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Qt v4.2.3 released

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Trolltech has released version 4.2.3 of Qt, its cross-platform C++ development toolkit (the release was issued on the 6th, but no announcement was made). This is a bug-fix release; the changelog is here. Principal changes:

  • Three bug fixes in lupdate, one of which produces a 400x speed improvement
  • New unofficial Portuguese translation
  • Fixed bug in QTextEdit, which caused bottom text to become unreachable.
  • Fixed detection of Type1 symbol fonts (X11)
  • Fixed animation of menus, tooltips and combo boxes (X11)
  • Numerous other fixes to bugs in all classes on all platforms.

Downloads of Qt are to be found here; Qtopia downloads are here (version 4.2.1; updated 27th Feb).

Please note the progress of this Qt Centre forum discussion before upgrading.