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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.
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* General *
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Chromium Snapshot
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- Updated the Chromium version to 77.0.3865.129
- Applied security fixes from Chrome up to version 78.0.3904.108
General
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- [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
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- [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.
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* Libraries *
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QtWebEngineCore
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- [QTBUG-75651] Added the QWebEngineUrlScheme::CorsEnabled flag for enabling
cross-origin resource sharing with custom schemes.
QtWebEngine + QtWebEngineWidgets
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- [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)
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- [QTBUG-50420] Introduced findTextFinished signal and FindTextResult
type to provide extra information about the result of a text search.
Qt WebEngineWidgets
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- 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.