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diff --git a/dist/changes-4.8.0 b/dist/changes-4.8.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b8e3842 --- /dev/null +++ b/dist/changes-4.8.0 @@ -0,0 +1,249 @@ +Qt 4.8 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes +over the 4.7.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation +included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: + + http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.8 + +The Qt version 4.8 series is binary compatible with the 4.7.x series. +Applications compiled for 4.7 will continue to run with 4.8. + +Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers +corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker: + + http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/ + +Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more +information about a particular change. + +**************************************************************************** +* General * +**************************************************************************** + +General Improvements +-------------------- + +- + +Third party components +---------------------- + + - Updated libpng to version 1.5.1 + - Updated libjpeg to version 8c + - Updated zlib to version 1.2.5 + + +**************************************************************************** +* Library * +**************************************************************************** + +QtCore +------ + - Removed support for QT_NO_THREAD define for QHostInfo. + - Optimized plugin loading on ELF platforms. + Print failure reason at runtime with QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 in environment. + - QMutexLocker: improved performence of the non contended case by inlining some function + - QThreadStorage: Added possibility to store object by value instead of by pointer [QTBUG-15033] + - QThread: fixed few race conditions [QTBUG-17257, QTBUG-15030] + - QtConcurrent: added support for c++0x lambda in few functions + - QObject: Improved performence of the signal activation + - QObject: added ways to connect signals using QMetaMethod + - QObject: deprecated qFindChild and qFindChildren + - QObject: optimize constructions and destruction of objects + - QObject: Qt::BlockingQueuedConnection can handle the return value [QTBUG-10440] + - QList/QVector/QStringList: added C++0x initilizer lists constructors. + - QVarLenghtArray: added method for consistency with QVector + - QStringBuilder: added support for QByteArray + - qSwap now uses std::swap, specialized std::swap for our container to work better with stl algoritms + - QVariant: deprecated global function qVariantSetValue, qVariantValue, qVariantCanConvert, qVariantFromValue + - QUrl: add method for retrieving effective top level domain [QTBUG-13601] (MR-1205) + - optimised performance of QFileInfo, QDir, QDirIterator, these classes now share metadata and access the filesystem less + - QFile: new open() overloads allow control over whether QFile should close an adopted file handle or not + +QtGui +----- + + - QTabBar: reduced minimumSizeHint if ElideMode is set. + - QComboBox: Fixed a color propagation issue with the lineedit. [QTBUG-5950] + - QGraphicsLayout: Made setInstantInvalidatePropagation() public + - Deprecate qGenericMatrixFromMatrix4x4 and qGenericMatrixToMatrix4x4 + - QListView diverses optimisations [QTBUG-11438] + - QTreeWidget/QListWidget: use localeAwareCompare for string comparisons [QTBUG-10839] + - PNG image I/O: Much improved support for text annotations, including iTXt fields. + - QRawFont and QGlyphRun are introduced for low-level text rendering. [QTBUG-18252] + - QFont: hintingPreference() is introduced to control hinting in font rendering and + subpixel positioning of glyphs for Windows, Mac OS X and X11/raster. [QTBUG-10615] + - Subpixel positioned text layout is supported in raster and OpenGL paint engines. + - QFont: styleName() is added to allow selecting fonts with irregular style names + like UltraLight. [QTBUG-19366] + - Visual text cursor movement behavior is added to QTextEdit and QLineEdit controls, + which can be used as an optional mode for bi-directional text editing. [QTBUG-13859] + - Fixed a rare race condition when showing toplevel windows on X11 + - Accessibility: Fix potential crash in QDockWidget. + - Accessibility: Fix crash when asking for relations of child accessibles. + - Accessibility: More consistency in reporting names (especially when widget is invisible). + - Accessibility: Make focus handling more consistent. + - Accessibility: Send updates when text changes. + - Accessibility: Add IAccessible2 events. + - Accessibility: Fix crash when accessing ItemViews during initialization. + - Accessibility: Make QTabWidget child hierarchy consistent. + - Accessibility: Report correct window title and application name. + - Accessibility: Return text attributes for QTextEdit. + - Accessibility: Make accessibility work on Windows with alien widgets + - Accessibility: Several enablers for accessible graphicsview and Qt Quick applications. + +QtNetwork +--------- + + - SSL: Switch default version to TLS 1.0 + - SSL: enable Server Name Indication (SNI) by default + - QSslCertificate: report fraudulent certificates as invalid ("Comodogate") [QTBUG-18338] + - QSslCertificate: display non-ASCII names from subject and issuerInfo (MR-922) + - QSslCertificate: loat root certificates on demand on Unix (excluding Mac) [QTBUG-14016] + - QNetworkCookie: retain quotes in value attribute [QTBUG-17746] + - QNetworkCookie: allow spaces in unquoted values [QTBUG-18876] + - HTTP API: add support for HTTP multipart messages [QTBUG-6222] + - HTTP cache: do not load resources from cache that must be revalidated [QTBUG-18983] + - HTTP cache: change file organization (MR-2505) + - SOCKS5: write errors are propagated to the outer socket [QTBUG-18713] + + QtOpenGL + -------- + - Removed dependency of OpenGL Utility Library (GLU) + - Added QGLFunctions, which provides cross-platform access to the + OpenGL/ES 2.0 API. + - Including <QtOpenGL> will not work in combination with GLEW, as + QGLFunctions will undefine GLEW's defines. + - Optimize behavior of QGLTextureCache + +QtScript +-------- + - Deprecated qScriptValueFromQMetaObject, qScriptValueToValue, qScriptValueFromValue + +QtSql +----- + + - Update sqlite to 3.7.7.1 +**************************************************************************** +* Database Drivers * +**************************************************************************** + + +**************************************************************************** +* Platform Specific Changes * +**************************************************************************** + +Qt for Linux/X11 +---------------- + - Now takes font hinting settings from GConf by default if running in + GNOME desktop. + - Various fixes to FontConfig font matching code to make it consistent + with other X11 programs. [QTBUG-2148, QTBUG-19947, QTBUG-14269] + - Added experimental support for armCC + +Qt for Windows +-------------- + - DirectWrite experimental text shaping engine is added with subpixel + positioning support. [QTBUG-12678] + +Qt for Mac OS X +--------------- + - raster graphics system is now made as the default paint engine for + Mac OS X. [QTBUG-12615] + - HarfBuzz can now be used as an optional text layout engine on Mac OS X. + [QTBUG-17728] + +Qt for Embedded Linux +--------------------- + - Added support for QNX 6.5 with multi-process support, and much improved mouse, + keyboard and screen drivers. + - Improved support for INTEGRITY RTOS + - Allow hard-coding the temp path in mkspecs (QT_UNIX_TEMP_PATH_OVERRIDE define) + +Qt for Symbian +-------------- + - File APIs now have backends using native API rather than unix. + This improves performance and stability. + - Socket APIs now have a backend using native API rather than unix. [QTBUG-7274] + This improves stability and enables IPv6. + - IPv6 connectivity is now supported. + - Multiple instances of QNetworkAccessManager in the same process with a + different QNetworkConfiguration now work. This allows http requests to + be made via a specific network. For example to mobile operator websites + only accessible via the cellular network, or to websites inside a firewall + - System proxy settings now work correctly when using service networks [QTBUG-18618] + +Qt for Windows CE +----------------- + + +**************************************************************************** +* Compiler Specific Changes * +**************************************************************************** +- Sun Studio 12 + * Fixed build issues in the OpenGL module on Solaris with CC 5.9. [QTBUG-19641] + +**************************************************************************** +* Tools * +**************************************************************************** + +- Build System + +- Assistant + +- Designer + * [QTBUG-18631] Enabled the use of promoted QWidgets in the buddy editor. + * [QTBUG-18120] Fixed saving of the Z-order. + * [QTBUG-13683] Fixed saving of QGridLayout and QFormLayout + by QFormBuilder. + * [QTBUG-10890] Added a filter to the rich text editor dialog. + that simplifies the HTML markup generated. + * [QTBUG-7777] Added support for QIcon::fromTheme. + * [QTBUG-7169] Fixed QtUiTools to be built with the correct + lib-infix. + * [QTBUG-3120] Added support for alignment of box layout items. + +- Linguist + - Linguist GUI + + - lupdate + + - lrelease + + +- rcc + + +- moc + + +- uic + + +- uic3 + + +- qmake + + +- configure + + +- qtconfig + * removed Qt3support dependency + + +- qt3to4 + +- qmlplugindump + * New tool to generate text descriptions of the QML components defined + in plugins loaded by a QML module. + +**************************************************************************** +* Plugins * +**************************************************************************** + + +**************************************************************************** +* Important Behavior Changes * +**************************************************************************** + |