July 2007

Trolltech has issued a security patch for Qt v3.3.8, addressing a vulnerability in the QTextEdit class which might cause remote execution when parsing maliciously crafted text from an unknown source. The problem does not affect Qt 4. The patch file is here. The vulnerability is assigned CVE-2007-3388.

A new book on Qt 4 entitled The Book of Qt 4, by Daniel Molkentin (No Starch) is now in shops in the UK - seen in Foyles (Charing Cross Road, London) for £37.99. Alternatively, you can buy it from Amazon, currently at £25.07 with free delivery, or from Computer Manuals for £25.83, also with free delivery.

Johan Thelin's new book, Foundations of Qt Development, is due for release next month. A pre-order is available (in the UK) from Computer Manuals, for £25.83.

From KDE Apps:

Version 1.1 of the SIP-based internet telephony app, Twinkle, has been released. Changes:

• French translation
• Presence (i.e. your first connection ending when you start a second, as on Yahoo/MSN Messengers etc)
• Instant messaging
• New CLI commands: presence, message
• Bug fixes, including 2 crashes
• Four new RFCs, two of them relating to Presence

Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Requires Qt 3.3 (for full requirements, see the downloads page).

Version 2.4.7 of the open-source build tool, CMake, has been released. CMake is a replacement for the GNU Autotools and is used for KDE 4 and a number of Qt projects. The changelog (release candidate by release candidate) can be found (on the CMake mailing list) here; downloads (source, Windows and Mac packages, various Linux and Unix packages but not distro-specific) here. Installation instructions here.

From KDE Apps:

Version 3.4.0 of Syntext Serna, an XSL-driven WYSIWYG XML editor, has been released. Changes:

• DITA V1.1 support, including Bookmap and Glossary support.
• A number of DITA-related enhancements, including enhanced publishing with DITA Open Toolkit, enhanced stylesheets and ContentMap, improved rendering of "xref"s.
• Templates in the New Document Dialog can be hidden.
• Fixed a number of stability issues.

Screenshots here. This is a commercial package; costs start at $89 for a single-user, single-platform licence for the Personal edition. Details here; see the home page for the free trial version.

Trolltech Provides Qt Developers Access to Eclipse with Integration Release Candidate — Trolltech

Trolltech has released a release candidate of the integration software for Eclipse. This is based on the existing Jambi-Eclipse integration, but also supports the CDT, facilitating C++ Qt programming. It also includes Qt project wizards, a graphical editor for Qt project (.pro) files, and integrated Qt Designer, resource editor and documentation. Downloads for the package are available here. Here is a Qt Labs blog with some screenshots.

Trolltech Releases Qtopia 4.2.3 — Trolltech

This is a maintenance release, with bug fixes and performance enhancements, but there are the following enhancements:

• The Internet settings application is enhanced to provide support for configuration and operation of wireless LAN connections, including support for roaming between wireless access points.
• The API Documentation has been extensively revised.
• The Qtopia System Integration Guide has been substantially expanded to provide more detailed coverage of the steps required to integrate Qtopia onto a new hardware platform.
• The Qtopia build system documentation has been substantially revised.

Full changelog here; open source downloads here.

From KDE Apps:

Version 1.2.12 of Tellico, the collections manager for KDE (collections as in stamps, books, music, whatever), has been released. Changes:

• Fixed potential recursion bug for dependent fields.
• Fixed bug that didn't write image size options when printing.
• Added Turkish translation.
• Added '\%' to bibtex translation table for comment escaping.
• Bumped automake requirement to version 1.8 or later.
• Fixed HTML export to not rewrite file location for files referenced in the XSL file which don't exist.
• Fixed Column View report to sort numerically when needed.
• Fixed Date fields to suppress empty date values.
• Fixed Date comparisons to work for single digits.
• Fixed Fields Dialog to show warnings when clicking Ok.
• Changed Quick Filter to split words on whitespace.
• Fixed bug with z39.50 search freezing intermittently.

Screenshots and downloads are linked off the home page. Requires Qt/KDE v3.3 (see home page for other dependencies).

From KDE Apps:

Version 2.2 of KTorrent, a KDE BitTorrent client, has been released. Changelog:

• Improved and more consistant GUI
• Possibility to open as many views as needed. By default you now get a downloads and uploads tab
• Improved search plugin with the possibility to open multiple search tabs
• Option to fully preallocate diskspace to avoid fragmentation
• Option to move finished downloads to a different directory
• Progress bar in status bar when searching
• Redesigned file selection dialog
• Option to copy torrent files to user specified directory
• Speed limits for individual torrents
• Diskspace monitoring, with option to stop torrents when diskspace is running low
• Improved system tray popup
• Autorotation of the log file when it gets larger then 10 MB
• Import dialog is now network transparent for the torrent file
• Statistics plugin which was developed by Krzysztof Kundzicz

Screenshots here, downloads (source only at present) here.