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Change-Id: I5f7a086d55aefd3db8990c5fcb8a585dedbb5808
Reviewed-by: Cristian Adam <cristian.adam@qt.io>
2022-11-24 12:00:06 +00:00

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Qt Creator 9

Qt Creator version 9 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/8.0..v9.0.0

General

  • Added change log browser Help > Change Log (Qt Creator > Change Log on macOS)
  • Added option for showing locator as a centered popup
  • Locator t filter
    • Added non-menu actions
    • Added fuzzy matching
  • Added Remove Folder to File System view (QTCREATORBUG-27331)
  • Fixed that clipboard was cleared on shutdown (QTCREATORBUG-28317)

Help

  • Added support for dark themes to Qt documentation (QTCREATORBUG-26557)
  • Fixed that Qt 6 documentation was shown for Qt 5 based projects (QTCREATORBUG-10331)

Editing

  • Added option for visualizing indentation (QTCREATORBUG-22756)
  • Added option for Tint whole margin area
  • Added option for line spacing (QTCREATORBUG-13727)
  • Added Create Cursors at Selected Line Ends
  • Added support for character encoding in binary/memory editor
  • Improved UI for multiple markers on the same line (QTCREATORBUG-27415)
  • Fixed performance issue with large selections
  • Fixed saving files with non-breaking spaces (QTCREATORBUG-17875)
  • Fixed Rewrap Paragraph for Doxygen comments (QTCREATORBUG-9739)
  • Fixed MIME type matching for generic highlighting with MIME type aliases
  • Fixed annotation painting when scrolling horizontally (QTCREATORBUG-28411)

C++

  • Moved code style editor from dialog directly into the preferences page
  • Added Show Preprocessed Source
  • Added Follow Symbol Under Cursor to Type
  • Added Follow Symbol for QRC files in string literals (QTCREATORBUG-28087)
  • Added option for returning only non-value types by const reference (QTCREATORBUG-25790)
  • Added option for using auto in Assign to Local Variable refactoring action (QTCREATORBUG-28099)
  • Fixed that selection was not considered for refactoring actions (QTCREATORBUG-27886)
  • Fixed generation of function definitions with unsigned (QTCREATORBUG-28378)
  • Fixed code style preview editor size (QTCREATORBUG-27267)
  • Clangd
    • Added option for using single Clangd instance for the whole session (QTCREATORBUG-26526)
    • Added option for indexing priority (--background-index-priority)
    • Added option for maximum number of completion results (default 100) (QTCREATORBUG-27152)
    • Added ", < and / to auto-completion triggers (QTCREATORBUG-28203)
    • Added option for document specific preprocessor directives (QTCREATORBUG-20423)
    • Fixed semantic highlighting for __func__
    • Fixed double items in outline after switching Clangd off and on (QTCREATORBUG-27594)
  • Built-in
    • Added support for structured bindings (QTCREATORBUG-27975)
    • Fixed that document specific preprocessor directives were not used after session load (QTCREATORBUG-22584)
  • ClangFormat
    • Moved settings back to top level preferences page
    • Updated formatting options (QTCREATORBUG-28263)
    • Fixed indentation of comments (QTCREATORBUG-25539)

Language Server Protocol

  • Improved performance for large documents
  • Fixed that server was not restarted after 5 times, even if a long time passed after the last time

QML

  • Fixed that Follow Symbol could open file from build directory (QTCREATORBUG-27173)
  • Fixed cursor position and breakpoints after reformatting (QTCREATORBUG-25218, QTCREATORBUG-28349)

Image Viewer

  • Made Fit to Screen sticky and added option for the default (QTCREATORBUG-27816)
  • Cleaned up tool bar (QTCREATORBUG-28309)

Diff Viewer

  • Fixed that calculating differences blocked Qt Creator
  • Fixed that description widget height was not persistent (QTCREATORBUG-24286)

Projects

  • Added option for hiding build system output with Show Right Sidebar (QTCREATORBUG-26069)
  • Fixed that opening terminal from build environment settings did not change directory to build directory
  • Fixed that local environment was used when inspecting GCC toolchain on remote
  • Fixed stopping terminal process (QTCREATORBUG-28365)
  • Fixed automatic popup of Issues (QTCREATORBUG-28330)

CMake

  • Moved settings from Kits and Build & Run into their own CMake category
  • Turned Package manager auto setup off by default
  • Added support for CMake configure and build presets, including conditions and toolchain files (QTCREATORBUG-24555) (Documentation, CMake Documentation)
  • Added option for changing environment for configure step
  • Added option for hiding subfolders in source groups (QTCREATORBUG-27432)
  • Added support for Build File also from header files (QTCREATORBUG-26164)
  • Fixed that PATH environment variable was not completely set up during first CMake run
  • Fixed issues with importing builds using Visual C++ generator

Qbs

  • Fixed that qbs.sysroot was not considered

Qmake

  • Added workaround for mkspecs that add compiler flags to QMAKE_CXX (QTCREATORBUG-28201)
  • Fixed unnecessary updates after project build (QTCREATORBUG-27785)

Python

  • Adapted to move of project tool to PySide6-Essentials package

Debugging

C++

  • Improved type name lookup performance for heavily templated code
  • Improved display performance for large array-like data (QTCREATORBUG-28111)
  • Added warning for missing QML debugging functionality for mobile and embedded devices
  • Fixed display of strings with characters more than 2 bytes long

QML

  • Fixed interrupting

Analyzer

Clang

  • Fixed error when analyzing non-desktop targets (QTCREATORBUG-25615)
  • Fixed wrong failure count display (QTCREATORBUG-27330)

Perf

  • Fixed wrong working directory (QTCREATORBUG-28462)

Version Control Systems

  • Fixed that --password argument was shown in plain text (QTCREATORBUG-28413)

Git

  • Added support for user-configured comment character (QTCREATORBUG-28042)
  • Improved matching of commit hashes (QTCREATORBUG-24768, QTCREATORBUG-28268)
  • Fixed adding or deleting files in nested directories (QTCREATORBUG-27644, QTCREATORBUG-27405)
  • Fixed that text encoding in project settings was not respected on diff (QTCREATORBUG-21794)

Test Integration

  • Added support for Squish (Documentation)
  • Catch 2
    • Fixed handling of exceptions (QTCREATORBUG-28131)
    • Fixed crash (QTCREATORBUG-28269)
    • Fixed handling of WARN, FAIL and INFO (QTCREATORBUG-28394)

Platforms

Windows

  • Improved detection of MinGW and LLVM ABI (QTCREATORBUG-26247)
  • Fixed wrong debugger when importing build (QTCREATORBUG-27758)
  • Fixed issues when drives are mapped (QTCREATORBUG-27869, QTCREATORBUG-28031)
  • Fixed that output could be missing for Qt based external tools (QTCREATORBUG-27828)
  • Fixed that Clink and other applications could increase startup time for toolchain detection (QTCREATORBUG-27906)
  • Fixed that running Qt Creator from a MSVC environment could interfere with MSVC auto-detection (QTCREATORBUG-28315)

macOS

  • Added auto-detection of ccache compilers from Homebrew (QTCREATORBUG-27792)
  • Fixed that theme partially switched between dark and light when system theme changed during runtime (QTCREATORBUG-28066)
  • Fixed wrong target being set for the code model for iOS kits (QTCREATORBUG-28278)
  • Fixed that Touch Bar contained Edit Bookmark instead of Toggle Bookmark (QTCREATORBUG-28108)
  • Fixed missing Search item in Help menu (QTCREATORBUG-24751)

Android

  • Fixed emulator operations when the deprecated SDK Tools is installed in addition to SDK Command-line Tools (QTCREATORBUG-28196)
  • Fixed debugging over WiFi (QTCREATORBUG-28342)
  • Worked around QML debugging not being enabled by default with NDK 24 and 25

iOS

  • Fixed determination of Qt version when debugging

Remote Linux

  • Enable usage as build device
  • Added option for SSH port to wizard
  • Added fallback for devices without base64
  • Added experimental support to user remote linux build devices (QTCREATORBUG-28242)

Boot to Qt

  • Fixed that rsync was not available for deployment (QTCREATORBUG-24731)
  • Fixed default deployment method

Docker

  • Added option for docker command
  • Added detection of Python
  • Added option to auto-detect in PATH plus additional directories
  • Added option for overwriting ENTRYPOINT of docker container
  • Added automatic mounting of source and build directory before building
  • Improved device wizard
    • Added sorting of images
    • Added option to hide images without tag
    • Added double-click for selecting image
  • Fixed Browse button for build directory for remote directories
  • Fixed interrupting and pausing of GDB
  • Fixed running ctest on device
  • Fixed mounting paths with spaces or colons
  • Fixed opening remote text files without extension

Credits for these changes go to:

Aaron Barany
Adam Sowa
Alessandro Portale
Alexander Akulich
Alexander Drozdov
André Pönitz
Ari Parkkila
Artem Sokolovskii
Assam Boudjelthia
Björn Schäpers
Christiaan Janssen
Christian Kandeler
Christian Stenger
Cristian Adam
Daniele Bortolotti
David Schulz
Eike Ziller
Fawzi Mohamed
Florian Koch
Henning Gruendl
Jaroslaw Kobus
Kwangsub Kim
Leena Miettinen
Lucie Gérard
Marc Mutz
Marco Bubke
Marcus Tillmanns
Miikka Heikkinen
Orgad Shaneh
Piotr Mućko
Rainer Keller
Robert Löhning
Sergey Levin
Sivert Krøvel
Tasuku Suzuki
Thiago Macieira
Thomas Hartmann
Tim Jenssen
Ulf Hermann
Yasser Grimes