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Qt 5.8 Alpha Released With New Graphics Architecture, Qt Lite

Written by Michael Larabel in Qt on 5 September 2016 at 08:45 AM EDT. 6 Comments

Last week's Qt 5.8 Alpha preliminary packages have now been promoted to being the official alpha packages for this next major version of the Qt5 tool-kit.

Qt 5.8 Alpha equips a new graphics architecture for Qt Quick, a early Direct3D 12 back-end for Qt as well, a new QML caching engine, Qt Lite Project, new modules including the Qt Wayland Compositor, and more.

Learn more about the Qt 5.8 Alpha via the Qt blog announcement.

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