Hi,
The situation with Qt WebEngine open-source releases during the commercial-only
LTS phase is slightly unclear still as it has a very large 3rd party item it
depends on. In essence Qt WebEngine is just bindings of the Chromium HTML5
engine to Qt. Intention is to clarify this before Qt 6.0 is released and the
commercial-only LTS phase begins.
Yours,
Tuukka
On 26.6.2020, 13.47, "Development on behalf of Florian Bruhin"
<[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
Hey,
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:53:55AM +0000, Lars Knoll wrote:
> As you can see, the scope of 6.0 will be reduced compared to 5.15.
So now that it's official that QtWebEngine won't be part of Qt 6.0:
What will that mean for security upgrades (i.e. updates of the underlying
Chromium) for open source users of Qt as soon as Qt 6.0 is out?
Given that the 5.15 LTS is restricted to commercial users[1], does that mean
that open source projects will be stuck on Qt 5.15.4 (or .3 or .5 or
whatever)
until Qt 6.1 is released in May/June 2021 or so?
If that's the case, I'm not sure that'll help Qt's reputation when it comes
to
its handling of security issues... Don't get me wrong, I can understand
where
TQtC is coming from with the commercial-only LTS decision - but if there
are no
QtWebEngine security fixes for open source users at all for what's probably
more than half a year (the time between the last 5.15.x before 6.0; and
6.1),
that seems like a huge problem, no?
I'm all for "We are making this change to encourage open-source users to
quickly adopt new versions" (from that blog post), but what if that's not
possible because those new versions don't exist at the point the old
versions
get abandoned? Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to make the 5.15 LTS
commercial-only only at the point Qt 6.1 is released, at least for all
modules
not part of Qt 6.0?
[1] https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020
Florian
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