On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 2:22 AM Oliver Wolff via Interest < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hey everyone, > > You might have heard that Windows 10 has officially reached its end of > life on 14.10.2025. > > Due to the operating system's popularity Windows 10 is currently covered > in Microsoft's Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. > > For consumers this means that the operating system will receive security > fixes until 13.10.2026, see for some information > https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates. > > For commercial users the program will run for three years (until > 10.10.2028) and comes with increasing costs per device per year, see > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates > . > > Considering these time lines I think it is time to think about Windows > 10 end of life in Qt. My suggestion would be to have 6.12 LTS as Qt's > last release that will include support for Windows 10. This should give > consumers a chance to use this version during their ESU period and the > LTS nature of this release will give commercial users enough time to > prepare for an operating system and Qt version change. With 6.12 LTS > phase (until 2023) we even go beyond Microsoft's promises for this > operating system. > > Having said that I think we cannot drop support before 6.12. Users and > customers rely on Qt being available on that (still popular) operating > system. > > To make users and developers aware of the looming removal of support I > would add a to our supported platforms page > (https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtdoc/+/713611). > > Any feedback on the topic is welcome. Do not hesitate to shout. Windows 10 still has a 36% share of desktop markets. Despite what Microsoft declares by fiat. Confer, < https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share>. Windows 10 support is definitely not ready to be deprecated in Qt. Personally, I feel one should not consider dropping support until market share falls below 3% or 5%. I realize others do not share the sentiment. Jeff
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