Release Highlights

NOTE: Version 3.0 is not! binary compatible with Version 2.x

• Re-license project to MIT and remove the commercial offering
• Supports Qt6 in addition to Qt5 (co-installable)
• Minimum Qt version is 5.15.0 (contact [email protected] to inquire about support for older Qt5 versions)
• The qmake buildsystem (via autogen.py) is removed
• Requires C++11
• buildsystem - increase CMake min version to 3.12.0
• buildsystem - add an 'uninstall' target
• buildsystem: generate and install kdchart-version.h
• Python3 bindings for Qt6. See README-bindings.md for more information.
• The Python bindings installation path for "site-packages"
• The Python bindings for Qt6 use the "PyKDChartQt6" namespace
• Build in Release mode by default (in non-developer situations)

• Support for Qt4 is removed
• The qmake buildsystem is deprecated and will be removed in version 3.0
• CMake buildsystem - increase minimum version to 3.1.0
• CMake buildsystem - fix library versioning for RelWithDebInfo on Windows
• Python bindings fixed for new PySide2 version

WARNING Version 2.7.x will be the last to support Qt4

• CMake buildsystem - option BUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGS => KDChart_PYTHON_BINDINGS
• CMake buildsystem - option PYTHON_BINDINGS_INSTALL_PREFIX => KDChart_PYTHON_BINDINGS_INSTALL_PREFIX
• Fix static linking examples and unittests in the CMake buildsystem
• small buildsystem improvements

WARNING Version 2.7.x will be the last to support Qt4

• CMake buildsystem - installs library pdb files with MSVC builds
• CMake buildsystem - generates .pri files for qmake users
• Fix build for Qt5.15
• Fix build against a namespaced Qt

WARNING Version 2.7.x will be the last to support Qt4

• New CMake-based build system (optional)
• Add support for spline-based line smoothing
• New Python3 bindings for KDGantt (CMake buildsystem only. see INSTALL-bindings.txt)
• New installing file for Conan (WIP - see conan folder)

First public release