As the year draws to a close, I thought it would be good to take a look back at some of the major events of the Qt world in 2014.

Qt is now on a regular schedule of two major releases per year. We saw Qt 5.3.0 ⁽¹⁾ come out in May and Qt 5.4.0 ⁽²⁾ in December. More minor releases occur, as needed, between the major releases.

This blog post is the first in a series that will cover using OpenGL with Qt. In this installment, we will look at how to use Open Asset Import Library (Assimp) (1) to load 3D models from some common 3D model formats.

This blog posting gives an introduction to the Qt Graphical Effects module, which is available in Qt 5. As of Qt 5.1.