From 88b355069c6124fb3d23a9e7d96ff3eacfb6a23d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Blasche Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:00:06 +0200 Subject: Add changes file for 5.8.0 Change-Id: Ifbf824e130a64cbfeeab4f0fde2edaef4f862d11 Reviewed-by: Paolo Angelelli --- dist/changes-5.8.0 | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+) create mode 100644 dist/changes-5.8.0 diff --git a/dist/changes-5.8.0 b/dist/changes-5.8.0 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1c2a5b45 --- /dev/null +++ b/dist/changes-5.8.0 @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +Qt 5.8 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes +over the 5.7.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation +included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: + + http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html + +The Qt version 5.8 series is binary compatible with the 5.7.x series. +Applications compiled for 5.7 will continue to run with 5.8. + +Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers +corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker: + + https://bugreports.qt.io/ + +Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more +information about a particular change. + +**************************************************************************** +* Library * +**************************************************************************** + +QtLocation +----------- + + - Added geoservices plugin to support ESRI mapping, geocoding and routing + services. + - Improved HERE geoservice plugin code base (improved warning) and converted + the HERE endpoints to newer versions (away from Nokia endpoints. At the same time + China specific URLs were removed. + - Improved Mapbox plugin to cater for better cache customization and + to support the standard box map modes. + - Renamed various internal C++ functions to improve code readability + - Added better high DPI support in the various geoservice provider plugins. + For more details see QTBUG-53318, QTBUG-48868 and QTBUG-36949. + - [QTBUG-45284] Added offline data support and improved cache handling in OSM + geoservice plugin + - Added routing support to Mapbox plugin + - Added server side provider support for QtLocation. This enables the quicker + selection of alternative providers by already deployed OSM applications in case + an OSM based default provider changes T&Cs. + - Removed QtSystemInfo dependency from QtLocation + - [QTBUG-56213] Adapted map related mouse/touch behavior following + changes to general mouse/touch handling in Qt QML + - Adapted QtLocation and QtPositioning to the Qt Lite related build system changes + - Marked QGeoMapPrivate as private export + - Added support for unitary tile caching. This enables use cases whereby the cache + size can be defined in number of tiles rather then bytes. + +**************************************************************************** +* Platform Specific Changes * +**************************************************************************** + +Android +------- + + - [QTBUG-55988] Added capability to ask for Location permissions at runtime. This is + required since Android 7.0. + +WinRT +----- + + - Fixed a name space related compile problem in the positioning plugin for WinRT + - Migrated the QtLocation rendering code to the new scenegraph changes enabling + Direct3D 12 + - [QTBUG-54474] Added GeolocationAccessStatus existence check + - [QTBUG-56340] Added direction information to position updates + - [QTBUG-56623] Changed positioning plugin to use the platforms positioning time + stamp rather than a programmatically acquired time stamp at the time of the callback. + Effectively, this forwards time stamps from the GPS satellite to the user application. + - [QTBUG-53925] Enabled WinRT positioning backend for MSVC2013/2015 -- cgit v1.2.1