Qt Maintenance & Security Updates | LTS vs Community (original) (raw)
FREQUENT UPDATES
Maintenance Periods for Qt Community Edition
Using the Qt Community Edition, the open source version of Qt, requires more frequent manual work to stay up-to-date, especially with the security patches.
Delayed Patches after Initial Support
Qt Community Edition releases get Maintenance releases until the next Minor release, which is approximately every 6 months. After this, updates are provided as delayed patches, which become available 12 months after their commercial release.
Users of Qt Community Edition have two options. Option 1 is to update to every new Minor release every ~6 months. Option 2 is to manually apply and integrate the security patches from latest available Maintenance releases.