| 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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| - Greatly improved test coverage |
| - Added more documentation |
| - Fixed large number of bugs across all of Qt 3D |
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| Render |
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| - Texture system reworked to improve sharing of textures on the backend |
| and to minimize uploads to the GPU. |
| - Do not mirror texture coordinates or textures by default. |
| - Uniform handling system overhauled to remove usage of QVariant on the |
| backend. |
| - QRenderCapture framegraph node added to allow read back of the write |
| framebuffer to a QImage. |
| - Improved parallelisation of several job types. |
| - Improved parallelisation of OpenGL submission thread with building the |
| next frame. |
| - QObjectPicker is now also able to pick back facing triangles. |
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| Input |
| ----- |
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| - Added QAxisAccumulator to allow tracking and integration of QAxis values |
| by treating the axis values as velocity or acceleration values. |
| - Added concept of proxy devices to allow new device plugins to easily |
| enumerate axes and buttons. |
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| Extras |
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| - Various fixes to the geometry attributes |
