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Trolltech released Qt 4.0 on 28 June 2005 and introduced five new technologies in the framework:
- Tulip A set of template container classes.
- Interview A model–view–controller architecture for item views.
- Arthur A 2D painting framework.
- Scribe A Unicode text renderer with a public API for performing low-level text layout.
- MainWindow A modern action-based main window, toolbar, menu, and docking architecture.
| Version | Release date | New features |
|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | 20 December 2005 | Introduced integrated SVG Tiny support, a PDF backend to Qt's printing system, and a few other features. |
| 4.2 | 4 October 2006 | Introduced Windows Vista support, introduced native CSS support for widget styling, as well as the QGraphicsView framework for efficient rendering of thousands of 2D objects onscreen, to replace Qt 3.x's QCanvas class. |
| 4.3 | 30 May 2007 | Improved Windows Vista support, improved OpenGL engine, SVG file generation, added QtScript (ECMAScript scripting engine based on QSA). |
| 4.4 | 6 May 2008 | Features included are improved multimedia support using Phonon, enhanced XML support, a concurrency framework to ease developing multi-threaded applications, an IPC framework with a focus on shared memory, and WebKit integration. |
| 4.5 | 3 March 2009 | Major included features are QtCreator, improved graphical engine, improved integration with WebKit, OpenDocument Format write support and new licensing options, as well as OS X Cocoa framework support. |
| 4.6 | 1 December 2009 | New APIs are Framework Animation, Gestures, Multi-touch. Now supports (as Tier 1) Symbian and (as Tier 2) Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6, support extended for some Unix systems. Improvements have also been made to overall performance. |
| 4.7 | 21 September 2010 | QML and Qt Quick. |
| 4.8 | 15 December 2011 | Qt Platform Abstraction, Threaded OpenGL support, Multithreaded HTTP, and optimized file system access. |
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