| Qt 5.2 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes |
| over the 5.1.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://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.2 |
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| The Qt version 5.2 series is binary compatible with the 5.1.x series. |
| Applications compiled for 5.1 will continue to run with 5.2. |
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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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| http://bugreports.qt-project.org/ |
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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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| - Improved ALSA implementation of the audio APIs. |
| - Improved WAV support in QSoundEffect. |
| - New resource policy plugin based on libresourceqt. |
| - Fix QVideoSurfaceArbFpPainter mistakenly failing to start in some cases. |
| - Improved QAudioRecorder implementation on Windows and Mac OS. |
| - Various documentation fixes. |
| - Improved audiorecorder example. |
| - [QTBUG-32487] Make PulseAudio implementation of QSoundEffect more robust. |
| - [QTBUG-32882] Enable QSoundEffect with loopCount of Infinite to play. |
| - [QTBUG-31731] WMF and GStreamer: fixed incorrect frame startTime and endTime. |
| - [QTBUG-30442] VideoOutput: take the video format's scanLineDirection into account. |
| - [QTBUG-34125] Correctly clear the current media in Audio and MediaPlayer qml elements. |
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| Qt for Android |
| -------------- |
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| - New OpenSL ES plugin for low-latency audio support on Android. |
| - New camera support on Android. |
| - Improved video renderering with Qt Quick. |
| - Camera and recording permissions are now automatically added when using QtMultimedia on Android. |
| - [QTBUG-32635] Fixed media player buffering logic. |
| - [QTBUG-34558] Fix two race conditions in the media player. |
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| Qt for iOS |
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| - New media player and basic camera support on iOS. |
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| Qt for BlackBerry |
| ----------------- |
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| - Fix setting a URL containing reserved characters on a media player. |
| - Enable camera on the Playbook. |
| - New QAudioRecorder support. |
| - Fix video recording with BB 10.2. |
| - Improve camera focus handling. |
| - Fixed pixel aspect ratio for video windows. |
| - [QTBUG-33739] Fix camera viewfinder. |
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| Qt for Windows |
| -------------- |
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| - WMF: emit positionChanged() signal when reaching the end of a media. |
| - [QTBUG-30776] DirectShow: improve metadata support. |
| - [QTBUG-33631][QTBUG-33518] WMF: allow to load media whose content doesn't match its file extension. |
| - [QTBUG-33518] WMF: allow to load QRC files with QAudioDecoder. |
| - [QTBUG-30435] WMF: fixed the media player failing to play some media formats. |
| - [QTBUG-32360] WMF: fixed compilation with Visual Studio 2008. |
| - [QTBUG-34479] DirectShow: fixed compilation with Visual Studio 2008. |
| - [QTBUG-32864] WMF: fixed compilation on Windows Vista. |
| - [QTBUG-30825] WMF: fixed QMediaPlayer changing to EndOfMedia status too early. |
| - [QTBUG-33160] Fix QAudioOutput::setVolume() limited to 50% on 32-bit Windows. |
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| Qt for QNX |
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| - New camera and media player support when mmrenderer is available. |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Plugins * |
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| - New QML import version QtMultimedia 5.2 adds a new autoOrientation |
| property to the VideoOutput type, which allows the video output to |
| always match the screen orientation. |