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diff --git a/dist/changelog/changes-2.2.0 b/dist/changelog/changes-2.2.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b50191d2a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/dist/changelog/changes-2.2.0 @@ -0,0 +1,184 @@ +Qt Creator version 2.2 contains bug fixes and new features. + +The most important changes are listed in this document. For a complete +list of changes, see the Git log for the Qt Creator sources that +you can check out from the public Git repository. For example: + +git clone git://gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator.git +git log --cherry-pick --pretty=oneline origin/2.1...origin/2.2 + +General + * Add support for running user defined external tools (Tools > External) + * Move tool chain definitions out of Qt versions: + * You can now define tool chains in Tools > Options > Tool Chains + * Qt Creator now supports more than one instance of a tool chain + * Add support for customizing MIME types by editing patterns and + magic headers + * Integrate the memcheck tool from Valgrind for Linux and Mac OS X + * Create the infrastructure to set up "soft dependencies" between plugins + * Add the qtpromaker tool that has the same functionality as + "qmake -project", but is much faster. It provides a way to easily set up + dummy .pro files that you need to quickly inspect and navigate "alien" + codebases with Qt Creator + * Document Qt Creator coding style + +Editing + * Add an Inkpot color scheme + * Add UTF-8 BOM support + * Move the Open in External Editor item to Tools > External > Text + * Add the Expand/Collapse All context menu item to the Outline pane + * Add support for user-defined macros (contributed by Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos) + * Add a snippet editor with syntax highlighting, indentation, and basic + auto-completion for C++ and QML + * Add GLSL support with: + - Syntax checking + - Highlighting + - Code completion + * Binary editor: + - Visualize data differences after updates + - Fix selection if cursor is left of anchor + - Allow copying also if selection is "backwards" + - Do not draw blinking cursor when there is a selection + FakeVim: + - Implement Ctrl-N/Ctrl-P + - Implement 's' in visual block mode + - Fix Alt-Gr handling on Windows + - Handle more Ctrl-W + <x> commands + +Managing Projects + * Improve the robustness of qmake project support against syntax errors + * Change the handling of command line arguments of processes that are + started from build and run configurations: + - Argument lists use native shell syntax; this affects quoting and + environment variable expansion most + - The SOURCEDIR and BUILDDIR environment variables were replaced + with %{sourceDir} and %{buildDir} variables + - This affects working directories and executable paths as well + * Support syntax highlighting and completion for qmake project files + * CMake: Add UI completion, changes in .ui files are picked up without + a rebuild + * Specify text editor behavior settings per project + * New project and file wizards: + - Support new keywords %MONTH% and %DAY% for C++ template file + - Add wizards for creating OpenGL fragment and vertex shaders + - Add a wizard for creating HTML5 based applications + - Add a wizard for creating JavaScript files, QTCREATORBUG-3070 + +Debugging + * Rewrite debugging engine using the Microsoft Console Debugger (CDB) + for debugging executables built with Microsoft Visual Studio, + resulting in significant speed-up and better display of data + types, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the + Debugging Tools for Windows + * Make it possible to pin debugger tooltips + * Rework global architecture to allow multiple debugging sessions (for + different projects, combined QML/C++ debugging, project snapshots, + and so on) + * Rework breakpoint handling: add special breakpoint types for break + on throw and break on main, as well as data breakpoints + * Introduce combined QML/C++ debugging (combined stack, cross-step) (GDB only) + * Rework per-type and per-item selection of display formats + * Add dumpers for QTextCursor, QTextDocument, __m128, QScriptValue + QBasicAtomicPointer, bit fields, boost::shared_ptr (GDB only) + * Improve dumpers for QRegion, QVariant (custom types), QSharedPointer, + QMultiMap (QTCREATORBUG-3122), QObject, QWeakPointer + * Make alphabetic structure member sorting optional + * Make dumpers robust in case of missing debug information + * Improve Python dumper profiling support + * Improve stepping performance + * Enable breakpoint setting from a disassembler view, QTCREATORBUG-3667 + * Fix display of shadowed variables + * Fix display of data containing quote characters, QTCREATORBUG-3084 + * Fix display of C-style typedef struct X { ... } X; + * Fix stack/break view updates after manual module loading, QTCREATORBUG-3427 + * Fix Jump To/Run To when in instruction-wise mode + * Fix the watcher handling + * Allow re-running debugger engines, QTCREATORBUG-3073 + * Robust process control after -exec-interrupt errors, QTCREATORBUG-2850 + * Robust detection of Qt-in-namespace builds + * Handle "live updates" in the memory view + * Make memory view writable (GDB only) + * Improve starting debugger session directly from the command line + * Improve Debugging Helpers dialog + +Debugging QML/JS + * Compile qmljsdebugger code as static library, and link it according to the + setting in the qmake step (replaces QMLJSDEBUGGER_PATH / QMLJSDEBUGGER define) + * Qt Quick Application: Allow debugging also in release builds, improve error + diagnostics + * GUI cosmetics in JS debugger: Show stack frame level, only valid + line numbers in stack view, do not show function code, show dummy + child entry for empty arrays + * Added QML tooltips for property inspection at debug time + * Extend QML Observer for inspection and tweaking of item properties + * Add navigation of the object tree in the QML Observer through a crumble path + * Add the Show Application on Top option + * Move the toolbar from the Observer tab to the main toolbar + * Support setting of breakpoints in .qml files embedded as qrc resources + * Improve linking of QML errors in Application Output pane + +C++ Support + * Add a refactoring action for implementing setters and getters for + a Q_PROPERTY + * Add documentation for refactoring actions + * Fix switch statement indentation for GNU and Whitesmiths + style, QTCREATORBUG-2994 + * Fix indentation of labels + * Support highlighting for virtual functions + * Navigate to correct overloaded function or method + +QML/JS Support + * Add local-file completion for URL properties, QTCREATORBUG-2619 + * Add warning about invalid files in URL properties + * Add file name completion in imports, QTCREATORBUG-3067 + * Add a locator filter for JS functions, QTCREATORBUG-2607 + * Add JSlint-style warnings about common JS pitfalls, QTCREATORBUG-3071 + * Add completion for attached properties like Component.onCompleted + * Allow QML modules to ship predumped type description files + * Reenable instantiating component scope detection, QTCREATORBUG-2835 + * Improve error reporting of failed plugin dumps + * Complete a trailing '{' for 'A on b' object bindings, QTCREATORBUG-2642 + * Highlight capitalized types, QTCREATORBUG-2658 + * Re-dump a plugin if the shared library/DLL changes, QTCREATORBUG-3047 + * Build qmldump in debug and release version on Windows, QTCREATORBUG-3549 + * Change qmldump to output QML instead of XML + * Fix automatic '.' import to also pick up QML modules, QTCREATORBUG-3768 + * Fix code model update when files are renamed, QTCREATORBUG-2986 + * Fix incorrect completion when brace is on a separate line, QTCREATORBUG-2658 + * Fix quote autoinsertion in string literals, QTCREATORBUG-2155, QTCREATORBUG-3244 + * Fix '{' not being an electric character, QTCREATORBUG-3405 + * Fix indentation of 'foo: Namesp.Type {', QTCREATORBUG-3371 + * .qmlproject format: Allow specifying the 'mainFile' qml file, bump version to 1.1 + * Qt Quick UI project: allow user to change run environment + +Help + +Platform Specific + +Mac + +Linux (GNOME and KDE) + +Windows + +Symbian Target + * Add support for the new on-device debugging agent (CODA) + +Maemo Target + * Add MeeGo support + * Add a wizard for configuring connections to Maemo and MeeGo devices + * Add a wizard for publishing applications to Fremantle/extras-devel + * Create desktop files on demand + * Allow disabling packaging for Fremantle + +Qt Designer + +Version control plugins + * Support Bazaar (contributed by Hugues Delorme) + +Additional credits go to: + * The Inkpot color scheme was based on the Vim color scheme by + Ciaran McCreesh, adapted for Qt Creator by Jan Kundrát and + subsequently updated by Campbell Barton + * Hugues Delorme for the Bazaar plugin which he continues to improve + * Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos for the Macro plugin |