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+Qt 5.5 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
+over the 5.4.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 5.5 series is binary compatible with the 5.4.x series.
+Applications compiled for 5.4 will continue to run with 5.5.
+
+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:
+ * The Chromium version has been updated to 40.0.2214.115.
+ * The ninja version has been updated to 1.5.3.
+
+ - Platform Support:
+ * Support for embedded Android has been removed from Qt WebEngine.
+ * [QTBUG-45796] Fix prefix build.
+ * Localization fixes and support for --lang command line switch
+
+ - Web Features:
+ * Windows: WebGL and accelerated 2D Canvas are enabled,
+ when using an ANGLE-based Qt-build.
+
+****************************************************************************
+* QtWebEngineQML *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ - QQuickWebEngineDownloadItem:
+ * A new API for handling downloads in QtQuick had been added.
+
+ - QQuickWebEngineCertificateError:
+ * A new API for handling certificate errors has been added.
+
+ - QQuickWebEngineProfile:
+ * Add a new API for profiles applying to groups of QQuickWebEnginePages.
+
+ - QQuickWebEngineViewExperimental:
+ * The inspectable property has been replaced by an environment variable
+ QTWEBENGINE_REMOTE_DEBUGGING
+
+ - QQuickWebEngineView:
+ * New API has been added to allow installing of user scripts.
+ * The findText function was moved to public API.
+ * Public API was added to react to javascript requestFullScreen.
+ * Support for HTML5 form validation has been added.
+ * The featurePermissionRequested API was made public.
+ * An integration for using QtWebChannel over chromium IPC has been added.
+
+****************************************************************************
+* QtWebEngineWidgets *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ - QWebEngineDownloadItem:
+ * An API for handling downloads in Widgets has been added.
+
+ - QWebEngineProfile:
+ * Add a new API for profiles applying to groups of QWebEnginePages.
+ * New API has been added to allow installing of user scripts.
+
+ - QWebEnginePage:
+ * New API has been added to deal with certificate errors.
+
+ - QWebEngineView:
+ * Support for HTML5 form validation was added.
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Examples *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ - WebEngineWidgets Example Browser:
+ * [QTBUG-44633] Fix example on retina display.
+ * Re-add user stylesheets example.
+ * Private browsing mode has been re-introduced.