Qt 5 alcança o beta. Essa é a maior versão do framework sob o projeto Umbrella.
[list]Amazing graphic capabilities and performance ? Special focus on low cost hardware environments like mobile and embedded devices. Qt now requires OpenGL ES, offering impressive graphics features and performance for animated 2D and 3D objects and interfaces.
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[list]Developer productivity and flexibility ? Make JavaScript and QML first class citizens with C++ and Qt Widget support remaining. New Qt JS backend powered by V8 and Qt WebKit 2 for HTML5 developers.[/list][list]Cross-platform portability ? Create new targets /OS development more easily due to the
new Essentialsand Add-ons module structure, plus consolidation of Qt Platform Abstraction (QPA).
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[list]Open development and open governance ? Faster development and broader testing of Qt 5 is assured by the active participation of a growing community including developers from Nokia, the KDE project, Intel, KDAB, Digia and many more companies and individuals.[/list][list]Keep as much compatibility with Qt 4 as possible ? Porting from Qt 4 to Qt 5 is very easy. QWidget and related classes are fully supported for the desktop platforms.[/list]
Entre as novidades vale destacar o uso da engine v8 para otimizar o javascript e um Parser de Json otimizado
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5-Beta
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2012/08/30/qt-5-beta-is-here/
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMRln8FJvKc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u94vwMXJJrs[/youtube]
Para quem quiser saber de todas as novidades implementadas aqui se encontra uma lista:
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5Features