| Qt 5.9 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes |
| over the 5.8.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 5.9 series is binary compatible with the 5.8.x series. |
| Applications compiled for 5.8 will continue to run with 5.9. |
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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 * |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| Important Changes |
| ----------------- |
| |
| - Configure options are now handled by the global configure script. This |
| means options previously controlled by WEBENGINE_CONFIG options should |
| now use configure flags. For instance the configure command-line option |
| -proprietary-codecs replaces WEBENGINE_CONFIG+=use_proprietary_codecs. |
| - [QTBUG-54650, QTBUG-59922] Accessibility is now disabled by default on |
| Linux, like it is in Chrome, due to poor options for enabling it |
| conditionally and its heavy performance impact. Set the environment |
| variable QTWEBENGINE_ENABLE_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY to enable it again. |
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| Chromium Snapshot |
| ----------------- |
| |
| - Updated the Chromium version to 56.0.2924.122. |
| - Security fixes from Chromium up to version 58.0.3029.96 |
| Including fixes for: CVE-2017-5029, CVE-2017-5032, CVE-2017-5033, |
| CVE-2017-5034, CVE-2017-5036, CVE-2017-5039, CVE-2017-5040, CVE-2017-5044, |
| CVE-2017-5045, CVE-2017-5046, CVE-2017-5052, CVE-2017-5053, CVE-2017-5055, |
| CVE-2017-5057, CVE-2017-5058, CVE-2017-5059, CVE-2017-5060, CVE-2017-5061, |
| CVE-2017-5062, CVE-2017-5065, CVE-2017-5066, CVE-2017-5067, CVE-2017-5068, |
| CVE-2017-5069 |
| - Changed the Chromium build-system to GN. |
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| Qt WebengineCore |
| ---------------- |
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| - [QTBUG-56531] Enabled filesystem: protocol handler. |
| - [QTBUG-57720] Optimized incremental scene-graph rendering in particular |
| for software rendering. |
| - [QTBUG-58362, QTBUG-60031] Fixed IME issues on Chinese and Japanese. |
| - [QTBUG-55766, QTBUG-58362, QTBUG-55766] Fixed selection and IME issues. |
| - [QTBUG-58982] Fixed crash on exit on macOS. |
| - [QTBUG-59127] Fixed movementX and movementY properties of mouse events. |
| - [QTBUG-59168] Fixed 5.8 regression in handling <input type="file">. |
| - [QTBUG-59407] Fixed black bar on some youtube videos with OpenGL disabled. |
| - [QTBUG-60049] Enabled brotli support. |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * APIs * |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| General |
| ------- |
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| - Took Q_ENUM to use on QtWebEngineWidgets interfaces. |
| - Added a setting to again allow insecure origins to request geolocation. |
| - [QTBUG-54053] Fixed support for macOS Airplay. |
| - [QTBUG-56677] Made printing to a PDF file emit the signal. |
| pdfPrintingFinished() in both QQuickWebEngineView and QWebEnginePage. |
| - [QTBUG-57354] Fixed font loading issue on macOS. |
| - [QTBUG-57924] Fixed assert on right-clicking Flash apps. |
| - [QTBUG-58037] Fixed drag and drop issues. |
| - [QTBUG-58488] Fixed window type of popups on X11. |
| - [QTBUG-58561] Stopped firing too many mousemove events. |
| - [QTBUG-58650] Fixed segfault when changing cookie policy. |
| - [QTBUG-58920] Fixed crash while dragging on Windows. |
| - [QTBUG-59053] Fixed a conflict with single letter short-cuts and |
| editable input fields. |
| - [QTBUG-59273] Now handles Qt::AA_UseSoftwareOpenGL. |
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| |
| DownloadItem |
| ------------ |
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| - [QTBUG-58155] Fixed that (QWebEngine)DownloadItem::path() incorrectly |
| returned percentage-encoded filenames when the suggested path was based |
| on a URL. Percentage-decoding the path is generally not only incorrect |
| when the path is not based on URL, but also dangerous as it can lead to |
| downloads that escape the download folder. |
| - [QTBUG-56839] Added a downloadInterruptReason property for interrupted |
| downloads to download items. |
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| |
| Qt WebEngine |
| ------------ |
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| - [QTBUG-51034] Added profile-wide user scripts like the widgets API has. |
| |
| |
| Qt WebEngineWidgets |
| ------------------- |
| |
| - [QTBUG-53314, QTBUG-53372] Added the QWebEngineHttpRequest class for |
| sending HTTP requests over the network using HTTP POST or with custom |
| HTTP headers. |
| - [QTBUG-58381] Fixed active tab bug (5.8 regression). |
| - [QTBUG-58515] Fixed issue with QWebEngineView::setFocus(). |
| - [QTBUG-58563] Fixed segfault when closing tab with active search. |
| - [QTBUG-58673] QWebEnginePage: Started calling the javaScriptConfirm |
| method also for unload dialogs (onbeforeunload handlers). |
| - [QTBUG-59599] Fixed QWebEngineHistory::currentItem() segfault. |
| - [QTBUG-60236] Fixed crash on exit with url-request interceptors. |