Qt Creator 18 is now available as the latest version of this Qt/C++-focused integrated development environment.
Most notable with Qt Creator 18 is introducing experimental support for development containers. For projects shipping a “devcontainer.json” file, Qt Creator can support automatically creating a Docker container for it.
Today’s release announcement describes the Qt Creator 18 Development Container support as:
“Qt Creator 18 adds support for development containers to automate setting up the development environment of a project. It detects a “devcontainer.json” file in your project directory and creates a Docker container for it. You can let Qt Creator auto-detect kits or specify custom kits and control other aspects like the command bridge (our service for communicating with remote devices) with Qt Creator specific customizations in the development container definition. Note that it is still experimental and does not support all aspects of development containers yet. Enable the extension to use this functionality.”
Qt Creator 18 also brings some UI enhancements, an option to use tabbed edtiors, updating the C++ support against LLVM/Clangd 21.1, and other improvements to this IDE.
Downloads and more details on today’s Qt Creator 18 release via Qt.io.
