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Qt 4.8.4 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.8.0, 4.8.1, 4.8.2 and 4.8.3.
For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this
distribution. The documentation is also available online:

http://qt-project.org/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 or the Merge Request queue
of the public source repository.

Qt Bug Tracker: http://bugreports.qt-project.org
Merge Request: http://codereview.qt-project.org

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* General *
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General Improvements
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- Copyrights changed to Digia Plc
- Add msvc2012 support

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* Library *
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QtGui
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- Fixed outline / fill inconsistencies in raster paint engine [QTBUG-26013]
- Avoid crash caused by drag and drop and winId() [QTBUG-27263]
- Cleanup CUPS tmp files [QTBUG-14724]
- Fixed inconsistent rounding of square cap pens [QTBUG-26013]
- Rotate non maximized windows
- Fix crash when invalidating a QSortFilterProxyModel [QTBUG-27122]
- Fix regression in QTextDocument::toHtml() with font pixel size [QTBUG-25778]
- qpa: improve DirectFB performance
- qpa: extend drawPixmap capabilities
- qpa: add non-opaque fill support
- Fix calculation of logical child index for row headers
- qpa: Fix rendering issue in blitter paint engine
- Introducing the PlatformPanel event type
- Pass NEON_ASM directly to SOURCES
- Enable NEON compilation on qcc compilers
- Fix number of available printers in CUPS support
- Mangle QNSApplication into a namespace when Qt is configured as such
- Mangle QNSApplication and methods into a namespace
- QComboBox::currentText: correct documentation
- QComboBox: mention insert policy in context of editable property
- Fixed cosmetic line drawing where begin and end points are equal [QTBUG-25153]
- Fix a regression with regards to hfw behavior in QStackedWidget [QTBUG-24758]
- Close popups on non-client area mouse press [QTBUG-1894, QTBUG-26120, QTBUG-26465, QTBUG-26827]
- Use the right properties when checking the frame's margins [QTBUG-22173]
- qpa: Fix drawPixmap rendering using CompositionMode_Source in DirectFB
- Fixed crash on destruction of animating QDockWidget in a QMainWindow
- Fixed GCC 3.4 build with sse2 enabled
- QHeaderView - no big update work if updates are disabled
- QHeaderView - length returns wrong value fix
- QHeaderView - fix minor bug in visualIndexAt
- Fixing font database memoryleak
- Fix a crash in QFileDialog when selecting an invalid name filter
- QHeaderView - correct drop on manual QHeaderView sectionmove [QTBUG-14814]
- Fix submenu navigation [QTBUG-20094]
- QWindowsVistaStyle: Restore altered brush origin [QTBUG-27828]
- HeaderView - call invalidateCachedSizeHint() on clear [QTBUG-22528]
- Fix GIF image decoding: do not zero transparent pixels
- qpa: Fix rendering issue in blitter engine (negative scaling factors)
- Windows: Fixed handling of key events containing ctrl modifier [QTBUG-10781]
- Fix scrolldown arrow not showing on popup for QMenu [QTBUG-27445]
- Fix zero-duration animations running Backwards [QTBUG-27969]

QtNetwork
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- Disable SSL compression by default
- HTTP header may be damaged - fix, unit test [QTBUG-27161]
- Bypass proxy for local connections
- Implementation of the BlackBerry Qt Proxy support
- introduce configure switch to use system proxies by default
- fix bug in QLocalSocket::waitForReadyRead on Windows [QTBUG-27816]
- Fix compile issue with building with openssl and in a namespace [QTBUG-25207]


QtCore
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- Include the signal code in the argument of (dis)connectNotify()
- QElapsedTimer: Fix typo in restart() documentation
- Prevent an overflow warning in assertions
- QTranslator: Use resource memory instead of copying it
- Fix for memory leak in ResultStore [QTBUG-27224]
- QString doesn't work with old ABI on ARM [QTBUG-15784]
- Make the qatomic classes work in ARMv5 OABI
- Fix regression introduced in QFileSystemEntry::path()[QTBUG-27356]


QtDBus
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- Make QtDBus work again with D-Bus 1.0 and 1.1
- Fix QDBusServer with more than one connection [QTBUG-24921]

QtSql
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- Fix error when inserting to tables with datetime fields with QODBC [QTBUG-2192]
- QtSql: Correct documented default precision policy [QTBUG-27482]
- fix binding of bool type in mysql driver [QTBUG-27763]

Declarative
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- EngineDebug: Updated and renamed service
- Ensure child items are updated even if the parent item has no content [QTBUG-26846]
- Use QVarLengthArray when creating the connectNotify() argument
- Fix QObject::receivers() within connectNotify()
- QDeclarativeTrace patch for a custom trace instance
- Fix access to uninitialised memory that might lead to crashes [QTBUG-23214]
- QDeclarativeTypeLoader: Avoid stat() calls to . and ..
- Make the rules for redirects a bit stricter

OpenGL
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- Fixed text drawing in OpenGL 2 paint engine [QTBUG-24453]
- Fixed potential use of uninitialized variable in qgl.cpp [QTBUG-26952]
- QGLTextureGlyphCache: Fix text rendering artifacts on NVIDIA [QTBUG-26444]
- Fixed memory leak in assign operator of QGLBuffer

Plugins
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- Accessibility: itemviews check for valid model

3rdParty
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- Fix mmap usage (ExecitableAllocatorFixedVMPool.cpp)
- Quicktime: On 32bit applications it would not get out of the waiting state

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* Platform Specific Changes *
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Qt for Linux/X11
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- clear XSizeHints before use [QTBUG-15418]
- Don't mouse-wheel-scroll QScrollBar when disabled [QTBUG-27308][QTBUG-21534]
- Fix realpath() call to older POSIX platforms
- When x-compiling on Linux the host tools doesn't have Windows' executable suffix
- Fix debugger detection when running on Linux [QTBUG-27632]

Qt for Windows
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- Add msvc2012 support
- Fix g++/MinGW compiler warnings
- fix examples/script/qscript for MSVC [QTBUG-13496]
- Fix MinGW-w64 compilation
- Partial Revert "Disable pkg-config, when x-compiling for mingw"
- Never compile QPA with EGL support on Windows
- Fixed potential crash in wglCreatePbufferARB() on Windows [QTBUG-27331]
- Fix Drag and Drop with Native Widgets [QTBUG-27265]

Qt for Mac OS X
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- Update the state of native menus correctly on Mac [QTBUG-25544,QTBUG-26399,QTBUG-7538]
- Enable HiDPI mode for retina displays
- Fix issue with mispositioned family name i QFontComboBox [QTBUG-26691]
- Load Mac specific resources in a static build [QTBUG-25391]
- Fixed float->int error in OS X Mouse Event Handling [QTBUG-27273]
- Refactor coreservices -> ios & QT_NO_CORESERVICES -> Q_OS_IOS
- Ensure that QApplication is cleaned up after itself on Mac [QTBUG-24248]
- Prevent a crash when a merged action is removed [QTBUG-24917]
- Add Proxy Auto Config support (PAC) on Mac [QTBUG-2069, QTIFW-28]
- Mac: Correct writingSystem check value for Chinese[QTBUG-27130]
- Cocoa: QPrintDialog does not show/closes down immediatly
- Don't use Cocoa code unconditionally [QTBUG-27960]
- When clicking on a menu item which has a sub menu it should not close [QTBUG-10706]

Qt for Symbian
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- Move SRCDIR definition to .pro file
- Fix symbian QtCore deffile (for QObjectPrivate)
- Fix symbian QtCore deffiles (for QUrl::detach)
- Handle Qt input hints for email and url editors

Qt for Blackberry\QNX
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- Change suffix for separate debug files
- Fix bug on window hierarchy list
- Use assert on QBBWindow destructor
- Don't show the virtual keyboard when focusing an item view
- Enable support for hardware buttons in QPA plugin
- Add some optional debug output to event dispatcher
- Do not initially commit all memory used in RegisterFile
- QNX: Remove the busy loop work around for bps ignoring timeout bug
- QNX: Remove workaround for BPS bug
- QNX: Fix input lag
- QNX: Fix crash in QBBNativeInterface::nativeResourceForWidget()
- Support input method hints
- Fix hardware button detection on the BB Dev Alpha
- Fixed crash in blackberry platform plugin shutdown
- Blackberry platform plugin: Open locale object read-only
- BlackBerry: Use real DPI instead of hardcoded value
- QNX: Add and remove screens dynamically
- Blackberry: Emit aboutToBlock() and awake() correctly in the dispatcher
- Blackberry: Populating the QCoreApplicationData
- GL Window needs to update after an orientation change
- Blackberry: implemented "orientation lock" widget attribute
- QNX: only enable NEON instructions for supported architectures (ARM)
- BlackBerry: Change base font sizes from pixels to points
- Blackberry: Fix QCoreApplication::applicationFilePath() performance
- QNX: Use inotify on QNX systems that support it
- BlackBerry: Query dynamic buffer count at runtime
- Blackberry: Fix for slowness of touch move events
- Blackberry: Fixes QWindowSurface::grabWidget
- QNX: Use extra information in dirent to avoid stat() calls
- QNX: Remember information on whether a file is a link
- Blackberry bearer plugin: Only Report working interfaces as active
- Removed usage of pipe in Blackberry event dispatcher
- Adding PAC and exclusion list support to BlackBerry Qt proxy implementation.
- QNX: Fix build with QNX SDP 6.5
- Use slogger2 for logging on Blackberry instead of writing to stderr
- Blackberry fixed crash when plugging in a secondary display

Other
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- Fix build for platforms that use QPA other than IOS

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* Tools *
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Assistant
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- Fixed window raise issue when handling remote commands [QTBUG-25407]

Designer
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- Fix gcc 4.6 warnings about assigned/unused variables in Qt Designer

Configure
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- Mac features don't belong on cross mingw target
- Use qmake to get PKG_CONFIG in configure script
- Postpone pkg-config detection until after qmake is built
- Undo variable renaming in backport
- Unscramble option help text
- Smuggle QT_BUILD_TREE to device_config.prf even during tests
- Find qdevice.pri even for installed qt builds
- configure: state compiler explicitly when testing for supported flags
- Support other platform names on configure.exe
- x-compile with mingw: fix codec linker errors [QTBUG-27618]
- Fix syntax error on configure.exe source code.

mkspecs
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- Blackberry mkspecs: Refine compiler options
- optimize loading of qconfig.pri & qdevice.pri somewhat
- Remove the -falign-stack option from ICC's mkspec
- don't set QT_BUILD_DIR as a side effect

qmake
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- Add -pipe option of win32-g++'s QMAKE_CFLAGS
- Fix XCode generator for qmake when generating for XCode 4.5 and later
- Revert "qmake vcxproj generator: map TARGET_EXT to $(TargetExt)" [QTBUG-26782, QTBUG-27554]
- qmake: fix .pc install target dir separators on windows
- Updated and fixed win32-icc mkspec for ICC 12.1 or better

Other
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- Register Qt 4.7 import on-demand, instead of at startup
- Update Traditional Chinese translation
- Doc: Update QThread class ref to reflect changes since Qt 4.4 [QTBUG-16358]
- Minor fixes to the QLocale data parser/generator
- Update Qlocale data with CLDR 1.9.1
- Update Qlocale data with CLDR 2.0.0
- Fix code convention docs [QTBUG-27852]