[Development] Qt 4.8.6 Release Plans

[Sorvig Morten]

On 02 Nov 2013, at 17:58, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

> On quarta-feira, 30 de outubro de 2013 07:29:56, Turunen Tuukka wrote:
>> We should have the applications made with Qt 4.8.5 on Mac OS 10.7 (for
>> example) working in 10.9 without serious issues. And we should be able to
>> agree together what is a serious enough issue to take the risk with 5.2
>> getting delayed due to making of 4.8.6. One option is to make a patch
>> available and ask users to build themselves.
> 
> I'm getting complaints from our Subsurface devs on Mac that 4.8.5 is utterly 
> broken there.
> 
> Does anyone know what patches have already been applied to 4.8.6 that are 
> needed for Mavericks support? What the outstanding issues are, if any?

We have a couple of patches in flight:

Applied:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,69325 (corewlan compile fix)

Pending:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,69327 (colorspace related performance regression, Shawn is handling this one)
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,69328 (Webkit compile fix - help needed by webkit expert)
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,70097 (Correct system font)
QTBUG-34107 (qfiledialog sandboxing issue) (Qt 5 patch: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,70382)

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