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diff --git a/dist/changes-5.0.0 b/dist/changes-5.0.0 index 887b54d502..6d58c21133 100644 --- a/dist/changes-5.0.0 +++ b/dist/changes-5.0.0 @@ -831,6 +831,18 @@ appended in parantheses. * Platform Specific Changes * **************************************************************************** +The Qt platform implementations have been rewritten as plugins for the Qt +Platform Abstraction (QPA): + +* The platform plugin(s) needs to be bundled when applications are deployed. +* The platform implementations are in large parts rewrites. +* Q_WS_* defines are no longer defined. Q_OS_* is. +* Some platform specific functionality and API is missing from the 5.0 + release and will be added later. +* Platform spesific functionality will be added in separate modules: + QtMacExtras: http://qt.gitorious.org/qtplayground/qtmacextras + + Qt for Linux/X11 ---------------- @@ -842,6 +854,35 @@ Qt for Windows Qt for Mac OS X --------------- +* Qt now uses Cocoa, the Carbon port has been removed. +* The minimum supported OS X version is 10.6. PPC is not supported. +* Qt generally supports cross OS X version build and deployment (build + on any supported version and deploy to any other). One exception is + QtWebkit, which should be built using the 10.6 SDK if you want to target + that platform. +* The Qt binary installer has been changed to use the Qt installer framework. + Qt is now installed into one location instead of being spread out over multiple + directories. +* The Qt binary installer is built against the 10.7 SDK and does not + run on 10.6. +* The Clang compiler is used by default. Gcc is available trough the + macx-g++* mkspecs. +* Build-system support for universal binaries has been removed. The "lipo" + command-line tool can be used as a workaround. +* Qt now use the raster paint engine on all platforms for drawing widgets. + CoreGraphics is still used for printing on Mac. +* Support for high-dpi "retina" displays has been added for widgets, + OpenGL and QtQuick. +* The unified toolbar implementation from Qt 4 has not and will not be ported + to Qt 5. This means calling QMainWindow::setUnifiedTitleAndToolBarOnMac has + no effect on Qt 5. A replacement API which wraps NSToolbar is available in + QtMacExtras. +* MacDeployQt plugin deployment has been improved. It will no longer try to + deploy all plugins with all dependencies. +* Qt has been updated to be in compliance with the Mac App Store sandbox, and + will for example no longer try to write settings to files outside the sandbox. +* The "qt_menu.nib" issue preventing static/non-framework builds from working + has been fixed. Qt for Embedded Linux @@ -1022,6 +1063,11 @@ Qt for Windows CE Please, notice that QMetaType::UnknownType has value 0, which previously was reserved for QMetaType::Void. +- QWidget + + * No need to set the application name in setWindowTitle() anymore, this is done + automatically, on Windows and Unix/X11, provided that the (possibly translated) + application display name is set with QGuiApplication::setApplicationDisplayName(). - QMessageBox |