Qt News Archives


521 Qt open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2006.

Qt WebKit Looks To Be Making A Comeback

Within the upstream Qt tool-kit, the WebKit module was dropped in favor of Qt WebEngine that's powered by Google's Chromium "Blink" engine. While Qt WebEngine is still working out well for new development projects, it looks like Qt WebKit is being worked on for a revival.

12 June 2016 - QtWebKit - 25 Comments
Qt 5.6.1 Now Available

As anticipated, Qt 5.6.1 is now available as the first bug-fix release to the open-source, cross-platform toolkit.

8 June 2016 - Qt 5.6.1 - 6 Comments
Qt Automotive Suite Announced

The Qt Company has announced the Qt Automotive Suite, a new offering aimed at car makers building in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems.

8 June 2016 - Qt Automotive - 9 Comments
Qt 5.7 Release Candidate Surfaces

Similar to past Qt5 tool-kit releases, Qt 5.7 has been running behind schedule but they are now out with a release candidate and hope to officially ship this update later in June.

3 June 2016 - Qt 5.7 - 17 Comments
Qt Creator 4.0 IDE Released

The Qt Company has today announced the release of Qt Creator 4.0.0 as the latest version of this Qt-focused integrated development environment.

11 May 2016 - Qt Creator 4.0 - 5 Comments
Qt 5.7 Beta Is In Sight

Qt 5.7 continues moving along and due to the concurrent release work with the much-delayed Qt 5.6 that finally shipped in March, the Qt 5.7 beta is already imminent.

15 April 2016 - Qt 5.7 - 11 Comments
Utilizing Vulkan Within Qt

A Qt user brought up a mailing list discussion over Vulkan usage within Qt. A few interesting remarks were made by upstream developers.

10 April 2016 - Vulkan-Qt - 3 Comments
Qt 5.7 Feature Freeze Planned For Next Week

The Qt 5.7 release is running slightly behind schedule due to the recent licensing changes with open-sourcing some new components and other reasons, but upstream Qt developers are now planning for the feature freeze to happen next week.

29 January 2016 - Qt 5.7 - 3 Comments
Qt Does Some Licensing Changes

Qt will be introducing a "start-up license" to help small companies make use of the Qt tool-kit for commercial desktop and mobile applications. The Qt open-source licenses have also now been updated.

13 January 2016 - Qt License - 2 Comments
Qt 5.7 Will Make Use Of Modern C++11 Features

Earlier this month I wrote about Qt developers looking at making Qt 5.6 a long-term support release. Today that decision was firmed up by Lars Knoll and he's also reinforced the plans for making Qt 5.7 release where the code-base will take advantage of C++11 language features.

23 June 2015 - Qt 5.7 - 1 Comment
A Qt Quick / QML Compositing Manager For X11

KDE developer Alexander Mezin was looking at the Qt Wayland compositor code and rather than building yet another Wayland compositor decided to build something similar for X11. Mezin ended up building "qmlcompmgr", a compositing manager for X11 written in Qt Quick / QML.

20 June 2015 - qmlcompmgr - Add A Comment
Qt 4.8.7 Released - Marks The End Of Qt4

While Qt 5 has so many compelling advantages over Qt4, for those still running the older version of the Norwegian toolkit, version 4.8.7 of Qt4 is now available and it ships with tons of changes.

26 May 2015 - Qt 4.8.7 - Add A Comment
Qt Turns 20 Years Old, KDE Celebrates

Today marks twenty years since the first release of the Qt tool-kit. It's been an interesting twenty years so far going through the hands of Trolltech, Nokia, Digia, and the now spin-off The Qt Company.

20 May 2015 - Qt Turns 20 - 5 Comments

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