qt-creator/dist/changes-4.7.0.md

Qt Creator version 4.7 contains bug fixes and new features.

The most important changes are listed in this document. For a complete list of changes, see the Git log for the Qt Creator sources that you can check out from the public Git repository. For example:

git clone git://code.qt.io/qt-creator/qt-creator.git
git log --cherry-pick --pretty=oneline origin/4.6..v4.7.0

General

• Added option for enabling and disabling HiDPI scaling on Windows and Linux (QTCREATORBUG-20232)
• Added Properties item to context menu on files (QTCREATORBUG-19588)
• Added New Search button to search results pane (QTCREATORBUG-17870)
• Added option to show only icons in mode selector (QTCREATORBUG-18845)
• File System View
  • Added New Folder (QTCREATORBUG-17358)
  • Added Collapse All (QTCREATORBUG-19212)
  • Added option to show folders on top (QTCREATORBUG-7818)
  • Made synchronization of root directory with current document optional (QTCREATORBUG-19322)
• Fixed that external tools did not expand variables for environment changes

Editing

• Made replacement with regular expression search more perl-like ($<number> and $& are supported, whereas & is no longer used for captures) (QTCREATORBUG-9602, QTCREATORBUG-15175)
• Added Context Help to editor context menu (QTCREATORBUG-55)
• Added previous and next buttons to bookmarks view, and polished their behavior (QTCREATORBUG-9859, QTCREATORBUG-20061)
• Added support for WordDetect in Kate highlighting files
• Fixed that extra editor windows were not restored when opening session (QTCREATORBUG-13840)
• Fixed that editor could stay busy repainting annotations (QTCREATORBUG-20422)
• FakeVim
  • Added :<range>sor[t][!]

Help

• Improved performance impact on start up

All Projects

• Moved kit settings to separate options category
• Made it easier to abort builds by changing build button to stop button while building (QTCREATORBUG-20155)
• Added project type specific warnings and errors for kits, and made them visible in Projects mode
• Added shortcut for showing current document in project tree (QTCREATORBUG-19625)
• Added global option for Add linker library search paths to run environment (QTCREATORBUG-20240)
• Added %{CurrentBuild:Env} Qt Creator variable

QMake Projects

• Added support for -isystem in QMAKE_CXXFLAGS
• Added deployment rules for devices to widget and console application wizards (QTCREATORBUG-20358)
• Fixed that arguments for QMake step did not expand variables
• Fixed lupdate and lrelease external tools for Qt 5.9 and later (QTCREATORBUG-19892)

C++ Support

• Improved resize behavior of editor tool bar (QTCREATORBUG-15218, QTCREATORBUG-19386)
• Fixed auto-insertion of closing brace and semicolon after classes (QTCREATORBUG-19726)
• Fixed location information of macros (QTCREATORBUG-19905)
• Clang Code Model
  • Enabled by default
  • Switched to Clang 6.0
  • Implemented outline pane, outline dropdown and C++ Symbols in Current Document locator filter
  • Implemented Follow Symbol for single translation unit
  • Added type highlighting for Objective-C/C++
  • Added errors and warnings of current editor to Issues pane (category Clang Code Model)
  • Added highlighting style for overloaded operators (QTCREATORBUG-19659)
  • Added option to use .clang-tidy configuration file or checks string
  • Added default configurations for Clang-Tidy and Clazy checks
  • Added link to the documentation in tooltip for Clang-Tidy and Clazy diagnostics
  • Improved reparse performance and memory usage
  • Improved selecting and deselecting specific Clang-Tidy checks
  • Fixed slow completion in case Clang-Tidy or Clazy checks were enabled
  • Fixed crashes when closing documents fast
• Built-in Code Model
  • Added support for nested namespaces (QTCREATORBUG-16774)

QML Support

• Updated parser to Qt 5.10, adding support for user-defined enums
• Fixed that linter warning M127 was shown as error (QTCREATORBUG-19534)
• Fixed that reformatting incorrectly removed quotes (QTCREATORBUG-17455)
• Fixed that .pragma and .import were removed when reformatting (QTCREATORBUG-13038)
• Fixed that import completion did not offer QtWebEngine (QTCREATORBUG-20723)

Python Support

• Added stack traces in application output to Issues pane (category Python)

Debugging

• Added Leave Debug Mode button to toolbar
• Fixed updating of memory view
• Fixed issue with restoring debugger views (QTCREATORBUG-20721)
• QML
  • Added support for nested properties (QTBUG-68474)
  • Fixed issue with different endianness (QTBUG-68721)
• Fixed Qt namespace detection with GDB 8 (QTCREATORBUG-19620)

Qt Quick Designer

• Fixed crash when adding quotes to text (QTCREATORBUG-20684)
• Fixed that meta data could move in source code even when no changes occurred (QTCREATORBUG-20686)

Clang Static Analyzer

• Renamed plugin to ClangTools
• Replaced Clang static analyzer by tool that runs Clang-Tidy and Clazy over whole project or a subset of the project's files

QML Profiler

• Improved performance of timeline
• Added zooming into flame graph items

Version Control Systems

• Git
  • Added -git-show <ref> command line parameter
• Gerrit
  • Added warning when pushing to wrong branch (QTCREATORBUG-20062)
  • Fixed updating after settings change (QTCREATORBUG-20536)

Image Viewer

• Added option to export SVGs in multiple resolutions simultaneously

Test Integration

• Added Run Test Under Cursor to C++ editor
• Added editor marks for failed test locations (QTCREATORBUG-20328)
• Google Test
  • Added support for filters
  • Fixed issue with jumping to file and line of failing test (QTCREATORBUG-18725)
• Qt Quick
  • Fixed parsing issue with non-ASCII characters (QTCREATORBUG-20105)
  • Fixed detection of test name (QTCREATORBUG-20642)
  • Fixed detection when quick_test_main() is used directly (QTCREATORBUG-20746)

Welcome

• Rather than open project do nothing when right-clicking recent projects
• Open session mini menu when right-clicking sessions

Platform Specific

Windows

• Improved parsing of MSVC error messages (QTCREATORBUG-20297)
• Fixed that querying MSVC tool chains at startup could block Qt Creator
• Fixed issue with writing to network drives (QTCREATORBUG-20560)
• Fixed issue with Clang and Qt 5.8 and later (QTCREATORBUG-20021)
• Fixed handling of Windows debug stream which could lead to freezes (QTCREATORBUG-20640)

Android

• Improved behavior when emulator cannot be started (QTCREATORBUG-20160)
• Fixed QML debugger connection issue from macOS client (QTCREATORBUG-20730)

Credits for these changes go to:
Aaron Barany
Aleix Pol
Alessandro Portale
Alexander Drozdov
Alexandru Croitor
Andre Hartmann
André Pönitz
Antonio Di Monaco
Arnold Dumas
Benjamin Balga
Christian Kandeler
Christian Stenger
Claus Steuer
Colin Duquesnoy
David Schulz
Eike Ziller
Filipe Azevedo
Friedemann Kleint
Hugo Holgersson
Ivan Donchevskii
Jaroslaw Kobus
Jay Gupta
José Tomás Tocino
Jörg Bornemann
Kai Köhne
Kari Oikarinen
Kimmo Linnavuo
Leena Miettinen
Lorenz Haas
Marco Benelli
Marco Bubke
Mitch Curtis
Nikita Baryshnikov
Nikolai Kosjar
Orgad Shaneh
Oswald Buddenhagen
Pawel Rutka
Przemyslaw Gorszkowski
Razi Alavizadeh
Robert Löhning
Rune Espeseth
scootergrisen
Sergey Belyashov
Sergey Morozov
Tasuku Suzuki
Thiago Macieira
Thomas Hartmann
Tim Jenssen
Tobias Hunger
Ulf Hermann
Vikas Pachdha