Qt 5 Beta released

The Qt Project has released Qt 5.0 Beta and is calling platform developers, OS integrators and advanced Qt application developers to test and send us feedback. Qt 5 Beta is based upon the work from a core of approx. 250 developers.

Binaries are available for installation on the reference platforms: Linux (X11 and Wayland), MS Windows and Mac OS X. Unofficial Qt 5 packages are also available for other platforms like QNX, QtonPi and the main Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora).

The goal is to have a final release in November. Current focus areas include testing of the revamped Qt Quick and Qt WebKit, Qt Widget application API compatibility between Qt 4 and Qt 5, and the stability and good performance on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

Download [releases.qt-project.org]

Read more: http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5-Beta

Nokia Sells Qt to Digia

Nokia is selling its open source Qt development tools to Finnish software company Digia. Digia plans to pick up where Nokia left off: continuing Qt development, but renewing the toolkit’s focus on cross-platform support.

Source: Digia to acquire Qt business from Nokia, port it to Android and iOS | Ars Technica

Qt Creator 2.5.2 released

Qt Creator 2.5.2 contains only a single bugfix that is important to all Windows (7) users:

Fixed resource leak leading to regular crashes on Windows (QTCREATORBUG-7385)

So, if you are a Windows user of Qt Creator, I advise you to quickly go to our download page to get the new version. Everyone else can safely ignore this release.