{"id":602,"date":"2022-02-11T14:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/?p=602"},"modified":"2022-02-11T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:04:22","slug":"qt-creator-7-beta-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/2022\/02\/11\/qt-creator-7-beta-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Qt Creator 7 Beta released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-196c3c69-a152-4a02-be7a-4a24a7d1a4f8\"><em>The beta version of new Qt Creator 7 is out. Below the details and full article.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-default\" id=\"block-14e2acb4-cbb2-4d7e-9275-f2ca1c3b2f67\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-d7f95926-f446-4a2e-bad4-831a54a1adeb\"><li><em><strong>Link:<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qt.io\/blog\/qt-creator-7-beta-released\"><em>https:\/\/www.qt.io\/blog\/qt-creator-7-beta-released<\/em><\/a><\/li><li><em><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> Friday February 11, 2022<\/em><\/li><li><em><strong>Author:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qt.io\/blog\/author\/thomas-hartmann\"> <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qt.io\/blog\/author\/eike-ziller\"><em>Eike Ziller<\/em><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" id=\"block-c1b59b1e-8553-4ae5-9589-4312bba59b1f\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 7 Beta!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll shortly highlight some of the improvements and fixes here. Head over to our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/code.qt.io\/cgit\/qt-creator\/qt-creator.git\/plain\/dist\/changes-7.0.0.md?h=7.0\">change log<\/a>&nbsp;for a more detailed overview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">General<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We sprayed some new paint onto the Welcome mode.<\/li><li><em>New File or Project<\/em>&nbsp;is now split up into&nbsp;<em>New File<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>New Project<\/em>. That also means a new shortcut for&nbsp;<em>New Project<\/em>.<\/li><li>If you are using the Qt Online Installer, update notifications in Qt Creator now also include new minor Qt versions and patch releases to the latest available Qt version.&nbsp;You can configure this in&nbsp;<em>Options<\/em>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<em>Environment<\/em>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<em>Updates<\/em>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Editing<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We switched to Clangd as the default for the C++ code model! If you find issues with Clangd, please create a bug report in our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bugreports.qt.io\/projects\/QTCREATORBUG\">bug tracker<\/a>. If you face deal breaking issues, you can switch back to the libclang based code model in&nbsp;<em>Options<\/em>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<em>C++<\/em>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<em>Clangd<\/em>.<\/li><li>If you use the&nbsp;<em>ClangFormat<\/em>&nbsp;plugin, its settings have been merged into the non-<em>ClangFormat<\/em>&nbsp;code style settings. See the new tab there.<\/li><li>We updated the QML parser to the newest version from Qt.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Projects<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We did lots of improvements to the CMake configuration in&nbsp;<em>Projects<\/em>&nbsp;mode. Please see the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qt.io\/blog\/qt-creator-7-cmake-update?hsLang=en\">separate blog post<\/a>&nbsp;for details!<\/li><li>We improved the automatic (re-)detection of toolchains and removed some unnecessary compiler calls at startup, improving the Qt Creator startup times in certain configurations.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Platforms<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On macOS Qt Creator now uses the systems dark mode when setting a dark theme.<\/li><li>For Android we added an option for the default NDK, and fixed the detection of available NDK platforms for recent NDKs.<\/li><li>We added experimental support for Docker on macOS, besides continuing the work of making Qt Creator internals work better with remote paths.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get Qt Creator 7 Beta<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The opensource version is available on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qt.io\/offline-installers?hsLang=en\">Qt download page under &#8220;Pre-releases&#8221;<\/a>, and you find commercially licensed&nbsp;packages on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/login.qt.io\/\">Qt Account Portal<\/a>. Qt Creator 7 Beta is also available under&nbsp;<em>Preview<\/em>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<em>Qt Creator 7.0.0-beta1<\/em>&nbsp;in the online installer. Please post issues in our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bugreports.qt.io\/projects\/QTCREATORBUG\">bug tracker<\/a>. You can also find us on IRC on #qt-creator on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.libera.chat\/\">irc.libera.chat<\/a>, and on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.qt-project.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/qt-creator\">Qt Creator mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the Qt Creator Manual in Qt Creator in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doc-snapshots.qt.io\/qtcreator-7.0\/creator-help.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Help mode<\/a>&nbsp;or access it online in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doc-snapshots.qt.io\/qtcreator-7.0\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qt documentation portal.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beta version of new Qt Creator 7 is out. Below the details and full article. Link: https:\/\/www.qt.io\/blog\/qt-creator-7-beta-released Publication Date: Friday February 11, 2022 Author: Eike Ziller We are happy&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/2022\/02\/11\/qt-creator-7-beta-released\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,9,11],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev-tools","category-news","category-qt","tag-qt-creator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tbekk.com\/devstream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}