| Qt 5.7.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward |
| compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 5.7.0. |
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| Qt 5.7.1 contains a merge from Qt 5.6.2 and all changes in Qt 5.6.2 are |
| also in Qt 5.7.1. For more see changes-5.6.2. |
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| Qt 5.7 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes |
| over the 5.6.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 5.7 series is binary compatible with the 5.6.x series. |
| Applications compiled for 5.6 will continue to run with 5.7. |
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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 * |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| - Chromium Snapshot: |
| * Security fixes from Chromium up to version 54.0.2840.87 |
| Including: CVE-2016-5133, CVE-2016-5147, CVE-2016-5153, CVE-2016-5155, |
| CVE-2016-5161, CVE-2016-5166, CVE-2016-5170, CVE-2016-5171, |
| CVE-2016-5172, CVE-2016-5181, CVE-2016-5185, CVE-2016-5186, |
| CVE-2016-5187, CVE-2016-5188, CVE-2016-5192, CVE-2016-5198 |
| * Support for macOS 10.12 Sierra |
| * Various backported crash and assert fixes |
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| - QtWebEngineCore: |
| * [QTBUG-51244, QTBUG-54795] Fixed select control issues |
| * Fixed several focus issues. |
| * Fixed regression with fine-grained wheel events. |
| * [QTBUG-54221] Fixed editing short-cuts in plugins. |
| * [QTBUG-54222] Fixed potential infinite loop on history load. |
| * Fixed Flash plugin clipboard access. |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Platform Specific Changes * |
| **************************************************************************** |
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| - Linux: |
| * [QTBUG-55367] Fixed reading timezone when running sandboxed |
| * Fixed crash when using Wayland QPA |
| * Improved OpenGL check, so EGL/GLES2 mode can be used with Desktop |
| OpenGL if the driver has th ARB_ES2_compatibility extension. |
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| - Windows: |
| * [QTBUG-52201, QTBUG-55501, QTBUG-56020] Fixed crashes and asserts |
| upon initialization of the global shared OpenGL context. |