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Qt v4.6 and Qt Creator v1.3 release candidates out

Qt 4.6 and Qt Creator 1.3 Release Candidates Available — Qt - A cross-platform application and UI framework

Nokia have issued release candidates of version 4.6 of Qt, their cross-platform C++ development toolkit, and of version 1.3 of Qt Creator, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Qt.

Major new features in Qt v4.6 include a port to Symbian, support for Windows 7 and Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), support for OpenVG 2D accelerated graphics and DirectFB, advanced graphical effects, mouse gesture support, and general performance improvements. Downloads (LGPL or preview licence) here.

Major new features in Qt Creator include preliminary Symbian support, new source code refactoring support, support for multi-core compilation on the MS Visual C++ compiler and MinGW updated to v4.4. Full changelog here with downloads (LGPL) here.