From d7e294ded23240d62f662579eeed733e6b981d60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eirik Aavitsland Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:08:11 +0100 Subject: Add changes file for 5.6 Change-Id: I938c275371b4287f9da9148732505beaadbae90d Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll --- dist/changes-5.6.0 | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 dist/changes-5.6.0 (limited to 'dist') diff --git a/dist/changes-5.6.0 b/dist/changes-5.6.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e8534a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/dist/changes-5.6.0 @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Qt 5.6 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes +over the 5.5.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation +included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: + + http://doc.qt.io + +The Qt version 5.6 series is binary compatible with the 5.5.x series. +Applications compiled for 5.5 will continue to run with 5.6. + +Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers +corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker: + + http://bugreports.qt.io + +Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more +information about a particular change. + +**************************************************************************** +* Important Behavior Changes * +**************************************************************************** + +- For security reasons, MNG and JPEG 2000 handlers will no longer be + built by default, unless the required codec library is found on the + system. I.e., the bundled 3rd party libraries will by default not be + used. In practice, this means that the qmng and qjp2 handlers will + not be present by default. + + The reason is that upstream development of those codes libraries has + stalled, so security issues are not addressed. + + Users who still want these handlers using the bundled libraries can + easily build them from the source projects: + src/plugins/imageformats/jp2/jp2.pro + src/plugins/imageformats/mng/mng.pro + +**************************************************************************** +* General * +**************************************************************************** + +- Bundled libwebp updated to version 0.4.4. +- Bundled libtiff updated to version 4.0.6. -- cgit v1.2.1