New Features in Qt 5.10

Note: This page is work in progress and should not be considered as final list of Qt 5.10 features before the beta release.

New Features (within existing modules)

• Qt GUI
  • Added cross-platform Vulkan enablers for Windows, Linux (xcb) and Android (level 23+): QVulkanInstance, QWindow with type VulkanSurface, and QVulkanWindow
  • Added new flags and functions to QSurfaceFormat and QOpenGLWidget to request sRGB-capable default/backing framebuffers
  • The OpenGL ES 3.2 API is now exposed in a cross-platform manner via QOpenGLExtraFunctions.
  • QImages can now use more than 2GByte of pixel data.
• Qt Widgets
  • QWidget::createWindowContainer() is now functional on Android
  • QOpenGLWidget is now usable for rendering and reading back (grabbing) offscreen content.
• Qt Quick
  • Added a shapes plugin, providing a Shape type under QtQuick.Shapes 1.0. This allows adding stroked and filled paths into Qt Quick scenes. Such shapes are rendered either by generating geometry or by using the GL_NV_path_rendering extension.
  • Added the Qt.labs.handlers plugin, providing TapHandler, PinchHandler and DragHandler. These are the beginnings of the Pointer Handlers which we have been talking about for some time: lightweight objects for handling events from the mouse or the touchscreen in a device-agnostic way.
  • QQuickItem layers can now request to be backed by multisample framebuffers via the property layer.samples
• Qt Graphical Effects
  • The effects are now functional also in core profile OpenGL contexts.
• Qt Serial Bus
  • Added local echo flag to QCanBusFrame to mark frames that are sent from the local system to the CAN bus.

New Modules

Platform Changes

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Deprecated Modules

The following modules are part of Qt 5.10 release, but deprecated and considered for removal in subsequent releases of Qt:

• Qt Script

Configurations