| 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: |
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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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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Library * |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| QtPositioning |
| ------------- |
| |
| - Removed Blackberry 10 support. |
| - [QTBUG-40702] Removed dependency towards libgeoclue. The plugin uses the |
| GeoClue DBus interface. |
| - Enabled Position plugin for OS X. Previously only the plugin was only working |
| for iOS. |
| - [QTBUG-48082] Added QtSerialPort based NMEA position plugin for Windows. |
| - Improved and fixed the WinRT position backend. Various changes on the WinRT |
| platform caused the necessity for such and update. |
| - Fixed endless requests towards Android's LocationManager when stopUpdates() was not |
| called in pair with startUpdates(). |
| |
| QtLocation |
| ---------- |
| |
| - First stable release of the Qt Location API. The QML API changed significantly |
| compared to the Qt 5.5 release. The changes are documented in the official |
| module documentation under "API changes". |
| - Improved the Flick and Pinch implementation for QML Map. |
| - [QTBUG-44809] Fixed tile version handling |
| - Fixed crash during Map.setVisibleRegion while no plugin has been set. |
| - Improved error reporting in map, geocoding and routing model APIs. |
| - QTBUG[36919] Added means to prevent stealing of mouse/touch grabs on map. |
| - Improved coordinate related animation handling. Previously an animation along |
| the longitude always used a shortest path direction. Now it is possible to set |
| the direction for the animation. |
| - [QTBUG-46147] Fixed crash in QML Map element. |
| - [QTBUG-44311] Fixed bouncing Map flick on zoom level 2. |
| - [QTBUG-47020] & [QTBUG-47019] Improved Mouse and keyboard integration of QML Map |
| - [QTBUG-46388] Fixed Pinch when no MouseArea overlaps QML Map element. |
| - Fixed various unit test. |
| - Fixed a variety of minor documentation issues. |
| - Fixed dysfunctional tile cache for OSM plugin due to the server delivering JPEG |
| file when PNG files were expected. |
| - [QTBUG-41187] Unified the default tile cache location on disk. |
| - Fixed crash in gesture area while receiving wheel events. |
| - Fixed route requests with excluded areas for HERE plugin. |
| - Added support for custom map background color. |
| - Improved Map rendering performance throughout the QML API. |
| - [QTBUG-49772] Fixed weatherinfo example due to missing appid handling for |
| openweatermap.org. |
| - [QTBUG-47292] Added ability to clear the map cache. |
| - [QTBUG-50060] Improved performance of QML MapPolyline. |
| - [QTBUG-50240] Fixed OSM routing to handle changed server status code for a |
| successful route retrieval. |
| - [QTBUG-50519] Fixed map in mapviewer example when displaying the minimap. |