14 DAY TRIAL // On June 2, the Qt Company, through Tuukka Turunen, announced the immediate availability for download of the second patch release for the stable Qt 5.4 series of the world's most acclaimed GUI toolkit.
According to the release notes, Qt 5.4.2 includes important security fixes for various core components, such as a Qt WebEngine WeakDH vulnerability, a BMP image handler DoS vulnerability, as well as for vulnerabilities in image handling of BMP, ICO, and GIF.
Additionally, the new release updates the libpng library to version 1.6.17, the PCRE library to version r1530, and the libtiff library to version 4.0.3. Please note that Qt 5.4.2 is not backward compatible with the Qt 5.4.0 version of the software, but only with the previous maintenance release, Qt 5.4.1.
"Today we have released Qt 5.4.2, the second patch update to Qt 5.4. In addition to improvements and fixes to Qt functionality it also packs new Qt Creator 3.4.1," says Tuukka Turunen in today's announcement for Qt 5.4.2.
Qt Creator 3.4.1 brings important fixes and performance improvements
In addition to the Qt 5.4.2 announcement, the Qt Company, through Eike Ziller, announced the immediate availability for download of the first maintenance release of the Qt Creator 3.4 software. Also, there's a new version of the Qt Virtual Keyboard software, which adds support to Korean and Japanese languages.
According to the release announcement, Qt Creator 3.4.1 includes fixes for several regressions that have been discovered since the previous version of the software, such as the disabling of most of the About Plugins dialog when plugins were disabled, and the deregistering of manually registered documentation on Windows upon restart.
Download Qt 5.4.2 and Qt Creator 3.4.1 right now from Softpedia. Both are available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is recommended that you upgrade your Qt and Qt Creator installations to the latest versions announced today.