Fedora 42 qt5-qtvirtualkeyboard Bugfix Advisory FEDORA-2025-976ccd79ae
fedora
November 6, 2025
Qt 5.15.18 bugfix release
Summary
The Qt Virtual Keyboard project provides an input framework and reference keyboard frontend
for Qt 5. Key features include:
* Customizable keyboard layouts and styles with dynamic switching.
* Predictive text input with word selection.
* Character preview and alternative character view.
* Automatic capitalization and space insertion.
* Scalability to different resolutions.
* Support for different character sets (Latin, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, and others).
* Support for most common input languages, with possibility to easily extend the language support.
* Left-to-right and right-to-left input.
* Hardware key support for 2-way and 5-way navigation.
* Handwriting support, with gestures for fullscreen input.
* Audio feedback.
Update Information:
Qt 5.15.18 bugfix release. Qt5 WebEngine update to 5.15.19.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Tue Nov 4 2025 Jan Grulich
References
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2025-976ccd79ae
2025-11-06 02:22:59.541317+00:00
Name : qt5-qtvirtualkeyboard
Product : Fedora 42
Version : 5.15.18
Release : 1.fc42
URL : https://www.qt.io/
Summary : Qt5 - VirtualKeyboard component
Description :
The Qt Virtual Keyboard project provides an input framework and reference keyboard frontend
for Qt 5. Key features include:
* Customizable keyboard layouts and styles with dynamic switching.
* Predictive text input with word selection.
* Character preview and alternative character view.
* Automatic capitalization and space insertion.
* Scalability to different resolutions.
* Support for different character sets (Latin, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, and others).
* Support for most common input languages, with possibility to easily extend the language support.
* Left-to-right and right-to-left input.
* Hardware key support for 2-way and 5-way navigation.
* Handwriting support, with gestures for fullscreen input.
* Audio feedback.
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-976ccd79ae' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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Name: qt5-qtvirtualkeyboard
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 5.15.18
Release: 1.fc42
URL: https://www.qt.io/
Summary: Qt5 - VirtualKeyboard component
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