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Qt 4.6.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.6.0.  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

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*                           General                                        *
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New features
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 - SomeClass, SomeOtherClass
    * New classes for foo, bar and baz

Optimizations
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 - Optimized foo in QSomeClass
    * See list of Important Behavior Changes below


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*                          Library                                         *
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QtCore
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 - QFile
    * Improve performance of getting the canonical filename on Linux
      and Symbian by using realpath() system call
    * Avoid stat() when opening a file

 - QXmlStreamreader
    * [merge request 1926] Fix parsing of DTDs that contain empty markup
      declarations

QtGui
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 - QApplication
    * [QTBUG-6654] Fix crashes when deleting QWidgets in touch event
      handlers.
 - QPixmapCache
    * Fixed a small leak when using the new QPixmapCAche::Key based API.
 - QPixmap
    * load() and loadFromData() can now support compressed GL textures
      in the DDS, ETC1, PVRTC2, and PVRTC4 formats if the OpenGL graphics
      system is active and the appropriate extensions are present in the
      GL implementation.
    * [QTBUG-6840] Fixed load() to not modify referenced copies.
    * [QTBUG-5840] Fixed a crash in fromImage() when passing in a null image.
    * [QTBUG-6116] Fixed memory leak where a global object was not destroyed
      at program exit.
 - QRasterPixmapData
    * [QTBUG-6985] Fixed metric() to return the correct height in mm.
 - QGraphicsObject
    * 'id' property was removed. Use the 'objectName' property instead.
 - QPrinter
    * [QTBUG-3412] QGraphicsProxyWidgets are now rendered correctly when
      printing a QGraphicsScene to PDF format.
 - QPainter
    * [QTBUG-5939] Fixed incorrect redirection matrix that was causing
      wrong transformation for QGraphicsProxyWidgets.
    * [QTBUG-6684] Added optimizations of 32-bit blend functions
      for ARM platforms with NEON support.
 - QGraphicsEffect
    * [QTBUG-5918] Fixed redraw bugs when using graphics effects on
      items while animating them by transformations.
 - QGraphicsView
    * [QTBUG-6935] When using CacheBackground, the background is now
      correctly repainted after the QGraphicsView is shown after being
      hidden.
    * [QTBUG-6835] Mouse tracking is now automatically enabled when using
      AnchorUnderMouse for view transformation.
    * [QTBUG-6958] Fix speed regression in _q_polishItems()
    * [QTBUG-6544] Fix a crash on the focus chain when removing items from the scene.
    * Fix a crash in KDE/Plasma with QGraphicsView with topLevels.
 - QGraphicsItem
    * [QTBUG-5917] Fixed memory leaks when removing a QGraphicsEffect from
      a QGraphicsItem or QWidget with setGraphicsEffect(0).
    * [QTBUG-5859] Fixes incorrect rounding of the exposed rectangle of the
      QGraphicsItem causing painting issues when scaling the QGraphicsView.
    * [QTBUG-5071] Fixes transformation problems when grouping/ungrouping
      the item with a QGraphicsItemGroup.
 - QGraphicsWidget
    * [QTBUG-6272] Only call updateFont if the font have changed.
 - QTextDocument
    * [QTBUG-5397] Fixed printing of QTextDocuments not including custom
      text objects.

 - QTextDocument
    * [QTBUG-6051] Fixed an endless loop when printing a QTextDocument.

 - QGraphicsScene
    * [QTBUG-6654] Fix crashes when deleting QGraphicsItems in touch
      event handlers.


QtDBus
------

 - foo
    * bar

QtNetwork
---------

 - QNetworkAccessManager
    * HTTP: Smaller improvements
    * HTTP: Send our locale with the HTTP request
    * HTTP: Start Accept-language and Authorization header with capital letter
    * file: Introduce special subclass for higher performance with file:// URLs
 - QTcpSocket
    * [QTBUG-5799] Fix waitForConnected() on Windows
 - QNetworkProxyFactory
    * Fixed systemProxyForQuery(), it could sometimes return invalid empty list
      on Windows
 - QNetworkCookieJar
    * [QTBUG-5815] do not check paths when accepting cookies
 - QHostInfo
    * Use 5 parallel threads for host lookup instead of 1

QtOpenGL
--------

 - QGLContext
    * bindTexture(QString) now supports DDS, ETC1, PVRTC2, and PVRTC4
      compressed textures if the appropriate extensions are present
      in the GL implementation.
    * bindTexture(QImage): Reduce double-copying of textures when flipping.
    * [QTBUG-6454] Better EGL extension checking to avoid prefix problems
      with EGL_foo matching EGL_foo_bar.
    * [QTBUG-6217] Work around problems with glColor4ub() on Intel Q45/Q43
      Express by consistently using glColor4f() everywhere.
    * bindTexture(QImage): Fix GL_BGRA formats under OpenGL/ES by using
      the same value for both internal and external texture formats.
    * [QTBUG-5041] Disable depth testing while in renderText().
 - QGLPaintDevice
    * [QTBUG-6204] Rebind window surface fbo after native GL rendering.
 - QGLEngineSelector
    * [QTBUG-5638] Detect GL2 based on fragment shaders, not programs.
      Fragment programs are a GL1 feature.
 - QGLFramebufferObject
    * [QTBUG-6712] Update docs to better explain how QPainter changes
      the GL state when used on an FBO.
 - QGLPixmapData
    * [QTBUG-6902] Align GL_RGB data on a 4-byte line boundary.
 - QTriangulatingStroker
    * [QTBUG-6045] Crash in dashed line handling in the GL stroker.
 - QGLGlyphCache
    * [QTBUG-6936] Fix memory leak of QGLGlyphCoord objects.
 - QGLWidget
    * [QTBUG-5002, QTBUG-6931] Fixed QGLWidget::renderText().
    * Fixed WA_TranslucentBackground for QGLWidgets on X11/EGL
    * Fix EGL surface leaks when re-parenting on X11/EGL
 - QGL2PaintEngineEx
    * Performance: Don't mark brush as dirty if it hasn't changed
    * Performance: Use 3x3 PMV matrices rather than 4x4
    * Performance: Move the 0.5 offset we add for aliased rendering to updateMatrix()
    * Performance: Remove superfluous enable/disable vertex arrtib arrays
    * Performance: Track the glVertexAttribPointer and only update it if it's changed
    * [QTBUG-7094]  Introduce new "snapToPixelGrid" flag for drawText

QtOpenVG
--------

 - [QT-2555] Automatically destroy VG pixmaps when the last window surface
   goes away to reduce memory consumption of backgrounded applications.
 - [QTBUG-6639] Recover from out-of-memory when creating VGImage's.
 - [QT-2554] Add a VGImage allocation pool to support reclaiming older
   images when the GPU runs out of memory.
 - [QTBUG-7051] Reset the OpenVG scissor after a native painting call-out.
 - [QTBUG-7015] Avoid deep copies of QImage in QImage::bits() calls.

QtwebKit
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  - Fixed user agent string on Symbian (webkit.org/b/31961)
  - QWebInspector: Don't disable when hiding (webkit.org/b/31851)
  - Fix JavaScript prompt behaviour for empty/null strings (webkit.org/b/30914)
  - Fixed lastIndexOf() on Symbian (webkit.org/b/31773)
  - Fixed crash with Flash on Windows with MinGW
  - Fixed wrapping of QObjects with recurring identity (webkit.org/b/31681)
  - Fixed compilation with ICC
  - Fixed assertion when dragging SVG images (webkit.org/b/32511)

QtScript
--------

 - foo
    * bar

QtSql
-----

 - [QTBUG-5373] Fixed QSqlRelationalTableModel doesn't correctly work with relation in other database schema.
 - [QTBUG-5298] (OCI) Fixed QSqlDatabase.tables() does not work with system tables.
 - [QTBUG-6421] Fixed setForwardOnly() for both OCI and SQLite
 - [QTBUG-6618] (ODBC) Fixed segfault when error string is larger than 256 chars.
 - [QTBUG-4461] (OCI) Fixed problem with clobs being handled as binary

QtSvg
-----

 - QSvgRenderer
    * [QTBUG-6867] Fixed regression in the parsing of paths with relative
      offsets.
    * [QTBUG-6899] Fixed crash when parsing invalid coordinate list.


QtXml
-----

 - foo
    * bar

Qt Plugins
----------

 - JPEG plugin
    * Remove obsolete parameter string handling.
    * [QT-2023] Re-implement ScaledSize, ClipRect, ScaledClipRect with
      libjpeg features for greater performance.
 - PBM plugin
    * [QTBUG-6937] Use Mono instead of MonoLSB when writing pbm files.
 - TIFF plugin
    * [QTBUG-6870] BitsPerSample should default to 1 in TIFF files.
 - PNG plugin
    * [QTBUG-7161] Avoid a deep copy of QImage::bits() in the png writer.

Third party components
----------------------

 - Updated foo to version 2.3.9.

 - Updated bar to the latest version from baz.org.


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*                      Platform Specific Changes                           *
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Qt for Unix (X11 and Mac OS X)
------------------------------

 -

Qt for Linux/X11
----------------

 - [QTBUG-5732] Fixed querying of GLX extensions under X11.
 - [QTBUG-5547] Fixed handling of the "..." button.
 - Added new mkspec for Maemo targets (linux-g++-maemo)
 - Added new mkspec for Scratchbox host compiler (unsupported/linux-host-g++)

 - QGuiEventDispatcherGlib (internal class)
    * Fix regression introduced in 4.6.0 that could cause X11 event
      processing to starve timer events.

 - QFileSystemWatcher
    * [QTBUG-4840] Fix memory leak in the dnotify implementation.

 - QIcon
    * [QTBUG-6121] Fixed a problem causing svg-based icon themes to look fuzzy.

 - QGtkStyle
    * [QTBUG-6484] Ensure that gtk-enable-mnemonics is respected.

Qt for Windows
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 - [QTBUG-5145] Compile fixes for win32-icc.

 - QAtomicPointer
    * [QTBUG-6079] Fix compilation for 64-bit Windows targets.

 - QEventDispatchWin32 (internal class)
    * [QTBUG-6083] Fix a performance regression introduced in 4.6.0
      that would cause all Qt posted events to be sent at 15-16ms
      intervals (instead of as quickly as possible).
 - Vista/XP styles
    * [QTBUG-6271] Fixed a compatibility issue with MDI windows in 
    certain non-standard themes.

Qt for Mac OS X
---------------

 - QPixmap
   * [QTBUG-5070] Fixed a crash on Mac that could occur when loading
   pixmaps of different sizes into the same QPixmap object.
 - [QTBUG-6973] Fixed a memory leak when using QWidget::setWindowIcon() in carbon.
 - [QTBUG-5186] Fixed a bug which caused drag and drop icons to show 
   incorrectly.
 - [QTBUG-6636] Fixed a crash due to stack overflow in QColorDialog  on cocoa.
 - [QTBUG-6378] Fix a text cursor rendering bug.
 - [QTBUG-6636] Fixed a crash when calling removeToolBar on Mac native toolbars using cocoa.
 - [QTBUG-5613] Fixed a bug where the application refued to quit when showing a single modal dialog.
 - Gestures are now available for the Carbon port also when building Qt against SDK < 10.6

Qt for Embedded Linux
---------------------

 -

DirectFB
--------

 -

Qt for Windows CE
-----------------

 -

Qt for Symbian
--------------

 - QApplication
   * [QTBUG-6098] Added a flag to avoid construction of application panes.

 - Other:
   * [QTBUG-4990] Rewrote most of the regular pointer handling.

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*                          Tools                                           *
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 - Designer
   * [QTBUG-6863] Fixed static linking on Mac.
   * [QTBUG-6760] Fixed display of action shortcut in action editor.
   * [QTBUG-6505] Fixed handling of QHeaderView properties.
   * [QTBUG-5335] Fixed handling of layout margins of custom containers.

 - uic
   * [QTBUG-5824] Fixed code generation to generate a call to
     QMainWindow::setCentralWidget() for promoted widgets as well.

 - qdoc3
   * bar

 - Linguist
   * baz

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* Important Behavior Changes *
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