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+Qt 4.4.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
+compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.4.0.
+
+The Qt version 4.4 series is binary compatible with the 4.3.x series.
+The Qt for Embedded Linux version 4.4 series is binary compatible with
+the Qtopia Core 4.3.x series. Applications compiled for 4.0, 4.1, 4.2,
+and 4.3 will continue to run with 4.4.
+
+Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers
+corresponding to tasks in the Task Tracker:
+
+  http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker
+
+Each of these identifiers can be entered in the task tracker to obtain
+more information about a particular change.
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                           General                                        *
+****************************************************************************
+
+General Improvements
+--------------------
+
+- Documentation and Examples
+   * [202630] Fixed a problem in the network/http example: it couldn't
+   download anything if the URL had a space.
+
+Third party components
+----------------------
+
+- Updated Qt's libpng version to 1.2.29.
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                          Library                                         *
+****************************************************************************
+- QAbstractItemView
+    * [199822] Fixed issue with broken extended selections.
+
+- QButtonGroup
+    * [209485] Prevented a crash caused by removing a button from its button
+      group while inside a slot triggered by the button's clicked() signal.
+
+- QDirModel
+    * [213519] Fix crashes when drag'n'dropping files into a subdirectory
+
+- QFtp
+    * [189374] Fixed a bug that would cause QFtp to fail to parse
+    dates if the application was being run on some locales, like fr_FR.
+
+- QGraphicsProxyWidget
+    * [208773] Input methods now work properly for embedded widgets.
+    * [207644] Fixed a bug where the painter was restored incorrectly.
+
+- QGraphicsScene
+    * [209125] QGraphicsScene::style() and QGraphicsWidget::style() fixes.
+    * [202774] [207076] Focus and activation fixes for embedded widgets.
+    * [212950] The scene no longer removes focus from the focus item if a
+      mouse press propagates to the scene (and then to the view). This was
+      a behavior regression to QWidget.
+
+- QString
+    * [205093] Printing QString after using replace()followed by truncate(-1) crashes
+    * [209078] Problem in QString::resize
+
+- QGraphicsView
+    * [209154] Mouse replay regressions since 4.3 have been fixed.
+
+- QObject
+    * Fixed a regression from 4.3 to 4.4 in QObject::receivers() where
+      the function would return >0 even after disconnection all
+      signals.
+
+- QScriptEngine
+    * [208489] Made the instanceof operator work when used with
+      QMetaObject wrappers created by newQMetaObject().
+    * [206188] Fixed a bug that caused scripts to hang when using
+      "continue;" inside a switch-case block.
+    * [205473] Fixed a bug that caused slots to be called even when
+      argument conversion failed.
+
+- QSslSocket
+    * [212177] QSslSocket::peerVerifyError() supports all errors now.
+    * [212022] Fixed a bug that would cause no default CA certificates
+    to be present in static Qt builds.
+    * [212412] Fixed a bug that could cause a deadlock in
+    waitForReadyRead() in encrypted mode.
+
+- QtWebKit
+    * Ensured that relative URLs are converted to absolute URLs.
+    * Ensured that the cursor is changed into a resize cursor when hovering
+      over and dragging the resizeable frame borders.
+    * [206999] Fixed a problem which would make an empty URL being passed to
+      QWebPluginFactory::create()
+    * [208215] Fixed a bug that prevents linkClicked signal to be emitted
+      when opening a local HTML file.
+    * [208342] Ensured that the cursor is updated after a web frame or page
+      has finished loading.
+    * [210920] Fixed showing/hiding of the Web Inspector.
+    * [207050] Fixed input of characters into form elements using AltGr on Windows.
+    * Fixed a crash related to XML HTTP requests.
+    * Fixed QWebPage::acceptNavigationRequest not being called when opening new Windows.
+    * Fixed emission of linkClicked() signal when clicking on target=_blank links.
+    * Fixed painting artifacts when scrolling embedded widgets.
+    * Fixed logic errors in QWebHitTestResult::isNull() and QWebHistory::forward().
+    * Fixed encoding of [ and ] in the host part of URLs
+    * Fixed a crash related to QWebPage::unsupportedContent.
+    * Fixed a memory leak on application shutdown.
+    * Fixed painting errors when scrolling embedded widgets.
+    * Fixed support for custom cursors set on a QWebView.
+    * Fixed various build problems on Mac OS X, Windows and Solaris
+    * Fixed crash with CSS text transformations.
+    * Fixed infinite recursion when converting DOM objects with cyclic references to QVariants.
+
+- QVariant
+    * [201918] QVariant convert to QDateTime warnings
+
+- QWidget
+    * Fixed a regression when setting masks for splashscreens on Mac OS X Tiger.
+    * [210544] Fixed a regression where Qt::WA_PaintOnScreen widgets were painted on
+      top of overlapping siblings.
+    * [211796] Fixed a crash occurring when calling render() from a resize event.
+    * [210960] Fixed a regression where an invisible top-level widget was resized when calling render().
+    * [210822] Fixed a bug causing QGLWidgets to not behave correctly when setting window title.
+    * [208413] Fixed issues when creating a child widget of Qt::WA_PaintOnScreen widgets.
+  
+- QWidgetAction
+    * [207433] Fix enabling and disabling toolbar containings actions widget.
+
+- QWorkspace
+    * [206368] Fixed a crash occurring when deleting a QWorkspaceChild.
+
+- QPainter
+    * [186327] Fixed inconsistent outline and fill drawing for drawPolygon in
+      raster paint engine, where the fill would be visible outside the outlines
+      or there would be missing pixels between outline and fill.
+    * [208530] Fixed some drawing issues with projective transform related to
+      near-plane clipping.
+    * [209095] Fixed infinite loop that could occur on certain architectures on
+      rare occasions when drawing outlines.
+    * [208090] Fixed issue with outline drawing where subsequent points on a
+      path or polygon are equal according to qFuzzyCompare, but treated as
+      different, causing stroke artifacts.
+    * [206785] Fixed potential pixmap drawing artifacts when drawing stretched
+      pixmaps at non-integer coordinates.
+    * Fixed potential rect/line drawing issue when drawing on non-integer
+      offsets in raster paint engine.
+    * [209462] Fixed regression when redirecting widgets to another paint device.
+
+- QPainterPath
+    * [209056] Fixes potential assert in the boolean operations (difference,
+      intersect, and union).
+
+- QRasterPaintEngine
+    * [208644] Fixed a crash in qt_intersect_spans.
+
+- QApplication
+    * [213116] Fixd a regression on Mac OS X where you could not access the
+    menu bar after minimizing a window with no click through.
+
+- QColor
+    * [193671] Fixed a problem with QColor::setNamedColor() not returning the correct
+    alpha value for the "transparent" color.
+
+- QMacStyle
+    * [212037] Adjusted the size of text in an editable combo box on Mac OS X Panther.
+    * [216905] Fix a regression when drawing table headers on Mac OS X Panther.
+
+- QMainWindow
+    * [210216] Calling setCentralWidget, setMenuBar, setMenuWidget or setStatusBar
+    several times could cause a crash.
+    * [206870] Fixed a bug causing dual screen layouts to not restore correctly.
+
+- QMdiArea
+    * [202657] Fixed focus issue when navigating between window with focus on the DockWidget
+    * [211302] Fixed a bug where the activation order was not respected when tiling and cascading.
+
+- QOpengGLPaintEngine
+    * [208419] Fixed wrong clipping of widgets.
+
+- QDockWidget
+    * [179989] Maximum size is now taken into account by the dock widget.
+
+- QCommonStyle
+    * [204016] Fixed west tab positions.
+
+- QCryptographicHash
+    * [206712] Fixed a bug that would make QCryptographicHash return
+    invalid results if you called result() before the last addData()
+    call.
+
+- QTcpSocket
+    * [208948] Fixed a bug that would cause QTcpSocket and QSslSocket
+    not to flush all of their buffers if the socket disconnects and
+    reconnects.
+    * [182669/192445] Fixed a bug that would cause QTcpSocket to stop
+    emitting readyRead() if a previous waitForReadyRead() timed out.
+
+- QDataStream
+    * [211301] Fixed an issue where Qt 2 and Qt 3 applications might
+    crash or hang when run under KDE 4.
+
+- QDateTime
+    * [137698] Fixed a bug that caused QDateTime to perform weird
+    1-hour jumps when dealing with dates in Daylight Savings Time.
+
+- QSslCertificate
+    * [185067/186087] Fixed a bug that would cause QSslCertificate
+    parsing of certificate timestamps to be off by a few hours
+    (timezone issue).
+
+- QFile
+    * [192752] Fixed a bug that would make QFile leak file descriptors
+    if QFile::handle() was called.
+
+- QFileDialog
+    * [208383] Crash when a proxy model is set and multiple files are selected.
+    * [165503] DirectoryEntered not emitted when go-to-parent button is clicked.
+
+- QFileInfo
+    * [212291] Fixed a bug that would cause QFileInfo to return empty
+    group or owner names for files under MacOS X and maybe some other
+    Unix platforms.
+
+- QFuture
+    * [214874] Fixed possible deadlock when using nested calls to QtConcurrent::run().
+
+- QGLContext
+    * [210427] In 4.4.0 we removed the automatic mipmap generation for
+    textures bound with QGLContext::bindTexture(). This change has been
+    reverted for compatibility reasons.
+    * [214078] Fixed a problem that caused OpenGL textures to always be
+    downscaled to 64x64 in size on Intel graphics hardware. This caused,
+    among other things, the Qt Demo to look utterly broken on these systems.
+
+- QOpenGLPaintEngine
+    * [191777] Set default values for GL_PACK_*/GL_UNPACK_* values with
+    glPixelStore() when QPainter::begin() is called.
+    * [201167] Don't assume the GL error state is cleared when QPainter::begin()
+    is called. Clear the state explicitly before we make internal state checks.
+    * [204578] Fixed a problem where the GL error state was set on
+    some system because an extension enum was used unprotected.
+
+- QHostInfo
+    * [213187] Made QHostInfo not issue IPv6 name lookups if the
+    machine does not have any IPv6 addresses configured (Unix change
+    only).
+
+- QHttp
+    * [213220] Fixed a bug that could make QHttp open unencrypted
+    connections if HTTPS mode was requested but SSL support was not
+    present in Qt.
+    * [193738] Fixed a bug that would make QHttp continue reading the
+    HTTP server's response and emit a readyRead() signal even if
+    abort() had already been called.
+
+- QNetworkAccessManager
+    *  When a http 302 location url is not an encoded url try QUrl's human readable parsing for more compatibility with websites.
+
+- QPainter
+    * [211403] Fixed handling of negative target rect offsets and negative
+    source offsets in QPainter::drawPixmap()/drawImage().
+
+- QPixmap
+    * [202903] Fix an infinite recursion in QPixmap::fromImage() that occured
+    when converting mono images.
+    * [206174] Reverse the order of the tests done in QPixmap::hasAlpha()
+    in order to speed it up.
+    * [210275] Fixed a crash in QPixmap::resize().
+
+- QSharedMemory
+    * Compile fix on QNX when QT_NO_SHAREDMEMORY was defined
+
+- QStyleSheetStyle
+   * [179629] Fixed SpinBox with gradient background.
+   * [188305] Respect the max-with property for more elements (such as QTabBar::tab)
+   * [189951] Fixed the align: property for QTabBar
+   * [194149] Fixed the background:transparent property
+   * [198926] Fixed the background:none property on some component of the scrollbar
+   * [206238] Fixed inconsistency with rules without selector applied to widget. They
+     now always applies to all childs
+   * [207420] Fixed the ~= attribute selector.
+   * [207819] Fixed few performences issues.
+   * [208001] Fixed crash crash with QMenu[title=...] in the stylesheet.
+
+- QHeaderView
+    * [207869] Fixed possible division by zero.
+
+- QTableView
+    * [207270] Painting errors in reverse mode and when there was spans.
+    * [210608] Fixed regression in the handling of spanning cells.
+
+- QTableWidget
+    * [213118] Fixed a bug where moving the first or the last row triggered an assert.
+
+- QTreeView
+    * [213737] Fixed regression where ctrl+a would select all items regardless of the selection mode.
+    * [202355] Fixed issue where items inserted in a view with all header sections hidden did not show
+      themselves properly later.
+    * [211296] When a column is hidden QItemSelectionModel::selectedRows and QItemSelectionModel::selectedColumns returns the wrong values.
+
+- QTreeWidget
+    * [305084] Fixed duplicate items that may appears when programaticaly
+      expanding items.
+    * [209590] itemSelectionChanged was being emited before item selection was updated
+
+- Q3DragObject
+    * [203288] Fixed regression against Qt 3 so that the drag() function now correctly uses
+      MoveAction (and not CopyAction) as the default action.
+
+- Q3TextBrowser
+    * [197836] Fix assert when zooming out.
+
+- QTextDocument
+    * [204965] Fix html export to use indent as textIndent
+
+- QTextBrowser
+    * [192803] Fix loading of files from resources with a resource prefix.
+
+- QTextEdit
+    * [211617] Fixed crash when moving the first paragraph by drag and Drop
+
+- QTextTable
+    * [194229] Fix removing of a row with merged cells causing a crash.
+    * [194253] Fix calling removeColumn on a Column with selectedCell causing an assert.
+    * Fix assert on selecting the whole table after an insert/remove of column.
+    * [175676] Fix calling of resize() making updates in layouting fail.
+
+- QSpinBox
+    * [213137] Fixed thousand-delimiters to not show for value = INT_MIN.
+
+- QScrollArea
+    * [210567] Fixed issues when scrolling a native widget.
+
+- QScrollBar
+    * [209492] Fixed a bug causing the scroll bar actions to be invoked twice.
+
+- QToolbBarLayout
+    * [207946] Prevented a crash caused by assuming that the parent widget always exists.
+
+- QThreadPool
+    * Fixed issues with thread termination during dll unloading on windows. QThreadPool::
+      waitForDone() now completely stops all threads, on all platforms. In addition, the
+      QCoreApplication destructor now calls waitForDone() to make sure all threads are 
+      stopped before the Qt dlls are unloaded.
+      
+- QNetworkReply
+    * [207283] Fixed support for HTTP 101 responses.
+    * Fixed parsing of cookies with special timezone specifiers.
+
+- QWebHistory
+    * Fixed a bug where calling forward() would go backwards and not forwards.
+
+- QFontMetrics
+    * [212485] Fixed boundingRect() returning the proper size when there is a tab.
+
+- QItemDelegate
+    * [206762] Fixed painting when using a QBrush() for the text.
+
+- QtXmlPatterns
+    * [207584] When using the same QXmlQuery for a new query then evaluateTo()
+      can return false even if the query is valid.
+    * [214180] Fixed fn:replace fails when inside function.
+    * Fixed crash when unary operator has empty sequence as operand.
+    * Fixed that axis preceding or descendant-or-self when combined with
+      function last() on a custom node model crashes.
+    * Fixed that xml:id is not whitespace normalized.
+    * Fixed that QXmlFormatter produces no output on single top-level text nodes.
+    * Fixed infinite loop triggered by fn:matches().
+    * Fixed crash when compiling one of the FunctX queries.
+
+- VideoPlayer
+    * [210170] Fixed an issue that prevented VideoPlayer::play to start when 
+      called with an argument. 
+
+- Accessibility
+    * [199241] Fix an issue where the screen reader would read the content of
+      a password line edit. The screen reader will now only read it if its Normal.
+
+- QLocalSocket
+    * [210886] Fixed a bug that would cause QLocalSocket to overrun
+    its buffers on very long socket names.
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                          Database Drivers                                *
+****************************************************************************
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                      Platform Specific Changes                           *
+****************************************************************************
+
+X11
+---
+    * [208354] Fixed a crash in Qt's XIM implementation when exiting
+      applications after using the skim input method.
+    * [207800] Fixed a regression from 4.3 to 4.4 where putting a
+      QX11EmbedContainer into a QWidgetStack would case the container
+      stay visible permanently.
+    * [207423] In QDesktopWidget, workaround a change in behavior in
+      newer X.Org X servers where Xinerama would always be used even
+      when using a multi-screen setup.
+    * [206139] Fixed a bug where Qt could incorrectly recurse into the
+      Xlib error handler (causing Xlib to assert).
+    * [207057] Fixed a regression from 4.3 to 4.4 where
+      QX11EmbedContainer would sometimes destroy the embedded client's
+      window.
+    * [209057] Fixed a Q3Process which triggered a "Do not delete
+      object" warning.
+    * QPrintDialog crashed on unix in some cases.
+    * [214103] Fixed a regression with string to double conversion
+      becoming locale-aware in QTextStream.
+    * [210922] Fix crash in input methods when toggling the InputMethodEnabled
+      attribute.
+    * [210831] Fixed a problem where preview pages in the QPrintPreviewDialog
+      would not appear or be drawn correctly on X servers without
+      Xrender support.
+    * [206165],[213457] Fixed bugs which show the wrong cursor on some widget.
+	* Fixed bug regarding the usage of encoded URLs in Phonon
+
+
+Windows
+-------
+
+    * [207888] Fixed a regression from 4.3 which caused crashes in
+      Assistant and Designer when an accessibility client is running
+      (this includes applications that query for accessibility
+      features, like Notepad++).
+    * Several fixes related to crashes and hangs when the user has an
+      accessibility client running in the background.
+    * [208782] Fixed a problem with non-cosmetic lines with widths < 2
+      not being printed correctly with certain printer drivers.
+    * [208859] Fixed a problem with strokes not being printed correctly. Both
+      the stroke offsets and thinkness of the stroke were sometimes printed
+      incorrectly.
+    * [206473] Entering UNC paths is slow in the Qt file dialog.
+    * [309241] Trying to stream mp3 content with phonon would cause a crash.
+    * [210115] Fixed a problem causing "mailto" links not to work when the
+      mail application path contains unexpanded environment variables.
+    * [203012] Fixed a problem where "WriteOnly named pipes" failed to
+      open using QFile.
+    * [205685] Fixed the handling of TranslateAccelerator for windows key messages.
+    * Add support for (not) embedding manifests in plugins, on Windows.
+    * [211893] Fixed a crash related to using QtDotNetStyle.
+
+
+Mac OS X
+--------
+    * Fix a regression where inserting widgets into native menus would cause
+      the program to crash.
+    * [209785] Fixed a regression from 4.3 to 4.4 in DeferredDelete
+      event handling.
+    * The "debuglibraries" binary package now includes dSYM bundles, which
+      makes it possible to debug with them.
+    * [207371] The CoreGraphics paint engine ignored the transform set
+      on a QBrush with QBrush::setTransform().
+    * Fixed insertation of 'space' char in QLineEdit when EISU key is being held down
+    * Fixed fullscreen widget not regaining full focus after a dialog has been shown
+    * Fixed bug regarding the usage of encoded URLs in Phonon
+    * [212719] Fixed a bug that could cause text drawn into a QImage to be clipped
+      incorrectly.
+    * [216563] Fixed a case where failing to get the display's colorspace
+      would result in many widget being painted all black.
+    * [216544, 213316] Fixed several accessibility-related crashes.
+    * [210401] Fixed memory leak in QWidget::setWindowIcon().
+    * [211195] Fixed problem that caused crashes with the Mac binary package
+      when entering long licensee names during the installation.
+
+Qt for Embedded Linux
+---------------------
+
+- QWSEmbedWidget
+   * Fixed propagation of the Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint window property.
+
+- QDirectPainter
+   * [209068] Fixed region coordinates for QDirectPainter when used on a
+     rotated screen.
+
+- DirectFB screen driver
+   * Fixed window placements of windows with initial top-left coordinate (0,0).
+   * Improved deallocation of resources when an application exits unexpectedly.
+   * Fixed bug in QPixmap::rotate().
+   * Fixed QPixmap::fromImage() with an image of format QImage::Format_Indexed8
+     when compiling with QT_NO_DIRECTFB_PALETTE.
+   * Fixed small memory leak in QPainter::drawImage()
+
+- LinuxFB screen driver
+   * Added a workaround screen driver when the kernel fails to report the
+     length of the color components.
+   * Improved performance of the non-accelerated screen cursor.
+   * Disable the console cursor in graphics mode.
+
+- Tslib mouse driver
+   * [200995] Fixed crash when initialization fails.
+   * [207117] Improved filtering during calibration.
+
+- Ahi screen driver
+   * Fixed link issue.
+   * Fixed QScreen::setMode().
+   * Improved support for different screen modes.
+
+Qt for Windows CE
+-----------------
+
+   * Support for Visual Studio 2008 added
+   * Improved QRegion to perform faster
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                      Compiler Specific Changes                           *
+****************************************************************************
+
+- [212852] Fixed GCC 4.3 compiler warnings.
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                          Tools                                           *
+****************************************************************************
+
+- Build System
+    * [209866, 213084] Fix compilation errors in QtWebKit when using
+      GCC 3.4 with precompiled headers. Precompiled header support is
+      documented as experimental in the GCC 3.4 documentation, and as
+      such, precompiled header support is disabled by default with
+      this compiler.
+    * [212330] Correct Makefile generation for src/corelib, which
+      would sometimes include multiple qatomic.o targets.
+    * [210016] Fix a build failure on 64-bit Linux when using the
+      linux-*-32 mkspecs.
+    * [206966] Fixed compilation errors on Linux when building for the
+      MIPS architecture.
+    * [212132] Workaround compiler crash bug for Linux on
+      SPARC64. This is a generalization of a similar change done for
+      Solaris in the 4.3 series.
+    * [211326, 211703] Fixed compilation errors when using the Intel
+      C++ Compiler for Linux on IA-64 (Itanium) hardware.
+    * [171222] Ignore duplicate -L<path> options
+
+- Assistant
+    * [212875] Don't sort the entries in the contents view according to the
+      help files names.
+    * [212444] Use the default help collection when registering or unregistering
+      help files without having a collection file specified.
+    * [210704] Make sure the sql-plugin is correctly used when building
+      Qt statically.
+    * [208834] When highlighting a find result, ensure that the active
+      highlighting color is used.
+    * Introduced the -assistant-webkit configure flag to make use of WebKit as
+      html renderer in Qt Assistant.
+
+
+- Designer
+
+    * [213481] Fixed crash that occurs when encountering an invalid .ui file.
+    * [211422] Fixed a crash resulting from a conflict between the newly added
+      support for QScrollArea and custom widgets derived from QScrollArea.
+    * [209995] Fixed a bug in the property editor that caused it not to
+      select values in spin boxes on editing.
+    * [205448] Fixed a bug related to drag and drop and Windows accessibility.
+    * [205899] Removed the windowModality property for non-form children to
+      prevent it from locking up the form preview.
+    * [212077] Fixed retranslateUi call in case of combo box items
+    * [210866] Dynamic properties of type QByteArray are not converted anymore to type QString when reloading the form
+    * [207187] Designer's property editor has better colors in case of inverted color scheme
+    * [202257] The geometry of the resource dialog is saved in settings
+    * [211677] Remove a crash in case of reloading resources
+
+- Linguist
+
+- lupdate
+    * [209122] Fixed same-text heuristic missing existing plurals
+    * [212465] Standardize on the default context being empty, not "@default"
+
+- lrelease
+
+
+- rcc
+
+
+- moc
+
+   * [189996] Fixed a bug that caused inline slots with throw()
+     declarations to be parsed incorrectly.
+   * [192552] Fixed a bug that caused "< ::" to be parsed incorrectly
+     (e.g. "QList< ::Foo>").
+   * [199427] Fixed the code generator so that it generates normal
+     spaces everywhere, no tabs.
+   * [204730] Fixed a skipt token after Q_PRIVATE_SLOT
+
+- uic
+
+   * [205439] Added a warning that is  printed when encountering
+   non-obvious Qt3 dependencies (qPixmapFromMimeSource).
+
+- uic3
+
+   * [205834] Process non-ASCII filenames correctly.
+
+- qmake
+
+
+- configure
+
+    * Fixed auto-detection of the XKB library on old Unix systems
+    * Fixed auto-detection of getaddrinfo on old Unix systems
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                          Plugins                                         *
+****************************************************************************
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                   Important Behavior Changes                             *
+****************************************************************************
+
+Unix
+----
+    * [203063] Changed the behaviour of qFatal and Q_ASSERT to always
+    produce a SIGABRT signal in all build modes of Qt. (Previous
+    versions called the exit function if Qt was built in release mode)