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Qt 5.6 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
over the 5.5.x series.

For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this
distribution. The documentation is also available online:

  http://doc.qt.io/qt-5.6

The Qt version 5.6 series is binary compatible with the 5.5.x series.
Applications compiled for 5.5 will continue to run with 5.6.

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

  http://bugreports.qt.io/

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


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*                      Important Behavior Changes                          *
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 - The quality parameter in canvas.toDataURL only applies to JPEG images
   now, in accordance with section 4.12.4.4 of the HTML5 spec.

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*                              Library                                     *
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QtWebkit
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 - [QTBUG-44563] Render anchors as clickable links in PDF documents
 - % unit heights didn't work if parent block height was set in vh
 - Fixed regression: some errors were not reported to ErrorPageExtension

QtWebkitQML
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 - WebView.experimental got several features which were previously available
   only via widgets API: spatial navigation, links included in focus chain,
   and user style sheets
 - Fixed missing text in QQuickItem::inputMethodQuery when text element is
   focused in WebView


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*                      Platform Specific Changes                           *
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- Various build fixes