qt-creator/dist/changes-3.5.0.md

Qt Creator version 3.5 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/3.4..origin/3.5

General

• Increased minimum requirements for compilation of Qt Creator to MSVC 2013 and GCC 4.7, and Qt 5.4.0
• Added variants with native separators to Qt Creator variables that represent file paths
• Changed the way inconsistent enabled states were handled by the plugin manager. Disabling plugins is now only a hint; if another (enabled) plugin needs it, it is implicitly enabled. Before, the other plugin was implicitly disabled.
• Improved keyboard shortcut settings. Made shortcut input field freely editable and added separate record button.
• Added support for ~ as shortcut for user's home directory to path input fields
• Added filtering to About Plugins
• Added -load all and -noload all command line options that enable and disable all plugins respectively
• Made -load command line option implicitly enable all required plugins, and -noload disable all plugins requiring the disabled plugin. Multiple -load and -noload options are interpreted in the order given on the command line.
• Fixed issues with raising the Qt Creator window on Gnome desktop (QTCREATORBUG-13845)
• Fixed appearance on high DPI displays on Windows (QTCREATORBUG-11179)
• Added locator filter for running external tools

Editing

• Added highlighting of search results to editor scroll bar
• Added option to jump directly to specific column in addition to line number when opening files through locator or command line
• Added Remove missing files action to QRC editor (QTCREATORBUG-13941)
• Made global file search use multiple threads (QTCREATORBUG-10298)
• Fixed highlighting of current line in read-only text editors (QTCREATORBUG-10104)
• Fixed issues with completion while inserting snippet (QTCREATORBUG-14633)

Project Management

• Fixed issues with restoring project tree state (QTCREATORBUG-14304)
• Fixed crash when application output contains incomplete control sequence (QTCREATORBUG-14720)

CMake Projects

• Made it possible to register multiple CMake executables
• Added support for file targets when explicitly specified in the generated CodeBlocks file
• Fixed default shadow build directory name

Generic Projects

• Fixed that resource links were removed from UI files (QTCREATORBUG-14275)

QML-Only Projects (.qmlproject)

• Re-enabled the plugin by default

Autotools Projects

• Improved parsing of CPPFLAGS
• Added support for line continuations
• Added support for top_srcdir, abs_top_srcdir, top_builddir and abs_top_builddir

Debugging

• Added dumper for QJsonValue, QJsonObject, QJsonArray, QUuid
• Added basic support for GDB's fork-follows-child
• Improved support for GDB 7.9 and LLDB 3.7
• Fixed display of QHash keys with value 0 (QTCREATORBUG-14451)
• Fixed variable expansion state in QML debugger
• Fixed display of members of returned values
• Fixed that items in Locals and Expressions did not expand on first click for QML (QTCREATORBUG-14210)

QML Profiler

• Removed support for V8
• Made saving and loading trace data asynchronous to avoid locking up UI (QTCREATORBUG-11822)

C++ Support

• Added separate icon for structs
• Added support for setting the access specifier of an extracted function (QTCREATORBUG-12127)
• Moved Clang code model backend out-of-process
• Fixed Convert to Stack Variable refactoring action for empty initializer lists (QTCREATORBUG-14279)
• Fixed misplaced newlines of refactoring actions (QTCREATORBUG-13872)
• Fixed expanding items in class view with double-click (QTCREATORBUG-2536)
• Fixed code folding issues after missing closing braces
• Fixed resolving of decltype (QTCREATORBUG-14483)
• Fixed resolving of template using alias For example: template<class T> using U = Temp<T> (QTCREATORBUG-14480)
• Fixed some issues related to template lookup (QTCREATORBUG-14141, QTCREATORBUG-14218, QTCREATORBUG-14237)
• Fixed resolving of partial and full template specialization (QTCREATORBUG-14034)
• Partially fixed STL containers (QTCREATORBUG-8937, QTCREATORBUG-8922)
  • GCC implementation of std::map, std::unique_ptr (and other pointer wrappers) and std::vector are known to work
  • MSVC implementation is not supported
• Fixed that highlighting vanished after text zoom (QTCREATORBUG-14579)
• Fixed issues with completion while renaming local variable (QTCREATORBUG-14633)

QML Support

• Removed Qt Quick 1 wizards
• Fixed missing auto-completion for QtQuick and QtQuick.Controls (QTCREATORBUG-14563)

Qt Quick Designer

• Removed Qt Quick 1 support

Version Control Systems

• Perforce
  • Added support for P4CONFIG (QTCREATORBUG-14378)

FakeVim

• Added support for C-r{register}
• Added support for remapping shortcuts

Todo

• Added option to exclude file patterns from parsing

Beautifier

• Added option to format only selected lines with Uncrustify (--frag)

Platform Specific

Windows

• Fixed that Qt Creator could freeze while user application is running (QTCREATORBUG-14676)

OS X

• Added locator filter that uses Spotlight for locating files

Linux

• Fixed performance issue with journal support (QTCREATORBUG-14356)

Android

• Made it possible to create AVD without SD card (QTCREATORBUG-13590)
• Improved handling of invalid names when creating AVD (QTCREATORBUG-13589)
• Added 5.1 to known versions
• Added warning if emulator is not OpenGL enabled (QTCREATORBUG-13615)
• Added input field for activity name in Android manifest editor (QTCREATORBUG-13958)
• Fixed issues with Android M (QTCREATORBUG-14537, QTCREATORBUG-14534)
• Fixed issues with 64 bit
• Fixed handling of external file changes in Android manifest editor
• Fixed listing of Google AVDs (QTCREATORBUG-13980)
• Fixed that kits were removed from projects when changing NDK path (QTCREATORBUG-14243)
• Fixed copying application data with spaces in path (QTCREATORBUG-13868)
• Fixed that sometimes the wrong AVD was deployed to (QTCREATORBUG-13095)

BlackBerry

• Removed support for BlackBerry 10 development

Remote Linux

• Added support for ECDH key exchange for SSH connections (QTCREATORBUG-14025)

BareMetal

• Fixed processing of additional OpenOCD arguments

Credits for these changes go to:
Alessandro Portale
André Pönitz
Alexander Drozdov
Alexander Izmailov
Arnold Dumas
Benjamin Zeller
BogDan Vatra
Christian Kandeler
Christian Stenger
Cristian Adam
Daniel Teske
David Schulz
Denis Kormalev
Eike Ziller
Erik Verbruggen
Finn Brudal
Friedemann Kleint
Hugues Delorme
Jack Andersen
Jarek Kobus
Jochen Becher
Jörg Bornemann
Johannes Lorenz
Kai Köhne
Knut Petter Svendsen
Kudryavtsev Alexander
Leena Miettinen
Libor Tomsik
Lorenz Haas
Lukas Holecek
Marcel Krems
Marco Benelli
Marco Bubke
Montel Laurent
Nikita Baryshnikov
Nikita Kniazev
Nikolai Kosjar
Olivier Goffart
Orgad Shaneh
Ray Donnelly
Robert Löhning
Stanislav Ionascu
Sune Vuorela
Takumi ASAKI
Tasuku Suzuki
Thiago Macieira
Thomas Hartmann
Thorben Kroeger
Tim Jenssen
Tobias Hunger
Ulf Hermann