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Qt 4.7 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
over the 4.6.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation
included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online:

  http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.7

The Qt version 4.7 series is binary compatible with the 4.6.x series.
Applications compiled for 4.6 will continue to run with 4.7.

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

  http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/

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

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*                           General                                        *
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General Improvements
--------------------

- Documentation and Examples

- Support for the GL_EXT_geometry_shader4, aka Geometry Shaders, was added
  to QGLShaderProgram.

New features
------------

 - QNetworkSession, QNetworkConfiguration, QNetworkConfigurationManager
    * New bearer management classes added.


Third party components
----------------------

 - Updated libpng to version 1.4.0

 - Updated libjpeg to version 8

 - Updated libtiff to version 3.9.2


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*                          Library                                         *
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QtCore
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QtGui
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 - QAbstractItemView
    * Fixed a bug that would cause keyboard searches not to behave
      properly when used within 400 milliseconds of midnight.

 - QPrinter
    * Obsoleted the slightly confusing setNumCopies() and numCopies()
      functions, and replaced them with setCopyCount(), copyCount() and
      supportsMultipleCopies().

 - QCommonStyle
    * Fixed a bug that led to missing text pixels in QTabBar when using
      small font sizes. (QTBUG-7137)

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*                          Database Drivers                                *
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*                      Platform Specific Changes                           *
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Qt for Linux/X11
----------------


Qt for Windows
--------------

 - QLocalSocket
    * Pipe handle leak fixed, when closing a QLocalSocket that still has
      unwritten data. (QTBUG-7815)
    * Fixed closing state for local sockets with unwritten data. (QTBUG-9681)
    * Detection of Windows mobile 6.5 fixed. (QTBUG-8418)
    * Improved performance of writing to QLocalSocket.


Qt for Mac OS X
---------------


Qt for Embedded Linux
---------------------


Qt for Windows CE
-----------------

 - Core changes
    * Fixed menu handling on Windows mobile. (QTBUG-8754)
    * Fixed a crash when receiving a certain type of WM_SETTINGSCHANGE
      message. (QTBUG-7943)

 - QWindowsMobileStyle
    * Huge performance penalty for QTabWidget fixed for
      Windows mobile 6.5. (QTBUG-8419)
    * QTabBar scroll button size has been fixed. (QTBUG-8757)



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*                      Compiler Specific Changes                           *
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*                          Tools                                           *
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- Build System

  - "configure -fast" on Windows now also works for other make tools than
    nmake. (QTBUG-8562)

- Assistant


- Designer


- Linguist
  - Linguist GUI

  - lupdate

  - lrelease


- rcc


- moc


- uic


- uic3


- qmake


- configure


- qtconfig


- qt3to4


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*                          Plugins                                         *
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*                   Important Behavior Changes                             *
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