Qt Creator 3.1.0 released

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 3.1.0! This release of Qt Creator is packed with bug fixes and improvements, not to forget some new experimental features.

We finally integrated a Clang-based C/C++ code model as an option for code completion and semantic highlighting. It is experimental so far, so you need to enable the plugin in Help > About Plugins > C++ > ClangCodeModel, restart Qt Creator, and tell it to actually use it in Options > C++ > Code Model. We are interested in your feedback on how well it works. Please report issues on our bug tracker or get in contact with us on the mailing list or irc.

iOS support has moved out of experimental state, and fully supports QML debugging and profiling now. Also, several issues with debugging have been fixed, and many little things were tweaked (for example, you can now set the simulated device in the simulator run configuration).

In exchange we added a new experimental plugin for another platform: WinRT. You can read more about it in its own blog post here.

An important note is, that we drop support for debugging with versions of GDB that do not have a Python interface. This includes the version of GDB that is shipped with older versions of Xcode on Mac OS X. The good news there is, that we put a lot of effort into making debugging with LLDB a great experience in Qt Creator, so you should just use LLDB instead :)

Also notable is the experimental Beautifier plugin, which allows you to apply different external source code formatters on your files. It currently has support for Artistic Style, Clang-format and Uncrustify. Many thanks to Lorenz Haas for contributing this!

Additionally, Android support has received many tweaks again, including some minimal support for editing Java files with highlighting, indentation and keyword completion. You can now manage debug tokens and runtime configurations for QNX from Qt Creator, and debugging on QNX now supports more pretty printers as well. The QML Profiler and Qt Quick Designer have received many fixes, the Qt Quick Application templates have been simplified, support for qrc has been polished (for example, qrc files now appear as nodes in the project tree), and much much more. You find a more thorough overview in our change log.

Qt Creator 3.1.0 is part of the Qt Enterprise Embedded update today, and it will appear as an update in your Qt online installer (this may take a bit while it is rolled out to the mirrors). The Qt Creator open source standalone packages are also available on the Qt Project download page, and Enterprise Customers find them in the Qt Account Portal.


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