Qt Proposals and Postponements

With the continuing delays associated with releasing a Qt 5.6 RC, the Qt 5.7 feature freeze date that was scheduled for Friday, Dec 18 has been tentatively postponed until Jan 15, 2016.

A new Qt 5.6 Beta candidate is available: http://download.qt.io/snapshots/qt/5.6/5.6.0-beta/

Qt Conversations and Changes

A lengthy discussion on a more liberal use of 'auto' in Qt was started by Marc Mutz: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel/23947

Benjamin Terrier has proposed changing the behavior of connectSlotsByName(): http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel/23954

All Things Qt

Releases

Qt Creator 3.6 RC1 has been released:  http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/11/26/qt-creator-3-6-rc1-released/

Qt 5.6 Beta is still delayed due to continued bug fixes

Nominations

Pasi Keränen and Pasi Petäjäjärvi have been nominated for Approver status

Qt Lite

Development traffic has been light lately, due to the emphasis on getting the Qt v 5.6 Beta launched.

As usual, new Qt 5.6 Beta snapshots are available at:Qt  http://download.qt.io/snapshots/qt/5.6/5.6.0-beta

Qt News

New Qt 5.6 beta snapshots are available in the usual place: http://download.qt.io/snapshots/qt/5.6/5.6.0-beta/
The packages contain the QtCreator 3.6.0 RC snapshot and they are currently hoping to release the Beta this week.

What's New with Qt?

New Qt 5.6.0 beta snapshots are available: http://download.qt.io/snapshots/qt/5.6/5.6.0-beta/

Qt Conversations

• Rolland Dudemaine of Green Hills Software is reviving a Qt 5 port to the INTEGRITY Real-Time OS.

• Qt Creator 3.6 beta1 is now available: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/10/27/qt-creator-3-6-beta1-released/

• From the Qt Release Team meeting: "We need to postpone the beta release again, (the) new target (will be) 12.11.2015."
• Support for MSVC 2005, 2008 and 2010 will be dropped in Qt 5.7

All Things Qt

Not much development discussion on the lists this week, aside from the thread mentioned last week on potential changes to QString and friends.

Changing of the Guard

Björn Breitmeyer of KDAB is stepping down as the Windows Embedded Compact port Maintainer and has nominated Andreas Holzammer (also of KDAB) as his successor.  Andreas is also being nominated as an Approver, since Maintainers must also be Approvers.

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