From d15d9884d024f69c20c0c49a4f915236db845cf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jani Heikkinen Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 09:07:46 +0300 Subject: Add changes file for 5.9.0 Listing important changes and bug-fixes. Change-Id: I75a18908315ea28cb669bc009cb55e7defd18a8d Reviewed-by: Robin Burchell Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll Reviewed-by: Shawn Rutledge --- dist/changes-5.9.0 | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 122 insertions(+) create mode 100644 dist/changes-5.9.0 (limited to 'dist') diff --git a/dist/changes-5.9.0 b/dist/changes-5.9.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f6c6aebea9 --- /dev/null +++ b/dist/changes-5.9.0 @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ +Qt 5.9 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes +over the 5.8.x series. 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 5.9 series is binary compatible with the 5.8.x series. +Applications compiled for 5.8 will continue to run with 5.9. + +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 * +**************************************************************************** + +* qmlInfo now reports messages with a QtMsgType of QtInfoMsg instead of + QtWarningMsg. To continue to send warnings, callers should migrate to + the newly-introduced qmlWarning function. + +**************************************************************************** +* Library * +**************************************************************************** + +QtQml +----- + + - The garbage collector has been rewritten to provide better memory + consumption, and improved, more predictable performance for JavaScript code. + - Array.prototype.find and Array.prototype.findIndex from ES6 are now implemented. + - Introduced qmlRegisterModule() that can be used to make a certain module + version available, even if no types or revisions are registered for that + version. + - Introduced qmlDebug & qmlWarning functions to qqmlinfo.h, in addition to + the pre-existing qmlInfo function. As a side effect, QQmlError has also + gained messageType() and setMessageType(). + - [QTBUG-52013] Added QQmlEngine::offlineStorageDatabaseFilePath(dbName) + to allow getting the actual storage path for a particular database. + - [QTBUG-53091] Introduced Qt.application.displayName, to map the + QGuiApplication::applicationDisplayName property to QML. + +QtQuick +------- + + - Global: + * Improved stability of Animator's internals. + * [QTBUG-55496] Added a disk cache for OpenGL shaders to QtQuick. + * [QTBUG-58845] QWheelEvent delivered to all QQuickItems will now have a + correct global position. + * [QTBUG-57910] Touch events are now correctly ungrabbed if the touch event + was stolen by a parent item, such as a Flickable. + * [QTBUG-57098] Added Keys::shortcutOverride signal to allow prevention of + e.g. Shortcut from stealing key events. + * [QTBUG-56279] Added a shared memory image provider to conserve memory + when several processes use the same local image files. + + - Window: + * [QTBUG-60232] Added QQuickWindow::sceneGraphBackend() to allow querying + which scene graph rendering backend is in use. + * [QTBUG-56115] Added a screen property to Window, which can be used to + declaratively associate a window with a specific screen. This is useful on + multi-screen embedded systems. Added Qt.application.screens as an array of + screens from which one can be chosen to assign to a Window. Added virtualX + and virtualY properties to Screen to enable querying the screen's position + within the virtual desktop. + + - Items: + * [QTBUG-38515] Added horizontalOvershoot and verticalOvershoot + properties to Flickable, for use in implementing custom boundary actions and effects. + * [QTBUG-44762] Added a forceLayout method to Positioner types (Column, Row, + Flow, Grid) to force positioning of children to happen earlier. Additionally, + a positioningComplete signal has been added. + * [QTBUG-57203] Added TextInput::textEdited signal to distinguish user edits from + programmatical text changes. + * [QTBUG-42074][QTBUG-57003] Added support for characters in Private Use Area, + as well as zero-width joiners and zero-width non-joiners for TextInput and + TextEdit. + * [QTBUG-47662] Added MouseArea::pressAndHoldInterval to allow control over the + elapsed time before the pressAndHold signal is emitted. + * Item::grabToImage on an Image element will now work regardless of the + Image's sourceSize or cache properties. + * [QTBUG-52553][QTBUG-56501] Made it possible to enable horizontal + flicking in a vertical ListView, and vice versa. The only thing apps + must do is to specify the desired flick direction and the content + width (vertical ListView) or content height (horizontal ListView), + which is not calculated by ListView. + * Added Shortcut::sequences, to provide support for multiple different shortcut + sequences in a single Shortcut. + * Added rotation, ellipseDiameters and uniqueId properties to + MultiPointTouchArea.TouchPoint, and deprecated the area property. + A TouchPoint is now modeled as an ellipse centered on a point, + possibly rotated, depending on what the hardware and drivers support. + Android and the TUIO plugin support rotation and ellipseDiameters, for example. + The uniqueId is so far applicable only to the use of fiducials (tokens, + knobs or game pieces with hardware-based identification) on a TUIO touch surface. + + - Accessibility: + * [QTBUG-58340] Fixed focus handling so that keyboard and VoiceOver's + virtual focus are in sync (QTBUG-58340). + + - Text: + * Deprecated doLayout() in favor of forceLayout(), to improve consistency now + that more types (Positioners, Layouts, etc) have a forceLayout() method. + * [QTBUG-51133] Added fontInfo property to Text type, providing a way to + query properties of the actual font used for presenting the text. + * [QTBUG-58852] Text items with a renderType of Text.NativeRendering will no + longer stop rendering with a large number of characters. + + +QtTest +------ + + - [QTBUG-23083] Added TestCase::touchEvent to support simulating touch events + in tests. + - [QTBUG-56361] Added createTemporaryObject() and createTemporaryQmlObject() + functions to ensure that dynamically created objects can be destroyed at the + end of each test function. -- cgit v1.2.3