Doc: Update new features list for Qt 5.6

Change-Id: I2b687033332f0cf5293c0ef3cc2062698f83d73c
Reviewed-by: Venugopal Shivashankar <venugopal.shivashankar@digia.com>

1 files changed, 98 insertions, 35 deletions

diff --git a/doc/src/whatsnew/whatsnew56.qdoc b/doc/src/whatsnew/whatsnew56.qdoc
index 26e7f811..feaea711 100644
--- a/doc/src/whatsnew/whatsnew56.qdoc
+++ b/doc/src/whatsnew/whatsnew56.qdoc
@@ -33,91 +33,153 @@
     \section1 New Modules
 
     \list
-    \li \l[Qt3DCore]{Qt3D Module}{Qt 3D}
-    \li \l[QtLocation]{Qt Location}
-    \li \l[QtSerialBus]{Qt Serial Bus}
-    \list
-        \li Included as a technology preview.
-        \li Provides a framework for accessing serial bus backends in general, and a plugin for
-            accessing the SocketCAN backend in particular.
-    \endlist
+    \li \l{Qt Labs Controls}
+    \li \l{Qt Speech}
+    \li \l{Qt SerialBus}
+     \list
+         \li Included as a technology preview.
+         \li Provides a framework for accessing serial bus backends in general, and a plugin for
+             accessing the SocketCAN backend in particular.
+     \endlist
+    \li \l{Qt Wayland Compositor}{Qt Compositor}(Qt Wayland)
+     \list
+         \li Included as a technology preview.
+         \li Provides a framework to develop Wayland compositor.
+     \endlist
     \li \l[QtWebEngineCore]{Qt WebEngine Core}
-    \list
-        \li Provides a public API shared by both \l [QtWebEngine]{Qt WebEngine}
-            and \l [QtWebEngineWidgets]{Qt WebEngine Widgets}.
-    \endlist
+     \list
+         \li Provides a public API shared by both \l [QtWebEngine]{Qt WebEngine}
+             and \l [QtWebEngineWidgets]{Qt WebEngine Widgets}.
+     \endlist
     \endlist
 
     \section1 New Features in Qt 5.6
 
-    \section2 Qt Bluetooth Module
+    \section2 Qt Core Module
     \list
-        \li
+        \li Reduced memory usage of dynamic properties.
+        \li Allow logging directly to syslog on Linux systems.
+        \li Added QStorageInfo::blockSize().
+        \li Added QVersionNumber class.
+        \li Added key_iterator to QHash and QMap.
+        \li Added const_iterator to QByteArray.
+        \li Added reverse iterator support to all sequential containers.
+        \li added QDir::listSeparator().
+        \li Optimized performance in QString.
     \endlist
 
-    \section2 Qt Core Module
+    \section2 Qt Canvas3D Module
     \list
-        \li
+        \li Support for using Qt Quick items as textures.
+        \li Support for rendering directly to Qt Quick scene background or
+            foreground.
     \endlist
 
     \section2 Qt GUI Module
     \list
-        \li
+        \li Improved cross-platform OpenGL ES 3.0 and 3.1 support to enable
+            developing mobile/embedded applications utilizing GLES3 features.
+        \li Improved cross-platform high-dpi support.
+        \li Raster engine support for rendering internally with
+            16bits-per-color.
+        \li QImageReader now exports gamma values and other meta data for some
+            image formats.
     \endlist
 
     \section2 Qt Multimedia Module
     \list
-        \li
+        \li New Playlist QML type.
+        \li New audio role API for the media player (C++ and QML).
+        \li Support for camera focus and video probe on WinRT.
+        \li New functions in QML AudioEngine to support dynamic object creation.
     \endlist
 
     \section2 Qt NFC Module
     \list
-        \li
+        \li Added support for Android.
     \endlist
 
     \section2 Qt Network Module
     \list
-        \li
+        \li Added QHostAddress::isMulticast().
+        \li Support HTTP redirection in QNetworkAccessManager.
     \endlist
 
     \section2 Qt Platform Abstraction (QPA)
     \list
-        \li
+        \li Optional support for using FreeType on OS X.
+        \li Added support for NVIDIA Jetson TK1 Pro boards running Vibrante
+            Linux via a new eglfs backend utilizing DRM, EGLDevice, and
+            EGLStream.
+        \li Added support for Intel Atom-based NUCs.
+        \li Added support for WEC2013.
+        \li Windows 10 fully supported (classic and WinRT app)
+        \li Windows Store apps are now composited inside a XAML layer, allowing
+            better integration with the native UI layer.
+        \li Use \c libinput, if available, as the default on \c eglfs and
+            \c linuxfb.
+    \endlist
+
+    \section2 Qt Positioning Module
+    \list
+        \li Added support for OS X.
+        \li Added support for GPS receivers exposed as a serial port on Windows
+            desktop (all versions).
+        \li Removed libgeoclue dependency for the GeoClue backend.
     \endlist
 
     \section2 Qt QML Module
     \list
-        \li
+        \li Support for writing JavaScript function names to Linux's perf
+            output.
+        \li Reduced overall memory consumption.
     \endlist
 
-    \section2 Qt Quick Module
+    \section2 Qt Testlib Module
     \list
-        \li
+        \li More stable input event handling.
     \endlist
 
-    \section2 Qt Quick Controls Module
+    \section2 Qt WebView Module
     \list
-        \li
+        \li Added support for WinRT.
     \endlist
 
     \section2 Qt WebEngine Module
     \list
-        \li
+        \li Based on Chromium 45.
+        \li Support for pepper plugins including Flash.
+        \li Support for unbundling and linking with system libraries on Linux.
+        \li Support for following global Qt proxy settings.
+        \li More WebActions from QtWebKit and WebAction API in QML.
+        \li New QtWebEngineCore module for shared low-level API.
+        \li New core API for custom URL schemes.
+        \li New core API for intercepting and blocking network requests.
+        \li New core API for tracking or blocking cookies.
     \endlist
 
-    \section2 Qt WebView Module
+    \section2 Qt Widgets Module
     \list
-        \li
+        \li Allow programmatic resizing of dock widgets.
+        \li Allow dropping dock widgets into floating docks.
+        \li Allow the user to re-arrange tabbed docks.
+        \li Allow horizontal scrolling using a mouse wheel in QListView.
+        \li Support QOpenGLWidget and QQuickWidget on WinRT.
     \endlist
 
-    \section1 Deprecated Functionality
+    \section1 Removed Functionality
+    \list
+        \li Qt WebKit
+        \li Qt Declarative (Qt Quick 1)
+    \endlist
 
-    The following modules are deprecated in Qt 5.6:
+    \section1 Deprecated Functionality
     \list
-        \li
+        \li Qt Script
     \endlist
 
-    These modules are still included in Qt 5.6, but are considered for removal in future releases.
+    These modules are still included in Qt 5.6, but are considered for removal
+    in future releases.
 
     \section1 List of API Changes
 
@@ -145,8 +207,9 @@
     \title New Classes and Functions in Qt 5.6
     \brief A list of new APIs in Qt 5.6.
 
-    This page contains a comprehensive list of all new classes and functions introduced in Qt 5.6.
-    Links to new APIs in previous Qt 5 releases are found at the bottom of this page.
+    This page contains a comprehensive list of all new classes and functions
+    introduced in Qt 5.6. Links to new APIs in previous Qt 5 releases are found
+    at the bottom of this page.
 
     \sincelist 5.6