Qt 6.5 LTS Released With Many Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qt 6.5 LTS Released With Many Improvements

Out today is the Qt 6.5 toolkit that is also now the second Qt6 long-term support release...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.5-LTS-Released

[acobar]

Michael,

In the beginning of the penultimate paragraph, you used 5.5 instead of 6.5.

Cheers

[Michael]

Michael,

In the beginning of the penultimate paragraph, you used 5.5 instead of 6.5.

Cheers

Thanks, fixed.

[uid313]

When will VLC media player, OBS Studio, LibreOffice, KDE, Krita or any other software get released with Qt 6 support?

[Setif]

When will VLC media player, OBS Studio, LibreOffice, KDE, Krita or any other software get released with Qt 6 support?

VLC: Next major release (Which no one knows when?)
OBS: Already supports Qt6.
LibreOffice: already supports Qt6
KDE: WIP
Krita: still stuck with Qt5 5.12, I think next release will be against Qt5 5.15

for OBS and LO It's up to packagers to build them against Qt6.

[Setif]

Please stop calling it LTS, It's an LTS only for Commercial users.
For Open Source community It's just a new release like any other.

[patrick1946]

Please stop calling it LTS, It's an LTS only for Commercial users.
For Open Source community It's just a new release like any other.

LTS are risk averse companies who don't want to change the Qt version very often. There is no magic about LTS except some bug fixes are ported to it.

I think open source projects should not aim for LTS.

[Setif]

LTS are risk averse companies who don't want to change the Qt version very often. There is no magic about LTS except some bug fixes are ported to it.

I think open source projects should not aim for LTS.

They are suitable for LTS Distributions like RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu-LTS.

[mether]

They are suitable for LTS Distributions like RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu-LTS.

They largely aren't if the maintenance fixes are reserved for commercial users negating the benefit.

[Barnacle]

Qt6 has been great, looking forward to trying 6.5. I wish "old and crufty" Linux distros like Debian would finally add it to their stable repos, they've only had 3 years to do it.