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Qt 4.7.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.7.0.  For more details,
refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The
documentation is also available online:

  http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.7

The Qt version 4.7 series is binary compatible with the 4.6.x series.
Applications compiled for 4.6 will continue to run with 4.7.

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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Optimizations
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 - Improved the benchmarking library's timing code
    * Uses a faster access to the system clock

 - Introduction of SSSE3 for alpha blending of images.

 - On x86 and 86_64, the memory access has been improved for alpha blending
   and for some composition functions.

 * See list of Important Behavior Changes below


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*                          Library                                         *
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QtCore
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 - Containers
    * [QTBUG-13079] Fix assingment of a container included in the container itself

 - QLibrary
    * [QT-3825] System libraries are only loaded from the system directories


 - QUuid
    * [QTBUG-11213] QUuid::createUuid() should not generate identical sequences on UNIX

 - QEventDispatcherUnix
    * [QTBUG-13633] Do not process too many timer events if other events need
     to be processed first


QtGui
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 - QGraphicsWidget
	* [QTBUG-13188] Make sure a font that has propagated from a parent can
	  be set on a QPainter.
    * [QT-3808] Issues when applying effects in combination with ItemHasNoContents flag.

 - QGraphicsItem
    * [QTBUG-3633, QT-3828] Wrong children bounding rect when applying effects.

 - QGraphicsEffect
    * [QT-3633] Wrong bounding rect.

 - QGraphicsScene
    * [QT-3674] Spurious assert triggered from render().

 - QPainter
    * [QTBUG-13429] Fixed scale point drawing with square cap in the raster
      engine, plus some potential floating point overflows in the rasterizer.
    * Optimized pixmap drawing with SmoothPixmapTransform.

 - QStaticText
    * [QTBUG-12614] Fix crash with zero-width string.
	* [QTBUG-12540] Fix rendering of large glyphs with OpenGL2 paint engine.


 - QPinchGesture
    * The scaleFactor and totalScaleFactor now represent a value that allows
      an object to track a touchpoint during a Pinch Gesture even when using
      sequences for zooming.
      Therefor the scale factors are initialized to 1.0 and for every new
      sequence the totalScaleFactor is multiplied with the scaleFactor of the
      new sequence.

 - QLineEdit
    * [QTBUG-13520] Fixed the scrolling of text with right alignment

 - QPixmap
    * [QTBUG-12560] Fixed a regression preventing loading images without extensions

 - QTreeView
    * [QTBUG-13567] Do not scroll to top if last item is removed

 - QGtkStyle
    * [QTBUG-13125] Fixed a regression with custom itemview background color.

QtDBus
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QtMultimedia
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 - QAudioOutput
    * [QTBUG-11586] Support audio with more than two channels.
    * [QTBUG-11755] Fixed outputing audio in push mode with ALSA.
    * [QTBUG-11883] Fixed segmentation fault when closing a QAudioInput or
      QAudioOutput.

QtNetwork
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 - QSslConfiguration
    * [QTBUG-13265] fix crash with empty configuration
 - QSslCertificate
    * [QTBUG-12489] support dates > 2049
 - Bearer Management
    * Improved reliability on Symbian and Maemo.
    * Added connman/meego backend.
 - IPv6
    * Disable on Symbian until OpenC properly supports it
 - QNetworkAccessManager
    * [QTBUG-12285] Crash fix related to aborted uploads


QtOpenGL
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 - QGL2PaintEngineEx
    * Fixed drawing a large number of glyphs with the same font on systems
      with small texure size limits.

QtOpenVG
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QtWebKit
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QtSql
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QtSvg
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QtXml
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 * Fixed a crash when parsing invalid tag names.

QtXmlPatterns
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 - XML Schema internals:
    * [QTBUG-11559] Only parse 3 digits of time fraction

QtDeclarative
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 - QML language
    * [QTBUG-13799] QML core module renamed to QtQuick to decouple it from Qt releases.
      Old "import Qt 4.7" will co-exist with "import QtQuick 1.0' at least during Qt 4.7 releases.
    * [QTBUG-13047] Support passing QObject derived types to QML methods
    * [QTBUG-12837] Support JS "in" operator on QML objects
    * [QTBUG-13045] Prevent calling deleteLater() from QML
    * [QTBUG-13043] Ignore non-scriptable properties in QML
    * [QTBUG-13114] Don't double call classBegin()
    * [QTBUG-12946] Ensure the onDestruction handlers are called before the expressions are cleared
    * [QTBUG-12599] Re-enabled script program caching on Symbian
    * [QTBUG-13374] Don't modify the signal order on the second dynamic meta object pass
    * Support for qsTrId and meta-data in comments for QML
 - QML debugging:
    * [QTBUG-5162] The debugger is now activated with -qmljsdebugger command
    line arg to enable support for platforms without environment variables
    * Various improvements to ease debugging in creator
 - AnchorAnimation
    * [QTBUG-13398] Fix AnchorAnimation for multiple AnchorChanges with dependancies
 - AnchorChanges
    * [QTBUG-11834] Restore any absolute geometry changed by AnchorChanges when returning to the base state
 - Component
    * [QTBUG-13170] Complete Component::createObject() creation after setting the parent
 - GridView
    * [QTBUG-13166] GridView.view property should not be writable
 - Flickable 
    * [QTBUG-13095] Ensure Flickable visibleArea is updated when view height changes
    * [QTBUG-13176] Avoid Flickable view jumping when drag threashold is exceeded
    * [QTBUG-13078] Fix poor flicking behavior with slower flicks
    * Handle QGraphicsWidgets in Flickable
 - FocusScope
    * [QTBUG-12649] Make sure onFocusChanged is correctly emitted for items in a FocusScope.
 - FontLoader
    * [QTBUG-13419] Don't add the same font to the font database multiple times 
 - ListModel
    * [QTBUG-12363] Modifying an object returned by ListModel.get(0) didn't update the view
    * [QTBUG-13666] Calling set() and setProperty() on ListModel from a WorkerScript didn't update the view
    * Fix Worker ListModel to emit the right signal when items change
    * Fix crash with invalid role indexes
    * improved ListModel error messages
 - ListView
    * [QTBUG-13664] Models with a single role didn't always update correctly
    * [QTBUG-13543] Ensure flickable velocity is updated when view is moved by setCurrentIndex
    * [QTBUG-12664] Ensure highlight is positioned correctly in positionViewAtIndex()
    * [QTBUG-13166] Fix ListView.view attached property with VisualItemModel
    * [QTBUG-13039] Fix crash in synchronization of ListModel in WorkerThread
    * [QTBUG-11341] Flicking a ListView sometimes made it loose focus
    * [QTBUG-13166] ListView.view property should not be writable
 - PathView 
    * [QTBUG-13689] Moving items in a PathView caused PathView.onPath to be set to false
    * [QTBUG-13687] PathView didn't accept mouse events, preventing it from working in a Flickable
    * [QTBUG-13416] Fix PathView item position on insertion and removal
    * [QTBUG-13017] Fix PathView when setting an empty model that is later filled
    * [QTBUG-12747] PathView required some diagonal movement before a drag was initiated
 - Positioners
    * made positioners work with QGraphicsWidgets
 - PropertyChanges
    * [QTBUG-12559] Correctly apply PropertyChanges when entering an extended state directly from the base state
 - VisualDataModel
    * [QTBUG-13754] Fixed a crash when updating a property in ListModel with multiple roles
    * [QTBUG-13038] Fix VisualDataModel model update handling when rootIndex is specified
    * [QTBUG-13146] Handle layoutChanged() properly in QML views
 - XmlListModel 
    * [QTBUG-13041] XmlListModel thread was left hanging on Symbian application exit
 - ParentChange
    * [QTBUG-13554] ParentChange fails to apply rotation changes of exactly 180 degrees
 - MouseArea 
    * [QTBUG-12250] When onDoubleClicked: is handled don't emit a second onPressed/onClicked
 - Image
    * [QTBUG-13454] Changing the Image 'source' no longer goes through the 'Loading' state if the image is cached.
    * [QTBUG-13383] Do not reset sourceSize when changing image source url
    * [QTBUG-13002] Setting one dimension of the sourceSize should set the other dimensio
    * [QTBUG-12302] Fix remote image url redirects are done in the right thread
    * Ensure all image states are updated before emitting statusChanged signals
 - NumberAnimation
    * [QTBUG-12805] Clear previous animation data for non-triggering animations
 - Repeater
    * [QTBUG-12905] Emit countChanged where appropriate in Repeater
 - SmoothedAnimation
    * [QTBUG-12336] Update running animations if a SmoothedAnimation is changed
 - SpringAnimation
    * [QTBUG-13044] SpringAnimation velocity animation stop logic was fragile
 - Text
    * [QTBUG-13453] Fix jerky scrolling caused by unnecessary repaints of Text element 
    * [QTBUG-13142] Fix alignment of shadow for rich text when using text styles
    * [QTBUG-11002] Improve QML text rendering when LCD smoothing is enabled for OS X
 - TextInput
    * [QTBUG-11127] Fix autoScroll implementation
 - XmlHttpRequest
    * [QTBUG-13117] Fix responseText to check the charset encoding field and also to not assume that the data is xml
 - WebView
    * [QTBUG-13342] Ensure WebView gets focus when an editable node is clicked on
 - QDeclarativeImageProvider:
    * Fixed memory leak
    * Improved concurrency when using in assynchronus mode.

Qt Plugins
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 - Jpeg image IO plugin
    * [QTBUG-13653] Fixed infinite loop when loading jpeg without EOI marker
      from memory.

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*                      Platform Specific Changes                           *
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Qt for Unix (X11 and Mac OS X)
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 - Event System:
   * [QT_3553] Fix invalid memory write during recursive timer activation.

Qt for Linux/X11
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 - The configure script now detects all vector extensions of x86 and x86_64

Qt for Windows
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 - Event System:
   * [QTBUG-12721] Fix Qt applications freezing until mouse/keyboard events occur.

 - Drag & Drop:
   * [QTBUG-13787] Fixed a possible crash with mingw

 - QPrinter
   * [QTBUG-12263] Strokes were in some cases not printed with the correct
     color under Windows.

 - QGLWidget
   * [QTBUG-13141] Fixed multi-sampling support for ATI based cards under
     Windows.

Qt for Mac OS X
---------------
 - The configure script now detects all vector extensions of x86 and x86_64
    * [QTBUG-10500] Fixed a bug which causes the QMainWindow geometry
      to be calculated wrongly, when used with native toolbars.
    * [QTBUG-13878] Application menu entries can now also be translated
      using the QMenuBar context.

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

 - configure
   * [QTBUG-4586] Fixed wrong paths in include/ActiveQt/headers.pri.
   * [QTBUG-11671] Fixed audio-backend detection in configure tests.

 - qmake
   * [QTBUG-13523] Added support for using -L notation in the LIBS variable
     when building with the symbian/linux-armcc or gcce mkspec.
   * [QTBUG-12851] Fix assertion on Windows when DESTDIR is empty in static
     libs.
   * [QTBUG-12802] Fix vcxproj generator when using /Fd in QMAKE_CXXFLAGS.
   * [QTBUG-13080] vcxproj generator: fix bug when using CharacterSet=1 in
     .pro file.
   * [QTBUG-13081] vc[x]proj generators: support /MAP option without file
     name.

 - QInputContext
   * [QTBUG-12949] Fixed a bug where passwords would not be committed when
     confirming.
   * [QTBUG-13472] Fixed crash in input methods when using symbols menu and
     numbers only.

Qt for Windows CE
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 - Gui
   * [QTBUG-8408] Show the [X] button on Windows mobile when maximizing.

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*                          Tools                                           *
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 - Designer

 - uic
  * Improve warnings and error reports

 - moc
  * Show an error if NOTIFY refer to a wrong signal in Q_PROPERTY

 - QML Viewer
    * [QTBUG-13347] Paused orientation sensors in Qml Viewer when the application window is not active to save device battery 
    * [QTBUG-11019] Add a menu option to open remote files in the QML viewer
    * QML Viewer is deployed under QtDemos folder instead of QtExamples folder in Symbian application menu

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*                     Important Behavior Changes                           *
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