| Version | Release date | New features |
| 4.0 | 28 June 2005 |
- Tulip: A set of template container classes.
- Interview: A model–view–controller architecture for item views.
- Arthur 2D painting framework.
- Scribe Unicode text renderer with a public API for performing low-level text layout.
- MainWindow: A modern action-based main window, toolbar, menu, and docking architecture.
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| 4.1 | 20 December 2005 | Introduced integrated SVG Tiny support, a PDF backend to Qt's printing system, and . |
| 4.2 | 4 October 2006 | Introduced Windows Vista support, introduced native CSS support for widget styling, as well as the QGraphicsView framework for efficient rendering of thousands of 2D objects onscreen, to replace Qt 3.x's QCanvas class. |
| 4.3 | 30 May 2007 | Improved Windows Vista support, improved OpenGL engine, SVG file generation, added QtScript. |
| 4.4 | 6 May 2008 | Features included are improved multimedia support using Phonon, enhanced XML support, a concurrency framework to ease developing multi-threaded applications, an IPC framework with a focus on shared memory, and WebKit integration. |
| 4.5 | 3 March 2009 | Major included features are QtCreator, improved graphical engine, improved integration with WebKit, OpenDocument Format write support and new licensing options, as well as OS X Cocoa framework support. |
| 4.6 | 1 December 2009 | New APIs are Framework Animation, Gestures, Multi-touch. Now supports Symbian and Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6, support extended for some Unix systems. Improvements have also been made to overall performance. |
| 4.7 | 21 September 2010 | QML and Qt Quick. |
| 4.8 LTS | 15 December 2011 | Qt Platform Abstraction, Threaded OpenGL support, Multithreaded HTTP, and optimized file system access. |
| Version | Release date | Standard Support Until | Extended Support Availability | New features |
| | 2012-12-19 | Already ended | Yes |
- Major overhaul of the Qt 4.x series.
- Complete Wayland support, including the client-side decorations.
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| | 2013-07-03 | Already ended | Yes | New modules and experimental Android and iOS support as technology preview. |
| | 2013-12-12 | Already ended | Yes | First release with official support of Android and iOS. Some code from KDE Platform 4 moved into Qt instead of KDE Frameworks 5. |
| | 2014-05-20 | 2016-12-10 | Yes | Focus on stability and usability |
| | 2014-12-10 | 2017-07-01 | Yes | Full WinRT and Windows Phone support Introduction of Qt WebEngine based on Chromium internal components that will eventually replace QtWebKit in future versions. Dynamic GL switching between graphic backends on Windows Native "look and feel" for Qt Quick Controls backends on Android platforms Introduction of Qt WebChannels providing a QObject bridge over WebSockets. Initially only integrated with Qt WebKit, but with Qt WebEngine integration under way for 5.5 |
| | 2015-07-01 | 2018-03-16 | Yes | Features available in Qt 5.5 according to official Qt.io website:
- New modules: Qt 3D, Qt Canvas 3D, Qt Location
- Deprecated modules: Qt WebKit, Qt Declarative, Qt Script
- Bluetooth Low Energy API final release
- On Windows, there will be no more OpenGL-only or ANGLE-only builds and Qt will manage this dynamically
- GStreamer 1.0 support
- New video filtering framework
- Camera and QML MediaPlayer improvement on iOS
- Qt NFC for Linux
- SSL/TLS improvements for Qt Network
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| | 2016-03-16 | 2019-03-16 | Yes | Notable improvements:
- Deprecated Modules: Qt Script, Qt Enginio
- Removed Modules: Qt WebKit, Qt Declarative
- Qt Core: Several performance improvements, including reduction of memory usage in dynamic properties, and performance optimisations in QString
- Qt Network: Support HTTP redirection
- Qt Gui: Improved cross-platform OpenGL ES 3.0 and 3.1
- Qt Multimedia: Adding playlist QML type
- Qt WebEngine: Based on Chromium 45, with support for pepper plugins including Flash, API for custom URL schemes, intercepting and blocking network requests and also tracking or blocking cookies
- Qt QML: Reduced memory consumption
- Embedded platforms: support for Intel Atom-based NUCs
This release was the first Qt5 release to be Long Term Supported with three years standard support. |
| | 2016-06-16 | 2017-06-16 | Yes |
Notable improvements:
- New modules: Qt 3D and Qt Quick Controls 2, a set of embedded and mobile oriented controls
- Open-sourced modules : Qt Charts, Qt Data Visualization, Qt Virtual Keyboard, Qt Purchasing, and Qt Quick 2D Renderer
- Qt WebEngine now uses Chromium 49
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| 2017-01-23 | 2018-01-23 | Yes | Notable improvements:
- New Qt Lite configuration system allowing savings of more than 60% in binary size compared to Qt 5.6
- Qt Wayland Compositor is now fully supported
- Qt Serialbus is now fully supported
- Qt Network and Web Sockets gained full support for TLS PSK cyphersuites
- Reduced startup time and memory consumption of The QML engine, by caching binary representations of QML and JS files on disk
- Performance improvements to the Qt Quick 2D renderer, by supporting partial updates in the Qt Quick scene graph
- The Qt Quick Controls 2 have gained new types such as dialogs, rounded buttons and tool separators.
- Qt WebEngine now has the ability to print web pages.
- Qt SCXML is now fully supported
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| | 2017-05-31 | 2020-05-31 | Yes | Notable improvements:
- Qt Network has gained support for HTTP Strict Transport Security
- Qt Web Sockets can now use external TCP sockets
- Improvements in NFC support for Android
- Various improvements to the 3D engine
- Performance and memory improvements QML engine
- Qt WebEngine now uses Chromium 56
- Qt Gamepad has graduated from Tech Preview status to being fully supported
- Qt Quick scenes can now be embedded within a Qt 3D application, e.g. to place 2D UI controls inside a 3D environment
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| | 2017-11-30 | 2018-10-30 | Yes | Notable improvements:
- Qt Quick got a plugin that allows placing arbitrarily shaped items into the scene
- Qt Quick: new pointer handlers
- New styles for Qt Quick Controls 2
- Streaming UI into WebGL enabled browser
- Qt WebEngine now uses Chromium 61
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| | 2018-05-22 | 2019-05-22 | Yes | Notable improvements:
- Optimized QML Compiler Pipeline
- Expanded Support for Loading Compressed Textures in Image element
- New Accessibility Backend on Windows
- Qt High-DPI Support
- Qt WebEngine now uses Chromium 65
- new Python module: Qt for Python 5.11
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| | 2019-01-31 | 2021-12-05 | Yes | Notable improvements:
- Technology preview of Qt for WebAssembly.
- Support of Qt for Python was announced to follow shortly after the release.
- Qt WebEngine now uses Chromium 69
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| 2019-06-19 | 2020-06-19 | ? | Notable improvements:
- Gapless playback in QML VideoOutput
- Qt Design Studio: can import from Sketch
- Qt Lottie : can import animations from Adobe After Effects
- Qt WebEngine now uses Chromium 73.
- Qt Canvas 3D removed.
- Qt CoAP: now supports DTLS.
- Qt Multimedia: Added support of GStreamer for Windows/macOS.
- Qt Quick: Added support to TableView for hiding rows and columns.
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| 2019-12-12 | 2020-12-12 | ? | New Modules
Notable improvements
- Qt WebEngine now uses Chromium 77
- Qt Network supports Kerberos Proxy Authentication
Deprecated modules:
- Qt Script
- Qt Quick Controls 1
- Qt XML Patterns
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| 2020-05-26 | 2023-05-26 | Yes | New Modules
- Qt Quick 3D
- Qt Lottie is now officially supported
Notable improvements
- Qt WebEngine now uses Chromium 80
- Abstracting 3D graphics APIs
Deprecated modules:
- Qt Script
- Qt Quick Controls 1
- Qt XML Patterns
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