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==2022==


=== 24. March 2022 ===
==2024==
 
===13. June 2024===
 
* General
** Python 3.9 story: the decision was made without considering that 3.9 is still getting security releases, so we have decided to keep supporting Python 3.9 for PySide 6.8 LTS, but we might drop it in the middle of some bug-fix releases.
*** Things that are considered to support certain python versions are: Internal CI Python versions for each OS, Python version lifecycle https://devguide.python.org/versions/, features that will improve user experience from new versions.
*** Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
** Qt Group is sponsoring EuroPython 2024: and we will give a talk!
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.2 packages are ready to be released.
** Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
** Starting process to test windows arm64 (discussion around libclang)
** Nightly builds:
*** Possible solution for linux and macOS arm64 android builds.
*** Maybe also for non-unity builds? it has been failing in some corner cases.
*** We could have dev-android branch so we don't block the normal dev development.
*** nightly builds merge automatically if everything passes.
*** PyPy integrations might join a similar configuration as well.
* Bugs & Features
** Android wheels from macOS host through coin successful. Assembling the final patch. Coin still running tests for an Android build and error-ing still needs to be resolved.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2702 PYSIDE-2702] - Flatpak base app implementation started.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2781 PYSIDE-2781] - pyside6-deploy failure investigation ongoing. Could be a Nuitka issue. User using the latest Nuitka.
** Working on improve our typing implementations.
** QtAsyncio: internal presentation including the theory behind and some live examples.
** Lazy load: disabled for PyPy, fixing some shiboken-tests
** QtScrypt: development continues
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2780 PYSIDE-2780] refcount bug in the lazy import fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] 3.13 compatibility patches are ready, nogil under development
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] reduction of binary sizes under investigation, estimating the achievable reduction
 
===06. June 2024===
 
* General
** Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
** PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
** Must read https://peps.python.org/pep-0741/
* Infra & Releases
** Some issues with the macOS CI units.
** Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
** qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
** 6.5.6 commercial LTS was released.
** 6.7.2 release will happen soon (due to an issue with designer)
** the Python 3.9 macOS CI configuration will be updated to 3.11, and the windows with 3.11 will be updated to 3.12
* Bugs & Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2622 - Standalone mode for Deployment as per many requests from users
** Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
** https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466 ready, but waiting for macOS x86_64 to update Python to 3.11 - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qt5/+/565565/4 (Thanks Simo)
** Patches ready for updating python syntax to drop typing.Optional (and use | instead) that will go in once we drop 3.9
** Preparing presentation and improvements to QtAsyncio
** PYSIDE-2440 will be prepared.
** op codes changing in Python, is altering some of our internal implementation, like the forgiveness mode.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 planned work for the no-gil feature in Python 3.13
** smart pointers with lazy loading were not working, but a fix was merged.
** Qt Designer had a regression that motivated 6.7.2
** Qt 6.8 adaption taking a lot of work due to doc changes and QtGraphs
** PYSIDE-2772 issue ended up being a user problem
 
===30. May 2024===
 
* General
** PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
** Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
* Infra & Releases
** Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
** PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
** Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
** qtpip is planned to support aarch64
** 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2766 PYSIDE-2766] - Android wheels from macOS successful. Patches for review.
*** Testing a sample app now + Modifying https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466
** 6.8 adaption is in progress [qtcharts is a bit unstable]
** c++20 research to improve libshiboken
** qtscrypt progressing to support signal/slot
** dev will support python 3.10+ [for 6.8+]
** PYSIDE-2767 pyi improvements.
** lazy init for nested types disrupted the smart pointer support.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2440 type hints optionallity is planned to be implemented.
 
===23. May 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
** 5.15.17 LTS released
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2749 PYSIDE-2749] Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2758 PYSIDE-2758] Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2762 PYSIDE-2762] Fixed a type hinting bug
** Brushed up and fixed a few examples
** 6.8 Adaption
** Python 3.13 check
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
** pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.
** Close to macOS cross compilation
 
===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
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2745 PYSIDE-2745] - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] - Lazy Loading completed by supporting subtypes. This gives 8-9% more performance.
** Support for Python 3.13 started - first compatibility before switching to disable-gil
** Possibilities explored to lazy load signatures or save space.
 
===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
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
** [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
 
 
===25. April 2024===
* General
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.4 was released
** Preparing 6.7.1
** 5.15.3 sources were updated to include pyside2-tools, and 3.10 compatibility.
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
** We will replace 3.6.1 by 3.7.x to test on windows
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
** Adding new set of wheels to the download.qt.io snapshots
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Research on reducing wheel sizes via compiling flags and other things.
** Added a number of new classes
** REG PYSIDE-1870 still in progress
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
** Fixing doc issues, and sphinx related changes.
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
** 1862 top level cmake build fixed
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
** 1868 crash on frame buffer (factory function)
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
** Adapting to changes in Qt/C++
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
** share_ptr handling refactoring to write independently of the platform
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
** wheel_tester issue on macos was fixed (scriptableapplication building with qmake only), it uses cmake and ninja now.
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Issue in pyside6 re-introduced an old issue: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/401438
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
** Continue with the work on Enums in PySide
** Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Improvements to the create wheel process
** 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===


=== 17. March 2022 ===
* General
* 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
** 6.2.4 release is ready to be out today.
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
** LTS 5.15.3 source code will be re-uploaded due to missing pyside2-tools
** 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
** QmlExtension research for PySide projects
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
** Research for new ideas to improve PySide and Shiboken
** QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
** Stripping binaries a bit to reduce wheel size
** PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
** QtPropertyMap is not exposed
** PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
** Update the documentation (Signal/Slots, modules desc, and more)
** PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
** Replacing count() functions by size() internally.
*** first approach made things less effective
** Improving the testing framework (special cases for apple silicon)
*** The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
** PYSIDE-1843: Continue fixing failing tests for PyPy
*** New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
** Research: Improvements to Qt Enums to rely on Python Enums
** 825 qml bug is still around
** Wheel splitting might need a small size increase on PyPi
*** 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.


=== 10. March 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
* General
** Position still open and many candidates in the pipeline.
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Python CI version updates: 3.8 (linux) 3.7 (win) mac (3.9)
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
** PyPy issues on the CI being addressed, almost fully functional.
** Preparing for 6.7.0
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** Research on new PySide features on-going, extra things, internals, and performance
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** QtNfc module was added
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** qFuzzyCompare issue was fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** Improvements on the shiboken containers parsing
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums
** 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 ===
===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
** Ideas to improve the module.
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.4 ready to be released, but qt was postponed for 15.03.2022
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
** PyPy CI builds are still being tested
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
** Next week there will be a CI maintenance break
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
** Python versions: 3.6 (linux + win) 3.9 (mac) | 3.10 test win
* Bugs & Features
*** 3.6 will be deprecated in 6.3, so we will change CI versions
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
*** 3.8 (win), 3.10 (x), 3.7 (x)
** PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
** 6.3 branching still pending a few wheel modifications, and tags.
** Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
* Bug & Features
** QtRhi missing API provided
** PyPy build on windows presented a few challenges, and PyPy issues were found and reported.
** Memory leak regression being worked out
** pyi generation also had issues due to a virtualenv + windows configurations being wrong, regarding the import orders.
** Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
** Enum refactoring is still in progress.
** Android deployment and qml tool documentations
** container conversion research
** Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
** 1835 building 5.15 without limited api
** Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
** qml research on property values, and group properties will be fix as well
** QAsyncio bug fixed
** research on new opportunities to improve PySide as a Python module
** Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.
** re-working the wheel generation


=== 24. February 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


===07. March 2024===
* General
* General
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
* Bug & Feature
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
** PYSIDE-1824 BT issue was fixed
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
** PYSIDE-1826 Image provider
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
** PYSIDE-1827 metatype slot pending (metacall handle improvements)
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
** Research on arguments conversion
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1815 set modified parameter function (reddit example)
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
** PYSIDE-1809 signature modules issues.
** all deployment fixes are in.
** PYSIDE-1821 Byte handling changes
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
** Research on new ideas for the PySide module
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
** PYSIDE-1705 Property support in constructors (relation with __feature__)
** Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
** PYSIDE-1735 Python Enums to handle Qt Enums (prototypes)
** two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
*** PYSIDE-1731 mypy regression issue (related to enums)
** PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
** PyPy work continues, focused on compatibility with the newest version (supporting python 3.9)
** 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


=== 17. February 2022 ===
===22. February 2024===
* General
* General
** New Documentation Engineer joined the Foundation Area.
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
* Infrastructure & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 3.10.0 configuration to be tested
** 6.6.2 was released!
** Research on improvements for the packages in download.qt.io
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
** Testing PyPy on the CI
** Python 3.6 will be deprecated in PySide 6.3 and removed in 6.4
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Addressing compatibility with other deployment tools.
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
** QmlExtended QmlAttach will be available in 6.3
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** PYSIDE-1812 cross build task custom clang options
** 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.
** Research with C++20 to build pyside, and vector call new API in 3.9+
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
** PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1763 __feature__ issues were fixed and working on providing support for property in constructors PYSIDE-1705 (a bit more difficult)
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
** PYSIDE-1815 QtNetworkAuth.QAbstractOAuth is missing modifyParametersFunction/setModifyParametersFunction
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
** PYSIDE-1821 Add support for std::byte
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
** PYSIDE-1809 wrong name type annotation for setProperty() and property()
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.
 
===15. February 2024===


=== 10. February 2022 ===
* General
* 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
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1806 PYSIDE-1806] CMake version check fixed
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1804 PYSIDE-1804] Big endian test failure fixed
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
** Work in progress to add further QML decorators
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1702 PYSIDE-1702] snake_case handling now does explicitly not touch user defined classes.
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1758 PYSIDE-1758] Leave the underscore variable alone in QApplication
** pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 PYSIDE-535] Remove a disambiguation patch no longer needed
** CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1765] Widget subclass' minimumSizeHint not called with true_property
** Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.
** Work in progress on: [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1753 PYSIDE-1753] setStyleSheet available even if snake_case (complex)
 
 
===8. February 2024===


=== 03. February 2022 ===
* General
* General
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.3 was released.
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
** Waiting for a scheduled CI break on Monday
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
** OSS packages for 5.15.3 source to be available soon.
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Updating new Qt dev API (targeting 6.4)
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
** Adjusting a designer issue with a crash on views
** singleShot patches merged
** Improving examples: Old OpenGL API
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
** PYSIDE-1801 signal crash issue addressed
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
** PYSIDE-1804 QByteArray issue
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.
** Improving QML: getting some issues with QML_ATTACHED
 
** Writing PyPy Documentation to explain motivation, changes, and usage.
===1. February 2024===
** 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
* 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
** 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
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.3 to be release soon.
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** Qt Creator LSP issue has an initial solution
** 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.
** Curating a list of new features for Shiboken
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
** Working on an issue related to help() function on top of custom modules
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
** PYSIDE-1057 memory leak in progress
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
** Fixing examples to be compatible with PyPy and addressing corner cases
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
** QPainter was transformed into a context manager
** General documentation adjustments
** Building pyside with PyPy 3.8 is possible (3.9 is still in alpha)
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
** Working on a new tree example
** Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
** 1788 allow-thread issue with event functions
** Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
** Add threaded OpenGL example
** Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues
** Add data()/constData() to OpaqueContainers
 
** Continue work on QML integration
 
===25. January 2024===


=== 20. January 2022 ===
* General
* 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
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.3 release next week
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
** Waiting a bit before branching 6.3
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** QtCreator Python LSP issue to be worked on
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
** Continue with the research related to new Shiboken features.
** 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).
** Fixing general bugs from support
** 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).
** Adapting new API for 6.3
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
** Improving QML story with custom types
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
** PyPy compatibility is focused on making some last examples to work, some issues with PyPy are being found as well.
** 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.


=== 13. January 2022 ===
===18. January 2024===


* General
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Maintenance in the CI, still a few things to be improved.
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
** New version of Gerrit is available as well.
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
** 5.15.8 Commercial LTS was released
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
** 5.15.2.1 to be release soon, special version with Python 3.10 support
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
* Bugs and Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1755 Fixing issues with __code__ (related to slots)
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
** Improved documentation
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
** Looking for new features for Shiboken
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
** Working on improving the LSP story on QtCreator https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-jsonrpc/issues/5
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
** PYSIDE-1764 suggestion on avoid the generation/wrapping of methods within objects.
** Qt 6.7 adaption
** PYSIDE-1730 signal/method namespace crash, generated by old fixes on old bugs.
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
** Add capacity/reserve functions to OpaqueContainers
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
** QML references examples issues, to discover missing details on the qml interaction
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
** Clarifying the conversion rules on the typesystem: native, target
** Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
** PYSIDE-1768 and PYSIDE-1769 WebEngine issues were solved.
** PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
** uic missing imports
** pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
** PYSIDE-1751 equality test for signals is rewritten and working better
** Improvements to the doc build process
** QXYSeries: adding missing addons to enable methods


===11. January 2024===


=== 06. January 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


===04.January 2024===
* General
* General
** New bridge between Telegram <-> IRC
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
* Infra & Release
** New OKR organization
** Planning 5.15.2 new release (5.15.2.1) to include Python 3.10 support.
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
** 5.15.8 Commercial LTS to be release in the next couple of days.
** PyPy is now on 3.10
** 6.2.3 planned for 2022.01.18
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1755 __code__ inspection on slot connection is buggy (breaks, e.g. MagicMock testing)
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
** Ported new examples QRegularExpression editor and MimeTypes
** async: the module is missing from our docs
** Research to get new Shiboken features
** async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
** Updating translations
** new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
** In progress enabling qmllint in pyside project thanks to an external tool
** pyside6 designer pyenv crash was fixed
** Addressing signal issues for different use-cases, multiple inheritance
** pyside cmake module update crash was fixed
*** There is a relation with PyPy issues as well
** working on the request permission API for macOS
** PYSIDE-1760 Racing condition without virtual environments (preloading setuptools)
** docs: free functions as separate section and other improvements
** true_property issues were solved.
** Python scripting in c++ works continues
** continue work to have a more modular pyside installation with more wheels
** PyPy 3.10 compatibility patches
** research on manylinux compatibility
** 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.
 
==2023==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]
 
==2022==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]


==2021==
==2021==


*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2021]]
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2021]]
==2020==
==2020==


Revision as of 09:45, 13 June 2024


2024

13. June 2024

  • General
    • Python 3.9 story: the decision was made without considering that 3.9 is still getting security releases, so we have decided to keep supporting Python 3.9 for PySide 6.8 LTS, but we might drop it in the middle of some bug-fix releases.
      • Things that are considered to support certain python versions are: Internal CI Python versions for each OS, Python version lifecycle https://devguide.python.org/versions/, features that will improve user experience from new versions.
      • Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
    • Qt Group is sponsoring EuroPython 2024: and we will give a talk!
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.2 packages are ready to be released.
    • Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
    • Starting process to test windows arm64 (discussion around libclang)
    • Nightly builds:
      • Possible solution for linux and macOS arm64 android builds.
      • Maybe also for non-unity builds? it has been failing in some corner cases.
      • We could have dev-android branch so we don't block the normal dev development.
      • nightly builds merge automatically if everything passes.
      • PyPy integrations might join a similar configuration as well.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Android wheels from macOS host through coin successful. Assembling the final patch. Coin still running tests for an Android build and error-ing still needs to be resolved.
    • PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak base app implementation started.
    • PYSIDE-2781 - pyside6-deploy failure investigation ongoing. Could be a Nuitka issue. User using the latest Nuitka.
    • Working on improve our typing implementations.
    • QtAsyncio: internal presentation including the theory behind and some live examples.
    • Lazy load: disabled for PyPy, fixing some shiboken-tests
    • QtScrypt: development continues
    • PYSIDE-2780 refcount bug in the lazy import fixed
    • PYSIDE-2751 3.13 compatibility patches are ready, nogil under development
    • PYSIDE-2701 reduction of binary sizes under investigation, estimating the achievable reduction

06. June 2024

  • General
    • Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
    • PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
    • Must read https://peps.python.org/pep-0741/
  • Infra & Releases
    • Some issues with the macOS CI units.
    • Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
    • qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
    • 6.5.6 commercial LTS was released.
    • 6.7.2 release will happen soon (due to an issue with designer)
    • the Python 3.9 macOS CI configuration will be updated to 3.11, and the windows with 3.11 will be updated to 3.12
  • Bugs & Features
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2622 - Standalone mode for Deployment as per many requests from users
    • Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
    • https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466 ready, but waiting for macOS x86_64 to update Python to 3.11 - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qt5/+/565565/4 (Thanks Simo)
    • Patches ready for updating python syntax to drop typing.Optional (and use | instead) that will go in once we drop 3.9
    • Preparing presentation and improvements to QtAsyncio
    • PYSIDE-2440 will be prepared.
    • op codes changing in Python, is altering some of our internal implementation, like the forgiveness mode.
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 planned work for the no-gil feature in Python 3.13
    • smart pointers with lazy loading were not working, but a fix was merged.
    • Qt Designer had a regression that motivated 6.7.2
    • Qt 6.8 adaption taking a lot of work due to doc changes and QtGraphs
    • PYSIDE-2772 issue ended up being a user problem

30. May 2024

  • General
    • PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
    • Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
  • Infra & Releases
    • Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
    • PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
    • Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
    • qtpip is planned to support aarch64
    • 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
  • Bugs & Features

23. May 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
    • 5.15.17 LTS released
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2747 Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
    • PYSIDE-2749 Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
    • PYSIDE-2758 Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
    • PYSIDE-2762 Fixed a type hinting bug
    • Brushed up and fixed a few examples
    • 6.8 Adaption
    • Python 3.13 check
    • PYSIDE-2751 Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
    • pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.
    • Close to macOS cross compilation

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
    • PYSIDE-2745 - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
    • PYSIDE-2404 - Lazy Loading completed by supporting subtypes. This gives 8-9% more performance.
    • Support for Python 3.13 started - first compatibility before switching to disable-gil
    • Possibilities explored to lazy load signatures or save space.

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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