Add changes file for 5.6.1

Change-Id: Ic36c55b5deaceb2a7944f33aead62c6cb31a01f9
Reviewed-by: Kai Koehne <kai.koehne@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>

1 files changed, 65 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dist/changes-5.6.1 b/dist/changes-5.6.1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5a568bda9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dist/changes-5.6.1
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+Qt 5.6.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
+compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 5.6.0.
+
+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/qt-5/index.html
+
+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:
+
+  https://bugreports.qt.io/
+
+Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more
+information about a particular change.
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                             General                                      *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ - Chromium Snapshot:
+   * Security fixes from Chromium up to version 50.0.2661.94
+   * [QTBUG-52602] Fixed devtools so it works with newer Chrome releases.
+   * [QTBUG-52085, QTBUG-53108] qrc urls can now load local files.
+
+ - QtWebEngineCore:
+   * [QTBUG-52124] Fixed crashes due to multithreaded use of qputenv.
+   * [QTBUG-52216] Fixed access of labels of MediaStream tracks.
+   * [QTBUG-52715] Fixed copying images to clipboard.
+   * [QTBUG-51789] Fixed crashes when instantiating QCoreApplication.
+   * [QTBUG-52121] Ensured cookies are flushed to disk on exit.
+   * Fixed numerous race-conditions when changing profile settings and using
+     custom URL scheme handlers.
+
+ - WebEnginePage:
+   * [QTBUG-48995] Stopped triggering extra urlChanged signals.
+   * [QTBUG-51319] Accepted certificate errors are now remembered correctly.
+   * [QTBUG-51851, QTBUG-51969] Fixed zoom behavior.
+   * [QTBUG-53033] Reset the selected text of a page when setHtml is called.
+   * Fixed memory leak in standardContextMenu()
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                      Platform Specific Changes                           *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ - Linux:
+   * NSS is now only used for certificate handling. BoringSSL is used
+     for SSL encryption like on OS X and Windows.
+   * [QTBUG-48298] Fixed compilation against old Linux kernel headers.
+
+ - Windows:
+   * [QTBUG-51920] Fixed building on Japanese Windows.
+   * [QTBUG-50252] Fixed doubled characters when using IME.
+   * [QTBUG-51971] Fixed CommandLine initialization.
+   * [QTBUG-51847] Fixed compilation issue with moc.
+   * [QTBUG-46720] Added support for linking to QtWebEngine from a plugin.
+
+ - OS X:
+   * [QTBUG-51939] Fixed QtWebEngineProcess not being found after
+     macdeployqt is used.