New Features in Qt 5.13

Note that this list should be considered as work in progress until the first Beta release.

New Features (within existing modules)

• Qt Core
  • Clang: New configure switch -coverage which is useful for fuzzing
• Qt GUI
• Qt Network
  • Windows: Secure Channel support for SSL socket (QTBUG-62637)
  • OCSP stapling support (QTBUG-12812, QTBUG-17158)
• Qt QML
• Qt Quick
  • Added support to TableView for hiding rows and columns
• Qt Quick Controls 2
  • Added SplitView.
  • Added cache property to icon.
• Qt Serial Bus
• Qt WebEngine
• Qt Labs Platform
• Qt Bluetooth
  • Removed need for pairing on Windows to discover and connect
• Qt 3D
• Qt Wayland Compositor
  • New client buffer integration for linux-dmabuf-unstable-v1 support. Qt clients already had support through the wayland-egl integration.
  • Support for the wp_viewporter protocol.
• Qt WebEngine
  • Application-local client certificate store
  • Client certificate support from QML
• Qt Websockets
• Qt Location
• Qt Test

New Modules

Platform Changes

• Android
  • Android 5.0 (API level 21) is now the minimum supported version.
• Wayland
  • New shell integration for fullscreen-shell-unstable-v1.

Technology Preview Modules

• Qt Lottie (TP)

Technology Preview Platform

• Qt for WebAssembly (TP)

Qt for Automation

• Qt KNX
  • Secure client API added
• Qt OPC UA
  • C++ API out of TP
  • Added QML API (TP)
  • Added secure client C++ API (TP)
  • UaCpp and Open62542 backend are feature equal
• Qt COAP (TP)
  • DTLS support merged

Deprecated Modules

The following modules are part of Qt 5.12 release, but deprecated and considered for removal in subsequent releases of Qt:

• Qt Script
• Qt Quick Controls 1

Removed Modules

The following modules have been deprecated earlier and no longer part of the Qt 5.13 release:

• Qt Canvas 3D

Configurations