Qt 5.9 Enters Beta, Promises to Fully Leverage C++11, Improve Wayland Support

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The Qt Company, through Tuukka Turunen, was pleased to announce the availability of the Beta release of the upcoming Qt 5.9 open-source and cross-platform GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit.

Qt 5.9 entered developed in February this year, when it received an Alpha build, which represented an early stage of evolutionary development, but the Beta is here to give Qt application developers an early taste of what’s coming to the final Qt 5.9 release, which should hit the streets at the end of May.

“Qt 5.9, scheduled to be released at the end of May, completes the work started with Qt 5.7 and 5.8 to take Qt 5 to the next level. Compared to Qt 5.6 LTS we have added a lot of new features,” said Tuukka Turunen in the release announcement. ‘With Qt 5.9 we are slightly adjusting the release process of Qt.”

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