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

[Kai Koehne]

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,
> 
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> 
> 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'
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> 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).
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> 
> Please make sure
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> - All new modules for Qt 5.8 are in 'dev' & part of qt5.git
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> - All mandatory new features are in 'dev' now or coming in within a week?
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> - New feature page contains all new features etc:
> https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.8
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> 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.
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> 
> br,
> 
> Jani
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> Jani Heikkinen
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