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Qt 4.8 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
over the 4.7.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/4.8

The Qt version 4.8 series is binary compatible with the 4.7.x series.
Applications compiled for 4.7 will continue to run with 4.8.

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
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- 

Third party components
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 - Updated libpng to version x.y.z


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*                          Library                                         *
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QtCore
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 - Removed support for QT_NO_THREAD define for QHostInfo.
 - Optimized plugin loading on ELF platforms.
   Print failure reason at runtime with QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 in environment.

QtGui
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 - QTabBar: reduced minimumSizeHint if ElideMode is set.
 - QComboBox: Fixed a color propagation issue with the lineedit. [QTBUG-5950]

 QtOpenGL
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 - Removed dependency of OpenGL Utility Library (GLU)
 - Added QGLFunctions, which provides cross-platform access to the
   OpenGL/ES 2.0 API.
 - Including <QtOpenGL> will not work in combination with GLEW, as
   QGLFunctions will undefine GLEW's defines.


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


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


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


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


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


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*                      Compiler Specific Changes                           *
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*                          Tools                                           *
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- Build System

- Assistant

- Designer
    * [QTBUG-18631] Enabled the use of promoted QWidgets in the buddy editor.
    * [QTBUG-18120] Fixed saving of the Z-order.
    * [QTBUG-13683] Fixed saving of QGridLayout and QFormLayout
      by QFormBuilder.
    * [QTBUG-10890] Added a filter to the rich text editor dialog.
      that simplifies the HTML markup generated.
    * [QTBUG-7777] Added support for QIcon::fromTheme.
    * [QTBUG-7169] Fixed QtUiTools to be built with the correct
      lib-infix.
    * [QTBUG-3120] Added support for alignment of box layout items.

- 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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