Qt Creator version 2.8.1 is a bugfix release.

The most important changes are listed in this document. For a complete
list of changes, see the Git log for the Qt Creator sources that
you can check out from the public Git repository. For example:

git clone git://gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator.git
git log --cherry-pick --pretty=oneline v2.8.0..v2.8.1

There is a total of 132 changes by 28 individual contributors.

Credits for these changes go to:

Andreas Holzammer
André Pönitz
Aurindam Jana
Christian Kandeler
Christian Stenger
Daniel Teske
David Schulz
Eike Ziller
El Mehdi Fekar
Fawzi Mohamed
Jaroslaw Kobus
Joerg Bornemann
Leena Miettinen
Lukas Holecek
Michal Klocek
Nikolai Kosjar
Orgad Shaneh
Oswald Buddenhagen
Pavel Fric
Petar Perisin
Rainer Keller
Robert Loehning
Sergey Belyashov
Sergio Martins
Thomas Hartmann
Tobias Hunger
Venugopal Shivashankar
Victor Ostashevsky



General

Editing
   * Removed trailing whitespace in generated files (QTCREATORBUG-9833)
   * Fixed placing cursor after replacing "." with "->" (QTCREATORBUG-9891)
   * Fixed crash that occurred when opening non-splittable editors in split
     windows (QTCREATORBUG-9843)
   * Fixed issues with having same document open in multiple splits
     (QTCREATORBUG-9801, QTCREATORBUG-9798)

Managing Projects

Compilers

Devices
   * Fixed device changes in kits

QMake Projects
   * Fixed tool chain use for cross-compilation
   * Avoided deadlock during spec/cache loading

CMake Projects

Qbs Projects

Autotools Projects

Generic Projects

Documentation
   * Added tutorial for developing Android applications
   * Updated documentation of Android Manifest editor
   * Updated some debugger documentation

Debugging
   * Fixed dumpers in the presence of -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG
   * Fixed endless loop when stopping without winXXinterrupt.exe
   * Added support for GDB builds with Python 3.x
   * Added dumper for std::unordered_{set,map} (QTCREATORBUG-9855)
   * Improved display performance of unnamed structures (QTCREATORBUG-9947)
   * Made C++ debugging continue even if QML debugger fails (QTCREATORBUG-9836)
   * Fixed remote QML debugging with port forwarding involved

Analyzer
   * Improved Android and QNX support

C++ Support
   * Fixed crash in typedef resolving (QTCREATORBUG-9990)
   * Fixed crash in type lookup (QTCREATORBUG-10019)
   * Improved performance for generated symbols (QTCREATORBUG-9877)
   * Added checking whether project has changed before reparsing
     (QTCREATORBUG-9581)

QML Support
   * Add vector*d, quaternion, and matrix4x4 types to code model

Python Support

Diff Viewer

Version Control Systems
   * Disabled undo/redo for VCS output window (QTCREATORBUG-7645)
   * Git
      * Fixed crash on quit while rebase-todo editor is open
      * Fixed double stash pop on branch checkout

FakeVim

Platform Specific

Linux

Qt Support

QNX
   * Fixed the SSH Key Setup dialog to display native separators in paths
    (QTCREATORBUG-9830)

Android
   * Ensured that keytool returns English output (QTCREATORBUG-9941)

Translations
   * Updated Czech, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian translations

Testing
   * Added Squish tests for codepasting, external sort tool,
     UI completion, and "Go to slot" in Qt Designer

QML Designer
   * Fixed support for layouts
   * Fixed several issues in property editor
   * Added support for global Qt enums in rewriter