Qt 6.10 is working its way toward release release now in early to mid October. Qt 6.10 had originally been aiming for a release by today but delays during the release cycle have pushed the final release back by a few weeks. But Qt 6.10 is an exciting toolkit update with a native PipeWire audio back-end, Chromium extensions support in the WebEngine, and many other changes.
Some of the Qt 6.10 highlights include:
- A native PipeWire audio back-end is added to the Qt Multimedia module.
- The Qt WebEngine module added support for Chromium extensions.
- Qt Graphs received a number of improvements for its 2D graphs capabilities, such as for hover support and multi-axis support.
- Qt GUI's QRhi has added support for enumerating 3D graphics adapters when running on Direct3D 11/12 or Vulkan.
- Performance improvements for QGrpcHttp2Channel.
- Various accessibility improvements.
- Adding the lottietoqml tool for converting Lottie files to Qt Quick scenes in QML. There is also a VectorImage plug-in to enable loading Lottie files directly in addition to SVG.
- Support for 16KB page sizes on Android.
- Wayland session management .
- Graphics reset notifications that can be used by the likes of KDE KWin.
The Qt 6.10 RC release announcement can be found on the Qt mailing list . More details on the Qt 6.10 changes via the documentation .