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Qt Creator version 3.5 contains bug fixes and new features.

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://code.qt.io/qt-creator/qt-creator.git
    git log --cherry-pick --pretty=oneline origin/3.4..origin/3.5

General

* Increased minimum requirements for compilation of Qt Creator to
  MSVC 2013 and GCC 4.7, and Qt 5.4.0
* Added variants with native separators to Qt Creator variables that
  represent file paths
* Changed the way inconsistent enabled states were handled by the
  plugin manager. Disabling plugins is now only a hint; if another
  (enabled) plugin needs it, it is implicitly enabled. Before, the
  other plugin was implicitly disabled.
* Improved keyboard shortcut settings. Made shortcut input field
  freely editable and added separate `record` button.
* Added support for `~` as shortcut for user's home directory to
  path input fields
* Added filtering to About Plugins
* Added `-load all` and `-noload all` command line options that
  enable and disable all plugins respectively
* Made `-load` command line option implicitly enable all required
  plugins, and `-noload` disable all plugins requiring the
  disabled plugin. Multiple `-load` and `-noload` options are
  interpreted in the order given on the command line.
* Fixed issues with raising the Qt Creator window on Gnome desktop
  (QTCREATORBUG-13845)
* Fixed appearance on high DPI displays on Windows and Linux
  (QTCREATORBUG-11179)
* Added locator filter for running external tools

Editing

* Added highlighting of search results to editor scroll bar
* Added option to jump directly to specific column in addition to
  line number when opening files through locator or command line
* Added *Remove missing files* action to QRC editor
  (QTCREATORBUG-13941)
* Made global file search use multiple threads (QTCREATORBUG-10298)
* Fixed highlighting of current line in read-only text editors
  (QTCREATORBUG-10104)
* Fixed issues with completion while inserting snippet (QTCREATORBUG-14633)

Help

Project Management

* Fixed issues with restoring project tree state (QTCREATORBUG-14304)

QMake Projects

CMake Projects

* Made it possible to register multiple CMake executables
* Added support for file targets when explicitly specified in the
  generated CodeBlocks file
* Fixed default shadow build directory name

Qbs Projects

Generic Projects

* Fixed that resource links were removed from UI files
  (QTCREATORBUG-14275)

QML-Only Projects (.qmlproject)

Debugging

Analyzer

QML Profiler

* Removed support for V8
* Made saving and loading trace data asynchronous to avoid
  locking up UI (QTCREATORBUG-11822)

C++ Support

* Added separate icon for structs
* Added support for setting the access specifier of an extracted function (QTCREATORBUG-12127)
* Moved Clang code model backend out-of-process
* Fixed *Convert to Stack Variable* refactoring action for empty
  initializer lists (QTCREATORBUG-14279)
* Fixed misplaced newlines of refactoring actions (QTCREATORBUG-13872)
* Fixed expanding items in class view with double-click
  (QTCREATORBUG-2536)
* Fixed code folding issues after missing closing braces
* Fixed resolving of decltype (QTCREATORBUG-14483)
* Fixed resolving of template using alias
  For example: `template<class T> using U = Temp<T>` (QTCREATORBUG-14480)
* Fixed some issues related to template lookup (QTCREATORBUG-14141,
  QTCREATORBUG-14218, QTCREATORBUG-14237)
* Fixed resolving of partial and full template specialization (QTCREATORBUG-14034)
* Partially fixed STL containers (QTCREATORBUG-8937, QTCREATORBUG-8922)
    * GCC implementation of `std::map`, `std::unique_ptr` (and other pointer wrappers)
      and `std::vector` are known to work
    * MSVC implementation is not supported
* Fixed that highlighting vanished after text zoom (QTCREATORBUG-14579)
* Fixed issues with completion while renaming local variable (QTCREATORBUG-14633)

QML Support

* Removed Qt Quick 1 wizards
* Fixed missing auto-completion for `QtQuick` and `QtQuick.Controls`
  (QTCREATORBUG-14563)

Qt Quick Designer

* Removed Qt Quick 1 support

Version Control Systems

* Perforce
    * Added support for P4CONFIG (QTCREATORBUG-14378)

FakeVim

* Added support for `C-r{register}`

Todo

* Added option to excluding file patterns from parsing

Beautifier

* Added option to format only selected lines with Uncrustify (`--frag`)

Platform Specific

Windows

OS X

* Added locator filter that uses Spotlight for locating files

Linux

* Fixed performance issue with journal support (QTCREATORBUG-14356)

Android

* Made it possible to create AVD without SD card (QTCREATORBUG-13590)
* Improved handling of invalid names when creating AVD
  (QTCREATORBUG-13589)
* Added 5.1 to known versions
* Added warning if emulator is not OpenGL enabled
  (QTCREATORBUG-13615)
* Added input field for activity name in Android manifest editor
  (QTCREATORBUG-13958)
* Fixed issues with Android M (QTCREATORBUG-14537, QTCREATORBUG-14534)
* Fixed issues with 64 bit
* Fixed handling of external file changes in Android manifest editor
* Fixed listing of Google AVDs (QTCREATORBUG-13980)
* Fixed that kits were removed from projects when changing NDK path
  (QTCREATORBUG-14243)
* Fixed copying application data with spaces in path
  (QTCREATORBUG-13868)
* Fixed that sometimes the wrong AVD was deployed to
  (QTCREATORBUG-13095)

BlackBerry

* Removed support for BlackBerry 10 development

Remote Linux

* Added support for ECDH key exchange for SSH connections
  (QTCREATORBUG-14025)

BareMetal

Credits for these changes go to: