PyQt 4.10.1 - Changelog

What's new in PyQt 4.9.6:

December 10th, 2012

· The focus of this release is on support for Qt v4.8.4 and v5.0.0-rc1.

What's new in PyQt 4.9.5:

October 1st, 2012

· The focus of this release is on support for Qt v4.8.3 and v5.0.0-beta1.

What's new in PyQt 4.9.1:

February 11th, 2012

· This is mainly a bug fix release.

What's new in PyQt 4.9:

December 23rd, 2011

· This version adds support for Qt 4.8.0 and adds a QtDBus module.

What's new in PyQt 4.8.6:

October 31st, 2011

· A minor bug fix release.

What's new in PyQt 4.8.4:

May 2nd, 2011

· Added support for Qt v4.7.2.
· QObject.findChild() and QObject.findChildren() now allow a tuple of type objects as well as a single type argument so that children of a number of types may be found.
· Added support for QCommonStyle.
· Added limited support for setEventFilter() and filterEvent() to QAbstractEventDispatcher.
· Added support for setAttributeArray() to QGLShaderProgram.
· pyrcc4 will now compress by default to match the behaviour of rcc.
· Removed QTouchEventSequence as its C++ API makes it impossible to be used from Python.

What's new in PyQt 4.8.2:

December 27th, 2010

· This is a minor bug-fix release.

What's new in PyQt 4.7.5:

September 1st, 2010

· added QStringRef.__str__() and QStringRef.__unicode__() to the QString v1 API
· the destruction by Qt of internally constructed QObject instances is now automatically detected
· a signal defined with pyqtSignal() can now be used with methods that make an internal call to QObject::connect(), e.g. QTimer.singleShot()
· added the --from-imports command line argument to pyuic4 and the from_imports argument to PyQt4.uic.compileUi()
· added support for Python v3.2
· the Windows installers now include qcollectiongenerator.exe and qhelpgenerator.exe.

What's new in PyQt 4.7.4:

July 13th, 2010

· any class with a count() method now supports the len() builtin
· added the missing == and != operators to QItemSelection
· added readQVariantHash(), readQVariantList(), readQVariantMap, writeQVariantHash(), writeQVariantList() and writeQVariantMap() to QDataStream
· added the ErrorPageExtensionOption and ErrorPageExtensionReturn classes, and the ErrorDomain enum to QWebPage.

What's new in PyQt 4.7.2:

March 18th, 2010

· This is primarily a bug-fix release.

What's new in PyQt 4.7:

January 21st, 2010

· Qt v4.6 is fully supported.
· Added the QtMultimedia module.
· Added keyword support for optional arguments.
· Added docstrings for all classes, functions and methods that describe the Python signatures of all callables.
· Any Python object that can be pickled can now be automatically written to and read from QSettings.
· A QHostAddress.SpecialAddress can be used whenever a QHostAddress is expected.
· Added the optional initialFilter argument to the QFileDialog.get*AndFilter() functions.
· Added the readInt(), readQString(), readQStringList(), readQVariant(), writeInt(), writeQString(), writeQStringList() and writeQVariant() methods to QDataStream.
· Added widgetPluginPath to the uic module to specify the directories that are searched for widget plugins.
· Added the anchorlayout.py, animatedtiles.py, appchooser.py, easing.py, lighting.py, moveblocks.py, states.py and stickman.py examples.
· Significantly reduced the size of the modules on Linux and MacOS/X.
· Added support for configuring and building outside of the source tree (for standard builds).

What's new in PyQt 4.6.1:

October 24th, 2009

· This is primarily a bug-fix release.

What's new in PyQt 4.6:

September 27th, 2009

· Alternate, more Pythonic, APIs have been defined for QDate, QDateTime, QString, QTextStream, QTime, QUrl and QVariant. Applications may select a particular API. By default Python v3 uses the new versions and Python v2 uses the old versions.

· Qt properties can be initialised and signals connected using keyword arguments passed when creating an instance, and updated using the QObject.pyqtConfigure() method.

What's new in PyQt 4.4.4:

November 18th, 2008

· This release includes minor enhancements to the QVariant support, and adds the data() method to the QPolygon, QPolygonF, and QXmlAttributes classes.