Qt Creator 15 Beta released

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 15 Beta!

General

It is the first time that we release native binaries for Windows ARM64. Qt recently did the same with the Qt 6.8.0 release. Please mind that these might still have some rough edges.

As was shared in a blog post earlier this year there is work ongoing to create new light and dark themes. These are now included in the release, codenamed "Broccoli Light" and "Broccoli Dark". Check them out in Preferences > Environment > Interface > Theme. Feedback is very welcome!

The work on exposing API to Lua based plugins continues. We also added an interactive shell for Lua as an output view.

Polishing the Extensions mode continues as well. For example, plugins can now have more extensive and nicely formatted descriptions.

We also enabled automatic crash reporting on Windows and macOS via Google Crashpad and Sentry.io (opt-in).

Projects

There were many improvements for CMake projects. You can now navigate from targets in the Projects view directly to the CMakeLists.txt where they are defined. We added support for the FOLDER property of targets that can be used to change the display in the Projects view. You can now open a project by opening a CMakeCache.txt file.

Workspace projects (that allow you to just open a folder as a project in Qt Creator) now automatically update their Projects view. We also added the option to define custom build configurations, and fixed that cloned predefined run configurations were not editable.

Axivion

Axivion support got its own view in Debug mode. You no longer need to link your projects to the Dashboard. Just choose the Dashboard for the project in the Axivion Issues view. The columns are now sortable, and you can define a path mapping from paths in the analysis to paths on your local checkout.

There have been many more improvements of general editing features, C++ coding, and projects support. Please see our change log for a more detailed overview.

Get Qt Creator 15 Beta

The opensource version is available on the Qt download page under "Pre-releases", and you find commercially licensed packages on the Qt Account Portal. Qt Creator 15 Beta is also available under Preview > Qt Creator 15.0.0-beta1 in the online installer. Please post issues in our bug tracker. You can also find us on IRC on #qt-creator on irc.libera.chat, and on the Qt Creator mailing list.

You can read the Qt Creator Manual in Qt Creator in the Help mode or access it online in the Qt documentation portal.