Revision control
++ Qt 4.8 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
++ over the 4.7.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation
++ included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online:
++
++
++ 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:
++
++
++ Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more
++ information about a particular change.
++
++ ****************************************************************************
++ * General *
++ ****************************************************************************
++
++ General Improvements
++ --------------------
++
++ -
++
++ Third party components
++ ----------------------
++
++ - Updated libpng to version x.y.z
++
++
++ ****************************************************************************
++ * Library *
++ ****************************************************************************
++
++ QtCore
++ ------
++ - Removed support for QT_NO_THREAD define for QHostInfo.
++ - Optimized plugin loading on ELF platforms.
++ Print failure reason at runtime with QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 in environment.
++ - QMutexLocker: improved performence of the non contended case by inlining some function
++ - QThreadStorage: Added possibility to store object by value instead of by pointer [QTBUG-15033]
++ - QThread: fixed few race conditions [QTBUG-17257, QTBUG-15030]
++ - QtConcurrent: added support for c++0x lambda in few functions
++ - QObject: Improved performence of the signal activation
++ - QObject: added ways to connect signals using QMetaMethod
++ - QObject: deprecated qFindChild and qFindChildren
++ - QObject: optimize constructions and destruction of objects
++ - QObject: Qt::BlockingQueuedConnection can handle the return value [QTBUG-10440]
++ - QList/QVector/QStringList: added C++0x initilizer lists constructors.
++ - QVarLenghtArray: added method for consistency with QVector
++ - QStringBuilder: added support for QByteArray
++ - qSwap now uses std::swap, specialized std::swap for our container to work better with stl algoritms
++ - QVariant: deprecated global function qVariantSetValue, qVariantValue, qVariantCanConvert, qVariantFromValue
++ - QUrl: add method for retrieving effective top level domain [QTBUG-13601] (MR-1205)
++
++ QtGui
++ -----
++
++ - QTabBar: reduced minimumSizeHint if ElideMode is set.
++ - QComboBox: Fixed a color propagation issue with the lineedit. [QTBUG-5950]
++ - Deprecate qGenericMatrixFromMatrix4x4 and qGenericMatrixToMatrix4x4
++ - QListView diverses optimisations [QTBUG-11438]
++ - QTreeWidget/QListWidget: use localeAwareCompare for string comparisons [QTBUG-10839]
++ - PNG image I/O: Much improved support for text annotations, including iTXt fields.
++ - QRawFont and QGlyphRun are introduced for low-level text rendering. [QTBUG-18252]
++ - QFont: hintingPreference() is introduced to control hinting in font rendering and
++ subpixel positioning of glyphs for Windows, Mac OS X and X11/raster. [QTBUG-10615]
++ - Subpixel positioned text layout is supported in raster and OpenGL paint engines.
++ - QFont: styleName() is added to allow selecting fonts with irregular style names
++ like UltraLight. [QTBUG-19366]
++ - Visual text cursor movement behavior is added to QTextEdit and QLineEdit controls,
++ which can be used as an optional mode for bi-directional text editing. [QTBUG-13859]
++ - Accessibility: Fix potential crash in QDockWidget.
++ - Accessibility: Fix crash when asking for relations of child accessibles.
++ - Accessibility: More consistency in reporting names (especially when widget is invisible).
++ - Accessibility: Make focus handling more consistent.
++ - Accessibility: Send updates when text changes.
++ - Accessibility: Add IAccessible2 events.
++ - Accessibility: Fix crash when accessing ItemViews during initialization.
++ - Accessibility: Make QTabWidget child hierarchy consistent.
++ - Accessibility: Report correct window title and application name.
++ - Accessibility: Return text attributes for QTextEdit.
++
++
++ QtNetwork
++ ---------
++
++ - SSL: Switch default version to TLS 1.0
++ - SSL: enable Server Name Indication (SNI) by default
++ - QSslCertificate: report fraudulent certificates as invalid ("Comodogate") [QTBUG-18338]
++ - QSslCertificate: display non-ASCII names from subject and issuerInfo (MR-922)
++ - QSslCertificate: loat root certificates on demand on Unix (excluding Mac) [QTBUG-14016]
++ - QNetworkCookie: retain quotes in value attribute [QTBUG-17746]
++ - QNetworkCookie: allow spaces in unquoted values [QTBUG-18876]
++ - HTTP API: add support for HTTP multipart messages [QTBUG-6222]
++ - HTTP cache: do not load resources from cache that must be revalidated [QTBUG-18983]
++ - HTTP cache: change file organization (MR-2505)
++
++
++ QtOpenGL
++ --------
++ - Removed dependency of OpenGL Utility Library (GLU)
++ - Added QGLFunctions, which provides cross-platform access to the
++ OpenGL/ES 2.0 API.
++ - Including <QtOpenGL> will not work in combination with GLEW, as
++ QGLFunctions will undefine GLEW's defines.
++
++ QtScript
++ --------
++ - Deprecated qScriptValueFromQMetaObject, qScriptValueToValue, qScriptValueFromValue
++
++ QtSql
++ -----
++
++ - Update sqlite to 3.7.7.1
++ ****************************************************************************
++ * Database Drivers *
++ ****************************************************************************
++
++
++ ****************************************************************************
++ * Platform Specific Changes *
++ ****************************************************************************
++
++ Qt for Linux/X11
++ ----------------
++ - Now takes font hinting settings from GConf by default if running in
++ GNOME desktop.
++ - Various fixes to FontConfig font matching code to make it consistent
++ with other X11 programs. [QTBUG-2148, QTBUG-19947, QTBUG-14269]
++
++ Qt for Windows
++ --------------
++ - DirectWrite experimental text shaping engine is added with subpixel
++ positioning support. [QTBUG-12678]
++
++ Qt for Mac OS X
++ ---------------
++ - raster graphics system is now made as the default paint engine for
++ Mac OS X. [QTBUG-12615]
++ - HarfBuzz can now be used as an optional text layout engine on Mac OS X.
++ [QTBUG-17728]
++
++ Qt for Embedded Linux
++ ---------------------
++
++
++ Qt for Windows CE
++ -----------------
++
++
++ ****************************************************************************
++ * Compiler Specific Changes *
++ ****************************************************************************
++
++
++ ****************************************************************************
++ * Tools *
++ ****************************************************************************
++
++ - Build System
++
++ - Assistant
++
++ - Designer
++ * [QTBUG-18631] Enabled the use of promoted QWidgets in the buddy editor.
++ * [QTBUG-18120] Fixed saving of the Z-order.
++ * [QTBUG-13683] Fixed saving of QGridLayout and QFormLayout
++ by QFormBuilder.
++ * [QTBUG-10890] Added a filter to the rich text editor dialog.
++ that simplifies the HTML markup generated.
++ * [QTBUG-7777] Added support for QIcon::fromTheme.
++ * [QTBUG-7169] Fixed QtUiTools to be built with the correct
++ lib-infix.
++ * [QTBUG-3120] Added support for alignment of box layout items.
++
++ - Linguist
++ - Linguist GUI
++
++ - lupdate
++
++ - lrelease
++
++
++ - rcc
++
++
++ - moc
++
++
++ - uic
++
++
++ - uic3
++
++
++ - qmake
++
++
++ - configure
++
++
++ - qtconfig
++ * removed Qt3support dependency
++
++
++ - qt3to4
++
++
++ ****************************************************************************
++ * Plugins *
++ ****************************************************************************
++
++
++ ****************************************************************************
++ * Important Behavior Changes *
++ ****************************************************************************
++