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+Qt 4.4.2 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
+compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.4.1 and 4.4.0.
+
+The Qt version 4.4 series is binary compatible with the 4.3.x series.
+The Qt for Embedded Linux version 4.4 series is binary compatible with
+the Qtopia Core 4.3.x series. Applications compiled for 4.0, 4.1, 4.2,
+and 4.3 will continue to run with 4.4.
+
+Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers
+corresponding to tasks in the Task Tracker:
+
+ http://qt.nokia.com/developer/task-tracker
+
+Each of these identifiers can be entered in the task tracker to obtain
+more information about a particular change.
+
+****************************************************************************
+* General *
+****************************************************************************
+
+General Improvements
+--------------------
+
+Third party components
+----------------------
+
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Library *
+****************************************************************************
+
+QtCore
+------
+
+- QVariant
+ * [220112] correct documentation with respect to conversions
+ involving QTime.
+
+- QHash
+ * [215348] Document that uniqueKeys() doesn't sort its keys.
+
+- QFlags
+ * [221702] Fix QFlags::testFlag gives a surprising result on enums with
+ many bits.
+
+- QLibrary
+ * [219456] Fix QLibrary problems on Windows, loading the C runtime library
+ without a manifest.
+
+- QDataStream
+ * Fixed storing a QPalette into a stream with a version older than Qt_2_1
+
+- QtConcurrent
+ * [221671] Fixed filtered() compile error when using filter functions that
+ takes its argument by const reference.
+ * [220804] Fix several compile errors with STL containers.
+
+- QThreadPool
+ * [215365] The Q[Core]Application destructor now waits for all QThreadPool
+ threads to finish. This fixes ussues when unloading the Qt dlls on windows
+ as well as when using Qt features that need on a QApplication instance
+ in a worker thread.
+QtGui
+-------------
+
+ * [215794] setWindowFilePath() didn't update window title until the
+ window is resized.
+ * [212316] Window position changed when setWindowFlags was called.
+ * [223814] Fixed a crash in QDockWidget when the docking window was
+ closed during the dock animation.
+ * [223339] Fixed a crash when a pop-up widget had the
+ WA_DeleteOnClose attribute.
+
+ * [214742, 205222] QFormLayout - fix nested QFormLayouts expanding
+ unnecessarily.
+ * [217123] Fixed a regression in QWidgetItem::setGeometry() that made an item
+ with both an Alignment and QSizePolicy::Ignored set got squeezed down to
+ a size of 0.
+
+- QCDEStyle
+ * [220803] Improved the contrast of CE_RubberBand when painted on top of a dark background.
+
+- QPlastiqueStyle
+ * [312723] Fixed broken painting on QSpinBox when using NoButtons.
+
+- QGraphicsEllipseItem
+ * [207826] setStartAngle() and setSpanAngle() now call
+ prepareGeometryChange(), removing rendering artifacts.
+
+- QGraphicsLinearLayout
+ * [218400] Fix crash when assigning a layout with stretches to a widget.
+
+- QGraphicsView
+ * [216741] Fix QGraphicsView::DontSavePainterState (regression to 4.3)
+
+- QGraphicsWidget
+ * [215417] Fixed setting the correct layoutDirection on the painter before
+ we called QGraphicsWidget::paint.
+
+- QMdiArea
+ * [221527] Fixed a bug where the [*] placeholder was not updated correctly in tabbed view mode.
+
+- QMdiSubWindow
+ * [214964] Tooltips in children of the subwindow closed too fast
+
+- QMessageBox
+ * [221721] Fix crash when trying to obtain the default value for QMessageBox::iconPixmap().
+
+- QSplitter
+ * [214480] Improve docs on how the effective stretch facors are calculated.
+
+- QTextEdit
+ * [214956] Fix painting problems with text in floating frames
+ * [215192] Fix HTML alignment in QLabels with RTL
+ * [213259] Fix to handle ShortcutOverride for Ctrl+Shift+Right
+
+- QTextCursor
+ * [214457] Fix assert when deleting empty cells
+ * [210496] Fix the usecase that QTextCursor::select( QTextCursor::LineUnderCursor )
+ doesn't work when the text has not been layed out yet
+
+- QTextDocument
+ * [207779] Fix HTML import of page-breaks on empty lines to not get lost
+ * [212848] Fix FullWidthSelection to work if LineWrapMode set to NoWrap
+ * Fixes the positioning of bullets to always honor the text direction
+
+- QWidget
+ * [219446] Fixed a bug where calling repaint() before QApplication::exec() did not
+ invoke a paintEvent().
+
+QtScript
+--------
+
+ * [219126] Fixed bug that caused the decimal point to appear in
+ the wrong position when converting a number with a negative
+ exponent to a string.
+
+QtGui
+-----
+
+- QDateTimeEdit
+ * [220926] QDateTimeEdit::textFromDateTime: valueFromText vs. date
+ TimeFromText -- clarify documentation
+
+- QTimeEdit
+ * [215426] Fixed a typo in the declaration of a Q_PROPERTY
+
+- QPainter
+ * [216948] Fix one-pixel shifting of integer lines in raster paint
+ engine when current matrix has negative dx or dy.
+ * [218682] Fixed bug in QBitmap::fromData that could cause the bitmaps
+ to turn completely black on Windows and Embedded Linux.
+ * [220544] Fix issue in Freetype font engine where painting text using
+ the same font and transform on both images and pixmaps would result in
+ text not being transformed or not shown at all.
+ * [222520] Fixed issue in raster paint engine where StretchToDevice
+ mode for gradients wasn't respected.
+ * [222848] Prevent potential crash on NaN in qt_curves_for_arc()
+ when drawing squiggly underlined text.
+
+- QBrush
+ * [215090] Avoid "QPixmap created outside the GUI thread" warning when
+ creating a QImage based brush.
+
+- QFileDialog
+ * [223813] Prevent an assert when "Shift + C" was pressed if the directory
+ set was "C:/".
+- QImage
+ * [215985] Reduce memory usage in TIFF import/export to avoid failing
+ due to out-of-memory errors on large images.
+ * [217101] Make sure QImage::setPixel() doesn't call detach twice, to
+ improve the performance a bit.
+
+- QPicture
+ * [215227] Fixed a problem that could occur when drawing a QPicture to a
+ QImage or QPixmap due to differing device DPIs.
+
+- QPixmap
+ * [214340] Prevent QPixmap::scaled() from leaving white lines at right/lower
+ edges in some cases.
+ * [214344] Make QPixmap::transformed() work correctly with perspective
+ transforms.
+ * [214855] Make sure QPixmap::transformed with a 90-degree rotation transform
+ doesn't increase the size of the pixmap.
+ * [215190] Fixed crash on Windows and Embedded Linux due to QPixmap::detach()
+ not detaching the underlying QImage.
+ * [216648] QPixmap turned a QBitmap into a 32 bit QPixmap
+ when QPixmap::resize() was called on the QBitmap.
+
+- QMatrix
+ * [198791] Fixed bug in QMatrix::map(const QPolygon &) causing a behavioral
+ difference from Qt 3's QWMatrix.
+
+* Fixed bugs in QPolygon to QRegion conversion causing to many rectangles to be
+ generated.
+
+* [206138] Fix unaligned double access in src/corelib/global/qnumeric_p.h
+
+* [216189] Fix a crash when calling QObject::dumpObjectInfo() after
+ disconnecting a signal.
+
+* [216910] Use the 'eieio' instruction instead of 'lwsync' in the
+ PowerPC implementation of QAtomicInt and QAtomicPointer since the
+ latter is not available in all hardware implementations. The 'eieio'
+ instruction was used successfully in Qt 4.3 and earlier.
+
+- QDockWidget
+ * [222222] The sizeHint for dockwidget is now respected when it is redocked
+ * [222030] The minimum size and minimum size hint are now respected
+
+- QToolBar
+ * [216929] Fixed the extension when the orientation is vertical
+
+- QTabBar
+ * [214527] Fixed the geometry of QTabBarnot being correctly updated when
+ adding a tab.
+
+- QMainWindow
+ * [218288] Fixed save/restore that would not work correctly if the window
+ was not yet shown on screen.
+
+- QStyleSheetStyle
+ * [158984] Fixed crash while using stylesheet in combinaison with a proxy style
+ * [217470] Fixed setting a stylesheet on a QDockWidget remove its border
+
+- QTreeView
+ * [220298] Fixed regression where clicking outside of the first column doesn't
+ always select the item.
+ * [224598] Fixed item not always appearing when QStandardItemModel::appendColumns
+ was used
+ * [212056,216390] Fixed bug where hidden items in the treeview got visible after
+ a sort.
+ * [209473] Fixed assert/crash when selectAll were called on a treeview with no
+ items.
+
+- QTableView
+ * [314519] Fixed crash with very big models.
+ * [211039] Fixed assert when moving a header section in a vertical header.
+
+QtGui
+-----
+* [214146, 215170] Fix a regression with multiple screens on
+ X11. Multiple screens are now reported with their correct size
+ regardless of how X11 is configured.
+
+QtOpenGL
+--------
+
+* [217429] Fixed issue on certain Intel drivers causing a GL error to be
+ generated when computing the max texture size in qt_gl_maxTextureSize().
+
+QtWebKit
+--------
+* Fixed potential crash when deleting QWebView instances.
+* Fixed blurry widgets in the web page due to antialiased painting.
+* [221518] Fixed using modifiers to type special symbols (e.g '@','$')
+ does not work on Mac OS X.
+* [216179] Fixed potential crash on Windows, when performing JavaScript
+ date conversion.
+* Fix rendering of scrollbars with some styles
+* Fix state of web actions when showing the context menu
+* Fix parsing of stylesheets and JavaScripts to not depend on the current locale
+* Fix return value of QWebPage::isModified()
+* Fix QWebFrame::setHtml() not setting the contents immediately
+* [218789] Fix WebKit not displaying content on 403 HTTP responses
+
+QtXml
+-----
+
+- QDomElement
+ * [220115] Document QDomElement::setAttribute(double)'s behavior with
+ respect to locale.
+
+QtXmlPatterns
+-------------
+
+- QXmlQuery
+ * [219070] Fix after the QXmlQuery object is deleted it doesn't
+ seem to be cleaning up afterwards.
+
+QtNetwork
+---------
+
+- QNetworkReply & QNetworkAccessManager
+ * [223580] Fixed the handling of HTTP replies with code 400.
+ * [215010] Fixed a bug that made SOCKSv5 proxies not be used.
+ * [217091] Fixed a bug that made the HTTP backend issue CONNECT
+ commands for HTTP (not HTTPS) requests to proxy servers
+
+- QHttp
+ * [197694] Fixed a bug that prevented QHttp from uploading data of
+ length 0 when reading from a QIODevice.
+
+
+QtTest
+------
+
+- QCOMPARE
+ * [219067] Document behavior of qFuzzyCompare/QCOMPARE when
+ comparing with 0.0.
+
+QtDBus
+------
+
+- QDBusConnection
+ * [220140] Fixed a bug that would make objects registered with
+ ExportSlots not have interfaces inherited from parent classes
+ callable.
+ * [218733] Fixed the delivery of errors resulting of an outgoing
+ method call timing out.
+
+- QDBusReply
+ * [190546] Improved the error messages generated by QDBusReply in
+ case of mismatched signatures.
+
+QtHelp
+------
+
+ * [219454] Index also .htm and .txt files for the full text search.
+ * [233415] Use the proper encoding when parsing the title of a html
+ document.
+
+Qt3Support
+----------
+
+ * [216806] Fixed a crash in Q3ScrollView when setting a null corner widget
+ * [215041] Fixed a crash in Q3Table when using a Q3TextEdit as the editor
+ * [217218] Fix support for images in Q3TextBrowser
+
+Phonon
+------
+ * [214080] Fixed a failure on path reconnections between VideoWidget and MediaObject
+
+
+Accessibility
+-------------
+ * [222660] Made it possible to navigate from the application through the menubar,
+ toolbars etc, and down to the textedit without ending up on a QRubberBand or QMenu.
+ This left the AT client in a confused state.
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Database Drivers *
+****************************************************************************
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Platform Specific Changes *
+****************************************************************************
+
+X11
+---
+ * [211678] Fixed a problem where using widgets and pixmaps on two different
+ X11 screens resulted in X11 errors.
+ * [217250] Fixed a problem where QGLWidgets on some older X servers would
+ not get the correct colormaps set, resulting in distorted colors.
+ * [214713] Fixed a problem where text would get clipped incorrectly
+ when using QPainter::drawText() on a QGLWidget, or QGLWidget::renderText().
+ * [223085] Fixed a regression where creating a style before QApplications could
+ result in incorrect font metrics.
+
+Windows
+-------
+ * [207506] Fixed a bug that causes input widgets to switch the text alignment
+ when pressing 'Ctrl+Shift' on Vista platforms (regardless of supported
+ keyboard layouts).
+ * [223951] Fixed a crash while accessing 'QAxObject*' for methods returning a
+ VARIANT with IDispatch inside.
+ * [223145] Fixed a regression which prevented use of Qt::WindowSystemMenuHint
+ together with flags like Qt::FramelessWindowHint.
+ * [224063] Fixed a crash in QFile when QFile::handle() was called.
+ * [221924] Fixed the binary installer for Visual Studio 2005 Express.
+ * [218215] Fix custom paper sizes for printing under Windows.
+ * [210830] Fixed incorrect tooltip text color on Vista.
+
+Mac OS X
+--------
+ * [216650] Fix a regression from 4.4 in the handling of DeferredDelete
+ events. This solves the reported problem that using Cmd+W does not
+ close a form properly in the Designer.
+ * Fix an error in the qconfig.h header file that occurred on Mac OS X
+ during configure when not using Terminal.app.
+ * [222349] Fix a potential out-of-bounds read when getting data from the clipboard.
+ * [213116] Fix a regression where minimizing a window would cause a window
+ with widgets that had no click through enabled to never get enabled.
+ * [215985] Fixed QPixmap::fromImage() to not do an extra copy of the image data
+ which could cause a lot of memory to be used.
+ * [217197] Fix crash when dragging text with object replacement characters on the Mac.
+ * [212884] Fixed a crash that could occur when printing images on the Mac.
+ * [215909] Fixed a problem where text drawn into a QGLWidget on the Mac would appear
+ to be drawn with a bold type, when it shouldn't have.
+ * [215761] Fixed a problem that could make top part of text drawn
+ into a QGLWidget appear cropped.
+ * [214960] Fixed a problem where custom page margins were not taken
+ into account, unless QPrinter::fullPage() was set to true. Also,
+ margins from the QPageSetupDialog should now update the internal
+ QPrinter margins correctly.
+ * [216563] Fix "black widgets" regression from 4.4.
+ * [214681] Fixed bug that the menu bar and other parts of the application
+ responds to the same shortcuts.
+ * [312012] Fixed support for secondary shortcuts on menu bar.
+ * [315450] Fixed build issue for Phonon on OS 10.4/Macbooks regarding OpenGL headers.
+
+Qt for Embedded Linux
+---------------------
+
+- Raster paint engine
+ * Fixed pixel errors when drawing pixmaps into a semi-transparent window.
+ * Fixed an assert when drawing an 16-bit image onto an image of format
+ QImage::Format_ARGB8565_Premultiplied.
+ * [217400] Fixed painting errors with Qt::WA_NoSystemBackground used on
+ a 16bit screen.
+ * Fixed CompositionMode_Source with new QImage formats introduced in 4.4.0.
+
+- QWSServer
+ * [210865] Fixed crash due to missing null-pointer check in
+ QWSServer::sendIMEvent().
+
+- DirectFB screen driver
+ * Fixed a cache corruption which randomly resulting in painting errors
+ when using QPainter::drawImage().
+ * Fixed use of Qt::SmoothTransformation with QPixmap::scaled().
+ * Fixed painting errors when drawing transparent windows and compiled
+ width QT_NO_DIRECTFB_VM.
+ * Added QT_NO_DIRECTFB_PREALLOCATED to work around issues with drivers
+ not properly implementing blitting to/from preallocated surfaces.
+
+- VNC screen driver
+ * Fixed a crash when used on top of a screen with a non-standard line step.
+ * Fixed remote cursor when used on top of a hardware accelerated cursor.
+
+Qt for Windows CE
+-----------------
+ * [219644] Maximized MDI windows had a double title bar on Windows Mobile.
+ * [223975] Qt version displayed wrong in Windows Explorer.
+ * [217576] QLocale always displayed "C" as language.
+ * [215020] Windows with parent were always embedded into the parent window
+ instead of being toplevel itself.
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Compiler Specific Changes *
+****************************************************************************
+
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Tools *
+****************************************************************************
+
+- Build System
+
+- Assistant
+ * [221298] When triggering the sync contents action, activate the contents
+ widget.
+ * [171654] Use the title of the .html file as the about dialog window title.
+ * [219939] When specifying a .html file for the about dialog contents,
+ ensure that the referenced image files are displayed as well.
+ * [219936] When a collection file has been changed, make sure to syncronize
+ all relavant settings with the cached collection file.
+ * [206321] Display .svg files in Assistant.
+ * [219176] Escape '&' characters in the title of a document.
+
+
+- Designer
+ * [219670] Fixed a bug related to layout handling of form classes generated
+ by the Visual Studio integration.
+ * [220299] Fixed a crash that occurred when breaking a layout containing
+ zero-sized spacers.
+ * [217464] Fixed a bug related to using resource-dependent properties
+ for QDialog-based forms.
+ * [215188] Stabilized reading of corrupted ui files.
+ * [215648] Don't show the rich text editor for iconText property of QAction
+ * [214854] Fix displaying of icons in the VS integration
+ * [217093] Make non-letter shortcuts with Shift modifier working
+ * [223114] Fixed a crash when removing a dynamic url property
+ * [220998] Default precision of float property in property editor changed to 6
+
+- Linguist
+
+- lupdate
+
+- lrelease
+
+
+- rcc
+
+
+- moc
+
+
+- uic
+
+
+- uic3
+
+
+- qmake
+
+
+- configure
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Plugins *
+****************************************************************************
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Important Behavior Changes *
+****************************************************************************
+