Qt 5.2 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes over the 5.1.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.2 The Qt version 5.2 series is binary compatible with the 5.1.x series. Applications compiled for 5.1 will continue to run with 5.2. Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker: http://bugreports.qt-project.org/ Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more information about a particular change. **************************************************************************** * Library * **************************************************************************** QtWidgets --------- - QAbstractScrollArea now has a SizeAdjustPolicy. If it is set to AdjustToContents it will make use of the new protected viewportSizeHint() (binary compatible since it was reserved in Qt5). This function returns a suggested size based on contents. - QTreeView now has setTreePosition to allow the treestructure to show data from other columns than logicalindex zero. - [QTBUG-4206] QTableView resizeToContents will now adjust to actual contents and not just visible area. QHeaderView::setAutoResizePrecision() has been introduced to control how precise the autoResize should be. - QFileDialog::setDefaultSuffix() removes leading dot characters. - QSizePolicy got a retainSizeWhenHidden attribute. - [QTBUG-31602] QSpinBox size calculation will now be fixed when stylesheets are used. QtCore ------ - [QTBUG-30250] QTime, QDateTime: When calling QTime::toString(Qt::TextDate) and QTime::toString(Qt::ISODate), milliseconds are now included in the returned string. This also applies to QDateTime::toString(Qt::TextDate) and QDateTime::toString(ISODate). - QtAlgorithms With STL no longer being optional for building and using Qt, a number of parts of QtAlgorithms no longer make sense, and have therefore been deprecated. Replacements are available in the STL, and generally have much better performance, but are not instantly source-compatible in all cases. For instance, specialization of qLess or qSwap means that a direct port to std::sort from qSort may not be possible, as std::sort does not use any of them; a possible workaround is explicitly passing a qLess functor to std::sort: std::sort(container.begin(), container.end(), qLess()); The functions in QtAlgorithms that have been deprecated, along with their STL counterparts, are: - qBinaryFind (std::binary_search / std::lower_bound) - qCopy (std::copy) - qCopyBackward (std::copy_backward) - qEqual (std::equal) - qFill (std::fill) - qFind (std::find) - qCount (std::count) - qSort (std::sort) - qStableSort (std::stable_sort) - qLowerBound (std::lower_bound) - qUpperBound (std::upper_bound) - qLess (std::less) - qGreater (std::greater) QtGui ----- - [QTBUG-28228] Session Management: The new QPlatformSessionManager class brings back the session management functionality. It allows the implementation of platform specific behavior related to session management. For platform that don't support this feature the default behavior has not changed. Both X11 and Windows session management are supported. QtNetwork --------- - API was added to store and resume TLS session tickets. - The minimum support openssl version has been increased to openssl 1.0. The code to support older versions has not been removed, but is no longer supported. - An off-by-one error in NTLM proxy authentication has been fixed. - Various improvements to reduce the memory used by qtnetwork have been made. - Improved support for HTTP proxy authentication. - Support for preconnecting to servers before making HTTP and HTTPS connections. This allows for much reduced latency when the hosts to be connected to are known.