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Qt Creator 18

Qt Creator version 18 contains bug fixes and new features.
It is a free upgrade for commercial license holders.

The most important changes are listed in this document. For a complete list of
changes, see the Git log for the Qt Creator sources that you can check out from
the public Git repository or view online at

https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/log/?id=17.0..v18.0.0

New plugins

Development Container Support

The development container support detects a devcontainer.json in your project
directory and creates a docker container for it.
It supports Qt Creator specific customizations in the devcontainer.json that
let you auto detect or specify custom kits for the container and control other
aspects like the command bridge. This is experimental and does not support all
features of development containers yet.

(Development Container Documentation)

General

• Moved some messages from the General Messages to Issues
• Changed the notifications to popups with the option to opt-out with
  Environment > Interface > Prefer banner style info bars over pop-ups
• Added the HostOs:DocumentsLocation, HostOs:GenericDataLocation,
  HostOs:HomeLocation, and HostOs:TempLocation Qt Creator variables that
  map to the corresponding QStandardPaths
• Added the :DirName postfix for Qt Creator variables that map to file paths
  (QTCREATORBUG-33205)
• Fixed a freeze when installing large plugins
  (QTCREATORBUG-33069)
• Fixed the resolution of symlinks with directory links
  (QTCREATORBUG-33335)
• Fixed a performance regression when watching many files
  (QTCREATORBUG-33523)
• Welcome
  • Added an Overview tab
• Locator
  • Made Use Tab Completion (when pressing the Tab key) optional
    (QTCREATORBUG-33193)

Editing

• Added the option Environment > Interface > Use tabbed editors
  (QTCREATORBUG-31644)
  • Added Window > Previous Tab and Window > Next Tab
• Added File > Save Without Formatting
• Added Open With > Cycle to Next Editor
  (QTCREATORBUG-32482,
  QTCREATORBUG-32610)
• Fixed that error markers were not removed when fixing the error
  (QTCREATORBUG-33108)

C++

• Updated the prebuilt binaries to LLVM 21.1
• Added automatic insertion of the closing part of a raw string literal prefix
  (QTCREATORBUG-31901)
• Fixed that trailing white space was removed from raw string literals
  (QTCREATORBUG-30003)
• Fixed the generation of compile_commands.json for remote projects
• Quick fixes
  • Added Remove Curly Braces
  • Added Add definition for static data members
    (QTCREATORBUG-20961)
  • Fixed that
    Re-order Member Function Definitions According to Declaration Order
    did not move comments accordingly
    (QTCREATORBUG-33070)
  • Fixed issues with templates and nested classes
    (QTCREATORBUG-9727)
  • Fixed issues with nested template parameters
    (QTCREATORBUG-17695)
  • Fixed that Add Definition in .cpp could be missing
    (QTCREATORBUG-33224)
• Built-in
  • Added support for template deduction guides
  • Added support for fold expressions
  • Added support for decltype(auto) as function return types
  • Added support for if consteval and if not consteval
  • Added support for __int128
  • Fixed the preprocessor expansion in include directives
    (QTCREATORBUG-27473)
  • Fixed issues with defaulted and deleted functions
    (QTCREATORBUG-26090)
  • Fixed the parsing of friend declarations with a simple type specifier
  • Fixed the parsing of attributes after an operator name

QML

• Added the option to install Qt Design Studio via the Qt Online Installer
  (QTCREATORBUG-30787)
• Added the option to override the path to qmlls
  (QTCREATORBUG-32749)
• Fixed an issue with auto-format on .js files
  (QTCREATORBUG-33112)

Copilot

• Added support for GitHub Enterprise environments
  (QTCREATORBUG-33220)
• Fixed configuration issues with Copilot >= v1.49.0

Markdown

• Improved table rendering
• Fixed the scaling of images
  (QTCREATORBUG-33325)

SCXML

• Fixed the positioning of the transition arrow
  (QTCREATORBUG-32654)

GLSL

• Fixed the handling of interface blocks
  (QTCREATORBUG-12784,
  QTCREATORBUG-27068)

Projects

• Moved the project settings to a .qtcreator subdirectory in the project
  directory. The .user file at the old location in the project directory is
  kept up to date in addition, for old projects
  (QTCREATORBUG-28610)
• Changed the Build and Run subitems to tabs in Projects mode and
  separated Deploy Settings from Run Settings
• Changed the Current Project advanced search to Single Project with
  an explicit choice of the project to search
  (QTCREATORBUG-29790)
• Removed the Code Snippet wizard from File > New Project > Other Project.
  Use Plain C++ instead
• Made options from the global Build & Run settings available as project
  specific options
• Made Copy Steps From Another Kit available without first enabling the kit
  (QTCREATORBUG-24123)
• Made the default deploy configuration available for all target devices
• Added a configuration for various tools on devices, like GDB server, CMake,
  clangd, rsync, qmake, and more, and the option to auto-detect them
• Added the setting Build & Run > General > Keep run configurations in sync
  with the option to synchronize run configurations within one or all kits
  (QTCREATORBUG-33172)
• Added the tool button Create Issues From External Build Output to the
  Issues view
  (QTCREATORBUG-30776)
• Added the
  Preferences > Build & Run > Default Build Properties > Default working directory
  setting for run configurations
• Added keyboard shortcuts for editing the active build and run configurations
  (QTCREATORBUG-27887)
• Added the option to add a file to a project directly from the
  This file is not part of any project warning
  (QTCREATORBUG-25834)
• Added the Project Qt Creator variable for the build configuration settings
  that maps to the project file path
• Added a Qt Interface Framework project wizard
  (QTBUG-99070)
  (Documentation)
• Added the Enable logging category filtering option for desktop run
  configurations with Qt 6.11 and later
  (QTCREATORBUG-33169)
• Added the option to hide unsuitable kits from the list in Projects mode
• Fixed Duplicate File for remote projects
• Fixed that changing the build device of a kit could update the kit settings UI
  without actually applying the change
  (QTCREATORBUG-33456)
• Fixed the navigation of remote projects with the File System view
• Fixed that Build > Run Generator > Compilation Database generated the
  database for the wrong project
  (QTCREATORBUG-33633

CMake

• Added more detailed information to the build progress tool tip
  (QTCREATORBUG-33356)
• Added the ct locator filter for running CTest tests
• Added support for
  Test Presets
• Improved the search for ninja
  (QTCREATORBUG-33560)
• Fixed Build for All Configurations
  (QTCREATORBUG-33178)
• Fixed issues with rewriting CMakeLists.txt files with the UTF-8 BOM set
  (QTCREATORBUG-33363)
• Fixed that CMAKE_TEST_LAUNCHER was set for non-test targets
  (QTCREATORBUG-32550)

qmake

• Fixed various issues with opening remote projects

Python

• Removed PySide2 from the project wizard options
  (QTCREATORBUG-33030)

Workspace

• Changed projects to be automatically configured for the default kit on first
  use
• Added minimal support for Cargo build projects (Rust)

Autotools

• Fixed issues with parsing projects
  (QTCREATORBUG-32073)

Debugging

C++

• Fixed Load QML Stack
  (QTCREATORBUG-33244)
• Fixed the pretty printing of std::optional and std::vector
  (QTCREATORBUG-33500)
• Fixed the option to override the debug server channel
  (QTCREATORBUG-33454)

Analyzer

Clang

• Added Clang-Tidy and Clazy issues from the current document to the Issues
  view
  (QTCREATORBUG-29789)
• Improved the performance of loading diagnostics from a file
• Fixed freezes when applying multiple fix-its
  (QTCREATORBUG-25394)

QML Profiler

• Fixed that the zoom slider kept resetting
  (QTCREATORBUG-33044)

Axivion

• Added a request for the user to add a path mapping when opening files from
  the issues table and none exist

Coco

• Fixed issues with MinGW
  (QTCREATORBUG-33287)

Version Control Systems

Git

• Added Git > Local Repository > Patch > Apply from Clipboard
• Added Git > Local Repository > Patch > Create from Commits
• Commit editor
  • Added Recover File, Revert All Changes to File, and
    Revert Unstaged Changes to File to the context menu on files
  • Added Stage, Unstage, and Add to .gitignore to the context menu on
    untracked files
  • Added actions for resolving conflicts
• Added an error indicator and error messages to the Add Branch dialog
• Added Diff & Cancel to the Checkout Branch dialog
• Added a visualization of the version control state to the File System view
• Improved performance of file modification status updates
  (QTCREATORBUG-32002)
• Fixed updating the Branch view after changes
  (QTCREATORBUG-29918)

Test Integration

• Improved Qt Test and Qt Quick Test wizards
  (QTCREATORBUG-33601,
  QTCREATORBUG-33629)
• Fixed the output parsing when debugging Qt Tests
  (QTCREATORBUG-33552)

Platforms

Windows

• Fixed that a Windows SDK download folder was unnecessarily created
  (QTCREATORBUG-33452)
• Fixed the ABI detection of Qt builds that were done with clang-cl
  (QTCREATORBUG-33645)

macOS

• Removed the auto-detection of 32-bit compilers
• Made it clearer which auto-detected toolchains are only for iOS
• Fixed that the automatically set toolchain for desktop kits could be an iOS
  toolchain

Android

• Fixed the qmake project path set when creating APK templates
  (QTCREATORBUG-33215)
• Fixed that custom kit names were lost
  (QTCREATORBUG-17689)
• Fixed an issue with building and installing .apk
  (QTCREATORBUG-33569)

Remote Linux

• Added the Auto-connect on startup option and removed automatic connection
  to devices if it is turned off (the default)
• Added support for deployment with rsync with remote build devices
• Improved the error message when device tests fail
  (QTCREATORBUG-32933)
• Fixed that it was not possible to run Performance Analyzer (perf) on
  remote Linux devices
  (QTCREATORBUG-33114)

Docker

• Added the option Mount Command Bridge to the docker device configuration
  (QTCREATORBUG-33006)

Credits for these changes go to:

Aaron McCarthy
Alessandro Portale
Alexandre Laurent
Alexandru Croitor
Alexis Jeandet
Ali Kianian
Amr Essam
Andre Hartmann
Andrzej Biniek
André Pönitz
Assam Boudjelthia
Björn Schäpers
Burak Hancerli
Christian Kandeler
Christian Stenger
Cristian Adam
David Schulz
Dheerendra Purohit
Eike Ziller
Eren Bursali
Esa Törmänen
faust747
Friedemann Kleint
Jaroslaw Kobus
Johanna Vanhatapio
Kai Köhne
Leena Miettinen
Lukasz Papierkowski
Mahmoud Badri
Marco Bubke
Marcus Tillmanns
Markus Redeker
Miikka Heikkinen
Mitch Curtis
Morteza Jamshidi
Nicholas Bennett
Nikita Baryshnikov
Olivier De Cannière
Orgad Shaneh
Philip Van Hoof
Renaud Guezennec
Sami Shalayel
Samuli Piippo
Semih Yavuz
Sheree Morphett
Stanislav Polukhanov
Sze Howe Koh
Teea Poldsam
Thiago Macieira
Tian Shilin
Tim Blechmann
Tim Jenßen
Volodymyr Zibarov
Xavier Besson
Xi Zijie
Zoltan Gera