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Joao Abecasis of Nokia’s Qt mailing list suggested that the current system of training of new releases.

As soon released a new major version Qt 5, he believes that now is a good time to consider the plan next release version of Qt.

Joao has to go for a fixed time-release cycle releases:

• every 6 months – a minor release (5.x);
• every 2 months – Release Adjustment (5.xx).

In addition, it is proposed to restructure repository git-Qt, creating in it the following branches:

• Fire hose - the main branch for the development of Qt. It is intended to develop a minor release, allows the addition of new features and bug fixes.
• Leaky faucet - a branch to develop corrective releases, only allows error correction of the current minor release.
• Dripping bucket - a branch for the release are made only to fix critical bugs.

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Part of the staff Nokia, working on Maemo, MeeGo and devices on these operating systems (from N800 to N9), and retired from the corporation this week, joined the new company Jolla Mobile.

Jolla is based come from Nokia in the past year, but currently only announced today. Now the company is not even the site, but there is a twitter, in which employees answered questions from visitors.

The company will develop a mobile OS based on MeeGo. The developers claim that the new OS will be open, “as far as possible,” and intend to actively support the project Mer. Of course, the OS will use Qt.
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Announced last year smartphone Nokia N9 did not become particularly popular because of the limited edition products and the failure to further develop the platform. Nevertheless, the company introduced an updated version of the software, called MeeGo PR1.3.

Although it is only recently, after major layoffs, the company circulated rumors that the update MeeGo will be lost, especially since it is the only smartphone on the OS. It seems that despite all the internal problems of Nokia, MeeGo team is still working, at least for now. And, perhaps, is working on updating the PR1.4.

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Nokia, the developer kit for its Series 40 platform and the Nokia SDK for Java renewed.

The unwinding thickener tools are designed to work with NetBeans and Eclipse IDEs. The Nokia IDE for Java ME is built on the Eclipse Platfform for Java development and is designed to provide developers of Java apps exclusive features. A new Device Manager support the user in selecting the necessary components, Nokia writes. 
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Nokia has announced the transfer of Qt 4, under the patronage of the project Qt Project , an independent organization established to manage the development of Qt. The new governance structure involves maintenance of a company controlled by the project to a fully open development infrastructure, in which representatives of the community will be able to directly participate in the development of Qt and influence decision-making. Despite the fact that Qt Project was established in October, changes were made ​​only of the experimental branches of Qt 5 and Qt 4 to inertia developed by the old rules.
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On November 28, Nokia held an event to introduce its new smartphone, the Nokia Lumia. As part of the promotion made a projection on Millbank Tower of London.

The problem is that precisely in that tower Canonical, creator of the distribution Linux Ubuntu, has an office floor.

Obviously not found anything appropriate that Nokia (now Microsoft partner) projected its logo on the seat of Canonical. Millbank Tower is a landmark building enough and most likely is that from the marketing department at Nokia no fall in the income that could be interpreted as a small provocation.

Nokia promotion was spectacular , with an animated projection which advertised the smartphone it should return part of the leadership lost the Finnish brand. You can imagine what they would think Canonical workers, advocates of free sotware, seeing projected on your windows mobile phone from Nokia. The projection underlines the operating system Windows Phone.

From Canonical prepared a small response, the media managed to improvise a few hours.
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Began the first commercial deliveries MeeGo-leader Nokia – N9. Of the features:

• OS MeeGo
• 1GHz processor OMAP3630
• 3.9 “AMOLED 854×480 screen with scratch protection Gorilla Glass
• 1GB RAM
• NFC chip
• 8 MP camera with support for HD video

Approximate price in Europe (not including taxes), 480 euros for 16GB version and 560 Euro for the version of 64GB.

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Nokia has released the first beta of version 4.8 of the C + + class library, Qt.

The beta version of Qt 4.8 is provided only as an update of the Qt SDK 1.1, which probably annoyed some users, as they first need to install the SDK to be able to update. Alternatively, although the source code available, but only in the version control system, not as a tar archive. Even the upcoming test version and the official version says Sales 4.8, used to when the announcement of Eckhart Koppen true.

The first beta version for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, but not for Symbian, Symbian though new features were added. One of the main changes to Qt 4.7 is according to Nokia Qt Quick 1.1 , but this has also been integrated in Qt 4.7.4 and some minor extensions brings. These include support for fonts that are written from right to left, improved caching of images, improvements to the text input through a virtual keyboard and a declarative programming for handling touch inputs.
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Lars Knoll of the Qt development team of the Finnish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Nokia plans of the Group for the upcoming Qt version 5 has introduced. 2005, with Qt 4, the last major version of the framework released for graphical user interfaces.

he new version of Qt to the developments of recent years to meet. Focused mainly on developer with Qt 4 desktop systems, advanced gradually and mobile devices in the focus, which were included in minor versions. Qt 5, the next major version jump, will include many new features, including Qt Quick, QML Scene Graph and Project Lighthouse.

The objectives of the developers are making better use of the graphics processor and a faster development of applications using QML and Javascript. Qt apps to get Web applications to mobile devices and the code for individual ports is easier to implement and maintain his. Changes to the APIs should put an end to restrictions of the past. Concomitantly, the developers can not guarantee that Qt is 5 backward compatible so that existing applications may need to be adjusted.

Qt 5 will initially focus on a few operating systems and platforms such as Linux, Mac OS X and MS Windows, and X11 and Wayland. In the development of Nokia wants to work closely with the community, the development model requires that Qt 5 immediately as an open-source project starts, the sources are open and accessible.
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Today announced the official release of version 1.1 QtSDK It consists of:

• Qt 4.7.3 for PC
• Qt 4.7.3 for Symbian
• Qt 4.7.0 for Maemo/N900
• Qt Creator 2.1,
• Qt Mobility 1.1.3
• Qt simulator
• Remote Compiler, which allows to assemble applications on Linux and Mac platforms supported by Nokia, on remote servers, getting ready packages for installation

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