Qt Proposals and Announcements
A proposal was submitted and approved to create a playground repository on a QtMirServer, Canonical’s Mir Linux-based display server and compositor.
Once the transition is complete, future Mir server related development would occur in this repository:
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2015-August/022842.html
Qt 5.6 feature freeze and branching is scheduled to take place on
August 8, though that may slip depending on whether certain blockers
get fixed in time.
An alpha release is planned for September 8th.
Qt 5.5.1 is scheduled to be released in September. Sometime.
Qt Creator 3.5 RC1 is now available:
https://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/08/06/qt-creator-3-5-rc1-released/
Qt Conversations
Development traffic on the mailing lists is diminishing lately, probably as vacation season is approaching. Therefore, there are no new updates regarding release schedules.
There is a discussion involving a backwards compatibility break in 5.5.0 relating to qDebug and non-latin1 character sets.
Bug report: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-47316
What's New…
There is quite a large discussion on the use of QList.
Don't use QList, use Q_DECLARE_TYPEINFO: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel/22326
Congratulations
Sérgio Martins has been nominated as an Approver
Qt Related Activity
GammaRay 2.3.0 has been released:
https://github.com/KDAB/GammaRay
Pier Luigi Fiorini has been nominated as an Approver.
Qt Extensions and Releases
The battle over the removal of the Qt Indie Mobile licensing program rages on. Qt has extended the deadline to termination of the program until August 31.
Qt Creator 3.5 Beta v1 is available: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/07/08/qt-creator-3-5-beta1-released/
