Qt 6.4 Release Candidate Arrives With Added Modules For 3D Physics, HTTP Server

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qt 6.4 Release Candidate Arrives With Added Modules For 3D Physics, HTTP Server

Qt 6.4 is continuing to run on-schedule and out today is the release candidate ahead of the stable release expected around the end of the month...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.4-RC1-Released

[Setif]

They have also reintroduced Qt-Speech

Qt 6.4 reintroduces the Qt TextToSpeech module from Qt 5. This module wasn't present in Qt 6.3. It now uses the CMake build system and works with Qt 6.

[hamishmb]

Wait a minute, I thought HTML 5 file system access was a security risk?

[lowflyer]

Wait a minute, I thought HTML 5 file system access was a security risk?

No need for panic. Nothing has changed. It still is a security risk.

[hamishmb]

I thought most browsers had disabled it ages ago, maybe I'm wrong.

[carewolf]

I thought most browsers had disabled it ages ago, maybe I'm wrong.

It requires explicit user permission to access, but some "rich" html5 applications use it.

[Nth_man]

I thought most browsers had disabled it ages ago, maybe I'm wrong.

In https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...tem_Access_API it's written:
This API opens up potential functionality the web has been lacking. Still, security has been of utmost concern when designing the API, and access to file/directory data is disallowed unless the user specifically permits it.