Qt Creator 18.0.0

What's new in this version:

- Moved some messages from the `General Messages` to `Issues`
- Changed the notifications to popups with the option to opt-out with `Environment > Interface > Prefer banner style info bars over pop-ups`
- Added the `HostOs:DocumentsLocation`, `HostOs:GenericDataLocation`, `HostOs:HomeLocation`, and `HostOs:TempLocation` Qt Creator variables that map to the corresponding `QStandardPaths`
- Added the `:DirName` postfix for Qt Creator variables that map to file paths
- Fixed a freeze when installing large plugins
- Fixed the resolution of symlinks with directory links
- Fixed a performance regression when watching many files

Welcome:
- Added an `Overview` tab

Locator:
- Made `Use Tab Completion` (when pressing the `Tab` key) optional

Editing:
- Added the option `Environment > Interface > Use tabbed editors`
- Added `Window > Previous Tab` and `Window > Next Tab`
- Added `File > Save Without Formatting`
- Added `Open With > Cycle to Next Editor`
- Fixed that error markers were not removed when fixing the error

C++:
- Updated the prebuilt binaries to LLVM 21.1
- Added automatic insertion of the closing part of a raw string literal prefix
- Fixed that trailing white space was removed from raw string literals
- Fixed the generation of `compile_commands.json` for remote projects

Quick fixes:
- Added `Remove Curly Braces`
- Added `Add definition` for static data members
- `Re-order Member Function Definitions According to Declaration Order`did not move comments accordingly
- Fixed issues with templates and nested classes
- Fixed issues with nested template parameters
- Fixed that `Add Definition in .cpp` could be missing

Built-in:
- Added support for template deduction guides
- Added support for fold expressions
- Added support for `decltype(auto)` as function return types
- Added support for `if consteval` and `if not consteval`
- Added support for __int128
- Fixed the preprocessor expansion in include directives
- Fixed issues with defaulted and deleted functions
- Fixed the parsing of friend declarations with a simple type specifier
- Fixed the parsing of attributes after an operator name

QML:
- Added the option to install Qt Design Studio via the Qt Online Installer
- Added the option to override the path to `qmlls`
- Fixed an issue with `auto-format` on `.js` files

Copilot:
- Added support for GitHub Enterprise environments
- Fixed configuration issues with Copilot >= v1.49.0

Markdown:
- Improved table rendering
- Fixed the scaling of images
- Fixed the positioning of the transition arrow

GLSL:
- Fixed the handling of interface blocks

Projects:
- Moved the project settings to a `.qtcreator` subdirectory in the project directory. The `.user` file at the old location in the project directory is kept up to date in addition, for old projects
- Changed the `Build` and `Run` subitems to tabs in `Projects` mode and separated `Deploy Settings` from `Run Settings`
- Changed the `Current Project` advanced search to `Single Project` with an explicit choice of the project to search
- Removed the `Code Snippet` wizard from `File > New Project > Other Project`. Use `Plain C++` instead
- Made options from the global `Build & Run` settings available as project specific options
- Made `Copy Steps From Another Kit` available without first enabling the kit
- Made the default deploy configuration available for all target devices
- Added a configuration for various tools on devices, like GDB server, CMake, clangd, rsync, qmake, and more, and the option to auto-detect them
- Added the tool button `Create Issues From External Build Output` to the `Issues` view
- Added the `Preferences > Build & Run > Default Build Properties > Default working directory`setting for run configurations
- Added keyboard shortcuts for editing the active build and run configurations
- Added the option to add a file to a project directly from the `This file is not part of any project` warning
- Added the `Project` Qt Creator variable for the build configuration settings that maps to the project file path
- Added a Qt Interface Framework project wizard
- Added the `Enable logging category filtering` option for desktop run configurations with Qt 6.11 and later
- Added the option to hide unsuitable kits from the list in `Projects` mode
- Fixed `Duplicate File` for remote projects
- Fixed that changing the build device of a kit could update the kit settings UI without actually applying the change
- Fixed the navigation of remote projects with the `File System` view

CMake:
- Added more detailed information to the build progress tool tip
- Added the `ct` locator filter for running CTest tests
- Improved the search for `ninja`
- Fixed `Build for All Configurations`
- Fixed issues with rewriting `CMakeLists.txt` files with the UTF-8 BOM set
- Fixed that `CMAKE_TEST_LAUNCHER` was set for non-test targets

qmake:
- Fixed various issues with opening remote projects
- Python:
- Removed PySide2 from the project wizard options

Workspace:
- Changed projects to be automatically configured for the default kit on first use
- Added minimal support for Cargo build projects (Rust)

Autotools:
- Fixed issues with parsing projects

Debugging:
C++:
- Fixed `Load QML Stack`
- Fixed the pretty printing of `std::optional` and `std::vector`
- Fixed the option to override the debug server channel

Analyzer:
Clang:
- Added Clang-Tidy and Clazy issues from the current document to the `Issues` view
- Improved the performance of loading diagnostics from a file
- Fixed freezes when applying multiple fix-its

QML Profiler:
- Fixed that the zoom slider kept resetting

Axivion:
- Added a request for the user to add a path mapping when opening files from the issues table and none exist

Coco:
- Fixed issues with MinGW

Version Control Systems:

Git:
- Added `Git > Local Repository > Patch > Apply from Clipboard`
- Added `Git > Local Repository > Patch > Create from Commits`

Commit editor:
- Added `Recover File`, `Revert All Changes to File`, and `Revert Unstaged Changes to File` to the context menu on files
- Added `Stage`, `Unstage`, and `Add to .gitignore` to the context menu on untracked files
- Added actions for resolving conflicts
- Added an error indicator and error messages to the `Add Branch` dialog
- Added `Diff & Cancel` to the `Checkout Branch` dialog
- Added a visualization of the version control state to the `File System` view
- Improved performance of file modification status updates
- Fixed updating the `Branch` view after changes

Test Integration:
- Improved Qt Test and Qt Quick Test wizards
- Fixed the output parsing when debugging Qt Tests

Windows:
- Fixed that a Windows SDK download folder was unnecessarily created