14 DAY TRIAL // On May 26, the Qt Company, through Tuukka Turunen, had the great pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of the seventh maintenance release of Qt 4.8.
Qt is an open-source and cross-platform GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit that is successfully used to deploy beautiful, modern user interface for applications running under the GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
With over 150 bug fixes and improvements on board, Qt 4.8.7 is here to add better support for running Qt 4.8 application under Apple's latest Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) operating system, address some of the nastiest security problems that were present in previous versions, and patch issues reported by users since Qt 4.8.6.
"I am happy to announce release of Qt 4.8.7 today bringing over 150 improvements and bug fixes. Qt 4.8.7 provides important security updates, better support for Mac OS X 10.10 and many requested error corrections. As a patch release, it does not add new functionality and maintains full compatibility with previous Qt 4.8.x releases," Tuukka Turunen says.
Qt 4.8.7 is the last maintenance release of the Qt 4.x series
Prominent features of Qt 4.8.7 include a fix for a DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability discovered in the BMP image handler, several patches for security issues found in the image handling of GIF and BMP files, as well as updates to the libpng 1.6.17 and libtiff 4.0.3 libraries.
Unfortunately, it would appear that Qt 4.8.7 is the last maintenance release of the Qt 4.x series, which means that all developers are urged to migrate their projects to the next-generation Qt 5 toolkit by the year's end, when the support for Qt 4 will reach end of life.
As usual, you can download Qt 4.8.7 right now from the official website of the project, where you will find binaries for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The latest version of the Qt 5 toolkit can also be found on our website.