1 Qt 4.7.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
2 compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.7.0. For more details,
3 refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The
4 documentation is also available online:
6 http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.7
8 The Qt version 4.7 series is binary compatible with the 4.6.x series.
9 Applications compiled for 4.6 will continue to run with 4.7.
11 Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers
12 corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker, the (now obsolete) Task
13 Tracker, or the Merge Request queue of the public source repository.
15 Qt Bug Tracker: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com
16 Merge Request: http://qt.gitorious.org
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25 - Improved the benchmarking library's timing code
26 * Uses a faster access to the system clock
28 - Introduction of SSSE3 for alpha blending of images.
30 - On x86 and 86_64, the memory access has been improved for alpha blending
31 and for some composition functions.
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42 * [QTBUG-13079] Fix assignment of a container included in the container
45 - QEventDispatcherUnix
46 * [QTBUG-13633] Do not process too many timer events if other events need
47 to be processed first.
50 * [QT-3825] System libraries are only loaded from the system directories.
53 * [QTBUG-11213] QUuid::createUuid() should not generate identical sequences
61 * [QT-3633] Wrong bounding rect.
64 * [QTBUG-3633, QT-3828] Wrong children bounding rect when applying effects.
67 * [QT-3674] Spurious assert triggered from render().
70 * [QTBUG-13188] Make sure a font that has propagated from a parent can
72 * [QT-3808] Issues when applying effects in combination with
73 ItemHasNoContents flag.
76 * [QTBUG-13125] Fixed a regression with custom itemview background color.
79 * [QTBUG-13520] Fixed the scrolling of text with right alignment.
82 * [QTBUG-13429] Fixed scale point drawing with square cap in the raster
83 engine, plus some potential floating point overflows in the rasterizer.
84 * Optimized pixmap drawing with SmoothPixmapTransform.
87 * The scaleFactor and totalScaleFactor now represent a value that allows
88 an object to track a touchpoint during a Pinch Gesture even when using
89 sequences for zooming.
90 Therefore the scale factors are initialized to 1.0 and for every new
91 sequence the totalScaleFactor is multiplied with the scaleFactor of the
95 * [QTBUG-12560] Fixed a regression preventing loading images without
99 * [QTBUG-12614] Fix crash with zero-width string.
100 * [QTBUG-12540] Fix rendering of large glyphs with OpenGL2 paint engine.
103 * [QTBUG-13567] Do not scroll to top if last item is removed.
109 * [QTBUG-11586] Support audio with more than two channels.
110 * [QTBUG-11755] Fixed outputing audio in push mode with ALSA.
111 * [QTBUG-11883] Fixed segmentation fault when closing a QAudioInput or
118 * Improved reliability on Symbian and Maemo.
119 * Added connman/meego backend.
121 * Disable on Symbian until OpenC properly supports it.
123 * [QTBUG-13265] Fixed crash with empty configuration.
125 * [QTBUG-12489] Support dates > 2049.
126 - QNetworkAccessManager
127 * [QTBUG-12285] Crash fix related to aborted uploads.
133 * Fixed drawing a large number of glyphs with the same font on systems
134 with small texture size limits.
139 * Fixed a crash when parsing invalid tag names.
144 - XML Schema internals:
145 * [QTBUG-11559] Only parse 3 digits of time fraction.
151 * [QTBUG-13799] QML core module renamed to QtQuick to decouple it from Qt
152 releases. Old "import Qt 4.7" will co-exist with "import QtQuick 1.0' at
153 least during Qt 4.7 releases.
154 * [QTBUG-13047] Support passing QObject derived types to QML methods.
155 * [QTBUG-12837] Support JS "in" operator on QML objects.
156 * [QTBUG-13045] Prevent calling deleteLater() from QML.
157 * [QTBUG-13043] Ignore non-scriptable properties in QML.
158 * [QTBUG-13114] Don't double call classBegin().
159 * [QTBUG-12946] Ensure the onDestruction handlers are called before the
160 expressions are cleared.
161 * [QTBUG-12599] Re-enabled script program caching on Symbian.
162 * [QTBUG-13374] Don't modify the signal order on the second dynamic meta
164 * Support for qsTrId and meta-data in comments for QML.
166 * [QTBUG-5162] The debugger is now activated with -qmljsdebugger command
167 line arg to enable support for platforms without environment variables.
168 * Various improvements to ease debugging in creator.
170 * [QTBUG-13398] Fix AnchorAnimation for multiple AnchorChanges with
173 * [QTBUG-11834] Restore any absolute geometry changed by AnchorChanges when
174 returning to the base state.
176 * [QTBUG-13170] Complete Component::createObject() creation after setting
179 * [QTBUG-13166] GridView.view property should not be writable.
181 * [QTBUG-13095] Ensure Flickable visibleArea is updated when view height
183 * [QTBUG-13176] Avoid Flickable view jumping when drag threashold is
185 * [QTBUG-13078] Fix poor flicking behavior with slower flicks.
186 * Handle QGraphicsWidgets in Flickable.
188 * [QTBUG-12649] Make sure onFocusChanged is correctly emitted for items
191 * [QTBUG-13419] Don't add the same font to the font database multiple
194 * [QTBUG-13454] Changing the Image 'source' no longer goes through the
195 'Loading' state if the image is cached.
196 * [QTBUG-13383] Do not reset sourceSize when changing image source url.
197 * [QTBUG-13002] Setting one dimension of the sourceSize should set the other
199 * [QTBUG-12302] Fix remote image url redirects are done in the right thread.
200 * Ensure all image states are updated before emitting statusChanged signals.
202 * [QTBUG-12363] Modifying an object returned by ListModel.get(0) didn't
204 * [QTBUG-13666] Calling set() and setProperty() on ListModel from a
205 WorkerScript didn't update the view.
206 * Fix Worker ListModel to emit the right signal when items change.
207 * Fix crash with invalid role indexes.
208 * improved ListModel error messages.
210 * [QTBUG-13664] Models with a single role didn't always update correctly.
211 * [QTBUG-13543] Ensure flickable velocity is updated when view is moved by
213 * [QTBUG-12664] Ensure highlight is positioned correctly in
214 positionViewAtIndex().
215 * [QTBUG-13166] Fix ListView.view attached property with VisualItemModel.
216 * [QTBUG-13039] Fix crash in synchronization of ListModel in WorkerThread.
217 * [QTBUG-11341] Flicking a ListView sometimes made it lose focus.
218 * [QTBUG-13166] ListView.view property should not be writable.
220 * [QTBUG-12250] When onDoubleClicked: is handled don't emit a second
223 * [QTBUG-12805] Clear previous animation data for non-triggering animations.
225 * [QTBUG-13554] ParentChange fails to apply rotation changes of exactly 180
228 * [QTBUG-13689] Moving items in a PathView caused PathView.onPath to be set
230 * [QTBUG-13687] PathView didn't accept mouse events, preventing it from
231 working in a Flickable.
232 * [QTBUG-13416] Fix PathView item position on insertion and removal.
233 * [QTBUG-13017] Fix PathView when setting an empty model that is later
235 * [QTBUG-12747] PathView required some diagonal movement before a drag was
238 * made positioners work with QGraphicsWidgets.
240 * [QTBUG-12559] Correctly apply PropertyChanges when entering an extended
241 state directly from the base state.
242 - QDeclarativeImageProvider:
244 * Improved concurrency when using in asynchronus mode.
246 * [QTBUG-12905] Emit countChanged where appropriate in Repeater.
248 * [QTBUG-12336] Update running animations if a SmoothedAnimation is changed.
250 * [QTBUG-13044] SpringAnimation velocity animation stop logic was fragile.
252 * [QTBUG-13453] Fix jerky scrolling caused by unnecessary repaints of Text
254 * [QTBUG-13142] Fix alignment of shadow for rich text when using text
256 * [QTBUG-11002] Improve QML text rendering when LCD smoothing is enabled
259 * [QTBUG-11127] Fix autoScroll implementation.
261 * [QTBUG-13754] Fixed a crash when updating a property in ListModel with
263 * [QTBUG-13038] Fix VisualDataModel model update handling when rootIndex is
265 * [QTBUG-13146] Handle layoutChanged() properly in QML views.
267 * [QTBUG-13342] Ensure WebView gets focus when an editable node is clicked.
269 * [QTBUG-13117] Fix responseText to check the charset encoding field and
270 also to not assume that the data is xml.
272 * [QTBUG-13041] XmlListModel thread was left hanging on Symbian application
278 - Jpeg image IO plugin
279 * [QTBUG-13653] Fixed infinite loop when loading jpeg without EOI marker
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283 * Platform Specific Changes *
284 ****************************************************************************
286 Qt for Unix (X11 and Mac OS X)
287 ------------------------------
289 * [QT_3553] Fix invalid memory write during recursive timer activation.
293 - The configure script now detects all vector extensions of x86 and x86_64.
298 * [QTBUG-12721] Fix Qt applications freezing until mouse/keyboard events
302 * [QTBUG-13787] Fixed a possible crash with mingw.
305 * [QTBUG-12263] Strokes were in some cases not printed with the correct
309 * [QTBUG-13141] Fixed multi-sampling support for ATI based cards under
314 - The configure script now detects all vector extensions of x86 and x86_64
315 * [QTBUG-10500] Fixed a bug which causes the QMainWindow geometry
316 to be calculated wrongly, when used with native toolbars.
317 * [QTBUG-13878] Application menu entries can now also be translated
318 using the QMenuBar context.
323 * [QTBUG-4586] Fixed wrong paths in include/ActiveQt/headers.pri.
324 * [QTBUG-11671] Fixed audio-backend detection in configure tests.
327 * [QTBUG-13523] Added support for using -L notation in the LIBS variable
328 when building with the symbian/linux-armcc or gcce mkspec.
329 * [QTBUG-12851] Fix assertion on Windows when DESTDIR is empty in static
331 * [QTBUG-12802] Fix vcxproj generator when using /Fd in QMAKE_CXXFLAGS.
332 * [QTBUG-13080] vcxproj generator: fix bug when using CharacterSet=1 in
334 * [QTBUG-13081] vc[x]proj generators: support /MAP option without file
336 * [QTBUG-13902] Added support for unsigned smart installer package creation.
337 * [QTBUG-13991] No longer need to manually edit smart installer pkg file for
339 * [QT-3949] Load environment.prf from Symbian SDK if it exists there.
340 * [QTBUG-13499] Provide a way to compile with RVCT 4.0 using generated
342 * [QTBUG-13336] Ignore MAKEFILE variable for Symbian abld and sbsv2 builds.
343 * [QTBUG-13363] Fix Symbian handling of projects with special characters in
345 * [QTBUG-12762 & QTBUG-13307] Gcce building support for symbian-sbsv2
346 * [QTBUG-13147] Added support for DEPLOYMENT.pkg_build_version
347 * [QTBUG-12884] Fix "installer_sis" and "deploy" targets when TARGET has path.
348 * [QTBUG-12879] Fix check to remove unnecessary deployments in Symbian.
349 * [QTBUG-12716] Make bld.inf target in Symbian mkspecs to depend on .pro file.
350 * [QTBUG-12715] Rename Symbian generated mmp/mk files to include target in
352 * [QTBUG-12617] Fix package header in cases where VERSION doesn't contain all
354 * Fix run and runonphone targets for projects that have TARGET with path.
355 * Fix QT_LIBINFIX for QT_PLUGINS_BASE_DIR.
356 * No longer require PRE_TARGETDEPS items to be absolute for symbian-sbsv2
358 * Do smart command replacement for commands containing $$QMAKE_*
359 command variables, such as $$QMAKE_COPY, when generating bld.inf
360 extensions for QMAKE_EXTRA_* variables for symbian-sbsv2 mkspec.
363 * Fixed qsymbianbearer.qtplugin exports in s60installs.pro.
365 - patch_capabilities.pl
366 * [QTBUG-13760] Improved output of patch_capabilities.pl script.
369 * [QTBUG-12949] Fixed a bug where passwords would not be committed when
371 * [QTBUG-13472] Fixed crash in input methods when using symbols menu and
375 * [QTBUG-14058] Fix QApplication::desktop()->availableGeometry().
378 * [QTBUG-13802] Symbian^4 platform detection for QSysInfo::symbianVersion().
379 * [QTBUG-13612] Do not wait for QThread exit when destroying global statics.
380 * [QT-3895] Change RLibrary handle in QS60PluginResolver to be process wide.
381 * [QTBUG-11218] Fix QProcessManager destruction.
384 * [QT-3949] Remove pre-Symbian3 plugins from Symbian3 and later builds and
385 Check S60_VERSION instead of existence of certain files in bearer plugin.
388 * [QTBUG-13461] Remove some .pro statements left behind after IAP usage
390 * [QTBUG-12276] Assigned valid UID3 for fortuneserver example.
395 * [QTBUG-8408] Show the [X] button on Windows mobile when maximizing.
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403 * Improve warnings and error reports.
406 * Show an error if NOTIFY refer to a wrong signal in Q_PROPERTY.
409 * [QTBUG-13347] Paused orientation sensors in Qml Viewer when the
410 application window is not active to save device battery.
411 * [QTBUG-11019] Add a menu option to open remote files in the QML viewer.
412 * QML Viewer is deployed under QtDemos folder instead of QtExamples
413 folder in Symbian application menu.