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Qt 4.8.5 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.8.0, 4.8.1, 4.8.2, 4.8.3
and 4.8.4.
For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this
distribution. The documentation is also available online:

  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:

  http://bugreports.qt-project.org/

Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more
information about a particular change.

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General Improvements
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- Webkit upgrade to 2.2.4
- Change all shmget calls to user-only memory (security)

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*                           Library                                        *
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QtGui
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- Fix hover handling in QTreeView [QTBUG-27158]
- Fix conflict between QMainWindow::restoreState, QWidget::setStylesheet [QTBUG-15080]
- Remove invalid assert from QGraphicsScene
- Clear focus of GraphicsItem focus scopes and their children [QTBUG-28328]
- Fix for fullscreen resolution change on QWS [QTBUG-27607]
- Disable graphic effects for widgets on Mac to prevent crashing [QTBUG-24792]
- Make Q{Box,Grid,Form}Layout::takeAt() unparent a nested layout [QTBUG-27420]
- Fix SSSE3 support build failure on mingw
- Do not refer to destructed QObject in Windows bridge [QTBUG-26187]
- Allow qmljsdebugger argument and value to be separated by a space
- Backport adjusting cursorToX for trailing spaces from Qt 5 [QTBUG-27354]
- QMenu: Do not set snapToMouse if a caused-widget exists [QTBUG-2596, QTBUG-28031]
- Add cursor position support to QPlatformCursor
- Fix QWidget::hide() on QPA platforms
- Fix QWidget::showFullScreen() on QPA
- Check for gtk_adjustment_configure as this is not always implemented [QTBUG-23569, QTBUG-25760]
- QMenu: Fix nested popup when keyboard shortcut is used [QTBUG-20403]
- Use a UUID for the NSToolbar in unified title and toolbar [QTBUG-19207]
- Fix illegal reference to a destroyed variable (painting\qpdf.cpp)
- To support QT_NO_IM on Linux/Windows/Mac [QTBUG-26109]
- Removed unused include headers <time.h> and <sys/time.h>
- Fix glitch on MNG animation Loops when QMovie caching is enabled [QTBUG-28894]
- Don't update the input method if the im hints haven't changed [QTBUG-19854]
- Only send the enter/leave event when it makes sense to do so (qwidget_mac.mm)
- Make sure QGraphicsItem notifies changes to focusScopeItem [QTBUG-29260]
- Actually use EGLint - EGLconst does not exist (qeglproperties_p.h)
- Fix TIFFTAG_RESOLUTIONUNIT handling [QTBUG-22322]
- Fixed crash in image reader when reading certain BMP files [QTBUG-29194]
- qpa: Fix crash when requesting QApplication::platformNativeInterface()
- QStackedLayout: Fix crash when focus widget is destroyed in hide() [QTBUG-18242]
- Fix text issue with Hiragana characters when stylesheet is applied [QTBUG-29442]
- Fix path separators in archives created by QZipWriter
- Fix multiselection by CTRL-click in QFileDialog/KDE [QTBUG-29257]
- QPdfEnginePrivate: Fix invalid format for rectangles on some locales [QTBUG-24949]
- Add WindowStateChanged event (qapplication_qpa.cpp)
- Fixed QTreeWidgetIterator to work with sorted QTreeWidget [QTBUG-29903]
- Fixed dashes being rendered differently depending on system clip [QTBUG-24762]
- Fixes: assert in QPainter::fillRect on very large paint devices [QTBUG-26766]
- Clear the alphaCache when starting new painting [qprintengine_pdf.cpp]
- Remove the usage of undefined QFontDatabase::WritingSystem
- Reorder for performance reasons (isSymLink(), qfileinfogatherer.cpp, qfilesystemmodel.cpp)
- Fixed bug in QTimeLine::setPaused(false) [QTBUG-30108]
- Fixed artifacts when drawing same line with different clips [QTBUG-25036]
- Fixed QPainter::drawPolyline() not drawing solid lines [QTBUG-26156]
- QMdi: Don't emit subWindowActivated during StyleChange handling
- Windows: Fix one of the two file dialog bottlenecks [QTBUG-13182]
- Windows: Fix the last file dialog bottleneck [QTBUG-13182]
- Fixed a bug where spans across empty cells got broken [QTBUG-30255]
- Fixed a bug where the MaximumSizeHint of a layout with spans was wrong
- Avoid socket notifiers on invalid file descriptors
- QGtkStyle: remove an unnecessary sanity check for theme name
- Prevent recursions when triggering menus in QToolButton [QTBUG-30399]
- Fixed potential access violation in QPixmap::copy() for <32 bit pixmaps [QTBUG-14766]
- Fixed invalid memory read in SSSE3 image blending code [QTBUG-28324]
- Fix QTableView::doItemsLayout() [QTBUG-30653]
- Fix warning about narrowing inside {}
- Fixed QLayout::addChildLayout(QLayout *l) when l had a parent [QTBUG-30758]
- Don't bypass overwritten [set]data() methods in the proxy
- Prevent crash due to giving QWidget::update() a large rect [QTBUG-30876]
- Prevent crash due to giving QWidget::update() a large region [QTBUG-30876]
- QGV: fix items not to be selected on right mouse button release [QTBUG-30990]
- Respect specified minimum height for menuBar also if it has HFW [QTBUG-31057]
- Convert the new filename to native separators before checking it (qfilesystemmodel.cpp)
- Fix creating new QWS surface only when it does not exist already [QTBUG-31254]
- Doc: Fixed typo in QDialog [QTBUG-31493]

QtNetwork
---------
- Fix binary incompatibility between openssl versions [QTBUG-28343]
- SSL certificates: blacklist mis-issued Turktrust certificates [QTBUG-28937]
- QtNetwork: blacklist two more certificates [QTBUG-24654]
- SSL docs: Be more explicit about the threats of ignoring SSL errors
- QSslConfiguration: toggle on demand loading of root certs properly
- SSL code: store SSL parameters for debugging, guarded by define
- QNetworkConfigurationManager: check whether app is shutting down [QTBUG-30585]
- Allow QHostInfo::lookupHost() with no receiver to warm the DNS cache (qhostinfo.cpp)
- Increase the size of the QHostInfo cache
- SSL internals: do not write after shutting down the socket
- QHttpMultipart: reset read pointer when device is reset
- Widgets: avoid integer divide by zero in QProgressDialog

QtCore
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- Fix regression in QXmlStreamWriter with codec set to UTF-16 [QTBUG-23310]
- Do not detect directories ending in ".lnk" as link files [QTBUG-21863]
- Document how to name threads
- Prevent crashes after throwing an exception [QTBUG-26825, QTBUG-27548]
- Add missing fields for atomic classes in ARMv5 OABI
- Update defaultNumberingSystem value for some indic and slovak countries/regions
- QUrl: ensure toEncoded() matches toString() wrt. empty authority [QTBUG-8701]
- QUrl: make sure setAuthority is consistent with setHost
- Elaborate shortDayName(), etc using default locale [QTBUG-28522]
- Don't increase the reference count if dynamic_cast failed [QTBUG-28924]
- QUrl::fromUserInput: fix for urls without a host
- Limit the range of the QUrlPrivate::port to -1 to 65535 [QTBUG-28985]
- Define Q_COMPILER_AUTO_FUNCTION in Qt 4.8 [QTBUG-28984]
- Change all shmget calls to user-only memory
- Make compile with QT_NO_FILESYSTEMITERATOR
- QLocale: Update the Japanese and Czech locale
- QLocale: Update tamil's AM/PM text
- Fix call to QMetaObject::metaCall from updateProperty [QTBUG-29082]
- QThread documentation: do not discourage the reimplementation of QThread
- Fix compilation of Qt Concurrent with gcc 4.3 [QTBUG-28984]
- Fix CreateFileMapping() error handling
- Update Irish locale to return correct date format
- QThread::isFinished should return true from finished() [QTBUG-30251]
- QNonContiguousByteDevice: roll back complete internal state in reset()
- Use LC_MESSAGES instead of LC_NUMERIC in QSystemLocale::fallbackLocale()
- Remove unnecessary typedef, found by GCC 4.8 (qtconcurrentfilter.h)
- Rename qAbs Function for timeval
- QThreadDataPrivate: fix data race on canWait boolean
- QNonContiguousByteDevice: reset() instead of seek() if possible
- QLocale: Add fr_MA locale
- Make Qt 4.8 also compile with the LSB SDK on Linux [QTBUG-25336]
- Make QContiguousCache with zero capacity not crash [QTBUG-27339]
- Check that 3DNow! instructions are supported before including mm3dnow.h
- Special-case the forward declaration of STL types for libc++
- Fix QLocale::standaloneMonthName when d->m_data == systemData()

QtScript
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- Fix QtScript crash on 64bit with JIT [QTCREATORBUG-8629, QTBUG-23463]

QtDBus
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- QtDBus: Garbage collect deleted objects now and then
- Try harder in matching the method signature (qdbusviewer.cpp)
- Use delete[] instead of delete (qdbuscpp2xml.cpp)
- Fix clang warning about bool to pointer conversion

QtWebkit
--------
- Updated WebKit to 2.2.4
- Enable usage of QTWEBKIT_PLUGIN_PATH [QTBUG-30081]
- Remove Nokia references from QWebView documentation page[QTBUG-31400]

QtSql
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- Fix error reporting in TDS SQL driver
- QSqlTableModel: fix dataChanged() index for removed edited row [QTBUG-28961]
- Fix postgres notification support in the QPSQLDriver
- Don't prematurely reduce LIBS when adding sql link lists
- Remove misleading statement from ~QSqlDatabase() [QTBUG-29481]
- Fix DB2 driver X64 Linux Build [QTBUG-20172]
- Add support for SQLSTATE error codes
- Fix for Sql query aliases with dots [QTBUG-14904]
- ODBC: fix loss of milliseconds when binding QDateTime [QTBUG-2192]
- ODBC: fixed consistence of return of QODBCResult::exec() [QTBUG-10569]
- ODBC: lost info about column metadata on SQL_NO_DATA
- qsql_odbc: fix SQLGetStmtAtt usage
- PostgreSQL driver: escape backslashes only when server requires it [QTBUG-30076]

Declarative
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- QML file loading: honor synchronous requests made through QNAM [QTBUG-27723]
- Specify better increment for captured properties
- Backport PathView currentIndex fixes from Qt 5
- Fix crash when mapping coordinates to & from the root item
- Delay loading implicit import
- Remove QPerformanceTimer now that QElapsedTimer contains the necessary bits
- Doc: add missing LayoutMirroring to QML Elements
- Observe GL context loss in ShaderEffectItem [QTBUG-28136]
- Ensure QDeclarativeTextLayout uses the correct pen [QTBUG-28135]
- Add a method that allows registration of files to types
- Fix QDeclarativeListView currentSection property update [QTBUG-29712]
- MouseArea shouldn't grab the mouse until there is an effective drag [QTBUG-29717]
- Flickable shouldn't grab the mouse until it starts an effective move [QTBUG-29718]
- Improve emission of FocusScope focusChanged signals [QTBUG-28288, QTBUG-25644]
- Backport some enum optimizations from Qt 5
- Prevent crash when moving elements of a ListView's ListModel [QTBUG-26836]
- Fix some warnings in qtquick1 found by Clang
- Fix jump and property changes on first move when dragging a Flickable [QTBUG-30032]
- Backport qmlRegisterUncreatableType with version template (qdeclarativeprivate.h)

OpenGL
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- Fixed crash in tst_qglthreads (qgl_p.h) [QTBUG-22560]
- Fix uninitialized has_brush,has_pen in QOpenGLPaintEnginePrivate
- Fixed potential invalid memory access in OpenGL engine glyph cache

Plugins
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- Make textEditTest more tolerant wrt characterRect verification (qaccessiblewidgets.cpp)
- Return correct accessible name when a label has rich text [QTBUG-27302]
- Fixed some issues in QFontconfigDatabase::fallbacksForFamily
- Fix connman bearer for new API
- Update ofono API
- Take fontconfig font width into account
- Compile in C++11 mode: narrowing conversion problems (qbasicunixfontdatabase.cpp)

Qt3support
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- Explicitly cast some shorts to ushorts (q3dragobject.cpp)

3rdParty
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- Add a means to specify that the VM_POOL_SIZE can be 1gb and not 2gb (javascriptcore)
- Silence warning from clang (md5.cpp)
- Harfbuzz: backporting fixes from upstream
- Revert "JSCore build fix for WEC7"
- Bring in WebKit r74029 to fix the build with clang (javascriptcore)

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Qt for Linux/X11
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- Fix multiple tablet hires coordinate bug under X11
- Fixes ignored composition mode in QPainter::fillRect with X11 engine [QTBUG-28499]
- QPaintEngine: Fix build if compiled with QT_NO_XRENDER
- Fix thread-safety of qt_ignore_sigpipe
- Fix shortcuts with secondary Xkb layout [QTBUG-15319]
- Fix QTBUG-18934 by checking return value of qt_safe_pipe
- QSystemTrayIcon: fix narrowing warning
- Fix C++11 narrowing error (qgl_x11.cpp)

Qt for Windows
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- Fix configure.exe wrongly claiming Large File Support as disabled
- Draw disabled QMenu items in inactive state in vista style [QTBUG-27992]
- Fixes problem with single precision floats in QDataStream (Windows) [QTBUG-25950]
- Fix title bar height of Aero wizard on Windows 8 [QTBUG-28435]
- Fix QVistaHelper::disconnectBackButton()
- Fixed dead keys on MS Windows [QTBUG-8764, QTBUG-10032]
- Define missing constant for MinGW (qkeymapper_win.cpp) [QTBUG-10032]
- Only allow one dir to be selected for getExistingDirectory() on Win [QTBUG-21372]
- QProcessEnvironment: Permit magic cmd variables [QTCREATORBUG-8716]
- QWindowsVistaStyle::drawPrimitive(PE_Frame): fix background clipping [QTBUG-24783]
- QWizard/Win: Support RTL layout in Aero style [QTBUG-30462]
- Fixed -dbus-linked when cross-compiling from Windows [QTBUG-29984]
- Disable precision timers when running MSVC2012 code on pre-Windows 8 [QTBUG-27266]
- Re-enable compilation of idc for MinGW [QTBUG-31517]
- Correct error in Makefile generation for Windows MinGW (WebKit.pri) [QTBUG-27413]

Qt for Mac OS X
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- Mac: fix bugs for font selection in QFontDialog [QTBUG-27415]
- Modified vertical alignments of simple widgets on OSX [QTBUG-13635]
- Mac: Fixed text rendering in selected tab button
- Prevent a crash when hiding a window on Mac OS X 10.7 or later
- Fix malloc errors from legacy realpath on Mac OSX [QTBUG-28282]
- Call endSheet when the QFileDialog was shown as a sheet on Mac
- Make sure the correct name filter is selected in the Mac file dialog
- Cocoa: Do not use NSOpenGLPFAAccelerated flag for GL context [QTBUG-29641]
- Ensure that pixels is only freed if there was no CGImage for it
- Ensure the native filedialog starts up with the right directory
- Add missing Objective-C namespace prefixes
- Fix Mac OS X SDK checks for non-default Xcode setup (configure)
- Use [NSScreen backingScaleFactor] on 10.7+
- Make QPixmap::grabWindow work on retina display
- Compile with clang when C++11 support is enabled (qtextdocument_p.cpp)
- Fix clang build on Mac OS X [QTBUG-29373]
- Fix a typo of an internal function name [QTBUG-30754]
- Fix Mac OS X Carbon build with Qt in a namespace
- WebKit: Fix using macro to determine Mac user agent architecture [QTBUG-30187]
- Tools: unnecessary to make qmlplugindump a bundle
- Fix Qt WebKit build for non-default Xcode setup / Xcode 4.3+

Qt for Blackberry\QNX
---------------------
- Qnx: Handle the MeasurementSystem in QNX
- BlackBerry: Removed filtering of window system events
- BlackBerry: Changed QSettings file access
- BlackBerry: Restore proper BPS channel in event dispatcher
- BlackBerry: Fixed physical screen dimensions when rotated
- QNX: fix QProcess fd inheritance
- Qnx: Check if QCoreApplication::instance() exists before using QSocketNotifier
- QNX: Move buffer count check to appropriate location
- BlackBerry mkspecs: optimize linker flags
- Fix QWidget support on Playbook
- Blackberry: remove JSON plugin reference from .pro
- QNX: adjust settings for separate debug info feature [QTBUG-28247]
- Blackberry: Reset virtual keyboard when shown
- BlackBerry: QBBCursor implementation
- BlackBerry: Reevaluation of timer list in event dispatcher
- Fix Blackberry QPA plugin clipboard impl
- BlackBerry: change SSL root cert folder
- QNX: Make QWidget::hide() work immediately
- BlackBerry: The MeasurementSystem port was for BlackBerry OS not QNX
- BlackBerry bearer plugin: check whether device is online several times [QTBUG-29421]
- QNX: Don't let eglMakeCurrent() fail when using two contexts
- BB10 systemProxyForQuery: query system proxy also for non-URL requests [QTBUG-29425]
- BlackBerry: handle window state navigator events
- Workaround a bug in mktime on QNX (qdatetime.cpp)
- Initial port of QSystemLocale on BlackBerry 10
- BlackBerry: show dialogs full screen
- BlackBerry: Added warning when low memory event is received
- Adding transformed support for QNX QWS plugin [QTBUG-29949]
- Fix a bug in QSystemLocale on BB10
- BlackBerry: Adjust rotation according to initial orientation [QTBUG-29201]
- QNX host lookup: do not try to load libresolv.so, it is not there [QTBUG-30809]
- BlackBerry: Revised error handling in event dispatcher
- QNX: Enabled ALSA support

Qt for INTEGRITY
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- Added support for multicore CPUs in QThread::idealThreadCount for INTEGRITY target.

Qt for VxWorks
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- Add struct keyword for timeval variable to remove ambiguity
- Do not use getuid() and getgid() functions in VxWorks
- Use time.h related includes from qfunctions_vxworks.h file
- Use QDir::homePath() for tilde expansion
- Use stub function gettimeofday for VxWorks
- Undefine overlapping variable names defined in VxWorks headers
- Fix comments to use pre C99 standard style instead
- Use sched_get_priority_* functions only for SCHED_RR and SCHED_FIFO
- Do not define QT_NO_DYNAMIC_LIBRARY for VxWorks process (RTP)
- Use stub functions getpwuid and getgrgid for VxWorks
- Use taskIdSelf() function instead of taskIdCurrent global variable
- VxWorks header only available in DKM mode and not in RTP mode
- Use Qt defined gettimeofday for VxWorks and no fallback to X11 version
- Add support getting memory page size to RTP mode on VxWorks
- VxWorks process (RTP) mode does not have taskLock/taskUnlock functions
- Use correct variable type EGLint for EGL attributes
- Enable autodetection of VxWorks fb driver for available qt-gfx list (configure)
- Strip prepending <hostname>: string from currentPath() for VxSim
- Create default install prefix location for QtEmbedded with VxWorks (configure)
- Fixed checking HOME variable return value using isEmpty() [QTBUG-28912]

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Assistant
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- List supported file formats in search indexing [QTBUG-30110]

Designer
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- Detect QMainWindow-separator as passive interactor in Qt Designer [QTCREATORBUG-8284]
- ActiveQt Designer plugin: Load control string correctly [QTBUG-29234]
- Qt Designer: Use multiline validation for dynamic string properties [QTBUG-26394]
- Active X plugin: Fix setting a control by task menu [QTBUG-29234]
- Fix moving widgets in horizontal layouts in RTL mod [QTBUG-25872]

Configure
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- configure.exe: add inotify command line switch
- configure.exe: fix -inotify option
- Add missing -system-proxies configure option (documentation)
- Introduce compileTest function
- Fix Mac OS X crc/dwarf2 test for non-default Xcode setup
- configure: Fix url about evaluation license
- Don't use UNAME_MACHINE on Linux
- Avoid macro re-definition after 65bd0bd1f047f6db6d67a8f089a9a409354b95a1
- Disabling largefile support for WinCE (configureapp.cpp)
- Make sure idc links only against QtCore [QTBUG-22260]

mkspecs
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- BlackBerry mkspecs: tell compiler the specific ARM version (cortex-a9)
- BlackBerry mkspecs: use compiler flags for C++ and C compiler
- Device mkspec for Blackberry Playbook
- mkspecs: fix the path for rcc for win32-g++ [QTBUG-27237]

qmake
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- qmake: do not exclusively lock files for reading on Windows/MSVC
- qmake: support for Visual Studio 2012 project files added
- Accept hex/octal values for RC_LANG and RC_CODEPAGE [QTBUG-28624]
- Fix duplicate TRANSLATION entry in generated RC file [QTBUG-28625]
- Fix handling of precompiled header files in XCode projects [QTBUG-24589]
- Respect the OBJECTS_DIR setting for XCode projects [QTBUG-28104]
- set pkg-config *_location directly to install dir [QTBUG-28807]
- Fix typo in qmake warning
- qmake/MSVC: fix parsing of the /openmp option [QTBUG-29143]
- qmake/MSVC: do not disable buffer security check per default [QTBUG-29329]
- do not parse MSVC option /Gs as /GS [QTBUG-29329]
- qmake ExtraCompilerTargets: deal with file name which contains space [QTBUG-27629]
- Fix generation of XCode projects for XCode 4.6 [QTBUG-29371]
- define NDEBUG in MSVC/nmake release builds [QTBUG-3389]
- unmess CONFIG/QT_CONFIG static/shared
- qmake: increase .pro-file compatibility between Qt 4 and 5
- make sure qmake finds itself in CWD on windows
- qmake/vcxproj: fix parsing of /RTC* options [QTBUG-30711]
- qmake/vcxproj: resurrect support for /we compiler switch [QTBUG-29098]
- Don't overwrite QMAKE_QT_CONFIG with empty value (qt_config.prf)

Other
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- Fix moc from choking on boost headers [QTBUG-22829]
- Support indirect SUBDIRS (Linquist)
- Remove the timestamp info in genarated files [QTBUG-26589]
- Update Turkish and Irish locales data
- Update Canadian(English) locale
- Update the Indonisian and Catalan locales in CLDR data
- Fix a -Wunused-private-field] warning (testlib\qtestspontaneevent.h)
- Update Traditional Chinese translation
- Use path() as we need the path without the filename (Linquist)
- Change Nokia -> Digia in supported platforms page
- Doc: Remove Symbian from supported platforms
- Update of Slovak translation
- Doc: Edited Qt Help page and clarified .qhp file location [QTBUG-29576]
- qmlplugindump: correctly handle various versions of a meta object
- Make linguist's source viewer respect the encoding of files [QTBUG-27238]
- qmlplugindump: add an explicit -relocatable flag
- Ukrainian translation update
- Doc: corrected LGPL Exception header [QTBUG-31271]