| Qt 5.5 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes |
| over the 5.4.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 5.5 series is binary compatible with the 5.4.x series. |
| Applications compiled for 5.4 will continue to run with 5.5. |
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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: |
| * The Chromium version has been updated to 40.0.2214.115. |
| * The ninja version has been updated to 1.5.3. |
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| - Platform Support: |
| * Support for embedded Android has been removed from Qt WebEngine. |
| * [QTBUG-45796] Fix prefix build. |
| * Localization fixes and support for --lang command line switch |
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| - Web Features: |
| * Windows: WebGL and accelerated 2D Canvas are enabled, |
| when using an ANGLE-based Qt-build. |
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| * QtWebEngineQML * |
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| - QQuickWebEngineDownloadItem: |
| * A new API for handling downloads in QtQuick had been added. |
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| - QQuickWebEngineCertificateError: |
| * A new API for handling certificate errors has been added. |
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| - QQuickWebEngineProfile: |
| * Add a new API for profiles applying to groups of QQuickWebEnginePages. |
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| - QQuickWebEngineViewExperimental: |
| * The inspectable property has been replaced by an environment variable |
| QTWEBENGINE_REMOTE_DEBUGGING |
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| - QQuickWebEngineView: |
| * New API has been added to allow installing of user scripts. |
| * The findText function was moved to public API. |
| * Public API was added to react to javascript requestFullScreen. |
| * Support for HTML5 form validation has been added. |
| * The featurePermissionRequested API was made public. |
| * An integration for using QtWebChannel over chromium IPC has been added. |
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| * QtWebEngineWidgets * |
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| - QWebEngineDownloadItem: |
| * An API for handling downloads in Widgets has been added. |
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| - QWebEngineProfile: |
| * Add a new API for profiles applying to groups of QWebEnginePages. |
| * New API has been added to allow installing of user scripts. |
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| - QWebEnginePage: |
| * New API has been added to deal with certificate errors. |
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| - QWebEngineView: |
| * Support for HTML5 form validation was added. |
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| * Examples * |
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| - WebEngineWidgets Example Browser: |
| * [QTBUG-44633] Fix example on retina display. |
| * Re-add user stylesheets example. |
| * Private browsing mode has been re-introduced. |