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Qt Creator 18 Beta Brings Development Container Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Qt on 22 September 2025 at 06:30 AM EDT. 16 Comments
The beta release of the Qt Creator 18 integrated development environment is now available for testing for this Qt/C++-focused IDE.

The big new feature of Qt Creator 18 is adding support for development containers. The development containers feature of Qt Creator 18 is described as:
"Qt Creator 18 adds support for development containers. It detects a "devcontainer.json" file in your project directory and creates a Docker container for it. You can let Qt Creator auto-detect kits or specify custom kits and control other aspects like the command bridge (our service for communicating with remote devices) with Qt Creator specific customizations in the development container definition. Note that it is still experimental and does not support all aspects of development containers yet. Enable the extension to use this functionality."

The Qt Creator support follows the Development Containers specification.

Qt Creator 18 Beta also adds an overview tab to its welcome mode, updating against LLVM / Clangd 21.1 for the pre-built binaries, fixes for newer C++ features, Git revision control enhancements, and a number of other smaller developer enhancements.

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Qt Creator 18 Beta downloads and more details on this updated cross-platform IDE via Qt.io.

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