| Qt 5.8 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes |
| over the 5.7.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation |
| included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: |
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| https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/ |
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| The Qt version 5.8 series is binary compatible with the 5.7.x series. |
| Applications compiled for 5.7 will continue to run with 5.8. |
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| Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers |
| corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker: |
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| https://bugreports.qt.io/ |
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| 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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| - Updated licensing information; Documentation for third-party licenses |
| used in Qt is now generated from the qt_attribution.json files in |
| each module. |
| - Updated information on supported platforms. |
| - Updated Qt for embedded Linux documentation. |
| - Updated Windows deployment tool documentation. |
| - Linked to The QML Book and more entry-level tutorials in getting |
| started documentation. |
| - Updated UI topics to discuss and link to Qt Quick Controls 2. |
| - Fixed several instances of missing, incorrect, or obsolete information. |