Build System Changes in Qt 6▲
Building Qt from sources now requires CMake and Ninja. See Build System Changes in Qt 6 for more details on this and other changes in configure.
Changes to Supported Modules▲
Qt 6.0 is streamlined compared to Qt 5 and some modules are no longer in the default installation of Qt 6.0. Because of the modularized structure of Qt, new modules or previous Qt 5 modules may appear in future releases of Qt 6. For more information, visit the All Modules page.
The Changes to Qt Modules in Qt 6 has a list of API changes.
New Modules in Qt 6.0▲
The following are new modules in Qt 6.0.
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Qt Shader Tools - for graphics and compute shaders
Removed Modules in Qt 6.0▲
The following are Qt 5 modules that are not in Qt 6.0. They may be re-introduced in a future release of Qt 6.
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Module |
qmake |
Comments |
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Qt Android Extras |
androidextras |
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Qt Bluetooth |
bluetooth |
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Qt Charts |
charts |
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Qt Data Visualization |
datavisualization |
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Qt Graphical Effects |
only QML types |
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Qt Location |
location |
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Qt Mac Extras |
macextras |
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Qt Multimedia |
multimedia |
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Qt Multimedia Widgets |
multimediawidgets |
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Qt NFC |
nfc |
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Qt Positioning |
positioning |
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Qt Purchasing |
purchasing |
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Qt Quick Extras |
Merged into Qt Quick Controls |
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Qt Remote Objects |
remoteobjects |
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Qt Script |
qtscript |
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Qt SCXML |
scxml |
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Qt Script Tools |
scripttools |
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Qt Sensors |
sensors |
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Qt Serial Bus |
serialbus |
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Qt Serial Port |
serialport |
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Qt Speech |
texttospeech |
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Qt WebChannel |
webchannel |
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Qt WebEngine |
webenginecore |
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Qt WebSockets |
websockets |
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Qt WebView |
webview |
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Qt Windows Extras |
winextras |
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Qt X11 Extras |
x11extras |
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Qt XML Patterns |
xmlpatterns |
List of API Changes▲
These pages contain an overview of API changes in Qt 6.0: