Reviewed-by: Thomas H.

Squashed commit of the following:

commit fcf7e8cab339d0cf9f3f2a9756d7754c54c4d934
Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 30 13:15:13 2009 +0200

    note in the changes file...

commit 2c9c3880215988e6609c290a8e738b228736e601
Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 30 12:51:42 2009 +0200

    Don't leak native window HRGN handles

commit 6bb30d2075dd1d71a8a600d25f413a38af7f2f2c
Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 30 11:09:22 2009 +0200

    Moved qregion_wince.cpp -> qregion_win.cpp, platforms are identical now

commit 173fcc5baec73a198167985c6f777987e6015a71
Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 30 09:42:06 2009 +0200

    win32 calls on QRegion.handle() is no longer supported, use from HRGN

commit d7ddcce4ba29b70ed81f85274208b388a2bb9d4d
Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 30 09:41:37 2009 +0200

    Added convenience function to convert from HRGN to QRegion

commit 2fc53ac3d59a9c42bb4154fff7557610092b7946
Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 29 09:28:10 2009 +0200

    Kill qregion_win.cpp and use the unix code instead

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/dist/changes-4.6.0 b/dist/changes-4.6.0
index 383c6b77fd..7a6decfa97 100644
--- a/dist/changes-4.6.0
+++ b/dist/changes-4.6.0
@@ -34,9 +34,15 @@ information about a particular change.
  - 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
@@ -71,33 +77,32 @@ information about a particular change.
       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
-
+ - 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