| Qt 5.8 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes |
| over the 5.7.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 5.8 series is binary compatible with the 5.7.x series. |
| Applications compiled for 5.7 will continue to run with 5.8. |
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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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| |
| - Important Changes: |
| * The enum value ResourceTypeUnknown has changed value because there was |
| a mismatch between 5.6 and 5.7+ definitions. In general any unknown |
| ResourceType value should be handled as unknown for forward |
| compatibility, because more types are and can be added in later |
| Qt versions. |
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| - Chromium Snapshot: |
| * The Chromium version has been updated to 53.0.2785.148. |
| * Security fixes from Chromium up to version 55.0.2883.75 |
| Including fixes for: CVE-2016-5181, CVE-2016-5182, CVE-2016-5183, |
| CVE-2016-5185, CVE-2016-5186, CVE-2016-5187, CVE-2016-5189, |
| CVE-2016-5192, CVE-2016-5199, CVE-2016-5201, CVE-2016-5203, |
| CVE-2016-5204, CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5206, CVE-2016-5208, |
| CVE-2016-5207, CVE-2016-5210, CVE-2016-5211, CVE-2016-5212, |
| CVE-2016-5213, CVE-2016-5214, CVE-2016-5215. CVE-2016-5216, |
| CVE-2016-5217, CVE-2016-5218, CVE-2016-5219, CVE-2016-5221, |
| CVE-2016-5222, CVE-2016-5223, CVE-2016-5224, CVE-2016-5225, |
| CVE-2016-9650 and CVE-2016-9651 |
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| - General: |
| * Spellchecking support has been introduced. |
| * Build time options can now be controlled via arguments to the global |
| configure script or app. |
| * [QTBUG-52999] Added focusOnNavigationEnabled setting which allows |
| controlling whether a web view will receive focus on a navigation |
| request. Previously the view always received the focus. |
| * [QTBUG-54902] Added setting to allow secure content to run insecure |
| content. |
| * [QTBUG-54918] Printing will now include the CSS background of the |
| printed elements by default. This restores the default behavior from Qt |
| WebKit. It can be controlled via the PrintElementBackgrounds web |
| setting. |
| * Some chrome:// URLs are now supported. For instance chrome://gpu. |
| * [QTBUG-53042] Pepper Flash glyph draw is now supported. |
| * A DownloadType has been added to download items. |
| * Greasemonkey attributes are now supported in user scripts. |
| * [QTBUG-55766] Added support for colored underline and background |
| to InputMethodEvent. |
| * Qt no-opengl builds are now supported. |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Qt WebEngine[QML] * |
| **************************************************************************** |
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| - General: |
| * [QTBUG-53467][QTBUG-51177] Qt WebEngine (QML) now optionally uses Qt |
| Quick 2 Controls to show standard dialogs. |
| * [QTBUG-51190] Added ability to provide custom dialogs for HTTP and |
| proxy authentication, JavaScript alerts, file and color picking, and |
| form validation messages. |
| * [QTBUG-52554] Added ability to show custom context menu. |
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| - QQuickWebEngineView: |
| * ToolTip (HTML title attributes) are now handled. |
| * View Source feature is now supported. |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Qt WebEngineWidgets * |
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| - Scenegraph Integration: |
| * Using the software rasterizing scenegraph backend is now supported. |
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| - Printing: |
| * Enables printing QWebPage content on a QPrinter. Currently does not |
| support previewing the document. Widgets only for the moment. |
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| - QWebEnginePage: |
| * Introduced a new save method to save a page to a predefined location. |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Platform Specific Changes * |
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| - Linux: |
| * Pepper Flash is now also searched for in /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/ |
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| - Windows: |
| * MSVC2015 and Windows 10 SDK are now required. |
