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Qt 5.4 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
over the 5.3.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation
included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online:

  http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.4

The Qt version 5.4 series is binary compatible with the 5.3.x series.
Applications compiled for 5.3 will continue to run with 5.4.

Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers
corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker:

  http://bugreports.qt-project.org/

Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more
information about a particular change.

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*                          Library                                         *
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QtWebkit
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 - The Qt WebKit module is considered done. Users should consider migrating to Qt WebEngine to keep up with new web features.
 - [QTBUG-41877] Fixed regression causing network crashes on high bandwidth websites.


QtWebkitWidgets
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 - Accelerated compositing is now also supported with a QOpenGLWidget as the viewport.
 - Accelerated 2D Canvas can now be activated to make HTML canvas elements render using the OpenGL painter.

QtWebkitQML
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 - Integration with QWebChannel.


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*                      Platform Specific Changes                           *
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Windows
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 - Support for dynamic GL builds.
 - [QTBUG-42417] Fixed occational crashes in Windows 64-bit JavaScript JIT.


Machine architectures
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 - [QTBUG-41896] Fixed common JavaScript crashes on big-endian architectures.
 - [QTBUG-35681] Low level interpreter is now enabled on softfp ARM ABI if VFP is available.