[Development] Deciding on EOL for Visual Studio 2022

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 27 November 2025 02:46:57 Pacific Standard Time Jani Heikkinen via 
Development wrote:
> >>When has this been announced?
> 
> A year ago, in CRA blog
> (http://qt.io/blog/preparing-for-the-european-cyber-resilience-act-cra)

You're saying that LTSes will be extracted from every four releases instead of 
every three. That's less work on us, so no big deal. Though people from KDAB 
ought to have known this...

Anyway, I think the proposal I made for VS2026 still makes sense for the Qt 
Project:
* 2026-2027: toolchains 14.44 (VS2022), 14.50, sliding 14.51-53
* 2028-2029: toolchains 14.50, 14.54, sliding 14.55-57
* 2029-2030: toolchains 14.54, 14.58, sliding 14.59-61

This would mean Qt 6.12 still supports VS2022, but Qt 6.16 (Oct 2028) does 
not.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCG - Platform & Sys. Eng.
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