What's New in Qt 6.6 (original) (raw)

New and Restored Modules in Qt 6.6

Qt 6.6 adds the following modules and tools:

New and Restored Modules in Technical Preview

Note: API and ABI stability is not guaranteed.

Qt Graphs Module

Qt Graphs is meant to be the replacement module for Qt Data Visualization. It uses Qt Quick 3D as the rendering engine to provide support for native graphics backends, instead of relying on OpenGL 2.1, like Qt Data Visualization does.

The module will provide most, if not all of the functionality of Qt Data Visualization. Some advanced features may be incomplete in Technical Preview.

New Features in Qt 6.6

Qt Core Module

Qt GRPC Module

Qt GUI Module

Qt Location Module

Qt Multimedia Module

Qt PDF Module

Qt Positioning Module

Qt Protobuf Module

Qt Bluetooth Module

Qt QML Module

Qt Quick Module

Qt Quick Controls Module

Qt Quick Layouts Module

Qt Quick Shapes Module

Qt Quick 3D Module

Qt Sql Module

Qt TextToSpeech Module

The QTextToSpeech class learned a few more tricks that are available with all engines:

Not all new features are available with every engine. Applications can use the new Capabilities flag and engineCapabilities property to check which of the following new features the currently used engine supports:

Qt WebEngine Module

Qt Widgets Module

Platform Changes

Desktop Platforms

macOS

Mobile Platforms

Android

iOS

Embedded Platforms

Boot to Qt

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