New Features in Qt 5.11

Note that this page is work in progress until the Qt 5.11 Beta release.

New Features (within existing modules)

• Qt Core
  • QFloat16 now has two methods for bulk conversion between float16 and float, using hardware SIMD acceleration if available at runtime.
  • QVarLengthArray now has rvalue reference versions of prepend and insert, and can hold movable-only datatypes such as std::unique_ptr.
  • QVector now has rvalue reference versions of prepend and insert.
  • QUuid toString() and toByteArray() can now takes a parameter specifying the generated format.

• Qt Network
  • ALPN (via Secure Transport) and thus HTTP/2 negotiation are now supported on iOS (starting from version 11)
  • QNetworkRequest now has the Http2DirectAttribute to start a connection in HTTP/2 without first negotiating.

• Qt Quick
  • Expanded support for loading compressed textures in Image element. Now supports both .ktx and .pkm container file formats.

• Qt 3D

• Qt Multimedia

• Qt WebEngine
  • Updated to Chromium 64 or 65.
  • Embedded DevTools without using a port and separate browser.
  • Installable cookie filter.
  • Quota permissions.

• Qt Designer
  • Added support for ID-based translations ( QTBUG-34610 )

• Qt GUI
  • On Windows Desktop, the accessibility support was updated and vastly improved. The implementation is now based on Microsoft UI Automation (it was formerly based on Microsoft Active Accessibility).
  • Linux Printing now supports more CUPS options with the advanced tab in QPrintPropertiesDialog (QTBUG-54464) allowing many additional settings (amongst them arbitrary page ranges QTBUG-1311).

New Modules

• No new modules added

Platform Changes

• Jira tracking for 5.11 changes:

• XCB
  • Support for missing 'dead keys' such as dasia and diaeresis.

Technology Preview Modules

• Qt Remote Objects (TP3) - A module that allows you to easily share QObject interfaces (Signals/Slots/Properties) between processes or devices.
• Qt WebGL Streaming Plugin (TP2) - Stream applications to browsers over the network

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