Qt 4.6.2 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.6.0 and 4.6.1. For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6 The Qt version 4.6 series is binary compatible with the 4.5.x series. Applications compiled for 4.5 will continue to run with 4.6. Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker, the (now obsolete) Task Tracker, or the Merge Request queue of the public source repository. Qt Bug Tracker: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com Task Tracker: http://qt.nokia.com/developer/task-tracker Merge Request: http://qt.gitorious.org **************************************************************************** * General * **************************************************************************** New features ------------ - SomeClass, SomeOtherClass * New classes for foo, bar and baz Optimizations ------------- - Optimized foo in QSomeClass * See list of Important Behavior Changes below **************************************************************************** * Library * **************************************************************************** QtCore ------ - QAtomicPointer * [QTBUG-7356] Fixed a compilation failure when using the Intel compiler on IA-64 - QFile * Fixed double-buffering issue when opening files in buffered mode. * [QTBUG-7285] QFile::remove would fail if an unrelated operation on the same instance had been previously failed. This manisfested itself in QTemporaryFile failing to auto-remove files and QFile::copy leaving temporary files behind in certain situations. - QFSFileEngine * Fix typo that made realpath() not being used - QIODevice * Optimized readAll() - QReadWriteLock * [MR 426] Fixed documentation - QXmlStreamWriter * [QTBUG-6893] Fixed adding extra Byte Order Marks when writing to a xml file. QtGui ----- - QAbstractScrollArea * [QTBUG-1760] Reverted horizontal scrolling with mouse wheel when vertical scrollbar is hidden - QBmpHandler * [QTBUG-7530] Fixed an infinite loop that could occur when reading invalid BMP images. - QGraphicsEffect * [QTBUG-6901] Fixed performance problem when translating items with graphics effects. - QImage * [QTBUG-7231] Avoid an unnecessary copy in QImage::scaled(). - QPDFEngine * [QTBUG-7249] Fixed the encoding of the Tile and Creator tags in the PDF engine. - QApplication * [QTBUG-6098] Added a flag to avoid construction of application panes. - QInputContext * [QTBUG-7439] Avoided the loss of preedit text when losing focus on Symbian. * [QT-2629] Implemented event filter functions for Symbian. * [QTBUG-7029] Fixed a crash when re-creating QApplication object due to a dangling gesture manager pointer. * [QTBUG-7198] Setting a style sheet could break the checkbox position in item views. * [QTBUG-7253] Fixed wrong stroke clipping with the raster engine when using a QPen with a style other than SolidLine. * [MR 2077] Integrated merge request 2077 QtDBus ------ - QDBusConnection * [QT-2307] Fixed sending of D-Bus method calls with QDBus::BlockWithGui QtNetwork --------- - QNetworkAccessManager * Optimizations * HTTP: Get rid of QAbstractSocket warnings that were sometimes displayed * HTTP: setReadBufferSize() of the QNetworkReply finally is working on all layers * [QTBUG-7713] HTTP: Fix bug related to re-sending a request * [QTBUG-7060] Fixed an issue with parsing of HTTP headers like "private, max-age=300" - QSslCertificate * [QTBUG-6466] Fix issuerInfo() and subjectInfo() - QTcpSocket * [QTBUG-7344] Fix performance degredation with write() on Windows * [QTBUG-7316,QTBUG-7317] Also handle unknown errors from socket engine QtOpenGL -------- - [QTBUG-7490] Better support for user-generated binary shaders. - QGLWidget * [QTBUG-7213] Fixed QGLWidget::renderPixmap() on Windows. - QGLPixelBuffer * [QTBUG-7476] Fixed a crash under X11 when drawing QPixmaps to QGLPixelBuffers. - QGL2PaintEngineEx * [QTBUG-7203] Reset the GL stencil mask, op and function in resetGLState(). QtOpenVG -------- - [QTBUG-7791] Optimize single-rect IntersectClip in OpenVG using the scissor. - [QTBUG-7864] Use OpenVG scissor on 90/180/270 rotations and simple clips. QtScript -------- - foo * bar QtSql ----- - foo * bar QtXml ----- - foo * bar QtMultimedia ------------ - QAudioInput * [QTBUG-7044]: QAudioInput stopped working correctly after suspend()/resume() on linux. Qt Plugins ---------- - foo * bar Examples -------- - QtMultimedia * [MR 418] Fixed the example for QAudioOutput - WebKit * [MR 2235] Added the framecapture example to the default build Third party components ---------------------- - Updated foo to version 2.3.9. - Updated bar to the latest version from baz.org. **************************************************************************** * Platform Specific Changes * **************************************************************************** Qt for Unix (X11 and Mac OS X) ------------------------------ - Qt for Linux/X11 ---------------- * Fix a bug where QPixmap::serialNumber was not set on a transformed pixmap in Qt/X11. * Fixed a crash when an input method tries to create a widget after the application is destroyed. - [QTBUG-6952] Fixed a problem using NoButtons in spinbox with QGtkStyle - [QTBUG-7504] Fixed missing focus rect on check- and radiobutton with some GTK+ themes. - [QTBUG-6522] Fixed missing menu separator in some GTK+ themes. Qt for Windows -------------- Qt for Mac OS X --------------- - [QTBUG-7832]: Restored missing margins around non-unified toolbars. - [QTBUG-7312]: Menubar and dock disappear after hiding a fullscreen widget on Cocoa. - [QTBUG-7481]: Re-added the Close button in QPrintPreviewDialog for Mac/Carbon. - [QTBUG-7522]: Drawing fake buttons using QMacStyle+QStyleOptionViewItemV4 lead to crash. - [QTBUG-7625]: Calling showFullScreen() then showNormal() on a widget results in top menu hiding. - [QTBUG-7086]: QFileDialog now correctly responds to fileMode & acceptMode changes. - [QTBUG-7162]: Fixed a crash in Designer when previewing a QMainWindow with native toolbar. - [QTBUG-7305]: Fixed a crash when deleting QMainWindow with native toolbar on Cocoa. - [QTBUG-6882]: Fixed a text layout issue with QHeaderView in right-to-left mode. Qt for Embedded Linux --------------------- - DirectFB -------- * Fix a bug where QPixmap::serialNumber was not set on a transformed pixmap in DirectFB. * Reimplement QPixmapData::scroll for QDirectFBPixmapData which optimizes QPixmap::scroll * Fix a rendering issue for semi-transparent top level windows in DirectFB. * Make it possible to fall back to the raster engine for stretch blits in DirectFB using QT_NO_DIRECTFB_STRETCHBLIT - Qt for Windows CE ----------------- - Qt for Symbian -------------- * [QTBUG-6556] Improve the DEF file handling scheme, to allow simple enable/ disable of DEF file usage (for use _during development only_ to decouple the need to update the DEF files at the precise point that symbols are removed, therefore allowing builds by CI systems to succeed even if symbols have been removed. This does not remove the need to update the DEF files before release. NOTE: Builds generated using this flag are not binary compatible with previous versions of Qt.) - QProcess * [QTBUG-7667] Fixed no-timeout case for QProcess::waitForFinished. - qmake * [QTBUG-7695] Added support for ifdeffing for manufacturer in generated pkg files. * [QTBUG-7908] Smart installer package generation support - Patch_capabilities script * Added support for embedded sis name/uid patching. - Qt deployment * [QTBUG-7518] Backup and restore support for Qt libs **************************************************************************** * Tools * **************************************************************************** - Designer * [QTBUG-6965] Enabled editing seconds of QDateTime-type properties * [QTBUG-6757] Fixed bug where selection handles would be affected by a style sheet set on the main form. - uic3 * [QTBUG-7404] Added option to preserve layout names set by Qt 3 Designer. - qdoc3 * bar - Linguist * baz **************************************************************************** * Important Behavior Changes * **************************************************************************** - QNetworkAccessManager cache * QNetworkAccessManager will no longer return expired pages, as stated in the documentation * The behaviour of PreferCache and PreferNetwork modes now match the documentation more closely - QUrl * QUrl will now accept hostnames ending in dot and will not treat those as invalid hostnames