The Qt Company has followed up on its plan to make long-term support releases commercial-only by closing the source for 5.15 today

[Paul J]

Is this going cause future problems?

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/05/qt_lts_goes_commercial_only/

"According to last year's QT post, the idea is that non-commercial users shift to 6.0 so that they can still use the latest release for free "

[Mark Liversedge]

This was announced last January.

We will continue to build against Qt 5.15.2 and are looking forward to migrating to Qt 6.0 once all the modules are available.

At present there are a significant number of important modules missing in Qt 6.0 (charts, multimedia, web) and I don't expect them to be even close to ready before we release in the summer. Honestly, I'd be surprised if there in by the end of 2021.

It means we won't be able to get bug fixes for Qt 5.15 but its pretty stable anyway.

Mark

[Paul J]

Hi Mark,

    Thank you for the info, I just saw it in my inbox and thought I'd ask.

    I've not really looked at Qt until I started looing at GC back in December, so hadn't appreciated it was well planned announcement. 

Regards,

Paul