Monday, June 4, 2018

- A blog post on "What new with the Wayland platform plugin" is available:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/05/29/whats-new-in-qt-5-11-for-the-wayland-platform-plugin/

It mentions that support for platform fallbacks are now supported in Qt 5.11, for example:
QT_QPA_PLATFORM="wayland;xcb" will select the xcb platform if wayland cannot be initialized.

- The Qt Company has announced that the Qt Safe Renderer has received an ASIL-D functional safety certification:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/05/31/function-safety-certified-qt-safe-renderer/

- The Qt base dev branch (which will eventually become Qt 5.12) has experimental Vulcan support for MacOS:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/05/30/vulkan-for-qt-on-macos/

- Qt 5.9.2 should be released soon.

- A Qt 5.11.1 release is being targeted for Jun 19.

Posted by Jon Trulson