qt6windows7/dist/changes-5.9.1

Qt 5.9.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 5.9.0.

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 5.9 series is binary compatible with the 5.8.x series.
Applications compiled for 5.8 will continue to run with 5.9.

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.

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*                               Qt 5.9.1 Changes                           *
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Deprecation Notice
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 - The following platforms or toolchains are deprecated and will be
   removed as of Qt 5.11:
   * Microsoft Visual Studio 2013

Important Behavior Changes
--------------------------

 - The Q_REQUIRED_RESULT macro now expands to the C++17 attribute
   [[nodiscard]] if the compiler supports it. Code using this macro needs
   to pay attention to its placement, as C++ function attributes must come
   before the declaration, unlike the GCC extension that this macro
   previously expanded to.

Binary Compatibility Note
-------------------------

 - The variable QOperatingSystemVersion::MacOSHighSierra was added in this
   release. Code that uses this variable will not run under Qt 5.9.0. If
   backwards compatibility is desired, use instead
     QOperatingSystemVersion(QOperatingSystemVersion::MacOS, 10, 13)

Third-Party Code
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 - Sqlite was updated to version 3.16.2.
 - Deleted the src/3rdparty/atspi2 directory.

QtCore
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 - [QTBUG-60558] Fixed a bug that caused QInternal::unregisterCallback to
   crash on exit.
 - [QTBUG-61034] QT_NO_EXCEPTIONS is now reliably set when using Clang, even
   in Objective C++ mode.

 - QHash/QMultiHash:
    * [QTBUG-60395] Fixed operator== so that two containers compare equal when
      there are multiple values with the same key.

 - QStorageInfo
    * [QTBUG-61096] Fixed a hang on certain systems when retrieving
      information from unresponsive filesystems.

 - QTimeZone:
   * [QTBUG-60595] Fixed sending IANA standard UTC-offset QTimeZones
     through QDataStream, which previously came out invalid after
     deserialization.

moc
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 - [QTBUG-61204] moc no longer errors out if a C++ keyword is #define'ed

Platform Specific Changes
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 - macOS / iOS:
   * [QTBUG-41978] QCollator now respects the ignorePunctuation property on
     Apple based platforms correctly.
   * [QTBUG-61205] Fixed the architecture information in QSysInfo.
   * QSysInfo and QOperatingSystemVersion now support the newest versions of
     Apple's operating systems.
   * [QTBUG-61053] Fixed SSL certificate verification on iOS with Secure
     Transport back-end.

 - Windows:
   * [QTBUG-61315] Fixed invalid sorting of custom environment variables set
     via QProcessEnvironment when starting subprocesses.

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configure & build system
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 - [QTBUG-58372] The SQL driver plugins can be built separately again.
   Note that it is necessary to configure the whole sqldrivers directory.
 - [QTBUG-60925][Unix] Fixed library retrieval from pkg-config. Again.
 - [QTBUG-60936] Fixed module version number in Qt modules' cmake config files.
 - [QTBUG-61017] Fixed configure hanging upon selecting commercial license.
 - [QTBUG-61044] Fixed license checker invocation on 32 bit systems.
 - [MinGW] The gold linker is no longer used.

qmake
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 - [QTBUG-42830][Android] INSTALL targets are no longer created for static
   libraries.
 - [QTBUG-40825][QTBUG-59457][Unix] Fixed various makespecs to append shared
   include and library locations only at the end of the search lists.
 - [QTBUG-52383][Windows] midl and rc are now invoked with /NOLOGO.
 - [QTBUG-58391][MSVC] MSVC extensions are not disabled any more when
   querying the compiler for the predefined macros to pass to moc.
 - [QTBUG-59431][VS] Fixed parsing of /utf-8 option. Again.
 - [QTBUG-60895][VS] Fixed .vcxproj generation for ActiveQt server projects.
 - [QTBUG-60059] qmake will now be more verbose when it fails to run the
   compiler while querying the toolchain's properties.
 - Various QT_<compiler>_VERSION variables were reverted to refer to the
   toolchain Qt was built with. The current toolchain's versions can be
   found in the QMAKE_<compiler>_VERSION variables.
 - QMAKE_DEFAULT_{INC,LIB}DIRS is now populated also when using clang.
 - [MinGW] Re-builds of static library projects will now create a new library
   instead of updating the previously built one.
 - [VS] Unknown /Zc:XXX options are no longer complained about.