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<h3 >Qt Core Module</h3>
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<li>Added at(), operator[], mid(), <a href="../qtcore/qtextstream.html#right">right</a>(), and <a href="../qtcore/qtextstream.html#left">left</a>() functions to <a href="../qtcore/qlatin1string.html">QLatin1String</a>.</li>
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<li>Added support for dithering when converting to all <a href="../qtgui/qimage.html">QImage</a> formats.</li>
<li>Made the <a href="../qtgui/qopengltextureblitter.html">QOpenGLTextureBlitter</a> API public; used particularly in Qt Wayland.</li>
<li>Added <a href="../qtgui/qfontmetrics.html#capHeight">capHeight()</a> to <a href="../qtgui/qfontmetrics.html">QFontMetrics</a>, <a href="../qtgui/qfontmetricsf.html">QFontMetricsF</a>, and <a href="../qtgui/qrawfont.html">QRawFont</a>.</li>
<li>Added selection handles on Android, with an edit menu for copy and paste.</li>
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<h3 >Qt Quick Module</h3>
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<li>Refactored the Qt Quick scene graph to remove its OpenGL dependency, enabling backends based on other graphics APIs such as Vulkan or Direct3D.</li>
<li>Integrated the software renderer (previously known as the Qt Quick 2D Renderer) for Qt Quick as a proper scene graph backend.</li>
<li>Implemented support for partial updates in the software renderer.</li>
<li>Added an experimental Direct3D 12 backend.</li>
<li>Implemented caching of code and data structures generated from <code>.qml</code> and <code>.js</code> files to disk, reducing start-up time and memory consumption. The resulting <code>.qmlc</code> and <code>.jsc</code> cache files are memory mapped.</li>
<li>Cleaned up touch and mouse event delivery, and added a new internal class <code>QQuickPointerEvent</code> for this purpose.</li>
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<h3 >Qt Quick Controls 2 Module</h3>
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<li>Added ripple effects to the Material style.</li>
<li>Added hover effects to Material and Universal styles</li>
<li>Added a <i>System</i> theme to Material and Universal styles</li>
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<li>Based on Chromium 53.</li>
<li>Updated requirements to MSVC 2015 Update 2 or later on Windows.</li>
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<li>QML: Enabled the use of custom dialogs and context menus.</li>
<li>QML: on eglfs, took the built-in dialogs based on Qt Quick Controls 2 into use.</li>
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<li>Added a setting to enable printing of CSS backgrounds.</li>
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<li>Added <a href="../qtmultimedia/qaudio.html#convertVolume">QAudio::convertVolume</a>() and a matching QML method to convert audio volumes from one scale to another; for example, from logarithmic to linear scale.</li>
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<h3 >Qt 3D Module</h3>
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<li>Focused on maturation: Bug fixes, improving performance and test coverage.</li>
<li>Added a <i>paint to texture</i> feature using <a href="../qtgui/qpainter.html">QPainter</a>.</li>
<li>Added optional support for issuing commands to Qt3D aspects (for example, from a profiler).</li>
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<h3 >Embedded Platforms</h3>
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<li>Enhanced multi-screen capabilities and configurability with eglfs when running on KMS/DRM, both with GBM and EGLDevice/Stream.</li>
<li>Added support for 90 and 180 degrees rotation of software-rendered content (<a href="../qtwidgets/qwidget.html">QWidget</a>) in eglfs.</li>
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<h3 >Configurability (Qt Lite Project)</h3>
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<li>Qt 5.8 comes with a rewritten configuration system that allows for easy customization of Qt builds. The main focus of this feature is for the Device Creation, but it can also be used to tailor a Qt build for mobile or desktop platforms. The new configuration system allows removing individual pieces of functionality and APIs from Qt, creating a more lightweight set of libraries for deployment.</li>
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<li>Provides a framework to develop a Wayland compositor.</li>
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<li>Qt SCXML<ul>
<li>Enables static and runtime integration of SCXML models into Qt code.</li>
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<li>Qt Serial Bus<ul>
<li>Provides access to various industrial serial buses and protocols, such as CAN and ModBus.</li>
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<li>Qt Gamepad<ul>
<li>Enables Qt gaming applications to respond to gamepad input.</li>
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<li>Qt Speech<ul>
<li>Text to speech and speech recognition functionality. Currently only the text to speech features are released. Includes backends for several speech synthesizers on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android.</li>
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<li>Qt Network Authorization<ul>
<li>Online authorization support with OAuth protocol, versions 1 and 2.</li>
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<li>Qt Script</li>
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