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==2022==


===23. June 2022===
==2024==


* Infra and Releases
===23. May 2024===
** NumPy 1.23 broke dev and PyPy :(
* General
** We need to pin the other packages to avoid breakage
* Infra & Releases
** 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
* 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===
===16. May 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
** Exclude .qsb, .webp, .cpp.o and .qen from deployment due to Nuitka error. Error report raised in Nuitka - https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2854
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2620 PYSIDE-2620] - Adapting to 6.8


* Bug fixing week
===2. May 2024===
* 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
* General
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** commercial LTS 5.15.10 to be released
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
** 6.3.1 to be release next week
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
** Changing the python version on windows is generating new errors.
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
** CI times are too long, so there is some plan to improve the waiting times.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Tooling research
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
** Issues with special application cases, QML threading and stuff
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
** Access violation on debug builds on Python 3.7, on COIN it was a release build and presented the issue as well
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
** Adding new QML files to the wheel (GraphicalEffects)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
** Continue research with WebAssembly
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
** Discussion with pyqtgraph to improve API in favor of their module and performance.
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
** 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.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676] - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
** BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
*** Issue might require special hw
** Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
*** An internal presentation is being prepared.
** Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
** macOS cross compilation for android being tried




===02. June 2022===
===25. April 2024===
* General
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Windows 10: 3.6 -> 3.7, and add Windows 11: 3.10
** Preparing 6.7.1
** Signing binaries on Windows is time consuming
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
** 6.2 Commercial LTS close to 6.3.1 OSS release.
** 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
** PYSIDE-1731 signatures issues related to QFlags
** Added a number of new classes
** PYSIDE-1760 flake8 fixtures broke pyside builds, because it had some effect regarding the replacement of distutils by setuptools.
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
** PyEnum improvements, adding them in the enclosing scopes.
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
** Continue the research on the deployment story
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
** PYSIDE-1930 QVariant issues
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
** PYSIDE-1939 Crashes related to return value from shiboken heuristics
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
** The project now adopted SDPX licensing (2 lines instead of a wall of text)
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
** PYSIDE-1947 data() and constData() from QAudioBuffer
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** PYSIDE-661 moving around messages, we still need to tackle some memory improvements.
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
** Documentation updates
** 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


===18. April 2024===


===26. May 2022===
* General
* Holiday
** 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.


===19. May 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
** 5.15.5 source code ready to be released
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
** 6.3.1 delayed to mid-June
** Preparing for 6.7.0
** 6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** 1905 specify free functions in Shiboken
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** move the error messages to libshiboken
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** 1932 QEnum issues
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** Starting research on webassembly
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums
** 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===


===28. March 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.4 sources should be released soon, preparing 5.15.5
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
** Special pypy branch for nightly integrations
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** 1898 QMetaObject invokeMethod added Q_ARG
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
** 1919 Crash was fixed
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
** 1912 context properties, adding missing API
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
** NumPy dependencies are moved to Shiboken (pyqtgraph discussion)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
** General refactoring
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints
** 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===


===21. March 2024===
* General
** Ideas to improve the module.
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Starting new commercial branch for 6.2 LTS, 6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release.
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
** Preparing new 5.15.4 OSS package (according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation)
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Python 3.7 PyIndex_Check issue to be addressed in 6.2 and 6.3
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
** Research and improvements on the Raspberry Pi story
** PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
** QtWebEngine: Missing setCookieFilter and setNotificationPresenter
** Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
** Can't use category based logging from PySide
** QtRhi missing API provided
** Continue research on deployment story
** Memory leak regression being worked out
** 1880 DataVisualization + NumPy
** Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
** 1898 QMetaObject.invokeMethod with arguments not possible
** Android deployment and qml tool documentations
** 1901 Enum "QVariantList" passed to Property breaks property datatype
** Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
** shiboken to generate deterministic includes
** Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
** Enum new implementation patch is mature to be included in dev and start additional testing
** QAsyncio bug fixed
** Research on testing improvements
** Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.
 
===28. April 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
* Bugs & Features
** Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1895 PYSIDE-1895], strings with 0 chars.
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** Diagnosed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1893 PYSIDE-1893], object deletion with lambdas.
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
** Worked on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 PYSIDE-1859], native Win handles
** Lazy initialization got merged
** Continued [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1880 PYSIDE-1880] QDataVisualization
*** New improvements might land in future versions
** String migration of the code according to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-98434 QTBUG-98434] and related cleanups
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
** Improved isolation between tests and __feature__ settings, reset() method implemented.
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
** Migration to PyEnum [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] is now error-free:
** Using new icons on the examples
*** qformlayout_test.py gives phantasy values when no elements exist. Python enums can't handle that.
** Testing libclang 18
 
** QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
===21. April 2022===
** 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
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.4 is the las OSS release, 6.2 LTS being prepared
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
** 6.3.x will continue as the new OSS release.
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
** 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.
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
* Bug & Features
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
** QDataVisualization + ItemModel request for data handling (performance discussion), issues seems to be on the C++ implementation of the module.
* Bugs & Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 Windows handle classes issue
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
** Found some issues with previous setuptools versions on Linux
** all deployment fixes are in.
** 1890 fixing cmake build for the new __all__ resolution.
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
** 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.
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
** Improving tests overall (due to the enum changes)
** 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.


===14. April 2022===
===29. February 2024===


* General
** Leap day!
** Documentation changes
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.3 was released: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-details-on-the-new-6.3-release
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
** 6.3 was branched
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** Continue the research on qml plugins and deployment story
** PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
** Refactoring and improvements to the build_scripts
** PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
** Python Qt Enums in progress, still some hard-to-find issues to solve
** PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
** 1627 issue regarding QAction API related to QMenu
** PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
** Shiboken refactorings
** Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
** 1883 QTest issues
** PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
** 1880 Request for 3D ItemModel functionality -> added new examples
** macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
** Smart pointers and std::optional support
** 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


===7. April 2022===
===22. February 2024===
* General
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** New commercial 5.15 releases, difficulties with libclang 12
** 6.6.2 was released!
** _Py_Mangle issues on >=5.15.4 to be included in 5.15.4 source packages (and others)
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
** Branching 6.3 in the next days.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1876 qmlparserstatus issue fixed
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
** Fix TOC doc issue and adapt new qtbase changes
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** refactorings to reduce size of generated code
** 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.
** smartpointers improvements, adding tests and tuning implementation
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
** PYSIDE-1878 improving qml and python interaction (plugins)
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
** Working on the new Qt Python Enums approach (will be a TP with a compile time option)
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
** Improve some issues on 5.15.x regarding Python 3.10 compatibility (_Py_Mangle)
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.


===31. March 2022===
===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
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-187O fixed.
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
** Wheel size reduction - new flag --no-size-optimization - ready to merge.
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
** pyqmlscene  (starts with PySide6QmlPlugin) in the working. Requirements gathering from Qml team.
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
** shiboken6-genpyi was fixed (was not functional after the Python virtualization)
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
** adaptation of PySide6.__all__ after the wheel split, still a problem not understood
** pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
** PYSIDE-1735: Use Python Enums to handle Qt Enum. Making fast progress.
** CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
** PYSIDE-535: completing PyPy documentation to introduce the project for 6.3
** Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1874 PYSIDE-1874] SIGSEGV when accessing __doc__ of a Property fixed


===24. March 2022===


*Infra & Releases
===8. February 2024===
**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
** 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.


*General
===1. February 2024===
*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
** 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


*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===
===25. January 2024===


*General
* General
*Infra & Releases
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
**6.2.4 ready to be released, but qt was postponed for 15.03.2022
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
**PyPy CI builds are still being tested
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
**Next week there will be a CI maintenance break
* Infra & Releases
**Python versions: 3.6 (linux + win) 3.9 (mac) | 3.10 test win
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
***3.6 will be deprecated in 6.3, so we will change CI versions
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
***3.8 (win), 3.10 (x), 3.7 (x)
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
**6.3 branching still pending a few wheel modifications, and tags.
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
*Bug & Features
* Bugs & Features
**PyPy build on windows presented a few challenges, and PyPy issues were found and reported.
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
**pyi generation also had issues due to a virtualenv + windows configurations being wrong, regarding the import orders.
** 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).
**Enum refactoring is still in progress.
** 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).
**container conversion research
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
**1835 building 5.15 without limited api
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
**qml research on property values, and group properties will be fix as well
** Unity build some issues when building without.
**research on new opportunities to improve PySide as a Python module
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
**re-working the wheel generation
** 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.


===24. February 2022===
===18. January 2024===


*General
* General
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
*Bug & Feature
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
**PYSIDE-1824 BT issue was fixed
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
**PYSIDE-1826 Image provider
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
**PYSIDE-1827 metatype slot pending (metacall handle improvements)
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
**Research on arguments conversion
* Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1815 set modified parameter function (reddit example)
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
**PYSIDE-1809 signature modules issues.
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
**PYSIDE-1821 Byte handling changes
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
**Research on new ideas for the PySide module
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
**PYSIDE-1705 Property support in constructors (relation with __feature__)
** Qt 6.7 adaption
**PYSIDE-1735 Python Enums to handle Qt Enums (prototypes)
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
***PYSIDE-1731 mypy regression issue (related to enums)
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
**PyPy work continues, focused on compatibility with the newest version (supporting python 3.9)
** 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===


===17. February 2022===
* 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


*General
===04.January 2024===
**New Documentation Engineer joined the Foundation Area.
* General
*Infrastructure & Releases
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
**3.10.0 configuration to be tested
** New OKR organization
**Research on improvements for the packages in download.qt.io
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
**Testing PyPy on the CI
** PyPy is now on 3.10
**Python 3.6 will be deprecated in PySide 6.3 and removed in 6.4
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
*Bugs & Features
* Infra & Releases
**Addressing compatibility with other deployment tools.
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
**QmlExtended QmlAttach will be available in 6.3
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
**PYSIDE-1812 cross build task custom clang options
** Android [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)
**Research with C++20 to build pyside, and vector call new API in 3.9+
** Xcode issues with a new M3
**PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1763 __feature__ issues were fixed and working on providing support for property in constructors PYSIDE-1705 (a bit more difficult)
** Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
**PYSIDE-1815 QtNetworkAuth.QAbstractOAuth is missing modifyParametersFunction/setModifyParametersFunction
* Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1821 Add support for std::byte
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
**PYSIDE-1809 wrong name type annotation for setProperty() and property()
** 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.


===10. February 2022===
==2023==


*General
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]
*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===
==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 08:13, 16 May 2024


2024

23. May 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features

16. May 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
    • 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2753 - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
    • PYSIDE-2750 - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
    • Exclude .qsb, .webp, .cpp.o and .qen from deployment due to Nuitka error. Error report raised in Nuitka - https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2854
    • Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
    • PYSIDE-2748 - Fixed a type hint error
    • PYSIDE-2747 - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
    • PYSIDE-2711 - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
    • Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
    • PYSIDE-2620 - Adapting to 6.8

2. May 2024

  • General
    • OKR reviews for the next quarter.
    • Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
    • Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
    • 6.7.1 to be released next week.
    • Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2698 - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
    • PYSIDE-2705 - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
    • macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
    • PYSIDE-2709 - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
    • Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
    • Enumeration support in QtScrypt
    • PYSIDE-2676 - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
    • BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
      • Issue might require special hw
    • Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
      • An internal presentation is being prepared.
    • Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
    • macOS cross compilation for android being tried


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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