I have been waiting for QU to support the Canon 5DIII and the current DNG specification.  It hasen't happened jet and I'll not pay the update fee until it supports both.  Why so long without support for these two.  Most other photo software have already supported both.

Wil

I have no reason to believe it will be very soon. 

The new DNG specification has been out for quite some time and has nothing to do with new cameras, but none of the Q versions support it.

Q is just slow to come to the game in many ways.

Wil

Nothing slow here: from the many inquiries we've made to David Coffin of dcraw, the only information we can get is that he's in the middle of a major rewrite.  So you could do the same thing we've been doing if it'll make you feel better: go to the dcraw website and ask David why he has not updated dcraw since December 26.  The best we can do is what we've already done: ping him about it.  He has not given us a date so my answer is what it has been for years.  We don't support raw formats: dcraw does.  When dcraw supports it, we'll support it within a month.  Until then, unfortunately you're stuck with one of the less capable tools (the one(s) you've already mentioned).  For most of the raw tools out there: we all wait for David.

Mike

Just to be complete QU can now read and process .dng files with the new DNG specification.  It won't convert camera raw files to .dng, so if you want to use this file specification, you'll have to make the conversion in other software.

As far as updating for the 5DIII.  I don't use QU for any raw processing, just printing.  I update from time to time just to support Mike who has given us so much for so little for a very long time.

Wil