[Releasing] Qt 4.6.5 and 4.7.6 release candidates available

[Salovaara Akseli]

Hi,

With most of the buzz naturally around Qt 5 it is good to remember that our users are still with Qt 4 and many have not yet even migrated to 4.8.

We have already changed the copyrights in gitorious, but also wanted to create binary installers for latest 4.x releases to reflect the change from Nokia to Digia. In addition there are some important security fixes done after the last 4.6 and 4.7 version and we wanted to include these as well.

We have created Qt 4.6.5 and 4.7.6 release candidates that bring the following changes over the previous ones in their series:

4.6.5:
    - Disable SSL compression by default.
    - Fix binary incompatibility between openssl versions
    - Change copyrights from Nokia to Digia

4.7.6:
    - Disable SSL compression by default.
    - Make the rules for redirects a bit stricter.
    - Fix binary incompatibility between openssl versions.
    - Change copyrights from Nokia to Digia

We do not want to add other than important security fixes and mandatory copyright changes in order not to cause regressions.

The release candidates are available at  http://releases.qt-project.org/digia/4.6.5_RC/  and http://releases.qt-project.org/digia/4.7.6_RC/
(if problems with files visibility try http://origin.releases.qt-project.org/digia/4.6.5_RC/ and http://origin.releases.qt-project.org/digia/4.7.6_RC/ )

You can check the release content from https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commits/4.6-digia and https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commits/4.7-digia

Please have a look and tell if you find any issues. We hope to have the official release done early January if these release candidates are found good.

Br,
Akseli

Software Specialist
Digia, Qt
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