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.
* Over 100 functional improvements
* WebKit updated to version 2.2.2
* libpng updated to version 1.5.10
* Thirty improvements to documentation and tools
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.
