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Qt 5.14 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
over the 5.13.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/index.html

The Qt version 5.14 series is binary compatible with the 5.13.x series.
Applications compiled for 5.13 will continue to run with 5.14.

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.

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*                                 General                                  *
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 - Added Vulkan-based server buffer integration for
   NVIDIA EGLStreams.
 - [QTBUG-73822] Added protocol and Qt Quick image provider for sharing
   textures in graphics memory between compositor and multiple clients.

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*                                Compositor                                *
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 - The compositor module is no longer available under the GPLv2 and LGPLv3
   licenses, but is still available under GPLv3 and commercial licenses.
 - Make QWaylandQuickShellIntegration public so that compositors can
   provide their code to integrate shell surfaces with QtQuick.
 - Added QWaylandXdgPopup::sendPopupDone, which will dismiss a popup.
 - Added support for the idle-inhibit unstable v1 Wayland extension.
 - The compositor module no longer depends on the client module.
 - Added support for xdg-output unstable v1 Wayland extension.
 - Fixed a bug where compositors would advertise support for numerous
   wl_shm pixel formats and then blindly assume everything to be
   ARGB32_Premultiplied.
 - Fixed a crash when destroying WaylandSurfaces and WlShellSurfaces which
   had not yet been initialized.
 - The compositor API now works without OpenGL support.
 - Added a floating point version of QWaylandSurface::inputRegionContains.

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*                                QPA plugin                                *
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 - Pixel delta is now set for mouse scrolling events if originating from an
   appropriate device such as a touch pad (requires compositor support for
   wl_seat version 5 or later).
 - Added support for animated cursors.
 - Added support for middle mouse pasting through the
   primary-selection-unstable-v1 protocol.
 - Expose default input device to clients through the QPA API.
 - Fixed a 100 ms freeze that would occur if applications did not draw
   after receiving a deliverUpdateRequest().
 - Fixed a crash when showing a window with a hidden parent.
 - Fixed several crashes when mixing Qt with other wayland code.
   qtwaylandscanner generated types now have a fromObject function which
   will return nullptr if the object isn't wrapped by the type.