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Qt5 Linux & Open-Source News

Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6   Hardware   2024-04-24
LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support   Desktop   2024-04-17
Krita Looking More At GPU Acceleration & AI In 2024   Free Software   2024-03-14
GStreamer 1.24 Released With Vulkan H.264/H.265 Decode & Many Enhancements   Multimedia   2024-03-04
KDE MegaRelease 6 Debuts For Plasma 6.0, KF6 & Gear 24.02   KDE   2024-02-28
SDDM 0.21 Display Manager Released With Better Wayland Support, Qt6 Fixes   Desktop   2024-02-26
Lubuntu 24.04 LTS Aiming For Optional Wayland Session, Default in 24.10   Ubuntu   2023-12-10
Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6   Ubuntu   2023-12-08
LXQt 1.4 Debuts As Last Planned Qt5 Desktop Release   Desktop   2023-11-05
FDBuild 0.1 Released To Make It Easier To Quickly Build Multiple Projects   Programming   2023-10-12
TuxClocker 1.0 Released As An Alternative Way Of NVIDIA GPU Overclocking On Linux   Hardware   2023-09-26
Microsoft Issues Updated CBL-Mariner Linux Distro With Many Security Fixes   Microsoft   2023-09-13
Linux 6.6 Bringing Qt6 Port To "make xconfig" Interface   Linux Kernel   2023-09-05
Fedora Workstation 39 Planning To Drop Custom Qt Theming   Fedora   2023-08-23
Qt 5.15 LTS Takes Another Step Closer To Retirement   Qt   2023-05-26
digiKam 8.0 Released With Expanded File Format Support, New OCR Tool   KDE   2023-04-16
CoreCtrl Now Available In Debian & Ubuntu 23.04 For Managing Your System   Debian   2023-04-12
KDE Plasma Development Branch Switches To Qt6-Only   KDE   2023-02-28
Audacious 4.3 Beta Adds PipeWire Plugin, Restores GTK3 + Ships Mature Qt6 Support   Multimedia   2023-02-11
KDE Frameworks 5.101 Released - Development Now Focuses On KDE Frameworks 6   KDE   2022-12-10
Qt 6.5 Adding Wayland Native Interface   Qt   2022-12-09
Qt 5.15.6 LTS Open-Source Version Released   Qt   2022-09-08
OBS Studio 28.0 Released With 10-Bit & HDR Video Encoding, Qt 6 Ported   Multimedia   2022-09-01
OBS Studio 28 Beta 1 Brings 10-bit & HDR Video Encoding, Qt6 Toolkit   Free Software   2022-08-03
Wine 7.12 Released With Theming For Qt5 Apps, VKD3D v1.4   WINE   2022-07-01
Linux 5.20 To Support The XP-PEN Deco L Drawing Tablet   Hardware   2022-06-18
Qt 5.15 LTS Support Extended An Additional Two Years - For Their Paying Subscribers   Qt   2022-03-31
Slackware 15.0 Released After Many Years In Development   Operating Systems   2022-02-03
More Features Begin Lining Up For Fedora 36   Fedora   2021-11-29
LXQt 1.0 Released For Lightweight Qt5 Desktop   Desktop   2021-11-05
Qt 6.2.1 Released With 200+ Bug Fixes   Qt   2021-10-27
Qt 6.2 LTS Released With Qt6 Now Aiming To Be Ready For Widespread Adoption   Qt   2021-09-30
LibreOffice Lands Initial Code For Qt6 Toolkit Support   LibreOffice   2021-09-29
Qt 6.2 LTS Will Nearly Be At Feature Parity To Qt 5.15   Qt   2021-09-02
Polychromatic 0.7 Released With Improved UI For Configuring Gaming Keyboards, Mice   Linux Gaming   2021-08-11
Qt 6.2 Beta Released As The First Qt6 LTS Release Moves Closer   Qt   2021-07-06
Qt 6.2 Alpha Released With Many More Modules Ported From Qt5   Qt   2021-06-23
Qt 6.2 Enters Feature Freeze With More Qt5 Modules Ported To Qt6   Qt   2021-06-07
Qt Multimedia Prepares For Qt 6 With Rewritten GStreamer Backend, Other Big Changes   Qt   2021-05-27
LibreOffice Merges Initial Support For Compiling To WebAssembly   LibreOffice   2021-05-06
Qt 6.1 Released With More Modules Ported To Qt6   Qt   2021-05-06
The Qt Company Publishes 2021 Roadmap   Qt   2021-04-27
LXQt 0.17 Released For This Lightweight Qt5 Desktop   Qt   2021-04-15
KDE Now Maintaining Their Own Set of Patches For Qt 5   KDE   2021-04-06
Linux 5.12 Corruption, GNOME 40, AMD Milan, Rust In Linux-Next Made For An Exciting March   Phoronix   2021-04-01
Qt 6.0.3 Released With Another ~40 Bug Fixes   Qt   2021-03-31
FreeCAD 0.19 Released For Advancing Open-Source CAD Software   Free Software   2021-03-22
Qt 5.15.3 LTS Released With 200+ Bug Fixes, But Only For Commercial Customers   Qt   2021-03-04
helloSystem Releases New ISOs For This macOS-Inspired BSD Desktop OS   BSD   2021-02-14
Qt 6.0.1 Released With Over 200 Bug Fixes   Qt   2021-02-03
Qt 6.1 Feature Freeze Now In Effect   Qt   2021-02-01
The Qt Company Is Tomorrow Moving Qt 5.15 To Its Commercial-Only LTS Phase   Qt   2021-01-04
Linux 5.11 Finally Flushes Out Its Qt4 Code For Configuring Kernel Builds UI   Qt   2020-12-23
Qt 6.0 Officially Released   Qt   2020-12-08
Fedora's Qt-Based Media Writer Seeing Improvements   Fedora   2020-11-15
Qt 6.0 Beta Released For This Big Toolkit Update   Qt   2020-10-20
Qt 6.0 Alpha Released   Qt   2020-10-06
KDE Frameworks 5.74 Released With Faster KTextEditor, Many Improvements   KDE   2020-09-12
Qt 5.15.1 Released With 400+ Bug Fixes   Qt   2020-09-10
Genode OS 20.08 Has Chromium Web Engine Running, Low-Level GUI Work   Operating Systems   2020-08-31
LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 Is Out For Testing This Skia+Vulkan Open-Source Office Suite   LibreOffice   2020-07-06
LibreOffice 7.0 Beta 2 Released For This Open-Source, Vulkan-Supported Office Suite   LibreOffice   2020-06-22
Qt 6.0 Sees Its First Development Snapshot   Qt   2020-06-15
LibreOffice 7.0 Beta Available For Testing With Its Skia+Vulkan Support   LibreOffice   2020-06-01
Qt 5.15 Aiming For Release A Week From Today   Qt   2020-05-12
Qt 6.0 Gets A Release Date With An Initial Release Schedule Published   Qt   2020-04-27
LXQt 0.15 Released As First Big Update To This Lightweight Qt Desktop In A Year   Qt   2020-04-25
Qt Developers Discuss Theoretical Clang-Based Tool For Porting Qt5 Code To Qt6   Qt   2020-04-23
XMMS-Inspired Audacious 4.0 Released With Move From GTK To Qt5 Toolkit   Multimedia   2020-03-22
LibreOffice 7.0 Git Adds Skia-Based Text Rendering Support   LibreOffice   2020-03-18
LibreOffice 7.0's Qt5 Support To Offer HiDPI Scaling   LibreOffice   2020-03-10
Qt Wayland's Maintainer Is Leaving The Company   Qt   2020-02-29
Qt 5.15 Feature Development Is Over For This Last Step Of The Qt5 Series   Qt   2020-02-11
Qt 5.14.1 Released With 200+ Bug Fixes, Including Security Fixes   Qt   2020-01-27
Wayland's Wild Decade From v1.0 Release To Usable GNOME/KDE Desktop Support   Wayland   2019-12-29
KDE Frameworks 5.65 Released With KQuickCharts For Accelerated Charts   KDE   2019-12-14
Qt 5.14 Released With Better HiDPI, Lots Of 3D Work Ahead Of Qt 6 Next Year   Qt   2019-12-12
Qt 5.14 On Track For Releasing Next Week With New Scenegraph Renderer, Better HiDPI   Qt   2019-12-04
The Qt Company Launches Qt Marketplace For Free + Paid Qt Extensions / Add-Ons   Qt   2019-12-02
KDE Frameworks 5.64 Released   KDE   2019-11-11
Qt 5.14 Beta 2 Released As Another Chance To Test The Big Toolkit Update   Qt   2019-10-24
Qt 3D Will Still Be Improved On Alongside Qt Quick 3D   Qt   2019-10-21
Qt 5.14 Rolls To Beta Stage With Graphics API Independent Scenegraph Renderer   Qt   2019-10-09
Qt 5.14 Hits Alpha With Major Renderer Work, Better HiDPI Support   Qt   2019-09-25
KDE Frameworks 5.62 Released With KWayland Additions & Other Improvements   KDE   2019-09-14
Qt 5.14 Is Bringing Significantly Better HiDPI Support   Qt   2019-09-13
Qt 5.13.1 Has ~500 Bug Fixes While Qt Creator 4.10 Released   Qt   2019-09-08
Ubuntu Planning To Drop Qt4 & Its Dependencies Ahead Of 20.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2019-08-23
Qt's Development Branch To Begin Forming Qt 6   Qt   2019-08-18
Lars Knoll Shares His Technical Vision For The Qt 6 Tool-Kit   Qt   2019-08-07
KernelShark 1.0 Released After Switching From GTK To Qt   Free Software   2019-07-27
KDE Frameworks 5.60 Released With Many Changes & Fixes   KDE   2019-07-13
Qt 5.13 Released With glTF 2.0 Importing, Wayland Improvements, Lottie Animation Support   Qt   2019-06-19
KDE Frameworks 5.59 Brings More Fixes   KDE   2019-06-08
QtCoAP Added To Qt 5.13 To Increase Its Relevance For Internet of Things   Qt   2019-06-06
Qt 5.13 Should Be Released By Mid-June With Lottie Support, WebAssembly, glTF 2.0 Import   Qt   2019-05-29
KDE Frameworks 5.58 Released With Many Fixes, Improvements   KDE   2019-05-13
There Are A Ton Of Interesting GSoC Projects This Year: Dav1d GPU Compute, Wayland, Rust   Google   2019-05-06
Qt 5.13 Will Still Try To Ship In May   Qt   2019-04-30
Qt 5.13 Beta 2 Available For Testing Lottie Support, WebAssembly, glTF 2.0 For Qt 3D   Qt   2019-04-16
Blend2D Reaches Beta As High Performance 2D Vector Graphics Engine   Free Software   2019-04-02
Qt 3D Pairs Nicely With Vulkan & NVIDIA RTX To Make A Beautiful Path Tracer   Vulkan   2019-03-18
KDE Frameworks 5.56 Brings Another Month Worth Of Improvements   KDE   2019-03-09
Wireshark 3.0 Released With New Protocol Support, User Interface Improvements   Free Software   2019-03-05
GNU Octave 5.1 Released With HiDPI Support, Drops OSMesa Usage   GNU   2019-03-02
Mageia 7.0 Beta 2 Released - Powered By Linux 4.20, Mesa 19.0-rc   Operating Systems   2019-02-24
Qt Publishes A 2019 Public Roadmap: More Work On WebAssembly, Tooling   Qt   2019-02-22
TuxClocker: Another GPU Overclocking GUI For Linux   Hardware   2019-02-20
Qt 5.13 Alpha Released With WebAssembly Preview, Qt Lottie Technical Preview   Qt   2019-02-13
KDE Frameworks 5.55 Released With Android Notifications, KWayland Fixes   KDE   2019-02-11
LibreOffice 6.2 Shipping Today With User Interface Improvements, Many New Features   LibreOffice   2019-02-07
Qt 5.12.1 LTS Released With Around 300 Bug Fixes   Qt   2019-02-01
Qt Design Studio 1.1 Beta Released - Now Includes Linux Packages   Qt   2019-02-01
LXQt 0.14 Brings File Manager Additions, Desktop Icon Improvements   Desktop   2019-01-26
Qt Is Working On An HTTP Web Server Module   Qt   2019-01-25
Qt 5.13 Might Add QTelemetry For Opt-In Anonymous Data Collection   Qt   2019-01-17
Deepin 15.9 Released With Usability Improvements, Bug Fixes   Operating Systems   2019-01-16
Qt 6 To Begin Early Stages Of Development In Git   Qt   2019-01-15
Deepin Desktop Option Approved For Fedora 30   Fedora   2019-01-14
KDE Frameworks 5.54 Released With KWayland Improvements, KIO Supports TLS 1.3   KDE   2019-01-12
OpenBSD Security, DragonFly + Threadripper, TrueOS Topped Out BSD News This Year   BSD   2018-12-30
Ubuntu Had A Very Busy 2018 But Not Everything Turned Out As Planned   Ubuntu   2018-12-30
KDE Had A Darn Exciting Year With Better Wayland Support, Improved Kdenlive, Krita 4.0   KDE   2018-12-30
Fedora 30 Might Offer The Deepin Desktop Environment   Fedora   2018-12-19
Qt For Python 5.12 Now Available   Qt   2018-12-18
Khronos Seeking Feedback On KTX2 Specification For Storing Textures For OpenGL/Vulkan   Standards   2018-12-15
Qt 3D Studio 2.2 Released With New Material System, Stereoscopic Rendering Preview   Qt   2018-12-14
KDE Frameworks 5.53 Released With Important KIO Performance Fix, KWayland Updates   KDE   2018-12-09
Qt 5.12 Released With Many Improvements, Joined By Qt Creator 4.8   Qt   2018-12-06
Qt 5.13 Gets Scheduled For A May Debut   Qt   2018-12-01
Qt 5.12 On Track For Releasing Next Week   Qt   2018-11-30
LunarG Rolls Out Vulkan Configurator With Updated SDK   Vulkan   2018-11-27
LibreOffice 6.2 Branched, The Beta Dance Begins & x86 32-bit Builds Are Deprecated   LibreOffice   2018-11-18
Qt 5.12 Lowering The QML Memory Consumption, Better JavaScript Performance   Qt   2018-11-16
KDE Frameworks 5.52 Released With KWayland Virtual Desktop Protocol, Spins Down Drives   KDE   2018-11-10
KDE Frameworks 5.51 Released   KDE   2018-10-15
LibreOffice Lands More Qt5 Integration Improvements, LXQt Support   LibreOffice   2018-10-13
KDE Elisa 0.3 Music Player Released   KDE   2018-10-09
Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 18 Released: Utilities Ported To Qt5, Other Updates   Operating Systems   2018-10-07
Qt 5.12 Beta Released With Better Performance, Input & UI Improvements   Qt   2018-10-05
LibreOffice Qt5 Integration Sees Further Improvements   LibreOffice   2018-10-04
KDE Frameworks 5.50 Brings Big Updates For KTextEditor, Improvements To KWayland   KDE   2018-09-09
KDE Frameworks 5.49 Released With Many Changes   KDE   2018-08-11
The Current Happenings Within LXQt As Of Summer 2018   Desktop   2018-08-01
KDE Frameworks 5.48 Brings KWayland Fixes & Many Other Improvements   KDE   2018-07-14
Clear Linux Working On AVX2-Optimized Qt Toolkit   Clear Linux   2018-06-25
The Qt 6 Plans For November 2020, Qt 5.15 Likely Being Last Of Qt5   Qt   2018-06-20
KDE Frameworks 5.47 Released With Various Improvements   KDE   2018-06-09
TrueOS To Reinvent Itself As New BSD Platform, Downstream Fork Of FreeBSD   BSD   2018-06-06
Qt 5.12 To Support Vulkan On macOS Via MoltenVK   Qt   2018-05-30