[Development] [Releasing] HEADS-UP: Branching from 'dev' to '5.8' ongoing, Qt 5.8 Feature Freeze coming...

[Alexander Nassian]

May I kindly ask why PDF shall now be disabled on embedded systems?

Best regards,
Alexander Nassian

> Am 12.08.2016 um 15:03 schrieb Kai Koehne <Kai.Koehne at qt.io>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Unfortunately, we're having great difficulties to get patches integrated into Qt WebEngine in the last days, right now due to qtlocation not compiling (QTBUG-55229). Unless the situation resolves itself over the weekend, I'd like to ask for an exception for getting features into 5.8 for Qt WebEngine even after Monday morning.
> 
> The features still waiting to get merged are
> Printing: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/162928/ and following
> Printing of CSS backgrounds: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/167484/
> Support for certificate transparency: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/167275/
> Support for custom QML context menu/ dialogs: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/162263/, https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/165731/
> Support for Qt Quick 2 Controls dialogs: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/162262/
> 
> Regards
> 
> Kai
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Releasing [mailto:releasing-bounces+kai.koehne=qt.io at qt-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Jani Heikkinen
>> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2016 12:58 PM
>> To: development at qt-project.org
>> Cc: releasing at qt-project.org
>> Subject: [Releasing] HEADS-UP: Branching from 'dev' to '5.8' ongoing, Qt 5.8
>> Feature Freeze coming...
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Qt5.git integration in 'dev' succeed during the weekend and we have soft
>> branched '5.8' from 'dev'. It means Qt 5.8 Feature Freeze will be effect 15th
>> August 2016 as well as final branching from 'dev' to '5.8'
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> So please start using '5.8' for changes targeted to Qt 5.8 release and finalize
>> ongoing ones in 'dev'. Final downmerge from 'dev' to '5.8' will happen
>> Monday 15th Aug (morning).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Please make sure
>> 
>> 
>> - All new modules for Qt 5.8 are in 'dev' & part of qt5.git
>> 
>> 
>> - All mandatory new features are in 'dev' now or coming in within a week?
>> 
>> 
>> - New feature page contains all new features etc:
>> https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.8
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We will create first src packages from latest qt5.git integration as soon as
>> possible. Please check the packages immediately when available to see if
>> something important is missing. Those packages should be quite close to Qt
>> 5.8 alpha packages so it will be really important to check the packages now.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> br,
>> 
>> Jani
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Jani Heikkinen
>> Release Manager
>> 
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