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diff --git a/dist/changes-4.6.1 b/dist/changes-4.6.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4a567bb74b --- /dev/null +++ b/dist/changes-4.6.1 @@ -0,0 +1,368 @@ +Qt 4.6.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward +compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.6.0. For more details, +refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The +documentation is also available online: + + http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6 + +The Qt version 4.6 series is binary compatible with the 4.5.x series. +Applications compiled for 4.5 will continue to run with 4.6. + +Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers +corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker, the (now obsolete) Task +Tracker, or the Merge Request queue of the public source repository. + +Qt Bug Tracker: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com +Task Tracker: http://qt.nokia.com/developer/task-tracker +Merge Request: http://qt.gitorious.org + +**************************************************************************** +* General * +**************************************************************************** + +Optimizations +------------- + + - Optimized empty QUrl creation + * [QTBUG-4030] Empty QUrls no longer allocate memory now + + * See list of Important Behavior Changes below + + +**************************************************************************** +* Library * +**************************************************************************** + +QtCore +------ + + - QFile + * Improve performance of getting the canonical filename on Linux + and Symbian by using realpath() system call. + * Avoid stat() when opening a file. + + - QLibrary and QPluginLoader + * Do not look at the Qt patch-level version embedded in plugins' + buildkeys when trying to determine if the plugin is compatible + + - QProcessEnvironment + * [QTBUG-6701] Ensure we don't crash in operator== + + - QTextEncoder + * [merge request 399] QTextEncoder::fromUnicode as QT3 support + member + + - QXmlStreamreader + * [merge request 1926] Fix parsing of DTDs that contain empty markup + declarations. + +QtGui +----- + + - QApplication + * [QTBUG-6654] Fix crashes when deleting QWidgets in touch event + handlers. + - QGraphicsEffect + * [QTBUG-5918] Fixed redraw bugs when using graphics effects on + items while animating them by transformations. + - QGraphicsItem + * [QTBUG-5917] Fixed memory leaks when removing a QGraphicsEffect from + a QGraphicsItem or QWidget with setGraphicsEffect(0). + * [QTBUG-5859] Fixes incorrect rounding of the exposed rectangle of the + QGraphicsItem causing painting issues when scaling the QGraphicsView. + * [QTBUG-5071] Fixes transformation problems when grouping/ungrouping + the item with a QGraphicsItemGroup. + - QGraphicsObject + * 'id' property was removed. Use the 'objectName' property instead. + - QGraphicsScene + * [QTBUG-6654] Fix crashes when deleting QGraphicsItems in touch + event handlers. + - QGraphicsView + * [QTBUG-6935] When using CacheBackground, the background is now + correctly repainted after the QGraphicsView is shown after being + hidden. + * [QTBUG-6835] Mouse tracking is now automatically enabled when using + AnchorUnderMouse for view transformation. + * [QTBUG-6958] Fix speed regression in _q_polishItems() + * [QTBUG-6544] Fix a crash on the focus chain when removing items from + the scene. + * Fix a crash in KDE/Plasma with QGraphicsView with topLevels. + - QGraphicsWidget + * [QTBUG-6272] Only call updateFont if the font has changed. + - QPainter + * [QTBUG-5939] Fixed incorrect redirection matrix that was causing + wrong transformation for QGraphicsProxyWidgets. + * [QTBUG-6684] Added optimizations of 32-bit blend functions + for ARM platforms with NEON support. + - QPixmap + * load() and loadFromData() can now support compressed GL textures + in the DDS, ETC1, PVRTC2, and PVRTC4 formats if the OpenGL graphics + system is active and the appropriate extensions are present in the + GL implementation. + * [QTBUG-6840] Fixed load() to not modify referenced copies. + * [QTBUG-5840] Fixed a crash in fromImage() when passing in a null image. + * [QTBUG-6116] Fixed memory leak where a global object was not destroyed + at program exit. + - QPixmapCache + * Fixed a small leak when using the new QPixmapCache::Key based API. + - QPrinter + * [QTBUG-3412] QGraphicsProxyWidgets are now rendered correctly when + printing a QGraphicsScene to PDF format. + - QRasterPixmapData + * [QTBUG-6985] Fixed metric() to return the correct height in mm. + - QTextDocument + * [QTBUG-5397] Fixed printing of QTextDocuments not including custom + text objects. + * [QTBUG-6051] Fixed an endless loop when printing a QTextDocument. + +QtDBus +------ + + - QDBusConnection + * [QTBUG-5979] Fixed the signal-delivery mechanism to update + correctly when the sender name changes/appears on the bus. + * [QTBUG-7041] Fixed marshalling of booleans in release mode. + * [QT-2307] Fixed calls with the QDBus::BlockWithGui mode. + - QDBusInterface + * Made it continue working even when the remote object + introspection fails. + - QDBusInterface and qdbuscpp2xml + * [QTBUG-5563] Fixed an issue with generating annotations in + signals. + - QDBusPendingReply and QDBusReply + * [QTBUG-6571] Fixed a crash that would happen if you tried to + make a call with a disconnected QDBusConnection. + +QtMultimedia +------------ + + - QAudioOutput + * [Merge request 418] Fixed compilation the example provided for + QAudioOutput::start. + +QtNetwork +--------- + + - QNetworkAccessManager + * HTTP: Send our locale with the HTTP request. + * HTTP: Start Accept-language and Authorization header with capital letter. + * HTTP: Fix caching algorithm, matching RFC 2612 and the documentation. + * HTTP [QTBUG-7060]: Fix an issue with headers like "private, max-age=300". + * file: Introduce special subclass for higher performance with file:// URLs. + - QTcpSocket + * [QTBUG-5799] Fix waitForConnected() on Windows. + - QNetworkProxyFactory + * Fixed systemProxyForQuery(), it could sometimes return invalid empty list + on Windows. + - QNetworkCookieJar + * [QTBUG-5815] Do not check paths when accepting cookies. + - QHostInfo + * Use five parallel threads for host lookup instead of one. + +QtOpenGL +-------- + + - QGL2PaintEngineEx + * Performance: Don't mark brush as dirty if it hasn't changed. + * Performance: Use 3x3 PMV matrices rather than 4x4. + * Performance: Move the 0.5 offset we add for aliased rendering to + updateMatrix(). + * Performance: Remove superfluous enable/disable vertex attrib arrays. + * Performance: Track the glVertexAttribPointer and only update it if it's + changed. + * [QTBUG-7094] Introduce new "snapToPixelGrid" flag for drawText. + - QGLContext + * bindTexture(QString) now supports DDS, ETC1, PVRTC2, and PVRTC4 + compressed textures if the appropriate extensions are present + in the GL implementation. + * bindTexture(QImage): Reduce double-copying of textures when flipping. + * [QTBUG-6454] Better EGL extension checking to avoid prefix problems + with EGL_foo matching EGL_foo_bar. + * [QTBUG-6217] Work around problems with glColor4ub() on Intel Q45/Q43 + Express by consistently using glColor4f() everywhere. + * bindTexture(QImage): Fix GL_BGRA formats under OpenGL/ES by using + the same value for both internal and external texture formats. + * [QTBUG-5041] Disable depth testing while in renderText(). + - QGLEngineSelector + * [QTBUG-5638] Detect GL2 based on fragment shaders, not programs. + Fragment programs are a GL1 feature. + - QGLFramebufferObject + * [QTBUG-6712] Update docs to better explain how QPainter changes + the GL state when used on an FBO. + - QGLGlyphCache + * [QTBUG-6936] Fix memory leak of QGLGlyphCoord objects. + - QGLPaintDevice + * [QTBUG-6204] Rebind window surface FBO after native GL rendering. + - QGLPixmapData + * [QTBUG-6902] Align GL_RGB data on a 4-byte line boundary. + - QGLWidget + * [QTBUG-5002, QTBUG-6931] Fixed QGLWidget::renderText(). + * Fixed WA_TranslucentBackground for QGLWidgets on X11/EGL. + * Fix EGL surface leaks when re-parenting on X11/EGL. + - QTriangulatingStroker + * [QTBUG-6045] Crash in dashed line handling in the GL stroker. + +QtOpenVG +-------- + + - [QT-2555] Automatically destroy VG pixmaps when the last window surface + goes away to reduce memory consumption of backgrounded applications. + - [QTBUG-6639] Recover from out-of-memory when creating VGImage's. + - [QT-2554] Add a VGImage allocation pool to support reclaiming older + images when the GPU runs out of memory. + - [QTBUG-7051] Reset the OpenVG scissor after a native painting call-out. + - [QTBUG-7015] Avoid deep copies of QImage in QImage::bits() calls. + +QtWebKit +-------- + + - Fixed user agent string on Symbian (webkit.org/b/31961). + - QWebInspector: Don't disable when hiding (webkit.org/b/31851). + - Fix JavaScript prompt behaviour for empty/null strings (webkit.org/b/30914). + - Fixed lastIndexOf() on Symbian (webkit.org/b/31773). + - Fixed crash with Flash on Windows with MinGW. + - Fixed wrapping of QObjects with recurring identity (webkit.org/b/31681). + - Fixed compilation with ICC. + - Fixed assertion when dragging SVG images (webkit.org/b/32511). + - Added the framecapture example to the default build (merge request 2235) + - Fixed crash with ACID3 test on Symbian + - Fixed security issue XSL stylesheets and security origins. + +QtSql +----- + + - [QTBUG-5373] Fixed QSqlRelationalTableModel doesn't correctly work with + relation in other database schema. + - [QTBUG-5298] (OCI) Fixed QSqlDatabase.tables() does not work with system + tables. + - [QTBUG-6421] Fixed setForwardOnly() for both OCI and SQLite. + - [QTBUG-6618] (ODBC) Fixed segfault when error string is larger than 256 + chars. + - [QTBUG-4461] (OCI) Fixed problem with clobs being handled as binary. + +QtSvg +----- + + - QSvgRenderer + * [QTBUG-6867] Fixed regression in the parsing of paths with relative + offsets. + * [QTBUG-6899] Fixed crash when parsing invalid coordinate list. + - QtXmlPatterns + * [QTBUG-6771] Fixed static builds. + +Qt Plugins +---------- + + - JPEG plugin + * Remove obsolete parameter string handling. + * [QT-2023] Re-implement ScaledSize, ClipRect, ScaledClipRect with + libjpeg features for greater performance. + - PBM plugin + * [QTBUG-6937] Use Mono instead of MonoLSB when writing pbm files. + - TIFF plugin + * [QTBUG-6870] BitsPerSample should default to 1 in TIFF files. + - PNG plugin + * [QTBUG-7161] Avoid a deep copy of QImage::bits() in the png writer. + + +**************************************************************************** +* Platform Specific Changes * +**************************************************************************** + +Qt for Unix (X11 and Mac OS X) +------------------------------ + + - [QTBUG-6755] Ensure we don't call select(2) with a negative timeout + if the timer expires during timeout recalculation. + - Added mkspecs for Sun CC that enable -library=stlport by default, + to restore STL capability with that compiler. + - [QTBUG-6576] Fixed compilation on HP-UX 11.11. + - [QTBUG-6961] Fixed compilation on HURD. + +Qt for Linux/X11 +---------------- + + - [QTBUG-5732] Fixed querying of GLX extensions under X11. + - [QTBUG-5547] Fixed handling of the "..." button. + - Added new mkspec for Maemo targets (linux-g++-maemo). + - Added new mkspec for Scratchbox host compiler (unsupported/linux-host-g++). + - QGuiEventDispatcherGlib (internal class) + * Fix regression introduced in 4.6.0 that could cause X11 event + processing to starve timer events. + - QFileSystemWatcher + * [QTBUG-4840] Fix memory leak in the dnotify implementation. + - QIcon + * [QTBUG-6121] Fixed a problem causing svg-based icon themes to look fuzzy. + - QGtkStyle + * [QTBUG-6484] Ensure that gtk-enable-mnemonics is respected. + +Qt for Windows +-------------- + + - [QTBUG-5145] Compile fixes for win32-icc. + - QAtomicPointer + * [QTBUG-6079] Fix compilation for 64-bit Windows targets. + - QEventDispatchWin32 (internal class) + * [QTBUG-6083] Fix a performance regression introduced in 4.6.0 + that would cause all Qt posted events to be sent at 15-16ms + intervals (instead of as quickly as possible). + - Vista/XP styles + * [QTBUG-6271] Fixed a compatibility issue with MDI windows in + certain non-standard themes. + +Qt for Mac OS X +--------------- + + - QPixmap + * [QTBUG-5070] Fixed a crash on Mac that could occur when loading + pixmaps of different sizes into the same QPixmap object. + - [QTBUG-6973] Fixed a memory leak when using QWidget::setWindowIcon() in + Carbon. + - [QTBUG-5186] Fixed a bug which caused drag and drop icons to show + incorrectly. + - [QTBUG-6636] Fixed a crash due to stack overflow in QColorDialog on Cocoa. + - [QTBUG-6378] Fix a text cursor rendering bug. + - [QTBUG-6636] Fixed a crash when calling removeToolBar on Mac native toolbars + using Cocoa. + - [QTBUG-5613] Fixed a bug where the application refused to quit when showing + a single modal dialog. + - Gestures are now available for the Carbon port also when building Qt against + SDK < 10.6 + +Qt for Symbian +-------------- + + - QApplication + * [QTBUG-6098] Added a flag to avoid construction of application panes. + - Other: + * [QTBUG-4990] Rewrote most of the regular pointer handling. + + +**************************************************************************** +* Tools * +**************************************************************************** + + - Designer + * [QTBUG-6863] Fixed static linking on Mac. + * [QTBUG-6760] Fixed display of action shortcut in action editor. + * [QTBUG-6505] Fixed handling of QHeaderView properties. + * [QTBUG-5335] Fixed handling of layout margins of custom containers. + + - uic + * [QTBUG-5824] Fixed code generation to generate a call to + QMainWindow::setCentralWidget() for promoted widgets as well. + +**************************************************************************** +* Important Behavior Changes * +**************************************************************************** + + - Phonon + * Include headers have been changed. The only official method for + including Phonon headers is <phonon/ClassName> or + <phonon/classname.h>. This change was necessary because of + frameworks on Mac. + + Compatibility is provided for <Phonon/*> includes, but is not + guaranteed to work. Including <phonon> and <Phonon> is not + supported. + |