add 4.8 changes created/merged by me

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/dist/changes-4.8.0 b/dist/changes-4.8.0
index 374830a472..fe7691ba9d 100644
--- a/dist/changes-4.8.0
+++ b/dist/changes-4.8.0
@@ -60,9 +60,11 @@ that the changes lead to a leaner API and the change applies to all platforms.
  - 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.
+ - QList: optimizations
  - 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
+ - Added member-swap function to containers and implicitly shared (including GUI) classes
  - QVariant: deprecated global function qVariantSetValue, qVariantValue, qVariantCanConvert, qVariantFromValue
  - QUrl: add method for retrieving effective top level domain [QTBUG-13601] (MR-1205)
  - optimised performance of QFileInfo, QDir, QDirIterator, these classes now share metadata and access the filesystem less
@@ -72,6 +74,13 @@ that the changes lead to a leaner API and the change applies to all platforms.
  - QUuid: Optimize QUuid::toString() and relevant, circa 20 times faster than before on the test machine. [QTBUG-19418]
  - QUuid: Add QUuid::toByteArray() and relevant, same behavior with QUuid::toString(). [QTBUG-19419]
  - QUuid: Add QUuid::toRfc4122() and fromRfc4122(), provide interfaces by following the RFC-4122 [QTBUG-19420]
+ - QTextStream, QDataStream and QXmlStreamWriter: added write error reporting [QTBUG-376]
+ - QProcessEnvironment: added keys() and insert(const QProcessEnvironment &)
+ - QProcessEnvironment: preserve variable name case on Windows
+ - QProcessEnvironment: made systemEnvironment() encoding-safe
+ - QProcessEnvironment: major optimizations, especially on Unix
+ - Add branch prediction macros Q_LIKELY and Q_UNLIKELY
+ - QSettings: don't assume XDG_CONFIG_HOME is latin1-encoded
 
 QtGui
 -----
@@ -81,7 +90,7 @@ QtGui
  - QComboBox: Fixed a color propagation issue with the lineedit. [QTBUG-5950]
  - QGraphicsLayout: Made setInstantInvalidatePropagation() public
  - Deprecate qGenericMatrixFromMatrix4x4 and qGenericMatrixToMatrix4x4
- - QListView diverses optimisations [QTBUG-11438]
+ - QListView diverse 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]
@@ -98,6 +107,8 @@ QtGui
  - QPainter: Added a fast stroking algorithm for thin (< 1px wide) aliased and antialiased
    lines, giving a huge improvement in drawing speed for certain cases
  - Fixed a rare race condition when showing toplevel windows on X11
+ - QWindowsStyle: fix bug in eventFilter on KeyPressed event with alt pressed, that
+   caused unnecessary update events
  - 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).
@@ -112,6 +123,9 @@ QtGui
  - Accessibility: Several enablers for accessible graphicsview and Qt Quick applications.
  - Fixed loading BMP files with version 4 and 5 headers, ignoring extra data.
  - QTextCursor optimization
+ - QUndoGroup, QUndoStack: Allow using not only prefixes for undo command text [QTBUG-14442]
+ - QUndoView: Allow different text for undo actions and items
+ - QCommonStyle: Fix overrides from the proxy style [QTBUG-20849]
 
 QtNetwork
 ---------
@@ -127,6 +141,7 @@ QtNetwork
  - HTTP cache: do not load resources from cache that must be revalidated [QTBUG-18983]
  - HTTP cache: change file organization (MR-2505)
  - SOCKS5: write errors are propagated to the outer socket [QTBUG-18713]
+ - QNetworkReply: errorString() returns translated messages now [QTBUG-18382]
 
  QtOpenGL
  --------
@@ -202,6 +217,7 @@ Qt for Embedded Linux
    keyboard and screen drivers.
  - Improved support for INTEGRITY RTOS
  - Allow hard-coding the temp path in mkspecs (QT_UNIX_TEMP_PATH_OVERRIDE define)
+ - Added support for opening LinuxInput devices exclusively (via ioctl EVIOCGRAB)
 
 Qt for Symbian
 --------------
@@ -302,24 +318,33 @@ Qt for Windows CE
 
 
 - qmake
+    * Look for external Qt modules in $QMAKEPATH
     * MinGW: fix DEF_FILE for shadow builds. (QTBUG-11643)
-
-- qmake - Visual Studio project generator
-    * Support x64 Qt builds. (QTBUG-17911)
-    * QMAKE_PROJECT_NAME qmake variable introduced to set the project's name.
-    * Support PCHs with other extensions than ".h". (QTBUG-16639)
-    * Fix setting PCH options manually via the MSVC compiler flags.
-      (QTBUG-15594)
-    * Set the output directory correctly. (QTBUG-16490)
-    * Fix handling of DEFINES from .prl files. (QTBUG-16024)
-    * Fix the language settings generated Windows resource files.
-      (QTBUG-12249)
     * Implemented "aux" template that allows making use of the INSTALLS variable
       without building anything. Needed for projects with QML entry point.
+    * MSVC now link with /DYNAMICBASE /NXCOMPAT in order to increase security.
+    * Fix the language settings in generated Windows resource files. (QTBUG-12249)
+    * Write and install pkg-config files for MinGW
+    * Make PKGCONFIG referencing missing packages fatal; add packagesExist() for
+      a-priori checks. (QTBUG-11418)
+    * Make moc use DEFINES from pkg-config. (QTBUG-19922)
+    * Parsing nested quotes works a bit differently now
+    * Added -unset <prop> option
+    * Made the Hurd mkspec useful
+    * Visual Studio project generator
+      - Support x64 Qt builds. (QTBUG-17911)
+      - QMAKE_PROJECT_NAME qmake variable introduced to set the project's name.
+      - Support PCHs with other extensions than ".h". (QTBUG-16639)
+      - Fix setting PCH options manually via the MSVC compiler flags. (QTBUG-15594)
+      - Set the output directory correctly. (QTBUG-16490)
+      - Fix handling of DEFINES from .prl files. (QTBUG-16024)
 
 - configure
     * The endianness for Windows is always set to little endian.
-
+    * [QTBUG-5710] Configure now complains on missing perl on windows
+    * Removed obsolete -qt-gif option
+    * Allow setting LD, RANLIB, OBJDUMP, and STRIP.
+    * Allow selecting imageformats to be built as plugin vs. internal.
 
 - qtconfig
   * removed Qt3support dependency