Cutelyst 3 is out!

June 17, 2021 by Daniel Nicoletti

Cutelyst, the C++/Qt web framework just got a new major release.

Under the hood it now has both Qt5 and Qt6 support, but because of this a few things had to be changed, the most important one was QMap usage as a multi-key container had to be changed to QMultiMap, if you used ParamsMultiMap types or auto when assigning there's probably little to do, one major exception is that if you still use Grantlee it might not work well, but Cutelee is there with fixes and is almost ported to Qt6.

Another API changes were on the authentication classes that have some friendly methods for QString passwords, WSGI module is now called Cutelyst::Server, it allows you to embed Cutelyst on other applications or have it as a stand alone executable, allowing for better LTO as you can get all stuff compiled as static libraries.

For the future I'm leaning towards increasing minimum version to Qt 5.12 (sadly means LGPLv2 for Qt5.6 will be gone) to start using QStringView where possible.

https://github.com/cutelyst/cutelyst/releases/tag/v3.0.0