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Qt 6.2 Enters Feature Freeze With More Qt5 Modules Ported To Qt6

While Qt 6.1 released just one month ago, Qt 6.2 as of today is already into its feature freeze. This quicker than normal time to feature freeze comes due to this year's Qt releases being tightened up following the Qt 6.0 debut at the end of last year. Qt 6.2 will be the first Long Term Support (LTS) release of the Qt6 series.

7 June 2021 - Qt 6.2 Feature Freeze - 30 Comments
Qt 6.1 Released With More Modules Ported To Qt6

Qt 6.1 is out today as the second major feature release to Qt6 following its stable introduction at the end of last year. Ahead of Qt 6.2 being the first planned Long-Term Support release later this year, Qt 6.1 brings more Qt5 modules over and other improvements in making Qt6 more viable.

6 May 2021 - Qt 6.1 - 3 Comments
The Qt Company Publishes 2021 Roadmap

With Qt 6.1 being released next month, The Qt Company has published their 2021 road-map outlining some of their plans for the remainder of the calendar year.

27 April 2021 - Qt 2021 Roadmap - 13 Comments
Qt 6.0.3 Released With Another ~40 Bug Fixes

While Qt 6.1 is aiming to release around the end of April, for now the Qt 6.0 series continues marching forward and is out today with the Qt 6.0.3 point release providing another few dozen bug fixes.

31 March 2021 - Qt 6.0.3 - 4 Comments
Qt 6.1 Alpha Released

Just two months after the release of Qt 6.0, given the quicker release cycle this year, Qt 6.1 Alpha is already available that follows the feature freeze that began earlier this month.

16 February 2021 - Qt 6.1 - 6 Comments
Qt 6.1 Feature Freeze Now In Effect

While Qt 6.0 wasn't even released a full two months ago, the Qt 6.1 feature freeze went into effect this morning in trying to get out this next update sooner.

1 February 2021 - Qt 6.1 - 35 Comments
Qt 6.0 Officially Released

The Qt Company has officially released Qt 6.0 as the latest major release to this open-source, cross-platform toolkit.

8 December 2020 - Qt 6.0 - 21 Comments
Qt 6.0's 3D Renderer Is Much Improved But More Work Remains

With Qt 6.0 due to be released in December, Qt-minded consulting firm KDAB has published a blog post outlining the extensive 3D renderer improvements made for this big toolkit update. While Qt6's 3D rendering abilities are much improved, there still is further work ahead.

30 November 2020 - Qt6 3D Renderer - 5 Comments
Qt 6.0 Beta 4 Released

For those on the Qt 5.12 LTS series the Qt 5.12.10 point release is out today with 30 new bug fixes. But for those looking ahead to Qt 6 also out today is Qt 6.0 Beta 4.

10 November 2020 - Qt 6 - 9 Comments
Qt Developers Discuss What To Do With All Their "P1" Priority Bugs

While Qt 6.0 is aiming to ship in December there are many open bugs against the Qt code-base. Given the increasing number of P1 priority bug reports that are the highest besides the "P0" build breakage bug reports, developers are discussing what to do with these bugs and the merits of their current priority classifications.

3 November 2020 - Qt Bugs - 54 Comments
Qt 6.0 Alpha Released

Even with the tumultuous year due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Qt Company is still on track for delivering the Qt 6.0 toolkit release before year's end.

6 October 2020 - Qt 6.0 - 31 Comments
Qbs 1.17 Released With This Build System Still Alive

Back in late 2018 there was the decision by The Qt Company to deprecate Qbs in favor of CMake. The Qbs build system hasn't been actively worked on by The Qt Company in one year but some community members have been still hacking on it leading to today's Qbs 1.17 release.

14 September 2020 - Qbs 1.17 - Add A Comment
Qt 6.0 Development Host/Target Changes Announced

The Qt Company announced their planned development hosts for Qt 6.0 around continuous integration and the platforms they intend to support for Qt 6.0, some that are no longer set to be supported, and other targets they plan to support later on in future Qt 6.x releases.

11 September 2020 - Qt 6 Platforms - 29 Comments

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