| Qt 5.6.3 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward |
| compatibility (source and binary) with previous Qt 5.6.x releases. |
| |
| 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 |
| |
| 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/ |
| |
| Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more |
| information about a particular change. |
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| ***************************************************************************** |
| * License Changes * |
| ***************************************************************************** |
| |
| - Static libraries that are linked into executables (winmain and |
| qopenglextensions) are now licensed under BSD _and_ commercial licenses. |
| |
| ****************************************************************************** |
| * Important Behavior Changes * |
| ****************************************************************************** |
| |
| - QPluginLoader: |
| * [QTBUG-49061] QPluginLoader no longer performs the actual unloading of |
| the plugin either on destruction or when unload() is called. This does |
| not affect QLibrary and QLibrary::unload(). |
| |
| ****************************************************************************** |
| * Library * |
| ****************************************************************************** |
| |
| QtCore |
| ------ |
| |
| - QDir: |
| * [QTBUG-58390] Fixed the implementation of mkpath() to not attempt to |
| mkdir directories that already exist, especially those in automount |
| filesystems (like /home). |
| |
| - QHash / QMultiHash: |
| * [QTBUG-60395] Fixed a bug that caused operator== not to return true if |
| two containers had the elements with duplicate keys but in different |
| order. |
| |
| - QLocale: |
| * [QTBUG-59159] Fixed the parsing of day-of-week names that start with the |
| name of another day. |
| |
| - QObject: |
| * [QTBUG-59500] disconnectNotify() is now called when a connection is |
| disconnected using its QMetaObject::Connection handle. |
| * [QTBUG-52439] Fixed a bug that would cause applications compiled with the |
| Intel compiler to fail to connect signals and slots. |
| |
| - QUrl: |
| * [QTBUG-60364] Fixed a bug that caused certain domain names that look |
| like Internationalized Domain Names to become corrupt in decoded forms |
| of QUrl, notably toString() and toDisplayString(). |
| * Updated the table of valid top level domains |
| |
| - QVarLengthArray: |
| * Fixed a bug involving appending an item already in the container to |
| the container again. |
| * [QTBUG-57277] Fixed a crash when initializing the array with an empty |
| std::initializer_list. |
| |
| QtSql |
| ----- |
| |
| - MySql |
| * Fixed the build of MySql plugin with MySql 5.0 |
| * [QTBUG-53397] Fixed the parsing of tinyint(1) when used via prepared |
| statements. |
| |
| - PostgreSQL: |
| * [QTBUG-59524] Fixed datetime formats when the system locale doesn't use |
| arabic numerals |
| |
| QtDBus |
| ------ |
| |
| - QDBusServer |
| * [QTBUG-55087] Fixed a bug causing certain messages that arrive soon after |
| the client connects not to be processed. |
| |
| QtNetwork |
| --------- |
| |
| - QNetworkInterface |
| * Fixed the reporting of virtual interfaces on Linux. |
| |
| - QSslSocket |
| * [QTBUG-43388][QTBUG-55170] Fixed a bug that caused the read buffer's max |
| size not to be respected when using SecureTransport |
| * [QTBUG-49554] Made sure that the QSslConfiguration is up-to-date when the |
| QNetworkReply::encrypted() signal is emitted. |
| |
| QtGui |
| ----- |
| |
| - Various fixes to our high DPI support. |
| |
| - CSS parser: |
| * [QTBUG-53919] Fixed a crash while parsing malformed CSS. |
| |
| - PDF writer: |
| * [QTBUG-56489] Monochrome images are now handled correctly. |
| |
| - QImage: |
| * Fixed a crash when rendering to GrayScale8 images. |
| * [QTBUG-56252] Fixed an illegal memory access when rotating images. |
| * [QTBUG-59211] Improved rejection of corrupt images with invalid header |
| info. |
| |
| - QMatrix4x4: |
| * operator*=() now calculates the correct result even if the RHS and LHS |
| are the same object. |
| |
| - QPainter |
| * [QTBUG-14614] Fixed a read-after-free when using gradients. |
| * [QTBUG-56969] Fixed painting artifacts for certain dashed lines. |
| |
| - Text: |
| * [QTBUG-55222] Always return a correct list of fallback fonts |
| * [QTBUG-55255][QTBUG-56714] Trailing whitespace are now properly taken |
| into account when shaping lines |
| * [QTBUG-53911] Fixed a crash that could happen if you were doing many |
| different text layouts with different fonts and superscript or |
| subscript alignment. |
| * [QTBUG-56659] Fixed a regression where raster fonts on Windows were |
| detected as smoothly scalable and thus rendering with said fonts in Qt |
| Quick would break. |
| * [QTBUG-51223] Fixed synthesized oblique for non-latin text on |
| platforms using the basic font database, such as Android. |
| * [QTBUG-56714] Fixed a bug where a no-break space would sometimes cause |
| the first character of the containing line to not be displayed. |
| * [QTBUG-48005] Fixed clipping errors and too small bounding rects for |
| some right-to-left text. |
| * [QTBUG-57241] Fixed a crash for very tall glyphs. |
| * [QTBUG-55569] Fixed Myanmar rendering with some fonts. |
| * [QTBUG-56659] Fixed the reporting of whether fonts are smoothly scalable |
| on Windows. |
| * [QTBUG-58364][QTBUG-42074][QTBUG-57003] Formatting characters are now |
| accepted as valid input. |
| |
| QtWidgets |
| --------- |
| |
| - Input: |
| * [QTBUG-42074][QTBUG-57003] Characters in Private Use Area, as well as |
| zero-width joiners and zero-width non-joiners are now accepted as input |
| in QLineEdit and QTextEdit. |
| |
| - QDockWidget: |
| * [QTBUG-7460][QTBUG-52354] Size of widgets no longer changed just because |
| they are in a floating dock. |
| * [QTBUG-58036] Dock widgets now have the correct parent after a drag. |
| * [QTBUG-58049] Fixed clearing the dock indicator when not over a floating |
| dock group window. |
| |
| - QMainWindow: |
| * [QTBUG-56628] Fixed crash using takeCentralWidget when the central |
| widget was not set. |
| |
| - QPixmapStyle: |
| * Now handles progress bars with minimum != 0 correctly. |
| |
| - QPopup |
| * [QTBUG-57292] Popups blocked by modal dialogs are now properly closed. |
| |
| - QTextEdit |
| * [QTBUG-55758] Placeholder text is no longer shown while composing text. |
| |
| - QTooltip: |
| * [QTBUG-55523] QTooltip is now properly hidden when a close event is |
| received. |
| * [QTBUG-55523] Tooltips no longer prevent closing of the app on |
| lastWindowClosed() |
| |
| - QWidget: |
| * [QTBUG-50589] Show and hide events are now properly sent to children on |
| minimize/restore. |
| * [QTBUG-53068] Fixed enter/leave events on popup menus. |
| |
| - Style sheets: |
| * [QTBUG-55597] Now honors the font set on HeaderView section. |
| |
| ****************************************************************************** |
| * Platform-specific Changes * |
| ****************************************************************************** |
| |
| Android |
| ------- |
| |
| - [QTBUG-44697] Removed old work-around which was causing OpenGL shader |
| compilation to fail on updated Android emulators. |
| |
| Darwin |
| ------ |
| |
| - [QTBUG-61034] QT_NO_EXCEPTIONS is now correctly set for Objective C++ |
| source files. |
| - [QTBUG-57165] Made QDir::tempPath() return the same directory as |
| NSTemporaryDirectory, instead of a hardcoded "/tmp". |
| - [QTBUG-55896] Fixed a bug that would cause QFileSystemWatcher to fail to |
| watch certain paths containing non-ASCII characters. |
| - [QTBUG-56124] Fixed a bug that would cause data corruption in QSettings |
| when storing QStrings containing NULs, when storing to native format. |
| |
| - iOS specific: |
| * Starting from iOS 10, Apple requires all apps that need access to photos |
| to have the key 'NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription' in the Info.plist. |
| Therefore, to get the same support in Qt (when, e.g., using a file |
| dialog), the Info.plist assigned to QMAKE_INFO_PLIST will need this key |
| as well. |
| * [QTBUG-49893] The shortcuts bar on iPad is now hidden when showing menus. |
| |
| - macOS specific: |
| * Speech to text dictation now works for Qt text input. |
| * Various bug fixes to menu bar handling. |
| |
| QNX |
| --- |
| |
| - Qt can now handle more than 256 file descriptors open in the same process, |
| up to a limit of 1000. |
| |
| WinRT |
| ----- |
| |
| - Various fixes in our event and timer handling. |
| |
| X11 |
| --- |
| |
| - [QTBUG-55942] Qt::WindowNoState event is no longer sent when hiding |
| minimized windows. |
| - [QTBUG-49645] Fixed keyboard modifier state for drops from external apps. |
| - [QTBUG-48795] Fixed the keyboard state when processing key events. |
| |
| ****************************************************************************** |
| * Compiler Specific Changes * |
| ****************************************************************************** |
| |
| Visual Studio |
| ------------- |
| |
| - Visual Studio 2017 is now supported. |
| - [QTBUG-56594] PDB files are now properly generated even for static builds. |
| |
| ****************************************************************************** |
| * Tools * |
| ****************************************************************************** |
| |
| configure |
| --------- |
| |
| - Fixed builds that explicitly asked for -sdk iphoneos. |
| - [QTBUG-56388] Fixed the detection of the Microsoft compiler version when |
| the CL environment variable was set or when the compiler was configured to |
| another language (other than English). |
| |
| qmake |
| ----- |
| |
| - [QTBUG-55505] Fixed an issue with iOS when the project path had a |
| whitespace. |
| - [QTBUG-56289] When cross-compiling on Windows to Unix targets, qmake no |
| longer generates chmod calls. |
| - [QTBUG-53905] Fixed qmake not to run moc twice on Objective C++ sources |
| listed in the OBJECTIVE_SOURCES variable. |
| - [QTBUG-56507] Fixed builds where a lex source refers to a file generated |
| by yacc. |
| - [QTBUG-57090][Darwin] Fixed the installation of asset catalog files. |
| |
| qdbusxml2cpp |
| ------------ |
| |
| - [QTBUG-21577] Fixed the generation of signals when the direction argument |
| was inverted from expected. |