Getting ready for Beta 5

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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