[Qgis-developer] Plans for QGIS 3.0 and QWebView.... *sigh*

Matthias Kuhn matthias at opengis.ch
Wed Sep 14 00:02:45 PDT 2016


On 09/14/2016 08:46 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 09/14/2016 08:26 AM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>> QtWebKit is not removed, is it?
> 
> Not yet, but will be (in Debian) since there is no more upstream
> security support for WebKit in Qt4 now that it's EOL. Continuing to rely
> on WebKit in Qt4 is irresponsible from a security POV.

We will be switching to Qt5 soon, this discussion only targets the Qt5
version, so this is no issue.

In the meanwhile it would be nice if QGIS users wouldn't be forced to
switch to other distributions.

Kind regards,
Matthias


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