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Qt 6.10 RC Available For Testing With Native PipeWire Audio Back-End

([Qt] 6 Hours Ago Qt 6.10)


Out today is the Qt 6.10 release candidate for this forthcoming toolkit release.

Qt 6.10 is working its way toward release release now in early to mid October. Qt 6.10 had originally been aiming for a release by today but delays during the release cycle have pushed the final release back by a few weeks. But Qt 6.10 is an exciting toolkit update with a native PipeWire audio back-end, Chromium extensions support in the WebEngine, and many other changes.

Some of the Qt 6.10 highlights include:

- A native PipeWire audio back-end is added to the Qt Multimedia module.

- The Qt WebEngine module added support for Chromium extensions.

- Qt Graphs received a number of improvements for its 2D graphs capabilities, such as for hover support and multi-axis support.

- Qt GUI's QRhi has added support for enumerating 3D graphics adapters when running on Direct3D 11/12 or Vulkan.

- Performance improvements for QGrpcHttp2Channel.

- Various accessibility improvements.

- Adding the lottietoqml tool for converting Lottie files to Qt Quick scenes in QML. There is also a VectorImage plug-in to enable loading Lottie files directly in addition to SVG.

- Support for 16KB page sizes on Android.

- [1]Wayland session management .

- [2]Graphics reset notifications that can be used by the likes of KDE KWin.

The Qt 6.10 RC release announcement can be found on the [3]Qt mailing list . More details on the Qt 6.10 changes via the [4]documentation .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Session-Manage-Interial

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.5-More-Wayland-Work

[3] https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2025-September/046588.html

[4] https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qt6-6.10/whatsnew610.html



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