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Qt v4.6 and Qt Creator v1.3 released

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Nokia Releases Qt 4.6 — Qt - A cross-platform application and UI framework

Nokia have released version 4.6 of Qt, their cross-platform C++ development toolkit. Major changes:

  • Support for Windows 7, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Maemo 6 and Symbian S60; community support for QNX and VxWorks
  • New animation framework, with "intuitive state machine functionality" and "new advanced graphics effects like opacity, drop shadows, glow, and filtering"
  • New support for multi-touch and gesture-based input methods
  • Performance improvements, including rewritten graphics display algorithm
  • Updated Qt Creator, version 1.3, with MinGW v4.4 and support for multi-core compilation on Visual C++ on Windows, new source refactoring and preliminary Symbian support

For more information on new features, see here or the What's New page of the documentation. Downloads here (source, frameworks and Qt Creator binaries on their own or the whole SDK). Released under LGPL, GPL 3 or a commercial licence.