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<p>Qt 5.2 introduces many changes for helping developers continue creating wonderful applications, easily and with less code. As well in this release, focus is placed on bug fixing and new features, while maintaining compatibility with Qt 5.1 and 5.0.</p>
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<li>Qt Android Extras</li>
<li><a href="../qtbluetooth/qtbluetooth-index.html">Qt Bluetooth</a></li>
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<li><a href="../qtnfc/qtnfc-index.html">Qt NFC</a></li>
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<h3 >Android</h3>
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<li>Full support for camera and recording</li>
<li>Low-latency audio (<a href="../qtmultimedia/qaudioinput.html">QAudioInput</a>, <a href="../qtmultimedia/qaudiooutput.html">QAudioOutput</a>)</li>
<li>Command-line deployment tool</li>
<li>JNI convenience API</li>
<li>OpenSSL support</li>
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<li>Media player support</li>
<li>Basic camera support (only viewfinder and image capture)</li>
<li>Low-latency audio (<a href="../qtmultimedia/qaudioinput.html">QAudioInput</a>, <a href="../qtmultimedia/qaudiooutput.html">QAudioOutput</a>)</li>
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<h2 id="qt-creator-updates">Qt Creator Updates</h2>
<p>Qt Creator 3.0 is released along with Qt 5.2. In Qt Creator 3.0, the following were added:</p>
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<li>Initial iOS support</li>
<li>API cleanup</li>
<li>Enhanced Android support</li>
<li>Initial debugging backend for the <a href="http://lldb.llvm.org/">LLDB Debugger</a> (OS X)</li>
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<li>Qt for Android ARMv5</li>
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<li>Restored session-management support from Qt4</li>
<li>Restored basic startup-notification support on Unix</li>
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<h3 >Qt Print Support Module</h3>
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<li>Added advanced CUPS features on Linux including server-side page range selection, odd and even page selection, pages-per-sheet, job scheduling, and banner pages.</li>
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<h3 >Qt QML Module</h3>
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<li>Added new property to <a href="../qtqml/qml-qtqml-qt.html#application-prop">Qt.application</a>: state</li>
<li>Added ability to define QML singletons with QML files</li>
<li>Added <a href="../qtqml/qqmlfileselector.html">QQmlFileSelector</a> for applying file selectors to support certain styles of cross-platform development</li>
<li>Added a supported method for launching QML-only applications for the QML binary runtimes</li>
<li>New V4 JS engine</li>
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<h3 >Qt Quick Module</h3>
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<li>Added a new <a href="topics-graphics.html#qt-quick-scene-graph">scenegraph</a> renderer for improved performance</li>
<li>Added texture atlas support in SceneGraph</li>
<li>Added new <i>animator</i> types, which can run animations on the scene graph's render thread.</li>
<li>Support for external drag-and-drop</li>
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<h3 >Qt Quick Controls Module</h3>
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<li>Added support for an editable combo box</li>
<li>Added support for multi-selection in <a href="../qtquickcontrols/qml-qtquick-controls-tableview.html">TableView</a></li>
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<li>Added <a href="../qtquickcontrols/qml-qtquick-controls-busyindicator.html">BusyIndicator</a> type</li>
<li>Simplified deployment</li>
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<h3 >Qt Quick Dialogs Module</h3>
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<li>Added a new <a href="../qtquickdialogs/qml-qtquick-dialogs-fontdialog.html">FontDialog</a> type</li>
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<h3 >Qt Quick Layouts Module</h3>
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<li>Added baseline support to layout</li>
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<h3 >Qt Network Module</h3>
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<li>Added public methods to pre-TCP and pre-SSL-connect to <a href="../qtnetwork/qnetworkaccessmanager.html">QNetworkAccessManager</a></li>
<li>Added API to persist and resume SSL sessions to <a href="../qtnetwork/qsslconfiguration.html">QSslConfiguration</a></li>
<li>Added support for allowing for debugging SSL traffic with Wireshark or tcpdump</li>
<li>Add public member bearerTypeFamily() to <a href="../qtnetwork/qnetworkconfiguration.html">QNetworkConfiguration</a></li>
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<h3 >moc New Features</h3>
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<li>Added <code>-M</code> argument to add plugin metadata from the command line</li>
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<h3 >Accessibility New Features</h3>
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<li>Enabled accessibility on Mac</li>
<li>Made the APIs public so that it is possible to implement accessibility for custom widgets</li>
<li>Basic accessibility support for Android</li>
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<h3 >WebKit New Features</h3>
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<li>Added CSS blending</li>
<li>Improved the threaded garbage collection</li>
<li>Added support for LLInt on x87 (old x86 without SSE2)</li>
<li>Added Improvements to standard support in HTML5 Canvas, CSS Grid, CSS Shapes, CSS filters, and other features</li>
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