[Releasing] Qt 4.8.6 Release Candidate 2 available

[Salovaara Akseli]

Hi,

Qt 4.8.6 Release Candidate 2 packages are available at http://download.qt-project.org/development_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.6-rc2/ 
Sha1 frozen to 343df131f7207d65932c6505769aa2fb7fc04713 "Avoid out of bounds memory reads when scaling images".

Diff compared to rc1:
  343df131f7207d65932c6505769aa2fb7fc04713 Avoid out of bounds memory reads when scaling images
  565f5236c6c72effa914ae0537a1fb2b0de1027c Doc: Mention that MINGWM10.DLL only applies to MinGW 4.4
  8b6eff876ff8fb0ed041b18d6cf32626804cf891 Fix link to Tier 2 mingw-builds version
  b95750a275a71fe3c344e562e897648b13670c80 Assistant: Set the url on created QNetworkReply objects.

If blocker issues for Qt 4.8.6 release found please report those to bugreports.qt-project.org and raise issue also on releasing at qt-project.org before 17th of April.

Br,
Akseli

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Salovaara Akseli
> Sent: 31. maaliskuuta 2014 20:08
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Cc: releasing at qt-project.org
> Subject: Qt 4.8.6 Release Candidate available
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Qt 4.8.6 Release Candidate packages are available at http://download.qt-
> project.org/development_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.6-rc1/
> Sha1 for Qt 4.8.6 is now considered frozen so please test these packages
> accordingly. These packages are built against sha1
> 215a78618b185a71f660201c902da51360d8c30d "Pass events to
> QGestureManager from the main (GUI) thread only".  Current version of
> changes file is available at http://download.qt-
> project.org/development_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.6-rc1/changes-4.8.6-rc1
> 
> There has been quite many recommendations on mailing list and\or via IRC
> about bug fixes that should be part of Qt 4.8.6. Thank you all from those as
> well the patches you have made available. Unfortunately not all of the items
> are included to Qt 4.8.6 but this is not the last Qt 4.8 release. The initial plan
> is to release next Qt 4.8.7 patch release already during second half of 2014.
> 
> If blocker issues for Qt 4.8.6 release are found please report those to
> bugreports.qt-project.org and raise issue also on releasing at qt-project.org
> before Monday 7th of April.
> 
> Br,
> Akseli
> --
> Akseli Salovaara
> Digia, Qt