Qt Creator 13

Qt Creator version 13 contains bug fixes and new features.

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. For example:

git clone git://code.qt.io/qt-creator/qt-creator.git
git log --cherry-pick --pretty=oneline origin/12.0..v13.0.0

New plugins

Qt Application Manager

Adds support for Qt 6 based applications with CMake for creating, building, deploying, running, and debugging for devices that use the Qt Application Manager.

(Documentation)

General

Updated the visual style of Welcome mode
Improved docking (Debug mode, Widget Designer)
- Fixed the style of titles and changed them to always be visible (removed View > Views > Automatically Hide View Titlebars)
- Added an option to collapse panels
- Changed Hide/Show Left/Right Sidebar to hide and show the corresponding dock area
Added the option to show file paths relative to the active project to the search results view (QTCREATORBUG-29462)
Added a Current button for selecting the directory of the current document for searching in Files in File System
Added Copy to Clipboard to the About Qt Creator dialog (QTCREATORBUG-29886)
Fixed issues with the window actions (QTCREATORBUG-30381)
Fixed drag & drop for external tools (QTCREATORBUG-30469)
Known Issues
- Installers provided by The Qt Company mostly display English text, not the system's language (QTIFW-3310)

Help

Fixed that non-Qt related help files could automatically be registered
Fixed that the option Highest Version Only for automatically registering Qt documentation did not work for the Qt Online Installer

Editing

Fixed that Shift+Tab did not always unindent (QTCREATORBUG-29742)
Fixed that Surround text selection with brackets did nothing for <
Fixed following links without a file name in documents without a file name
Fixed that device tree source files (.dts) were opened in the binary editor (QTCREATORBUG-19029)

C++

Added the Move Definition Here refactoring action that moves an existing function definition to its declaration (QTCREATORBUG-9515)
Added the Enclose in QByteArrayLiteral refactoring action (QTCREATORBUG-12995)
Enabled the completion inside comments and strings by falling back to the built-in code model (QTCREATORBUG-20828)
Improved the position of headers inserted by refactoring operations (QTCREATORBUG-21826)
Improved the coding style settings by separating Clang Format and other coding style settings, and using a plain text editor for custom Clang Format settings (Documentation)
Fixed that the class wizards used the class name for the include guard instead of the file name (QTCREATORBUG-30140)
Fixed that renaming classes did not change the include directive for the renamed header in the source file (QTCREATORBUG-30154)
Fixed issues with refactoring template functions (QTCREATORBUG-29408)
Fixed the Add Definition refactoring action for member functions of a template class in a namespace (QTCREATORBUG-22076)
Clangd
- Improved the function hint tool tip (QTCREATORBUG-26346, QTCREATORBUG-30489)
- Fixed that Follow Symbol Under Cursor only worked for exact matches (QTCREATORBUG-29814)
- Fixed the version check for remote clangd executables (QTCREATORBUG-30374)

QML

Added navigation from QML components to the C++ code in the project (QTCREATORBUG-28086)
Added a button for launching the QML Preview on the current document to the editor tool bar
Added color previews when hovering Qt color functions (QTCREATORBUG-29966)

Python

Fixed that global and virtual environments were polluted with pylsp and debugpy installations

Language Server Protocol

Added automatic setup up of language servers for YAML, JSON, and Bash (requires npm) (Documentation)

Fixed the indentation of the code that is inserted by Go to slot (QTCREATORBUG-11730)

Compiler Explorer

Added highlighting of the matching source lines when hovering over the assembly

Markdown

Added the common text editor tools (line and column, encoding, and line endings) to the tool bar
Added support for following links to the text editor

Binary Files

Fixed issues with large addresses

Models

Fixed a crash when selecting items (QTCREATORBUG-30413)

Projects

Added a section Vanished Targets to Projects mode in case the project was configured for kits that have vanished, as a replacement for the automatic creation of "Replacement" kits (Documentation)
Added the status of devices to the device lists (QTCREATORBUG-20941)
Added the Preferences > Build & Run > General > Application environment option for globally modifying the environment for all run configurations (QTCREATORBUG-29530)
Added a file wizard for Qt translation (.ts) files (QTCREATORBUG-29775)
Added an optional warning for special characters in build directories (QTCREATORBUG-20834)
Improved the environment settings by making the changes explicit in a separate, text-based editor
Increased the maximum width of the target selector (QTCREATORBUG-30038)
Fixed that the Left cursor key did not always collapse the current item (QTBUG-118515)
Fixed inconsistent folder hierarchies in the project tree (QTCREATORBUG-29923)

CMake

Added support for custom output parsers for the configuration of projects (QTCREATORBUG-29992)
Made cache variables available even if project configuration failed
Fixed that too many paths were added to the build library search path (QTCREATORBUG-29662)
Fixed that searching in the project included results from module files not in the project (QTCREATORBUG-30372)
Fixed that Follow Symbol on add_subdirectory could jump to a target of the same name (QTCREATORBUG-30510)
CMake Presets
- Fixed Reload CMake Presets if the project was not configured yet (QTCREATORBUG-30238)
- Fixed that kits were accumulating on the project setup page (QTCREATORBUG-29535)
- Fixed that binaryDir was not handled for all presets (QTCREATORBUG-30236)
- Fixed a freeze with nested presets (QTCREATORBUG-30288)
- Fixed a wrong error message (QTCREATORBUG-30373)
- Fixed a crash when no CMake tool is found (QTCREATORBUG-30505)
Conan
- Fixed that backslashes were wrongly used for paths on Windows (QTCREATORBUG-30326)

Qbs

Added support for code completion with the Qbs language server (QBS-395)

Python

Added Generate Kit to the Python interpreter preferences for generating a Python kit with this interpreter
Added the Kit Selection page for creating and opening Python projects
Added a requirements.txt file to the application wizard
Fixed that the same Python interpreter could be auto-detected multiple times under different names

(Documentation)

Debugging

Added a dr locator filter for debugging a project

C++

Added a pretty printer for std::tuple
Improved the display of size information for the pretty printer of QByteArray (QTCREATORBUG-30065)
Fixed that breakpoints were not hit while the message dialog about missing debug information was shown (QTCREATORBUG-30168)
LLDB
- Fixed setting breakpoints in assembler
- Fixed Run as root (QTCREATORBUG-30516)
CDB
- Fixed a missing debugger tool tip (QTCREATORBUG-13413)

Debug Adapter Protocol

Added support for function breakpoints

Analyzer

Clang

Added Edit Checks as String for Clazy (QTCREATORBUG-24846)

Axivion

Added a view for listing and searching issues
Added other issue types than Style Violations to the editor annotations

Terminal

Added Select All to the context menu (QTCREATORBUG-29922)
Fixed the startup performance on Windows (QTCREATORBUG-29840)
Fixed the integration of the fish shell
Fixed that Ctrl+W closed the terminal even when shortcuts were blocked (QTCREATORBUG-30070)
Fixed issues with Windows Powershell
Fixed issues with copying Japanese text

Version Control Systems

Added support for remote version control operations

Git

Added the upstream status for untracked branches to Branches view

Test Integration

Qt Test

Added a locator filter for Qt Test data tags (qdt)

Catch2

Added support for namespaced fixtures
Added support for SCENARIO_METHOD

Platforms

Windows

Fixed Clang compiler ABI detection for WOA64 (QTCREATORBUG-30060)

Android

Add support for target-based android-build directories (QTBUG-117443)
Fixed issues with debugging (QTCREATORBUG-29928, QTCREATORBUG-30405)
Fixed a crash when removing Android Qt versions (QTCREATORBUG-30347)

iOS

Fixed the detection of iOS 17 devices
Fixed deployment and running applications for iOS 17 devices (application output, debugging, and profiling are not supported) (QTCREATORBUG-29682) (Documentation)

Remote Linux

Fixed that debugging unnecessarily downloaded files from the remote system (QTCREATORBUG-29614)

MCU

Fixed a crash when fixing errors in MCU kits (QTCREATORBUG-30360)

Credits for these changes go to:

Aaron McCarthy
Aleksei German
Alessandro Portale
Alexandre Laurent
Alexey Edelev
Ali Kianian
Amr Essam
Andre Hartmann
André Pönitz
Andreas Loth
Artem Sokolovskii
Assam Boudjelthia
Aurele Faure
Brook Cronin
Burak Hancerli
Christian Kandeler
Christian Stenger
Cristian Adam
Daniel Trevitz
David Faure
David Schulz
Dominik Holland
Eike Ziller
Esa Törmänen
Fabian Kosmale
Friedemann Kleint
Henning Gruendl
Ilya Kulakov
Jaroslaw Kobus
Johanna Vanhatapio
Karim Abdelrahman
Knud Dollereder
Leena Miettinen
Mahmoud Badri
Marco Bubke
Marcus Tillmanns
Mathias Hasselmann
Mats Honkamaa
Mehdi Salem
Michael Weghorn
Miikka Heikkinen
Mitch Curtis
Olivier De Cannière
Orgad Shaneh
Pranta Dastider
Robert Löhning
Sami Shalayel
Samuel Jose Raposo Vieira Mira
Samuel Mira
Semih Yavuz
Serg Kryvonos
Shrief Gabr
Sivert Krøvel
Tasuku Suzuki
Thiago Macieira
Thomas Hartmann
Tim Jenßen
Vikas Pachdha
Volodymyr Zibarov
Xavier Besson
Yasser Grimes
Yuri Vilmanis