It was announced at Qt Developer Days in Munich yesterday, but as a long standing Qt tradition states: “The release isn’t out until the Release Manager blogs about it.” So, here it is: Qt 4.6.0 Beta 1 is now ofiicially available.
This release improves on the Tech Prevew 1 release by adding a large number of fixes for bugs and documentation issues, and by finalizing the Gestures API.
The Beta release is available as a source package (there’s just one type of source package now, with .tar.gz and .zip versions that have identical contents), and as pre-built binary packages for Windows, Mac OSX (Carbon and Cocoa), and making its debut with this release, Symbian.
You can get the packages from the Qt website here, or from our ftp site. You can also find the latest documentation at http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6-snapshot/index.html.
As with the Tech Preview, we would like constructive feedback on this Beta from the community of users and developers. if you find a bug, you can submit a fix or an autotest that demonstrates the bug via the public qt repository on http://qt.gitorious.org. Alternatively, if you have any bug reports or suggestions, whether they relate to the code, the documentation, or something else Qt-related, just follow the instructions for submitting feedback.
In conjuction with this Beta release, we are launching The Qt Blog, a new site that will include product and roadmap information, details on Qt usage, and other topics that interest the Qt community. The Qt Blog is available now at http://blog.qt.nokia.com.
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That’s great news for all Mac Users awaiting support for Snow Leopard. However, after installing the Cocoa Package for Mac, the QDbus.framework is not installed completely, also the qdbus tools don’t show up. In the /Developer/Applications/Qt-Folder, the apps Designer, Assistant, etc are missing.
I used the dmg-Package from http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-4.6-preview for Cocoa-Release. Actually, the qdbus part was missing in Qt 4.6.0-tp1 too.
I thought Qt4.6 would be compiled and include gcc4.4 on windows?
@porfirio: upgrading to the gcc 4.4 – based MinGW for the binary package will most likely happen for the release candidate.
Will phonon be included by default on Windows with the release candidate too?
How do we test Phonon on MinGW?
Will Win64 libraries be made available along with MinGW-w64 in the RC?
i compile QT from source code and after i choose to go with the open source edition. I told that i am getting the code under LGPL and asked to agree to the term of the license and the installation process quits with “You are not licensed to use this software.” msg when i said no.
You guys have been working with GPL/LGPL code/licences to know by now that a user does not have to agree to these licences to use the code as the license does not take effect at a point of usage, but at a point of (re)distribution
and i am amazed nobody has even brought this up and if has been brought up, you guys are ignoring this crucial difference btw a FOSS license and a proprietary one ..
Scorp1us: The DirectShow back-end for Phonon does not compile with MinGW: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6-snapshot/phonon-overview.html#windows-xp-and-later-windows-versions
@mtz : It’s Qt not QT.
How we can know that you accept the license (GPL or LPGL) when you start redistributing… You send us an email saying : “i am going to distribute my app with Qt, and i accept the license”
Btw the LPGL says : “This license, the Lesser General Public License, applies to some specially designated software packages–typically libraries–of the Free Software Foundation and other authors who decide to USE it.” and that’s what we ask for : “You are licensed to USE (…)” so i think it’s perfectly fine.
I tried the ImageViewer example for gestures using Windows 7 on a Dell Latitude XT2. However, only the PanGesture works. Are the PinchGesture and SwipeGesture supposed to be functional in this beta release? I successfully used pinch with the tech preview but of course a lot has changed.
@mtz: you accept the license by starting to use, because you cannot use without accepting a license. We just show you the terms and ask you if you accept them. There’s no harm in doing that and it makes a lot of difference for our Legal department.
Will QtWebkit in Qt 4.6 support HTML 5 Video tag properly (controls and all)?
@eskil The DShow backend can be compiled in MinGW ( http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/07/15/phonon-and-mingw-a-story-about-true-windows-love/ )
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