qt-creator/dist/changes-4.3.0.md

Qt Creator version 4.3 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/4.2..v4.3.0

General

• Added option to search Files in File System with Silver Searcher (ag) (experimental SilverSearcher plugin)
• Added exclusion patterns to Advanced Find and custom locator filters
• Added navigation pane on right side of edit mode
• Removed dependency of Welcome mode on OpenGL, improving experience in virtual machine environments and certain setups (QTCREATORBUG-15727)
• Fixed wrong UI colors after suspend (QTCREATORBUG-14929)
• Fixed crash with invalid themes (QTCREATORBUG-17517)

Help

• Fixed that help bookmarks got lost (QTCREATORBUG-17537)

Editing

• Added optional shortcut for duplicating current selection
• Adapted to changes of code pasting services (QTCREATORBUG-17942, QTCREATORBUG-18192)
• Fixed freeze when highlighting Kconfig file (QTCREATORBUG-14611)

All Projects

• Added support for .qrc files in project tree for all projects
• Added Qt Creator variable CurrentRun:Executable (QTCREATORBUG-12201, QTCREATORBUG-16830)
• Added choice of build system to most project wizards (QTCREATORBUG-17308)

QMake Projects

• Fixed wrong warning when specifying absolute path to mkspec (QTCREATORBUG-17237)
• Fixed deployment of symlinks for versioned shared libraries

CMake Projects

• Added support for server-mode with CMake 3.7 or later
  • Added products and targets to project tree
  • Added option to build individual products and targets
  • Removed the need for CodeBlocks extra generator
• Added header files to project tree, even if not listed explicitly in project files
• Added import of configuration of existing builds
• Fixed Build > Clean

Generic Projects

• Added expansion of Qt Creator variables in project files

C++ Support

• Added support for clang-query in Advanced Find to experimental ClangRefactoring plugin
• Added switching project and language context for parsing files to editor toolbar
• Added support for --gcctoolchain option
• Improved performance of first completion in file on Windows
• Fixed handling of Objective-C/C++
• Fixed cursor position after correcting . to -> (QTCREATORBUG-17697)
• Fixed that quotes were added when splitting raw string literals (QTCREATORBUG-17717)

QML Support

• Added option to automatically format QML files on save
• Added menu item for adding expression evaluators from QML code editor (QTCREATORBUG-17754)
• Fixed reformatting of signals (QTCREATORBUG-17886)
• Fixed issues with jumping text cursor while editing (QTCREATORBUG-15680, QTCREATORBUG-17413)

Nim Support

• Added automatic reparsing when files are added to or removed from project
• Added Nim compiler setting to kits
• Fixed that loading projects blocked Qt Creator
• Fixed crash when opening empty projects

Debugging

• Added pretty printing of unordered_multi(set|map), boost::variant and QLazilyAllocated
• Fixed that expression evaluators were not evaluated when added (QTCREATORBUG-17763)
• QML
  • Fixed accessing items by id in Debugger Console (QTCREATORBUG-17177)
• GDB
  • Fixed issue with templated types that are pretty printed differently depending on argument type (std::vector<bool> versus std::vector<t>)
• CDB
  • Changed to Python based pretty printing backend, resulting in faster startup and more, faster, and unified pretty printers

QML Profiler

• Added performance information to QML code editor (QTCREATORBUG-17757)
• Improved performance of rendering timeline and loading trace files
• Improved error and progress reporting for loading and saving trace files
• Fixed pixmap cache size information when loading profile (QTCREATORBUG-17424)
• Fixed UI issues (QTCREATORBUG-17939, QTCREATORBUG-17937)

Qt Quick Designer

• Added support for HiDPI
• Added text editor view
• Added tool bar for common actions
• Added changing type of item by changing type name in property editor
• Added support for qsTranslate (QTCREATORBUG-17714)
• Added actions for adding items, selecting visible item, and adding tab bar to stacked containers
• Fixed that Dialog was not allowed in .ui.qml files
• Fixed that error messages could be shown twice
• Fixed handling of escaped unicode characters (QTCREATORBUG-12616)
• Fixed that document needed to be manually re-opened after type information became available
• Fixed crash when root item is layout
• Fixed that expressions were not shown in URL input field (QTCREATORBUG-13328)

Version Control Systems

• Git
  • Added option to only show the first parent of merge commits in log
  • Added action to skip a commit during rebase (QTCREATORBUG-17350)
  • Added option to sign-off commits
  • Fixed handling of already merged files in merge tool
• Gerrit
  • Added detection of Gerrit remotes
  • Added support for accessing Gerrit via REST API over HTTP(S)

Test Integration

• Removed experimental state
• Improved display of test results (QTCREATORBUG-17104)
• Added option to limit searching for tests to folders matching pattern (QTCREATORBUG-16705)
• Fixed detection of inherited test methods (QTCREATORBUG-17522)
• Fixed missing update of test list when QML files are added or removed (QTCREATORBUG-17805)

SCXML Editor

• Fixed adding elements to else case (QTCREATORBUG-17674)
• Fixed that copying and pasting state created invalid name

Beautifier

• Uncrustify
  • Added option to select config file to use

Platform Specific

Windows

• Fixed that it was not possible to save files with arbitrary extension (QTCREATORBUG-15862)
• Fixed ABI detection for Clang
• Fixed that ABI of MSVC2017 was considered different from ABI of MSVC2015 (QTCREATORBUG-17740)

Linux

• Worked around issue that Unity menu bar vanished after editing main window in Design mode (QTCREATORBUG-17519)

Android

• Improved package signing (QTCREATORBUG-17545, QTCREATORBUG-17304)
• Fixed issues with new Android SDK (25.3.1) (QTCREATORBUG-17814, QTCREATORBUG-18013)
• Fixed debugging of release builds

iOS

• Added option to select developer team and provisioning profile used for signing (QTCREATORBUG-16936)
• Fixed that starting simulator blocked Qt Creator
• Fixed Run Without Deployment on Simulator (QTCREATORBUG-18107)

Remote Linux

• Added incremental deployment to tar package deployment

QNX

• Added support for 64bit platforms

Credits for these changes go to:
Alessandro Portale
Alexander Drozdov
Alexandru Croitor
Andre Hartmann
Andreas Pakulat
André Pönitz
Arnold Dumas
BogDan Vatra
Christian Gagneraud
Christian Kandeler
Christian Stenger
Cristian Adam
Daniel Kamil Kozar
Daniel Trevitz
David Schulz
Eike Ziller
Filippo Cucchetto
Florian Apolloner
Francois Ferrand
Frank Meerkötter
Friedemann Kleint
Hugo Holgersson
Jake Petroules
James McDonnell
Jaroslaw Kobus
Jesus Fernandez
Juhapekka Piiroinen
Jörg Bornemann
Kari Oikarinen
Kavindra Palaraja
Konstantin Podsvirov
Leena Miettinen
Lorenz Haas
Lukas Holecek
Marco Benelli
Marco Bubke
Mathias Hasselmann
Max Blagay
Michael Dönnebrink
Michal Steller
Montel Laurent
Nikita Baryshnikov
Nikolai Kosjar
Oleg Yadrov
Orgad Shaneh
Oswald Buddenhagen
Przemyslaw Gorszkowski
Robert Löhning
Serhii Moroz
Tasuku Suzuki
Thiago Macieira
Thomas Hartmann
Tim Jenssen
Tobias Hunger
Ulf Hermann
Vikas Pachdha