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Qt 4.5 Tech Preview Released - from Qt Software

Qt Software has released a technology preview of Qt v4.5. Major changes in this release include:

• Re-engineering of core Qt library, and new pluggable graphics system, for improved performance
• Performance benchmarking library
• WebKit upgraded to the latest version, with Netscape plugin support, allowing Flash, and HTML 5 and new JavaScript engine, SquirrelFish
• Qt/Mac now Cocoa-based, allowing true 64-bit application development
• Debugger for QtScript
• XSL-T support
• Open Document Format (ODF) support
• Improved proxy support
• Improvements to Qt Designer (see recent Qt Labs blog post)

Source downloads are available from this page (Windows, Mac, Linux X11 and Embedded, and Windows CE) at the Developer Zone.

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From Qt Labs: (also see official announcement)

Qt Software have announced that they are porting Qt to the Symbian S60 platform, which in their estimation, opens up some 80 million new devices to Qt applications. Pre-release packages are available here and contain the Core, GUI, Network and Test libraries, and support S60 v3.1 or later, including the new version 5.0. There are open-source and commercial downloads; the former contains libraries in binary, because the free GCCE compiler cannot build Qt. See the announcement for further details and the mailing list. Qt Software are exhibiting at the Symbian Smartphone Show at Earls Court, London, this Tuesday and Wednesday (21st-22nd Oct 2008). The first production release is expected in the 2nd quarter of 2009.

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Frans Englich has announced through Planet KDE that the development branch of XSL-T has been merged into the trunk of Qt, which is expected to form Qt 4.5. It should be available either on the command line or through a C++ API (a short example is given). Version 4.5 should contain a subset, as XSL-T is a large framework (larger than XQuery), and version 4.6 is expected to complement this. The code can be accessed through Qt snapshots. XSL-T is a programming language for transforming XML documents into other types of documents (including other XML formats).

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