Qt 5.4 Alpha Shows Off Graphics Improvements, New Qt WebEngine

It's a busy Monday morning for open-source news with the latest announcement being Digia's release of the Qt 5.4 Alpha.

The Qt 5.4 Alpha is out today as the first development milestone in the Qt 5.4 series. Qt 5.4 Alpha features full support for Qt for WinRT, graphics improcements, Android style for Qt Quick Controls, Qt Bluetooth now supports BlueZ 5, the new Qt WebEngine is integrated and based off Chromium 37, and there's also a new Qt WebChannel module. Other new Qt 5.4 features are covered in this earlier article.

Those wishing to learn about the Qt 5.4 Alpha release can read the Digia blog. The plan going out for Qt 5.4 is to do a beta release on 30 September, release candidate on 28 October, and the final Qt 5.4 release on 18 November.