This is the 100th episode of Qt Updates. I want to thank my family, friends and all the little people I climbed over on my way to the top. :)
Qt Licensing
Qt will be changing its licensing somewhat, using LGPL v3 for new modules and add-ons.
http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/08/20/adding-lgpl-v3-to-qt/
Some further discussion: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel/18166
Qt Releases
The current plan is to release a version 5.4 alpha sometime this week.
5.3.2 is supposed to be released before the 5.4.0 beta release. This is currently scheduled for the end of August or early September.
Current snapshots are located here:
Windows: http://download.qt-project.org/snapshots/qt/5.3/5.3.2/2014-08-14_134/
Qt Releases
Qt Creator 3.2 RC1 has been released for download: http://download.qt-project.org/development_releases/qtcreator/3.2/3.2.0-rc1/
Qt 5.4 has been feature frozen.
Congratulations
Milian Wolff of KDAB has been confirmed as an Approver
Qt feature freeze for 5.4 will occur on 8/8/2014. An alpha release is scheduled for the August 14th timeframe.
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5.4-release
New features (not yet finalized):
http://qt-project.org/wiki/New-Features-in-Qt-5.4
Summertime is in Full Swing
It seems to be vacation season, so there is less than half the normal traffic on the Qt lists.
It looks like there might be a 5.3.2 patch release in the future.
Have a great week!
The Qt 5.3 release made a lot of "under the hood" improvements to the internals of the Qt printing system. There were also some changes visible at the API level. One of the more noticeable changes was to add enhancements to the QPrinterInfo class. In this blog post, I'll go over this class and present an example application illustrating how to use it.
Qt Discussions
A discussion started on possibly including the Data Distribution Service (DDS) as a new IPC mechanism for Qt.
Post: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.user/12863
Information on DDS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Distribution_Service
