Thursday, October 29, 2026

Kitware Welcomes Dr. Mike Ter Louw as Director of Advanced Cybersecurity ResearchStrategic hire marks Kitwareโ€™s expansion into cybersecurity research and resilience technologies, building on our established defense AI research capabilities to address emerging threats. Clifton Park, N.Y.โ€“ 29 October 2026 โ€“ Kitware is pleased to announce that Mike Ter Louw, Ph.D., has joined the company as Director of Advanced Cybersecurity Research. His appointment marks the launch [โ€ฆ]๐Ÿ“Kitware Inc
Whatโ€™s New in vcpkg (Oct 2026)This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2026-10-16 registry release and the 2026-09-26 tool release. These updates include configurable binary-cache compression, improved cache reliability and diagnostics, Boost 1.92, and other improvements and bug fixes. There are now 2,877 total ports available in the vcpkg curated registry. A port [โ€ฆ] The post Whatโ€™s New in vcpkg (Oct 2026) appeared first on C++ Team Blog .๐Ÿ“C++ Team Blog
SEGGER Tools Gain Deeper Integration in CLion with AI-assisted DebuggingAmsterdam, Netherlands โ€” October 29, 2026 SEGGERโ€™s embedded development tools are now more deeply integrated into JetBrains CLion. CLion provides dedicated configuration for J-Link debug probes as well as direct access to SEGGERโ€™s Ozone debugger and SystemView real-time software analysis tool, connecting coding and ultra-fast flash programming with advanced debugging and real-time system analysis. CLionโ€™s [โ€ฆ]๐Ÿ“CLion : A Cross-Platform IDE for C and C++ | The JetBrains Blog
Qt Certification Exams Updated to Qt 6.12 LTSThe Qt Certification program continues to evolve alongside the Qt framework. We are pleased to announce that the Qt certification exams have been updated from Qt 6.8 LTS to Qt 6.12 LTS, ensuring that certified developers are assessed against the latest Qt technologies and best practices. The certification portfolio now consists of four professional certification exams: Qt Foundation Qt Quick Developer Qt Quick Specialist Qt Application Developer Together, these certifications cover a broad range of Qt development skills, from core framework knowledge and application development to advanced Qt Quick and QML expertise. What's New in the Qt 6.12 Update? The certification exams were originally built around Qt 6.8 and have now been updated to reflect the Qt 6.12 LTS release. New questions have been added covering functionality, APIs, development practices, and concepts introduced between Qt 6.9 and Qt 6.12. The goal is simple: certifications should reflect the knowledge and skills that developers use in current Qt projects. To support this, the certification content is regularly reviewed and updated alongside new Qt releases. In addition to updating existing question pools, the certification team has reviewed and refined exam content to ensure alignment with modern Qt development workflows and best practices . Ready for Qt 6.12? Put your knowledge to the test and earn a Qt certification. Learn more and book your exam at the Qt Certification Testing platform . Certification exams are delivered online in scheduled sessions and are available globally in English.๐Ÿ“Qt Blog
Generate BUILD files for new rule sets with Gazelle v2Generate BUILD files for new rule sets with Gazelle v2 This post is based on my lightning talk at BazelCon 2026. You can watch the talk on YouTube below. This talk shows how to support new rule sets by writing an extension with Gazelle's new v2 API , which supports better error handling and dependency resolution. We'll also talk about how Gazelle works with extensions, how to support offline indexing, and how to write extensions in languages other than Go.๐Ÿ“EngFlow Blog

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Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Persistent Test Runners: How Persistent Workers for Tests Can Cut Test Times by 46%Persistent Test Runners: How Persistent Workers for Tests Can Cut Test Times by 46% This post is based on the BazelCon 2026 talk I gave with Antonio Di Stefano( Frekt.dev ). You can watch the recording on YouTubebelow. Bazel has used persistentworkers for years tomake compilation faster. A persistent test runner applies the same idea totests: keep a long-running test execution process alive and reuse it acrossmultiple tests, instead of paying its warmup cost every time.๐Ÿ“EngFlow Blog

Monday, October 26, 2026

Introducing NetMaestro: Open Source Network Modeling and SimulationNetwork engineers need to evaluate changes to infrastructure without disrupting the systems that depend on it. Testing a new configuration, replacing equipment, or investigating a potential failure can be difficult when physical testbeds are expensive and production networks cannot be used for experimentation. Kitware is developing NetMaestro, an open source network modeling and simulation tool that allows engineers to investigate congestion, compare configurations, and explore what-if scenarios using virtual network models before making changes to production infrastructure.๐Ÿ“Kitware Inc
With Qt 6.12, the SkyMaterial is the limitQt Quick 3D 6.12 introduces a new SkyMaterial QML type, and in this post we will explain what it is, how to use it and why you'd want to. SkyMaterial provides a way of writing custom fragment shader code to render a scene's sky, as well as computing image-based lighting (IBL) from it. This means the same sky acts as both the visible background and a light source for the scene. With it you can create a dynamic sky with a moving sun, day/night cycle, clouds, stars etc. QML properties set on the SkyMaterial type are automatically made available in the custom shader, and whenever a property is updated, the SkyMaterial re-renders itself. This is what makes it possible to have a dynamic sky. Since the rendering is happening on the GPU, the performance cost depends on the complexity of the shader and how often it is updated. It is possible to tweak certain quality and performance properties to fit your performance budget. To use SkyMaterial in your 3D scene you need to point the SceneEnvironment::skyMaterial property to your SkyMaterial object, and set SceneEnvironment::backgroundMode to SceneEnvironment.SkyMaterial .๐Ÿ“Qt Blog

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Saturday, October 24, 2026