Release note

Qt 5.15.6 release is a patch release made on the top of Qt 5.15.5. As a patch
release, Qt 5.15.6 does not add any new functionality but provides bug fixes
and other improvements.

For detailed information about Qt, see the Qt 5.15 online documentation:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html.

Important Changes

qtbase

• a273c68018 QPageSize: make PageSizeId ctor non-explicit
  Conversion from a QPageSize::PageSizeId is now implicit.

• 8e6b4f5d2a Fix conversion of swap interval from QGLFormat to
  QSurfaceFormat
  Fixed an issue where the default swap interval of QGLWidget's surface
  format would be set to an invalid value.

• 0095b87903 macOS: allow Qt::AA_DontShowShortcutsInContextMenus
  overrides
  The shortcutVisibleInContextMenu property defaults to the value of the
  Qt::AA_DontShowShortcutsInContextMenus attribute, which in turn defaults
  to the platform integration. To override the default, set the
  application attribute after instantiating QApplication, or override the
  default for each QAction instance.

• f76bea3951 Fix mapping between Han and other CJK scripts
  Fixed an issue where certain shared CJK characters would be displayed
  using the Chinese system font rather than the Japanese one, even on
  Japanese locale.

• 9572473e4f Revert "Windows: Add synthesized fonts also when there is a
  style name"
  Fixed a regression where different font styles and/or weights would not
  be available.

• 8cda03b066 Change QCollator's default locale to QLocale().collation()
  The default locale used by QCollator is now the collation locale of the
  default QLocale. This restores the ability (lost at 5.14) to control the
  locale used by QString::localeAwareCompare(), while retaining the use of
  a collation locale when the default is the system locale.

• a8409dc92c QVarLengthArray: fix aliasing error in insert(it, n, v)
  Fixed an aliasing bug affecting insertions of objects aliasing existing
  elements.

• 8ffc652f1e QXpmHandler: fix re-entrancy bug in xpm_color_name
  Fixed a race condition when concurrently writing .xpm files.

• b94eda4f81 QXpmHandler: actually limit characters-per-pixel to four
  Instead of writing a corrupt file, rejects to write XPM files with more
  than 64^4 colors (more than four characters per pixel) now.

• dde4061f37 MySQL: remove the version number checks in favor of actual
  functionality
  Fixed the detection of whether the client and server support prepared
  statements. This was caused by the mariadb connector library reporting
  its own version numbers (starting in version 3.2) instead of the server
  version.

• 2762bbb5c3 Fix memory leak if eXIf has incorrect crc
  Fix for possible memory leak in libpng was backported.

qtsvg

• 22388ac Limit font size to avoid numerous overflows
  Avoid numerous overflows by limiting font size to 0xffff. This fixes
  oss-fuzz issue 31701.

qtwayland

• a3ee3b1a client: Gracefully handle shutdown and window hiding
  Fixed a crash that could happen when hiding or closing windows while Qt
  Quick was actively rendering on a different thread.

qt3d

• 3e7af0520 Fix multi-view picking
  Non rendered entities (due to layer filtering) are no longer pickable

qtimageformats

• d2f7d79 Update bundled libtiff to version 4.3.0
  Bundled libtiff was updated to version 4.3.0

qtwebengine

• Security fixes from Chromium up to version 92.0.4515.159, including:
  • CVE-2021-30522: Use after free in WebAudio
  • CVE-2021-30523: Use after free in WebRTC
  • CVE-2021-30530: Out of bounds memory access in WebAudio
  • CVE-2021-30533: Insufficient policy enforcement in PopupBlocker
  • CVE-2021-30534: Insufficient policy enforcement in iFrameSandbox
  • CVE-2021-30535: Double free in ICU
  • CVE-2021-30536: Out of bounds read in V8
  • CVE-2021-30541: Use after free in V8
  • CVE-2021-30544: Use after free in BFCache
  • CVE-2021-30547: Out of bounds write in ANGLE
  • CVE-2021-30548: Use after free in Loader
  • CVE-2021-30551: Type Confusion in V8
  • CVE-2021-30553: Use after free in Network service
  • CVE-2021-30554 Use after free in WebGL
  • CVE-2021-30556: Use after free in WebAudio
  • CVE-2021-30559: Out of bounds write in ANGLE
  • CVE-2021-30560: Use after free in Blink XSLT
  • CVE-2021-30563: Type Confusion in V8
  • CVE-2021-30566: Stack buffer overflow in Printing
  • CVE-2021-30568: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL
  • CVE-2021-30569
  • CVE-2021-30573: Use after free in GPU
  • CVE-2021-30585: Use after free in sensor handling
  • CVE-2021-30587: Inappropriate implementation in Compositing on Windows
  • CVE-2021-30588: Type Confusion in V8
  • CVE-2021-30598: Type Confusion in V8
  • CVE-2021-30599: Type Confusion in V8
  • CVE-2021-30602: Use after free in WebRTC
  • CVE-2021-30603: Race in WebAudio
  • CVE-2021-30604: Use after free in ANGLE
  • Security bug 1184294
  • Security bug 1194330
  • Security bug 1194689
  • Security bug 1197786
  • Security bug 1198216
  • Security bug 1198385
  • Security bug 1202534
  • Security bug 1204814
  • Security bug 1205059
  • Security bug 1209558
  • Security bug 1211215
  • Security bug 1227933
  • Security bug 1228036

qtwebsockets

• 30b0376 Clear frame before emitting signals to prevent duplicating
  messages
  Clear frame before emitting signals to prevent duplicating messages

qtquickcontrols2

• 10ede696d ToolTip: use contentWidth of Text contentItem to account for
  newlines
  The implicit width of ToolTips now accounts for newlines in the text.
  If you want to use the old behavior, set ToolTip's contentWidth to
  implicitContentWidth.

qtvirtualkeyboard

• 0d2174eb Fix high CPU utilization caused by key repeat timer
  Fixed high CPU utilization caused by key repeat timer.

• 005e6f28 Fix processing of hard Qt::Key_Backspace and Qt::Key_Delete
  Fix processing of hard backspace and delete keys.

Fixes

qtbase

• QTBUG-94070 Memory corruption in sqlite plugin
• QTBUG-93600 90° X rotation as quaternion produces NaN on euler angle
• QTBUG-93295 Session Resumption with Session ID - IPv6 -
  ephemeralServerKey is missing
• QTBUG-94087 [reg 5.11->5.15] No longer possible to start a drag from
  item views with a double-click
• QTBUG-77771 A Double click on QtreeView/QTreeWidget index is emitting
  two clicked() and one doubleClicked() signal
• QTBUG-94226 QListView - broken drag-n-drop items movement
• QTBUG-94269 QIntValidator: integer values exceeding top "intermediate"
  according to validate() func
• QTBUG-86754 [Reg 5.12.4-> 5.12.5]Action text overlaps the shortcut in
  menu when padding is used
• QTBUG-92234 QTranslator.load problem by skipping some
• QTBUG-70498 Cannot scroll first tab right, using scroll button in
  QTabBar, when tab size do not fit into visible rect.
• QTBUG-56322 Qt for Android source package build error in examples
• QTBUG-36565 Some key symbols generated by xkb level 3 shift don't work
  in QTextBrowser, QTextEdit, QLineEdit
• QTBUG-93742 Error in public function "setclearbuttonenabled" of
  "QLineEdit" control
• QTBUG-91120 QDate::fromString() fails on isolated dates on macOS with
  TZ=Europe/Lisbon
• QTBUG-94347 QRandomGenerator64 refers to functions as static, aren't.
• QTBUG-71894 Hangul composition bug
• QTBUG-94032 Command line is too long when building large projects
• QTBUG-94470 Incorrect parsing of HTTP2 frame headers.
• QTBUG-93764 QPrintPreviewDialog: printer orientation not updated by
  QPageSetupDialog
• QTBUG-76948 IOS: disconnect second screen while app in b/g, it crashes
  when app goes into foreground
• QTBUG-94532 Markdown checkboxes are clipped when text range selected
• QTBUG-89379 QQuickWindow::QtTextRendering cause font problem on Apple
  M1
• QTBUG-83089 NameFilters not working in FileDialog in Android 10
• QTBUG-67944 If user pressed back button during application startup.
  Application becomes unresponsive.
• QTBUG-65637 Window minimizing broken after building QT app with Mac OS
  High Sierra SDK
• QTBUG-94246 Memory leak in qsql_oci plugin
• QTBUG-94069 MacOS ComboBox Focus Ring is Too Tall
• QTBUG-91919 Qt will crash if changing screen resolution on Mac
• QTBUG-94706 missing documentaiton details about QFile::copy()
• QTBUG-81251 _debug libraries are missing from pre build Qt on Mac
• QTBUG-83869 Correction to the documentation:
  https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtransform.html#basic-matrix-operations
• QTBUG-85598 [REG: 5.13 -> 5.14] Japanese character appears incorrectly
• QTBUG-94175 QGraphicsProxyWidget: rendered Arabic text incomplete in
  large font sizes when OpenGL is used
• QTBUG-91619 QCFSocketNotifier does not handle connect
• QTBUG-94781 [Reg-5.15.4->5.15.5] Bold font is not picked up when
  QFontDatabase is used
• QTBUG-91398 When QFont::NoFontMerging is set then if bold or italics
  is requested that is not provided by the font then it will end up not
  synthesizing this
• QTBUG-94802 [Reg-5.15.4->5.15.5]Menu separator is not visible
• QTBUG-95005 Typo in QOpenGLPaintDevice::dotsPerMeterY
• QTBUG-94824 In qlinedit, icon and text overlap
• QTBUG-94463 QThreadPool creates one thread more than maxThreadCount
• QTBUG-92182 Qt Dock Widgets super slow to dock
• QTBUG-92232 [REG] Option Clicking Window Close Button Crashes App
• QTBUG-94799 QFileDialog file name completer doesn't work with Proxy
  Model
• QTBUG-78043 non-native QFileDialog displaying incorrect mapped network
  drive names
• QTBUG-91125 QTextFormat::FullWidthSelection does not work with right-
  to-left text layout
• QTBUG-95042 QFrame Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground is broken with
  specific window flags and drawable child item
• QTBUG-94981 QTreeView: expandToDepth() and expandAll() ends
  prematurely for asynchronous models
• QTBUG-94788 QListView will be reset when setSelectionMode is
  MultiSelection
• QTBUG-86846 the password box not refreshed under Chinese input method
• QTBUG-95009 QNetworkDiskCache::cacheSize() returns a size twice as
  large as the real one.
• QTBUG-94733 When the display is set to 150% and a QMdiSubWindow is
  maximized then the icons can be incorrectly displayed
• QTBUG-95277 HTTP2: QNetworkReply::encrypted not emitted
• QTBUG-95293 QCocoaAccessibilityElement incorrect selector for
  "enabled": should be isAccessibilityEnabled not
  accessibilityEnabledAttribute
• QTBUG-91459 When using Speech Recognition on a multiple monitor setup
  telling it to click a button does not always work on the secondary
  monitor
• QTBUG-95239 Massive memory consumption when rendering small svg
• QTBUG-83182 QFutureWatcher resultsReadyAt may report rubbish
• QTBUG-77656 Crash when waking up with multiple displays in clamshell
  mode
• QTBUG-94790 moc fails to parse include inside enum
• QTBUG-95429 Expired certificates in tst_QSslCertificate
• QTBUG-95351 In the help pages: A fromVector() example is not right
• QTBUG-95071 mysql client version detection broken with MariaDB 10.6
• QTBUG-56595 QXcbConnection::getTimestamp() returns old timestamp
• QTBUG-95631 Stylesheet issue when try to change background color with
  a editable combobox on hover
• QTBUG-95619 [Mac] Memory leak in
  QNSWindow::applicationActivationChanged
• QTBUG-69515 Linux, WindowStaysOnTopHint does not work.
• QTBUG-85529 Polytonic Greek characters cannot be composed both ways
• QTBUG-94990 REG: 5.15.4->5.15.5: When a window is switched to be
  FullScreen then it will end up keeping a bar at the bottom of the window
  which should not be visible
• QTBUG-87863 CMake configuration fails with multiple calls to
  find_package(Qt)
• QTBUG-87813 WASM: App sometimes crashes on aborting NetworkRequest
• QTBUG-2390 Generated .la files are not correct for frameworks
• QTBUG-92477 Memory leak in QFontDatabase
• QTBUG-83419 Q2-2020 Flaky failing autotest function remainingTime in
  qtimer
• QTBUG-58519 tst_QTimer::remainingTime() 'qAbs(remainingTime - 150) <
  50' returned FALSE on Windows and OS X
• QTBUG-81504 QWaylandWindow::handleUpdate creates thousands of pending
  frame callbacks, causing wayland connection termination
• QTBUG-73990 Context Menu Items Fonts and Hotkeys Not Displaying
• QTBUG-91713 QtBase benchmarks fail for qtimezone, qdiriterator, and
  qfile
• QTBUG-95050 [REG: 5.2->5.14] Locale used by
  QString::localeAwareCompare() no longer changeable
• QTBUG-80957 QFutureInterface: reportResults with an empty vector
  breaks results
• QTBUG-85839 Documentation: wrong default value for Layout Direction
• QTBUG-88248 QObject orphaned connections soft-leak
• QTBUG-87774 QToolBar::clear() leaks memory
• QTBUG-95314 WASM: Diverging timezones in C++/QML
• QTBUG-71590 Qt is using "Non-SDK" interfaces, will be blocked by
  Android
• QTBUG-94215 [Reg 5.15.2->5.15.3/6] QString::lastIndexOf is broken

qtsvg

• QTBUG-94878 QSvgRenderer crash
• QTBUG-92184 QtSVG cannot understand minified SVGs if they contain arcs

qtdeclarative

• QTBUG-93857 Mac Link Accessibility, Link cannot be triggered by
  VoiceOver
• QTBUG-89736 focusable item becomes impossible to focus after
  reparenting to a newly loaded item
• QTBUG-94223 Regression[5.14->5.15] 'model' is no longer an implicit
  data role in delegates in Custom delegate
• QTBUG-75553 QML Canvas, reset line dash failed
• QTBUG-89375 No C++ documentation for containmentMask
• QTBUG-93880 MultiPointHandlers (DragHandler, PinchHandler) don't emit
  the grabChanged signal
• QTBUG-78258 DragHandler's grab permission CanTakeOverFromAnything does
  not respect keep grab
• QTBUG-79163 DragHandler steals events from a MouseArea with
  preventStealing = true
• QTBUG-94622 svg Image is Pixelated when windows is scaled
• QTBUG-94844 Rendering errors with ShaderEffect after hiding and
  reshowing a window
• QTBUG-95417 Regression 5.15.4: gc() within generator functions crash
• QTBUG-94820 Crash when declaring an alias to a readonly object-typed
  subproperty
• QTBUG-89822 Error with readonly alias property
• QTBUG-95314 WASM: Diverging timezones in C++/QML
• QTBUG-95825 Live preview not starting
• QTBUG-76310 Dragging (QDrag) triggered by touch event requires an
  additional press to move drag target
• QTBUG-94798 crash in QQuickDesignerSupport with gcc at ubuntu
• QTBUG-93973 Races in QJSEngine()
• QTBUG-75862 FocusReason is broken in Controls 2
• QTBUG-94928 loop QQuickDesignerSupport with simple example

qttools

• QTBUG-74353 Qt Assistant doesn't take stylesheet into account with
  search result view
• QTBUG-91082 [REG: 5.12->5.13] Assistant does not support custom
  filters anymore
• QTBUG-95561 Typo in the "Introduction To QDoc" manual page.
• QTBUG-87677 windeployqt locates a release version of icudtXX.dll for a
  debug binary

qtlocation

• QTBUG-95221 QGeoCoordinate::toString() sometimes return wrong values

qtconnectivity

• QTBUG-90760 BT discovery stopped working after moving to Qt 5.15.2
• QTBUG-90369 Heart-rate crashes during its use
• QTBUG-95156 Crash when discovery Bluetooth LE device on Windows with
  Bluetooth off
• QTBUG-95349 Typo in Bluetooth Low Energy Overview documentation

qtwayland

• QTBUG-91264 ASSERT on shutdown in Qt Wayland
• QTBUG-90037 Crash when hiding QtQuick window with wayland/EGL
• QTBUG-92249 quick3d examples crashes or hangs on exit on wayland
• QTBUG-94602 Releasing wayland buffer from Qt compositor side

qt3d

• QTBUG-93035 Adding a disable entity to the scene and enabling it later
  isn't properly picked up

qtwebsockets

• QTBUG-87279 [REG: 5.13.2-5.14.0] When interacting with a webpage that
  will trigger a signal via QWebChannel then if the slot is still running
  it can cause it to resend the same message rather than a new one

qtwebengine

• QTBUG-93082 [REG 5.15.3 -> 5.15.4] qtwebengine: touchpad scroll is
  broken in wayland

qtquickcontrols2

• QTBUG-83630 Qt Quick Control 2 Tooltip can be way too big when you
  have newlines
• QTBUG-55705 SwipeDelegate is not swiping inside SwipeView
• QTBUG-94307 ComboBox: without a validator bindings to acceptableInput
  don't work
• QTBUG-77946 tst_QQuickDrawer::Universal::position(right) failed on
  Linux openSUSE_15_0 (gcc-x86_64)
• QTBUG-87708 [Reg 5.15.0 -> 5.15.1] header's width isn't resized to
  window's width when Layout is used
• QTBUG-94764 REG: Attached ToolTips shrink

qtcharts

• QTBUG-94469 Doc: Wrong return type for QValueAxis::labelFormat qml
  property
• QTBUG-94998 5.15.4 -> 5.15.5, some labels disappeared from axes
• QTBUG-79218 When zooming out enough then the labels on the axes will
  end up showing drawing errors

qtdatavis3d

• QTBUG-80194 Q3DScatter Memory Leak
• QTBUG-90371 The labels for the bars are not displayed when property
  "Rotate horizontally" set max to the right

qtvirtualkeyboard

• QTBUG-94259 High CPU load on embedded targets caused by timers
• QTBUG-94560 The first item of selection list sometimes get highlight
• QTBUG-94017 Cursor position moves when un-converted Japanese is
  deleted
• QTBUG-68412 tst_plugin::test_pinyinInputMethod crashes on arm
• QTBUG-94715 Qt Virtualkeyboards support for Chinese language doesn't
  work properly
• QTBUG-95664 VirtualKeyboardSettings: Readonly property is not marked
  as such

qtremoteobjects

• QTBUG-94570 QEventDispatcherWin32::registerTimer: Failed to create a
  timer

qtquicktimeline

• QDS-3216 Flickering when using default value as implcit first keyframe

qtquick3d

• QTBUG-91495 When importing a .fbx file it will end up not placing some
  elements correct and some angle/positions of components are also wrong

qtcoap

• QTBUG-94763 [CoAP] When resource is observed the QT CoAP client sends
  an acknowledgement packet which is not empty.

Known Issues

The RTA (release test automation) reported issues in Qt 5.15.x:
https://bugreports.qt.io/issues/?filter=21874

Credits for the release goes to:

Eirik Aavitsland
Laszlo Agocs
Jim Albamont
Dimitrios Apostolou
Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt
Joerg Bornemann
Assam Boudjelthia
Andreas Buhr
Albert Astals Cid
Mitch Curtis
Giuseppe D'Angelo
Oliver Eftevaag
Alexandros Frantzis
Samuel Gaist
Pekka Gehör
Maximilian Goldstein
Henning Gruendl
Richard Moe Gustavsen
Tang Haixiang
Heikki Halmet
Sean Harmer
Thomas Hartmann
Ulf Hermann
Øystein Heskestad
Volker Hilsheimer
Dominik Holland
Allan Sandfeld Jensen
Tim Jenssen
Jeremy Katz
Friedemann Kleint
Jarek Kobus
Sze Howe Koh
Jarkko Koivikko
Fabian Kosmale
Mike Krus
Sona Kurazyan
Igor Kushnir
Kai Köhne
Inho Lee
Paul Lemire
Robert Löhning
Thiago Macieira
Marc Mutz
Yuya Nishihara
Mårten Nordheim
Gatis Paeglis
Jukka Passi
Timur Pocheptsov
Aleix Pol
Lorn Potter
Liang Qi
Topi Reinio
André de la Rocha
Fan RuiJie
Shawn Rutledge
Lars Schmertmann
Luca Di Sera
Andy Shaw
Ivan Solovev
Brett Stottlemyer
Tarja Sundqvist
Tasuku Suzuki
Jan Arve Sæther
Morten Johan Sørvig
Ivan Tkachenko
Jens Trillmann
Sami Varanka
Nico Vertriest
Tor Arne Vestbø
Edward Welbourne
Paul Wicking
Oliver Wolff
JiDe Zhang