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| author | Eirik Aavitsland <eirik.aavitsland@theqtcompany.com> | 2016-01-12 13:08:11 +0100 |
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| committer | aavit <eirik.aavitsland@theqtcompany.com> | 2016-01-14 13:03:19 +0000 |
| commit | d7e294ded23240d62f662579eeed733e6b981d60 (patch) | |
| tree | d178b61976bb55d0a4221ccae9257950a3462cc0 | |
| parent | 6730d70f001c9492d32a6a8e95c304a52d7ddc35 (diff) | |
Add changes file for 5.6
Change-Id: I938c275371b4287f9da9148732505beaadbae90d
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@theqtcompany.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | dist/changes-5.6.0 | 41 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/dist/changes-5.6.0 b/dist/changes-5.6.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e8534a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/dist/changes-5.6.0 @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Qt 5.6 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes +over the 5.5.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation +included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: + + http://doc.qt.io + +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: + + http://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 * +**************************************************************************** + +- For security reasons, MNG and JPEG 2000 handlers will no longer be + built by default, unless the required codec library is found on the + system. I.e., the bundled 3rd party libraries will by default not be + used. In practice, this means that the qmng and qjp2 handlers will + not be present by default. + + The reason is that upstream development of those codes libraries has + stalled, so security issues are not addressed. + + Users who still want these handlers using the bundled libraries can + easily build them from the source projects: + src/plugins/imageformats/jp2/jp2.pro + src/plugins/imageformats/mng/mng.pro + +**************************************************************************** +* General * +**************************************************************************** + +- Bundled libwebp updated to version 0.4.4. +- Bundled libtiff updated to version 4.0.6. |