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+Qt 4.5.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
+compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.5.0. For more details,
+refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The
+documentation is also available online:
+
+ http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.5
+
+The Qt version 4.5 series is binary compatible with the 4.4.x series.
+Applications compiled for 4.4 will continue to run with 4.5.
+
+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
+--------------------
+
+- Documentation and Examples
+ * Added printing feature for the Spreadsheet demo.
+ * [245675] Clarified the differences between QItemDelegate and
+ QStyledItemDelegate.
+ * [248752] Marked QPrintDialog::printer(), setPrinter() and addButton()
+ as Unix only functions, part of Qt3Support.
+
+- Embedded Dialogs demo
+ * [246517] Fixed warnings and bugs in hover handling on Mac OS X
+
+
+Optimizations
+-------------
+
+- Graphics View Framework has been optimized in several areas
+ * Improved the performance of QGraphicsItem::clipPath().
+ * Improved the performance of QGraphicsItem::setPos().
+ * Improved the performance of QGraphicsItem::effectiveOpacity().
+ * Improved the performance of QGrahicsScene::items(*).
+ * Improved handling of updates.
+ * Reduced the number of floating point operations.
+ * Reduced QVariant overhead.
+
+Third party components
+----------------------
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Library *
+****************************************************************************
+
+- QAbstractItemModel
+ * Clarified some warning messages printed if the model is invalid.
+
+- QAbstractEventDispatcher
+ * [248805] Duplicate timerids could occur if a timer is running while the
+ QObject is moved to another thread, stopping timers from working.
+
+- QAbstractSocket
+ * [192037] Emit the disconnected signal only if we were connected before.
+
+- QAccessible
+ * [221731] Fixed a bug where the accessibility plugin could crash if
+ there was an "&" at the end or spin forever if a label had a sequence of
+ "&&".
+ * [241161] Fixed a bug in browsing menus with the keyboard.
+
+- QAtomicInt
+ * [216492] Fixed compilation on 64-bit PowerPC machines with gcc 4.3.
+
+- QAuthenticator
+ * [237979] Fixed implementation of md5-sess.
+
+- QByteArray
+ * [246233] QByteArray::fromHex() fails with input of size 1.
+
+- QColorDialog
+ * [247349] Fixed a bug causing the wrong alpha value to be returned.
+
+- QCombobox
+ * [248094] Fixed scrollbar from appearing when not required.
+
+- QCompleter
+ * [246056] Fixed an assertion failure in setCompletionPrefix().
+ * [250064] Fixed a regression in focus policy propagation.
+
+- QtConcurrent
+ * [244718] Reduced the number of calls to QThread::idealThreadCount().
+
+- QDirIterator
+ * [247645] Fixed a bug that may loose all cached data inside QFileInfo.
+
+- QFile
+ * [244485] Renaming a file does not change QFile::fileName().
+ * [244500] QFile::rename() does not always return false when the method
+ fails
+
+- QFileInfo
+ * [205244] Return valid file info also for relative UNC paths.
+
+- QFileDialog
+ * [221323] Fixed a bug in QFileDialog's programmatical file selection.
+ * [248332] QFileDialog is slow after visiting a large directory.
+ * [250194] Fixed an issue with QFileDialog and QSortFilterProxyModel
+ index mapping.
+
+- QGLFramebufferObject
+ * Framebuffer object extension resolution now works with OpenGL/ES 2.0.
+
+- QGraphicsItem
+ * Fixed a slow down regression in QGraphicsItem::ItemCoordinateCache.
+ * [247890] Cached QGraphicsItems are not updated if update() is called
+ when they are hidden.
+ * [250272] Fixed a crash that could occur when an item is deleted but
+ it does not get removed from the sceneeventfilters.
+
+- QGraphicsGridLayout
+ * [242472] Fixed a bug where the calculation of the maximum width of a
+ column was incorrect.
+
+- QGraphicsScene
+ * [243707] Fixed a crash when adding a child before a parent to the
+ scene.
+
+- QGraphicsView
+ * [245766] Rubber Band drag mode does not update correctly when
+ scrolling.
+
+- QGraphicsWidget
+ * [246215] Fixed a regression where we could cache the wrong size hint
+ because we called the virtual sizeHint() from the constructor.
+
+- QHttp
+ * Compile fixes for QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE being in the wrong place in some
+ private headers.
+ * [208445] Cancel request upon receiving unknown authentication method.
+
+- QHostAddress
+ * [247330] Fixed compilation on MinGW by adding a missing QPair include.
+
+- QLocalSocket
+ * Fixed a bug that would cause QLocalSocket to disconnect 30 seconds
+ after a succesful delayed connection on UNIX.
+
+- QMacStyle
+ * Adjusted the opacity value for popups.
+ * [248769] Fixed a regression where QMacStyle would only draw tabs when
+ passed a QStyleOptionTabV3.
+
+- QMainWindow
+ * [248048] Fixed a regression that would cause tooltips to disappear when
+ using the unified toolbar.
+
+- QMetaType
+ * [248890] The detailed description of QMetaType no longer contradicts
+ the documentation of QMetaType::type()
+
+- QMutex
+ * Fixed a performance regression for contended mutexes as reported on the
+ qt4-preview-feedback list.
+
+- QPainter
+ * Compile fixes for OpenGL paint engine on OpenGL/ES 1.1 CommonLite and
+ OpenGL/ES 1.0.
+ * [246573] Fixed a very slow stroking of paths in the X11 paint engine.
+ * [247083] Fixed the scale applied to antialiased cosmetic pens in X11
+ paint engine.
+ * [247492] Fixed a rendering bug in the raster paint engine causing
+ * [247505] Fixed missing fills of rectangles with negative width/height
+ in raster paint engine.
+ one-pixel offset when drawing premultiplied ARGB32 images on RGB16
+ images.
+ * [249490] Fixed one-pixel offset between stroke and fills of ellipses in
+ the X11 paint engine.
+ * [249628] Fixed a crash in OpenGL paint engine when filling using
+ Qt::NoBrush.
+
+
+- QPixmap
+ * [249175] Fixed QPixmap::fromImage() of monochrome images to result in
+ black/white pixels and not transparent/white pixels.
+
+- QProcess
+ * [247865] Fixed a crash when calling QProcess::start() and
+ startDetached() with an empty program string.
+
+- QScrollBar
+ * [247985] Stylesheet: added the feature to style scrollbar menus.
+
+- QSharedPointer
+ * [246843] Fixed a crash caused by using QSharedPointer in global statics.
+
+- QSortFilterProxyModel
+ * [247867] Properly sort when calling appendRows().
+ * [248868] Re-sort when the model is reset if dynamicSort is enabled.
+ * [248868] Fixed QSortFilterProxyModel::sort() if dynamicSort was disabled.
+
+- QSSlSocket
+ * [245668] Set also protocol, verifyMode and verifyDepth in
+ setSslConfiguration().
+
+- QString
+ * [249517] Fixed a regression in replace(int, int, QChar) when the string
+ is empty.
+
+- QStyleSheetStyle
+ * Improved support for setting background and foreground roles in styles
+ such as the text color in a combo box popup on Mac and Cleanlooks, or
+ the background of QScrollBar.
+ * Fixed a crash that occured while styling the title bar of a QMdiArea.
+ * [188195] Fixed the background of QAbstractScrollArea losing its color
+ if styled with pseudo-class.
+ * [246542] Fixed a bug in QToolButton::hover{ color:.... }.
+
+- QThread
+ * [249997] Added documentation indicating that the priority set by the
+ programmer may be ignored, for example on Linux.
+
+- QTreeView
+ * Fixed a crash that may occur when events are processed immediately
+ after a QSortFilterProxyModel is invalidated.
+ * [246025] Fixed auto-expand that occured when quickly collapsing an item
+ after clicking on a child.
+ * [248163] Fixed a possible crash in the paintEvent() when spans are used.
+ * [248805] Calling QTreeView::sortByColumn() programmatically was not
+ working if manual sorting was disabled.
+
+- QWidget
+ * [250388] Fixed a potential crash in QWidget::scroll() when using the
+ raster graphics system.
+
+- QWidget
+ * [246852] Improved handling of WindowMaximizeButtonHint for widgets with
+ layouts.
+
+-QLocale
+ * String-to-number conversion functions will now ignore trailing and
+ leading whitespaces in all locales as documented.
+
+- QWizard
+ * [248107] Fixed a bug on Windows Vista causing the Back button to
+ connect to the back() signal twice.
+
+- Q3ListView
+ * [248689] Fixed a bug in Q3ListView that would not update under certain
+ conditions.
+
+- QtWebKit
+ * Fixed a bug in cookie handling (WebKit Bugzilla 24062, Benjamin Meyer).
+ * Fixed a bug in calling from JavaScript into NPAPI plugins on Windows.
+ * Fixed the updating state of WebActions (Erik Bunce)
+ * Fixed a bug in HTML 5 Canvas clearRect() (Dirk Schulze)
+ * Fixed the theming of text fields with KDE 4 Oxygen style (Zack Rusin)
+ * Fixed path fill styles (Zack Rusin)
+ * Fixed pre-edit text handling with input methods.
+ * [248643] Fixed compiling with the "-pedantic" compile option.
+
+- QSqlTableModel
+ * Made setTable() try and use the database's letter case (uppercase/
+ lowercase) of the given tablename.
+ * [189093] QSqlTableModel did not handle updates when one of the fields
+ had a NULL value.
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Database Drivers *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ * Fixed the DB2 driver returning a double field as empty.
+ * Fixed a memory leak in the DB2 driver.
+ * Fixed the DB2 driver not quoting table/field names properly.
+ * Fixed an issue with ODBC & FreeTDS not accepting quotes in statements.
+ * Fixed a bug in the sqlite2 driver not returning false on failing to
+ execute a statement.
+ * PrecisionPolicy now works in the oracle driver.
+ * Fixed a bug in the ODBC driver returning a list of tables when
+ requested.
+ * Fixed Interbase retrieving scale/precision information on numeric/
+ decimal fields.
+ * Stopped drivers from quoting again when escapeIdentifier is called
+ twice.
+ * Fixed a bug in the sqlite2 driver not quoting fields correctly.
+ * [232769] Fixed a memory overflow issue on bound out strings in ODBC
+ Driver
+ * [249059] Fixed a bug that handled QPSQL datetime/time fields with
+ negative timezone offsets incorrectly.
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Platform Specific Changes *
+****************************************************************************
+
+Qt for Linux/X11
+----------------
+
+ * Ensured proper resetting for input contexts when switching between
+ multiple input context plugins.
+ * Input methods preedit strings are now reset properly when user switches
+ focus without commiting a string.
+ * Unicode conversion functions will handle Latin-1 character set only if
+ they are used before a QCoreApplication/QApplication is constructed.
+ * Improved handling of failed unicode conversion.
+ * Fixed clipboard handling when the user manually creates an instance of
+ the QDesktopWidget.
+ * [226048] Ensured that the QDesktopWidget::resized() signal is emitted
+ properly when a new screen appears or the screen geometry is changed
+ without affecting the whole desktop's geometry.
+ * [232632] Fixed a bug in reparenting widgets to a difference X11 screen.
+ * [241888] The background of the drag-n-drop cursor is now respected,
+ according to the stylesheet.
+ * [244337] Improved input method handling when a widget's native window
+ id is recreated.
+ * [244607] Current focus widget is properly set and input method is
+ properly initialized when showing a toplevel widget that accepts
+ keyboard input.
+
+- Phonon/GStreamer
+ * [233188] Fixed a problem where the seek slider reset to 0 while being
+ dragged.
+ * [244259] Fixed a problem where the backend failed to indicate an error
+ when the streaming failed.
+ * [246097] Added support for the MediaController interface to allow audio
+ CD playback.
+ * [246189] Fixed a problem where the backend failed to correctly escape
+ certain file names casuing playback to not start.
+
+
+- QGtkStyle
+ * The system palette is no longer strictly forced. Also improved behavior
+ related to system theme changes.
+ * Fixed palette and styling issues with the background color of combo box
+ popups.
+ * [238196] Allowed middle click to set scrollbar position, following GTK+
+ behavior.
+ * [239829] Disabled alt-key navigation for QGtkStyle following GTK+
+ behavior.
+ * [247653] Fixed a compilation issue on Solaris.
+ * [249363] QFrame is now styled as a GtkScrolledWindow.
+
+- Font rendering
+ * Improved performance of subpixel antialiased text rendering by using a
+ mask in the calls to XRender's text compositing function.
+ * [248387] Properly respect the font config LCD filter settings for
+ subpixel antialiased text rendering when Freetype's native subpixel
+ rendering is disabled.
+ * [248498] Fix garbled rendering of subpixel antialiased text when using
+ Freetype's native subpixel rendering for vertical subpixel layouts.
+ * [248644] Fall back to Qt's subpixel rendering if Freetype's subpixel
+ rendering was available at compile-time but not at run-time.
+
+- QEventDispatcherGlib
+ * Event posted to a thread before it is started are not processed until
+ others events are posted.
+
+- QWidget
+ * [213512] Fixed a bug that caused wrong clipping when using the
+ Qt::WA_PaintOutsidePaintEvent attribute.
+
+
+Qt for Windows
+--------------
+
+ * [240891] Corrected the focus behavior of native file dialogs, when an
+ application has multiple toplevel widgets.
+ * [243583] Improved drag-and-drop handling when switching mouse buttons
+ quickly.
+ * [244875] The system menu will now be shown for a fullscreen window.
+ * [245330] Fixed a bug that caused mouse inputs to be ignored on modal
+ dialogs, when shown from an ActiveQt control.
+ * [249576] Fixed a crash when using a combobox with Qt::NoFocus.
+
+
+- QCoreApplication
+ * [247401] Fixed a bug that caused a restarted timer to fire too early,
+ resulting in QtWebKit's Javascript consuming 100% CPU on Windows.
+- QWindowsXPStyle
+ * [248036] Fixed an issue where tool buttons were hovering incorrectly
+ when disabled.
+
+- QWidget
+ * [248391] Fixed a bug that made it impossible to dynamically switch from
+ QPainter-based graphics to native graphics API and back.
+
+
+Qt for Mac OS X
+---------------
+
+ * Fixed a crash when showing a widget that is a modal window but has no
+ parent.
+ * Added QSysInfo::MV_10_6 as an enum to test against.
+ * Various compile fixes for the preliminary supported Snow Leopard.
+ * The uninstall-qt.py script included in the binary package no longer
+ complains about removing itself multiple times.
+- * Improved the documentation for how qt_mac_set_dock_menu() works.
+ * Fixed an issue with the focus frame's transparency as it was difficult
+ to use the QWidget with stylesheets.
+ * [223525] Fixed a crash in the MacMainWindow Demo.
+ * [248803] Ensured that two dialogs shown at the same time will both not
+ have visible default buttons.
+
+- QDesktopWidget
+ * [244004] Properly support multiple screens with different sizes.
+
+- QDialog
+ * [195904] Parent dialog is displayed on top of its modal child.
+ * [218980] Modeless dialogs should be stacked above normal windows.
+ * [239155] QDialog(foo, Qt::Sheet) with QComboBox has non-native
+ behavior.
+
+- QFileDialog
+ * [219844] Fixed a crash caused by QFileDialog::getOpenFileName()'s
+ search buttons (native version).
+ * [225705] QFileDialog::getSaveFileName()'s filter does not display
+ correctly.
+
+- QMenu
+ * [228017] Ensured that QMenu closes when expanding a system menu.
+
+- QTestLib
+ * Activate the test application when launched from the command line.
+
+- Event system
+ * [210912] Fixed a bug where ShowEvent not sent when reshowing a window
+ after it was minimized.
+
+- macdeployqt
+ * The binary packages now include this tool.
+ * macdeployqt now runs 'strip' on the deployed binaries.
+ * Fixed an issue that prevented the QtSvg module from being deployed.
+
+- configure script
+ * Now supports "-arch i386" as an alias for "-arch x86".
+ * Detects invalid arch arguemnts and exits.
+
+- Cocoa port
+ * Fixed a bug where actions in the native menubar were not disabled
+ properly.
+ * Made shortcuts work properly when using the Dvorak-QWERTY+CMD keyboard
+ layout.
+ * Fixed a bug where dialogs were positioned in the wrong place on the
+ screen.
+ * The build-key for Cocoa was changed in the unlikely case that a plugin
+ may make assumptions on how Qt was built. All Cocoa plugins built
+ against Qt 4.5.0 will NOT work with Qt 4.5.1; we do not foresee
+ changing this again.
+ * Fixed a bug where some windows did not get activation when they
+ normally should.
+ * Fixed a bug where key events sent to popups were not propagated
+ onwards.
+ * QFileOpenEvents will no longer be sent for items passed via command
+ line.
+ * Various fixes for determining the metrics of text and the ability to
+ disable kerning.
+ * Modified the Colliding Mice Example to work better with coalesced
+ updates.
+ * Fixed a bug where the drag cursor was not updated when modifier keys
+ were used.
+ * [239043] Fixed a bug that caused QGraphicsProxyWidget to shrink when
+ moved.
+ * [244369] Window flags on Cocoa windows should look similar to the
+ Carbon ones.
+ * [247947] Fixed a crash in drag and drop.
+ * [248918] Fixed color matching for themed text items.
+ * The command + h shortcut is now enabled. (Hides the current window.)
+ * [249296] Fixed a bug where line edits on a second page of a stack
+ widget were not getting key events.
+
+Qt for Embedded Linux
+---------------------
+
+- * Various improvements to the Qt DirectFB plugin.
+ * Fixed recreation of temporary EGL surfaces in the PowerVR QScreen
+ driver.
+- * Document some necessary #define's for building the PowerVR QScreen
+ driver.
+
+Qt for Windows CE
+-----------------
+
+ * [246619] Fixed a tap and hold bug for QCheckbox.
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Compiler Specific Changes *
+****************************************************************************
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Tools *
+****************************************************************************
+
+- Build System
+
+- Assistant
+
+
+- Designer
+ * [245503] Fixed redundant backslashes in string property in the property
+ browser.
+ * [245961] Restricted objectname-validation to known object name
+ properties only.
+ * [247995] Fixed a crash occurring after layout operations that caused
+ an instance of QGridLayout or QFormLayout to shrink.
+ * [248000] Fixed a crash ocurring when re-layouting empty grid layouts.
+ * [249097] Fixed a crash related to undoing a QGridLayout re-layout
+ operation.
+
+- Linguist
+
+ - Linguist GUI
+
+ * [248076] Fixed a crash caused by opening files for which we have no
+ plural rules.
+ * [249519] Fixed a crash upon dropping text into a non-focused line
+ edit.
+
+ - Entire Linguist toolchain
+
+ * [244035] Fixed an infinite loop in PO writer.
+ * [247738] Improved handling of duplicated messages.
+ * [248849] Fixed the encoding in XLIFF writer.
+ * [249022] Fixed TS' and QM's handling of messages which appear in
+ multiple encodings.
+
+ - lupdate
+
+ * [248724] Fixed the encoding of messages from .ui files if CODECFORTR
+ is not utf8.
+ * [249633] Fixed the processing of C++ backslash line continuations.
+
+- rcc
+
+
+- moc
+ * [240368] moc parsing issue with "unsigned" subphrase
+
+- uic
+ * [244998] Fixed include file generation for phonon widgets.
+ * [248070] Fixed code generation for QStringList-type properties to use
+ encoding properly.
+ * [242447] Made uic generate class-specific code correctly in the case of
+ multiple levels of inheritance.
+
+- uic3
+
+
+- qmake
+ * On Mac OS, properly escape file names in QMAKE_BUNDLE_DATA.
+ * Fixed moc and uic features to make shadow builds work even if a
+ non-shadow build is present
+ * [201495] Comment processing in qmake prevented file from being moc'ed
+ * [248806] Ensured that the Xcode generator includes the right path to
+ frameworks.
+
+- configure
+
+
+- qtconfig
+
+
+- qt3to4
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Plugins *
+****************************************************************************
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Important Behavior Changes *
+****************************************************************************
+