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With the Internet of Things (IoT) transformation, it’s obvious that the amount of connected devices in the world is increasing rapidly. Everywhere around our daily lives we all use more and more of them. In addition to being connected, more devices get equipped with a touch screen and a graphical user interface. We have all

We have leveraged Yocto internally for many years to build our reference “Boot to Qt” embedded Linux stack of Qt for Device Creation. During 2015 we started to align our work with upstream Yocto Project, including contributions to improve the meta-qt5 layer. With Qt 5.7 we have also opened our meta-boot2qt layer in order to make it easier

We have today released Qt 5.6.1-1, which fixes a critical problem in Qt 5.6.1 preventing certain type of Qt Quick applications from working properly. I am very sorry for the inconvenience, but those who have already downloaded Qt 5.6.1 now need to get the new Qt 5.6.1-1 release. The problem is already fixed in the Qt 5.7.0 released

We are very pleased that you and one million others are using Qt for creating amazing applications and devices for an overwhelming number of different purposes. We are proud when Qt enables developers to create their applications. In order to make Qt more visible we are now introducing new “Built with Qt” logo. We have

Qt 5.6.1 has been released today. Since Qt 5.6 is long-term supported for three years, there will still be more patch releases to come. While the patch releases do not bring new features, they do contain security fixes, error corrections and general improvements. The New Qt Creator 4.0.1 is included in the Qt 5.6.1 offline

The Qt application framework is widely used in automotive infotainment systems with a variety of operating system and hardware configurations. With digital instrument clusters becoming increasingly common in new models, there are significant synergies to be gained from using the same technologies for both the infotainment system and the cluster. To be able to do

When there is a need to use Qt as part of a system requiring functional safety certification, it is typically best to analyze if the safety critical functionality can be separated. This approach allows the safety critical functionality to be implemented without the need to certify the complete software stack of the system. In my

Qt 5.7 Beta is now released and available for your feedback. There is a lot to review – new modules, leveraging C++11 features, and the new unified product structure, which is now the same for both commercial and open source versions. Leveraging C++11 The core of Qt comes from its C++ foundation and the powerful

Qt is used in an extremely wide variety of use cases across over 70 industries, and sometimes there is a need to use Qt in a safety critical system. When a system, be it a medical device, railway control system, nuclear power plant or an automobile, can potentially cause harm to humans, the concept of

I am pleased to inform that we have released Qt 5.7 Alpha today. As always, it is only available as a source package, mainly focused for those interested in studying the features and APIs. For those interested in using Qt 5.7 to develop applications, it is better to wait for the Beta release. We have