As the title suggest, winter is drawing near in the northern hemisphere and we have decided to preempt winter by freezing. Freezing our branch that is. After being under heavy development, Qt master will be branched to Qt 4.6 in less than a month from now – and we’ll start hardening our APIs in preparation of a final release near the end of 2009.
So far, Qt has received and accepted over 75 contributions from fellow hackers in the Qt community to master. All of these changes will become part of the finished Qt 4.6 product and be distributed to a staggering amount of mobile handsets. You should all be very proud!
So, around this hairpin is where we all upshift and slam the gear into testing and bug-hunting overdrive. If you would like Qt 4.6 to be a kick-ass release, and you have some time and spirit to spare – please try out the new APIs, rip them to shreds, pluck out those bugs and submit your fixes (along with auto tests please) to qt.gitorious.com. It might be getting colder, but Qt’s smokin’ hot!
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Where can I report bugs?
I don’t want to register anywhere…
“http://qt.nokia.com/bugreport-form” with 4.6 would be nice…
I for one welcome my new 4.6-branched overlords.
4.6 stands to be the most awesome release yet. There are a few questions on what will be in 4.6:
- DelcaritiveUI
- SCXML
- XML Validation and xpath-based node editing
- Graphics Item raster effects (Blur, etc)
We already know
- Animation API will be in there
How long until a tech preview release?
So will merge requests be accepted until the end of August?
That depends on the type of merge request. If it’s a feature, it will be accepted for 4.6 until the freeze; if it’s a bugfix, until the release.
But remember that, once we branch, we can accept a new feature for 4.7.
Hi.
Someone know when declarative ui will be merge to master?
@Scorp1us, @mongaulois Declarative UI will not be part of Qt 4.6, but some of the underlying technologies (e.g. recursive item traversal of QGraphicsView) will be integrated. In the meantime we are working on Declarative UI in the public repository (http://qt.gitorious.com/+qt-kinetic-developers/qt/kinetic, branch kinetic-declarativeui) so feel free to play with it there!
Well could we get an enumeration of the new APIs included?
@Scorplus1, a first draft of a “what’s new in 4.6″ page will become part of the documentation Real Soon ™.
Essentially, what’s in master by the end of next week will be what’s in Qt 4.6, and you can already grep for classes and functions that are marked with a “\since 4.6″ documentation tag to get a rough overview.
I had hoped we would see some developments on the standard set of icons that Qt provides as discussed by Jens in February. See his Qt Blog entry about the subject.
http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/02/13/freedesktop-icons-in-qt/
Does anyone know where this topic is currently heading?
@Richard, you can find a few new QIcon functions in the master branch already.
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