| Qt 5.6.3 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward |
| compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 5.6.0. |
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| Qt WebEngine 5.6.3 contains a merge from Qt WebEngine 5.7.1 and all |
| bug-fixes in Qt 5.7.1 are also in Qt 5.6.3. These are listed both here |
| and in changes-5.7.1. |
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| For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this |
| distribution. The documentation is also available online: |
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| http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html |
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| 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. |
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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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| |
| - Chromium Snapshot: |
| * Updated the Chromium version to 49.0.2623.111. |
| * Backported security fixes from Chromium up to version 59.0.3071.104. |
| Including: CVE-2016-5133, CVE-2016-5147, CVE-2016-5153, CVE-2016-5155, |
| CVE-2016-5161, CVE-2016-5166, CVE-2016-5170, CVE-2016-5171, |
| CVE-2016-5172, CVE-2016-5181, CVE-2016-5185, CVE-2016-5186, |
| CVE-2016-5187, CVE-2016-5188, CVE-2016-5192, CVE-2016-5198. |
| CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5207, CVE-2016-5208, CVE-2016-5214, |
| CVE-2016-5215, CVE-2016-5221, CVE-2016-5222, CVE-2016-5224, |
| CVE-2016-5225, CVE-2016-9650, CVE-2016-9651, CVE-2016-9652, |
| CVE-2017-5006, CVE-2017-5007, CVE-2017-5008, CVE-2017-5009, |
| CVE-2017-5010, CVE-2017-5012, CVE-2017-5015, CVE-2017-5016, |
| CVE-2017-5017, CVE-2017-5019, CVE-2017-5023, CVE-2017-5024, |
| CVE-2017-5025, CVE-2017-5026, CVE-2017-5027, CVE-2017-5029, |
| CVE-2017-5033, CVE-2017-5037, CVE-2017-5044, CVE-2017-5046, |
| CVE-2017-5047, CVE-2017-5048, CVE-2017-5049, CVE-2017-5050, |
| CVE-2017-5051, CVE-2017-5052, CVE-2017-5054, CVE-2017-5059, |
| CVE-2017-5061, CVE-2017-5062, CVE-2017-5065, CVE-2017-5067, |
| CVE-2017-5069, CVE-2017-5070, CVE-2017-5071, CVE-2017-5075, |
| CVE-2017-5076, CVE-2017-5078, CVE-2017-5083 and CVE-2017-5089 |
| * Added support for macOS 10.12 Sierra. |
| * Backported various crash and assertion fixes. |
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| - QtWebEngineCore: |
| * [QTBUG-51244, QTBUG-54795] Fixed select control issues. |
| * Fixed several focus issues. |
| * Fixed regression with fine-grained wheel events. |
| * [QTBUG-54221] Fixed editing short-cuts in plugins. |
| * [QTBUG-54222] Fixed potential infinite loop on history load. |
| * Fixed Flash plugin clipboard access. |
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| * Platform Specific Changes * |
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| - Linux: |
| * [QTBUG-55367] Fixed reading timezone when running sandboxed. |
| * Fixed crash when using Wayland QPA. |
| * Improved OpenGL check, so EGL/GLES2 mode can be used with Desktop |
| OpenGL if the driver has the ARB_ES2_compatibility extension. |
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| - Windows: |
| * It is no longer possible to build on a 32-bit Windows host, but |
| 32-bit binaries can still be built on a 64-bit host. |
| * [QTBUG-52201, QTBUG-55501, QTBUG-56020] Fixed crashes and asserts |
| upon initialization of the global shared OpenGL context. |