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!
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
Qt Release
Qt Creator 3.2 beta has been released:
Blog: http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/07/08/qt-creator-3-2-beta-released
Source: https://download.qt-project.org/development_releases/qtcreator/3.2/3.2.0-beta1/
Developer Discussions
Qt Enterprise Release
The Qt Contributors Summit occurred June 10-11 in Berlin. Here is a quick summary of my impressions:
1) Unifying Qt
Qt Project is highly interested in unifying Qt Commercial offerings with Qt Open Source. This was a major point made by Lars Knoll in his keynote speech and there were two discussion sessions on the matter.
