New Features in Qt 6.0

New Features (within existing modules)

There's been lots of clean-up all round and many deprecated methods have been removed.

Within QtCore

• QByteArrayView now provides a light-weight way to view the content of a QByteArray or other char-equivalent array data.

Platform Changes

All

• Qt is now built with CMake.

Removed Modules

See Checklist for Qt 6.0 inclusion for the selection process. Some of the modules omitted in 6.0 have moved to the marketplace. Others may be brought back in 6.1 or later. Please indicate which, if either, of these apply

• Qt Multimedia → ?
• Qt Multimedia Widgets → ?
• Qt Quick Dialogs → ?
• Qt Bluetooth → ?
• Qt Charts → ?
• Qt Data Visualization → ?
• Qt Gamepad → ?
• Qt Graphical Effects → ?
• Qt Image Formats → ?
• Qt Lottie → ?
• Qt Location → ?
• Qt Positioning → ?
• Qt Quick Extras → ?
• Qt Quick WebGL → ?
• Qt Remote Objects → ?
• Qt SCXML → ?
• Qt Sensors → ?
• Qt Serial Bus → ?
• Qt Speech → ?
• Qt Virtual Keyboard → ?
• Qt WebChannel → ?
• Qt WebEngine → ?
• Qt WebView → ?
• Qt XML → ?
• Qt XML Patterns → ?

Code from these Qt <platform> Extras modules will find new homes in more relevant modules over time, and any remaining APIs considered for inclusion in later 6.x releases:

• Qt Android Extras
• Qt Mak Extras
• Qt Windows Extras
• Qt X11 Extras