Qt Quick Ultralite maintains source compatibility between minor releases. However, some changes may require you to adapt the application code. The following sections highlight such changes:

Important changes

• Upgraded NXP RT1170 board version from MIMXRT1170-EVK to MIMXRT1170-EVKB. The platform name for this target is now mimxrt1170-evkb-freertos instead of mimxrt1170-evk-freertos.
• Qt for MCUs SDK includes the Desktop simulator sources, enabling you to customize and build it for host platforms that are not supported.

New features

• Added the Loader.status property to indicate progress of loading an item.
• Added the PerformanceMetrics API to enable logging performance data for a platform. Refer to Implementing performance metrics platform APIs for more information.
• Added the QulResourceDataInSemperFlash resource storage section for Traveo II 4M board.
• Added qsTrId() to support text translations based on ID. Refer to Text ID based translations for more information.
• Added C-Linkage functions to control initialization and Qt Quick Ultralite engine scheduling for applications built as a static library.
• Upgrades:
  • IAR compiler version 9.40.1
  • LodePNG version 20230410
  • STM32 F7 SDK v1.17.1
  • STM32 H7 SDK v1.11.1
  • STM Cube Programmer v2.14.0
  • Flexible Software Package(FSP) v4.5.0 for Renesas EK-RA6M3G
  • MCUXPresso SDK 2.14.0
  • MCUXPresso IDE v11.8
• qmlprojectexporter updates:
  • Override the default behavior of exporting the platform sources using the --export-platform command-line option.
  • Added the --update-project command-line option to enable updating an existing GHS Multi IDE project that already includes Qt Quick Ultralite platform and UI sources. Refer to Updating an existing project for more information.
  • Added the --extend-project command-line option to enable adding the Qt Quick Ultralite platform and UI sources to an existing 3rd party GHS Multi IDE project. Refer to Extending a GHS project for more information.
  • Generate a GHS Multi IDE workspace file to enable easier integration.
  • Improve compile times for applications with a lot of image resources.
• Added AUTOSAR support for Renesas RH850 D1M1A board.
• Examples and demos:
  • Added the instrument_cluster example.
  • Added benchmark mode to the automotive and thermo. demos. Added Qt Quick Ultralite Profiling QML Types module for benchmark mode.
  • Added the fileloading example, demonstrating the use of file:// scheme prefix for image file path.
• Easing curves:
  • Added support for the Easing.*Elastic, Easing.*Back, and Easing.*Bounce easing curve types.
  • Added support for custom easing curves using the bezierCurve property Easing.BezierSpline type.
• Added String.arg() API and object alias properties support in QML.
• Added new properties to QulPerf, enabling you to collect more performance metrics.
• Added the Filesystem platform API (Technology preview) to enable access to images on the filesystem with the file:// scheme prefix. The fileloading example demonstrates how to use the file:// scheme prefix, and integrate a custom filesystem implementation on the STM, NXP, and Desktop platforms.
• Added textFormat property to support plain and rich-text.
• Added the qul_override_freertos_heap_size CMake macro to enable define or override the freeRTOS total heap size, if already defined in application's CMakeLists.txt.

Fixed issues

Qt for MCUs v2.6.1

• Fixed compilation errors because of parsing the QulPerf::maxHeapUsage and QulPerf::maxStackUsage property types as bytes instead of int.
• Fixed GCC v12 compiler and linker warnings on STM32 platforms.
• Fixed wrong positioning and rendering glitches with transformed text because of one pixel offset.
• Fixed CMake logic to report useful error messages if qmlprojectexporter fails due to missing dependencies.
• Updated the FreeType rasterizer to support the ARGB32_Premultiplied and ARGB4444_Premultiplied formats.
• Fixed GHS 2018 compiler warnings while building for Renesas RH850.
• Fixed the heap structure field for thermo_demo (benchmark mode) on IAR baremetal platforms, to avoid wrong heap usage report.
• Fixed implementation for Item to make sure the visibility updates consider the property binding on its visible property.
• Fixed SharedImage to make sure it does not use references to the destroyed images.
• Fixed the software renderer to report error on using an unknown image format.
• Fixed the ImageLayer implementation to avoid invalid memory access, which could crash the application.
• ShapePath fixes:
  • Use the default value (1) for strokeWidth when it is 0. This improves code compatibility with Qt.
  • Fix blending of paths when QUL_COLOR_DEPTH is set to 8
• qmlprojectexporter fixes:
  • Warn if the TranslationFiles.MCU.omitSourceLanguage QmlProject property is not true when using ID-based translation.
  • Recursively search import paths for module .qmlproject files.
  • Collect font files from the modules.
• qmltocpp fixes:
  • Consider when conditions for default states.
  • Apply transition animation to default states too.
  • Accept object pointer in function arguments.
  • Fix the handling of visibility property based on state changes.
  • Handle a user-defined state with an empty string ("") name, so that it is not considered as default.
  • Warn about required properties with unknown type.
  • Use the same convention as "lupdate" to extract the context name for translatable units in *.ui.qml files.

Qt for MCUs v2.6.0

• Fixed assert and UI artifacts when rendering RTL text that is elided and not aligned to the left.
• Fixed spacing between text lines to make sure they are rendered as intended by the chosen font.
• Fixed state update issues with the Spark font engine if MCU.Config.fontVectorOutlinesDrawing is enabled.
• Fixed SwipeView behavior to make sure that enabling and disabling view is propagated to its children too.
• qmltocpp updates:
  • Generate valid C++ code for quoted string literals.
  • Optimize code generation for Loader to reduce memory footprint.
• Examples and demos:
  • Reduced color depth for watch demo to avoid flickering UI artifacts on STM32H750B-discovery board when built with IAR.
  • motor_cluster demo:
    • Added start-up animation
    • Fixed a regression that lead to UI freeze on Traveo II.
    • Updated the overlaid FPS metrics.
  • Updated the thermo demo to use the id-based translation API.
  • automotive demo:
    • Used Loader to reduce memory footprint.
    • Fixed rendering artifacts if images are compressed using RLE method.
  • Fixed the thermo demo to avoid performance issues on FreeRTOS with STM32F769.
  • Updated the translation example to use text with inline images.
• Optimized texture generation for sprite animations.
• Fixed unexpected data binary size on enabling cropping optimization.
• Fixed qmlprojectexporter file selector logic when the --selector command-line option is used.
• Updated the build config to copy the asset data binary and text files to the build directory. This is useful if you are building the application as a static library.

New APIs

APIs for application development

• New QML Types
• New QML Properties

New QML Types

New QML Properties

QML Type Loader:

QML Type QulPerf:

QML Type Text:

APIs for platform development

• New Classes
• New Member Functions

New Classes

New Member Functions

Class PerformanceMetrics:

Class PlatformContext:

Changes in Previous Versions

• What's New in 2.8
• What's New in 2.7
• What's New in 2.6
• What's New in 2.5
• What's New in 2.4
• What's New in 2.3
• What's New in 2.2
• What's New in 2.1
• What's New in 2.0
• What's New in 1.9
• What's New in 1.8
• What's New in 1.7
• What's New in 1.6
• What's New in 1.5
• What's New in 1.4
• What's New in 1.3
• What's New in 1.2
• What's New in 1.1