Qt 5.8 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes over the 5.7.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/ The Qt version 5.8 series is binary compatible with the 5.7.x series. Applications compiled for 5.7 will continue to run with 5.8. 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. **************************************************************************** * General * **************************************************************************** - Updated licensing information; Documentation for third-party licenses used in Qt is now generated from the qt_attribution.json files in each module. - Updated information on supported platforms. - Updated Qt for embedded Linux documentation. - Updated Windows deployment tool documentation. - Linked to The QML Book and more entry-level tutorials in getting started documentation. - Updated UI topics to discuss and link to Qt Quick Controls 2. - Fixed several instances of missing, incorrect, or obsolete information.