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It's getting to be vacation season in Europe, so there's little to report except that Viktor Engelmann and Jesus Fernandez have been nominated for Approver status.
- The Qt Company has merged a new WebGL Streaming plugin that will become a technology preview in Qt 5.10:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/07/07/qt-webgl-streaming-merged/
- A new Shapes plugin for Qt Quick is also planned for 5.10:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/07/07/let-there-be-shapes/
- Qt 5.9.1 has been released:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/06/30/qt-5-9-1-released/
- Qt Creator 4.3.1 has been released:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/06/30/qt-creator-4-3-1-released/
-If all goes well, Qt 5.9.1 will be released this week, with a follow-up release of 5.9.2 in August.
- It appears that support for MSVC2013 will be continued for Qt 5.10, but will likely be dropped in Qt 5.11.
-The first Qt 5.9.1 snapshots are available:
https://wiki.qt.io/How_to_get_snapshot_via_online_installer
The plan is to release 5.9.1 in June, and an upcoming 5.9.2 in August.
-A "plea" to drop support for MSVC 2013 compilers has been proposed on the development mailing list for 5.10:
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2017-June/030178.html
- GammaRay 2.8.0 has been released:
https://github.com/KDAB/GammaRay/releases
https://github.com/KDAB/GammaRay
- A discussion on the development mailing list has started regarding compiler support for Qt 5.10:
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2017-June/030093.html
- Qt 5.9.0 has been released:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/05/31/qt-5-9-released/
- Qbs 1.8 has been released:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/05/29/qbs-1-8-released/
- For June, the plan is to release a Qt 5.9.1, get a Qt 5.6.3 snapshot out for testing, and get an Alpha release of Qt 5.10.0 out for testing.
- Qt Creator 4.3.0 has been released:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/05/24/qt-creator-4-3-0-released/
- Qt 5.9.0 RC (release candidate) has been released:
http://download.qt.io/development_releases/qt/5.9/5.9.0-rc/
Barring problems, the final release is scheduled for tomorrow, May 31.
- Qt 5.9.0 Beta 4s available. It is intended to be the last beta. The current plan is to release the first RC (release candidate) early next week.
https://wiki.qt.io/How_to_get_snapshot_via_online_installer
- A discussion on the development mailing list has started for a new QStringFormatter class:
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2017-May/029931.html
- Qt Creator 4.3 RC1 has been released:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/05/09/qt-creator-4-3-rc1-released/
- The Qt Company has announced that the upcoming 5.9 release of Qt will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release, with updates continuing for the next 3 years:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/05/11/introducing-long-term-support-qt-5-9/