1 Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers
2 corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker:
4 http://bugreports.qt-project.org/
6 Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more
7 information about a particular change.
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11 * Source incompatible changes *
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15 - QSslCertificate::subjectInfo() and QSslCertificate::issuerInfo() now
16 return a QStringList instead of a QString
18 - QSslCertificate::isValid() has been deprecated. Originally it only checked
19 the certificate dates, but later checking for blacklisting was added. Now
20 there's a more specific QSslCertificate::isBlacklisted() method.
22 - Unite clipping support has been removed from QPainter. The alternative is
23 to unite QRegion's and using the result on QPainter.
25 - QLibrary::resolve() now returns a function pointer instead of a void
28 - QSslCertificate::alternateSubjectNames() is deprecated (but can be enabled
29 via QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE), use
30 QSslCertificate::subjectAlternativeNames() instead.
32 - QLibraryInfo::buildKey() has been removed. Likewise, the QT_BUILD_KEY
33 preprocessor #define has also been removed. The build-key is obsolete
34 and is no longer necessary.
36 - QCoreApplication::translate() will no longer return the source text when
37 the translation is empty. Use lrelease -removeidentical for optimization.
39 - QString and QByteArray constructors that take a size argument will now treat
40 negative sizes to indicate nul-terminated strings (a nul-terminated array of
41 QChar, in the case of QString). In Qt 4, negative sizes were ignored and
42 result in empty QString and QByteArray, respectively. The size argument to
43 those constructors now has a default value of -1, thus replacing the separate
44 constructors that did the same.
46 - Qt::escape() is deprecated (but can be enabled via
47 QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE), use QString::toHtmlEscaped() instead.
49 - QBool is gone. QString::contains, QByteArray::contains, and QList::contains
50 used to return an internal QBool class so that the Qt3 code
51 "if (a.contains() == 2)" wouldn't compile anymore. Such code cannot exist
52 in Qt4, so these methods return a bool now. If your code used the undocumented
53 QBool, simply replace it with bool.
55 - qIsDetached<> has been removed without replacement.
58 * QMetaType::construct() has been renamed to QMetaType::create().
59 * QMetaType::unregisterType() has been removed.
62 * QMetaMethod::signature() has been renamed to QMetaMethod::methodSignature(),
63 and the return type has been changed to QByteArray. This was done to be able
64 to generate the signature string on demand, rather than always storing it in
66 * QMetaMethod::typeName() no longer returns an empty string when the return
67 type is void; it returns "void". The recommended way of checking whether a
68 method returns void is to compare the return value of QMetaMethod::returnType()
72 * The plain-text, xml and lightxml test output formats have been changed to
73 show a test result for every row of test data in data-driven tests. In
74 Qt4, only fails and skips were shown for individual data rows and passes
75 were not shown for individual data rows, preventing accurate calculation
76 of test run rates and pass rates.
77 * The QTRY_VERIFY and QTRY_COMPARE macros have been moved into QTestLib.
78 These macros formerly lived in tests/shared/util.h but are now provided
79 by including the <QtTest/QtTest> header. In addition,
80 QTRY_VERIFY_WITH_TIMEOUT and QTRY_COMPARE_WITH_TIMEOUT are provided,
81 allowing for specifying custom timeout values.
82 * The QTEST_NOOP_MAIN macro has been removed from the API. If a test is
83 known at compile-time to be inapplicable for a particular build it should
84 be omitted via .pro file logic, or the test should call QSKIP in the
85 initTestCase() method to skip the entire test and report a meaningful
86 explanation in the test log.
87 * The DEPENDS_ON macro has been removed from the API. This macro did nothing
88 and misled some users to believe that they could make test functions depend
89 on each other or impose an execution order on test functions.
90 * The QTest::qt_snprintf function has been removed from the API. This was an
91 internal testlib function that was exposed in the public API due to its use
92 in a public macro. Any calls to this function should be replaced by a call
93 to qsnprintf(), which comes from the <QtCore/QByteArray> header.
94 * The QTest::pixmapsAreEqual() function has been removed from the API.
95 Comparison of QPixmap objects should be done using QCOMPARE, which provides
96 more informative output in the event of a failure.
97 * The QSKIP macro no longer has the "mode" parameter, which caused problems
98 for calculating test metrics, as the SkipAll mode hid information about
99 what test data was skipped. Calling QSKIP in a test function now behaves
100 like SkipSingle -- skipping a non-data-driven test function or skipping
101 only the current data row of a data-driven test function. Every skipped
102 data row is now reported in the test log.
104 - The QSsl::TlsV1 enum value was renamed to QSsl::TlsV1_0 .
107 * Internal QAccessible::State enum value HasInvokeExtension removed
108 - QAccessibleInterface:
109 * The "child" integer parameters have been removed. This moves the api
110 to be closer to IAccessible2.
111 This means several functions lose their integer parameter:
112 text(Text t, int child) -> text(Text t), rect(int child) -> rect()
113 setText(Text t, int child, const QString &text) -> setText(Text t, const QString &text)
114 role(int child) -> role(), state(int child) -> state()
115 * parent() and child() was added in order to do hierarchical navigation.
116 * relations() was added as a replacement to relationTo()
117 * As a consequence of the above two points, navigate() was removed.
118 * Accessible-Action related functions have been removed. QAccessibleInterface
119 subclasses are expected to implement the QAccessibleActionInterface instead.
120 These functions have been removed:
121 QAccessibleInterface::userActionCount, QAccessibleInterface::actionText,
122 QAccessibleInterface::doAction
123 - QAccessibleEvent also loses the child parameter.
124 QAccessibleEvent(Type type, int child) -> QAccessibleEvent(Type type)
125 QAccessibleEvent::child() removed.
126 - QAccessibleActionInterface:
127 * Refactored to be based on action names. All functions have been changed from using
128 int parameters to strings.
130 - QSound has been moved from QtGui to QtMultimedia
132 - QTabletEvent::QTabletEvent does not take a hiResGlobalPos argument anymore,
133 as all coordinates are floating point based now.
137 * The DeviceType enum and deviceType() have been deprecated due to
138 the introduction of QTouchDevice.
140 * The signature of the constructor has changed. It now takes a
141 QTouchDevice pointer instead of just a DeviceType value.
143 * TouchPointState no longer includes TouchPointStateMask and
144 TouchPointPrimary. QTouchEvent::TouchPoint::isPrimary() has
147 * QWidget *widget() has been removed and is replaced by QObject
148 *target() in order to avoid QWidget dependencies.
150 * QEvent::TouchCancel has been introduced. On systems where it makes
151 sense this event type can be used to differentiate between a
152 regular TouchEnd and abrupt touch sequence cancellations caused by
153 the compositor, for example when a system gesture gets recognized.
157 * Q_DECLARE_METATYPE(Foo*) now requires that Foo is fully defined. In
158 cases where a forward declared type should be used as a metatype,
159 Q_DECLARE_OPAQUE_POINTER(Foo*) can be used to allow that.
163 * The signature of the createEditor and valuePropertyName methods
164 have been changed to take arguments of type int instead of QVariant::Type.
166 - QWindowSystemInterface:
168 * The signature of all handleTouchEvent() variants have changed,
169 taking a QTouchDevice* instead of just a DeviceType value.
170 Platform or generic plug-ins have to create and register at least
171 one QTouchDevice before sending the first touch event.
173 * The event type parameter is removed from handleTouchEvent().
175 - The previously exported function qt_translateRawTouchEvent() has been removed.
176 Use QWindowSystemInterface::handleTouchEvent() instead.
178 - QAbstractEventDispatcher
180 * The signature for the pure-virtual registerTimer() has changed. Subclasses
181 of QAbstractEventDispatcher will need to be updated to reimplement the new
182 pure-virtual 'virtual void registerTimer(int timerId, int interval,
183 Qt::TimerType timerType, QObject *object) = 0;'
185 * QAbstractEventDispatcher::TimerInfo is no longer a QPair<int, int>. It is
186 now a struct with 3 members: struct TimerInfo { int timerId; int interval;
187 Qt::TimerType timerType; }; Reimplementations of
188 QAbstractEventDispatcher::registeredTimers() will need to be updated to pass
189 3 arguments to the TimerInfo constructor (instead of 2).
193 * Removed implicit conversion operator QUuid::operator QString(), instead
194 QUuid::toString() function should be used.
196 - The QHttp, QHttpHeader, QHttpResponseHeader and QHttpRequestHeader classes have
197 been removed, QNetworkAccessManager should be used instead.
199 - The QFtp class is no longer exported, QNetworkAccessManager should be used
204 * On Windows, QProcess::ForwardedChannels will not forward the output of GUI
205 applications anymore, if they do not create a console.
207 - QAbstractSocket's connectToHost() and disconnectFromHost() are now virtual and
208 connectToHostImplementation() and disconnectFromHostImplementation() don't exist.
210 - QTcpServer::incomingConnection() now takes a qintptr instead of an int.
212 - QNetworkConfiguration::bearerName() removed, and bearerTypeName() should be used.
214 - QDir::convertSeparators() (deprecated since Qt 4.2) has been removed. Use
215 QDir::toNativeSeparators() instead.
217 - QIconEngineV2 was merged into QIconEngine
218 You might need to adjust your code if it used a QIconEngine.
221 * Projects which explicitly set an empty TARGET are considered broken now.
222 * The makespec and .qmake.cache do not see build pass specific variables any more.
223 * load()/include() with a target namespace and infile()/$$fromfile() now start with
224 an entirely pristine context.
225 * Configure's -sysroot and -hostprefix are now handled slightly differently.
226 The QT_INSTALL_... properties are now automatically prefixed with the sysroot;
227 the raw values are available as QT_INSTALL_.../raw and the sysroot as QT_SYSROOT.
228 The new QT_HOST_... properties can be used to refer to the Qt host tools.
229 * Several functions and built-in variables were modified to return normalized paths.
231 - QTextCodecPlugin has been removed since it is no longer used. All text codecs
232 are now built into QtCore.
234 - QDir::NoDotAndDotDot is QDir::NoDot|QDir::NoDotDot therefore there is no need
235 to use or check both.
237 - QFSFileEngine, QAbstractFileEngine, QAbstractFileEngineIterator and
238 QAbstractFileEngineHandler were removed from public API and are no longer
239 exported. They may temporarily live as private implementation details, but
240 they may be altogether dropped or otherwise changed at will in the future.
243 * toShort(), toUShort(), toInt(), toUInt(), toLongLong() and toULongLong() no
244 longer take a parameter for base, they will only perform localised base 10
245 conversions. For converting other bases use the QString methods instead.
247 - QSystemLocale has been removed from the public API.
249 - QSqlQueryModel::indexInQuery() is now virtual. See note below under QSql.
251 - QSqlDriver::subscribeToNotification, unsubscribeFromNotification,
252 subscribedToNotifications, isIdentifierEscaped, and stripDelimiters
253 are now virtual. See note below under QtSql.
255 - qMacVersion() has been removed. Use QSysInfo::macVersion() or
256 QSysInfo::MacintoshVersion instead.
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260 ****************************************************************************
265 - The directory structure of the qtbase unit-tests has been reworked to
266 more closely match the directory structure of the code under test.
267 Integration tests have been moved to tests/auto/integrationtests.
269 Third party components
270 ----------------------
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277 ****************************************************************************
281 * drop a bogus QChar::NoCategory enum value; the proper QChar::Other_NotAssigned
282 value is returned for an unassigned codepoints now.
284 * layoutAboutToBeChanged is no longer emitted by QAbstractItemModel::beginMoveRows.
285 layoutChanged is no longer emitted by QAbstractItemModel::endMoveRows. Proxy models
286 should now also connect to (and disconnect from) the rowsAboutToBeMoved and
289 * The default value of the property QSortFilterProxyModel::dynamicSortFilter was
290 changed from false to true.
292 * The signature of the virtual QAbstractItemView::dataChanged method has changed to
293 include the roles which have changed. The signature is consistent with the dataChanged
296 * QFileSystemWatcher is now able to return failure in case of errors whilst
297 altering the watchlist in both the singular and QStringList overloads of
298 addPath and removePath.
300 * QString::mid, QString::midRef and QByteArray::mid, if the position passed
301 is equal to the length (that is, right after the last character/byte),
302 now return an empty QString, QStringRef or QByteArray respectively.
303 in Qt 4 they returned a null QString or a null QStringRef.
305 * QString methods toLongLong(), toULongLong(), toLong(), toULong(), toInt(),
306 toUInt(), toShort(), toUShort(), toDouble(), and toFloat() no longer use the
307 default or system locale, they will always use the C locale. This is to
308 guarantee consistent default conversion of strings. For locale-aware conversions
309 use the equivalent QLocale methods.
311 * QDate, QTime, and QDateTime have undergone important behavioural changes:
312 * QDate only implements the Gregorian calendar, the switch to the Julian
313 calendar before 1582 has been removed. This means all QDate methods will
314 return different results for dates prior to 15 October 1582, and there is
315 no longer a gap between 4 October 1582 and 15 October 1582.
316 * QDate::setYMD() is deprecated, use QDate::setDate() instead
317 * Most methods now apply strict validity checks and will return appropriate
318 and consistent values when invalid. For example, QDate::year() will return
319 0 and QDate::shortMonthName() will return QString().
320 * Adding days to a null QDate or seconds to a null QTime will no longer return
322 * QDate stores the Julian Day as a qint64 extending date support across a
323 more interesting range, see the class documentation for details.
324 * Conversion to YMD form dates is only accurate between to 4800 BCE to
326 * The QDate::addDays() and QDateTime::addDays() methods now take a qint64
327 * The QDate::daysTo() and QDateTime::daysTo() methods now return a qint64
329 * QTextCodec::codecForCStrings() and QTextCodec::setCodecForCStrings() have both
330 been removed. This was removed due to issues with breaking other code from
331 libraries, creating uncertainty/bugs in using QString easily, and (to a lesser
332 extent) performance issues.
334 * QTextCodec::codecForTr() and QTextCodec::setCodecForTr() have been removed,
335 QCoreApplication::Encoding value CodecForTr is now obsolete, use
336 DefaultCodec instead. For reasoning, see the codecForCStrings() removal above.
338 * QIntValidator and QDoubleValidator no longer fall back to using the C locale if
339 the requested locale fails to validate the input.
341 * A new set of classes for doing pattern matching with Perl-compatible regular
342 expressions has been added: QRegularExpression, QRegularExpressionMatch and
343 QRegularExpressionMatchIterator. They aim to replace QRegExp with a more
344 powerful and flexible regular expression engine.
346 * QEvent::AccessibilityPrepare, AccessibilityHelp and AccessibilityDescription removed:
347 * The enum values simply didn't make sense in the first place and should simply be dropped.
351 * Accessibility has been refactored. The hierachy of accessible objects is implemented via
352 proper parent/child functions instead of using navigate which has been deprecated for this purpose.
353 Table and cell interfaces have been added to qaccessible2.h
355 * Touch events and points have been extended to hold additional
356 information like capability flags, point-specific flags, velocity,
359 * A new set of enabler classes have been added, most importantly QWindow, QScreen,
360 QSurfaceFormat, and QOpenGLContext.
362 * Most of the useful QtOpenGL classes have been polished and moved into
363 QtGui. See QOpenGLFramebufferObject, QOpenGLShaderProgram,
364 QOpenGLFunctions, etc.
366 * QOpenGLPaintDevice has been added to be able to use QPainter to render into
367 the currently bound context.
371 * QInputContext removed as well as related getters and setters on QWidget and QApplication.
372 Input contexts are now platform specific.
374 * QInputDialog::getInteger() has been obsoleted. Use QInputDialog::getInt() instead.
376 * In Qt 4, many QStyleOption subclasses were introduced in order to keep
377 binary compatibility -- QStyleOption was designed to be extended this way,
378 in fact it embeds a version number. In Qt 5 the various QStyleOption*V{2,3,4}
379 classes have been removed, and their members merged into the respective
380 base classes. Those classes were left as typedefs to keep existing code
381 working. Still, some minor adjustements could be necessary, especially in code
382 that uses QStyleOption directly and does not initialize all the members using
383 the proper Qt API: due to the version bump, QStyle will try to use the additional
384 QStyleOption members, which are left default-initialized.
386 * QHeaderView - The following functions have been obsoleted.
388 * void setMovable(bool movable) - use void setSectionsMovable(bool movable) instead.
390 * bool isMovable() const - use bool sectionsMovable() const instead.
392 * void setClickable(bool clickable) - use void setSectionsClickable(bool clickable) instead.
394 * bool isClickable() const - use bool sectionsClickable() instead.
396 * void setResizeMode(int logicalindex, ResizeMode mode) -
397 use setSectionResizeMode(logicalindex, mode) instead.
399 * ResizeMode resizeMode(int logicalindex) const -
400 use sectionResizeMode(int logicalindex) instead.
402 * QDateEdit and QTimeEdit have re-gained a USER property. These were originally removed
403 before Qt 4.7.0, and are re-added for 5.0. This means that the userProperty for
404 those classes are now QDate and QTime respectively, not QDateTime as they have been
405 for the 4.7 and 4.8 releases.
409 * QHostAddress::isLoopback() API added. Returns true if the address is
410 one of the IP loopback addresses.
412 * QSslCertificate::serialNumber() now always returns the serial number in
415 * The openssl network backend now reads the ssl configuration file allowing
416 the use of openssl engines.
422 * Most of the classes in this module (with the notable exception of QGLWidget)
423 now have equivalents in QtGui, along with the naming change QGL -> QOpenGL.
424 The classes in QtOpenGL that have equivalents in QtGui can now be considered
433 * [QTBUG-20615] Autotests can now log test output to multiple destinations
434 and log formats simultaneously.
438 QSqlTableModel/QSqlRelationalTableModel
440 * The dataChanged() signal is now emitted for changes made to an inserted
441 record that has not yet been committed. Previously, dataChanged() was
442 suppressed in this case for OnRowChange and OnFieldChange. This was probably
443 an attempt to avoid trouble if setData() was called while handling
444 primeInsert(). By emitting dataChanged(), we ensure that all views are aware
447 * While handling primeInsert() signal, the record must be manipulated using
448 the provided reference. Do not attempt to manipulate the records using the
449 model methods setData() or setRecord().
451 * removeRows() no longer emits extra beforeDelete signal for out of range row.
453 * removeRows() now requires the whole range of targetted rows to be valid
454 before doing anything. Previously, it would remove what it could and
455 ignore the rest of the range.
457 * removeRows(), for OnFieldChange and OnRowChange, allows only 1 row to be
458 removed and only if there are no other changed rows.
460 * setRecord() and insertRecord()
461 -Only use fields where generated flag is set to true. This is
462 is consistent with the meaning of the flag.
463 -Require all fields to map correctly. Previously fields that didn't
464 map were simply ignored.
465 -For OnManualSubmit, insertRecord() no longer leaves behind an empty
466 row if setRecord() fails.
467 -setRecord() now automatically submits for OnRowChange.
469 * QSqlQueryModel::indexInQuery() is now virtual. See
470 QSqlTableModel::indexInQuery() as example of how to implement in a
473 * QSqlTableModel::selectRow(): This is a new method that refreshes a single
474 row in the model from the database.
476 * QSqlTableModel edit strategies OnFieldChange/OnRowChange QTBUG-2875
477 Previously, after changes were submitted in these edit strategies, select()
478 was called which removed and inserted all rows. This ruined navigation
479 in QTableView. Now, with these edit strategies, there is no implicit select()
480 done after committing. This includes deleted rows which remain in
481 the model as blank rows until the application calls select(). Instead,
482 selectRow() is called to refresh only the affected row.
484 * QSqlTableModel::isDirty(): New overloaded method to check whether model
485 has any changes to submit. QTBUG-3108
487 * QSqlTableModel::setData() and setRecord() no longer revert pending changes
488 that fail upon resubmitting for edit strategies OnFieldChange and OnRowChange.
489 Instead, pending (failed) changes cause new changes inappropriate to the
490 edit strategy to be refused. The application should resolve or revert pending
491 changes. insertRows() and insertRecord() also respect the edit strategy.
493 * QSqlTableModel::setData() and setRecord() in OnRowChange no longer have the
494 side effect of submitting the cached row when invoked on a different row.
496 * QSqlDriver::subscribeToNotification, unsubscribeFromNotification,
497 subscribedToNotifications, isIdentifierEscaped, and stripDelimiters
498 are now virtual. Their xxxImplemenation counterparts have been removed
499 now that QSqlDriver subclasses can reimplement these directly.
501 ****************************************************************************
503 ****************************************************************************
506 ****************************************************************************
507 * Platform Specific Changes *
508 ****************************************************************************
516 * Accessibility framework uses IAccessible2
523 Qt for Embedded Linux
524 ---------------------
531 ****************************************************************************
532 * Compiler Specific Changes *
533 ****************************************************************************
536 ****************************************************************************
538 ****************************************************************************
542 * Remove qttest_p4.prf file. From now on we should explicitly enable the
543 things from it which we want. Autotest .pro files should stop using
544 'load(qttest_p4)' and start using 'CONFIG+=testcase' instead.
549 * [QTBUG-8926] [QTBUG-20440] Properties of type QStringList now have
550 translation attributes which apply to all items.
551 They are by default translatable.
560 * [QTBUG-20785] The moc now has a -b<file> option to #include an additional
561 file at the beginning of the generated file.
572 * QMAKE_MOC_OPTIONS variable is now available for passing additional parameters
582 ****************************************************************************
584 ****************************************************************************
585 - The text codecs that were previously plugins are now built into QtCore.
587 ****************************************************************************
588 * Important Behavior Changes *
589 ****************************************************************************
593 * The implementation of QPointer has been changed to use QWeakPointer. The
594 old guard mechanism has been removed. This causes a slight change
595 in behavior when using QPointer:
597 * When using QPointer on a QWidget (or a subclass of QWidget), previously
598 the QPointer would be cleared by the QWidget destructor. Now, the QPointer
599 is cleared by the QObject destructor (since this is when QWeakPointers are
600 cleared). Any QPointers tracking a widget will NOT be cleared before the
601 QWidget destructor destroys the children for the widget being tracked.
606 * Definition of QVariant::UserType changed. Currently it is the same as
607 QMetaType::User, which means that it points to the first registered custom
608 type, instead of a nonexistent type.
612 * Interpretation of QMetaType::Void was changed. Before, in some cases
613 it was returned as an invalid type id, but sometimes it was used as a valid
614 type (C++ "void"). In Qt5, new QMetaType::UnknownType was introduced to
615 distinguish between these two. QMetaType::UnknownType is an invalid type id
616 signaling that a type is unknown to QMetaType, and QMetaType::Void
617 is a valid type id of C++ void type. The difference will be visible for
618 example in call to QMetaType::typeName(), this function will return null for
619 QMetaType::UnknownType and a pointer to "void" string for
621 Please, notice that QMetaType::UnknownType has value 0, which previously was
622 reserved for QMetaType::Void.
627 * The static function QMessageBox::question has changed the default argument
628 for buttons. Before the default was to have an Ok button. That is changed
629 to having a yes and a no button.