The QtCreator 2.1 release contains bug fixes and new features.

Below is a list of relevant changes. You can find a complete list of changes

within the logs of Qt Creator sources. Simply check it out from the public git

repository. For example:

git clone git://gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator.git

git log --cherry-pick --pretty=oneline v2.1.0...v2.0.1

General

   * Made search result panel searchable

Editing

   * Generic highlighter:

     http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/09/16/generic-highlighter-in-qt-creator/

C++ Support

   * Added semantic highlighting of types, virtual methods, locals, statics and

     member variables (only enabled when running against Qt 4.7.1 and up, for

     performance reasons)

   * Add new indenter along with a new option to control alignment indents

   * Add new %FILENAME%, %CLASS% placeholders to license template

   * Added searching for symbols that match a pattern to advanced find

   * Made 'Follow symbol' for classes skip forward declarations

Project Support

   * Added option for adding subprojects to projects in the New wizard

   * Added context-menu command for removing subprojects in the Edit mode,

     Projects view

   * Added a wizard for adding other than Qt libraries to project files

Debugging

   * Fixed splitter inconsistency of debugger tool bar

   * Fixed console debugging with MinGW/gdb

   * Symbian: Added basic thread support, improve logging

   * New dumpers for QDate, QTime, QHostAddress, QRegion, boost::optional,

     QSharedData and QSharedDataPointer

   * Improved/fixed dumpers for QObject (include user defined properties), QList,

     C-style arrays, QSize, QSizeF, QImage/QPixmap, std::vector<bool>,

     QVariant(QString), qulonglong, std::size_t, std::ptrdiff_t,

     QScopedPointer, QStandardItem

   * Performance improvements due to use of dwarf index data to reduce gdb

     startup time, use of new gdb.read_memory for QByteArray and QString display

   * Debugger framework handles multiple debugging sessions in parallel

   * Allow per item and/or type selection of display method in Locals&Watchers

   * Implement data watchpoints

   * Implement a debugger engine to debug Python scripts

   * Direct remote debugging using -debug binary@host:port[@arch] on the command line

   * Make alphabetic sorting of struct members optional

   * New Add/Edit breakpoint dialog

   * Show QThread object names in threads view

   * Support for per-thread breakpoints

   * Show dynamic type of objects for gdb versions newer than Aug 31, 2010

   * [etc]

Help

   * Editor's tooltips are now integrated to the Qt 4.7 help docs

QML/JS Support

   * Added 'Find usages' action that works on ids, properties, functions and

     variables

   * Improved 'Follow symbol' to also work on file imports and JS functions

   * Completion: Sort completion items by relevance

   * Completion: Automatically complete trailing : or .

   * Added new indenter

   * Added code folding for multiline comments

   * Improved performance of the code model significantly

   * Added Qt Quick ToolBar

FakeVim:

   * Fix indentation of first line after >iB and >ib, undo after cjaaa<Esc>, ~ etc

   * Implement :mak, :nohlsearch, :only, :reg[isters], Ctrl-J, Ctrl-N, Ctrl-P,

   * Implement [(, ]), [{, ]}, some of the :bn/bp commands

   * Implement {}/[]/<>-block text objects

   * Make :q after :sp more vim-ish, make <C-.> etc work in mappings

   * Make Searching a 'sub-sub-mode' to allow d/

   * Make recognition of ex command names similar to vi's

   * Move "status line" to the main statusbar

   * Refactor searching for less random jumps and more speed

   * Rework line ranges and support for marks

   * Use basetext cursor handling and indentation support for better integration

   * [etc]

Platform Specific

Mac

Linux (GNOME and KDE)

   * Respect http_proxy variable if set

Windows

Symbian Target

Maemo Target

   * Improved support for Debian packaging:

       - Automatic creation of Debian files in project directory

       - Debian files adaptable by users

   * Deployment information is taken from .pro file's INSTALLS variable

   * Support for "subdirs" and library project types

   * Projects created by mobile wizards are now usable for Maemo development

   * Fremantle: Support for exporting host directories to the device

Designer

   * Added switching between code and forms using Shift-F4

   * Made various improvements to mode switching

Version control plugins

   * Support git version 1.7.x

   * Added support for git --amend

   * Made it possible to run gitk from Qt Creator

   * Improved commit window, show number of files to be committed, add context

     menu for quickly checking and unchecking all files

   * Added branch selector to the git checkout wizard

   * Added support for the CVS 'edit' functionality, make Qt Creator prompt to

     request a read-only file using 'cvs edit' (cvsnt only).

   * Perforce: Added setting to automatically open read-only files

Wizards

   * Custom wizard: Enhanced template processing of wizards to be able to include

     sections of files conditionally, extend functionality of combo control

     to be able to handle user-displayable strings and keywords

   * Custom wizard: Added ability to have files generated by scripts

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