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Qt 6.6.1 Fixes More Than 400 Bugs
Qt 6.6.1 Fixes More Than 400 Bugs

Back in October Qt 6.6 released with Qt Graphs being introduced, more robust Wayland support, various render enhancements, and more. Out today is Qt 6.6.1 with more than four hundred bugs resolved.

27 November 2023 - Qt 6.6.1 - 9 Comments
Qt Creator 12 Released With Godbolt Compiler Explorer Integration
Qt Creator 12 Released With Godbolt Compiler Explorer Integration

The Qt Company today released Qt Creator 12 as the latest major update to this C++ and Qt focused integrated development environment. Most significant with Qt Creator 12 is integrating the Compiler Explorer while there are also many smaller changes for this Qt/C++ optimized IDE.

23 November 2023 - Qt Creator 12 - 1 Comment
Qt 6.4.3 Released With 300+ Fixes
Qt 6.4.3 Released With 300+ Fixes

Qt 6.4.3 is out today as the newest point release to this current stable series of the Qt6 tool-kit. This release is another big one with 300+ fixes in tow.

16 March 2023 - Qt 6.4.3 - 6 Comments
The Qt Group Launches Qt Insight
The Qt Group Launches Qt Insight

The Qt Group as the company behind the Qt open-source toolkit has launched Qt Insight as their newest software offering. However, Qt Insight does not appear to be open-source and is marketed as a SaaS product.

15 March 2023 - Qt Insight - 12 Comments
Qt 6.5 Adding Wayland Native Interface
Qt 6.5 Adding Wayland Native Interface

The Qt6 toolkit introduced the notion of platform-specific objects via the QNativeInterface namespace and now set to come with Qt 6.5 is support for a Wayland native interface for application developers wanting to interact directly with Wayland object handles.

9 December 2022 - Qt Wayland Native Interface - 22 Comments
Lars Knoll Announces His Successor For Qt Chief Maintainer

Last month was the surprise announcement that longtime Qt developer Lars Knoll would be leaving The Qt Company. Not only is he leaving as the CTO of The Qt Company but also as the longtime Qt Chief Maintainer for the open-source project, but now after voting by Qt developers, a new maintainer has been chosen.

17 June 2022 - New Qt Chief Maintainer - 1 Comment
Qt 5.15.4 LTS Release Now Available As Open-Source

Back in March marked the release of Qt 5.15.3 as open-source, one year after it was released to commercial customers of The Qt Company. Today a similar Qt 5.15.4 open-source release is now available, one year after its commercial release.

11 May 2022 - Qt 5.15.4 - 14 Comments
Commercial-Only Qt 5.15.3 LTS Now Released As Open-Source
Commercial-Only Qt 5.15.3 LTS Now Released As Open-Source

One year ago this week Qt 5.15.3 LTS was released with 200+ bug fixes for this toolkit but that long-term support release was made commercial-only. Today The Qt Company has made available an open-source release of the Qt 5.15.3 changes.

3 March 2022 - Qt 5.15.3 Open-Source - 24 Comments
Qt Announces Changes To Simplify Its Commercial Licensing
Qt Announces Changes To Simplify Its Commercial Licensing

The Qt Company continues to look for ways to diversify its product offering and improve its financial performance. In addition to the recent change making it easier to add ads into Qt apps, The Qt Company announced today a simplification of their commercial licensing.

1 February 2022 - Qt Commercial - 29 Comments
Qt 6.2.1 Released With 200+ Bug Fixes

It's been just shy of one month since Qt 6.2 debuted as the first Qt6 Long-Term Support (LTS) release and ported many of the remaining modules over from Qt5. Shipping today is now Qt 6.2.1 as the first point release with more than two-hundred fixes.

27 October 2021 - Qt 6.2.1 - 18 Comments
Qt 6.2 LTS Will Nearly Be At Feature Parity To Qt 5.15

When the Qt 6.0 tool-kit debuted last year much of the early criticism stemmed around it not having all the modules/functionality ported over from Qt5 meanwhile The Qt Company was restricting newer Qt 5.15 LTS point releases to paying customers only. Since then the developers have been working to address the voids in Qt6 and with the upcoming Qt 6.2 as their next long-term support release, all of the important functionality should be in place.

2 September 2021 - Qt 6.2 vs. Qt 5.15 - 26 Comments
Qt Creator 5.0 Nears With New Features

Qt Creator as the Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment from The Qt Company is preparing to release version 5.0 as it prepares to switch to semantic versioning.

12 August 2021 - Qt Creator 5.0 - 5 Comments

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