| Qt 5.6.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward |
| compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 5.6.0. |
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| 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/qt-5/index.html |
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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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| 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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| - Chromium Snapshot: |
| * Security fixes from Chromium up to version 51.0.2704.63 |
| * [QTBUG-52602] Fixed devtools so it works with newer Chrome releases. |
| * [QTBUG-52085, QTBUG-53108] qrc urls can now load local files. |
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| - QtWebEngineCore: |
| * [QTBUG-52124] Fixed crashes due to multithreaded use of qputenv. |
| * [QTBUG-52216] Fixed access of labels of MediaStream tracks. |
| * [QTBUG-52715] Fixed copying images to clipboard. |
| * [QTBUG-51789] Fixed crashes when instantiating QCoreApplication. |
| * [QTBUG-52121] Ensured cookies are flushed to disk on exit. |
| * Fixed numerous race-conditions when changing profile settings and using |
| custom URL scheme handlers. |
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| - WebEnginePage: |
| * [QTBUG-48995] Stopped triggering extra urlChanged signals. |
| * [QTBUG-51319] Accepted certificate errors are now remembered correctly. |
| * [QTBUG-51851, QTBUG-51969] Fixed zoom behavior. |
| * [QTBUG-53033] Reset the selected text of a page when setHtml is called. |
| * Fixed memory leak in standardContextMenu() |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Platform Specific Changes * |
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| - Linux: |
| * NSS is now only used for certificate handling. BoringSSL is used |
| for SSL encryption like on OS X and Windows. |
| * [QTBUG-48298] Fixed compilation against old Linux kernel headers. |
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| - Windows: |
| * [QTBUG-51920] Fixed building on Japanese Windows. |
| * [QTBUG-50252] Fixed doubled characters when using IME. |
| * [QTBUG-51971] Fixed CommandLine initialization. |
| * [QTBUG-51847] Fixed compilation issue with moc. |
| * [QTBUG-46720] Added support for linking to QtWebEngine from a plugin. |
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| - OS X: |
| * [QTBUG-51939] Fixed QtWebEngineProcess not being found after |
| macdeployqt is used. |