I am happy to announce release of Qt 4.8.7 today bringing over 150
improvements and bug fixes. Qt 4.8.7 provides important security
updates, better support for Mac OS X 10.10 and many requested error
corrections. As a patch release, it does not add new functionality
and maintains full compatibility with previous Qt 4.8.x releases.
Highlights of Qt 4.8.7 are:
Security fix for DoS vulnerability in the BMP image handler
(CVE-2015-0295) as well as security fixes for vulnerabilities
in image handling of BMP (CVE-2015-1858), ICO (CVE-2015-1859)
and GIF (CVE-2015-1860)
Update 3rd party libpng to version 1.6.17 to address known
vulnerabilities in previous version
Update 3rd party libtiff to version 4.0.3 to address known
vulnerabilities in previous version
Better support for running Qt 4.8 applications on Mac OS X
10.10 Yosemite
Many customer requested bug fixes
Qt 4.8.6 provides overall over 200 improvements and bug fixes, for
example:
Security Fix for XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service (the
"Billion Laughs" attack)
Better support for Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Many customer requested bug fixes, for example QTBUG-15116,
QTBUG-21371, QTBUG-8990, QTBUG-28601, QTBUG-20946, QTBUG-30276,
QTBUG-29572 and QTBUG-13237 (just to name a few)
MinGW binary packages are now built with MinGW-w64 based
toolchain with gcc 4.8.2
Basque translation added and many other translations improved
35 fixes to Qt Core module
65 fixes to Qt Gui module
21 Mac OS X specific fixes
15 Windows specific fixes
8 Linux/X11 specific fixes
Webkit upgrade to 2.2.4 (minor improvements)
Change all shmget calls to user-only memory (security)
Several important fixes for the VxWorks port in the Qt Enterprise version
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.8.0, 4.8.1, 4.8.2 and 4.8.3.
For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this
distribution. The documentation is also available online:
http://qt-project.org/doc/4.8
The Qt version 4.8 series is binary compatible with the 4.7.x series.
Applications compiled for 4.7 will continue to run with 4.8.
Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers
corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker or the Merge Request queue
of the public source repository.
Qt 4.8.1 is the first patch release to the 4.8 series with over 200 functional
improvements to the desktop and embedded platforms. The majority of the error
corrections, made primarily by Digia, have been on desktop and embedded
platforms with a large number of fixes with focus on QtCore, QtGUI and
QtNetwork. These fixes benefit all desktop platforms. Qt 4.8.1 also includes
Mac App Store support.
QtNetwork
- SSL
* [QTBUG-18338] blacklist fraudulent SSL certificates
Qt for Symbian
- Bearer Management
* [QTBUG-15108] Deadlock between SymbianEngine mutex and
QNetworkConfigurationPrivate mutex in the symbian bearer code
* [QTBUG-17627] qnetworksession.h Q_DECLARE_METATYPE breaks building
QtMobility QtBearer depending applications
- GraphicsView
* [QTBUG-17966] Major regression in QGraphicsView OpenVG backend
- Declarative
* [QTBUG-17503] Export qml debugging symbols on Symbian
- Widgets
* [QTBUG-17786] BC between Qt 4.7.3 and 4.6.3 QTreeView::indexRowSizeHint
doesn't return correct value on Symbian for row when QPushButton widget is
inserted in the treeview
* [QTBUG-4953] QMessageBox can not be closed/dismissed on touch phones if any
widget is fullscreen
- Painting
* [QTBUG-17907] tst_QGraphicsTransform::rotation3d test case from
tests/auto/qgraphicstransfor is failed for some rotation angle on
Symbian^3 devices
* [QTBUG-18154] Symbian's QPixmap::logicalDpi[X\Y]() incorrectly
returns MAXINT
This is a maintenance release which contains bug-fixes based on feedback and
contributions since the Qt 4.7.1 release back in November. It also marks the
official release of Qt Quick.
Qt Quick is a new feature within Qt that makes it easy to create light-weight
apps and UIs. It contains the new QML language, the Qt Declarative module, and
new tooling in Qt Creator to easily build apps.
PkgSrc: now builds with Clang.
Qt 4.7.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.7.0. For more details,
refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The
documentation is also available online:
http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.7
The Qt version 4.7 series is binary compatible with the 4.6.x series.
Applications compiled for 4.6 will continue to run with 4.7.
Changes 4.7.0:
Qt 4.7 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
over the 4.6.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation
included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online:
http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.7
The Qt version 4.7 series is binary compatible with the 4.6.x series.
Applications compiled for 4.6 will continue to run with 4.7.
* Added Spectrum analyzer demo application.
* Added exit softkey to Wiggly example.
* Added close button to Anomaly demo.
* Fixed Anomaly demo controlstrip icon placement for very small screens.
* Ensure history configuration is cleared when a state machine is restarted.
For more read: http://qt.nokia.com/developer/changes/changes-4.6.3
* Optimized empty QUrl creation
* Improve performance of getting the canonical filename on Linux
and Symbian by using realpath() system call.
* Avoid stat() when opening a file.
* Do not look at the Qt patch-level version embedded in plugins'
buildkeys when trying to determine if the plugin is compatible
* Bug-fixes
* load() and loadFromData() can now support compressed GL textures
in the DDS, ETC1, PVRTC2, and PVRTC4 formats if the OpenGL graphics
system is active and the appropriate extensions are present in the
GL implementation.
* Fixed a small leak when using the new QPixmapCache::Key based API.
* Updated application icons and other graphics to reflect the look
and feel of the new Qt brand.
* Copyright of Qt has been transferred to Nokia Corporation.
- Configuration/Compilation
* Fixed OpenBSD and NetBSD build issues.
- Legal
* Added information about the OpenSSL exception to the GPL.
- Documentation and Examples
* Added information about the TS file format used in Linguist.
* Moved platform and compiler support information from
www.trolltech.com into the documentation.
* Added an Accessibility overview document.
* Added new example to show usage of QCompleter with custom tree models.
- Translations
- Added support for the CP949 Korean Codec.
- [138140] The whole Qt source compiles with the QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII
and QT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII defines and therefore is more robust when
using codecs.
- Added support for HP-UX 11i (Itanium) with the aCC compiler
- Changed dialogs to respond much better to the LanguageChange event.
(i.e. run time translation now works much better.)
- Signals and slots
* [61295] Added Qt::BlockingQueuedConnection connection type, which
waits for all slots to be called before continuing.
* [128646] Ignore optional keywords specified in SIGNAL() and SLOT()
signatures (struct, class, and enum).
* Optimize emitting signals that do not have anything connected to them.
- [121629] Added support for the MinGW/MSYS platform.
- [102293] Added search path functionality (QDir::addSearchPath)
- Almost all widgets are now styleable using Qt Style Sheets.
This is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.2.0.
- Configuration/Compilation
* Fixed architecture detection on UltraSPARC-T1 systems.
* Fixed compilation on embedded architectures when qreal is not double.
- Documentation
* Completed documentation for "Implementing Atomic Operations",
which is useful for people porting Qt to a new hardware architecture.
- Translations
* Added a new unofficial Portuguese translation courtesy of Helder
Correia.
- Qt Linguist
* Made the columns in the phrasebook resizeable.
- lupdate
* Fixed bug in the .pro parser of lupdate. It should accept backslashes.
* Fixed a severe slowdown in lupdate. (~400x speedup.)
* Fixed traversal of subdirectories.
- moc
* Don't create trigraphs in the generated code for C++ casts.
- uic
* Fixed a bug that generated excessive margins for Q3GroupBox.
