From 70235cb45cd8a80ca106c8a9940f9bb53f6fdca6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dirk Hohndel Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 13:02:11 -0700 Subject: Getting ready for Beta 5 Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel --- README | 23 +++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 48942f3cd..d61d0c065 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,11 +1,22 @@ -This is the README file for Subsurface 4.1.93, the fourth Beta for 4.2 +This is the README file for Subsurface 4.1.94, the fifth Beta for 4.2 -We made one more Beta available in order to improve the print subsystem - -in our testing this improved things quite a bit for most situations, but -we are still eager to get feedback on where things go badly. -Also, Beta 4 includes many updates to the translations plus a bunch of -fixes for the HTML export. +It turns out a number of problems were caused by us still relying on Qt4 +for the Windows (and Mac) binaries. In part that was because Qt5 32bit +installer for Windows were failing in strange ways. + +To work around this issues we made a rather drastic decision - there's now +a 64bit Windows installer that includes Qt5 (and the Mac binaries have +been moved over to Qt5 as well). + +While redoing the supporting cast we also switched to a newer Marble build +and a newer libdivecomputer for the Mac and Windows installers. + +This (plus a bunch of patches) seems to have fixed a respectable number of +bugs in Beta 4. Let's see how Beta 5 goes... + +Another new feature is a Russian translation of the manual, in addition to +English and Spanish. Please be very careful when using it on your real data - while this is reasonably well tested by our developers, there's always a risk that this -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2