| Qt 5.14 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes |
| over the 5.13.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation |
| included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: |
| |
| https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html |
| |
| The Qt version 5.14 series is binary compatible with the 5.13.x series. |
| Applications compiled for 5.13 will continue to run with 5.14. |
| |
| Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers |
| corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker: |
| |
| https://bugreports.qt.io/ |
| |
| Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more |
| information about a particular change. |
| |
| **************************************************************************** |
| * General * |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| Chromium Snapshot |
| ----------------- |
| |
| - Updated the Chromium version to 77.0.3865.129 |
| - Applied security fixes from Chrome up to version 78.0.3904.108 |
| |
| General |
| ------- |
| |
| - [QTBUG-71885] Qt WebEngine will now use the Viz Display Compositor by |
| default when multithreaded OpenGL is available. Can be turned off using |
| the command line flag --disable-viz-display-compositor. |
| - [QTBUG-68448] WebRTC devices now have persistent IDs. |
| - [QTBUG-76173] Support qrc protocol in UrlPattern. |
| - [QTBUG-78280] Fixed permissions preventing Flash from showing. |
| - [QTBUG-79319] Fixed loading script as modules over custom schemes. |
| - [QTBUG-80352] Updated paths to look for Chrome's Widevine plugin. |
| |
| Platforms |
| --------- |
| |
| - [QTBUG-78911] Fixed building with newer system ICU. Minimum is now 64. |
| - [QTBUG-79347] Fixed support for prefers-color-scheme CSS query. |
| - [QTBUG-80055] Re-enabled X11 WebRTC support for desktop sharing. |
| - [QTBUG-77072,QTBUG-78084] Fixed flashing when closing popup on macOS. |
| |
| |
| **************************************************************************** |
| * Libraries * |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| QtWebEngineCore |
| ---------------- |
| |
| - [QTBUG-75651] Added the QWebEngineUrlScheme::CorsEnabled flag for enabling |
| cross-origin resource sharing with custom schemes. |
| |
| |
| QtWebEngine + QtWebEngineWidgets |
| -------------------------------- |
| |
| - [QTBUG-55079,QTBUG-74166] Added lifecycle API to WebEngineView and |
| QWebEnginePage that can be used to reduce CPU and memory consumption |
| of non-visible views. |
| - [QTBUG-56978] Added functions and property to get the suggested download |
| file name. |
| - [QTBUG-56978] Added functions and property to change the download |
| directory and file name in QWebEngineDownloadItem and |
| QQuickWebEngineDownloadItem and deprecate the path() and setPath(). |
| - [QTBUG-74490] Redirects now have a separate navigation type. |
| |
| |
| Qt WebEngine (QML) |
| ------------------ |
| |
| - [QTBUG-50420] Introduced findTextFinished signal and FindTextResult |
| type to provide extra information about the result of a text search. |
| |
| |
| Qt WebEngineWidgets |
| ------------------- |
| |
| - QWebEngineCertificateError: |
| * [QTBUG-51176] New method to get the peer's chain of digital certificates. |
| * [QTBUG-55110] New methods for asynchronous decision on certificate error |
| during load. |
| - [QTBUG-78998] Store favicon URL when serializing QWebEngineHistory. |
