Qt Creator 2.2 Beta Released

Today, the Qt Labs blog reported on the release of the first beta version of Qt Creator 2.2 IDE. The release was named after the deceased polar bear Knut Creator. In addition to many bug fixes, several major improvements were added to the beta, in particular, support for the Bazaar version control system, code snippets, and an improved debugger.

Short list of changes:

Major changes

• Added the ability to use external tools (Tools-> External)
• Now you can define toolchains in Tools-> Options-> ToolChains
• Support for customizing MIME types using templates

Editor

• New color scheme Inkpot
• GLSL support (syntax highlighting, autocompletion)
• Macro support
• Advanced snippet editor with syntakis highlighting, autocompletion and indents

Debugger

• When debugging with Visual Studio, the Microsoft Console Debugger (CDB) is used, resulting in improved performance and better tracking of variables.
• You can pin the debugger tooltips.
• Redesigned global architecture to allow multiple debugger sessions
• New types of breakpoints (by exception, when entering the main)
• Advanced QML / C ++ debugging

Here you can see the full list of changes, and here you can download the collected binaries.