Qt 5.7 Is Going To A Feature Freeze While Qt 5.6 Isn't Even Coming For Another Month

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qt 5.7 Is Going To A Feature Freeze While Qt 5.6 Isn't Even Coming For Another Month

Qt 5.6 is running a solid three months behind schedule while Qt developers are hoping to offset further delays in the Qt5 release train by going into a feature freeze now for Qt 5.7...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-5.7-FF-Qt-5.6-Still-Out

[Daktyl198]

At this point, why not just skip 5.6? All of the bugfixes currently in 5.6 are in 5.7, and they'll only end up being released what? a month apart?

[smitty3268]

At this point, why not just skip 5.6? All of the bugfixes currently in 5.6 are in 5.7, and they'll only end up being released what? a month apart?

That's assuming that 5.7 is released on time, which given recent history seems very unlikely.

[DarkCloud]

It is better they take the time to get it right, especially being the long term release that it is.

[doom_Oo7]

At this point, why not just skip 5.6? All of the bugfixes currently in 5.6 are in 5.7, and they'll only end up being released what? a month apart?

5.6 is LTS which means that bugfixes will be backported for a long time.