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The new version of Ubuntu, codenamed Karmic Koala (or just Karmic), was released on Thursday, and new packages of QTM for that version of Ubuntu are available in my PPA. Please see here for details.

I got word from Patryk Cisek this morning that QTM had been accepted into Debian Sid, the "unstable" development repository. This means that it should, in time, progress into the testing and stable repositories, so it might be part of the next stable version of Debian.

What's more useful is that it will also be part of Ubuntu, which is by far the most popular Linux distro. However, I will still be maintaining my personal package archive so that you can access the latest and (hopefully) greatest version.

I have just released version 1.1 of QTM. This is the first to feature Wordpress API features, and I expect it to be the first of many (I've had a request for displaying categories in a tree, something which Movable Type doesn't allow, Drupal allows within the MT framework but Wordpress has its own method for). In this release, you can add a category from within QTM.

This version has a few improvements, such as allowing Markdown to be run from within the source bundle and displaying ampersands and quotes in blog, category and account names properly, rather than as XML entities. As ever, see the changelog for details. Source downloads are already available (see downloads box), binaries for OpenSUSE, Fedora and Mandriva are building and may be available when you read this, and binaries for Windows and Ubuntu are to follow.Read more »

Following the release of QTM v1.0, I have branched my Mercurial repository; the qtm-0.7 repository still exists, but all new development will be in the qtm-1.x repository. The Feeds link to the right has been changed as no new content will appear in the old 0.7 repository.

I have just released a new version of QTM - and it's version 1.0 this time. Why the jump for a release which was originally going to be called version 0.7.5? Well, I believe I have ironed out quite a few of the annoying bugs, to the point where QTM now does one thing very well: submitting entries to a blog. Of course, that doesn't make it a full-featured client, but then, no client to my knowledge is so full-featured that you can kiss your content management system's web interface goodbye.

The main new feature in this release is support for the popular Wordpress-style tags, which get their own entry in the left-side widget. There are a few user interface clean-ups, a new build system target called "confclean" which gets rid of the files generated by CMake, and bug fixes.Read more »

I have just released version 0.7.4.1 of QTM. There is one change, in that the command in the desktop entry file no longer ends with an ampersand. This is because, in Ubuntu Jaunty, the ampersand is passed to QTM as if it were a filename, rather than ignored as it had been (on Unix, when opening a program from the command line, you use an ampersand to signify a background process, the norm when opening a graphical application). As this has not been a problem on previous versions of Ubuntu, only Ubuntu Jaunty will get binaries of this version.

Update: I've released a Windows binary, containing (which is the point of this release, as the issue which prompted it did not affect Windows) the new version 4.5.1 of the Qt libraries.

I have just released a package of QTM v0.7.4 for Ubuntu Jaunty, which was released yesterday. You can find instructions on using it here. My personal package archive (PPA) can be found here.

I've just got round to building a new Mac disc image of QTM v0.7.4. As usual, the QTM framework bundles are included within the application, so you just need to download it, open the disc image, drag the "QTM" icon to your Applications folder (or anywhere else in your file system, such as your home directory), and then double-click it to run it. Requires at least Mac OS X 10.3.9.

This is a Carbon version; I could not use Cocoa as I don't have Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard).

I've just uploaded a revised installer for QTM v0.7.4 for Windows. The only change is that Qt 4.5 is included in the binary instead of 4.4.3. The changes list for Qt includes significant performance improvements in the actual widgets; there is nothing in QTM that specifically uses Qt 4.5 features, however. The old version is still around (download it here) just in case anyone's uncomfortable with using a brand new version of the library.

I have just released a new minor release. Version 0.7.4 introduces one new feature, "tidy paste", which removes multiple spaces and single newlines in paragraphs, which are common in PDFs in particular. The tarballs can be found here; Ubuntu packages and RPMs should be available in the usual places, and a Windows binary should be available also in the next day or so.