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==2022==


=== 6. October 2022===
==2024==
 
===25. April 2024===
* General
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing the 6.4 release
** Preparing 6.7.1
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Fixed regression [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2071 PYSIDE-2071]
** Added a number of new classes
** Fixed OpenGL function modifications and signatures
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
** Work on shiboken C++ type handling, relaxed modification matching to match typedef'ed types
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
** Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
** QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
*** Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
*** Plan to improve exceptions handling


===29. September 2022===
===18. April 2024===
 
* General
** Bug fixing week
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing the 6.2.6 LTS release
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
** 6.5.6 release planned
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Added QtSerialPort  example
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
** Removed many compiler warnings in the generated code, run the entire project at higher warning level
** QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
** Investigated [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2066 PYSIDE-2066], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2065 PYSIDE-2065]
** PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
** PyEnum: broke up all development steps into 7 selectable topics. Documentation being written.
** PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
** PYSIDE-1735 left to do: Make new enums independent from old enums, preparing removal.
** PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
** Finishing async examples, preparing to start enhancing async support in PySide (Key Results to be added to OKR 2022 Q4).
*** first approach made things less effective
*** The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
*** New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
** 825 qml bug is still around
*** PYSIDE-2676 seems to be a new approach to fix it
** A few customer bugs made it the bug fixing week.
** PYSIDE-2675 type discovery code, class inheritance
** QtAudio -> QAudio refactory
** Virtual function compatibility to modify the signature (from typesystem)
** PYSIDE-2492 uic issues for Enum compatibility
*** More improvements for Python projects (import options)
** PYSIDE-2685 nan type definition
** Removing code from shiboken
** 6.8 Adaption already started
** PYSIDE-2689 sphinx directives doesn't seems to be compatible with the search context.


===22. September 2022===
===11. April 2024===
* General
** Bug fixing week.
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
** Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
** Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
** New epics with brainstorming ideas.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 was released, we found a couple of issues we are trying to solve, and 6.7.1 will soon be released due to a binary compatibility break, and other small breakage.
**  5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
** QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
** Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has  still some issues with the structure.
* Bugs & Features
** Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
** PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
** PYSIDE-2669 designer issue
** PYSIDE-2675 Addressing the lazy import issues that were found in 6.7.0
*** Studying the possible solution, but it needs to consider other cases as well.
*** the *-import handling seems to be related, and affecting the mro content, duplicating some entries.
*** the type discovery handler might be related as well
** Still working on the qml 825 bug issues.


===4. April 2024===
* General
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.6 Commercial LTS to be released next week.
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
** Adding 5.15.x open LTS branches into the oss repository has been challenging, and still in progress.
** Preparing for 6.7.0
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Cross compilation for yocto sysroot/toolchain story continues issues with the compiler
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** PyEnum documentation available, and more compatibility patches are being developed to relax a bit the current scheme.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** Trying to get new ideas on how to keep improving the enum story.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** Working on an example to showcase async functionality
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums
** Preparing presentations for internal and external events.
** Documentation meetings to coordinate the Qt and Qt for Python processes.
*** Plan to define how to write the documentation.
** PYSIDE-2038 changes to the M2M modules documentation (some changes in 6.3)
** Adding examples and removing some c++ based ones.
** PYSIDE-2060 Improving the crossbuild mechanism due to recent findings from Raspberry Pi related tasks.
** General cleanups in shiboken.
** Project generation ideas to improve the pyside6-project


===15. September 2022===
===28. March 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints


===21. March 2024===
* General
* General
** We are going to Akademy
** Ideas to improve the module.
** Internal showcase of some new features
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.3.2 was released, but the docs are missing. PyPy are available as well.
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
** PyPy dev wheels to be creaed and tested.
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
** Addressing issue of not having the LTS releases that made public back in the OSS repo.
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Tutorial for extracting snippets from qdoc comments and place them on snippet files.
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
** Trying to deal with issues on PySide2 builds (Windows)
** PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
** Issues with VSC and type hints related to Shiboken.Object
** Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
** Research on Qt for MCU
** QtRhi missing API provided
** QtPDF modules were added (including an example)
** Memory leak regression being worked out
** Documentations has been getting more improvements at the rendering level and internals.
** Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
** Fix qualified names for the docs in Assistant.
** Android deployment and qml tool documentations
** Doc inheritance diagrams will be stored in a JSON file, so we can use that info instead of having PySide installed.
** Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
** Cross compilation for different compilers is being studied.
** Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
** Cleaning docs with duplicated C++ examples.
** QAsyncio bug fixed
** pyside6-project new option to flip the usage of 'rc_' and '_ui'
** Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.
** Fixed an issue related to 3.11 PYSIDE-1960 (and followup known bugs)
** PyEnum documentation is ready. 6.4 will have by default the new Enum implementation, in addition a compatibility mode is provided to allow the end users to have the previous enum-code implementation. Extreme cases when people would like to use the old implementation, they would be able to do it with an environment variable.
** Deployment tool and option (for pyside6-project) soon to be finished.
** Akademy talk will include new examples and cool demos!


===8. September 2022===
===14. March 2024===
* General
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
* Bugs & Features
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
** Lazy initialization got merged
*** New improvements might land in future versions
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
** Using new icons on the examples
** Testing libclang 18
** QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
** QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
** New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
** permission API changes got merge
** android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
** PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed


*General
===07. March 2024===
** Cristián at PyConSK
* General
** Christian is OOO
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Wheels being tested for 6.3.2 release
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
*Bugs & Features
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
** Added setters for lists of QValue3DAxisFormatter  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2025 PYSIDE-2025]
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
** Documentation work: Fixed doc code injection for added functions, restructured modules page, fixed doc warnings
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
** shiboken refactorings
* Bugs & Features
** Brought the Quick Nano Browser example up to scratch
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
** Added QtPdf/QtPdfWidgets
** all deployment fixes are in.
** Desktop Deployment - First Review
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
** Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
** two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
** PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
** PYSIDE-2619 gentoo issue with a build
** PYSIDE-2624 typing issue with '/' is being researched
** Qt Icon Teams issues were discovered
** PYSIDE-2602 virtual function research on a special signature
** One regression related to the QObject.connect changes.


===1. September 2022===
===29. February 2024===


*General
* General
**We will have a talk at the QtWS
** Leap day!
*Infra & Releases
** Documentation changes
**Better to re-create 6.3.2, many changes were in. Simo?
* Infra & Releases
**Branching out 6.4.0 1 week before release to test the wheel.
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
*Bugs & Releases
** 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
**Triaging some bugs, they ended up being QTBUG
** 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
**Flags or operator issue when compared to None (QVariant possible change)
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
**Research on the PoC regarding Android deployment continues, there are some complications on the buildozer related step. Maybe recipe related?
** General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
**Starting to investigate if it could be possible to interact with Microcontrollers
* Bugs & Features
**Three patches concerning PyEnums were finished, and still needs to be merged due to an issue with Python 3.9 - It is a simple version problem of enum.py vs. enum_310.py that can easily be avoided.
** PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
**WebAssembly research continues, there was an issue with the CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE variable that was picked up from the system.
** PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
**Python to C++ tool to be included with an entry point.
** PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
**Tweaking documentation pages
** PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
**Better to add descriptions to commits that don't have a clear title.
** Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
** PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
** macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
** Windows BTLE services crash
** QIO-class are required for some new QAsyncio API using pipes
** Lazy loading moving forward, but still a few issues are around
*** A couple of shiboken tests seems to have outdated imports that are not helping.
*** shiboken compatibility types missing
** Typing issues being solved in order to improve the pyi quality


===25. August 2022===
===22. February 2024===
* General
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.2 was released!
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
* Bugs & Features
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** Definition of done for QtAsyncio story, some functions will be implemented, but other ones (until reaching the whole set of user facing API) will be implemented in the future.
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.


*General
===15. February 2024===
**Main wiki page seems to be a bit outdated, we should try to motivate folks to read the docs as a first thing.
**There will be a talk at Akademy 2022 in Barcelona
*Infra & Releases
**6.3.2 to be released soon (a couple of patches needs to be added)
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] Almost ready, but still figuring out some final details, for example Key combinations, and Flag combinations as well.
**libpyside now has a logging category (for qtmetacall, and see properties assigned, etc) motivated by PYSIDE-2033 when not using Slot decorator.
**QMessageBox allow thread issue was solved
**M2M modules (commercial) docs will be available
**Adding a new Bluetooth example (heart server)
**WebAssembly research continues: emsdk toolchains between Python and Qt are different, so there are incompatibility issues. Trying to cross compile raises issues related to building shiboken.
***Pyodide seems to rewrite some distutils methods, so it's impossible to build using our own overrides.
**Adding deprecation warning to Enums
**Debian packaging story continues, but it looks good :)
**Trying to build full docs on Windows is a bit tricky due to libxslt and libxml not being easy to get.


===18. August 2022===
* General
** Brainstorming session was held.
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
* Bugs & Features
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
** pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
** CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
** Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.


*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.3.2 preparations continued
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2031 PYSIDE-2031], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1721 PYSIDE-1721] Work on C++ doc snippet conversion
**Work on porting further examples
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2025 PYSIDE-2025] Investigated issues in Datavisualization
**WASM research
**PyEnum: Story finished API-wise. To come are optimizations and removal of old enum code.
**Signature test simplified and activated, again. Signatures are now always tested.
***Isolated a whitespace error in QtWebEngineWidget that was to be fixed in ApiExtractor
**PyEnum: Working on documentation
**Profiling signature module. Rewrite parts in C? cProfile and line-profiler (3.9)
**QFormLayout.takeRowResult() should now finally be supported if the test is indeed right ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1312 PYSIDE-1312])
**Fixed an old problem with random values in QFormLayout.getItemPosition() for row == -1.
**Android story requires jumping through some hoops on Windows (several parts of the toolchain are Linux only).
***Toolchain can run on WSL, but problems for Android Virtual Device -> adb redirection over TCP as workaround.
***adb redirection over TCP not yet supported by Qt Creator, complicating some things - might be easy to fix, investigating.


===11. August 2022===
===8. February 2024===


*General
* General
*Infra & Releases
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
**6.3.2 preparations started
* Infra & Releases
*Bugs & Features
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1984 PYSIDE-1984] Work on modelview tutorials and snippet conversion
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2019 PYSIDE-2019], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2025 PYSIDE-2025] Work on  Datavisualization issues
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2017 PYSIDE-2017] Added some OpenGL functions
* Bugs & Features
**Unit test discovery - progressing
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
**PYSIDE-1312 - takeRow() missing in QFormLayout
** singleShot patches merged
**Windows binding examples fixed  for debug builds
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
**Wrapping up PyEnum
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
**Examining documentation - looking for possible adaptations
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.
**Desktop deployment with nuitka - progressing
**PySide6 vs PyQt6 - slides for marketing


===04. August 2022===
===1. February 2024===


*General
* General
*Infra & Releases
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
**3.11 compatibility will not be backported to 5.15.x releases for x < 11
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
**Windows 6.3.1 sources package seems to be missing on account.qt.io
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
**PyPy branch has been properly working lately
* Infra & Releases
*Bugs & Features
** no unity build discussion and checks
**PYSIDE-2004 Adding qmlls and qmlformat
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
**Android story evolving, at least with QtCore there is a PoC, UI elements are a bit more challenging due the plugins related to the Java/C++ interaction.
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
**Deployment functionality being studied for pyside6-projet
* Bugs & Features
**QML Wayland issue discovered while porting an example
** singleShot timer implementation (to use underlying c++ impl) - still an issue with a context object, and a signal as a functor. A new QObject::connect might handle the situation. More changes to come in order to fix newly discovered issues.
**Following up on a former QUrl issue that was an overlook, not a bug.
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
**Test discovery in IDEs (vscode), issues with the structure the unittest requires, will try to use pytest
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
**PYSIDE-1995 C++ exceptions propagation
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
**PYSIDE-1996 Widgets classes might have constructor parameters
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
**OpenGLFunctions missing functions that require some numpy interaction
** General documentation adjustments
**Python 3.11 compatibility on dev, 6.3, 6.2, and 5.15
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
**Snippet converter was improved, still work to do.
** Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
**solved issue related to pyenv and --enabled-shared
** Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
***--enable-shared was not officially recommended for Python and is now optional for PySide
** Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues
**Working towards Debian PySide packages, adapting many things.
**PyEnum revealed bugs when partially moving from IntEnum to Enum, making issue splitting necessary:
***QKeySequence implementation was fixed
***a few more problems to be solved before final check-in of the PyEnum conclusion
***Then PyEnum documentation will become complete and will be finished, next.


===28. Juli 2022===


*General
===25. January 2024===
**Akademy 2022 KDE - October 2nd - Qt for Python


*Infra & Releases
* General
**5.15.6 LTS early September release
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
* Infra & Releases
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
* Bugs & Features
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
** PYSIDE-2575: Added a new argument to QtAsyncio to configure whether the QCoreApplication at the core of QtAsyncio should be shut down when asyncio finishes (requested by user).
** SingleShot timer issue: Slight "complexity explosion" because correct implementation for one case requires implementation of QObject.connect overload with context arguments (and we implement QObject.connect ourselves, see PySide::qobjectConnectCallback).
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
** Unity build some issues when building without.
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
** Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
** armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
** Lazy initialization: re-wrote approach from scratch, to reduce the patches to one that can be analyzed easily. Some complications with this approach that needs to be improve. It can be tried with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/496118
*** https://peps.python.org/pep-0690/ was rejected, but the idea can be implemented per-module
** Moving entry_points declaration to pyproject.toml from setup.py
** Drop the bdist_wheel steps from the CI (old wheels)
** Started working on split commercial wheels, wheels for QtDS and examples on QtCreator.


*Bugs & Features
===18. January 2024===
**Shiboken and Pyside imports in android works, but not the event loop (QApplication, QCoreApplication) ie. QLibraryInfo works in Android
***Needs special handling and requires QtLoader.java in Python.
***Possibility of creating an infrastructure for Android deployment that doesn't need Kivy Framework
**VS Code test discovery (in progress, but halted for now)
**Window and Splash screen qml example being ported to C++
**Qml example resulted into noticing a bug in QUrl PythontoCpp() conversion
**PyEnum - final stages of closing gap between PyQt. Distinguish between Enum, IntEnum and Flag, IntFlag.
**Test crash issue seems to be solved with python built with --enable-shared
***Opportunity to get rid of the whole issue, waiting for fix of CI


<br />
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
* Bugs & Features
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
** Qt 6.7 adaption
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
** Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
** PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
** pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
** Improvements to the doc build process


===21. Juli 2022===
===11. January 2024===


*General
* General
**Possible participation at Akademy
** Hackathon at TQtC
**What about https://www.pycon.se/ ?
** CI process presentation
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
* Bugs & Features
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
** macOS request permission API work continues.
** 6.7 adaptions patches
** M2M fixes on the current impl
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
** favicon issue with out docs
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
** Improvements for the doc build process


*Infra & Releases
===04.January 2024===
**6.2.5 commercial LTS was released.
* General
**6.3.2 release to happen in the middle August
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
**PyPy CI is partially working (still some issues)
** New OKR organization
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
** PyPy is now on 3.10
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
* Infra & Releases
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
** Android [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)
** Xcode issues with a new M3
** Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
* Bugs & Features
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
** async: the module is missing from our docs
** async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
** new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
** pyside6 designer pyenv crash was fixed
** pyside cmake module update crash was fixed
** working on the request permission API for macOS
** docs: free functions as separate section and other improvements
** Python scripting in c++ works continues
** PyPy 3.10 compatibility patches
** nogil: working again on a compatibility with PEP703
*** locking mechanism for our modules.
** Typing adjustments, we need '/' in our signatures due to not having keywords parameters.


*Bugs & Features
==2023==
**New spreadsheet example was added.
**QVariant issue related to Enums was at the end fixed.
**Enabling automatic testing on VSC requires __init__.py files in all directories
**We might add a .vscode/settings.json for development purposes
**The Windows Debug tutorial will be expanded :)
**Deployment: struggling with formatting of libraries
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1996 seems to be a pyi issue
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 Finished the implementation, starting with the documentation
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1970 __slots__ issue might be related to the usage of old python versions
**Adapting changes from QtCore like Q_DECLARE_METATYPE and changes to Q_ARG/invokeMethod
**Helping the Qt6 and PySide6 story on Debian


*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]


===14. Juli 2022===
==2022==
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.5 commercial LTS wheels to be published.
**PyPy CI issue remains, but some ideas in place
**Enabling Python betas: maybe we could use a new COIN feature.
*Bugs & Features
**PyEnum chain is ready for review
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1988 Old shiboken was found and fixed
***We need to check the interfaces more often, otherwise we will find nasty issues like this one.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1960 was finally fixed as well and compatible with the new PyEnum approach.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 seems to be trickier
***complicated only to keep compatibility with the old Enum approach.
**Documentation for the new Enum system soon to be finished, then we will ask for feedback from you dear reader.
**QTBUG QLocale issue was found when using en_DE locale (fix was submitted)
**Android story is progressing well :D
***Still figuring out wheel structure and testing
**Sample binding example of QObject classes as base
**Continue with the PySide yocto cross compilation
 
===07. Juli 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**PyPy CI issues and currently offline
**macOS CI issues last week, it should work properly now.
**wheel name update on 6.2
**Commercial LTS 6.2.5 planned for next week.
**Plans to try beta python versions on the CI
*Bugs & Features
**PyEnum story continues, trying to mitigate some problems that appear from the initializations. Initialization now is done in one phase. Working from 3.6 to 3.10, still having issues with 3.11
**Deployment story continues, and things are looking good for Android :O
**New team member setting up things, building Qt, PySide, and many other things
 
===30. June 2022===
 
*General
**New team member will start on Friday
**Intern interview next week
**Experience improvements
***Add note to Qt Creator Wizard
***Video tutorials
***Survey to understand
**Designer icons (create SVGs, can we use them?)
*Infra & Releases
**dev is now 6.4
**precheck on gerrit requires 'full' when the dialog is opened
**Source of 5.15.6 to be release soon.
**TODO: 5.15, 62 wheel name adapt
*Bugs & Features
**1970 slots issue still in progress, seems to be tricky.
**Continuing improving the cross compiling story
**PyEnum changes are still in the work.
***Dealing with defaults values and initialization
**3.11 compatibility continues
**vectorcall support improved
**Fix new numpy version 1.23
**unique_ptr new example
**QSpatialAudio added
**WebAssembly research continues
 
===23. June 2022===
 
*Infra and Releases
**NumPy 1.23 broke dev and PyPy :(
**We need to pin the other packages to avoid breakage
**6.2.5 commercial LTS to be released next week
**5.15.6 source code to be released in the following weeks.
***wheel name adapt patch pending
**Research: CI cores will be reduced in favor of finding available VMs faster.
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1964 PYSIDE-1964] Improved messages for kwargs
**6.4 preparations, API and documentation
**Initial work on Python 3.11
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1945 PYSIDE-1945] python to cpp conversion more updates
**Strict/Forgiving PyEnum implementation was done
***remove duplicated enums in outer scope but silently emulate them,
***support the old Flags names to be used
***pretend externally a strict interface in .PYI and line completion
**Bugs fixing 1968 1934 (type hinting issue) 1972 (snippet translate)
**trying to tackle the __slots__ issue 1970
***for debug builds it break, but release only 3.10 breaks
**QVariant Enum issue 1974 168
 
===16. June 2022===
 
*Bug fixing week
*QtDevCon
**Meeting new people using PySide!
**Talk went well :) got some feedback.
*Releases & Infra
**5.15.10 Commercial released
***adapt wheel names
**6.3.1 to be released in the following days
***RPATH issue with designer.
**Issues with COIN
**Issues with Windows builds, they are broken on Windows PYSIDE-1962
*Features & Bugs
**non-limited api issue
**continue with the Python Enum story
***issues wrt backward compatibility
**Issue with __slots__ on QObject classes (related to 3.10 on macOS and Linux in general)
**1945 python to cpp conversion more updates
**research on 3.11 continues
**1959 __mul__ operator
**1930 QVariant on linux issue was fixed
**1934 type hinting issues
*Extras
**New commercial portal account.qt.io
**Webinar today at 5pm CEST
**Don't forget 6.4 will drop python 3.6 support
 
===09. June 2022===
 
*Next week is Bug Fixing Week
*Infra & Releases
**commercial LTS 5.15.10 to be released
**6.3.1 to be release next week
**Changing the python version on windows is generating new errors.
**CI times are too long, so there is some plan to improve the waiting times.
*Bugs & Features
**Tooling research
**Issues with special application cases, QML threading and stuff
**Access violation on debug builds on Python 3.7, on COIN it was a release build and presented the issue as well
**Adding new QML files to the wheel (GraphicalEffects)
**Continue research with WebAssembly
**Discussion with pyqtgraph to improve API in favor of their module and performance.
**Continue work with Qt Enums as Python Enums. Code generation needs some fixes still. Python 3.6 is causing issues...mainly for debug mode and limited API.
 
 
===02. June 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**Windows 10: 3.6 -> 3.7, and add Windows 11: 3.10
**Signing binaries on Windows is time consuming
**6.2 Commercial LTS close to 6.3.1 OSS release.
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1731 signatures issues related to QFlags
**PYSIDE-1760 flake8 fixtures broke pyside builds, because it had some effect regarding the replacement of distutils by setuptools.
**PyEnum improvements, adding them in the enclosing scopes.
**Continue the research on the deployment story
**PYSIDE-1930 QVariant issues
**PYSIDE-1939 Crashes related to return value from shiboken heuristics
**The project now adopted SDPX licensing (2 lines instead of a wall of text)
**PYSIDE-1947 data() and constData() from QAudioBuffer
**PYSIDE-661 moving around messages, we still need to tackle some memory improvements.
**Documentation updates
 
 
===26. May 2022===
 
*Holiday
 
===19. May 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.5 source code ready to be released
**6.3.1 delayed to mid-June
**6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release
*Bugs & Features
**1905 specify free functions in Shiboken
**move the error messages to libshiboken
**1932 QEnum issues
**Starting research on webassembly
**Continue research on improve our deployment
 
story
 
**Improve timeouts related to testing
**Enum story is ready for review, additional improvements might come in the future. This feature will be optional before 6.4, and from 6.4 on it will be mandatory (Using Python Enum instead of our own Enum implementation)
**PyIndex_Check issue
 
===12. May 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.4 sources should be released soon, preparing 5.15.5
**Special pypy branch for nightly integrations
*Bugs & Features
**1898 QMetaObject invokeMethod added Q_ARG
**1919 Crash was fixed
**1912 context properties, adding missing API
**NumPy dependencies are moved to Shiboken (pyqtgraph discussion)
**General refactoring
**1912 unique_ptr issues
**1878 pyside-qml tool to quickly prototype/view qml code
**Research on support for new platforms
**Attempting to use PyTest instead of unittest
**Missing PyIndex_Check in 3.7 issue
 
===5. May 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**Starting new commercial branch for 6.2 LTS, 6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release.
**Preparing new 5.15.4 OSS package (according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation)
*Bugs & Features
**Python 3.7 PyIndex_Check issue to be addressed in 6.2 and 6.3
**Research and improvements on the Raspberry Pi story
**QtWebEngine: Missing setCookieFilter and setNotificationPresenter
**Can't use category based logging from PySide
**Continue research on deployment story
**1880 DataVisualization + NumPy
**1898 QMetaObject.invokeMethod with arguments not possible
**1901 Enum "QVariantList" passed to Property breaks property datatype
**shiboken to generate deterministic includes
**Enum new implementation patch is mature to be included in dev and start additional testing
**Research on testing improvements
 
===28. April 2022===
 
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1895 PYSIDE-1895], strings with 0 chars.
**Diagnosed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1893 PYSIDE-1893], object deletion with lambdas.
**Worked on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 PYSIDE-1859], native Win handles
**Continued [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1880 PYSIDE-1880] QDataVisualization
**String migration of the code according to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-98434 QTBUG-98434] and related cleanups
**Improved isolation between tests and __feature__ settings, reset() method implemented.
**Migration to PyEnum [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] is now error-free:
***qformlayout_test.py gives phantasy values when no elements exist. Python enums can't handle that.
 
===21. April 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 is the las OSS release, 6.2 LTS being prepared
**6.3.x will continue as the new OSS release.
**Issues from people having 6.2.4 and upgrading to 6.3.0. The recommendation is to uninstall the old version and install the new version. This is mainly to an issue we found while upgrading that files were removed, leaving no Qt modules available.
*Bug & Features
**QDataVisualization + ItemModel request for data handling (performance discussion), issues seems to be on the C++ implementation of the module.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 Windows handle classes issue
**Found some issues with previous setuptools versions on Linux
**1890 fixing cmake build for the new __all__ resolution.
**New Enum implementation for PySide is already in progress, it's aimed to be in place for 6.4 to avoid breaking existing code. Be aware, that there are things that are currently supported by a wrong implementation, and code adaptation will be required.
**Improving tests overall (due to the enum changes)
 
===14. April 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**6.3 was released: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-details-on-the-new-6.3-release
**6.3 was branched
*Bugs & Features
**Continue the research on qml plugins and deployment story
**Refactoring and improvements to the build_scripts
**Python Qt Enums in progress, still some hard-to-find issues to solve
**1627 issue regarding QAction API related to QMenu
**Shiboken refactorings
**1883 QTest issues
**1880 Request for 3D ItemModel functionality -> added new examples
**Smart pointers and std::optional support
 
===7. April 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**New commercial 5.15 releases, difficulties with libclang 12
**_Py_Mangle issues on >=5.15.4 to be included in 5.15.4 source packages (and others)
**Branching 6.3 in the next days.
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1876 qmlparserstatus issue fixed
**Fix TOC doc issue and adapt new qtbase changes
**refactorings to reduce size of generated code
**smartpointers improvements, adding tests and tuning implementation
**PYSIDE-1878 improving qml and python interaction (plugins)
**Working on the new Qt Python Enums approach (will be a TP with a compile time option)
**Improve some issues on 5.15.x regarding Python 3.10 compatibility (_Py_Mangle)
 
===31. March 2022===
 
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-187O fixed.
**Wheel size reduction - new flag --no-size-optimization - ready to merge.
**pyqmlscene  (starts with PySide6QmlPlugin) in the working. Requirements gathering from Qml team.
**shiboken6-genpyi was fixed (was not functional after the Python virtualization)
**adaptation of PySide6.__all__ after the wheel split, still a problem not understood
**PYSIDE-1735: Use Python Enums to handle Qt Enum. Making fast progress.
**PYSIDE-535: completing PyPy documentation to introduce the project for 6.3
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1874 PYSIDE-1874] SIGSEGV when accessing __doc__ of a Property fixed
 
===24. March 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 was released
**5.15.3 sources were updated to include pyside2-tools, and 3.10 compatibility.
**We will replace 3.6.1 by 3.7.x to test on windows
**Adding new set of wheels to the download.qt.io snapshots
*Bugs & Features
**Research on reducing wheel sizes via compiling flags and other things.
**REG PYSIDE-1870 still in progress
**Fixing doc issues, and sphinx related changes.
**1862 top level cmake build fixed
**1868 crash on frame buffer (factory function)
**Adapting to changes in Qt/C++
**share_ptr handling refactoring to write independently of the platform
**wheel_tester issue on macos was fixed (scriptableapplication building with qmake only), it uses cmake and ninja now.
**Issue in pyside6 re-introduced an old issue: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/401438
**Continue with the work on Enums in PySide
**Improvements to the create wheel process
 
===17. March 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 release is ready to be out today.
**LTS 5.15.3 source code will be re-uploaded due to missing pyside2-tools
*Bugs & Features
**QmlExtension research for PySide projects
**Research for new ideas to improve PySide and Shiboken
**Stripping binaries a bit to reduce wheel size
**QtPropertyMap is not exposed
**Update the documentation (Signal/Slots, modules desc, and more)
**Replacing count() functions by size() internally.
**Improving the testing framework (special cases for apple silicon)
**PYSIDE-1843: Continue fixing failing tests for PyPy
**Research: Improvements to Qt Enums to rely on Python Enums
**Wheel splitting might need a small size increase on PyPi
 
===10. March 2022===
 
*General
**Position still open and many candidates in the pipeline.
*Infra & Releases
**Python CI version updates: 3.8 (linux) 3.7 (win) mac (3.9)
**PyPy issues on the CI being addressed, almost fully functional.
**6.2.4 still waiting for Qt to be released.
**5.15.3 source was released according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation
***Sadly, it doesn't include the patches to be Python 3.10 compatible
*Bugs & Features
**Research on new PySide features on-going, extra things, internals, and performance
**QtNfc module was added
**qFuzzyCompare issue was fixed
**Improvements on the shiboken containers parsing
**Compatibility with older python version and pypy tests
**QmlPropertyMap issue was fixed
**Still fixing tests for PyPy and new Qt builds
***New issues were found, but many were fixes. At the moment: 14 in Core, and 18 in all the modules
**New wheel structure being discussed: splitting the big wheels into at least two
 
===3. March 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 ready to be released, but qt was postponed for 15.03.2022
**PyPy CI builds are still being tested
**Next week there will be a CI maintenance break
**Python versions: 3.6 (linux + win) 3.9 (mac) | 3.10 test win
***3.6 will be deprecated in 6.3, so we will change CI versions
***3.8 (win), 3.10 (x), 3.7 (x)
**6.3 branching still pending a few wheel modifications, and tags.
*Bug & Features
**PyPy build on windows presented a few challenges, and PyPy issues were found and reported.
**pyi generation also had issues due to a virtualenv + windows configurations being wrong, regarding the import orders.
**Enum refactoring is still in progress.
**container conversion research
**1835 building 5.15 without limited api
**qml research on property values, and group properties will be fix as well
**research on new opportunities to improve PySide as a Python module
**re-working the wheel generation
 
===24. February 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
*Bug & Feature
**PYSIDE-1824 BT issue was fixed
**PYSIDE-1826 Image provider
**PYSIDE-1827 metatype slot pending (metacall handle improvements)
**Research on arguments conversion
**PYSIDE-1815 set modified parameter function (reddit example)
**PYSIDE-1809 signature modules issues.
**PYSIDE-1821 Byte handling changes
**Research on new ideas for the PySide module
**PYSIDE-1705 Property support in constructors (relation with __feature__)
**PYSIDE-1735 Python Enums to handle Qt Enums (prototypes)
***PYSIDE-1731 mypy regression issue (related to enums)
**PyPy work continues, focused on compatibility with the newest version (supporting python 3.9)
 
 
===17. February 2022===
 
*General
**New Documentation Engineer joined the Foundation Area.
*Infrastructure & Releases
**3.10.0 configuration to be tested
**Research on improvements for the packages in download.qt.io
**Testing PyPy on the CI
**Python 3.6 will be deprecated in PySide 6.3 and removed in 6.4
*Bugs & Features
**Addressing compatibility with other deployment tools.
**QmlExtended QmlAttach will be available in 6.3
**PYSIDE-1812 cross build task custom clang options
**Research with C++20 to build pyside, and vector call new API in 3.9+
**PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1763 __feature__ issues were fixed and working on providing support for property in constructors PYSIDE-1705 (a bit more difficult)
**PYSIDE-1815 QtNetworkAuth.QAbstractOAuth is missing modifyParametersFunction/setModifyParametersFunction
**PYSIDE-1821 Add support for std::byte
**PYSIDE-1809 wrong name type annotation for setProperty() and property()
 
===10. February 2022===
 
*General
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1806 PYSIDE-1806] CMake version check fixed
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1804 PYSIDE-1804] Big endian test failure fixed
**Work in progress to add further QML decorators
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1702 PYSIDE-1702] snake_case handling now does explicitly not touch user defined classes.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1758 PYSIDE-1758] Leave the underscore variable alone in QApplication
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 PYSIDE-535] Remove a disambiguation patch no longer needed
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1765] Widget subclass' minimumSizeHint not called with true_property
**Work in progress on: [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1753 PYSIDE-1753] setStyleSheet available even if snake_case (complex)
 
===03. February 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 was released.
**Waiting for a scheduled CI break on Monday
**OSS packages for 5.15.3 source to be available soon.
*Bugs & Features
**Updating new Qt dev API (targeting 6.4)
**Adjusting a designer issue with a crash on views
**Improving examples: Old OpenGL API
**PYSIDE-1801 signal crash issue addressed
**PYSIDE-1804 QByteArray issue
**Improving QML: getting some issues with QML_ATTACHED
**Writing PyPy Documentation to explain motivation, changes, and usage.
**PyPy Compatibility:
***Got nice performance results with the working mandelbrot example
***Still working on some last tests that are not properly working.
**PYSIDE-1798 fixing enum issue
**Continue the work on the python-lsp issues on QtCreator
 
===27. January 2022===
 
*General
**Communicate issue with Apple Silicon and our wheels. There is a bug on Python so using limited API and creating wheels with Python 3.8, make them unusable for 3.6 and 3.7
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 to be release soon.
*Bugs & Features
**Qt Creator LSP issue has an initial solution
**Curating a list of new features for Shiboken
**Working on an issue related to help() function on top of custom modules
**PYSIDE-1057 memory leak in progress
**Fixing examples to be compatible with PyPy and addressing corner cases
**QPainter was transformed into a context manager
**Building pyside with PyPy 3.8 is possible (3.9 is still in alpha)
**Working on a new tree example
**1788 allow-thread issue with event functions
**Add threaded OpenGL example
**Add data()/constData() to OpaqueContainers
**Continue work on QML integration
 
===20. January 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 release next week
**Waiting a bit before branching 6.3
*Bugs & Features
**QtCreator Python LSP issue to be worked on
**Continue with the research related to new Shiboken features.
**Fixing general bugs from support
**Adapting new API for 6.3
**Improving QML story with custom types
**PyPy compatibility is focused on making some last examples to work, some issues with PyPy are being found as well.
 
===13. January 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**Maintenance in the CI, still a few things to be improved.
**New version of Gerrit is available as well.
**5.15.8 Commercial LTS was released
**5.15.2.1 to be release soon, special version with Python 3.10 support
*Bugs and Features
**PYSIDE-1755 Fixing issues with __code__ (related to slots)
**Improved documentation
**Looking for new features for Shiboken
**Working on improving the LSP story on QtCreator https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-jsonrpc/issues/5
**PYSIDE-1764 suggestion on avoid the generation/wrapping of methods within objects.
**PYSIDE-1730 signal/method namespace crash, generated by old fixes on old bugs.
**Add capacity/reserve functions to OpaqueContainers
**QML references examples issues, to discover missing details on the qml interaction
**Clarifying the conversion rules on the typesystem: native, target
**PYSIDE-1768 and PYSIDE-1769 WebEngine issues were solved.
**uic missing imports
**PYSIDE-1751 equality test for signals is rewritten and working better
**QXYSeries: adding missing addons to enable methods
 
 
===06. January 2022===


*General
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]
**New bridge between Telegram <-> IRC
*Infra & Release
**Planning 5.15.2 new release (5.15.2.1) to include Python 3.10 support.
**5.15.8 Commercial LTS to be release in the next couple of days.
**6.2.3 planned for 2022.01.18
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1755 __code__ inspection on slot connection is buggy (breaks, e.g. MagicMock testing)
**Ported new examples QRegularExpression editor and MimeTypes
**Research to get new Shiboken features
**Updating translations
**In progress enabling qmllint in pyside project thanks to an external tool
**Addressing signal issues for different use-cases, multiple inheritance
***There is a relation with PyPy issues as well
**PYSIDE-1760 Racing condition without virtual environments (preloading setuptools)
**true_property issues were solved.
**continue work to have a more modular pyside installation with more wheels
**research on manylinux compatibility


==2021==
==2021==

Revision as of 08:17, 25 April 2024


2024

25. April 2024

  • General
    • Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.7.1
    • 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
    • sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
    • PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Added a number of new classes
    • PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
    • Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
    • Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
      • Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization PYSIDE-2675
    • Work on a crash in Python 3.12 PYSIDE-2676
    • Fixed memory leaks PYSIDE-1617
    • Work on our QML list property support PYSIDE-2698
    • Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
    • Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - PYSIDE-2698
    • Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
    • QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
      • Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
      • Plan to improve exceptions handling

18. April 2024

  • General
    • Bug fixing week
    • PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
    • Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
    • Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
    • 6.5.6 release planned
    • 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
    • DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
    • We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
    • QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
    • PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
    • PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
    • PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
      • first approach made things less effective
      • The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
      • New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
    • 825 qml bug is still around
      • PYSIDE-2676 seems to be a new approach to fix it
    • A few customer bugs made it the bug fixing week.
    • PYSIDE-2675 type discovery code, class inheritance
    • QtAudio -> QAudio refactory
    • Virtual function compatibility to modify the signature (from typesystem)
    • PYSIDE-2492 uic issues for Enum compatibility
      • More improvements for Python projects (import options)
    • PYSIDE-2685 nan type definition
    • Removing code from shiboken
    • 6.8 Adaption already started
    • PYSIDE-2689 sphinx directives doesn't seems to be compatible with the search context.

11. April 2024

  • General
    • Bug fixing week.
    • Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
    • Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
    • Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
    • Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
    • New epics with brainstorming ideas.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 was released, we found a couple of issues we are trying to solve, and 6.7.1 will soon be released due to a binary compatibility break, and other small breakage.
    • 5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
    • QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
    • Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has still some issues with the structure.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
    • PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
    • PYSIDE-2669 designer issue
    • PYSIDE-2675 Addressing the lazy import issues that were found in 6.7.0
      • Studying the possible solution, but it needs to consider other cases as well.
      • the *-import handling seems to be related, and affecting the mro content, duplicating some entries.
      • the type discovery handler might be related as well
    • Still working on the qml 825 bug issues.

4. April 2024

  • General
    • Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
  • Infra & Releases
    • Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
    • Preparing for 6.7.0
  • Bugs & Features

28. March 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2654 Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
    • Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
    • PYSIDE-2652 Fixed an int overflow
    • PYSIDE-2649 Work on building without OpenGL
    • PYSIDE-2653 Fixed a syntax error in type hints

21. March 2024

  • General
    • Ideas to improve the module.
    • Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
    • 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
    • 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
  • Bugs & Features
    • 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
    • PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
    • Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
    • QtRhi missing API provided
    • Memory leak regression being worked out
    • Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
    • Android deployment and qml tool documentations
    • Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
    • Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
    • QAsyncio bug fixed
    • Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.

14. March 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
    • 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
    • 6.6.3 will be release next week.
    • qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
    • dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
  • Bugs & Features
    • Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
    • PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
    • Lazy initialization got merged
      • New improvements might land in future versions
    • PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
    • PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
    • Using new icons on the examples
    • Testing libclang 18
    • QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
    • QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
    • New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
    • permission API changes got merge
    • android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
    • PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed

07. March 2024

  • General
    • Participation in FOSS Backstage
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
    • 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
    • qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
    • Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
  • Bugs & Features
    • permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
    • all deployment fixes are in.
    • lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
      • Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
    • Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
    • two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
    • PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
    • PYSIDE-2619 gentoo issue with a build
    • PYSIDE-2624 typing issue with '/' is being researched
    • Qt Icon Teams issues were discovered
    • PYSIDE-2602 virtual function research on a special signature
    • One regression related to the QObject.connect changes.

29. February 2024

  • General
    • Leap day!
    • Documentation changes
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
    • 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
    • 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
    • qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
    • General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
    • PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
    • PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
    • PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
    • Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
    • PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
    • macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
    • Windows BTLE services crash
    • QIO-class are required for some new QAsyncio API using pipes
    • Lazy loading moving forward, but still a few issues are around
      • A couple of shiboken tests seems to have outdated imports that are not helping.
      • shiboken compatibility types missing
    • Typing issues being solved in order to improve the pyi quality

22. February 2024

  • General
    • Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.6.2 was released!
    • qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
  • Bugs & Features
    • Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
    • QtAsyncio blog post was published.
    • Definition of done for QtAsyncio story, some functions will be implemented, but other ones (until reaching the whole set of user facing API) will be implemented in the future.
    • Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
    • Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
    • PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
    • 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
    • 6.7 changelog drafted.
    • Started to improve the type hinting issues.

15. February 2024

  • General
    • Brainstorming session was held.
    • Europython Call for Proposal is open!
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
    • Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
    • Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
    • Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
  • Bugs & Features
    • singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
    • 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
    • 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
    • lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
    • pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
    • CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
    • Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.


8. February 2024

  • General
    • We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
  • Infra & Releases
    • Addressing some issues with the android wheels
    • 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
    • Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
  • Bugs & Features
    • macOS: permission api patches ready for review
    • singleShot patches merged
    • Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
    • Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
    • Preparations for 6.7 continues.

1. February 2024

  • General
    • Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
    • Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
    • CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
  • Infra & Releases
    • no unity build discussion and checks
    • 6.6.2 to be released next week.
    • More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
  • Bugs & Features
    • singleShot timer implementation (to use underlying c++ impl) - still an issue with a context object, and a signal as a functor. A new QObject::connect might handle the situation. More changes to come in order to fix newly discovered issues.
    • Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
    • PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
    • Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
    • 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
    • General documentation adjustments
    • Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
    • Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
    • Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
    • Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues


25. January 2024

  • General
    • Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
    • Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
    • Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
  • Infra & Releases
    • Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
    • Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
    • The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
    • New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
  • Bugs & Features
    • VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
    • PYSIDE-2575: Added a new argument to QtAsyncio to configure whether the QCoreApplication at the core of QtAsyncio should be shut down when asyncio finishes (requested by user).
    • SingleShot timer issue: Slight "complexity explosion" because correct implementation for one case requires implementation of QObject.connect overload with context arguments (and we implement QObject.connect ourselves, see PySide::qobjectConnectCallback).
    • Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
    • Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
    • Unity build some issues when building without.
    • 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
    • QTBUG-99313 related issues
    • macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
    • Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
    • armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
    • Lazy initialization: re-wrote approach from scratch, to reduce the patches to one that can be analyzed easily. Some complications with this approach that needs to be improve. It can be tried with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/496118
    • Moving entry_points declaration to pyproject.toml from setup.py
    • Drop the bdist_wheel steps from the CI (old wheels)
    • Started working on split commercial wheels, wheels for QtDS and examples on QtCreator.

18. January 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
    • Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
    • 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
    • Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
  • Bugs & Features
    • Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
    • PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
    • PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
    • Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
    • Qt 6.7 adaption
    • Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
    • macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
    • singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
    • Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
    • PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
    • pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
    • Improvements to the doc build process

11. January 2024

  • General
    • Hackathon at TQtC
    • CI process presentation
  • Infra & Releases
    • Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
    • Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
    • 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
    • CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
    • Update of the Python versions are pending.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
    • Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
    • New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
    • macOS request permission API work continues.
    • 6.7 adaptions patches
    • M2M fixes on the current impl
    • Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
    • favicon issue with out docs
    • Making our doc diagram generation optional
    • Improvements for the doc build process

04.January 2024

  • General
    • Happy new year fellow readers :D
    • New OKR organization
    • Keeping in an eye on Conferences
    • PyPy is now on 3.10
    • Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
  • Infra & Releases
    • CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
    • Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
    • Android wheels for testing purposes are available (not for production)
    • Xcode issues with a new M3
    • Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
  • Bugs & Features
    • async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
    • async: the module is missing from our docs
    • async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
    • new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
    • pyside6 designer pyenv crash was fixed
    • pyside cmake module update crash was fixed
    • working on the request permission API for macOS
    • docs: free functions as separate section and other improvements
    • Python scripting in c++ works continues
    • PyPy 3.10 compatibility patches
    • nogil: working again on a compatibility with PEP703
      • locking mechanism for our modules.
    • Typing adjustments, we need '/' in our signatures due to not having keywords parameters.

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