Update changes-4.8.1 file for 4.8.1 release

Changes-4.8.1 file matching the 4.8.1 release

Change-Id: Ib5dc9706d58379192675f27a9e2440ff76609eb2
Reviewed-by: Simo Fält <simo.falt@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@nokia.com>

1 files changed, 310 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/dist/changes-4.8.1 b/dist/changes-4.8.1
index f519803fe8..98e3ab8b21 100644
--- a/dist/changes-4.8.1
+++ b/dist/changes-4.8.1
@@ -1,19 +1,21 @@
-Qt 4.8.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
-compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.8.0.  For more details,
-refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The
+Qt 4.8.1 is the first patch release for Qt 4.8.x series. This document lists the
+improvements it provides compared to 4.8.0 version.
+
+For more details, refer to the documentation included in this distribution. The
 documentation is also available online:
 
-  http://qt-project.org/doc/4.8
+  http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/
 
 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 or the Merge Request queue
-of the public source repository.
+corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker:
+
+  http://bugreports.qt-project.org
 
-Qt Bug Tracker: http://bugreports.qt-project.org
-Merge Request:  http://codereview.qt-project.org
+Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more
+information about a particular change.
 
 ****************************************************************************
 *                           General                                        *
@@ -21,40 +23,151 @@ Merge Request:  http://codereview.qt-project.org
 
 General Improvements
 --------------------
+- Various documentation fixes [QTBUG-18101, QTBUG-8673, QTBUG-14194, QTBUG-9109,
+   QTBUG-9466, QTBUG-8323, QTBUG-7924, QTBUG-20355, QTBUG-19367, QTBUG-21295,
+   QTBUG-14554, QTBUG-8331, QTBUG-8329, QTBUG-8786, QTBUG-8787, QTBUG-12389,
+   QTBUG-16667, QTBUG-6151, QTBUG-8625, QTBUG-19808, QTBUG-12096, QTBUG-1231,
+   QTBUG-21073, QTBUG-8939, QTBUG-20399, QTBUG-20944, QTBUG-7542, QTBUG-22095,
+   QTBUG-11278, QTBUG-15653, QTBUG-13362, QTBUG-18356, QTBUG-18417, QTBUG-18664,
+   QTBUG-21562, QTBUG-22094, QTBUG-18741, QTBUG-15921, QTBUG-22172, QTBUG-15738,
+   QTBUG-21466]
+
+Third party components
+----------------------
+- Fix isolated Thai SARA AM handling (harfbuzz)
+- Fixes Javascript WTF to build with BB NDK (javascriptcore)
+- Fix height of some Thai characters (harfbuzz) [ou1cimx1#898104]
+- Harfbuzz-thai - fix to_tis620 function for latin characters
+- Harfbuzz-thai - When calling HB_OpenTypePosition we must set doLogClusters to true for thai
+- Harfbuzz-thai: Hide ZWJ and ZWNJ characters and show Inherited characters
+- Fix for Thai characters with a below mark [ou1cimx1#979179]
+- Harfbuzz-shaper - fix incorrect logClusters being set in HB_OpenTypePosition
 
 ****************************************************************************
 *                          Library                                         *
 ****************************************************************************
 
+QtCore
+------
+ - Fix a couple of edge cases for WildcardUnix matching [QTBUG-20897]
+ - Fix BC break with QAbstractFileEngine "mount points" [QTBUG-23688]
+ - Change QUrl::toLocalFile to return path for relative urls [QTBUG-19827]
+ - Fix progress bar values >100% when http upload is retried [QTBUG-23993]
+ - Fixes QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode()
+ - Make QString::latin1() re-entrant, the global QHash needs a mutex
+ - Changes in Symbian CleanupStack use to allow dodgy app start [ou1cimx1#960665]
+ - Fixed null pointer dereference in QUnifiedTimer
+ - Fixes a possible out-of-bound write in QByteArray
+ - Raise loopLevel for deleteLater in event filters
+ - Fixed compiler warning about unused variable with QT_NO_TEXTCODEC
+ - Initializes seqDumpPos on qiodevice.cpp
+ - QWindowsPipeWriter could terminate the process to early [QTBUG-4425]
+ - De-duplicate platform-dependent paths
+ - Add missing llvm-gcc-4.2 SSE 4.2 intrinsics
+
 QtGui
 -----
+ - Declarative: Unify output of warning messages in debug server [QTBUG-22860]
+ - Declarative: Use qDebug() for debugger status updates
+ - [blitter] Fix memory leak in the blitter paintengine
+ - [blitter] Generate a new serial number when resizing the
+ - [blitter] Use QScopedPointer for the engine and blittable
+ - [blitter] Work on tst_QPixmap::clear()
+ - directfb: Backport the work from QtBase to Qt 4.8
+ - Fix Memoy leak relateded to contextmenu [QTBUG-22817]
+ - Handle closable tabs in QAccessibleTabBar
+ - Activate window when focus is set in QAccessibleWidget::doAction
+ - Send text selection changes for accessibility
+ - blitter: Use CapabilitiesToStateMask as a class member
+ - blitter: Kill the isBlitterLocked variable of the
+ - blitter: Move the definition out of the class declaration
+ - blitter: Move state updates into new methods
+ - blitter: Base QBlitterPaintEngine on QRasterPaintEngine
+ - blitter: Group code by functionality in header and cpp file
+ - blitter: Fix the 'solid' detection for the brush in case of fillRect
+ - Fixed QEventDispatcherQPA::processEvents()
+ - Fix crash in QTreeWidgetItem::sortChildren when adding new item [QTBUG-20345]
+ - Fixed crash in QDeclarativeGridView
+ - Fixed compiler warnings about unused q and d variables in declarative [QTBUG-22512]
+ - Add accessible role Terminal
+ - Add accessible role Desktop
+ - Check for the clipboard manager when looping due to app quiting
+ - QTextEdit cursor position fix when moving left/right with selection [QTBUG-22853]
+ - Fix pinch-zoom problem when application is deactivated [ou1cimx1#948030]
+ - Do not check isActiveWindow to determine if an accessible widget is focusable
+ - Use available geometry when maximized (qwidget_qpa.cpp)
+ - Fixed CustomDashLine drawing bug [QTBUG-23248]
+ - Ensure the header's context menu is in sync with the visible sections [QTBUG-23271]
+ - Update accessibility selections in QTextControl
+ - Fix QListView::scrollTo() when there are hidden rows [QTBUG-21115]
+ - QTextEngine - treat a fullstop (0x2E) as the same script as the preceeding
+    text when dividing up strings
+ - Added QAccessibleGroupBox (a new accessible interface for QGroupBox)
+ - Fixed memory leak in QPA/Lighthouse event handling
+ - QDial: Fix crash when singleStep-property is 0 [QTBUG-23072]
+ - Build fix to raster window surface [QTBUG-23320]
+ - QPA: Don't force event handling every second. No need to wake up the CPU if we know that nothing happened.
+ - Fix submenu positioning [QTBUG-23568]
+ - Fix divide by zero when glyphWidth is 0 (QTextEngine)
+
 
 QtNetwork
 ---------
+ - Fix null pointer dereference in NTLM authentication
+ - Fix NTLM authentication with email address [QTBUG-19894]
+ - Fix faulty logic in http connection pipelining
+ - Handle plain socket write errors in SSL
+ - Don't fetch credentials from cache following a failed proxy authentication [QTBUG-22875]
+ - Fix race in http connection channel
+ - Fix http authentication to a different realm on the same server
+ - Fix for assertion failure on QNetworkAccessAuthenticationManager
+ - Prevent data loss when an ssl socket is closed by remote [QTBUG-23607]
+ - Fix online status checking in generic bearer plugin [QTBUG-22873]
+ - Abort FTP download, not the whole application [QTBUG-22820]
+ - Fix incorrect use of QObject::disconnect in synchronous http request
+ - Fix handling of urls containing username/password in QNetworkAccessManager [QTBUG-18107]
+ - Remove unnecessary locking from QNetworkProxy constructor [QTBUG-13088]
+ - QNetwork: fix compilation with "-no-feature-bearermanagement" [QTBUG-23239]
+ - QSslCertificate - make lazy initialisation thread safe [QTBUG-20452]
+ - QNetwork: remove compile warning (QHttpNetworkConnectionChannel)
 
-QtCore
-------
-
-QtScript
+QtOpenGL
 --------
+ - Using samples=0 to turn multisampling off [ou1cimx1#951223]
+ - Fixed crash in GL 2 paint engine on Intel Atom [QTBUG-22483]
 
 QtDBus
 ------
+ - Remove implicit const char*->QString cast from QDBusServer's constructor [QTBUG-23398]
+ - Fix crash in QDBusDemarshaller basic string-like type extraction [QTBUG-22840]
+ - Fix crash in QDBusDemarshaller QStringList extraction [QTBUG-22840]
+ - Fix crashes and non-portable functionality in QDBusDemarshaller QByteArray extraction [QTBUG-22840]
+
+QtWebKit
+--------
+ - Updated WebKit to c1252be57a3f673277c732c0902568111b2f4964
 
 QtSql
 -----
+ - Handle the 'real' datatype correctly in the SQLite driver [QTBUG-16373]
+ - Ensure that QSqlDatabase::database() is still thread-safe [QTBUG-13423]
 
-Declarative
------------
-
-OpenVG
+QtTest
 ------
+ - Doc: Add `-xunitxml' option to qtestlib documentation [QTBUG-14305]
 
-OpenGL
-------
+QtXml
+-----
+ - Fix memory leak in QDomDocument DTD notation declaration handler [QTBUG-22588]
+ - Fix memory leak in QDomDocument DTD entity declaration handler [QTBUG-22587]
+ - Fix memory leak in QDomDocument entity text expansion
+ - Fix access to uninitialized values in QtXmlPatterns
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                          Database Drivers                                *
+****************************************************************************
 
-3rdParty
---------
 
 ****************************************************************************
 *                      Platform Specific Changes                           *
@@ -62,18 +175,195 @@ OpenGL
 
 Qt for Linux/X11
 ----------------
+ - Take into account shaping in findRealWindow
+ - Fix crash in qt_init when the XFIXES extension is not available
+ - Pass events to installed event dispatcher event filters
+    before passing them to x11ProcessEvent()
+ - When doing mouse move compression, pass non-MotionNotify events
+    to installed event dispatcher event filters
+ - Take into account input shaping in findRealWindow
+ - Fix signature of q_atomic_test_and_set_ptr [QTBUG-22479]
 
 Qt for Windows
 --------------
+ - Fix crash in positionInLigature [QTBUG-23104]
+ - Fix crash when creating a QScriptEngine in a native thread [QTBUG-22926]
+ - Windows: Add gcc 4.6 for cross building
+ - use "cp -R" instead of "cp -r" for *bsd compatibility
+ - Windows: Fix qt_ntfs_permission_lookup [QTBUG-247]
+ - Remove NTFS junction and mount point detection [QTBUG-20431]
+ - qfilesystemengine_win.cpp: compile with namespaced Qt
+ - Build fix to qapplication_win.cpp when QT_NO_GESTURES is used [QTBUG-22501]
+ - Fix a crash when changeEvent() is called and there is no container [QTBUG-23957]
+ - Windows configure: make -mp affect the Qt build itself [QTBUG-23929]
+ - Ensure that the type is not registered as a typedef (ActiveQt) [QTBUG-18555]
+ - Fix Windows timer performance regression
+ - Ensure the scrollers appears when there is too many menu items [QTBUG-23507]
+ - QElapsedTimer/Win: Fix 64-bit integer overflow [QTBUG-23150]
+ - Fix a crash in QSystemLocalePrivate::uiLanguages()
+ - Fix mouse wheel page-by-page scrolling on windows [QTBUG-11336]
+ - Fix potential race condition in data structure of adopted thread watcher
+ - Fix to exit of adopted thread watcher in Windows [QTBUG-23961]
+ - Make reference counting for QAxClientSite multi-processor safe
+ - Activate replacements when installing .pc files for win32
+ - Fixed Windows performance regression introduced by ac2818bef95f134 [QTBUG-24602]
+ - Prevent stack corruption when using OpenGL Core Profile on Windows
+ - Fix error handling in QHostInfo windows backend
+ - Windows - fix getsockopt calls for narrower than int options [QTBUG-23488]
+ - Fix window positioning regression from QTBUG-10589 fix [QTBUG-24071]
+
 
 Qt for Mac OS X
 ---------------
+ - Backport writingSystems support code for Cocoa from Qt 5 [QTBUG-20996]
+ - Fix stretched font positions in Lion [QTBUG-22825]
+ - SSL: fix build with -openssl-linked for OpenSSL 0.9.8* [QTBUG-23132]
+ - qnetworkproxy_mac.cpp was not compiled in on Mac for the network module [QTBUG-23302]
+ - Fix using custom paper sizes on Mac [QTBUG-18723]
+ - Fix CJK punctuation input through input methods in OS X [QTBUG-23216]
+ - Fix cursor disappearance in QLineEdit on Mac when deleting all text [QTBUG-13169]
+ - Cleaning logClusters for line separator layout shortcut [QTBUG-23704]
+ - Fix set/paperSize(QPrinter::PaperSize) on Mac [QTBUG-20882]
+ - Add the possibility to patch additional executables
+ - Add support for XCode 4 into qmake [QTBUG-17247]
+ - Make QMacCocoaViewContainer work again. Non-native widgets are now the default,
+     set WA_NativeWindow to get a native widget.
+ - Don't get stuck in a loop while trying to close the active popup widget [QTBUG-23448]
+ - Fix modal file dialog opening on Mac [QTBUG-21609]
+ - Fix QTreeView header re-ordering bug on Mac OS [QTBUG-14179]
+ - Fix crash when opening a file dialog in sandbox on Mac [QTBUG-21609]
+ - Fix incorrect state of show/hide menu items in Mac application menu [QTBUG-10705]
+ - Enable storage of global Qt settings in app-local settings file on Mac  pattern [QTBUG-16549]
+
 
 Qt for Symbian
 --------------
+ - Symbian: Fix language mappings for localize_deployment [ou1cimx1#947060]
+ - Symbian: improving diagnostics for QWaitCondition [ou1cimx1#946509 partial fix]
+ - Symbian: Fix double deletion of selected text when using predictive [ou1cimx1#938665]
+ - Symbian: Fix a case sensitivity issue with QMAKE_EXTRA_COMPILERS [ou1cimx1#951456]
+ - Symbian: Only localize the application .rss that needs it, not all .rss [ou1cimx1#947060]
+ - Fix window surface config on OpenGL graphics system [QTBUG-23082]
+ - Default to QDir::homePath() in Symbian native file dialogs [ou1cimx1#947939]
+ - Symbian: fix tst_QMenuBar::task256322_highlight() regression
+ - Symbian - Fix QFile::map with non page aligned offsets [ou1cimx#953054]
+ - Symbian: Fix to incorrect ApplicationActivate event in QtOpenGL [QTBUG-23195]
+ - Fix m_longTapDetector causing crash [QTBUG-23252]
+ - Symbian: Fix qscriptextensionplugin autotest [ou1cimx1#956851]
+ - Symbian: Fix qcssparser autotest [ou1cimx1#957049]
+ - Symbian: Fix SRCDIR usage in qlayout autotest [ou1cimx1#957098]
+ - Symbian: Fix exporting and importing of some functions for autotests [ou1cimx1#957184]
+ - QThreads on Symbian are named to allow them to be opened externally [ou1cimx1#959586]
+ - Symbian - fix lockup when a network session is opened from its error [ou1cimx1#960395]
+ - Recovering from draw failures after EGL surface creation failure [ou1cimx1#951921]
+ - Fix for player application exit crash
+ - Symbian: qmake: Fix emulator deployment destination [ou1cimx1#954237]
+ - Add a public API for releasing cached GPU resources on Symbian [ou1cimx1yyy964181]
+ - Symbian: fix qml file paths in building of demos
+ - Symbian: clean package definition file
+ - Catch exceptions inside QSymbianControl::Draw [ou1cimx1#952828]
+ - Symbian - add rom upgrade flag to Qt sis files
+ - Fix exception handling in Symbian event dispatcher [ou1cimx1#970701]
+ - Fix exception handling testing on Symbian [ou1cimx1#970701]
+ - Symbian: absent removed exports in Symbian def-files
+ - Qt demos and Qt examples config in Symbian package definition
+ - Symbian: clean deffiles for external projects using Qt infix
+ - Prevent crashing on Symbian in case EGL surface creation fails [ou1cimx1#969923]
+ - Fix for effects in Qt-applications startup [ou1cimx1#951526]
+ - Fix Qt to use font with simplified chinese characters as default if needed [ou1cimx1#915614]
+ - Symbian: Fix for blank window after taping Editing options
+ - Symbian building: enable symbian platform autodetection
+ - Avoiding early deleteLater in Symbian with better loopLevel tracking [ou1cimx1#947013]
+ - Symbian: Fix for VKB default language to English in RTL variant [ou1cimx1#961176]
+ - Checking for directory exists in failed QDir::mkpath on Symbian [ou1cimx1#974477]
+ - RR scheduler error handling for deleted active objects [ou1cimx1#979241]
+ - Allowing symbian cleanup code in thread started and finished slots [ou1cimx1#979704]
+ - Fix backspace on empty lines with custom QML editors [ou1cimx1#981078]
+ - Correcting fixed native orientation translation for touch points [ou1cimx1#982747]
+ - Don't allow app panic on QProcess destruction, kill or terminate [ou1cimx1#985227]
+
+
+Qt for Embedded Windows
+-----------------------
+ - Build fix for WINCE to qfsfileengine_win.cpp [QTBUG-22499]
+ - Fixed fileiterator issue for WEC7 [QTBUG-22503]
+ - Removed unnecesary dependency to winx.h from desktopservices for WinCE
+ - Build fix for WINCE to qlocale_tools.cpp [QTBUG-22500]
+ - Added mkspecs for WEC7 platform builder and armv4i HW
+ - Fixed sqlite for Windows CE [QTBUG-22508]
+ - Fix qsystemerror for WinCE [QTBUG-22498]
+ - Fixed qapplication_win.cpp build for WinCE
+ - libpng config for WEC7 [QTBUG-22506]
+ - Fix DEPLOYMENT_PLUGIN for graphicssystem plugins [QTBUG-23963]
+ - Fixed EGL build for WEC7 [QTBUG-22504]
+ - Fixed QFile::link behaviour for WinCE devices.
+ - Fixed compiler warning for libpng when compiling for WEC7 [QTBUG-22512]
+ - Fixed MSVC compiler warning for zlib when compiling on WEC7 [QTBUG-22512]
+ - Fixed libjpeg compiler warning about macro redefinition [QTBUG-22512]
+ - Disable qmlplugindump build for WinCE [QTBUG-22518]
+ - Enable basic gesture support for WEC7 [QTBUG-22517]
+ - Fixed qchar and qsvgrenderer autotest deployment for WinCE devices
+ - Reduces compiler warnings when compiling for WEC7 [QTBUG-22512]
+ - Fixed warning by MSVC about class/struct mismatch in MethodData
+    when compiling declarative module [QTBUG-22512]
+ - Fixed compiler warning about unused status argument [QTBUG-22512]
+ - Fixed DEBUG macro redefinition when compiling for WEC7 with MSVC [QTBUG-22512]
+ - Build fix for QtDeclarative in WindowsCE [QTBUG-22511]
+ - Fix 3 autotest build faulures for WinCE
+ - Fixed cetest build for Windows CE [QTBUG-22505]
+ - Fixed QtDeclarative autotest deployment for WinCE devices
+ - Fixes to JSCore for WinCE [QTBUG-22502]
+ - JSCore build fix for WEC7 [QTBUG-22497]
+ - Fixed qmldbg_inspector build for WEC7 [QTBUG-22510]
+ - Fixed CeTest remotelib build for WinCE 5
+ - Fixed zlib build for WEC7 [QTBUG-22507]
+ - Fix static build of Qt for WinCE and WEC7 [QTBUG-24500]
+
+
+Qt for RTOS
+-----------
+ - Fix bug in qatomic for INTEGRITY RTOS
+ - INTEGRITY mkspecs update (QTBUG-24153)
+ - Add support for QNX iconv implementation
+ - Fixes QProcess on QNX
+ - realpath(X,0) IS supported on QNX
+ - As QNX in now a supported platform moved qws/qnx-* mkspec files away from unsupported folder
+ - Add mkspecs for Blackberry Playbook NDK
+ - Adds QT_NO_QWS_INPUTMETHODS to blackberry qcc mkspecs
+ - Include blackberry QPA plugin when building for blackberry make spec
+ - Fixed handling of keyboard info messages
+ - Fixing z-ordering of windows
+ - React to changes of focus widget. Needed to automatically show/hide
+    virtual keyboard when focus changes in or out of an input widget.
+ - Improving clipboard integration
+ - Renamed from blackberry-* to qnx-* in order to match he <platform>-<compiler> pattern
 
 
 ****************************************************************************
 *                          Tools                                           *
 ****************************************************************************
 
+qmake
+-  Escape path names in qmake-generated Makefiles [QTBUG-11776]
+-  Fix qmake evaluation of QMAKE_TARGET.arch on msvc2010 x86_64
+-  Create target pkgconfig dir in qmake generated Windows Makefiles
+-  escape *_script_file usages in MingwMakefileGenerator::writeObjectsPart [QTBUG-24595]
+- Visual Studio project generator
+      * qmake: fix /MP option for VS 2010 [QTBUG-23490]
+      * qmake: fix default value for C++ optimization in vcxproj files [QTBUG-23421]
+      * Ensure that the RC_FILE is correctly handled in a single configuration [QTBUG-22545]
+
+configure
+- Make configure not complain about missing perl for non-dev builds [QTBUG-5710]
+
+qtconfig
+- Add concurrent to QT_CONFIG
+
+qdoc3
+- Fix a bug where 'int'  is not printed in snippets
+- Add dita_docs target to generate DITA output
+- Add a default alt attribute to img tags
+- Also correctly apply stack size difference in MSVC2008
+- Removed unnecessary codeblock from cppcodeparser.cpp (segfault due to null-pointer reference) [QTBUG-24082]
+
+