We are happy to announce that the infrastructure for supporting different languages/translations in Qt 5 are now in place.

Lars Knoll has laid out his plans for branching the Qt 5.0 code-base and seeing the long-awaited update to the popular open-source toolkit see the light of day before year's end.

I’ve finally been able to find a time slot to try to summarize the Qt Developer Conference.

It is customary for the developer of a platform to host that platform's guide event – examples being MIX, I/O and the various Apple events. In the case of Qt, however, organising the event has fallen to Swedish consultancy company KDAB. It has organised this year's Qt Developer Days conference in Berlin, billed as "The event for the entire Qt ecosystem".

Now, a week after Qt Developer Days Berlin where Digia presented its strategy for Qt moving forward, I wanted to take a moment to recap a bit of what I presented.

I’m glad to announce that Qt 5.0 Beta 2 is now released, just in time for Qt Developer Days in Berlin. The beta puts us closer to the final release of Qt 5.0, which we anticipate to release by the end of the year.

Together with BogDan Vatra, the main author of the Qt for Android port called Necessitas, we have agreed that he will contribute his work into the Qt Project. This is great news and I am truly excited on the things we can do together in the Qt Project. The Qt 5 Android port will be based on the work done in the Necessitas project and BogDan will also continue his work in this area within the Qt Project. This co-operation will enable us to reach Tier 1 status of Qt for Android faster.

We are happy to announce Qt Creator 2.6.0 final today. If you haven’t followed the pre-release blogs, I’ll summarize the highlights of the new version here.

Qt has traditionally strived to provide a native look and feel on all its target platforms and does not really have a strong visual identity of its own. This will not change in Qt5.

We have been working on refactoring the Qt 5 QSensor qml API, removing the old qt-mobility stuff and merging the two imports.