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==2023==


===30. November 2023===
==2024==
 
=== 05. September 2024===
* General
* General
** Everyone at QtCS!
** Team mostly at QtCS
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.1 almost ready, delayed by sickness in team
** Starting to switch to 6.8
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2524 PYSIDE-2524] Slots with default parameters fixed
** Fixed a potential memory corruption in enum converter generation
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1931 PYSIDE-1931] Hang when using PSQL over SSH tunnel fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2851 PYSIDE-2851] Tricky bug with @Slot(name=) no working. Still investigating.  
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2535 PYSIDE-2535] Diagnosed DBUS issue
** Adapting deployment and other things to 6.8. Some existing bugs and ToDo were solved.
** Refactorings/QString usage
** Working on creating a "Release Notes" page in Qfp documentation parsing from 'doc/changelogs'
** Looked into Qt Creator QML debugging
** Competitor research for potential new features
** Picked Python 3.12 support to LTS 6.5


===23. November 2023===
=== 29. August 2024===
* General
* General
** QtWS and QtCS next week
** Continue discussion on a better qml integration
* Infra & Releases
** CI is updating Python version from 3.8 to 3.11, we will tweak some CI configuration.
** 6.5 was moved to Commercial LTS in the past days, no more patches to the public repo.
** 5.15.16 commercial LTS was released
** 6.6.1 - three changes are pending wrt the Async story in order to have the RC wheels.
** 5.15.x versions that needs to be released to the public will be soon available.
** A review on the python packages on the installer
** qtpip 0.2 will be work on soon
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Async: there is still a crash that needs to be addressed.
** Added pyside6-svgtoqml - 6.8
** Scripting presentation (poc)
** Added missing binaries to 6.8. This include some QtQuick modules.
** diagnosis for singleShot
** Deprecated ToDo fixed in pyside6-deploy
** modernize Analog Clock example
** Updated Nuitka version to 2.4.8
** QML Debugging story saw the light
** Code Design simplification of pyside6-deploy
** PYSIDE-2534 rejected
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2835 PYSIDE-2835] - error message setup in pyside6-deploy. Issue raised in Nuitka.
** PYSIDE-2535 is currently in research
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
** Qt 6.7 Adaption started
*** Reformatted helper functions in generate_pyi with class methods
** PoC PyObject explorer
*** Changed all typing classes to have prefix "typing" against name clashes (tricky)
** Qt Strings story: After some research we noticed some missing operators, so we cannot migrate.
*** Started systematic fixture of errors: 533 in 7 categories (was 601 before prefix). Seeking general fixture algorithms.
** Upstreamed the python-for-android patch.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] Add a Benchmark batch script to measure progress
** Refactoring the deployment tool a bit
** Working on a Qt Academy course (soon to be published!)
** Working on DS compatibility
 


===16. November 2023===
=== 22. August 2024===
* General
* General
** Attended Meeting C++ Conference  ... Reflection in C++ (which would revolutionize bindings generation) still planned for C++ 26
** Bug fixing week
** uv release 0.3.0 https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging
** Tag strings https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-750-tag-strings-for-writing-domain-specific-languages/60408
** discussion related to spy
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing for 6.6.1
** 6.2 issue with ".commercial" tag on the wheels
** dev will switch to 6.8.0 when the branch is ready.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Checked whether Clang 17 brings any surprises..works
** PYSIDE-2786 Finished the 3.10 patch to support the new syntax for the pyi files.
** Checked [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2524 PYSIDE-2524] .. No viable solution, but some cleanups and performance-related refactorings
** Enabling a process to test pyi with mypy
** Refine, fixed errors and created upstream pull request in python-for-android - [https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/pull/2918 kivy/ ... /pull/2918]
** Flatpak documentation was merged
** Calling the C++ function for singleShot timers doesn't yet work for signals + another case
** Typing issue related to QByteArray.fromRawData
*** Python arguments need special conversion to C++ for these cases
** QtDS integration continues
**  


===9. November 2023===
=== 15. August 2024===
* General
* General
** Bug fixing week
** Bug fixing weekS (2 weeks)
** Planning for future work on QtDS
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Nothing new under the sun
** Fixing an issue to properly discover the installed WebEngine
** Note: 6.5 aarch64 releases are only around for PySide, not Qt/C++.
** Continue work on libclang pre-built on windows arm64
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2230 SOTP works problems solved. Check-in pending.
** PYSIDE-2833 Doc changes: qml tutorials, re-gen docs to fix
*** SbkObjectType changes its type at runtime: was found with logarithmic debug search and fixed.
** Updated Qt Python Scripting (QtPyScript? name to be confirmed)
*** bug_825 problem after update to Python 3 was finally solved: In Python < 3.12 SbkObjectType must have size > PyType_Type, in order to win the base class selection.
** 6.7.3 changelog preparation
** Pushing upstream some enum motivated tasks to Designer.
** Adjusting branches, because of missing patches.
** Dropping support to setup.cfg in favor of pyproject.toml
** pyi: fixing more issues
** Introducing PySide6_Examples wheel
** research on improving the qml + python interaction
** discussion about singleShot
 
===2. November 2023===


=== 8. August 2024===
* General
* General
** Growing interest from companies using PySide6 and develop QML applications.
** Talk accepted for KDE Akademy: "Pythonizing Qt"
** There seems to be a few areas where a tutorial is needed, but we'd require people to open 'Suggestions' to our Bug Tracker https://bugreports.qt.io/projects/PYSIDE/
** Qt Contributor summit session to work with people from the Squish team.
*** Threading in PySide applications
** An intern will most probably join the team.
*** QML project structure
* Infra & Releases
** Internal trip report for PyConES23
** PySide6_DS will remain being available only for Windows/Linux x86_64 and macOS universal, no aarch64 for Linux
** Security training
** Research continues on Windows arm64
** https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-703-making-the-global-interpreter-lock-optional-in-cpython-acceptance/37075
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Exploring ways of avoiding download/install artifacts on the CI
** PYSIDE-2384 Enum as Sequences issues on Python 3.11
** Adding new Examples wheel (we might add extra files for QtCreator)
** Signal Manager massive refactoring
** Migrating away from the setup.cfg to pyproject.toml
** qmlimportscanner new option to exclude directories (for our tooling)
** Executor bug remains, but further research is in progress. (Debugging threads is complicated)
** PYSIDE-2833 loadFromModule should be used for QML projects
** Simplify algorithm for the multiple inheritance offsets
** Fixes in the documentation
** PYSIDE-2342 QML singleton when class has a static create factory method
** 6.8 adaption
** PYSIDE-2510 Crash with signals on classes that don't inherit from QObject
** Create the KDE documentation for using the PySide BaseApp for Flatpak (on review)
** QMetaInvoke not taking all the parameters
** Improving the documentation, getting ideas from other frameworks/projects. We will try to keep old links working with some alias, and fixing many broken links.
** 2514 typing issues
** Continue fixing pyi issues
** Rebase Rhi compatibility patch
** Discussion on the next steps on the QtDS integration
** Designer work on writing fully qualify enums
** PYSIDE-2230 SOTP works continues.
*** SbkObjectType changes its type at runtime so it's generating a side effect on checking the functions, and the size of the binary object.


===26. October 2023===
=== 2. August 2024===
* General
* General
** Qt World Summit approaching https://www.qt.io/qt-world-summit-2023
** PyConUS website and CfP was announced.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Releases planned for November
** 6.8, 6.7.3 preparations
** qtpip will have an independent release cycle
** "Qt Design Studio components for PySide6" wheels are now available from pypi.org. https://pypi.org/project/PySide6-DS/
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PEP 697 works continues: hidden structures in our extension types.
** Some pyi issues were fixed ( [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2788 PYSIDE-2788], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2752 PYSIDE-2752] )
*** There is an in place implementation, helping with speed, but the rules are tighter for the rest of the code. Single remaining QML problem is bug_825 (segfault).
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2814 PYSIDE-2814] Deployment: spaces can now be used in extra_args
** QThread Pool Executor implementation on QtAsyncio finally working, but another issue popped-up. Further debugging is required to address it.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2828 PYSIDE-2828] Updated tutorials
** PYSIDE-2492 uic not writing qualified enums. Changes were pushed to Designer.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2820 PYSIDE-2820] Fixed Opaque containers to work with QML
** Issues with the not-recommended loadUI function
** Some refactoring of the PySide's signal handling
** qtpip improvements for uninstall mechanism
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2825 PYSIDE-2825] Added QtWebView
*** Should PySide2 be handled?
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2630 PYSIDE-2630] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2794 PYSIDE-2794]  pyside6-deploy issue related to filling QML files from venv is fixed
*** Download dependencies improvements.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2806 PYSIDE-2806] Fixed app name issue for pyside6-deploy
** PYSIDE-2367 signal disconnect issue with threads, was solved.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2785 PYSIDE-2785] Fixed site-packages issue for pyside6-deploy
** PYSIDE-2342 create function for singleton decorator request, many issues arise on the first PoC
** Cleanup and added missing modules to flatpak. Still need review. The corresponding patches are merged in pyside-setu - https://github.com/pyside/io.qt.PySide.BaseApp/pulls
** PYSIDE-2505 kdockwidgets issue
** Added README to PySide flatpak recipe. Needs review - https://github.com/pyside/io.qt.PySide.BaseApp/pulls
** Catching up with 6.7 current version.
** Working on updating the KDE PyQt documentation to also target PySide
** Re-factoring the multiple inheritance implementation.
** Added minibrowser WebView example
** QML Project structure discussion.
** New wheels in the making, for examples and DS


===19. October 2023===
=== 25. July 2024===
* General
* General
** Artifacts with the blog and text size
** Plan with some brainstorming ideas from last session.
** QtWS approaching. Activities and talks planned :D
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.0 was released
** tqtc/dev branch still broken. Waiting for Finland to come back from vacation :D
** 6.2.10 to be released soon
** DS wheels still need to be tested
** qtpip to be release today
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Extra fields into the type area (hidden elements) is officially supported for 3.12, but not for the Limited API.
** arm64 shiboken generator not properly working (libclang)
*** The idea is to enable the PyPy compatibility in a different way.
** flatpak support: patch was merged, and there were a couple of issues that have a possible fix. After that, the KDE documentation will be modified in order to offer the option for users to use PySide as well.
** Planned work to continue with lazy imports.
** scikit-build research
** Fix sizeof struct issue (for 3.12)
** signature compression research: dealing with some last details.
** First attempts to provide bindings for Rhi
*** fullname field, and compression of the strings.
** PYSIDE-2487 disconnect special cases were reported (@Slot should always be used)
** no-gil research will re-start next month, in order to address the new changes from cpython
** PYSIDE-2492 Type warnings from uic, related to Enums
** Type hints issues being worked out.
** Signature of Signals issues
** qtpip changes:
*** fulluninstall to include m2m wheel
*** OSS wheel detection
*** download conf file always
** ThreadPoolExecutor with asyncio research
** Locale macOS issue was solved
** Improvements to the deployment tool (android)
** examples wheel in the making
** improvements to the cross compilation story


===12. October 2023===


=== 18. July 2024===
* General
* General
** Overview release process.
** We got a talk accepted at Akademy 2024.
** PyConES talk was a succeed! Thanks Adrian
** September 11th is the limit to submit features for PySide 6.8.0
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6 release has been facing some difficulties, two major bugs were found and fixes.
** Flaky macOS failures were addressed
*** Currently there is a refcount issue that made wheels not-usable in 3.12
** PySide6 Design Studio wheels to be tested
** 6.2.10 Commercial LTS will be release in the following days.
** qtpip has been having many issues on the CI (but locally works)
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2480 PYSIDE-2480] linker error was fixed
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
** Static code analysis issues on source and generated code were fixed
*** LZMA compression moved to ZLIB and C++. Compression on Windows 8.7 %, macOS 4.7 %
** Started a refactor of the QML registration code
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind continues.
** Mock based tests for Android deployment revealed bugs. Fixed them.
*** Overlap with PYSIDE-2404: Startup time optimization of ZLIB compression almost ready.
** PYSIDE-2485 - Crash in QLocale::bcp47Name. Under Investigation.
** Finding some use-cases from PySide users during EuroPython.
** Fixed a bug with QtAsyncio where closing a program with the close button would throw ugly errors.
** Flatpak recipes are ready to be tested, meaning projects relying on flatpak (like KDE) will be able to use PySide in their builds :D
** macOS multimedia missing plugins.
** QtWebView might be added for completeness.
** Feedback from EuroPython: More tutorials, and examples with applied cases, rather than too basic or too advanced ones.


===5. October 2023===
=== 11. July 2024===
* General
* General
** Team member on his way to PyCon Spain 2023 https://charlas.2023.es.pycon.org/pycones-2023/talk/NCJBTE/
** Two members of the team at Europython
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.3 is being released today.
** Commercial LTS 6.2.10 release to be prepared
** Team alignment on the release of Maintenance Tool/Account/qtpip/aarch64
** Bump CI configuration to drop 3.7, due to 6.6 being 3.8+
** Static qtpip build issues on-going
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Fix chart example issue
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
** Continue research on Python scripting on C++
*** An LZMA compressor has been written in Python and C++ with 4.5% win.
** PYSIDE-2462 Smart pointer fix
*** Reimplementation in C++ only is even easier. (when considered worth it)
** PYSIDE-2230 Python 3.12 support issue for unicode, and other findings for macOS
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind implementation
** PYSIDE-2080 Linking error was fixed
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2803 PYSIDE-2803] - qmlimportscanner and Windows cmd line length limitation
** Qt 6.7 adapting the API on dev
** Refactoring and cleanup of the Signals/Slot handling code
** 3.12 pending issues are being investigated
** Added missing libraries for the QtMultiMedia ffmpeg plugin on macOS
*** tp_dict field was modified (no longer guarantee to exist) moved to an interpreter state for some static types.
*** [https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/type.html?highlight=pytype_getdict#c.PyType_GetDict PyType_GetDict] was introduced, and it's not Stable API (on Windows is not exposed)
*** Risky status for to the Limited API (without a tp_dict access) -> an emulator was written, PepType_GetDict, so user types the tp_dict is still around. The rule is that if tp_dict is 0, we create a new one.
*** Enum problems were found a well, but they are now fixed.
** Two new examples adapted for Android (and Python)
** General fixes related to android-deployment of Python applications.
** Starting the request permission API research on macOS


===28. September 2023===
===4. July 2024===
* General
* General
** OKRs updates
** Next week, two members of the team will be at Europython
** Doc update: 6.6 was branched so the snapshots are updated (needs check)
** Don't forget QtWS 2025 submissions (Until first days of August)
** Qt Academy: Python course in the making.
** We might get the help from an intern.
** Qt Creator
*** Welcome screen doesn't have any Python examples.
*** API docs are missing and example docs as well.
** Windows 11 added a new feature (Dev Drive) on the FS that might improve compile times.
** GNU Health Con 2023 participation.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.3 wheels are ready to be tested. Available next week.
** LTS Open Source release is out for 6.2.9 (sources)
** 6.2.10 Commercial LTS in preparation, and re-scheduled.
** QtDS packages are generated now in the CI
** Team alignment on the release of Maintenance Tool/Account/qtpip
** Improvements in https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/
** aarch64 wheels discussion on distribution
** Bump CI configuration to drop 3.7, due to 6.6 being 3.8+
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Preparation of PyConES presentation: https://charlas.2023.es.pycon.org/pycones-2023/talk/NCJBTE/
** Fixed PYSIDE-2790: Implemented task "uncancelling" and cancel count mechanism
** Async: Issue with executors, that have sync tasks. 3.11 has a special treatment.
** Fixed PYSIDE-2799: Turns out cancelling handles when cancelling tasks can cause issues
** Directory structure in projects needs some rules people can follow.
** PYSIDE-2798 might not be (easily) fixable entirely
** PYSIDE-2462: New report regarding shiboken advanced usage.
*** Qt and asyncio collide when Qt shuts everything down too early for asyncio's liking, e.g. when closing the window.
** Fixing integrations and the cherry pick bot (auto pick was misbehave for pyside-setup) - still in discussion
*** Setting keep_running=True is probably a suitable workaround.
** Python 3.12 still have some issues for the Feature option of the PyTypeObject
** Submitted cherry-picks to 6.7 for a number of changes (mostly QtAsyncio) where the pick-to line was forgotten
** Code analysis on pyside-setup: missing move copy constructors.
** PYSIDE-2701 activities:
** Fixed a couple of QML tests crashes
*** implemented removal of the fullName field
** Testing android deployment tool (revamping some examples, like multimedia, permission, etc)
*** started implementation of common function end replacement
*** started work on SignatureStrings compression with LZMA
** PYSIDE-2793 (PYSIDE-1057) Memory leak in slot connection. Some were fixed, but there is still one that's very old (PYSIDE-79)
** singleShot newly added signature has some complications when disconnected
** NumPy 2.0 compatibility patches were merged.
** Signal Handling research and review
** PYSIDE-2192 Input hook handling (for matplotlib) was addressed thank to some suggestion.
** PYSIDE-2805 Suggestion overload QMessageBox.open for passing a new slot.
** 6.8 Adaption continues.
** PYSIDE-2803 support bug on windows with pyside6-deploy command too long
** Flatpak: shiboken is building, but pyside has some issues still.
** Research on windows arm64
** Testing DS packages


===21. September 2023===
===27. June 2024===


*General
* General
**Python 3.12.0rc3 is out, final release scheduled for October 2
** Python language summit blog posts.
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
**6.6 branched
** Android wheels configuration is running OK.
**6.5.3 preparations
** Feature freeze for 6.8 on September 11 (for Qt/C++ RC release)
*Bugs & Features
** Tweaks for the Qt for Python deployment internal guide for Raspberry Pi.
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2465 PYSIDE-2465] (3.11.5 test fail)
* Bugs & Features
**Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2462 PYSIDE-2462] (smart pointer features)
** QtDS: packages ready to go out after CI configuration.
**Refactored options parsing of shiboken
** QtDS: export option within the tool planned in 2 weeks.
**Fixed clang-tidy static analysis issues
** qmlnext: the issue with the example task was find and solved.
**Android permissions API: Adapt more C++ examples  
** PYSIDE-2786 Preparation (future statement) of new syntax for Python 3.9
**Couple more cleanups and additions to pyside6-android-deploy
*** then checkin of deferred 3.10 changes was done.
**More manual testing of pyside6-android-deploy. Need to write more integration (mocks) for Android deployment.
** PYSIDE-2701 activities:
**Final cleanup and resolving tests for python-for-android Qt for Python patch
*** Removal of generated fullname field (in progress)
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2468 PYSIDE-2468] -requestPermission() on macOS. Tricky scenario similar to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2419 PYSIDE-2419]
*** Further analysis of possible folding savings
**asyncio's requirement to use ThreadPoolExecutor keeps screwing us over, but resolution close
*** Revived the 2019 PySide 2 comparison viewer
** PYSIDE-2795 FreeCAD problem was solved.
** PYSIDE-2792 Nested class QMetaObject::Connection (for custom Connection classes)
** 6.8 QtGraph examples. The module keeps changing.
** PYSIDE-2793 memory leak on modbus client.
** Nuitka upgrade 2.3.7: issues with Python 3.12 were fixed.
** Some new issues and limitations on the android ci conf (building python from source)
** Flatpak task continues, and people from KDE is involved in the discussion.
** pyside6-deploy support case with command line length limitations
** PYSIDE-2790 Few new bug reports related to QtAsyncio: uncancel not implemented.
** QtAsyncio cancel errors are not propagated.


===14. September 2023===
===20. June 2024===


*Infra & Releases
* General
**Testing and fixing qtpip for commercial wheels
** Interviews going on for a new position and internship.
*Bugs & Features
* Infra & Releases
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2460 PYSIDE-2460] Work on some OpenGL issues, updated hellogl2 example
** 6.7.2 was released last Tuesday
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2461 PYSIDE-2461] Build system for cross build fixes
** QtDS package is currently awaiting approval from the team.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2463 PYSIDE-2463] Fixed some type hints
* Bugs & Features
**Android auto sdk and nkd download merged.
** Android wheels patch integrating. Windows signing issue hopefully fixed.  
**Requestpermission API and all android changes set for 6.6 merged. Will write tests in the meantime and do some manual testing with deploying apps.
** PYSIDE-2781 - Nuitka sporadic failure with Python 3.12. Collaborating with Kay, and with help from ctismer, the issue is fixed. Was caused due to bytecode handling of Nuitka.
**patchelf removal for Qfp binaries merged.
** PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak progressing. Discussion with QtCreator led to the impression that an Flatpak extension would be better than Flatpak Baseapp.
*** This enable PySide6 to be bundled with the QtCreator flatpak app
** Follow-up patches from the internal QtAsyncio presentation.
** There are two functions in asyncio that are not properly documented.
** Type hints:
*** Discussion about updating the generator, in order to use 3.10+ notation (even if we are compatible with 3.9). Possibility to use 'from __future__ import annotations'
** PYSIDE-2701 - Binary reduction approach ideas
** QtDS exporting python files will be started soon.
** Improved QML integration being studied.


===07. September 2023===


*General
===13. June 2024===
**Majority of the team on holiday
*Infra & Releases
**Preparing 6.2.10, 6.5.3, 6.6.0
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-2393 pytest problem with feature is fixed
**PYSIDE-2428 feature problem caused long search, has to be fixed in matplotlib
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2444 PYSIDE-2444] QState.assignProperty - incorrect type annotation
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2454 PYSIDE-2454] Default argument is not used for containers
**Added some number protocol slots [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2446 PYSIDE-2446]
**Research on submodules [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2447 PYSIDE-2447]
**qtpip for commercial wheels polishing touches


===31. August 2023===
* 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


*General
===06. June 2024===
**Python 3.11.5 released
**PyCon Spain talk was accepted - Adrian giving a talk for the new Async story, in October.
**People on leave in September
**FF on Qt for Python overview
*Infra & Releases
**Planning 6.6 for the last days of September
***Maintenance Tool update for qt for python
***Features until 12.09
****Feature issues + multiple inheritance
****Async story needs some testing
****Android patches (new modules, plugins, permissions, etc)
****qtpip for commercial wheels
****new QtCreator templates?
**6.2.10 Commercial LTS and 6.5.3
*Bugs & Features
**Lazy imports still in progress, might be available for 6.7
**QmlSingleton crash was fixed
**JIRA was cleaned a bit, many invalid issues
**Signal signatures were adjusted
**PYSIDE-748 additional parameter metamethod (old issue)
**QDataStream read/write data accepting bytes too
**New CMake Qt API has lots of features for qml, resources, etc which might not be too compatible with Qt for Python.
**PYSIDE-2429 macOS deployment min version fixed
**patchelf removal is ready to merge (motivated by android research)
**android: permission API, need some extra testing. Soon ready for review.
**QIODevice buffer object issue was fixed, and is waiting for review (motivated by the async story)
**qtpip development continues.


===24. August 2023===
* 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


*General
===30. May 2024===
**New board on JIRA to reflect our work clearly https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=262&view=planning.nodetail&issueLimit=100
**Qt Meetups are starting to popup in Berlin and other countries! we might join some of them.
**Discussions around improving the Qt Creator experience and UI creation in general.
**There has been some motivation from Qt/C++ to use more CMake in projects (like for resources), which is negatively affecting the Python projects, due to the lack of CMake in the Python projects.
*Infra & Releases
**Commercial LTS 5.15.15 to be released soon.
**6.5.3 scheduled for the first week of September
*Bugs & Features
**QIODevice::read(char*, qint64) functions are removed, but they are useful for the asyncio story. Discussion on if it's worth exposing them.
**More changes related to QtAsyncIO are ready for review.
**PYSIDE-2417 overflow issue was fixed
**[ot] i18n in the Qt framework
**PYSIDE-2418 connection issue with python overloads
**6.6 documentation has some issues due to the QtGraph new module
**PYSIDE-2423 connecting signals to python callable doesn't properly work - trying to find a proper solution
**PYSIDE-2424 Installing shiboken in a non-standard way discussion - it might not be properly fixed.
**Next Wednesday 10am: session about Shiboken + QtScrypt status
**PYSIDE-2419 locale issue on macOS due to the Info.plist that python includes that overrides the QLocale settings. A bug report was filed upstream, and a workaround is suggested.
**PYSIDE-2421 webengine issue was discussed, it's an Qt/C++ chromium issue.
**CMake FindPython patches are still being worked out, the wrong interpreter is being found.
**patchelf removal is causing some issues with cross compilation.
**qtpip works continues.


===17. August 2023===
* 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


*Bugs & Features
===16. May 2024===
**Investigating on PyPySide MI segfault postponed but on To-Do list [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
* General
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] More Progress in Lazy Initialization
* Infra & Releases
***the optional __getattr__ in module objects was successfully implemented (but is seldom used)
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
***lazy init of Enums is probably no more needed, covered by the import scheme below
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
***most common cases like "from PySide6.QtWidgets import QLabel" supported by another __import__ override
* Bugs & Features
***Keep your fingers crossed, testing starts today
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2419 PYSIDE-2419] QLocale::language() returns wrong on macOS.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
***Caused by QLocale infrastructure which looks at Info.plist inside the Python interpreter macOS bundle.
** 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 a hack fix after consulting Tor Arne and Eddy.
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
**Pacthelf removal - cross compilation breaks. Working on a fix.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2421 PYSIDE-2421] - QWebEngineView.print() - rerouted to Qt
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
***But, might requires an ownership fix in Shiboken once [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-116052 QTBUG-116052] is resolved
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
**Research - use the .debug files provided by the Qt installer to debug from VSCode.
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
***Saves time from not building Qt everytime
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2620 PYSIDE-2620] - Adapting to 6.8
***Still ongoing
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2745 PYSIDE-2745] - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
**QtAsyncio: Implementation of asyncio.Server (one open question remains - asyncio API and Qt API don't always match as cleanly as desirable).
** [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.


===10. August 2023===
===2. May 2024===


*General
* General
**
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
*Infra & Releases
** 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.
*Bugs & Features
* Infra & Releases
**Patchelf removal only partially possible because of using patchelf on prebuilt Qt binaries.  
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
***For Qfp binaries patchelf removal under review. MacOS issue being fixed. This is needed for Android.
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
**Shiboken module cmake installation bug fixed.
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
**Progressing with Android C++ to Python callback, now that Qfp binaries could be loaded on startup.
* Bugs & Features
**Further investigating on PyPySide MI segfault [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
** [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-2404 PYSIDE-2404] Progress in Lazy Initialization
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
***the new dual registration is done and builds the base for concrete lazy init
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
***lazy init of Enums postponed because
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
***an undocumented optional __getattr__ in module objects makes it much easier to lazy-load whole classes, first.
** 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


===3. August 2023===


*General
===25. April 2024===
**New reports board
* General
**QtCreator support
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
**Integration cycle on gerrit overview
* Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.1
**CI down next Monday for a few hours
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
**First tests on linux arm64
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
**Preparing 5.15.15 Commercial LTS
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
**qtpip first trials on the CI
* Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
** Added a number of new classes
**Async research continues, new things are being discovered while is being developed
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
***Implementing a few new things for improving the support
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
***Initial patch got merged, but a few others are in the making
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
**Team contributing to QtAcademy
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
**SQL queries issues, inconsistencies in the API were fixed
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
**Build with ninja had some problems regarding mixing stdout and stderr
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
**Testing initial support for rvalues
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
**2272 fixing signatures for some qmlRegister* functions
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
**Examples: new mediaplayer was fully ported
** Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
**Example gallery scans now a doc directory for images
** Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
**Some other multimedia examples are pending for review
** QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
**Team contributing to Qt translations
*** Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
**Adjusting the deployment tool, and fixing issues with pyenv, and upgrading nuitka
*** Plan to improve exceptions handling
**CMake: adjusting the files to use the new API for finding python, reducing our cmake files
***Considering also the removal of patchelf, and follow the cmake approach
**Lazy initialization of enums is showing a good improvement on the performance


===27. July 2023===
===18. April 2024===


*General
* General
**Shyam wrote trip report to Europython
** Bug fixing week
**Some vacations starting soon for some team members
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
**Got some cool t-shirts (internal only so far) - Is there interest for merch?
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
*Infra & Releases
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
**6.5.2 released
* Infra & Releases
**Some LTS releases soon as well
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
**Issues on the CI (RHEL8.6) and python interpreter.
** 6.5.6 release planned
**Formalization of release besides wheels on PyPI and account.qt.io
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
**Soon to enable CI on qtpip
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
*Bugs & Features
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
**[ext] designer issue, translations
* Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-2402 QtHttpServer module was missing on Windows
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
**QSql methods were un-deprecated (module seems to need more love)
** QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
**Port QtGraph example
** PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
**AsyncIO module: there is a second change in preparation
** PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
**Finally the android issue we had was solved. It seems that patchelf was breaking our binaries, and now we are using a cmake approach instead.
** PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
**Enable unity builds for android
*** first approach made things less effective
**Nuitka will be pinned to a recent version
*** The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
**PYSIDE-2404 lazy loader research
*** New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
*Interesting projects we checked
** 825 qml bug is still around
**https://github.com/larryhastings/appeal
*** PYSIDE-2676 seems to be a new approach to fix it
**Stable Diffusion
** A few customer bugs made it the bug fixing week.
**https://docs.hpyproject.org/en/latest/quickstart.html
** PYSIDE-2675 type discovery code, class inheritance
**https://github.com/rui314/mold
** 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.


===20. July 2023===
===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.


*General
===4. April 2024===
**Two team members @ Europython 2023
* General
*Infra & Releases
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
*Bugs & Features
* Infra & Releases
**Implementing transports and protocols of asyncio API
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
**Lazy importer still under development. Ongoings:
** Preparing for 6.7.0
***necessary to register all types without creating them
* Bugs & Features
***turning all PyTypeObject into PyTypeObject valued functions
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
***quite hard because deeply buried in the generated code
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums


===13. July 2023===
===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


*General
===21. March 2024===
**CI is not behaving, so be cautious
* General
**3.12 beta 4 was released
** Ideas to improve the module.
**Next week some people are going to Europython
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
**6.5.2 still in progress, waiting to have the RC wheels
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
*Bugs & Features
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
**Qt Akademy to prepare a Qt for Python course
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
**Examples: we might adapt our gallery to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115174
* Bugs & Features
**Android: callback issue from C++ to Python, some ideas are around, but the problem persists.
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
***Might be related to the usage of patchelf.
** PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
**Research on Lazy loader continues
** Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
***Some ideas are behaving well at the moment, but still being tested.
** QtRhi missing API provided
***We might need to discover some classes that we cannot initialize lazily (manual code injection, need init before usage)
** Memory leak regression being worked out
**We need some reviews for the eventloop patch (asyncio)
** Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
**An enum class with an issue for stubs.
** Android deployment and qml tool documentations
**qtpip work continues
** Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
**Some good-first-issue are planned for the project, so more contributors can join us!
** Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
** QAsyncio bug fixed
** Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.


===6. July 2023===
===14. March 2024===
* General
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
* Bugs & Features
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
** Lazy initialization got merged
*** New improvements might land in future versions
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
** Using new icons on the examples
** Testing libclang 18
** QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
** QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
** New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
** permission API changes got merge
** android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
** PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed


*General
===07. March 2024===
**PySide 6.6 will support Python 3.8+
* General
**Python 3.12 support will be back-ported to 6.5 only, and not 6.2
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 commercial lts was released yesterday.
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
**6.5.2 RC wheels to be tested.
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
**5.15 open commercial lts tags are in the pyside/pyside-setup repo.
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
**qtpip configuration file being improved and updated
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
**ARM CI host configuration continues
* Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
**Removal of old enums was finished
** all deployment fixes are in.
**Starting to work with lazy loaders for enums
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
**First iteration of the asyncio support for the qt eventloop, tests are being prepared.
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
**PYSIDE-2370 cross compilation issue, might be related to host python, provided some options to try.
** Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
**Android issue, we cannot get C++ callbacks to Python. Might be related to a python version incompatibility.
** two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
**Preparing a contribution back to python-to-android
** PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
**Rewriting some enum code
** PYSIDE-2619 gentoo issue with a build
**Add mediaplayer demo in qtdoc for python (some issues with qml)
** PYSIDE-2624 typing issue with '/' is being researched
**Add document viewer qtdoc example
** Qt Icon Teams issues were discovered
**PYSIDE-2381 QSettings issue
** PYSIDE-2602 virtual function research on a special signature
**pyside6-lupdate issues related to encoding.
** One regression related to the QObject.connect changes.
**qtpip works continues


===29. June 2023===
===29. February 2024===


*General
* General
**Next maintenance break in August.
** Leap day!
*Infra & Releases
** Documentation changes
**6.5.2 postponed until next week
* Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 Commercial LTS soon to be released (a new qt build)
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
**5.15.15 LTS in the next weeks
** 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
**ARM CI host still in progress
** 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
**Brainstorming some additional matrix testing infra for Python versions
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
**Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases (IFW ticket)
** General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
*Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
**Research on scripting continues
** PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
**Designer related features/ QtCreator
** PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
**Memory leak related to REG is solved
** PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
**New icon theme for examples coming
** PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
**Some qdoc examples might be enabled for Python
** Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
**Enum removal is still generating detail discussions
** PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
***Two implementation versions are suggested.
** macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
***The old ones were written in C++ so the startup time is a lot slower
** Windows BTLE services crash
***Lazy generator is helping a A LOT
** QIO-class are required for some new QAsyncio API using pipes
**Android dev build - unity had some complications
** Lazy loading moving forward, but still a few issues are around
**Async event loop work, last issues were addressed.
*** A couple of shiboken tests seems to have outdated imports that are not helping.
***still some network io features are missing
*** shiboken compatibility types missing
**[Research] PySide components for QtDS needs to follow QtDS release cycle rather than Qt.
** 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.


===21. June 2023===
===15. February 2024===


*General
* General
**PyPI limit increase for PySide6-Addons
** Brainstorming session was held.
**PySide 6.6 might have support for Python 3.8+ (due to Python 3.7 EOL in a week)
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
**Python 3.12b3 is out - test!
* Infra & Releases
**Qt Contributor Summit
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
***General session + maybe another one for specific topics.
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
*Infra & Releases
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
**6.2.9 is ready, but waiting for Qt/c++ release
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
**6.5.2 release date is next week.
* Bugs & Features
**Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
*Bugs & Features
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
**Android research: extra functionality is there, and working on bluetooth/permission integration with a device (example)
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
**PYSIDE-2364 Invalid syntax on a pyi file
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
**Continue with the old enum removal.
** pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
***Maybe delayed initialization to improve startup time.
** CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
**AsyncIO eventloop work continues
** Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.
**Research for scripting continues
**6.6 adaptations
**Fix Enum issue with clang with invalid hex


===15. June 2023===


*General
===8. February 2024===
**Going to EuroPython
**Participation in Qt Academy
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 LTS to be released
**NFS issues in the CI, being worked on.
**ARM host on CI experiencing some issues.
***Some preliminary wheels were generated in order to test.
***Might help the Android story, but this needs to be confirmed.
*Bugs & Features
**Async research revisited
***Testing eventloop wrapping
**Memory leak issue still needs to be fixed (hopefully for 6.5.2)
**Examples in Qt revamp
**Translations and fixes for 6.6
**Discussion about Enums implementation
**Scripting on C++ research continues
**PYSIDE-1735 removing old enums continues
**Android improvements in review
***Adding more modules
**QVariant enum change (temporary patch until Qt7)
**shiboken_generator research to make it publicly available (libclang dependency)


===8. June 2023===
* 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===
**Python 3.11.4 released, 3.12.0beta2
**PySide6-addons reaching the 10G limit on PyPI
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.1.1 released due to a regression (introduced by a mem leak fix)
**Maintenance Tool > wheels
***Special case for M2M protocols to be tested
**CI on arm64 continues (Linux and Windows)
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed some type-hint related issues PYSIDE-2357/PYSIDE-2331/PYSIDE-2340
**Scripting research
**Qt pip tool has updated the configuration file and wheels to continue the work on the new tool
**QVariant PyEnum issue -> solution for review
**Android work continues: improving the dependency detection
**PYSIDE-2335 unraisable is finally checked in (the current solution works, it could be improved but low prio -> xml definitions)
**PYSIDE-2354 type error due to the usage of Generic (related to 939) - related to cpython issue
**PYSIDE-1735 old enums removal started
**Example tunings
**Bug fixing week


===1. Juni 2023===
* 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
**Europython - call for first time speakers (open to anyone)
**Waiting until API review to move dev to 6.6
**New Epic/User Stories policy
**Participating into Qt Academy
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.1 released, a leak fix is causing issues with signal connections.
***Initially we thought it was purely functools.partial but there are other cases that are not working.
***Testing alternative solutions, otherwise we revert
***In any case a 6.5.1.1 will be out soon
**Need to test the new conf file for the commercial wheel install mechanism
**5.15 needs to skip libclang16
**Testing maintenance tool with a license without Qt for Automation (for wheel check)
**JIRA release versions are pending.
*Bugs & Features
**(External) Designer fonts issues
**PYSIDE-2347 metaobject tool missing types
**Scxml events missing connections.
**Scripting research (check report)
**Leak research continue
**Issue with new example state machine to be solved (event handling)
**PYSIDE-1930 PYSIDE-2239 QVariant Enum issue, the fix is out, but we need some tests.
**Finish the problem with unraisable exceptions
***Discussion on special cases with a run function
***Blocking functions are still an issue, because we cannot break
**PYSIDE-2354 typing.Generic issue with inheritance in progress
**PyTest research continues


===25. Mai 2023===
===25. January 2024===


*General
* General
**QtWS - One talk accepted
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
**Europython - One talk accepted
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
*Infra & Releases
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
**6.5.1 one issue was found, so release will be available once we merge the fix.
* Infra & Releases
**5.15.14 to be release soon.
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
**CI arm64 experiments continue
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
**Asking about M2M wheels on the maintenance tool, for 6.6
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
**Solving LTS issues of missing tags on public repo, might take some time.
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
*Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
**Evaluating shiboken6_generator to be published on PyPi
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
**Few small fixes around the project (release preparation, new features, small bugs, doc issues)
** 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).
**QtScrypt experimental work continues
** 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).
**Permission API added (motivated by the android support)
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
**Improvements for the android deployment.
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
**Trying to fix an issue of getting Enums to Ints
** Unity build some issues when building without.
**Delayed exceptions work continues, trying to fix some corner cases still.
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
**Starting to explore PEP 658
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
**Research on PyTest compatibility
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
**[Designer] Fixing some issues, and warnings
** 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.


===18. Mai 2023===
===18. January 2024===


*Infra & Releases
* General
**6.5.1 Preparations
* Infra & Releases
**5.15.14 Preparations
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
*Bugs & Features
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2325 PYSIDE-2325] typesystem incomplete
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2328 PYSIDE-2328] Segmentation fault/access violation when connecting signal of temporary object
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2329 PYSIDE-2329] Signal connections with init kwargs
* Bugs & Features
**Reverted temporarily the delayed exception patch, in order to not block the 6.5.1 release. This should be discussed at the next meeting
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 PYSIDE-2310]
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 PYSIDE-2321]
** 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. Mai 2023===
===11. January 2024===


*General
* General
**Python Users Berlin meetup talk today
** Hackathon at TQtC
**Europython, QtWS
** CI process presentation
**Qt FF 02.06
* Infra & Releases
**Android team «ketchup»
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
**Example revamp update
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
***Quick examples needs to be ported to loadFromModule (Quick3D, QuickLocation, missing)
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
*Infra & Releases
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
**6.5.1 to be release around 15.05 -> shifted to next week.
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 regression
* Bugs & Features
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 memory leak
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
**5.15.14 to be release around 16.05
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
*Bugs & Features
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
**Fixing regressions issue related to threads - delayed exceptions
** macOS request permission API work continues.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 event handlers issues
** 6.7 adaptions patches
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 virtual method override - still in progress
** M2M fixes on the current impl
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2230 3.12 support
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
**nogil research continues - mutex might slow down things, but doing a proper division of the code could help.
** favicon issue with out docs
**QML example tutorials - one review pending
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
**2313 longtype issue with numpy
** Improvements for the doc build process
**examples revamping - loadFromModule
**Icon library -> icon theme soon available on a new module.
**PYSIDE-2316 sharedpointer template issues
**Shiboken refactoring
**Finally the memory leak is fixed
**Enhancing android story, detection of modules, finding dependencies, got ideas from the current qt/c++ tool.
**Build infrastructure, setup.py install has been deprecated since 3.11 - looking into a new build infrastructure.
**Internal technical talks
***Shiboken generating bindings
***Shiboken for documentation generation
***type hints generation
***QML integration via decorators


===4. Mai 2023===
===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 [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)
** Xcode issues with a new M3
** Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
* Bugs & Features
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
** async: the module is missing from our docs
** async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
** new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
** pyside6 designer pyenv crash was fixed
** pyside cmake module update crash was fixed
** working on the request permission API for macOS
** docs: free functions as separate section and other improvements
** Python scripting in c++ works continues
** PyPy 3.10 compatibility patches
** nogil: working again on a compatibility with PEP703
*** locking mechanism for our modules.
** Typing adjustments, we need '/' in our signatures due to not having keywords parameters.


*General
==2023==
**Europython talk by Shyam still under consideration
**Qt for Android catch up meeting scheduled for 09/05/2023
**Discussion with kivy developers done on discord. They seem to be onboard with the Qt support.
*Infra & Releases
*Bugs & Features
**Android Deployment Enhancements - Bringing pyside6-android-deploy at the level of androiddeployqt - Ongoing
**python-for-android PR Enhancements - Ongoing
**PYSIDE-1951 super().__lt__ global solution ongoing
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2206 PYSIDE-2206] QML examples/tutorials revamping
**PYSIDE-2221 Python runs NoGil version of mandelbrot.py 7.7 times faster on a 10-code M1 machine
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2288 PYSIDE-2288] Fixed Clang 16 support for 6.6/6.5.
**PYSIDE-2310 Crashing without error reporting in Qt-based threads, debugging
**PYSIDE-2299 Ongoing, current attempt fixes most tests but leaves some SegFaults, might be a dead-end.
 
===27. April 2023===
 
*General
**Planning collaboration with other projects like Kivy, towards a better mobile support.
**QtWS talks submitted
**PyConES, PyConPT, PyConAPAC
**Qt for Android catching up meeting
**Bug fixing week
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.8 wrong source code was published PYSIDE-2297
*Bugs & Features
*PYSIDE-1951 super() and `__lt__` operator issue related to our wrapper.
*asyncio work continues
*enhancements for python-for-android to improve the android stories
*pyside6-android-deploy polished as well
*2299 memory leak might have special cases related to the callback
*clang16 is giving some issues in Qt
*Icon examples libraries for the python examples research
*Snippet translator improvements
 
===20. April 2023===
 
*Bugs & Features
**Work on support for clang 16, which changes behavior quite a bit
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2284 PYSIDE-2284] issue with NoneType
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2285 PYSIDE-2285] Type hints / Tuples
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2298 PYSIDE-2298] and others, fixed some missing 6.5 API
**Added new tools - pyside6-qmlsc (commercial only) and pyside6-qmlcachegen
**Simplified tool adding process
**PySide6 to Android Deployment blog published 🤞
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 PYSIDE-1564] Final approach was implemented with a new super() class. But This approach was not helpful. Issue finally closed.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 PYSIDE-1951] A solution was finally found and implemented. Trying to improve.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2304 PYSIDE-2304] Issue resolved, Cooperative Multiple Inheritance explained with a custom example, customer is happy
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 PYSIDE-2299] Cause for memory leak has been found, but fix will not be trivial (might require extensive refactoring in worst case).
**Debugging QtAsyncIoEventLoop, partly functional but still early.
 
===13. April 2023===
 
*General
**SF 24.04 -> 16.05 ooo
**CM 19.04 -> 27.04 ooo
**QtCreator beta now includes an extra option to create virtual environments
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.0 released, but one missing DLL on windows for people without hw acceleration.
***To be fixed in 6.5.1
**6.2.8 LTS to be released this week
**Improving current state of the maintenance tool for Python
**Second version of the packages in the server
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-684-a-per-interpreter-gil/19583
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-711-pybi-a-standard-format-for-distributing-python-binaries/25547
**Qt Design Studio integration is on research
*Bugs & Features
**Type hints PYSIDE-2284 issue with NoneType
**2283 Platform dependencies into our docs
**Clang16 improvements to be compatible
**Research on the missing DLL issue on Windows
**Research on a memory leak possible related to Signal instances.
**asyncio debugging with a self-made event loop
**Improving the python-for-android changes to prepare a patch
**Technical Preview blog post for Android in the making
**PYSIDE-2294 multiple inheritance issue for a corner case with positional arguments
***Researching a new approach that could improve things further
 
===6. April 2023===
 
*General
**New Python releases 3.11.3, 3.10.11
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.0 released
**6.2.8 commercial LTS to go out soon
**Review Maitenance Tool integration
**qtpip server configuration still in progress
*Bugs & Features
**Android: preparing post, tests, and general improvements.
**PYSIDE-2266 venv issue with the deployment tool.
**Documentation was released for 6.5.0 and many things were polished.
**Async: continue working on the event loop wrapper implementation.
**Research on memory leak that pyqtgraph found
**Brushing up tutorials: expenses
**Adding new examples: simplebrowser, screen capture
**Documentation: found some issues with qdoc (from the move of examples to auto tests)
**PYSIDE-2278 type hinting issue was fixed
**Improvements to the documentation
**Cleaning imports from examples
**Add isort to the development guide
**Exploring other projects where Python can shine
 
===30. March 2023===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.5 to be released next week
**including requirements.txt along the commercial bundle
***research if possible retroactively
**qtpip research continues
*Bugs & Features
**Features that needs to be in before 6.5
***deployment tool nuitka patch
***android tool
***tutorial of thew new quick styled app
**Improving enums to avoid using the old implementation
**Deployment tool and android research continues
**Async research on asyncio and trio proper integration
**Refactoring
**Shiboken examples are not displayed on the docs
**Updating the new image of the project
**Re-porting multimedia examples, simplebrowser
**Initial support for permission API
**small fixes on metaobjectdump
 
 
===23. March 2023===
 
*General
**QtWS CfP open
**EuroPython talks submitted
**Keeping an eye on future Python events
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 is out
***pypy3 3.9.12 compatible, newer versions included an incompatibility
**6.5 branching out today
*Bugs & Features
**async support continues.
**Fixing a couple of issues related to the pyside6-deploy tool.
***venv compatibility
***qml apps are not properly working
**android support almost ready for TP
**PYSIDE-2261 cython signature module incompatibility fixed
**Removed goto from PySide
**Multiple inheritance issues were fixed.
**old Enums are being removed, and the startup time will improve a bit (still in progress)
**PYSIDE-971 GL funtions implementation
**including texttospeech into the wheels (missing by mistake)
**adapting scripts to 6.5
**metaobjectdump issue fixed
**doc updates
 
===16. March 2023===
 
*General
**Preparing submissions for Europython
**New company colors
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 release next week (no release branch)
**Issues with Nuitka 1.5.1 (released yesterday) and the CI didn't like it. Pining 1.5
*Bugs & Features
**qtpip: add support for many other operators (for versions)
**PYSIDE-2254 exit crash issue was fixed
**PYSIDE-2251 designer issue when not initializing virtual environment.
**qmlsurface example ported (polishing the C++ code as well)
**example icons: discussions to standardize them a bit
**android research: fixing some issues with qtquick
**PYSIDE-1564 multiple inheritance work continues, really far but found new issues. Generalizing the solution a bit from a Shiboken point of view. Research on how shiboken handle multiple inheritance to be compatible with Python's way.
**PYSIDE-2255 virtual method issue related to access to those members.
**Generalization of QApplication usage on the tests.
**Research: Add course to QtLearn related to Qt for Python
**doc: some links are broken.
**doc: migration to sphinx-design from sphinx-panels
 
===9. March 2023===
 
*General
**Packing use-cases
**Europython CfP: https://ep2023.europython.eu/cfp
*Infra & Releases
**Preparing 5.15.13: release might be today if nothing goes wrong.
**Wheel bundles on the account.qt.io, and soon to be available in the Maintenance Tool
*Bugs & Features
**Re-added QtLocation
**Added larger examples for QtLocation, QtDataVisualization
**Android research continues, preparing a TP
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2169 Leak related to AsyncIO was finally fixed: related to the new Enum implementation
***PyErr_Fetch/Restore does ref counting, and not borrow ref
**qtpip works continues
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 bug signal instance: fixed most if not all possible errors.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1403 pyi still produces something not fully working with IDEs
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 First version of the implementation of multiple inheritance is working
***Not a general solution, but a good approach (compatible with a competitor).
***Working on a full support to handle multiple inheritance
 
===2. March 2023===
 
*General
**Preparing internal/external material
**Next monday CI maintenance break
*Infra & Releases
**commercial wheel bundles available on account.qt.io
**6.4.3 release was postponed
*Bugs & Features
**Improvements for qtpip
**postEvent() memory leak still has an unknown origin
**PYSIDE-2236 QMetaMethod.fromSignal added
**PYSIDE-2237 be careful with using reserved words in examples/docs/...
**PYSIDE-2239 opaquecontainers wrong dunder name
**PYSIDE-2206 Examples revamping
***Maybe we keep some examples around even if they are removed in Qt/C++
**Android work continues! looking good with 6.5
**PYSIDE-1564 Multiple inheritance story was improved, still in progress.
 
===23. February 2023===
 
*General
**Giving a talk at Python La Paz (on Saturday) - in Spanish
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 ready to start the release process
**Change to fix the windows signing is merged
*Bugs & Features
**3.12 compatibility changes will reach 5.15, 6.2, and the future 6.5 LTS
**PYSIDE-79 (caused by PYSIDE-68) refcounting issues addressed
**Continue the 3.12 support because of some new issues found
**PYSIDE-1564: Multiple inheritance support is still being worked (old ABC issues might be related)
**Issues with documentation build (sphinx)
**Research on a memory leak related to the asyncio example: it's not related to asyncio, but from the posting action (pyside, and not Qt, because a C++ example with no async doesn't have any leak)
**PYSIDE-2234 adding QRunnableCreate
**fixed 6.5 issues with cross compilation
**Designer examples revamp
**Works continues on qtpip (a pip wrapper to install commercial wheels)
**PYSIDE-2232 NixOS issues was fixed (another was deferred)
**Research on the std::span support
**Unity compilation research continues
**Bug cleanup, closing and fixing old ones.
**OpenGL getProc issue is being worked on.
**PYSIDE-2192 interactive matplotlib issue (hook)
 
===16. February 2023===
 
*General
**Development of a tool for commercial wheel installation started, and other general improvements.
**Blog posts -> 6.5 release, and Android research.
**Don't forget about Europython.
*Infra & Releases
**Branching dev to 6.5 when the Qt/C++ 6.5.0 RC is out (16 Mar '23)
***Only fixes go to dev with Pick-to: 6.5 if necessary
***new features remain in dev (for 6.6)
*Bugs & Features
**nogil research was positive, and most of our test work. It would require for us to modify the generator for each function/module.
***mandelbrot example works and improves its performance around 3.5 times.
**Python 3.12 will include an incompatibility due to the changes in the type generation
***https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/60074#issuecomment-1430115581
***some other issues were found, but not as critical as the tp_new issue.
**It will be possible to install pyside6 in conda environments starting from 6.4.3 and 6.5
**commercial identifier on commercial wheels will be replaced to be compatible with distutils
**asyncio research continues
**Adapting the deploy tool to include compatibility with android (in progress)
**research on ML-based tool to transform c++ <-> python
**Getting started docs updated
**qtdoc documentation content will be included in the docs
**doc issues: some broken links and references
**General slides to be updated
 
 
===09. February 2023===
 
*General
**How to make our API better for pathlib?
**3.11.2 released, 3.10.10 as well
**https://peps.python.org/pep-0675/
*Infra & Releases
**LTS tags cannot be pushed to community repo (permissions), hopefully in this week.
**Maintenance Tool updates soon
**Binary signing still need a little change to be working
**dev to use 6.5 starting today
*Bugs & Features
**Android research in progress, looking good :)
**A solution was proposed to fix the usage of PySide6 in conda environments: still needs tweaks to work, mainly related to an internal qt.conf that's loaded at runtime.
**PYSIDE-2222 custom widget plugin, load with uic crash
**PYSIDE-2201 was fixed: introducing weak references into the SignalInstances.
**PYSIDE-79 was possible to solve (from PYSIDE-68 solution). Still needs to some documentation to be written.
**PYSIDE-2221 research on future compatibility with NoGIL Python https://github.com/colesbury/nogil https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
**https://github.com/blueloveTH/pocketpy also interesting
 
===02. February 2023===
 
*General
**Europython 2023 will be in Prague! 17-23 July
*Infra & Release
**Improving wheel creation in our CI (signing windows, and other things)
**Soon we will have released LTS in the OSS repo (after some complications)
**CI Maintenance break coming next Monday (keep an eye open to the Python configuration)
*Bugs & Features
**Unity builds were helping pyside/shiboken, and some tests are being done in qt/c++
**meta task on revamping examples in the Qt Project
**Adding uic functionality and documentation
**Doc reviews, some issues were found
**Android development continues, and looks good!
**introducing --log-level to change --verbose-build and --quiet
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance continues:
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Weak Reference handling is complete
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Research on Reference bug continues
**create_wheels.py --builddir to explicitly provide build directory
**WIP: QtAsyncIoEventLoop using Qt's event dispatcher, using BaseEventLoop and BaseSelectorEventLoop for guidance
 
===26. January 2023===
 
*Infra & Releases
**Fixed issues with Windows signing
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2204 PYSIDE-2204 qt.conf encoding]
**Fixed bugs in pyside6-metaobjectdump (QML) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2202 PYSIDE-2202] , [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2203 PYSIDE-2203]
**PYSIDE-2194: Possibly requires refactoring of QLowEnergyController to use the new WinRT API, instead of COM API
**Android Deployment - Patches incoming to automate cross compilation to produce android wheels
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance
***Implement Weak Reference Handling
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Handle early destruction of the object better
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Trying to finally fix the reference leak using weakref.
**Alternative approach to Anaconda issue: Register internal qt6.conf with site-packages prefix (still WIP).
**WIP: Implement class QtAsyncIoEventLoop(asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) that wraps around Qt's event loop to enable Qt + asyncio.
**Memory leak with current asyncio example (or space leak?)
 
===19. January 2023===
 
*General
**Hackathon in TQtC
**The WebAssembly PySide Team was almost doubled in size (+1 brain, +1 hand)
*Infra & Releases
**Windows signing to be improved.
**LTS releases into oss repo: some issues appeared but will be merged soon.
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1994: De-virtualization of Shiboken embedded Python files is now an option controlled dynamically by SBK_EMBED
***PYSIDE-1019: A dormant __feature__ initialization timing problem was fixed while implementing de-virtualization
**PYSIDE-1735: De-coupling of old and new enums was started
**PYSIDE-1564: Debugging of multiple inheritance continues
**Fixed some bluetooth functions in PySide6.
**Low Energy Scanner Example
**PYSIDE-2194: Progressing with this. Definitely a thread issue which allow-thread doesn't seem to fix.
**Possible solution for problems with PySide6 inside conda (compat package with qt6.conf file), but investigating if best solution
 
===12. January 2023===
 
*General
**Next week is Hackathon, meeting will be shorter
**Discussion on how to gather information, and sharing material around Qt for Python
*Infra & Releases
**6.5 RC planning -> feature freeze for PySide
**6.4.2 was released last Monday
**CMake Jumbo builds issue with Windows signing
**LTS branches to land in pyside-setup soon
*Bugs & Features
**Async examples: addressing memory leak and cpu usage due to the event loop interactions
**Review conda packaging story and PySide6
**De-virtualization of Python files: still some issues
**Incompatibility with pywin32: __feature__ related when trying to check if the ext module uses PySide. Also related to an issue with the inspect module.
**Installing PySide6.support via CMake (was previously not considered)
**Work continues on the multiple inheritance issues related to classes based on QObject
**locate issues related to to* methods
**std::array support in shiboken (still in progress)
**fixing imports in matplotlib examples
**adaptation to 6.5
**splitting shiboken generator source to its own
**Android deployment works - tested on Widget applications
**Fixing QTBUG-109510 leading to discovering issues with certain functions in PySide6. Being fixed.
 
===5. January 2023===


*General
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]
**Next monday CI maintenance
**OKRs
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.12 LTS, 6.2.7 LTS released
**Open Source LTS releases to be moved to the pyside-setup
**6.4 CI hanging, issues on lts-5.15 due to Python
**6.4.2 to be release in the following days
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1931 SQL issue regarding allow-thread
**helping 6.5 translations
**Adaptations with 6.5
**QSharedPointer -> std::shared_ptr attempt
**research on adding std::span into shiboken
**PYSIDE-2160 properties qml types issues
**Tutorials language review
**Android research continues
**QTBUG-109510 BTLE issue on pyside


==2022==
==2022==

Revision as of 14:10, 5 September 2024


2024

05. September 2024

  • General
    • Team mostly at QtCS
  • Infra & Releases
    • Starting to switch to 6.8
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed a potential memory corruption in enum converter generation
    • PYSIDE-2851 Tricky bug with @Slot(name=) no working. Still investigating.
    • Adapting deployment and other things to 6.8. Some existing bugs and ToDo were solved.
    • Working on creating a "Release Notes" page in Qfp documentation parsing from 'doc/changelogs'
    • Competitor research for potential new features

29. August 2024

  • General
    • Continue discussion on a better qml integration
  • Bugs & Features
    • Added pyside6-svgtoqml - 6.8
    • Added missing binaries to 6.8. This include some QtQuick modules.
    • Deprecated ToDo fixed in pyside6-deploy
    • Updated Nuitka version to 2.4.8
    • Code Design simplification of pyside6-deploy
    • PYSIDE-2835 - error message setup in pyside6-deploy. Issue raised in Nuitka.
    • PYSIDE-2846 - towards MyPy testing of type hints
      • Reformatted helper functions in generate_pyi with class methods
      • Changed all typing classes to have prefix "typing" against name clashes (tricky)
      • Started systematic fixture of errors: 533 in 7 categories (was 601 before prefix). Seeking general fixture algorithms.
    • PYSIDE-2701 Add a Benchmark batch script to measure progress

22. August 2024

15. August 2024

  • General
    • Bug fixing weekS (2 weeks)
    • Planning for future work on QtDS
  • Infra & Releases
    • Fixing an issue to properly discover the installed WebEngine
    • Note: 6.5 aarch64 releases are only around for PySide, not Qt/C++.
    • Continue work on libclang pre-built on windows arm64
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2833 Doc changes: qml tutorials, re-gen docs to fix
    • Updated Qt Python Scripting (QtPyScript? name to be confirmed)
    • 6.7.3 changelog preparation
    • Adjusting branches, because of missing patches.
    • pyi: fixing more issues
    • research on improving the qml + python interaction

8. August 2024

  • General
    • Talk accepted for KDE Akademy: "Pythonizing Qt"
    • Qt Contributor summit session to work with people from the Squish team.
    • An intern will most probably join the team.
  • Infra & Releases
    • PySide6_DS will remain being available only for Windows/Linux x86_64 and macOS universal, no aarch64 for Linux
    • Research continues on Windows arm64
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2384 Enum as Sequences issues on Python 3.11
    • Signal Manager massive refactoring
    • qmlimportscanner new option to exclude directories (for our tooling)
    • PYSIDE-2833 loadFromModule should be used for QML projects
    • Fixes in the documentation
    • 6.8 adaption
    • Create the KDE documentation for using the PySide BaseApp for Flatpak (on review)
    • Improving the documentation, getting ideas from other frameworks/projects. We will try to keep old links working with some alias, and fixing many broken links.
    • Continue fixing pyi issues
    • Discussion on the next steps on the QtDS integration

2. August 2024

25. July 2024

  • General
    • Plan with some brainstorming ideas from last session.
  • Infra & Releases
    • tqtc/dev branch still broken. Waiting for Finland to come back from vacation :D
    • DS wheels still need to be tested
  • Bugs & Features
    • arm64 shiboken generator not properly working (libclang)
    • flatpak support: patch was merged, and there were a couple of issues that have a possible fix. After that, the KDE documentation will be modified in order to offer the option for users to use PySide as well.
    • scikit-build research
    • signature compression research: dealing with some last details.
      • fullname field, and compression of the strings.
    • no-gil research will re-start next month, in order to address the new changes from cpython
    • Type hints issues being worked out.


18. July 2024

  • General
    • We got a talk accepted at Akademy 2024.
    • September 11th is the limit to submit features for PySide 6.8.0
  • Infra & Releases
    • Flaky macOS failures were addressed
    • PySide6 Design Studio wheels to be tested
  • Bugs & Features
    • Work on PYSIDE-2701 - Binary size reduction
      • LZMA compression moved to ZLIB and C++. Compression on Windows 8.7 %, macOS 4.7 %
      • Study of pybind11/nanobind continues.
      • Overlap with PYSIDE-2404: Startup time optimization of ZLIB compression almost ready.
    • Finding some use-cases from PySide users during EuroPython.
    • Flatpak recipes are ready to be tested, meaning projects relying on flatpak (like KDE) will be able to use PySide in their builds :D
    • macOS multimedia missing plugins.
    • QtWebView might be added for completeness.
    • Feedback from EuroPython: More tutorials, and examples with applied cases, rather than too basic or too advanced ones.

11. July 2024

  • General
    • Two members of the team at Europython
  • Bugs & Features
    • Work on PYSIDE-2701 - Binary size reduction
      • An LZMA compressor has been written in Python and C++ with 4.5% win.
      • Reimplementation in C++ only is even easier. (when considered worth it)
      • Study of pybind11/nanobind implementation
    • Work on PYSIDE-2803 - qmlimportscanner and Windows cmd line length limitation
    • Refactoring and cleanup of the Signals/Slot handling code
    • Added missing libraries for the QtMultiMedia ffmpeg plugin on macOS

4. July 2024

  • General
    • Next week, two members of the team will be at Europython
    • Don't forget QtWS 2025 submissions (Until first days of August)
    • We might get the help from an intern.
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2790: Implemented task "uncancelling" and cancel count mechanism
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2799: Turns out cancelling handles when cancelling tasks can cause issues
    • PYSIDE-2798 might not be (easily) fixable entirely
      • Qt and asyncio collide when Qt shuts everything down too early for asyncio's liking, e.g. when closing the window.
      • Setting keep_running=True is probably a suitable workaround.
    • Submitted cherry-picks to 6.7 for a number of changes (mostly QtAsyncio) where the pick-to line was forgotten
    • PYSIDE-2701 activities:
      • implemented removal of the fullName field
      • started implementation of common function end replacement
      • started work on SignatureStrings compression with LZMA
    • PYSIDE-2793 (PYSIDE-1057) Memory leak in slot connection. Some were fixed, but there is still one that's very old (PYSIDE-79)
    • singleShot newly added signature has some complications when disconnected
    • NumPy 2.0 compatibility patches were merged.
    • Signal Handling research and review
    • PYSIDE-2192 Input hook handling (for matplotlib) was addressed thank to some suggestion.
    • PYSIDE-2805 Suggestion overload QMessageBox.open for passing a new slot.
    • 6.8 Adaption continues.
    • PYSIDE-2803 support bug on windows with pyside6-deploy command too long
    • Flatpak: shiboken is building, but pyside has some issues still.
    • Research on windows arm64
    • Testing DS packages

27. June 2024

  • General
    • Python language summit blog posts.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Android wheels configuration is running OK.
    • Feature freeze for 6.8 on September 11 (for Qt/C++ RC release)
    • Tweaks for the Qt for Python deployment internal guide for Raspberry Pi.
  • Bugs & Features
    • QtDS: packages ready to go out after CI configuration.
    • QtDS: export option within the tool planned in 2 weeks.
    • qmlnext: the issue with the example task was find and solved.
    • PYSIDE-2786 Preparation (future statement) of new syntax for Python 3.9
      • then checkin of deferred 3.10 changes was done.
    • PYSIDE-2701 activities:
      • Removal of generated fullname field (in progress)
      • Further analysis of possible folding savings
      • Revived the 2019 PySide 2 comparison viewer
    • PYSIDE-2795 FreeCAD problem was solved.
    • PYSIDE-2792 Nested class QMetaObject::Connection (for custom Connection classes)
    • 6.8 QtGraph examples. The module keeps changing.
    • PYSIDE-2793 memory leak on modbus client.
    • Nuitka upgrade 2.3.7: issues with Python 3.12 were fixed.
    • Some new issues and limitations on the android ci conf (building python from source)
    • Flatpak task continues, and people from KDE is involved in the discussion.
    • pyside6-deploy support case with command line length limitations
    • PYSIDE-2790 Few new bug reports related to QtAsyncio: uncancel not implemented.
    • QtAsyncio cancel errors are not propagated.

20. June 2024

  • General
    • Interviews going on for a new position and internship.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.2 was released last Tuesday
    • QtDS package is currently awaiting approval from the team.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Android wheels patch integrating. Windows signing issue hopefully fixed.
    • PYSIDE-2781 - Nuitka sporadic failure with Python 3.12. Collaborating with Kay, and with help from ctismer, the issue is fixed. Was caused due to bytecode handling of Nuitka.
    • PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak progressing. Discussion with QtCreator led to the impression that an Flatpak extension would be better than Flatpak Baseapp.
      • This enable PySide6 to be bundled with the QtCreator flatpak app
    • Follow-up patches from the internal QtAsyncio presentation.
    • There are two functions in asyncio that are not properly documented.
    • Type hints:
      • Discussion about updating the generator, in order to use 3.10+ notation (even if we are compatible with 3.9). Possibility to use 'from __future__ import annotations'
    • PYSIDE-2701 - Binary reduction approach ideas
    • QtDS exporting python files will be started soon.
    • Improved QML integration being studied.


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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