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1Qt 4.6.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
2compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.6.0. For more details,
3refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The
4documentation is also available online:
5
6 http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6
7
8The Qt version 4.6 series is binary compatible with the 4.5.x series.
9Applications compiled for 4.5 will continue to run with 4.6.
10
11Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers
12corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker, the (now obsolete) Task
13Tracker, or the Merge Request queue of the public source repository.
14
15Qt Bug Tracker: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com
16Task Tracker: http://qt.nokia.com/developer/task-tracker
17Merge Request: http://qt.gitorious.org
18
19****************************************************************************
20* General *
21****************************************************************************
22
23Optimizations
24-------------
25
26 - Optimized empty QUrl creation
27 * [QTBUG-4030] Empty QUrls no longer allocate memory now
28
29 * See list of Important Behavior Changes below
30
31
32****************************************************************************
33* Library *
34****************************************************************************
35
36QtCore
37------
38
39 - QFile
40 * Improve performance of getting the canonical filename on Linux
41 and Symbian by using realpath() system call.
42 * Avoid stat() when opening a file.
43
44 - QLibrary and QPluginLoader
45 * Do not look at the Qt patch-level version embedded in plugins'
46 buildkeys when trying to determine if the plugin is compatible
47
48 - QProcessEnvironment
49 * [QTBUG-6701] Ensure we don't crash in operator==
50
51 - QTextEncoder
52 * [merge request 399] QTextEncoder::fromUnicode as QT3 support
53 member
54
55 - QXmlStreamreader
56 * [merge request 1926] Fix parsing of DTDs that contain empty markup
57 declarations.
58
59QtGui
60-----
61
62 - QApplication
63 * [QTBUG-6654] Fix crashes when deleting QWidgets in touch event
64 handlers.
65 - QGraphicsEffect
66 * [QTBUG-5918] Fixed redraw bugs when using graphics effects on
67 items while animating them by transformations.
68 - QGraphicsItem
69 * [QTBUG-5917] Fixed memory leaks when removing a QGraphicsEffect from
70 a QGraphicsItem or QWidget with setGraphicsEffect(0).
71 * [QTBUG-5859] Fixes incorrect rounding of the exposed rectangle of the
72 QGraphicsItem causing painting issues when scaling the QGraphicsView.
73 * [QTBUG-5071] Fixes transformation problems when grouping/ungrouping
74 the item with a QGraphicsItemGroup.
75 - QGraphicsObject
76 * 'id' property was removed. Use the 'objectName' property instead.
77 - QGraphicsScene
78 * [QTBUG-6654] Fix crashes when deleting QGraphicsItems in touch
79 event handlers.
80 - QGraphicsView
81 * [QTBUG-6935] When using CacheBackground, the background is now
82 correctly repainted after the QGraphicsView is shown after being
83 hidden.
84 * [QTBUG-6835] Mouse tracking is now automatically enabled when using
85 AnchorUnderMouse for view transformation.
86 * [QTBUG-6958] Fix speed regression in _q_polishItems()
87 * [QTBUG-6544] Fix a crash on the focus chain when removing items from
88 the scene.
89 * Fix a crash in KDE/Plasma with QGraphicsView with topLevels.
90 - QGraphicsWidget
91 * [QTBUG-6272] Only call updateFont if the font has changed.
92 - QPainter
93 * [QTBUG-5939] Fixed incorrect redirection matrix that was causing
94 wrong transformation for QGraphicsProxyWidgets.
95 * [QTBUG-6684] Added optimizations of 32-bit blend functions
96 for ARM platforms with NEON support.
97 - QPixmap
98 * load() and loadFromData() can now support compressed GL textures
99 in the DDS, ETC1, PVRTC2, and PVRTC4 formats if the OpenGL graphics
100 system is active and the appropriate extensions are present in the
101 GL implementation.
102 * [QTBUG-6840] Fixed load() to not modify referenced copies.
103 * [QTBUG-5840] Fixed a crash in fromImage() when passing in a null image.
104 * [QTBUG-6116] Fixed memory leak where a global object was not destroyed
105 at program exit.
106 - QPixmapCache
107 * Fixed a small leak when using the new QPixmapCache::Key based API.
108 - QPrinter
109 * [QTBUG-3412] QGraphicsProxyWidgets are now rendered correctly when
110 printing a QGraphicsScene to PDF format.
111 - QRasterPixmapData
112 * [QTBUG-6985] Fixed metric() to return the correct height in mm.
113 - QTextDocument
114 * [QTBUG-5397] Fixed printing of QTextDocuments not including custom
115 text objects.
116 * [QTBUG-6051] Fixed an endless loop when printing a QTextDocument.
117
118QtDBus
119------
120
121 - QDBusConnection
122 * [QTBUG-5979] Fixed the signal-delivery mechanism to update
123 correctly when the sender name changes/appears on the bus.
124 * [QTBUG-7041] Fixed marshalling of booleans in release mode.
125 * [QT-2307] Fixed calls with the QDBus::BlockWithGui mode.
126 - QDBusInterface
127 * Made it continue working even when the remote object
128 introspection fails.
129 - QDBusInterface and qdbuscpp2xml
130 * [QTBUG-5563] Fixed an issue with generating annotations in
131 signals.
132 - QDBusPendingReply and QDBusReply
133 * [QTBUG-6571] Fixed a crash that would happen if you tried to
134 make a call with a disconnected QDBusConnection.
135
136QtMultimedia
137------------
138
139 - QAudioOutput
140 * [Merge request 418] Fixed compilation the example provided for
141 QAudioOutput::start.
142
143QtNetwork
144---------
145
146 - QNetworkAccessManager
147 * HTTP: Send our locale with the HTTP request.
148 * HTTP: Start Accept-language and Authorization header with capital letter.
149 * HTTP: Fix caching algorithm, matching RFC 2612 and the documentation.
150 * HTTP [QTBUG-7060]: Fix an issue with headers like "private, max-age=300".
151 * file: Introduce special subclass for higher performance with file:// URLs.
152 - QTcpSocket
153 * [QTBUG-5799] Fix waitForConnected() on Windows.
154 - QNetworkProxyFactory
155 * Fixed systemProxyForQuery(), it could sometimes return invalid empty list
156 on Windows.
157 - QNetworkCookieJar
158 * [QTBUG-5815] Do not check paths when accepting cookies.
159 - QHostInfo
160 * Use five parallel threads for host lookup instead of one.
161
162QtOpenGL
163--------
164
165 - QGL2PaintEngineEx
166 * Performance: Don't mark brush as dirty if it hasn't changed.
167 * Performance: Use 3x3 PMV matrices rather than 4x4.
168 * Performance: Move the 0.5 offset we add for aliased rendering to
169 updateMatrix().
170 * Performance: Remove superfluous enable/disable vertex attrib arrays.
171 * Performance: Track the glVertexAttribPointer and only update it if it's
172 changed.
173 * [QTBUG-7094] Introduce new "snapToPixelGrid" flag for drawText.
174 - QGLContext
175 * bindTexture(QString) now supports DDS, ETC1, PVRTC2, and PVRTC4
176 compressed textures if the appropriate extensions are present
177 in the GL implementation.
178 * bindTexture(QImage): Reduce double-copying of textures when flipping.
179 * [QTBUG-6454] Better EGL extension checking to avoid prefix problems
180 with EGL_foo matching EGL_foo_bar.
181 * [QTBUG-6217] Work around problems with glColor4ub() on Intel Q45/Q43
182 Express by consistently using glColor4f() everywhere.
183 * bindTexture(QImage): Fix GL_BGRA formats under OpenGL/ES by using
184 the same value for both internal and external texture formats.
185 * [QTBUG-5041] Disable depth testing while in renderText().
186 - QGLEngineSelector
187 * [QTBUG-5638] Detect GL2 based on fragment shaders, not programs.
188 Fragment programs are a GL1 feature.
189 - QGLFramebufferObject
190 * [QTBUG-6712] Update docs to better explain how QPainter changes
191 the GL state when used on an FBO.
192 - QGLGlyphCache
193 * [QTBUG-6936] Fix memory leak of QGLGlyphCoord objects.
194 - QGLPaintDevice
195 * [QTBUG-6204] Rebind window surface FBO after native GL rendering.
196 - QGLPixmapData
197 * [QTBUG-6902] Align GL_RGB data on a 4-byte line boundary.
198 - QGLWidget
199 * [QTBUG-5002, QTBUG-6931] Fixed QGLWidget::renderText().
200 * Fixed WA_TranslucentBackground for QGLWidgets on X11/EGL.
201 * Fix EGL surface leaks when re-parenting on X11/EGL.
202 - QTriangulatingStroker
203 * [QTBUG-6045] Crash in dashed line handling in the GL stroker.
204
205QtOpenVG
206--------
207
208 - [QT-2555] Automatically destroy VG pixmaps when the last window surface
209 goes away to reduce memory consumption of backgrounded applications.
210 - [QTBUG-6639] Recover from out-of-memory when creating VGImage's.
211 - [QT-2554] Add a VGImage allocation pool to support reclaiming older
212 images when the GPU runs out of memory.
213 - [QTBUG-7051] Reset the OpenVG scissor after a native painting call-out.
214 - [QTBUG-7015] Avoid deep copies of QImage in QImage::bits() calls.
215
216QtWebKit
217--------
218
219 - Fixed user agent string on Symbian (webkit.org/b/31961).
220 - QWebInspector: Don't disable when hiding (webkit.org/b/31851).
221 - Fix JavaScript prompt behaviour for empty/null strings (webkit.org/b/30914).
222 - Fixed lastIndexOf() on Symbian (webkit.org/b/31773).
223 - Fixed crash with Flash on Windows with MinGW.
224 - Fixed wrapping of QObjects with recurring identity (webkit.org/b/31681).
225 - Fixed compilation with ICC.
226 - Fixed assertion when dragging SVG images (webkit.org/b/32511).
227 - Added the framecapture example to the default build (merge request 2235)
228 - Fixed crash with ACID3 test on Symbian
229 - Fixed security issue XSL stylesheets and security origins.
230
231QtSql
232-----
233
234 - [QTBUG-5373] Fixed QSqlRelationalTableModel doesn't correctly work with
235 relation in other database schema.
236 - [QTBUG-5298] (OCI) Fixed QSqlDatabase.tables() does not work with system
237 tables.
238 - [QTBUG-6421] Fixed setForwardOnly() for both OCI and SQLite.
239 - [QTBUG-6618] (ODBC) Fixed segfault when error string is larger than 256
240 chars.
241 - [QTBUG-4461] (OCI) Fixed problem with clobs being handled as binary.
242
243QtSvg
244-----
245
246 - QSvgRenderer
247 * [QTBUG-6867] Fixed regression in the parsing of paths with relative
248 offsets.
249 * [QTBUG-6899] Fixed crash when parsing invalid coordinate list.
250
251Qt Plugins
252----------
253
254 - JPEG plugin
255 * Remove obsolete parameter string handling.
256 * [QT-2023] Re-implement ScaledSize, ClipRect, ScaledClipRect with
257 libjpeg features for greater performance.
258 - PBM plugin
259 * [QTBUG-6937] Use Mono instead of MonoLSB when writing pbm files.
260 - TIFF plugin
261 * [QTBUG-6870] BitsPerSample should default to 1 in TIFF files.
262 - PNG plugin
263 * [QTBUG-7161] Avoid a deep copy of QImage::bits() in the png writer.
264
265
266****************************************************************************
267* Platform Specific Changes *
268****************************************************************************
269
270Qt for Unix (X11 and Mac OS X)
271------------------------------
272
273 - [QTBUG-6755] Ensure we don't call select(2) with a negative timeout
274 if the timer expires during timeout recalculation.
275 - Added mkspecs for Sun CC that enable -library=stlport by default,
276 to restore STL capability with that compiler.
277 - [QTBUG-6576] Fixed compilation on HP-UX 11.11.
278 - [QTBUG-6961] Fixed compilation on HURD.
279
280Qt for Linux/X11
281----------------
282
283 - [QTBUG-5732] Fixed querying of GLX extensions under X11.
284 - [QTBUG-5547] Fixed handling of the "..." button.
285 - Added new mkspec for Maemo targets (linux-g++-maemo).
286 - Added new mkspec for Scratchbox host compiler (unsupported/linux-host-g++).
287 - QGuiEventDispatcherGlib (internal class)
288 * Fix regression introduced in 4.6.0 that could cause X11 event
289 processing to starve timer events.
290 - QFileSystemWatcher
291 * [QTBUG-4840] Fix memory leak in the dnotify implementation.
292 - QIcon
293 * [QTBUG-6121] Fixed a problem causing svg-based icon themes to look fuzzy.
294 - QGtkStyle
295 * [QTBUG-6484] Ensure that gtk-enable-mnemonics is respected.
296
297Qt for Windows
298--------------
299
300 - [QTBUG-5145] Compile fixes for win32-icc.
301 - QAtomicPointer
302 * [QTBUG-6079] Fix compilation for 64-bit Windows targets.
303 - QEventDispatchWin32 (internal class)
304 * [QTBUG-6083] Fix a performance regression introduced in 4.6.0
305 that would cause all Qt posted events to be sent at 15-16ms
306 intervals (instead of as quickly as possible).
307 - Vista/XP styles
308 * [QTBUG-6271] Fixed a compatibility issue with MDI windows in
309 certain non-standard themes.
310
311Qt for Mac OS X
312---------------
313
314 - QPixmap
315 * [QTBUG-5070] Fixed a crash on Mac that could occur when loading
316 pixmaps of different sizes into the same QPixmap object.
317 - [QTBUG-6973] Fixed a memory leak when using QWidget::setWindowIcon() in
318 Carbon.
319 - [QTBUG-5186] Fixed a bug which caused drag and drop icons to show
320 incorrectly.
321 - [QTBUG-6636] Fixed a crash due to stack overflow in QColorDialog on Cocoa.
322 - [QTBUG-6378] Fix a text cursor rendering bug.
323 - [QTBUG-6636] Fixed a crash when calling removeToolBar on Mac native toolbars
324 using Cocoa.
325 - [QTBUG-5613] Fixed a bug where the application refused to quit when showing
326 a single modal dialog.
327 - Gestures are now available for the Carbon port also when building Qt against
328 SDK < 10.6
329
330Qt for Symbian
331--------------
332
333 - QApplication
334 * [QTBUG-6098] Added a flag to avoid construction of application panes.
335 - Other:
336 * [QTBUG-4990] Rewrote most of the regular pointer handling.
337
338
339****************************************************************************
340* Tools *
341****************************************************************************
342
343 - Designer
344 * [QTBUG-6863] Fixed static linking on Mac.
345 * [QTBUG-6760] Fixed display of action shortcut in action editor.
346 * [QTBUG-6505] Fixed handling of QHeaderView properties.
347 * [QTBUG-5335] Fixed handling of layout margins of custom containers.
348
349 - uic
350 * [QTBUG-5824] Fixed code generation to generate a call to
351 QMainWindow::setCentralWidget() for promoted widgets as well.
352
353****************************************************************************
354* Important Behavior Changes *
355****************************************************************************
356
357 - Phonon
358 * Include headers have been changed. The only official method for
359 including Phonon headers is <phonon/ClassName> or
360 <phonon/classname.h>. This change was necessary because of
361 frameworks on Mac.
362
363 Compatibility is provided for <Phonon/*> includes, but is not
364 guaranteed to work. Including <phonon> and <Phonon> is not
365 supported.
366
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