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* Platform Specific Changes *
****************************************************************************
+ - Significant external contribution from Milan Burda for planned removal
+ of (non-unicode) Windows 9x/ME support.
+ - QRegion is no longer a GDI object by default. This means it is no
+ longer subjuect to gui-thread only nor does it potentially impact
+ the 10.000 GDI object limit per process. By explicitly calling
+ .handle() a GDI object will be created and memory managed by
+ QRegion. The native handle is for reading out only. Any GDI calls
+ made on the HRGN handle will not affect the QRegion.
****************************************************************************
-* Important Behavior Changes *
+* Important Behavior Changes *
****************************************************************************
- The experimental Direct3D paint engine has been removed. The reason for
@@ -68,3 +76,33 @@ information about a particular change.
to the item's position and transformation, you can set the flag
QGraphicsItem::ItemSendsGeometryChanges (which is enabled by default by
QGraphicsWidget and QGraphicsProxyWidget).
+
+ - QDesktopWidget on X11 no longer emits the resized(int) signal when screens
+ are added or removed. This was not done on other platforms. Use the
+ screenCountChanged signal instead
+
+ - QUrl's parser is more strict when for hostnames in URLs. QUrl now
+ enforces STD 3 rules:
+
+ * each individual hostname section (between dots) must be at most
+ 63 ASCII characters in length;
+
+ * only letters, digits, and the hyphen character are allowed in the
+ ASCII range; letters outside the ASCII range follow the normal
+ IDN rules
+
+ That means QUrl no longer accepts some URLs that were invalid
+ before, but weren't interpreted as such.
+
+ - The Unix configure-time check for STL is stricter now in Qt
+ 4.6.0. This means some legacy STL implementations may fail to pass
+ the test and, therefore, Qt will automatically disable STL support.
+
+ This is a binary-compatible change: existing code will continue to
+ work without being recompiled. However, it affects the source code,
+ since some STL-compatibility API will not be enabled.
+
+ Platforms affected by this change:
+ * solaris-cc-* with the default (Cstd) C++ STL library
+ recommendation: use -library=stlport4
+ See Sun Studio's documentation for the effects of this option