Memory leak in qprotobufserializer.h

template<typename T,
         typename std::enable_if_t<std::is_base_of<QProtobufMessage, T>::value, int> = 0>
void deserializeObject(const QProtobufSerializer *serializer, QProtobufSelfcheckIterator &it,
                       QVariant &to)
{
    Q_ASSERT_X(serializer != nullptr, "QProtobufSerializer", "Serializer is null");
    Q_ASSERT_X(to.isNull() || to.metaType() == QMetaType::fromType<T *>(), "QProtobufSerializer",
               "Property should be either uninitialized or contain a valid pointer");    T *value = to.value<T *>();
    if (value == nullptr) {
        value = new T;
        to = QVariant::fromValue<T *>(value);
    }
    serializer->deserializeObject(value, T::propertyOrdering, it);
}// code placeholder

value = new T;