1.8.18

For users

1. Fix old configure file loading in gtk2 version.
   Thanks to Lars Wendler for noticing this.
2. Fix translucent background for close confirmation dialog in QtDesigner.
3. Workaround a Qt5 Bug and enable translucent background in Qt5.
   Qt-Bug
4. Fix a lot of application misbehaviors and crashes for translucent background.
   It should be safe to enable translucent background in almost all Qt4
   applications.
5. Fix Qt menubar background when translucency is enabled.
6. Fix flash plugin when translucent background is enabled.
7. Improve shadow for QBalloonTip
8. Draw shadow at run time.
9. Fix chromium background color with custom background.
10. Gtk2: Workaround buggy signal handler in applications.
    QtCurve-Bug
    EasyTag-Bug

For packagers

1. A lot of old compile time options were removed. They are either for backward
   compatibility (at compile time) or work around for bugs in drivers/libraries
   that are not there anymore.
2. xcb-image dependency is removed (it is actually never used).
3. Relicense under LGPL. With permission from all contributors in the git log.
4. Qt5 version relies on the private headers. Please make sure the private
   headers for QtWidgets are installed and a recompiling after a minor version
   change in Qt5 may be necessary (since Qt does not grantee API stability
   between minor versions).
5. Reorganize directories. qtcurve-utils is now lib/utils
6. Add libqtcurve-cairo for common drawing routines. This is only used by
   the Gtk2 version (and may be used in Gtk3 version once there is a port).
7. Improve X11 dependency handling. The QTC_ENABLE_X11 option only have
   effect on qtcurve-utils and qtcurve-utils with/without the option are
   API and ABI compatible.

Release candidate for 1.8.18

1.8.18rc

Release candidate for 1.8.18

1.8.17

For users
=========
1. **Qt5 support!!**.
2. Gtk2: Workaround bug in glib >= 2.36.1 (`g_spawn_command_line_sync()`)

    [Debian-Bug](http://bugs.debian.org/707946)
    [QtCurve-Bug](https://github.com/QtCurve/qtcurve-gtk2/pull/1)

3. Gtk2: Remove KDE3 support from Gtk2.
4. Qt4: Disable transparent background from XEmbed window (e.g. in kpartplugins).
   Changing the depth of the window (which require recreating the window)
   breaks the XEmbed protocol.
5. Qt4, Qt5: Longer scrollbar in order to be more friendly to applications
   (e.g. choqok) that use this size hint.

    [KDE-Bug](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317690)
    [QtCurve-Bug](https://github.com/QtCurve/qtcurve-qt4/issues/7)

6. Remove configure file support for pre-1.0 releases.
   (More than 3 years from now)
7. Qt: Fix/Workaround QMdiSubWindow not drawn correctly with translucent
   background.
8. Qt4: Workaround amarok crash (also affect Oxygen-Transparent).
9. Qt4: Better fix for the window positioning problem when setting
   `Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground`.

    [Qt-Bug](https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34108)
10. Qt4: Remove Kwin maximum button hack.
11. Qt: Translucent QMdiSubWindow when the parent window doesn't have
    alpha channel.

For packagers
=============
1. Require gnu99 and c++0x.
2. Porting to xcb.
3. Qt4: Fix compile without X Server. Thanks to Sven-Hendrik Haase.
4. Merge Gtk2 version and Qt{4,5} versions.
5. Add `libqtcurve-utils.so`.
6. Gtk2: Less compile time warning.
7. Qt4: Require 4.6.0
8. Fix compiling with `clang++` and `libc++`.
9. Make it possible to disable X11 dependency when compiling
   `libqtcurve-utils` and `Qt4` and `Qt5` styles.

1.8.17rc

Release candidate for 1.8.17