qt-creator/dist/changes-4.1.0.md

Qt Creator version 4.1 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/4.0..v4.1.0

General

• Added Flat Dark and Flat Light themes
• Added Ctrl+N and Ctrl+P shortcuts for navigating in locator
• Added experimental support for Nim programming language

Editing

• Added automatic release of resources for unmodified documents that have not been visible recently (QTCREATORBUG-10016)
• Added separate options for automatically inserted characters
• Added highlighting of automatically inserted characters
• Added option for skipping automatically inserted character, and changed it to be done only if the cursor stays before the character
• Added Modnokai Night Shift v2, Qt Creator Dark, Solarized Dark and Solarized Light editor schemes
• Fixed that replacing could change selection (QTCREATORBUG-15623)
• Fixed opening bookmarks in external editor window (QTCREATORBUG-16524)

Help

• Fixed default fallback font on Linux
• Fixed crash when removing multiple documentation sets (QTCREATORBUG-16747)

All Projects

• Improved feedback when building results in errors, because of issues with kits (QTCREATORBUG-16079)
• Fixed issue with building in paths with non-ASCII characters (QTCREATORBUG-15855)
• Fixed that %{buildDir} and %{sourceDir} stopped working in run configurations (QTCREATORBUG-16338)
• Fixed that CurrentProject: variables were sometimes not resolved from the appropriate project (QTCREATORBUG-16724)

QMake Projects

• Added Duplicate File to context menu in project tree (QTCREATORBUG-15952)
• Added QtWebEngine to modules list
• Changed Run Qmake from qmake -r to qmake && make qmake_all for Qt 5
• Fixed renaming files used in QRC files (QTCREATORBUG-15786)

CMake Projects

• Improved parsing of errors
• Added workaround for CMake issue that include paths are in random order (QTCREATORBUG-16432)
• Added option for disabling automatic running of CMake to Build & Run > CMake (QTCREATORBUG-15934)
• Fixed that CMake was automatically run even if Qt Creator application is not in foreground (QTCREATORBUG-16354)
• QML_IMPORT_PATH can now be set in CMakeLists.txt files. This information will be passed on to QmlJS code model (QTCREATORBUG-11328) Example CMakeLists.txt code:
  set(QML_IMPORT_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/qml ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/imports CACHE string "" FORCE)
• Fixed crash when re-opening project
• Fixed that CMakeLists.txt file was not shown for projects with errors

Qbs Projects

• Added support for qtcRunnable property, similar to qtc_runnable for Qmake projects

C++ Support

• Added separate highlighting for function declarations and usages (QTCREATORBUG-15564)
• Added highlighting option for global variables
• Added coding style option for preferring getters with get
• Fixed parsing of -std=gnu++XX option (QTCREATORBUG-16290)
• Fixed refactoring of methods with ref-qualifier

QML Support

• Added formal parameters of JavaScript functions to outline and locator

Debugging

• Added support for copying selected values from Locals and Expressions (QTCREATORBUG-14956)
• Fixed jumping to address in binary editor (QTCREATORBUG-11064)
• Fixed environment for Start and Debug External Application (QTCREATORBUG-16746)
• GDB
  • Fixed that qint8 values where shown as unsigned values (QTCREATORBUG-16353)

QML Profiler

• Improved progress information
• Improved performance when many events are involved

Clang Static Analyzer

• Fixed that built-in headers were not found

Qt Quick Designer

• Added support for Qt Quick Controls 2 styles
• Added Move to Component action
• Added Add New Signal Handler action
• Added support of Qt Creator themes in the Designer UI
• Improved performance
• Improved error dialog (QTCREATORBUG-15772)
• Fixed crumble bar for component navigation
• Fixed that Connections was not allowed in .ui.qml files
• Fixed crashes with spaces in properties (QTCREATORBUG-16059)
• Fixed that child items of State were rendered (QTCREATORBUG-13003)

Version Control Systems

• Git
  • Added date and time information to branch dialog
  • Added support for running git blame only on selected lines (QTCREATORBUG-16055)
  • Fixed that branch dialog suggested existing branch name for new branch (QTCREATORBUG-16264)
• SVN
  • Added conflicted files to file list in submit editor

Test Integration

• Fixed that test case summary stayed visible even if no entries matched the applied filter
• Fixed parsing of failure location for Google Test on Windows

FakeVim

• Added expansion of ~ in file names (QTCREATORBUG-11160)

Model Editor

• Added zooming of diagrams

Beautifier

• Added option to automatically format files on save
• Uncrustify
  • Fixed issues with non-C++ files (QTCREATORBUG-15575)

Platform Specific

Windows

• Added detection of MSVC amd64_x86 toolchain

macOS

• Fixed include search order with frameworks (QTCREATORBUG-11599)

Remote Linux

• Added support for TCP/IP forward tunneling with SSH

iOS

• Added human readable error messages (QTCREATORBUG-16328)
• Fixed that deployment could fail if device and host are in same WiFi network (QTCREATORBUG-16061)

Credits for these changes go to:
Albert Astals Cid
Alessandro Portale
Alexander Drozdov
Alexandru Croitor
Andre Hartmann
André Pönitz
Antoine Poliakov
Anton Kudryavtsev
Arnold Dumas
BogDan Vatra
Brett Stottlemyer
Christian Kandeler
Christian Stenger
Cristian Adam
David Schulz
Dmitry Ashkadov
Eike Ziller
Erik Verbrüggen
Filippo Cucchetto
Finn Brudal
Georger Araújo
Jake Petroules
Jaroslaw Kobus
Jean Gressmann
Jochen Becher
Lars Knoll
Leena Miettinen
Lorenz Haas
Lukas Holecek
Marc Mutz
Marc Reilly
Marco Benelli
Marco Bubke
Mashrab Kuvatov
Mat Sutcliffe
Maurice Kalinowski
Nazar Gerasymchuk
Nikita Baryshnikov
Nikolai Kosjar
Orgad Shaneh
Oswald Buddenhagen
Philip Lorenz
Robert Löhning
Serhii Moroz
Shinnok
Takumi ASAKI
Thiago Macieira
Thomas Hartmann
Tim Jenssen
Tobias Hunger
Ulf Hermann
Unai IRIGOYEN
Victor Heng
Vikas Pachdha
Vlad Seryakov
Wolfgang Bremer