A Qt Blog

From Kitware:

Version 2.8.7 of CMake, the build tool used in KDE and a number of other major Qt-based projects, has been released. Major changes in this release:

• improved Eclipse support
• improvements to AUTOMOC
• more cryptographic hash implementations (SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512)
• file(...) and string(...) command additions for computing hash values
• added LINKPUBLIC and LINKPRIVATE options to targetlinklibraries command
• new module: DeployQt4
• and, as always, various minor bug fixes

Source and binary releases (Windows and Mac installers, various Linux and Unix tarball binaries) can be found here.

Qt SDK Update introducing Qt Creator 2.3 and other updates

Version 4.7.4 of Qt has been released, along with it a new version of the IDE Qt Creator.

Changes in Qt Creator include (full changelog here):

• Improved coding styles for C++
• Support for generic remote Linux devices
• Qt Quick debugging for Symbian and Meego 1.2 devices with Qt 4.7.4 installed
• Improved Qt Quick live preview

Qt v4.7.4 now includes Qt Quick v1.1, which offers right-to-left text support and support for a split-screen virtual keyboard. There are also large number of bug fixes; see the full changelog. It is available either through the SDK (with Qt Creator) or as a library-only download; see here.

KDE - New KDE Applications, Workspaces and Development Platform Releases Bring New Features, Improve Stability

Version 4.7 of the KDE platform and applications has been released. Major changes include:

• KWin now supports OpenGL ES; code clean-up and various performance improvements
• Plasma Activities now more prominent
• Improved networking support in Plasma
• Kontact reintegrated into KDE
• Dolphin has streamlined appearance (e.g. main menu hidden) and integration with source code management systems
• DigiKam 2.0: face detection and recognition, geotagging
• Technology preview of new "Telepathy" integrated instant messaging client
• Improvements to speed and stability of Nepomuk
• GRUB 2 support in the display manager (KDM)

Downloads available on the info page. Binary packages will be available over the next couple of days (OpenSUSE packages already available).

From KDE.news:

The latest maintenance release of KDE, version 4.6.4, has been released; this is a bug-fix release, and the fixes include 5 crashes (changelog here). Downloads (source and some binaries) available from the info page.

Also, the new version of Kontact, the personal information management suite (including the KMail email client) has been released, the first to be based on Akonadi. The new version includes much improved IMAP performance and interoperability with other PIM applications. There is also a mobile-oriented version of Kontact, titled Kontact Touch. It is available as part of the KDE Software Compilation.

From KDE.news:

A first beta of KDE v4.7 has been released; see the announcement. Major new features:

• OpenGL-ES 2.0 support in window manager, improving performance and mobile device support
• User interface improvements in Dolphin (file manager) and improved metadata searching
• KDM now interfaces with the Grub 2 bootloader
• Marble now supports offline address searching

Downloads available from the info page.

From Qt Labs blogs:

Version 2.2 of Qt Creator, the official IDE from Nokia for Qt, has been released. Changes include:

• New Bazaar version control support
• Rewritten MSVC debugging support, allowing 32-bit or 64-bit debugging on any build of Qt Creator
• New configurable access to external tools, e.g. lupdate and lrelease
• New CODA Symbian debugging support
• Valgrind integration for Linux and Mac
• Specialised GL Shader editor
• Improved QML support and Qt Quick Designer
• Improved mixed C++/QML debugging
• Better support for manually configured toolchains

Full changelog here; source and binary downloads from the Qt Developers' Network.

From KDE.news:

Version 4.6.2 of KDE, the Qt-based desktop environment for X11 and cross-platform application toolkit, has been released. This is a bug-fix release, with the biggest changes being to Dolphin, Okular and Kopete (2 crashes in total). Full changelog here, official announcement here, with downloads available from the info page (binaries available for several major Linux distros, FreeBSD and Solaris).