Qt 4.6.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward

compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.6.0.  For more details,

refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The

documentation is also available online:

  http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6

The Qt version 4.6 series is binary compatible with the 4.5.x series.

Applications compiled for 4.5 will continue to run with 4.6.

Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers

corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker, the (now obsolete) Task

Tracker, or the Merge Request queue of the public source repository.

Qt Bug Tracker: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com

Task Tracker:   http://qt.nokia.com/developer/task-tracker

Merge Request:  http://qt.gitorious.org

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*                           General                                        *

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Optimizations

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 - Optimized empty QUrl creation

    * [QTBUG-4030] Empty QUrls no longer allocate memory now

 * See list of Important Behavior Changes below

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*                          Library                                         *

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QtCore

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 - QFile

    * Improve performance of getting the canonical filename on Linux

      and Symbian by using realpath() system call.

    * Avoid stat() when opening a file.

 - QLibrary and QPluginLoader

    * Do not look at the Qt patch-level version embedded in plugins'

      buildkeys when trying to determine if the plugin is compatible

 - QProcessEnvironment

    * [QTBUG-6701] Ensure we don't crash in operator==

 - QTextEncoder

    * [merge request 399] QTextEncoder::fromUnicode as QT3 support

      member

 - QXmlStreamreader

    * [merge request 1926] Fix parsing of DTDs that contain empty markup

      declarations.

QtGui

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 - QApplication

    * [QTBUG-6654] Fix crashes when deleting QWidgets in touch event

      handlers.

 - QGraphicsEffect

    * [QTBUG-5918] Fixed redraw bugs when using graphics effects on

      items while animating them by transformations.

 - QGraphicsItem

    * [QTBUG-5917] Fixed memory leaks when removing a QGraphicsEffect from

      a QGraphicsItem or QWidget with setGraphicsEffect(0).

    * [QTBUG-5859] Fixes incorrect rounding of the exposed rectangle of the

      QGraphicsItem causing painting issues when scaling the QGraphicsView.

    * [QTBUG-5071] Fixes transformation problems when grouping/ungrouping

      the item with a QGraphicsItemGroup.

 - QGraphicsObject

    * 'id' property was removed. Use the 'objectName' property instead.

 - QGraphicsScene

    * [QTBUG-6654] Fix crashes when deleting QGraphicsItems in touch

      event handlers.

 - QGraphicsView

    * [QTBUG-6935] When using CacheBackground, the background is now

      correctly repainted after the QGraphicsView is shown after being

      hidden.

    * [QTBUG-6835] Mouse tracking is now automatically enabled when using

      AnchorUnderMouse for view transformation.

    * [QTBUG-6958] Fix speed regression in _q_polishItems()

    * [QTBUG-6544] Fix a crash on the focus chain when removing items from 

      the scene.

    * Fix a crash in KDE/Plasma with QGraphicsView with topLevels.

 - QGraphicsWidget

    * [QTBUG-6272] Only call updateFont if the font has changed.

 - QPainter

    * [QTBUG-5939] Fixed incorrect redirection matrix that was causing

      wrong transformation for QGraphicsProxyWidgets.

    * [QTBUG-6684] Added optimizations of 32-bit blend functions

      for ARM platforms with NEON support.

 - QPixmap

    * 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.

    * [QTBUG-6840] Fixed load() to not modify referenced copies.

    * [QTBUG-5840] Fixed a crash in fromImage() when passing in a null image.

    * [QTBUG-6116] Fixed memory leak where a global object was not destroyed

      at program exit.

 - QPixmapCache

    * Fixed a small leak when using the new QPixmapCache::Key based API.

 - QPrinter

    * [QTBUG-3412] QGraphicsProxyWidgets are now rendered correctly when

      printing a QGraphicsScene to PDF format.

 - QRasterPixmapData

    * [QTBUG-6985] Fixed metric() to return the correct height in mm.

 - QTextDocument

    * [QTBUG-5397] Fixed printing of QTextDocuments not including custom

      text objects.

    * [QTBUG-6051] Fixed an endless loop when printing a QTextDocument.

QtDBus

------

 - QDBusConnection

    * [QTBUG-5979] Fixed the signal-delivery mechanism to update

      correctly when the sender name changes/appears on the bus.

    * [QTBUG-7041] Fixed marshalling of booleans in release mode.

    * [QT-2307] Fixed calls with the QDBus::BlockWithGui mode.

 - QDBusInterface

    * Made it continue working even when the remote object

      introspection fails.

 - QDBusInterface and qdbuscpp2xml

    * [QTBUG-5563] Fixed an issue with generating annotations in

      signals.

 - QDBusPendingReply and QDBusReply

    * [QTBUG-6571] Fixed a crash that would happen if you tried to

      make a call with a disconnected QDBusConnection.

QtMultimedia

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 - QAudioOutput

   * [Merge request 418] Fixed compilation the example provided for

     QAudioOutput::start.

QtNetwork

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 - QNetworkAccessManager

    * HTTP: Send our locale with the HTTP request.

    * HTTP: Start Accept-language and Authorization header with capital letter.

    * HTTP: Fix caching algorithm, matching RFC 2612 and the documentation.

    * HTTP [QTBUG-7060]: Fix an issue with headers like "private, max-age=300".

    * file: Introduce special subclass for higher performance with file:// URLs.

 - QTcpSocket

    * [QTBUG-5799] Fix waitForConnected() on Windows.

 - QNetworkProxyFactory

    * Fixed systemProxyForQuery(), it could sometimes return invalid empty list

      on Windows.

 - QNetworkCookieJar

    * [QTBUG-5815] Do not check paths when accepting cookies.

 - QHostInfo

    * Use five parallel threads for host lookup instead of one.

QtOpenGL

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 - QGL2PaintEngineEx

    * Performance: Don't mark brush as dirty if it hasn't changed.

    * Performance: Use 3x3 PMV matrices rather than 4x4.

    * Performance: Move the 0.5 offset we add for aliased rendering to

      updateMatrix().

    * Performance: Remove superfluous enable/disable vertex attrib arrays.

    * Performance: Track the glVertexAttribPointer and only update it if it's

      changed.

    * [QTBUG-7094]  Introduce new "snapToPixelGrid" flag for drawText.

 - QGLContext

    * bindTexture(QString) now supports DDS, ETC1, PVRTC2, and PVRTC4

      compressed textures if the appropriate extensions are present

      in the GL implementation.

    * bindTexture(QImage): Reduce double-copying of textures when flipping.

    * [QTBUG-6454] Better EGL extension checking to avoid prefix problems

      with EGL_foo matching EGL_foo_bar.

    * [QTBUG-6217] Work around problems with glColor4ub() on Intel Q45/Q43

      Express by consistently using glColor4f() everywhere.

    * bindTexture(QImage): Fix GL_BGRA formats under OpenGL/ES by using

      the same value for both internal and external texture formats.

    * [QTBUG-5041] Disable depth testing while in renderText().

 - QGLEngineSelector

    * [QTBUG-5638] Detect GL2 based on fragment shaders, not programs.

      Fragment programs are a GL1 feature.

 - QGLFramebufferObject

    * [QTBUG-6712] Update docs to better explain how QPainter changes

      the GL state when used on an FBO.

 - QGLGlyphCache

    * [QTBUG-6936] Fix memory leak of QGLGlyphCoord objects.

 - QGLPaintDevice

    * [QTBUG-6204] Rebind window surface FBO after native GL rendering.

 - QGLPixmapData

    * [QTBUG-6902] Align GL_RGB data on a 4-byte line boundary.

 - QGLWidget

    * [QTBUG-5002, QTBUG-6931] Fixed QGLWidget::renderText().

    * Fixed WA_TranslucentBackground for QGLWidgets on X11/EGL.

    * Fix EGL surface leaks when re-parenting on X11/EGL.

 - QTriangulatingStroker

    * [QTBUG-6045] Crash in dashed line handling in the GL stroker.

QtOpenVG

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 - [QT-2555] Automatically destroy VG pixmaps when the last window surface

   goes away to reduce memory consumption of backgrounded applications.

 - [QTBUG-6639] Recover from out-of-memory when creating VGImage's.

 - [QT-2554] Add a VGImage allocation pool to support reclaiming older

   images when the GPU runs out of memory.

 - [QTBUG-7051] Reset the OpenVG scissor after a native painting call-out.

 - [QTBUG-7015] Avoid deep copies of QImage in QImage::bits() calls.

QtWebKit

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 - Fixed user agent string on Symbian (webkit.org/b/31961).

 - QWebInspector: Don't disable when hiding (webkit.org/b/31851).

 - Fix JavaScript prompt behaviour for empty/null strings (webkit.org/b/30914).

 - Fixed lastIndexOf() on Symbian (webkit.org/b/31773).

 - Fixed crash with Flash on Windows with MinGW.

 - Fixed wrapping of QObjects with recurring identity (webkit.org/b/31681).

 - Fixed compilation with ICC.

 - Fixed assertion when dragging SVG images (webkit.org/b/32511).

 - Added the framecapture example to the default build (merge request 2235)

 - Fixed crash with ACID3 test on Symbian

 - Fixed security issue XSL stylesheets and security origins.

QtSql

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 - [QTBUG-5373] Fixed QSqlRelationalTableModel doesn't correctly work with

   relation in other database schema.

 - [QTBUG-5298] (OCI) Fixed QSqlDatabase.tables() does not work with system

   tables.

 - [QTBUG-6421] Fixed setForwardOnly() for both OCI and SQLite.

 - [QTBUG-6618] (ODBC) Fixed segfault when error string is larger than 256

   chars.

 - [QTBUG-4461] (OCI) Fixed problem with clobs being handled as binary.

QtSvg

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 - QSvgRenderer

    * [QTBUG-6867] Fixed regression in the parsing of paths with relative

      offsets.

    * [QTBUG-6899] Fixed crash when parsing invalid coordinate list.

 - QtXmlPatterns

    * [QTBUG-6771] Fixed static builds.

Qt Plugins

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 - JPEG plugin

    * Remove obsolete parameter string handling.

    * [QT-2023] Re-implement ScaledSize, ClipRect, ScaledClipRect with

      libjpeg features for greater performance.

 - PBM plugin

    * [QTBUG-6937] Use Mono instead of MonoLSB when writing pbm files.

 - TIFF plugin

    * [QTBUG-6870] BitsPerSample should default to 1 in TIFF files.

 - PNG plugin

    * [QTBUG-7161] Avoid a deep copy of QImage::bits() in the png writer.

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*                      Platform Specific Changes                           *

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Qt for Unix (X11 and Mac OS X)

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 - [QTBUG-6755] Ensure we don't call select(2) with a negative timeout

   if the timer expires during timeout recalculation.

 - Added mkspecs for Sun CC that enable -library=stlport by default,

   to restore STL capability with that compiler.

 - [QTBUG-6576] Fixed compilation on HP-UX 11.11.

 - [QTBUG-6961] Fixed compilation on HURD.

Qt for Linux/X11

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 - [QTBUG-5732] Fixed querying of GLX extensions under X11.

 - [QTBUG-5547] Fixed handling of the "..." button.

 - Added new mkspec for Maemo targets (linux-g++-maemo).

 - Added new mkspec for Scratchbox host compiler (unsupported/linux-host-g++).

 - QGuiEventDispatcherGlib (internal class)

    * Fix regression introduced in 4.6.0 that could cause X11 event

      processing to starve timer events.

 - QFileSystemWatcher

    * [QTBUG-4840] Fix memory leak in the dnotify implementation.

 - QIcon

    * [QTBUG-6121] Fixed a problem causing svg-based icon themes to look fuzzy.

 - QGtkStyle

    * [QTBUG-6484] Ensure that gtk-enable-mnemonics is respected.

Qt for Windows

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 - [QTBUG-5145] Compile fixes for win32-icc.

 - QAtomicPointer

    * [QTBUG-6079] Fix compilation for 64-bit Windows targets.

 - QEventDispatchWin32 (internal class)

    * [QTBUG-6083] Fix a performance regression introduced in 4.6.0

      that would cause all Qt posted events to be sent at 15-16ms

      intervals (instead of as quickly as possible).

 - Vista/XP styles

    * [QTBUG-6271] Fixed a compatibility issue with MDI windows in 

      certain non-standard themes.

Qt for Mac OS X

---------------

 - QPixmap

   * [QTBUG-5070] Fixed a crash on Mac that could occur when loading

     pixmaps of different sizes into the same QPixmap object.

 - [QTBUG-6973] Fixed a memory leak when using QWidget::setWindowIcon() in

   Carbon.

 - [QTBUG-5186] Fixed a bug which caused drag and drop icons to show 

   incorrectly.

 - [QTBUG-6636] Fixed a crash due to stack overflow in QColorDialog on Cocoa.

 - [QTBUG-6378] Fix a text cursor rendering bug.

 - [QTBUG-6636] Fixed a crash when calling removeToolBar on Mac native toolbars

   using Cocoa.

 - [QTBUG-5613] Fixed a bug where the application refused to quit when showing

   a single modal dialog.

 - Gestures are now available for the Carbon port also when building Qt against

   SDK < 10.6

Qt for Symbian

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 - QApplication

   * [QTBUG-6098] Added a flag to avoid construction of application panes.

 - Other:

   * [QTBUG-4990] Rewrote most of the regular pointer handling.

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*                          Tools                                           *

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 - Designer

   * [QTBUG-6863] Fixed static linking on Mac.

   * [QTBUG-6760] Fixed display of action shortcut in action editor.

   * [QTBUG-6505] Fixed handling of QHeaderView properties.

   * [QTBUG-5335] Fixed handling of layout margins of custom containers.

 - uic

   * [QTBUG-5824] Fixed code generation to generate a call to

     QMainWindow::setCentralWidget() for promoted widgets as well.

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* Important Behavior Changes *

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 - Phonon

   * Include headers have been changed. The only official method for

     including Phonon headers is <phonon/ClassName> or

     <phonon/classname.h>. This change was necessary because of

     frameworks on Mac.

     Compatibility is provided for <Phonon/*> includes, but is not

     guaranteed to work. Including <phonon> and <Phonon> is not

     supported.