Qt 5.6.2 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 5.6.0. For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html The Qt version 5.6 series is binary compatible with the 5.5.x series. Applications compiled for 5.5 will continue to run with 5.6. Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker: https://bugreports.qt.io/ Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more information about a particular change. ****************************************************************************** * Important Behavior Changes * ****************************************************************************** - [QTBUG-45031] The NSURLConnection backend of QNetworkAccessManager has been removed, since SecureTransport is the default SSL backend on iOS and is enabled by default. This means that building with -no-openssl -no-securetransport will no longer provide SSL capabilities on iOS. - QUrl::resolved() no longer treats a URL with a scheme as a relative URL if it matches this URL's scheme. For now it still treats "file:name.txt" as relative for compatibility, but be warned that in Qt 5.8 it will no longer consider those to be relative. Both isRelative() and RFC 3986 say that such URLs are not relative, so starting from Qt 5.8, resolved() will return them as is. - [QTBUG-47815] QDateTime now uses QLocale to get the "AM" and "PM" strings when parsing times, instead of strings obtained from the loaded translations. ****************************************************************************** * Library * ****************************************************************************** General ------- - [QTBUG-45291] Qt headers are now gcc -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant clean. QtCore ------ - Optimized toLatin1()/toUtf8() called on a QStringBuilder expression. - [QTBUG-18729][QTBUG-32457] Fixed a bug that caused Windows to show dialogs prompting the user to insert media when certain operations were made with Qt I/O classes, particularly QStorageInfo::mountedVolumes(). - QCommandLineParser: * The methods that exit() the application will now call cleanup routines registered with qAddPostRoutine. - QDataStream: * Fixed compatibility of QTime serialization with Qt 3. - QDebug: * Fixed streaming of QChars. - QJsonObject: * Optimized equality operator. - QJsonValue: * Fixed use-after-free in assignment operator. - QLockFile: * Fixed permissions on lock files on Unix to allow for adjustments via umask. * [QTBUG-53392] Improved the robustness of detecting stale lock files on Windows. - QMutex: * [QTBUG-54831] Fixed a bug that caused some applications to crash on exit, depending on the order of creation of certain statics inside Qt. - QObject: * Fixed a crash when connecting a signal to a lambda or functor while using Qt::UniqueConnection (note: the connection is still not unique). - QStringListModel: * Fixed dataChanged()'s 'roles' parameter to always contain both Qt::EditRole and Qt::DisplayRole. - QTemporaryFile: * [QTBUG-54810] Fixed a bug that caused QTemporaryFile to fail when the file name contained non-ASCII characters, on Windows. - QTimeZone: * [QTBUG-53071] Fixed a bug that caused QTimeZone to mis-parse time zones whose names were not simple letter and digit combinations. - QUrl: * Made QUrl stricter in what it accepts for schemes, to comply with the relevant standards. QUrl will no longer accept schemes starting with a plus (+), a dash (-) or a dot (.). - QVariant: * [QTBUG-53384] Fixed QVariant::canConvert and conversion from integer types to enumeration types. * [QTBUG-54893] Fixed a bug that caused QVariants not to compare properly if they contained QStringLists. - QVector: * [QTBUG-51758] Fixed a bug that would cause QVector to crash if one called reserve(0). - QXmlStreamReader: * Fixed a bug in the XML parser that prevented to load XML that contained invalid characters for XML 1.0. - QXmlStreamWriter: * Fixed a bug that prevented the generation of valid XML files when using encoding with 8 bit per character but not ASCII compatible. QXMLStreamWriter generated XML markup using always ASCII in this case. QtGui ----- - Fixed UBSan errors in * QColor * QGrayRaster * QRasterizer - Removed a total of 1610 relocations from the library. - QGuiApplication: * [QTBUG-51703] Fixed a bug that would cause QGuiApplication::sync() to be left undefined for Qt builds without session management support. - QIconLoaderEngine: * Fixed theme lookup for scalable entries. - Text: * [QTBUG-42033] Fixed bug where a QTextLayout with ShowLineAndParagraphSeparators would modify the layout's input string. * [QTBUG-49452] Fixed a performance regression in Freetype engine that was introduced in Qt 5.5. * [QTBUG-54180] Fixed performance regression when rapidly switching between a large set of fonts. - Windows: * [QTBUG-54494] Fixed stretch when combined with either no or vertical hinting preference or a device pixel ratio different from 1. * [QTBUG-51024] Fixed height of text bounding box when using no or vertical hinting preference, or when the device pixel ratio is different from 1. QtNetwork --------- - QAuthenticator: * [QTBUG-53338] Fixed crash when comparing an initialized QAuthenticator with an uninitialized QAuthenticator. QtSql ----- - [QTBUG-53969][QTBUG-53237] Fixed QSqlQuery::prepare value truncation error when using UNSIGNED values in a MySQL database. QtWidgets --------- - Fixed UBSan/Coverity errors in: * QAbstractItemView * QDataWidgetMapper * QTreeWidget * QWidgetLineControl - Removed a total of 167 relocations from the library. - QAbstractItemDelegate: * [QTBUG-16469] Show localized detailed tooltips and "What's this?" texts. - QAbstractItemView: * [QTBUG-53541] Fixed a bug involving drawing the drop indicator where it shouldn't be drawn. * Fixed a bug in setSelectionModel() which could lead to model indexes from a different model be reused on a new model. - QAbstractSpinBox: * [QTBUG-55249] Fixed a bug related to first key press. - QColorDialog: * Fixed ignored alpha channel in getRgb(). - QComboBox: * [QTBUG-54191] Fixed a crash on setEditable(false) called from editTextChanged(). - QCompleter: * [QTBUG-54642] Fixed wrong completion role after a QFileSystemModel has been used. - QDesktopWidget: * [QTBUG-52101] Fixed tracking of QScreens. * [QTBUG-52606] Fixed a bug related to DPI-scaling in screenNumber(). - QDialog: * [QTBUG-52735] Fixed a bug involving moves between screens with different DPI-scaling factors. - QDockWidget: * [QTBUG-52107][QTBUG-53754] Fixed bugs related to floating group tab window title. * [QTBUG-52108] A QDockWidgetGroupWindow can now be dragged into one of its QDockWidgets. * [QTBUG-53808] Fixed a bug that caused an undocked dock widget to lose its decoration. * [QTBUG-54185] Unbroke drag-and-drop. - QGraphicsProxyWidget: * [QTBUG-55112] Fixed a bug that caused the widget to receive events during construction. - QLineEdit: * [QTBUG-49374] Fixed icons being too small on a High DPI screen without scaling. * [QTBUG-52796] Fixed QKeySequence::MoveToStartOfLine shortcut being ignored. * [QTBUG-54425] Fixed missing clear button on macOS. - QMainWindow: * [QTBUG-50491] Fixed a bug related to restoring dock widgets with GroupedDragging. * [QTBUG-52108] Fixed a bug related to context menus in the presence of floating tabs. - QMenu: * [QTBUG-53054] Submenus can now be opened on left mouse button press, too. - QMenuBar: * [QTBUG-53205] Fixed bugs (incl. crashes) involving reparented menu bars. - QOpenGLWidget: * [QTBUG-50818][QTBUG-51815][QTBUG-54241][QTBUG-52419] Fixed several repainting bugs and other drawing artifacts. - QSideBar: * Fixed a nullptr dereference on platforms that do not support QFileSystemWatcher. - QSystemTrayIcon: * [QTBUG-53591] Use large icon for balloon message on Windows systems. - QTabBar: * Fixed a performance problem involving font metrics. - QTreeView: * [QTBUG-52793] Fixed a key navigation bug when the columns were reordered. - QTreeWidget: * [QTBUG-50207] Now handles device pixel ratio in animations correctly. - QWidget: * [QTBUG-39887] Restored documented behavior for the WA_X11NetWmWindowType* attributes. * [QTBUG-41135][QTBUG-50030][QTBUG-50136][QTBUG-52507] Fixed mapTo/FromGlobal() in case of widget hierarchies embedded into QGraphicsView with transformations. * [QTBUG-45484] Fixed setWindowRole(). * [QTBUG-50796] Reduced paint-events when resizing native widgets. * [QTBUG-52123] Fixed a bug by which opaque texture-based widgets were not always shown. * [QTBUG-53515] Added a workaround for render-to-texture widgets in fullscreen windows. * [QTBUG-54734] Worked around an issue with translucent GL windows on Windows. * [QTBUG-54906] Fixed a bug relaed to fullscreen handling on Windows. - Styles: * Fixed several cases of QStyleOptions being created with null version. * [QTBUG-51266] Fixed painting of small progress bars on Vista+. * [QTBUG-54630] Fixed a crash in QMacStyle::styleHint(). * [QTBUG-49374] The Windows style now takes the monitor's differing logical DPI into account when calculating native metrics. ****************************************************************************** * Platform-specific Changes * ****************************************************************************** Android ------- - [QTBUG-50724] Added support for clang compiler. - [QTBUG-53511] Fixed CJK font resolution on Android 7. BSDs ---- - The freebsd-g++ mkspec was moved back and no longer requires the "unsupported/" prefix, matching the FreeBSD ports tree, as FreeBSD 9.3 still defaults to using GCC. Users of GCC that did not previously use the ports patch will need to adapt their build scripts and drop the "unsupported/" prefix. - Fixed a number of compilation issues on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Qt should now build out-of-the-box (no patches needed) on those systems. Linux ----- - [QTBUG-54733] It is now possible to opt out from installing signal handlers when running with eglfs and linuxfb by setting the QT_QPA_NO_SIGNAL_HANDLER environment variable to a non-zero value. - Fixed the value of the 'defined' field in ATSPI GetAttributeValue results. macOS ----- - [QTBUG-48953] Pasting text from Qt applications to Apple Mail now works. - [QTBUG-48953] “text/vcard” is now required as the mime type when placing vCards on the clipboard. - OS X => macOS rename in Q_OS_ macros/docs, qmake scopes, file selectors, etc. - Add new QSysInfo values and MAC_OS_X / __MAC_ / __IPHONE_ values for macOS 10.12 and iOS 9.1 through 10.0. - Update prettyProductName with new macOS "Sierra" codename. Windows ------- - Fixed a new[]/delete mismatch in Windows tablet support. **************************************************************************** * Tools * **************************************************************************** moc --- - [QTBUG-53441] Fixed crash on file ending with a backslash followed by carriage return configure & build system ------------------------ - [QTBUG-35886][QTBUG-51417] Fixed Fontconfig vs. system FreeType configuration. - [QTBUG-43784][X11] Fixed detection of GLX with -qt-xcb. - [QTBUG-52951] Fixed dynamic library support detection for platforms without libdl. - [QTBUG-53038] Fixed running of configure tests outside qtbase when cross compiling on Windows (for example for Android). - [QTBUG-53312] The flags supplied by the configure -D/-I/-L/-l options are now applied after Qt's own flags. This helps in some cases when the provided paths contain files which conflict with the Qt build. - [QTBUG-55011][Unix] Fixed -no-pkg-config being ignored by some configure tests, which led to build failures later on. - Fixed configure tests outside qtbase when $MAKEFLAGS contains the -i flag. - [Android] Some unused plugins are not built anymore. - [MinGW] Added support for -separate-debug-info. - [Unix] Added configure -no-opengles3 option. - [Unix] Fixed MySQL detection/use on RHEL 6.6. qmake ----- - [QTBUG-41830] Fixed nested custom functions inheriting their callers' arguments. - [QTBUG-53895][MSVC] Started using separate PDB files for compiling and linking. - [QTBUG-54036][Darwin] Fixed installation of debug symbols. - [QTBUG-54550] Fixed access to freed memory in $$absolute_path(). - [QTBUG-55183][nmake] _WINDLL is now automatically defined when building a DLL, consistently with Visual Studio. - [QTBUG-55649][QTBUG-55915][Xcode] Fixed support for Xcode 8. - Fixed several cases where the error() function would not abort qmake. - Interrupting a command run via system() will now abort qmake as well. - The packagesExist() function will now warn when used when Qt was configured with -no-pkg-config. - [Android] The default compiler flags were adjusted to match newer NDK versions.