect_spans. + +- QApplication + * [213116] Fixd a regression on Mac OS X where you could not access the + menu bar after minimizing a window with no click through. + +- QColor + * [193671] Fixed a problem with QColor::setNamedColor() not returning the correct + alpha value for the "transparent" color. + +- QMacStyle + * [212037] Adjusted the size of text in an editable combo box on Mac OS X Panther. + * [216905] Fix a regression when drawing table headers on Mac OS X Panther. + +- QMainWindow + * [210216] Calling setCentralWidget, setMenuBar, setMenuWidget or setStatusBar + several times could cause a crash. + * [206870] Fixed a bug causing dual screen layouts to not restore correctly. + +- QMdiArea + * [202657] Fixed focus issue when navigating between window with focus on the DockWidget + * [211302] Fixed a bug where the activation order was not respected when tiling and cascading. + +- QOpengGLPaintEngine + * [208419] Fixed wrong clipping of widgets. + +- QDockWidget + * [179989] Maximum size is now taken into account by the dock widget. + +- QCommonStyle + * [204016] Fixed west tab positions. + +- QCryptographicHash + * [206712] Fixed a bug that would make QCryptographicHash return + invalid results if you called result() before the last addData() + call. + +- QTcpSocket + * [208948] Fixed a bug that would cause QTcpSocket and QSslSocket + not to flush all of their buffers if the socket disconnects and + reconnects. + * [182669/192445] Fixed a bug that would cause QTcpSocket to stop + emitting readyRead() if a previous waitForReadyRead() timed out. + +- QDataStream + * [211301] Fixed an issue where Qt 2 and Qt 3 applications might + crash or hang when run under KDE 4. + +- QDateTime + * [137698] Fixed a bug that caused QDateTime to perform weird + 1-hour jumps when dealing with dates in Daylight Savings Time. + +- QSslCertificate + * [185067/186087] Fixed a bug that would cause QSslCertificate + parsing of certificate timestamps to be off by a few hours + (timezone issue). + +- QFile + * [192752] Fixed a bug that would make QFile leak file descriptors + if QFile::handle() was called. + +- QFileDialog + * [208383] Crash when a proxy model is set and multiple files are selected. + * [165503] DirectoryEntered not emitted when go-to-parent button is clicked. + +- QFileInfo + * [212291] Fixed a bug that would cause QFileInfo to return empty + group or owner names for files under MacOS X and maybe some other + Unix platforms. + +- QFuture + * [214874] Fixed possible deadlock when using nested calls to QtConcurrent::run(). + +- QGLContext + * [210427] In 4.4.0 we removed the automatic mipmap generation for + textures bound with QGLContext::bindTexture(). This change has been + reverted for compatibility reasons. + * [214078] Fixed a problem that caused OpenGL textures to always be + downscaled to 64x64 in size on Intel graphics hardware. This caused, + among other things, the Qt Demo to look utterly broken on these systems. + +- QOpenGLPaintEngine + * [191777] Set default values for GL_PACK_*/GL_UNPACK_* values with + glPixelStore() when QPainter::begin() is called. + * [201167] Don't assume the GL error state is cleared when QPainter::begin() + is called. Clear the state explicitly before we make internal state checks. + * [204578] Fixed a problem where the GL error state was set on + some system because an extension enum was used unprotected. + +- QHostInfo + * [213187] Made QHostInfo not issue IPv6 name lookups if the + machine does not have any IPv6 addresses configured (Unix change + only). + +- QHttp + * [213220] Fixed a bug that could make QHttp open unencrypted + connections if HTTPS mode was requested but SSL support was not + present in Qt. + * [193738] Fixed a bug that would make QHttp continue reading the + HTTP server's response and emit a readyRead() signal even if + abort() had already been called. + +- QNetworkAccessManager + * When a http 302 location url is not an encoded url try QUrl's human readable parsing for more compatibility with websites. + +- QPainter + * [211403] Fixed handling of negative target rect offsets and negative + source offsets in QPainter::drawPixmap()/drawImage(). + +- QPixmap + * [202903] Fix an infinite recursion in QPixmap::fromImage() that occured + when converting mono images. + * [206174] Reverse the order of the tests done in QPixmap::hasAlpha() + in order to speed it up. + * [210275] Fixed a crash in QPixmap::resize(). + +- QSharedMemory + * Compile fix on QNX when QT_NO_SHAREDMEMORY was defined + +- QStyleSheetStyle + * [179629] Fixed SpinBox with gradient background. + * [188305] Respect the max-with property for more elements (such as QTabBar::tab) + * [189951] Fixed the align: property for QTabBar + * [194149] Fixed the background:transparent property + * [198926] Fixed the background:none property on some component of the scrollbar + * [206238] Fixed inconsistency with rules without selector applied to widget. They + now always applies to all childs + * [207420] Fixed the ~= attribute selector. + * [207819] Fixed few performences issues. + * [208001] Fixed crash crash with QMenu[title=...] in the stylesheet. + +- QHeaderView + * [207869] Fixed possible division by zero. + +- QTableView + * [207270] Painting errors in reverse mode and when there was spans. + * [210608] Fixed regression in the handling of spanning cells. + +- QTableWidget + * [213118] Fixed a bug where moving the first or the last row triggered an assert. + +- QTreeView + * [213737] Fixed regression where ctrl+a would select all items regardless of the selection mode. + * [202355] Fixed issue where items inserted in a view with all header sections hidden did not show + themselves properly later. + * [211296] When a column is hidden QItemSelectionModel::selectedRows and QItemSelectionModel::selectedColumns returns the wrong values. + +- QTreeWidget + * [305084] Fixed duplicate items that may appears when programaticaly + expanding items. + * [209590] itemSelectionChanged was being emited before item selection was updated + +- Q3DragObject + * [203288] Fixed regression against Qt 3 so that the drag() function now correctly uses + MoveAction (and not CopyAction) as the default action. + +- Q3TextBrowser + * [197836] Fix assert when zooming out. + +- QTextDocument + * [204965] Fix html export to use indent as textIndent + +- QTextBrowser + * [192803] Fix loading of files from resources with a resource prefix. + +- QTextEdit + * [211617] Fixed crash when moving the first paragraph by drag and Drop + +- QTextTable + * [194229] Fix removing of a row with merged cells causing a crash. + * [194253] Fix calling removeColumn on a Column with selectedCell causing an assert. + * Fix assert on selecting the whole table after an insert/remove of column. + * [175676] Fix calling of resize() making updates in layouting fail. + +- QSpinBox + * [213137] Fixed thousand-delimiters to not show for value = INT_MIN. + +- QScrollArea + * [210567] Fixed issues when scrolling a native widget. + +- QScrollBar + * [209492] Fixed a bug causing the scroll bar actions to be invoked twice. + +- QToolbBarLayout + * [207946] Prevented a crash caused by assuming that the parent widget always exists. + +- QThreadPool + * Fixed issues with thread termination during dll unloading on windows. QThreadPool:: + waitForDone() now completely stops all threads, on all platforms. In addition, the + QCoreApplication destructor now calls waitForDone() to make sure all threads are + stopped before the Qt dlls are unloaded. + +- QNetworkReply + * [207283] Fixed support for HTTP 101 responses. + * Fixed parsing of cookies with special timezone specifiers. + +- QWebHistory + * Fixed a bug where calling forward() would go backwards and not forwards. + +- QFontMetrics + * [212485] Fixed boundingRect() returning the proper size when there is a tab. + +- QItemDelegate + * [206762] Fixed painting when using a QBrush() for the text. + +- QtXmlPatterns + * [207584] When using the same QXmlQuery for a new query then evaluateTo() + can return false even if the query is valid. + * [214180] Fixed fn:replace fails when inside function. + * Fixed crash when unary operator has empty sequence as operand. + * Fixed that axis preceding or descendant-or-self when combined with + function last() on a custom node model crashes. + * Fixed that xml:id is not whitespace normalized. + * Fixed that QXmlFormatter produces no output on single top-level text nodes. + * Fixed infinite loop triggered by fn:matches(). + * Fixed crash when compiling one of the FunctX queries. + +- VideoPlayer + * [210170] Fixed an issue that prevented VideoPlayer::play to start when + called with an argument. + +- Accessibility + * [199241] Fix an issue where the screen reader would read the content of + a password line edit. The screen reader will now only read it if its Normal. + +- QLocalSocket + * [210886] Fixed a bug that would cause QLocalSocket to overrun + its buffers on very long socket names. + +**************************************************************************** +* Database Drivers * +**************************************************************************** + + +**************************************************************************** +* Platform Specific Changes * +**************************************************************************** + +X11 +--- + * [208354] Fixed a crash in Qt's XIM implementation when exiting + applications after using the skim input method. + * [207800] Fixed a regression from 4.3 to 4.4 where putting a + QX11EmbedContainer into a QWidgetStack would case the container + stay visible permanently. + * [207423] In QDesktopWidget, workaround a change in behavior in + newer X.Org X servers where Xinerama would always be used even + when using a multi-screen setup. + * [206139] Fixed a bug where Qt could incorrectly recurse into the + Xlib error handler (causing Xlib to assert). + * [207057] Fixed a regression from 4.3 to 4.4 where + QX11EmbedContainer would sometimes destroy the embedded client's + window. + * [209057] Fixed a Q3Process which triggered a "Do not delete + object" warning. + * QPrintDialog crashed on unix in some cases. + * [214103] Fixed a regression with string to double conversion + becoming locale-aware in QTextStream. + * [210922] Fix crash in input methods when toggling the InputMethodEnabled + attribute. + * [210831] Fixed a problem where preview pages in the QPrintPreviewDialog + would not appear or be drawn correctly on X servers without + Xrender support. + * [206165],[213457] Fixed bugs which show the wrong cursor on some widget. + * Fixed bug regarding the usage of encoded URLs in Phonon + + +Windows +------- + + * [207888] Fixed a regression from 4.3 which caused crashes in + Assistant and Designer when an accessibility client is running + (this includes applications that query for accessibility + features, like Notepad++). + * Several fixes related to crashes and hangs when the user has an + accessibility client running in the background. + * [208782] Fixed a problem with non-cosmetic lines with widths < 2 + not being printed correctly with certain printer drivers. + * [208859] Fixed a problem with strokes not being printed correctly. Both + the stroke offsets and thinkness of the stroke were sometimes printed + incorrectly. + * [206473] Entering UNC paths is slow in the Qt file dialog. + * [309241] Trying to stream mp3 content with phonon would cause a crash. + * [210115] Fixed a problem causing "mailto" links not to work when the + mail application path contains unexpanded environment variables. + * [203012] Fixed a problem where "WriteOnly named pipes" failed to + open using QFile. + * [205685] Fixed the handling of TranslateAccelerator for windows key messages. + * Add support for (not) embedding manifests in plugins, on Windows. + * [211893] Fixed a crash related to using QtDotNetStyle. + + +Mac OS X +-------- + * Fix a regression where inserting widgets into native menus would cause + the program to crash. + * [209785] Fixed a regression from 4.3 to 4.4 in DeferredDelete + event handling. + * The "debuglibraries" binary package now includes dSYM bundles, which + makes it possible to debug with them. + * [207371] The CoreGraphics paint engine ignored the transform set + on a QBrush with QBrush::setTransform(). + * Fixed insertation of 'space' char in QLineEdit when EISU key is being held down + * Fixed fullscreen widget not regaining full focus after a dialog has been shown + * Fixed bug regarding the usage of encoded URLs in Phonon + * [212719] Fixed a bug that could cause text drawn into a QImage to be clipped + incorrectly. + * [216563] Fixed a case where failing to get the display's colorspace + would result in many widget being painted all black. + * [216544, 213316] Fixed several accessibility-related crashes. + * [210401] Fixed memory leak in QWidget::setWindowIcon(). + * [211195] Fixed problem that caused crashes with the Mac binary package + when entering long licensee names during the installation. + +Qt for Embedded Linux +--------------------- + +- QWSEmbedWidget + * Fixed propagation of the Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint window property. + +- QDirectPainter + * [209068] Fixed region coordinates for QDirectPainter when used on a + rotated screen. + +- DirectFB screen driver + * Fixed window placements of windows with initial top-left coordinate (0,0). + * Improved deallocation of resources when an application exits unexpectedly. + * Fixed bug in QPixmap::rotate(). + * Fixed QPixmap::fromImage() with an image of format QImage::Format_Indexed8 + when compiling with QT_NO_DIRECTFB_PALETTE. + * Fixed small memory leak in QPainter::drawImage() + +- LinuxFB screen driver + * Added a workaround screen driver when the kernel fails to report the + length of the color components. + * Improved performance of the non-accelerated screen cursor. + * Disable the console cursor in graphics mode. + +- Tslib mouse driver + * [200995] Fixed crash when initialization fails. + * [207117] Improved filtering during calibration. + +- Ahi screen driver + * Fixed link issue. + * Fixed QScreen::setMode(). + * Improved support for different screen modes. + +Qt for Windows CE +----------------- + + * Support for Visual Studio 2008 added + * Improved QRegion to perform faster + +**************************************************************************** +* Compiler Specific Changes * +**************************************************************************** + +- [212852] Fixed GCC 4.3 compiler warnings. + + +**************************************************************************** +* Tools * +**************************************************************************** + +- Build System + * [209866, 213084] Fix compilation errors in QtWebKit when using + GCC 3.4 with precompiled headers. Precompiled header support is + documented as experimental in the GCC 3.4 documentation, and as + such, precompiled header support is disabled by default with + this compiler. + * [212330] Correct Makefile generation for src/corelib, which + would sometimes include multiple qatomic.o targets. + * [210016] Fix a build failure on 64-bit Linux when using the + linux-*-32 mkspecs. + * [206966] Fixed compilation errors on Linux when building for the + MIPS architecture. + * [212132] Workaround compiler crash bug for Linux on + SPARC64. This is a generalization of a similar change done for + Solaris in the 4.3 series. + * [211326, 211703] Fixed compilation errors when using the Intel + C++ Compiler for Linux on IA-64 (Itanium) hardware. + * [171222] Ignore duplicate -L<path> options + +- Assistant + * [212875] Don't sort the entries in the contents view according to the + help files names. + * [212444] Use the default help collection when registering or unregistering + help files without having a collection file specified. + * [210704] Make sure the sql-plugin is correctly used when building + Qt statically. + * [208834] When highlighting a find result, ensure that the active + highlighting color is used. + * Introduced the -assistant-webkit configure flag to make use of WebKit as + html renderer in Qt Assistant. + + +- Designer + + * [213481] Fixed crash that occurs when encountering an invalid .ui file. + * [211422] Fixed a crash resulting from a conflict between the newly added + support for QScrollArea and custom widgets derived from QScrollArea. + * [209995] Fixed a bug in the property editor that caused it not to + select values in spin boxes on editing. + * [205448] Fixed a bug related to drag and drop and Windows accessibility. + * [205899] Removed the windowModality property for non-form children to + prevent it from locking up the form preview. + * [212077] Fixed retranslateUi call in case of combo box items + * [210866] Dynamic properties of type QByteArray are not converted anymore to type QString when reloading the form + * [207187] Designer's property editor has better colors in case of inverted color scheme + * [202257] The geometry of the resource dialog is saved in settings + * [211677] Remove a crash in case of reloading resources + +- Linguist + +- lupdate + * [209122] Fixed same-text heuristic missing existing plurals + * [212465] Standardize on the default context being empty, not "@default" + +- lrelease + + +- rcc + + +- moc + + * [189996] Fixed a bug that caused inline slots with throw() + declarations to be parsed incorrectly. + * [192552] Fixed a bug that caused "< ::" to be parsed incorrectly + (e.g. "QList< ::Foo>"). + * [199427] Fixed the code generator so that it generates normal + spaces everywhere, no tabs. + * [204730] Fixed a skipt token after Q_PRIVATE_SLOT + +- uic + + * [205439] Added a warning that is printed when encountering + non-obvious Qt3 dependencies (qPixmapFromMimeSource). + +- uic3 + + * [205834] Process non-ASCII filenames correctly. + +- qmake + + +- configure + + * Fixed auto-detection of the XKB library on old Unix systems + * Fixed auto-detection of getaddrinfo on old Unix systems + +**************************************************************************** +* Plugins * +**************************************************************************** + + +**************************************************************************** +* Important Behavior Changes * +**************************************************************************** + +Unix +---- + * [203063] Changed the behaviour of qFatal and Q_ASSERT to always + produce a SIGABRT signal in all build modes of Qt. (Previous + versions called the exit function if Qt was built in release mode) |