14 DAY TRIAL // Ubuntu developers announced a while ago that they intended to make the switch to Qt 5.2.1. After facing a small delay, the new Qt has finally landed.
Qt 5.2.1 was released a little over a month ago and the Ubuntu developers had to move fast in order to get it in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr). Unfortunately, the distribution was already past the feature freeze point and they had to get permission in order to make the uploads to the repository.
“We didn't hit that target in the quest for ‘perfect’ landing (as discussed during vUDS as well...), but it's now done! We have Qt 5.2.1 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, thanks to the team effort of multitude of people yesterday, throughout the night and timezones until today,” said Timo Jyrinki on the official mailing list.
It will take some adjustments for the applications that are Qt-dependent, but it's good to see the latest and best version of Qt making it into Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr). Also, some very interesting changes will happen on the Ubuntu Touch front, which is heavily dependent on Qt.
The developers over there can't wait to get their hands on the new version and fix some of the problems that have been put on hold because of this particular update.