Release Notes - Qt - Version 5.4.0 RC - HTML format

Suggestion

  • [QTBUG-11332] - Duplex Printing on Windows
  • [QTBUG-35426] - Clarify documentation for QML object ownership
  • [QTBUG-38389] - add Tumbler to Qt QuickControls
  • [QTBUG-41943] - QPrinter::setFontEmbeddingEnabled should work on windows and mac

Bug

  • [QTBUG-19286] - Warning during processing qrc-files
  • [QTBUG-23381] - QSettings incorrectly processes .ini file with UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM)
  • [QTBUG-25023] - Broken links in documentation
  • [QTBUG-26687] - QTreeView CTRL+A selection
  • [QTBUG-26782] - Target extension property is not modified on VS2010
  • [QTBUG-27506] - QTranslator::load with filename and no directory does not use QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath() as default path for non-Symbian system
  • [QTBUG-29816] - OSX: Qt::Tool window ignores Qt::WA_MacAlwaysShowToolWindow attribute
  • [QTBUG-30471] - Inconsistent translation when using disambiguation
  • [QTBUG-30741] - When using -no-native-gestures on Windows, the swipe gesture is not picked up
  • [QTBUG-30999] - Qprocess::start() does not bring the launched application on front
  • [QTBUG-31117] - showNormal() on a minimized dialog doesn't restore the dialog on the screen, Qt 5 regression on Mac & Linux
  • [QTBUG-31301] - Delayed QMimeData request fails on OS X
  • [QTBUG-31540] - Printing adjecent images with alpha to pdf causes image edge overlap
  • [QTBUG-31736] - [documentation] Missing character ';' on the end of CustomStyle class constructor declaration in QStyle Class example code.
  • [QTBUG-32704] - QBluetoothSocket isOpen(), isReadable(), isWritable() is always true
  • [QTBUG-32846] - Items clipped using QGraphicsPathItem::ItemClipsChildrenToShape produce incorrect output
  • [QTBUG-32928] - Action keyboard shortcuts blocks keyPressEvent to Items
  • [QTBUG-33020] - Text with WordWrap and RichText isn't re-laid-out after width change
  • [QTBUG-33182] - QShortcut can't handle ctrl+q when language switched to greek.
  • [QTBUG-33441] - Mac QSystemTrayIcon scaling not retina-aware (and also wrong)
  • [QTBUG-33537] - QComboBox fusion style fails with stylesheet if no parent before setEditable
  • [QTBUG-33557] - [REG] OS X: tilde doesn't appear
  • [QTBUG-33611] - Cosmetic lines (0 width) will not print in colour when painting to QPrinter
  • [QTBUG-34290] - multiple runs of QCoreApplication results in wrong QLibraryInfo paths
  • [QTBUG-34430] - wrong window state on xcb platform
  • [QTBUG-34941] - QClipboard::dataChanged doesn't work correctly on Mac OS X
  • [QTBUG-35146] - QMdiArea::cascadeSubWindows overlaps the QMdiSubwindows
  • [QTBUG-35155] - QKeyEvent documentation is wrong and outdated
  • [QTBUG-35576] - Missing documentation for QOpenGLTexture, QOpenGLPixelTransferOptions
  • [QTBUG-35592] - On iOS moving between QML TextInputs causes the screen to "flicker"
  • [QTBUG-36115] - QWidget::createWindowContainer: qquickview dead-locks on exit
  • [QTBUG-36281] - QKeyEvent regression in Qt5
  • [QTBUG-36477] - Status Bar never shown when "Hide during launch" is enabled
  • [QTBUG-36582] - Keyboard input doesn't work after clicking into QGLWidget
  • [QTBUG-36681] - QQControls Menu navigation broken on windows
  • [QTBUG-36767] - When drawing a path from a SVG then it will not correctly handle the final points when rendering to PDF
  • [QTBUG-36802] - Invalid drawable and invalid frame buffer with GLWidget in Qt 5.2.1
  • [QTBUG-36850] - When started via remote control, assistant updates index on startup every time
  • [QTBUG-37381] - REG: Windows: youtubeview does not play the video in opengl -version of Qt5
  • [QTBUG-37559] - iOS: QML Apps calculate touch positions incorrectly when operating system displays Personal hotspot bar
  • [QTBUG-37673] - QLabel wordWrap = true caused weirdness in dialog sizing
  • [QTBUG-37811] - Qt5 documentation on breaks of source compatibility is not complete
  • [QTBUG-37850] - Android: Keyboard doesn't hide from done button
  • [QTBUG-37903] - Rendering svg image to pdf file has glitches in image
  • [QTBUG-38016] - QSlider not usable on Android (too small)
  • [QTBUG-38071] - QTreeView auto expand doesn't work on Mac
  • [QTBUG-38116] - Quick Controls' ComboBox on QQuickWidget shows pop up in wrong location
  • [QTBUG-38234] - Apps start upside down
  • [QTBUG-38268] - Qt Quick Widgets Example not working on Android
  • [QTBUG-38371] - Incomplete VFP support detection?
  • [QTBUG-38546] - WebCore::checkEncodedString asserts when javascript contains html href starting with hash
  • [QTBUG-38558] - Qt5 creates too many DragMove events on Mac
  • [QTBUG-38578] - Dynamically created QtQuick Dialogs not working on Android device
  • [QTBUG-38646] - QML Text (native) rendering sometimes has glitches
  • [QTBUG-38707] - Bookkeeping for QApplicationPrivate::focus_window broken on Mac after showing/dismissing QMenu
  • [QTBUG-38800] - Segmentation fault in QFontEngineFT::init when filling a model asynchronously
  • [QTBUG-39308] - The installer calculates the required space wrongly with adding new packages using the package manager
  • [QTBUG-39376] - XCB: isMinimized() returns wrong status
  • [QTBUG-39435] - FileDialog does not allow to save a file
  • [QTBUG-39557] - Removing a QAction's icon is not honored in the Mac menu bar
  • [QTBUG-39614] - Using qRegisterMetaType and Q_PROPERTY with a pointer type causes an error
  • [QTBUG-39646] - Switch to MinGW toolchain i686-4.8.2-release-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev4.7z or later
  • [QTBUG-39749] - Auto-detected kits have same display name as previously installed Qt with same minor release
  • [QTBUG-39809] - Mac:Closing a child dialog causes the main window to be incorrectly brought to front
  • [QTBUG-39824] - Text is not inserted into TextInput immediately when using predictive text input on Android
  • [QTBUG-39859] - Qt5Gui cmake error w/ SDK + Qt 5.3.1
  • [QTBUG-39934] - OS X: Special menu items (Cut, Copy, Paste, Select all) can't be renamed
  • [QTBUG-39958] - QPlatformBackingStore::scroll leads to artifacts on QNX
  • [QTBUG-40014] - SIGSEV on YouTube
  • [QTBUG-40029] - QList<QString> toSet() AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow (32 bit only)
  • [QTBUG-40106] - Moving a QMainWindow by dragging the Toolbar moves window over wrong distance
  • [QTBUG-40170] - TextEdit: Cannot use 'Delete' key in line edits on OS X
  • [QTBUG-40197] - On OSX, scroll wheel generated by the momentum phase lose the current modifiers
  • [QTBUG-40251] - QSslSocket::setProtocol() causes SSL context error on Ubuntu 14.04
  • [QTBUG-40273] - Crash when clicking on flash player while flash plugin no installed
  • [QTBUG-40352] - QCalendarWidget's sizeHint doesn't respect content margins
  • [QTBUG-40378] - Creating a custom QTextCodec when ICU is not used will cause it to not create the standard codecs when needed
  • [QTBUG-40410] - Expanding dockArea does not get additional available space when using a fixed-size central widget
  • [QTBUG-40534] - Placeholder text in TextField disappears on TextField tap
  • [QTBUG-40595] - [Reg]: crash in SpriteSequence if goalSprite is referenced before it's created
  • [QTBUG-40619] - iOS: QGraphicsTextItem focus issues with virtual keyboard
  • [QTBUG-40652] - Compiler warnings when compiling qtdeclarative\tests\auto\quick\qquickwindow: *QV4::Managed::Data::operator new(size_t,QV4::Managed::Data *)' : no matching operator delete found
  • [QTBUG-40770] - [Windows] When rendering to PDF then with some fonts the kerning can be too tight or it may be clipped off
  • [QTBUG-40814] - [MinGW 64bit]: When evaluating a script that checks if the string is a number with a regexp then it will fail
  • [QTBUG-40830] - winrt: Manifest is missing orientation support
  • [QTBUG-40866] - QWebSocketServer sends invalid Date header in handshake response
  • [QTBUG-40966] - Qt Designer Property editor limits values of doubles to INT_MAX
  • [QTBUG-41046] - QOpenGLWidget problem with QGraphicsView
  • [QTBUG-41076] - Documentation shown in assistant/webkit has hard-coded font size and is thus too small on High DPI displays
  • [QTBUG-41092] - Size conversion warnings using QList<>
  • [QTBUG-41145] - Segmentation fault in gtk after creating & destroying QApplication + QTreeView twice
  • [QTBUG-41155] - QWinJumpList category "tasks" doesn't show up
  • [QTBUG-41183] - Qt intermittently will hang trying to lock mutex when Image is loaded from URL
  • [QTBUG-41193] - QQmlTypeData is not being propagated properly
  • [QTBUG-41206] - qFatal in QApplication::~QApplication calling QXcbWindow::create
  • [QTBUG-41221] - Can't navigate menu with keyboard
  • [QTBUG-41222] - QFont::setLetterSpacing() parameter 'spacing' units are not documented
  • [QTBUG-41247] - Qt.ImhPreferNumbers does not show numeric keyboard with iOS device.
  • [QTBUG-41271] - It should be documented that QFile::setPermissions() cannot be used to change the file permissions on Windows
  • [QTBUG-41300] - Windows: Region mask on widget broken under devicePixelRatio > 1
  • [QTBUG-41312] - [Reg 4->5] QMainWindow::showEvent is not called when the window is restored after being minimized
  • [QTBUG-41369] - Quick Widget example hangs on Android due to TextInput and VKB
  • [QTBUG-41372] - Regression : The characters of some languages are wrong in fancybrowser demo
  • [QTBUG-41403] - QVariant associative container conversion misses built-in check.
  • [QTBUG-41404] - Failure to render website with extremely large composited layer
  • [QTBUG-41406] - native Gnome file dialogs don't get the focus
  • [QTBUG-41419] - QWebView does not properly grab the mouse
  • [QTBUG-41421] - Exponential memory leak in V4 Array.
  • [QTBUG-41443] - iOS8 Runtime Crash (iPhone/iPad REAL Device)
  • [QTBUG-41447] - extendShape() test in qgeocircle fails on i386
  • [QTBUG-41453] - Wrong valgrind version check
  • [QTBUG-41484] - OS X: After show contextMenu, can not input Chinese.
  • [QTBUG-41490] - Android: Widgets don't default to Android style
  • [QTBUG-41494] - Android: No documentation for -qml-import-paths in androiddeployqt
  • [QTBUG-41513] - QFontDialog will not work when font in stylesheet is set
  • [QTBUG-41609] - OS X: FrameStrutMouseEvent causes spurious double-clicks
  • [QTBUG-41613] - Issues to be fixed before 5.4.0 RC
  • [QTBUG-41631] - QtSerialPortInfo::availablePorts crashes on MacOS 10.9.5 with Qt 5.3.2
  • [QTBUG-41635] - QWinThumbnailToolBar GDI leak
  • [QTBUG-41645] - "D3D11 WARNING" when running application using QQuickWidget
  • [QTBUG-41677] - Compilation fails for qtwayland if QT_NO_OPENGL is defined
  • [QTBUG-41681] - tst_qfiledialog.exe completer -test assumes too much
  • [QTBUG-41687] - Regression: DropShadow has gone crazy
  • [QTBUG-41699] - Exposing Methods (including Qt Slots) Example Code Error
  • [QTBUG-41702] - Quick controls: Selected items font color is wrong when using Windows Classic theme
  • [QTBUG-41712] - Date().toLocaleString() doesn't work correctly, ignores all arguments
  • [QTBUG-41739] - .toString() method of QGeoCoordinteClass incorrect behaviour
  • [QTBUG-41741] - Hiding input keyboard in QTextEditor no longer works
  • [QTBUG-41747] - QtBearer NetworkManager backend does not seem to work
  • [QTBUG-41766] - Regression: crash compiling do{} while() loop
  • [QTBUG-41767] - QOpenGLWidget mess up with app layout/pixel ratio on Retina screens
  • [QTBUG-41768] - Windows Phone: Some devices fail to render Qt Quick with depth/stencil buffer
  • [QTBUG-41790] - Designer loads incomplete translations (loads qtbase_<LANG>.qm even though designer_<LANG>.qm is missing)
  • [QTBUG-41794] - Qt5.4.0 Beta: Mac installer is not signed for OS X 10.9.5+
  • [QTBUG-41798] - Incorrect link to Qt licensing page
  • [QTBUG-41807] - QtBearer NetworkManager backend lacks mobile data connection functionality
  • [QTBUG-41827] - QtPositioning - iOS8 CLLocationManager authorization
  • [QTBUG-41832] - Android: network connection not properly detected when using android bearer plugin
  • [QTBUG-41837] - OS X: the auto-detected desktop configuration in Creator shipped with the 5.4 packages forces gdb as debugger (instead of lldb)
  • [QTBUG-41848] - Crash when trying to add Component to children property
  • [QTBUG-41858] - QStringRef::right inconsistent with QString::right
  • [QTBUG-41859] - Japanese text is not displayed in QML when using font substitution
  • [QTBUG-41873] - Wrong initial error value in QGeoPositionInfoSourceAndroid
  • [QTBUG-41877] - Webkit crash while doing UK speedtest
  • [QTBUG-41879] - OS X crash with QuickLook in QFileDialog
  • [QTBUG-41881] - QFileSystemModel: mistake in the doc about filePath()
  • [QTBUG-41888] - When window is hidden, app running animations consumes up to 80% of CPU
  • [QTBUG-41892] - Adding Active Qt (QT += axcontainer) to a module causes error Cannot open include file: 'QtAxContainer/QtAxContainer': No such file or directory
  • [QTBUG-41896] - QtWebKit JavaScript crashes on big-endian architectures (Regression from Qt4)
  • [QTBUG-41900] - QPopupMenu broken with QQuickWidget
  • [QTBUG-41901] - Wrong letter spacing in umlauts with Oswald font
  • [QTBUG-41903] - App crashes on Windows Phone 8.1
  • [QTBUG-41924] - WinRT Installer shows embedded license
  • [QTBUG-41928] - QFile::resize() documentation is flawed.
  • [QTBUG-41934] - High CPU usage of QUdpSocket after received ICMP TTL message
  • [QTBUG-41935] - Shortcut syntax (&) for menus does not work
  • [QTBUG-41938] - [REG] iOS: Keyboard Cannot Be Closed Manually
  • [QTBUG-41941] - QWindowsPrintDevice::printableMargins() leaks GDI objects (HDC)
  • [QTBUG-41942] - QQuickWidget turns black when menu overlays progress bar
  • [QTBUG-41955] - [REG 5.3 -> 5.4] TextArea/TextField: Mouse hover cursor doesn't change
  • [QTBUG-41968] - Check Ministro requirements before release
  • [QTBUG-41971] - readonly QtObject properties are not possible
  • [QTBUG-41976] - Android: Mnemonics in action bar items
  • [QTBUG-41977] - QWidget dialogs in QtQuick app are translated to a different language
  • [QTBUG-41996] - Qt Creator tags some examples as "broken"
  • [QTBUG-41998] - [REG 4.8->5] QTextBrowser assumes that the content of document is utf-16 when charset=unicode is specified
  • [QTBUG-41999] - QtQuick.Dialogs system dialogs example: numerous layout problems on small-screen devices
  • [QTBUG-42006] - Documentation Error on Data Type Conversion page
  • [QTBUG-42007] - QPrinterInfo::supportedResolutions() return wrong values
  • [QTBUG-42012] - Android: "libQt5Quick.so" not found
  • [QTBUG-42017] - OSX: qint64 set to QSettings is converted to int
  • [QTBUG-42022] - REG: Animated growing BorderImage broken
  • [QTBUG-42023] - iOS: network connection not properly detected when using https
  • [QTBUG-42042] - Accessing a specific webpages causes QtWebKit crash
  • [QTBUG-42051] - Linux: Crash in QV4::MemoryManager::mark()
  • [QTBUG-42061] - QIOSTextInputResponder still in use after dealloc
  • [QTBUG-42064] - REG[5.3-5.4] building qmake fails with msvc2010
  • [QTBUG-42069] - configure.exe missing in source packages
  • [QTBUG-42079] - QAbstractButton - released signal emitted before pressed signal
  • [QTBUG-42087] - QtBearer on Mac OS X error on closing QNetworkSession
  • [QTBUG-42088] - Networking doesn't seem to work at all on Android
  • [QTBUG-42090] - Android: Demibold font can take presedence over regular
  • [QTBUG-42094] - EditMenu shown for TextArea/Field on active focus gain.
  • [QTBUG-42096] - Qml TextEdit inside SplitView blanks during editing
  • [QTBUG-42101] - MessageDialog locks when using QGuiApplication
  • [QTBUG-42103] - REG: dropping a text file in QTextEdit causes Q_ASSERT
  • [QTBUG-42114] - Rendercontrol disfunctional when having both a retina and non-retina screen connected
  • [QTBUG-42115] - Update openssl on build machines to newer version (Ubuntu)
  • [QTBUG-42119] - Warning while building qrc-generated files on gcc
  • [QTBUG-42126] - Warnings and flicker when moving windows between screens on Mac
  • [QTBUG-42129] - [MacOSX]: Popup window disables shortcut keys
  • [QTBUG-42190] - Crash while jumping forward in a YouTube video
  • [QTBUG-42213] - [REG 5.3.2->5.4] Windows: opengl assert when closing QML main window when QML windows are aggregated in a QtObject
  • [QTBUG-42235] - more than one instance of overloaded function signbit Intel compiler
  • [QTBUG-42249] - QML FontLoader does not work if the absolute path to the font contains non-latin characters
  • [QTBUG-42252] - Not possible to change Slider value by tapping
  • [QTBUG-42264] - tst_qdeclarativetextedit timeouts delegateloading
  • [QTBUG-42274] - QWebView applications crash
  • [QTBUG-42276] - On iOS QStandardPaths::DataLocation is the same as QStandardPaths::DocumentsLocation
  • [QTBUG-42288] - Regression: Performance of BorderImage has significantly decreased
  • [QTBUG-42294] - Missing dependency (qt.extras.qtwebview.doc)
  • [QTBUG-42322] - QVariant::toDouble and similar methods don't work with custom types
  • [QTBUG-42327] - OS X: Crash in QMenu::copyActionToPlatformItem
  • [QTBUG-42329] - Crash after second rewind in flash player
  • [QTBUG-42340] - Memory leak in QV4::ErrorObject
  • [QTBUG-42345] - [REG] iOS: Launch Crash when Using Launch Images.
  • [QTBUG-42348] - Bearer management detects WLAN as Ethernet on Android
  • [QTBUG-42359] - RCC-generated file is broken: "Too many initializers for ‘const unsigned char [4]’"
  • [QTBUG-42367] - Qt5.4.0 Mac: Qt examples cannot be opened
  • [QTBUG-42368] - networkmanager QtBearer backend does not support dual sim
  • [QTBUG-42390] - [REG 5.3.2 -> 5.4] Windows: Text is unreadable in QComboBox which has focus
  • [QTBUG-42393] - OS X disabled QAction delivers keypress event to focused widget
  • [QTBUG-42417] - QtWebKit for x64 from Qt 5.3.2 crashes in JavaScriptCore
  • [QTBUG-42427] - QNetworkSession may crash if other process deactivates wifi
  • [QTBUG-42428] - Windows/direct2d: After opening enough windows, the event queue blocks
  • [QTBUG-42438] - Debugging QML application which uses QAbstractListModel based model does crash the app when Qt is build as debug
  • [QTBUG-42441] - qdoc tries to autolink symbols that begin with "__"
  • [QTBUG-42468] - Slider becomes "sticky" over the point where it is pressed to initiate a drag
  • [QTBUG-42508] - Dot can't be drew in Arabic text or Thai text
  • [QTBUG-42518] - On OS X, Cmd+R press must not add "r" to textfields
  • [QTBUG-42523] - iOS: context menus doesn't show
  • [QTBUG-42529] - Update visual studio 2010's vcredist in installers
  • [QTBUG-42543] - Cross-compiling qtbase/src/corelib/io/qstorageinfo_win.cpp can't find <Windows.h>
  • [QTBUG-42552] - Links in Qt 5.4 reference documentation 'index' page
  • [QTBUG-42582] - ios app crashed when hiding keyboard
  • [QTBUG-42593] - Web kit crashing on flash videos
  • [QTBUG-42670] - Linux package doesn't compile Bluetooth LE backend
  • [QTBUG-42672] - Android: QSlider is unusable
  • [QTBUG-42673] - QAndroidStyle crashes on Android L
  • [QTBUG-42684] - Patch build paths of .pri, .so files on Mac/Android
  • [QTBUG-42705] - [REG] iOS: Keyboard Disabled with QTextEdit after Closing a Native Popover.
  • [QTBUG-42710] - libwebp licensing information
  • [QTBUG-42714] - ANGLE: Compilation failure with d3d9 / '-target xp'
  • [QTBUG-42739] - Qt5.4.0 WinRT: missing dependency qt.tools.vcredist
  • [QTBUG-42743] - QQuickWidget does not show together with another widget in layout
  • [QTBUG-42745] - The QtWebView does not work out-of-the-box with the QtWebEngine backend
  • [QTBUG-42755] - [qt-android] Crash when JNI is called from multipile threads
  • [QTBUG-42761] - Qt5.4.0 Mac opensource offline installer: Execution failed(Crash) error during default installation
  • [QTBUG-42772] - qtdeclarative\tests\auto\particles\qquickcustomparticle\tst_qquickcustomparticle crashes on exit
  • [QTBUG-42805] - Regression: Qt5SerialPort.so depends on libudev
  • [QTBUG-42806] - Scrollbars in Qt Quick Controls ScrollView does not accept mouse input when the system has a touch screen
  • [QTBUG-42807] - Android: Crash on newer devices with old manifests
  • [QTBUG-42844] - Qt5.4.0 mac Android installer missing Enginio binaries
  • [QTBUG-42851] - Android: Configure ignores result of OpenSSL test
  • [QTBUG-42852] - iOS enterprise package includes Context 2D scenegraph plugin
  • [QTBUG-42895] - qtwebkit sources missing from opensource linux_android 32 bit
  • [QTBUG-43007] - qtaccessiblewidgets.dll and qtaccessiblequick.dll missing from distribution

Task

  • [QTBUG-5744] - Bootstrap qdbuscpp2xml and qdbusxml2cpp
  • [QTBUG-41307] - Improve Qt Quick Controls Gallery example
  • [QTBUG-41366] - Qt installer needs to only show LGPL3 as option for open source Android package

Technical task

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