{"id":9713,"date":"2021-04-11T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=9713"},"modified":"2021-04-11T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T17:23:09","slug":"kde-project-forced-to-maintain-their-own-set-of-qt-5-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/kde-project-forced-to-maintain-their-own-set-of-qt-5-patches\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Project Forced to Maintain Their Own Set of Qt 5 Patches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The KDE project and the open-source Linux community have found themselves in a fix after The Qt Company dropped the Qt 5.15 LTS release from the open-source release, making it only available to its commercial users. This means they have resorted to maintaining their own Qt 5 patches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are several modules and other features still missing from the Qt 6<\/a> toolkit in addition to most of the free software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The KDE project<\/a> has taken up maintaining their own Qt 5.15 release at least until they have fully transitioned to using the Qt 6 toolkit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read more about the move from the announcement about the Qt 5 Patches maintenance from this post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The KDE project and the open-source Linux community have found themselves in a fix after The Qt Company dropped the Qt 5.15 LTS release from the open-source release, making it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,27,16,18],"tags":[111,164,338,350,424,482,591],"yoast_head":"\n