| 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 |
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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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| http://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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| * Important Behavior Changes * |
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| - For security reasons, MNG and JPEG 2000 handlers will no longer be |
| built by default, unless the required codec library is found on the |
| system. I.e., the bundled 3rd party libraries will by default not be |
| used. In practice, this means that the qmng and qjp2 handlers will |
| not be present by default. |
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| The reason is that upstream development of those codes libraries has |
| stalled, so security issues are not addressed. |
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| Users who still want these handlers using the bundled libraries can |
| easily build them from the source projects: |
| src/plugins/imageformats/jp2/jp2.pro |
| src/plugins/imageformats/mng/mng.pro |
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| * General * |
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| - Bundled libwebp updated to version 0.4.4. |
| - Bundled libtiff updated to version 4.0.6. |