| Qt 5.13 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes |
| over the 5.12.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/index.html |
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| The Qt version 5.13 series is binary compatible with the 5.12.x series. |
| Applications compiled for 5.12 will continue to run with 5.13. |
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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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| Behavioral Changes |
| ------------------ |
| |
| - [QTBUG-74586] Qt WebEngine will assume that the resources and the icu |
| data files are in the same directory when deploying the application. |
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| Chromium Snapshot |
| ----------------- |
| |
| - Updated the Chromium version to 73.0.3683.105 |
| - Applied security fixes from Chrome up to version 74.0.3729.157 |
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| Platforms |
| --------- |
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| - [QTBUG-71126] A single-threaded GPU mode has been implemented, enabling |
| WebGL and hardware acceleration with OpenGL drivers with buggy |
| multithreading, such as ANGLE on Windows and Nouveau on Linux. |
| - Windows: Qt WebEngine can now be build with both MSVC 2017 and clang_cl. |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Libraries * |
| **************************************************************************** |
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| Qt WebEngineCore |
| ---------------- |
| |
| - [QTBUG-50556] The PDF Viewer extension has been implemented and enabled, |
| so that PDFs can now be viewed directly in Qt WebEngine. |
| - [QTBUG-50995] Support for Web Notifications API for end-user |
| notifications through QWebEngineNotification. |
| - [QTBUG-58232] Will now use credentials from QNetworkProxy if set. |
| - [QTBUG-69844] Added QWebEngineUrlRequestJob::requestHeaders() to read |
| extra HTTP headers set on a URL request. |
| - [QTBUG-71229] Will now parse Chrome command-line switches for initial |
| proxy settings. |
| - [QTBUG-75539] Will now parse --auth-server-whitelist switch. |
| - Added in-memory client cert store for installing application specific |
| client certificates. |
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| Qt WebEngine (QML) |
| ------------------ |
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| - [QTBUG-66262][QTBUG-72176] Added property to set the default download |
| location in QQuickWebEngineProfile. |
| - Added WebEngineSettings.pdfViewerEnabled to control if the internal PDF |
| viewer is enabled. |
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| Qt WebEngineWidgets |
| ------------------- |
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| - [QTBUG-66262][QTBUG-72176] Added methods to set the default download |
| location in QWebEngineProfile. |
| - [QTBUG-58059][QTBUG-71164] A profile can now be designated to download |
| OCSP records and thus enable OCSP verification on Linux. |
| - Added QWebEngineProfile::setUrlRequestInterceptor, similar to |
| setRequestInterceptor except it operates on the UI-thread. The old |
| QWebEngineProfile::setRequestInterceptor is deprecated for not being |
| thread-safe. |
| - Added QWebEnginePage::setUrlRequestInterceptor, similar to the same call on |
| profile except it operates on a per-page basis. |
| - Added QWebEngineSettings::PdfViewerEnabled to control if the internal PDF |
| viewer is enabled. |