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@@ -19,15 +19,21 @@ information about a particular change.
* General *
****************************************************************************
+Qt Platform Abstraction
+-----------------------
+
+Qt 4.8 adds a new platform: QPA (also known as Lighthouse). QPA is a replacement
+for Qt for Embedded Linux (QWS), making it much easier to port Qt to new platforms.
+
General Improvements
--------------------
--
+-
Third party components
----------------------
- - Updated libpng to version 1.5.1
+ - Updated libpng to version 1.5.4
- Updated libjpeg to version 8c
- Updated zlib to version 1.2.5
@@ -44,29 +50,48 @@ QtCore
- 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: Entry points were re-written and interfaces changed. This work was
+done in order to add support for QtConcurrent on Symbian, but ultimately it was noted
+that the changes lead to a leaner API and the change applies to all platforms.
- 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: added senderSignalIndex method to discover the signal that invoked a slot
- 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.
+ - QList: optimizations
- 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
+ - Added member-swap function to containers and implicitly shared (including GUI) classes
- 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
+ - Fix QProcess emitting two started signals on X11 [QTBUG-7039]
+ - QLocale: added locale dependent to{Upper,Lower} string conversions
+ - QUuid: Optimize QUuid::toString() and relevant, circa 20 times faster than before on the test machine. [QTBUG-19418]
+ - QUuid: Add QUuid::toByteArray() and relevant, same behavior with QUuid::toString(). [QTBUG-19419]
+ - QUuid: Add QUuid::toRfc4122() and fromRfc4122(), provide interfaces by following the RFC-4122 [QTBUG-19420]
+ - QTextStream, QDataStream and QXmlStreamWriter: added write error reporting [QTBUG-376]
+ - QProcessEnvironment: added keys() and insert(const QProcessEnvironment &)
+ - QProcessEnvironment: preserve variable name case on Windows
+ - QProcessEnvironment: made systemEnvironment() encoding-safe
+ - QProcessEnvironment: major optimizations, especially on Unix
+ - Add branch prediction macros Q_LIKELY and Q_UNLIKELY
+ - QSettings: don't assume XDG_CONFIG_HOME is latin1-encoded
QtGui
-----
+ - QApplication: Add a queryKeyboardModifiers() method.
- 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]
+ - QListView diverse 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]
@@ -77,7 +102,14 @@ QtGui
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 several bidi reordering bugs.
+ - Make HTML exported from QTextDocument containing empty lines more compliant.
+ - Include font pixel size when exporting HTML from QTextDocument.
+ - QPainter: Added a fast stroking algorithm for thin (< 1px wide) aliased and antialiased
+ lines, giving a huge improvement in drawing speed for certain cases
- Fixed a rare race condition when showing toplevel windows on X11
+ - QWindowsStyle: fix bug in eventFilter on KeyPressed event with alt pressed, that
+ caused unnecessary update events
- 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).
@@ -90,6 +122,11 @@ QtGui
- 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.
+ - Fixed loading BMP files with version 4 and 5 headers, ignoring extra data.
+ - QTextCursor optimization
+ - QUndoGroup, QUndoStack: Allow using not only prefixes for undo command text [QTBUG-14442]
+ - QUndoView: Allow different text for undo actions and items
+ - QCommonStyle: Fix overrides from the proxy style [QTBUG-20849]
QtNetwork
---------
@@ -105,6 +142,7 @@ QtNetwork
- 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]
+ - QNetworkReply: errorString() returns translated messages now [QTBUG-18382]
QtOpenGL
--------
@@ -114,15 +152,38 @@ QtNetwork
- Including <QtOpenGL> will not work in combination with GLEW, as
QGLFunctions will undefine GLEW's defines.
- Optimize behavior of QGLTextureCache
+ - Support subpixel antialiasing when possible.
+ - [QTBUG-13450] Fixed path drawing on FBOs without stencil buffer.
+ - Reading from the FrameBuffer with Qt now correctly gives an image
+ marked as premultiplied.
QtScript
--------
- Deprecated qScriptValueFromQMetaObject, qScriptValueToValue, qScriptValueFromValue
+QtDBus
+------
+ - Added a method that returns the local machine ID
+
+QtWebKit
+--------
+ - Update QtWebKit to 2.2.0
+ http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitRelease22
+
QtSql
-----
-
- Update sqlite to 3.7.7.1
+
+QtSvg
+-----
+ - [QTBUG-16216] Fixed infinite loop when loading some SVGs with CSS style.
+
+QtDBus
+------
+ - Make QDBusServer work [QTBUG-186]
+ - QDBusConnection: Add methods disconnectFromPeer and connectToPeer
+ - Make the DBus timeout configurable in QDBusAbstractInterface.
+
****************************************************************************
* Database Drivers *
****************************************************************************
@@ -139,11 +200,17 @@ Qt for Linux/X11
- 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
+ - Experimental support for associating Wayland clients with PID or a token,
+ to facilitate window management.
Qt for Windows
--------------
- DirectWrite experimental text shaping engine is added with subpixel
positioning support. [QTBUG-12678]
+ - QElapsedTimer: use QueryPerformanceCounter if available.
+ - MSVC runtime is bound to the runtime you're building with. This makes
+ deployment on Windows easier. (QTBUG-8215)
+ - QLocalSocket::isValid() has been fixed. (QTBUG-18204)
Qt for Mac OS X
---------------
@@ -160,6 +227,8 @@ Qt for Embedded Linux
keyboard and screen drivers.
- Improved support for INTEGRITY RTOS
- Allow hard-coding the temp path in mkspecs (QT_UNIX_TEMP_PATH_OVERRIDE define)
+ - Added support for opening LinuxInput devices exclusively (via ioctl EVIOCGRAB)
+ - Added eglnullws QScreen driver for use with OpenGL ES EGL null window system (NullWS).
Qt for Symbian
--------------
@@ -173,6 +242,38 @@ Qt for Symbian
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]
+ - Prevent horizontal lines appearing under entered characters when predictive text is off
+ - Checked state is not shown on highlighted itemview item when using QS60Style [QTBUG-19668]
+ - Icon is not shown correctly in a menu item in all cases when using QS60Style [QTBUG-19330]
+ - Remove S60 3rd edition support from QS60Style [QTBUG-18615]
+ - Prevent softkeys from coming to foreground when taskswitcher is opened [QTBUG-19225]
+ - Improve robustness of QS60Style when creating native theme bitmaps [QTBUG-21119]
+ - Make spinboxes and lineedits slightly taller in QS60Style
+ - Default graphics memory quota for Symbian applications support [QT-4963]
+ - Improved support for shadow builds in Symbian [QTBUG-10432]
+ - Fixed panic when global QSettings instance needs flusing at app exit [QTBUG-21421]
+ - Detect app caption and pkg name translations by id attribute [QT-5247]
+ - Fixed center aligned layouts for Symbian [QTBUG-14704]
+ - Fixed Symbian system date format parsing [QT-5237]
+ - Skip softkeys update if application is not on foreground in Symbian [QTBUG-19225]
+ - Removed S60 version plugins [QTBUG-18614]
+ - Improved DEFINES crossplatform compatibility in Symbian builds [QTBUG-19232]
+ - Fixed loss of focus and activation when hiding a child widget [QTBUG-19196]
+ - Fixed softkeys in case a dialog with softkeys that have icons is closed [QTBUG-19154]
+ - Update softkeys after orientation switch [QTBUG-19150]
+ - Implemented support for enable_backup CONFIG value [QTBUG-17214]
+ - Improved logic to find default certificates in createpackage script [QTBUG-18684]
+ - Changed createpackage and patch_capabilties scripts use tmp dir [QTBUG-11394]
+ - Added ".make.cache" to the files to be cleaned for symbian-abld [QTBUG-15733]
+ - Fixed emulator deployment for items with "!:" drive [QTBUG-18134]
+ - Removed broken "deploy.path" support from Symbian [QTBUG-14426]
+ - Strip echo suppression character "@" from commands in symbian-sbsv2 [QTBUG-4767]
+ - Don't leave from QNotifyChangeEvent::RunL() in QFileSystemWatcher [QT-4660]
+ - Fixed QProcess::waitForFinished WaitForRequest handling in Symbian [QT-4659]
+ - Changed DEPLOYMENT keyword to accept both .sources and .files [QTBUG-3216]
+ - Removed static vs dynamic library autodetection from qmake in Symbian [QTBUG-13498]
+ - QtConcurrent is now working both with RVCT 2.2 and GCCE 4.4.1 on Symbian, but not with WINSCW,
+the compiler of Symbian emulator (and there is no plan to support it). [QTBUG-5182] [QTBUG-9070]
Qt for Windows CE
-----------------
@@ -184,6 +285,9 @@ Qt for Windows CE
- Sun Studio 12
* Fixed build issues in the OpenGL module on Solaris with CC 5.9. [QTBUG-19641]
+- Microsoft Visual C++
+ * Fixed build issues with STLport. [QTBUG-18374]
+
****************************************************************************
* Tools *
****************************************************************************
@@ -225,10 +329,33 @@ Qt for Windows CE
- qmake
-
+ * Look for external Qt modules in $QMAKEPATH
+ * MinGW: fix DEF_FILE for shadow builds. (QTBUG-11643)
+ * Implemented "aux" template that allows making use of the INSTALLS variable
+ without building anything. Needed for projects with QML entry point.
+ * MSVC now link with /DYNAMICBASE /NXCOMPAT in order to increase security.
+ * Fix the language settings in generated Windows resource files. (QTBUG-12249)
+ * Write and install pkg-config files for MinGW
+ * Make PKGCONFIG referencing missing packages fatal; add packagesExist() for
+ a-priori checks. (QTBUG-11418)
+ * Make moc use DEFINES from pkg-config. (QTBUG-19922)
+ * Parsing nested quotes works a bit differently now
+ * Added -unset <prop> option
+ * Made the Hurd mkspec useful
+ * Visual Studio project generator
+ - Support x64 Qt builds. (QTBUG-17911)
+ - QMAKE_PROJECT_NAME qmake variable introduced to set the project's name.
+ - Support PCHs with other extensions than ".h". (QTBUG-16639)
+ - Fix setting PCH options manually via the MSVC compiler flags. (QTBUG-15594)
+ - Set the output directory correctly. (QTBUG-16490)
+ - Fix handling of DEFINES from .prl files. (QTBUG-16024)
- configure
-
+ * The endianness for Windows is always set to little endian.
+ * [QTBUG-5710] Configure now complains on missing perl on windows
+ * Removed obsolete -qt-gif option
+ * Allow setting LD, RANLIB, OBJDUMP, and STRIP.
+ * Allow selecting imageformats to be built as plugin vs. internal.
- qtconfig
* removed Qt3support dependency
@@ -240,6 +367,9 @@ Qt for Windows CE
* New tool to generate text descriptions of the QML components defined
in plugins loaded by a QML module.
+- syncqt
+ * Fix to allow $QTDIR to contain any valid pathname characters.
+
****************************************************************************
* Plugins *
****************************************************************************