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== 2020 ==


==== 5. November 2020 ====
==2024==
* Infra update
** NFS issue last night (COIN was down)
** 5.15 is fixed after the numpy pin
** 5.15.2 start preparation for the release.
** Planning the CI configuration for dev
* __feature__ error messages handling
* Evaluate generate_pyi.py as a tool
* Rename from pyside2 -> pyside6
* Still on Qt6 reactive mode
* Bug fixes
* declare-function attribute for typesystem (motivated by QList)


=== 10. October 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
* Bugs & Features


==== 29. October 2020 ====
=== 3. October 2024===
* Infra Update
* General
** 5.15.2 in the horizon
* Infra & Releases
* Qt6 efforts
* Bugs & Features
** Catching up with the latest changes in qtbase and friends.
** Dropping support for Python 2 and 3.5
** Rename of shiboken2 -> shiboken6 (already merged)
** Transforming Macros into Functions on the CMakeLists files
** Test failures on QList (fancy templates)
** Build documentation issues.
* Class properties on dev
** Integrated, took some extra time.
* Error messages with __feature__
** Improvements overall related to the types.
* Bug fixing and Documentation
** Updating internal references
* Extra
** Participation in GNU Health Conference https://www.gnuhealthcon.org/2020-online/index.html


==== 22. October 2020 ====
=== 26. September 2024===
* Qt 6 work
* Refactoring shiboken2 for Qt 6
* Investigated [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1408 PYSIDE-1408], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1410 PYSIDE-1410], no conclusions so far
* Implementation of class properties ready for review tomorrow, will be integrated in dev branch.
* Solving issue with the deprecated wheel.pep425tags
* Updating documentation to include reference to new branches, build documentation, etc.
* QtWS20 Talk


==== 15. October 2020 ====
* General
** Python Scripting: We might need to figure out ownership in order to embed into other C++ apps.
** DS integration: workaround to deploy with the following version (with no other python files) but there has been work on improving it for the next release.
** Intern starting on Oct 1st
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.3 (waiting for qt release)
** Commercial LTS 6.5.7 to be released soon (changelog pending to be merged)
** qtpip 0.1.3 to be released soon.
* Bugs & Features
** Updating and completing documentation
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2870 PYSIDE-2870] fixed (QStateMachine.postEvent causes a crash)
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
** pyside6-deploy changes for QtDS projects + corresponding changes in upcoming DS releases (needs work by DS team)- https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592554
** qtpip adaptation for newer pip versions + commercial wheel preference over lts wheels
** Finance Manager Tutorial - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592131
** Type hints: Analysis for multi-signature problem (overloads). 600 errors -> 46 ! (from mypy)
*** override: inheritance issue with specific fields
*** overload/overlap: diff return types
*** some dunder methods might need special treatment.


* Infra update
=== 19. September 2024===
** COIN configuration on macOS Python 2.7 'intel' is a bit weird and it fails for https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/315756
** 5.15 will go to cherry-pick mode and 'dev' will become the default branch
*** This is motivated from the true_propery patches being merged
*** Some pending patches
* Trying to enable QtConcurrent methods (some)
** what about Python-only alternatives like https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/concurrent.html
* Bug fixes
** uic 'things' to  review for 5.15
** QtCreator templates bugs to be reported.
* Qt 6 Effort
** Still more work here...
** Examples, and dealing with the latest from dev
* Some embedded cross compiling effort


==== 8. October 2020 ====
* General
** Promoting the idea of writing Python plugins for Qt/C++ interfaces.
*** we most probably rely on libshiboken for having consistency in the PythonScripting module and PySide
** Participation in Meeting C++
** PyCon Sweden participation
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.13 Commercial LTS was released
** qtpip update to be release in order to fix a few wheel names issues.
** Preparing for 6.8.0, and 6.7.3
** PySide6_DS 4.6 by the end of September
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2839 type hints for custom signals
** PYSIDE-2846 Fixing a lot of type errors from examples and tests
*** Currently on one of the last big issues related to overloads, optional unions, false-positives
** 6.7.3, 6.8.0 changelogs
** Python 3.13 checks and fixing compatibilities
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
** PYSIDE-2863 lupdate issue
** PYSIDE-2845 snake_case conflict with C++ API
** Fixing examples deprecations
** Updating generated UI files
** Working on a new tutorial to mix PySide with other Python modules
** qtpip fixing resolution for naming and JSON new structure
** QMLNext research continues


* Infra
=== 12. September 2024===
** Timeouts maybe when the test_wheel hangs?
* General
** Cache the wheels we install for the installation process, somehow.
** Team back from Qt Contributor summit
* PYSIDE-827 Commands help
* Infra & Releases
** Complicated refactoring, but it's waiting for review atm.
** Preparing 6.7.3
* Bugs fix
** Preparing 6.2.13
** export macro issue
** Starting to switch to 6.8
** experiment with QtConcurrent PYSIDE-1202
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1098 getframe was not properly working with 1 as argument.
** Release Notes in documentation change read. Could be targeted for 6.8.
** (on hold for Qt6) PYSIDE-1019 Properties modified for static ones
** Currently working on a QtQuick Finance-Manager tutorial using PySide6 as frontend, and FastApi + Pydantic + SqlAlchemy as backend. This will be a 4 part tutorial with each part extending the previous one.
** fix static string leak
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
** PYSIDE-1128 QScintilla research
*** Good progress in different error categories. Crucial was to make defaults hashable.
* Qt 6 efforts
*** First removal of duplications was quite effective. More difficult removals are "same type, different variable name" etc.
** Fixing tests, and more.
*** Overlapping signatures need a deep analysis. From 601 errors down to 294.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2859 PYSIDE-2859] Implemented QAbstractItemModel::multiData/QModelRoleDataSpan
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2861 PYSIDE-2861] Fixed pyside6-project with relative paths for lupdate
** Fixed some compiler warnings/clang-tidy


==== 1. October 2020 ====
=== 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
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2851 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


* Infra
=== 29. August 2024===
** Still the 'usual' timeouts while installing Python requirements. Maybe we could fix this?
* General
* Documentation
** Continue discussion on a better qml integration
** Access .qch documentations files offline - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTWEBSITE-944
* Bugs & Features
** Documentation fixes related to RST syntax and code snippets.
** Added pyside6-svgtoqml - 6.8
* Bug fixing
** Added missing binaries to 6.8. This include some QtQuick modules.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-31 PYSIDE-31] no news, postponed
** Deprecated ToDo fixed in pyside6-deploy
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1075 PYSIDE-1075] Fixed
** Updated Nuitka version to 2.4.8
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1326 PYSIDE-1326] Fix ready
** Code Design simplification of pyside6-deploy
* Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2835 PYSIDE-2835] - error message setup in pyside6-deploy. Issue raised in Nuitka.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 PYSIDE-1019] property support ready for Python property.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
** PYSIDE-1019 Property almost completely rewritten to pass the Python tests. Almost done.
*** Reformatted helper functions in generate_pyi with class methods
** PYSIDE-1019 shiboken: It is also possible to have properties for projects not using the PySide2 extension
*** Changed all typing classes to have prefix "typing" against name clashes (tricky)
* Qt6 Port
*** Started systematic fixture of errors: 533 in 7 categories (was 601 before prefix). Seeking general fixture algorithms.
** Still adapting API changes
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] Add a Benchmark batch script to measure progress
* Extras
** PySide Property turned out to be quite incompatible with Python properties.
** Ready to implement static Property.
** We might get some QA related help for the whole project :)
** We will continue with  adding the command line options to the build/install steps


==== 24. September 2020 ====
=== 22. August 2024===
* General
** 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
** 6.2 issue with ".commercial" tag on the wheels
** dev will switch to 6.8.0 when the branch is ready.
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2786 Finished the 3.10 patch to support the new syntax for the pyi files.
** Enabling a process to test pyi with mypy
** Flatpak documentation was merged
** Typing issue related to QByteArray.fromRawData
** QtDS integration continues
**


* Infra
=== 15. August 2024===
** One strange error related to PYSIDE-1388
* General
** Trying to merge the change to test 3.8.1 on Windows too
** Bug fixing weekS (2 weeks)
* Bug fixing spree
** Planning for future work on QtDS
** PYSIDE-1017
* Infra & Releases
** PYSIDE-1224
** Fixing an issue to properly discover the installed WebEngine
** PYSIDE-665
** Note: 6.5 aarch64 releases are only around for PySide, not Qt/C++.
** PYSIDE-1388
** Continue work on libclang pre-built on windows arm64
* Qt6 progress
* Bugs & Features
** QML was working for some period
** PYSIDE-2833 Doc changes: qml tutorials, re-gen docs to fix
** Qt3D compiling
** Updated Qt Python Scripting (QtPyScript? name to be confirmed)
* overloadID feature for typesystems (order of overloads)
** 6.7.3 changelog preparation
* PYSIDE-68
** Adjusting branches, because of missing patches.
* Simplyfying the signature module
** pyi: fixing more issues
** motivated by the feature support
** research on improving the qml + python interaction
* PYSIDE-31
* Research Options update, replacing the ad-hoc class with argparse
** Include patch that display custom options into the distutils implementation


==== 17. September 2020 ====
=== 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


* 5.15.1 released
=== 2. August 2024===
* Qt 6 efforts
* General
* Properties features submitted [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 PYSIDE-1019]
* Infra & Releases
* Bug fixing efforts, provided work arounds or fixes for
** 6.8, 6.7.3 preparations
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-972 PYSIDE-972]
** "Qt Design Studio components for PySide6" wheels are now available from pypi.org. https://pypi.org/project/PySide6-DS/
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1212 PYSIDE-1212]
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1354 PYSIDE-1354]
** Some pyi issues were fixed ( [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2788 PYSIDE-2788], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2752 PYSIDE-2752] )
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1367 PYSIDE-1367]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2814 PYSIDE-2814] Deployment: spaces can now be used in extra_args
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1381 PYSIDE-1381]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2828 PYSIDE-2828] Updated tutorials
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1383 PYSIDE-1383]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2820 PYSIDE-2820] Fixed Opaque containers to work with QML
** Some refactoring of the PySide's signal handling
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2825 PYSIDE-2825] Added QtWebView
** [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
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2806 PYSIDE-2806] Fixed app name issue for pyside6-deploy
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2785 PYSIDE-2785] Fixed site-packages issue for pyside6-deploy
** 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
** Added README to PySide flatpak recipe. Needs review - https://github.com/pyside/io.qt.PySide.BaseApp/pulls
** Working on updating the KDE PyQt documentation to also target PySide
** Added minibrowser WebView example


==== 10. September 2020 ====
=== 25. July 2024===
* 5.15.1 release waiting for final
* General
** blog post about some features
** Plan with some brainstorming ideas from last session.
* Try a new python version on the CI
* Infra & Releases
* Qt 6 efforts
** tqtc/dev branch still broken. Waiting for Finland to come back from vacation :D
** Adding back the tools (uic/rcc)
** DS wheels still need to be tested
** New feature shiboken overload order
* Bugs & Features
** Waiting for the properties features before moving 5.15 to cherry pick mode
** arm64 shiboken generator not properly working (libclang)
** Major changes will get into dev as soon as we move 5.15 to cherry pick.
** 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.
* Review repeated overloads from a Python point of view and remove the unnecesary ones.
** scikit-build research
* PYSIDE-74 is fixed, and now every object will have a __ne__ and __eq__
** signature compression research: dealing with some last details.
* testing: Ensure that build dir precedes site-packages.
*** fullname field, and compression of the strings.
* Writable properties is still in development, and closer to be done
** no-gil research will re-start next month, in order to address the new changes from cpython
** what do we do with the internal pyside properties? TBD
** Type hints issues being worked out.
* Akademy 2020 participation
** GNU Health uses PySide2!
** Kirigami for Python users


==== 3. September 2020 ====
* Infra update
** libclang 10 issue, we need a shared library, but the latest had static only.
*** Using the QtCreator one solved the issue.
** snapshots wheels broken atm
** Plan for 5.15.1
* True properties
** make static properties needed around 10% of the cases, it collides with limited api.
** new corner case for non-standard properties.
** Use in runtime the information from the Meta Object.
* Bug fixes
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1177 __doc__
** Doc build regression
** Nuitka compatibility
* Qt6 related work
** Adapting the latest state of qtbase
** Simplify our CMakeLists files to use what is provided by libclang
* QML breakage with the latest state of dev


==== 27. August 2020 ====
=== 18. July 2024===
* Infra update
* General
** Waiting on confirmation for 5.15.1 release
** We got a talk accepted at Akademy 2024.
** Discard mingw config
** September 11th is the limit to submit features for PySide 6.8.0
** Include a Linux 64bit Python 3.8.x config
* Infra & Releases
* True property features
** Flaky macOS failures were addressed
** Basic implementation in-place with shiboken support.
** PySide6 Design Studio wheels to be tested
** Tackling errors from the parser
* Bugs & Features
** The data from ApiExtractor should be improved
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
** Pending tasks: (1) Support for static properties (~20-30), (2) add missing properties via some heuristic, maybe adding support for the typesystem special entries, and (3) improve support for the signature model.
*** LZMA compression moved to ZLIB and C++. Compression on Windows 8.7 %, macOS 4.7 %
* Bugs fixing
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind continues.
** Many old bugs closed, due to being fixed or invalid in newer versions.
*** Overlap with PYSIDE-2404: Startup time optimization of ZLIB compression almost ready.
** Prioritization plan for some of the remaining
** Finding some use-cases from PySide users during EuroPython.
** Important bug for the project https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478 we need a better error propagation.
** Flatpak recipes are ready to be tested, meaning projects relying on flatpak (like KDE) will be able to use PySide in their builds :D
* lupdate compatibility delayed
** macOS multimedia missing plugins.
* QML interaction
** QtWebView might be added for completeness.
** ListProperty was heavily improved, adding missing argument options and checks.
** 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 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 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 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2803 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


==== 20. August 2020 ====
===4. July 2024===
* Infra update
* General
** Fix for virtualenv problems on RedHat.
** Next week, two members of the team will be at Europython
** Speed issues on the CI
** Don't forget QtWS 2025 submissions (Until first days of August)
** we still require a libclang update.
** We might get the help from an intern.
** Waiting for a date for 5.15.1
* Infra & Releases
* (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 (features properties)
** LTS Open Source release is out for 6.2.9 (sources)
* (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1328 (static/dyn methods)
** QtDS packages are generated now in the CI
* Qt6 changes
** Improvements in https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/
** QStringRef replacement by QStringView
* Bugs & Features
** Fixing broken tests
** Fixed PYSIDE-2790: Implemented task "uncancelling" and cancel count mechanism
* Discussion around https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1363
** Fixed PYSIDE-2799: Turns out cancelling handles when cancelling tasks can cause issues
** We could generate manylinux2014 wheels.
** PYSIDE-2798 might not be (easily) fixable entirely
* Fixed some issues with ListProperty on the QML integration :)
*** 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


==== 13. August 2020 ====
===27. June 2024===


* Infra update
* General
** dev is still open for direct submit.
** Python language summit blog posts.
** libclang 10 update keeps waiting fixes to qttools.
* Infra & Releases
** The python3.8 test will get amended later today.
** Android wheels configuration is running OK.
* Bug fixing
** Feature freeze for 6.8 on September 11 (for Qt/C++ RC release)
** Missing classes
** Tweaks for the Qt for Python deployment internal guide for Raspberry Pi.
** 3D related
* Bugs & Features
** pyi incomplete
** QtDS: packages ready to go out after CI configuration.
** QmlComponent deadlock
** QtDS: export option within the tool planned in 2 weeks.
* (in progress) Qt Property access
** qmlnext: the issue with the example task was find and solved.
** Issues with the binding manager (functions inside properties)
** PYSIDE-2786 Preparation (future statement) of new syntax for Python 3.9
** The feature switching needs to be slower (no features, snake_case, etc)
*** then checkin of deferred 3.10 changes was done.
* Planned work on 3.9 compatibility
** PYSIDE-2701 activities:
* QML ListProperty in dev is broken
*** 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.


==== 6. August 2020 ====
===20. June 2024===


* Infra update
* General
** libclang versioning issues (we need 8+, we have 6)
** Interviews going on for a new position and internship.
** Adding Python 3.8.1 for Python (needs review)
* Infra & Releases
* Research for commercial opportunities
** 6.7.2 was released last Tuesday
* (in progress) Qt Property access
** QtDS package is currently awaiting approval from the team.
** prototype waiting for review
* Bugs & Features
** some complications with inherited attributes/properties
** Android wheels patch integrating. Windows signing issue hopefully fixed.
** Class properties are a complication, since we need to make a difference with instance properties.
** 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.
* (in progress) Shiboken initialization more verbose
** PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak progressing. Discussion with QtCreator led to the impression that an Flatpak extension would be better than Flatpak Baseapp.
** for Freezing tools.
*** This enable PySide6 to be bundled with the QtCreator flatpak app
* Check for signature/stubs documentation.
** 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.


==== 30. July 2020 ====


* No meeting
===13. June 2024===


==== 23. July 2020 ====
* 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


* Infra update
===06. June 2024===
** 5.15 and dev -> Python 3.8.1 (Windows) => Working
** Some issues with some images.
* (needs review) Selectable features
** New example to test
** AL Completion issues
** signal/slots will remain camelCase at the moment.
* (in progress) Python 3.9 compatibility
** Signature module requires some work.
* (in progress) Qt 6 porting
** Issues with templates in Qt6
** QByteArrayView might be an issue
** Documentation needs qttools, it might work with cmake/qt6
* (in progress) QML interaction
** qmlRegisterSingletonType ready
** qmlRegisterUncreatableType is the next step


==== 16. July 2020 ====
* 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


* Infra update
===30. May 2024===
** Updates on the Windows VM template to get some optimization.
** Getting Python 3.8.1 on Windows to test the latest minor version.
* (in progress) Selectable features
** COIN issues after the history log deletion (prune)
** Issues with the initialization on scriptableapplication (patch on gerrit)
* (in progress) PySide 6
** Progress being done in Windows and macOS
* QML update (on dev -> Qt6)
** Removed the limit to 50 types https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/307424
** qmlRegisterSingletonType patch waiting for review https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/307908


==== 9. July 2020 ====
* 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.


* Infra update
===23. May 2024===
** 5.14 issues related to virtualenv (but 5.14.2 works)
* General
** dev is open for direct merges.
* Infra & Releases
** 5.14.2.3 macOS needs review to be released.
** Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
** sdist packages WIP patch.
** 5.15.17 LTS released
* Python 3.9b4 is out and we will try it out.
* Bugs & Features
* (in progress) Selectable features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
** new corner cases were found, so they are being tackled.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2749 PYSIDE-2749] Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
* (in progress) access Qt properties directly
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2758 PYSIDE-2758] Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
** decide which are the properties at runtime.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2762 PYSIDE-2762] Fixed a type hinting bug
** Maybe sources/pyside2/PySide2/global.h.in:41 can help
** Brushed up and fixed a few examples
*** #define QT_ANNOTATE_ACCESS_SPECIFIER(a) __attribute__((annotate(#a)))
** 6.8 Adaption
* (in progress) Qt6 compatibility
** Python 3.13 check
** Dealing with test failures.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
** Issues OpenGLWidgets
** pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.  
** We need to update the MetaType registration mechanisms to start working on QML register types
** Close to macOS cross compilation


===16. May 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
** Exclude .qsb, .webp, .cpp.o and .qen from deployment due to Nuitka error. Error report raised in Nuitka - https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2854
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2620 PYSIDE-2620] - Adapting to 6.8
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2745 PYSIDE-2745] - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] - Lazy Loading completed by supporting subtypes. This gives 8-9% more performance.
** Support for Python 3.13 started - first compatibility before switching to disable-gil
** Possibilities explored to lazy load signatures or save space.


==== 2. July 2020 ====
===2. May 2024===


* Infra Update
* General
** Timeouts issues, increasing it is not a solution.
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
** How to proceed with dev to use Qt6
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
*** merge without CI
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
*** clarify the yaml configuration
* Infra & Releases
** 5.14.2.3 new release planned
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
* Selectable Features
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
** snake_case for camelCase names.
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
** (in progress) access Qt properties directly:
* Bugs & Features
*** For 'label = QLabel("hello")', we could do 'label.text = "bye"' instead of using the 'label.setText("bye")'.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
* Qt6 compatibility
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
** QML working on Linux (this will enable us to work on the registration)
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
* Some improvements in the documentation generation must be done to speed up the process.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
* pyside2_config.py file to CMake
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
** include XConfig.cmake files on the wheel
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
* sdist package
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676] - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
** nice to have: pip install -e ., but at the moment we have three egg-info directories (error)
** BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
* Starting again with the cross compilation of PySide for embedded linux.
*** Issue might require special hw
==== 25. June 2020 ====
** Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
*** An internal presentation is being prepared.
** Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
** macOS cross compilation for android being tried


* Infra update
** Release of the second set of Windows 64bit wheels.
** Issues on the CI due to some internal issues, everything should be running soon.
* (in progress) from __future__ import newapi
** it's tricky to provide snake_case instead of camelCase
** issues with tp_getattro
** creating modified Python objects to replace the original types at runtime
* (in progress) from __future__ import newproperties
** Still many things to go
* PYSIDE-1282 pthread crash solved, and will be merge in 5.14
* Indentation fixes for generated code. Prefix adaptation for a standard format so it can be loaded in QtCreator (from warning and stuff)
* Qt for Python 6 is partially working in some platforms
** Still many missing modules,
** CMakeLists.txt files needs some love,
** Needs to adapt CI for the new dev branch
** Windows has some issues still :)
* libclang situation, are we sharing the same version for qdoc, qtcreator, qt, etc...?
** Need to check in case we decide to update
* Commercial wheels split progress


==== 18. June 2020 ====
===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 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
** Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
** QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
*** Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
*** Plan to improve exceptions handling


* Infra update
===18. April 2024===
** The new windows wheels still had some issues, it seems the latest are OK, and we would need to publish '_2' wheels.
** Some issues with macOS builds for 5.15.0
* Qt6 compatibility
** This is stopping the improvements in the QML integration story
** We need this merged before continuing https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/301979
* Merged a bug fix to 5.12 (the CI was not broken)
* (in progress) Qt6 Properties camelCase to lower_case
** Not a trivial task
** It's possible to rename dynamically functions, and other things.
** Containers needs to be taken care too
** Having more than one object with the same ID is challenging
** Issues with str based objects
* Fixed PYSIDE-1332, PYSIDE-1327
* (in progress) Commercial wheel are almost ready on Linux, later some changes for Windows and macOS are required.
* (in progress) WigglyWidget example almost there
* (in progress) New StyleSheet tutorial.
==== 11. June 2020 ====


* Infra Update
* General
** MSVC 2019 DLL issue with 5.15.0, we shipped a DLL that was too new. (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1323)
** Bug fixing week
** A new set of wheels will be available for Windows users (without a modern MSVC)
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
* QEnum implementation
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
** Waiting for review
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
** Qt5 compatible
* Infra & Releases
** QFlag is also exposed
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
* Research: Qt6 Properties camelCase to lower_case
** 6.5.6 release planned
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
* Started to fix missing types information: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1318
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
* Fix memory leaks in property accesors (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1321),
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
* Fix code generation bugs (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1325)
* Bugs & Features
* Incremental wheels
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
* Missing pyside2uic features
** QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
* Backports for 5.12
** PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
** Ask Gerrit admins
** PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
** Try one last patch.
** 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.


==== 4. June 2020 ====
===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.


* CI Update
===4. April 2024===
** Limited API reports work
* General
** Improve integrations on macOS
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
* Documentation updates for Qt Assistant
* Infra & Releases
* PYSIDE-1257 cx_Freeze issues seems to be related to cx_Freeze itself.
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
* Q_ENUM and QFlag will be soon available.
** Preparing for 6.7.0
* New Shiboken example to expose a custom Qt Widget to Python
* Bugs & Features
* loadUiType is back into PySide (relies on pyside2-uic on PATH)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
* Other bug fixes.
** [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


==== 28. May 2020 ====
===28. March 2024===
* Releases
* General
** 5.15.0 and 5.14.2.2 were released :) https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-5.15.0-is-out
* Infra & Releases
** Thoughts about 5.14.2.3
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
** 5.15.1 release is still not defined
* Bugs & Features
* Documentation
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
* CI Status
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
** The limited-api check was somehow bypass by one specific patch https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/298845 We need to keep an eye to avoid this in the future.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
* Backlog status [https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=262&view=planning.nodetail&selectedIssue=PYSIDE-463&issueLimit=100 check it here]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
* QML Integration update
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints
** We are working on finishing the implementation of Q_ENUM, to be able to use the singletonType registration
** Additionally, we are looking into the uncreatableType registration too.
* Development branch for Qt6
** We need the following before jumping into dev.
*** QList/QVector
*** QString -> integrated (clarity)


==== 21. May 2020 ====
===21. March 2024===
* '''Holiday'''
* 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. May 2020 ====
===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


* CI Updates
===07. March 2024===
** CI blocked due to some provisioning issues in red hat
* General
** 5.14.2.2 Release is on hold
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
** 5.15 commercial release in preparation
* Infra & Releases
** License check
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
* 5.15 Release
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
** Pickling changes
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
** Examples
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
** loadUiType
* Bugs & Features
* Tutorials rcc, designer
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
** Add project's tutorial.
** all deployment fixes are in.
* Continue research of using Qt6
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
* __qualname__ attributes are almost done
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
** This changes was required for the pickling support.
** 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.


==== 7. May 2020 ====
===29. February 2024===
* CI Updates
** Issues with the provisioning, for example the connection with PyPi, still in progress.
** We will add a requirements.txt for provisioning.
* Issues
** PYSIDE-1255 Signal not reached in QML
** Pickling Qt Enums PYSIDE-15
*** Almost finished, but we are waiting for PYSIDE-1285 to be fix (modulename, qualname).
** Many other minor bugs have been fixed, but still there are a couple of strange ones.
** First attempts to build shiboken with Qt6
** Ideas repo re-organization
* Features
** Commercial addons
** Tutorials
*** rcc
*** uic
*** QTranslator (*)
*** ...
** QtAssistant integration
** loadUiType
** The new way of registering QML properties needs to be applied to the code base.


==== 30. April 2020 ====
* General
* CI Updates
** Leap day!
** Issues with pip upgrades
** Documentation changes
** Planning new Python versions for new configurations.
* Infra & Releases
* Update on bugs still around after 5.14.2.1
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
** 1271: Deadlock (fixed)
** 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
** 1255: Signal not reached in QML (still in progress)
** 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
** 1280: Research
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
* Features
** General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
** QML interaction
* Bugs & Features
** Q_ENUM and pickling SbkEnum
** PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
** Commercial Addons
** 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


==== 23. April 2020 ====
===22. February 2024===
* 5.14.2.1 Release
* General
* New bugs around threading:
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1271
* Infra & Releases
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1255 needs to be reopen.
** 6.6.2 was released!
* Documentation changes around the replacement of the old pysideuic module
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
* Q_ENUM update
* Bugs & Features
** How to get a reference from the QMetaObjectBuilder without a QObject based project?
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
* mypy compatibility
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** depends a bit on the Q_ENUM
** 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.


==== 16. April 2020 ====
===15. February 2024===


* Plan for 5.14.2-1 release
* General
* Research on Pickling support, PYSIDE-15
** Brainstorming session was held.
* Provided fix for PYSIDE-1267  related to efforts of exposing QScintilla
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
* Object dumper to help debugging python implementations
* Infra & Releases
* Debugging options for the code model.
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
* pysideuic old functionality into the QUiTools module
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
** compileUI
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
** loadUiType
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
* Q_ENUM discussion
* 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.


==== 9. April 2020 ====


* Most bugs reported in 5.14.2 are fix on 5.14
===8. February 2024===
** Preparing the process for the release of 5.14.2-1
** Check about versioning on pypi to not override 5.14.2 wheels.
* PYSIDE-813 is now fixed
* PYSIDE-1255, Signals not being emitted.
* Working on Q_ENUM


==== 2. April 2020 ====
* 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.


* 5.14.2 is out:
===1. February 2024===
** keep an eye on new bug reports.
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1253
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1254
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1255
** The new documentation is out too: https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/
* 'manylinux1' discussion
* CI status
* 'loadUiType' status https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1223
** two approaches for it, a Python and another in C.
* PYSIDE-813
** Finding where the reference is gone, but there is the only issue left.
** All the other issues were solved.
** A solution should be out soon.
* Research on adding Python support for Qt's lupdate: PYSIDE-1252


==== 26. March 2020 ====
* 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


* 5.14.2 Release
* OKRs Update
** Looking for commercial opportunities
* PYSIDE-813 new discoveries found:
** There are a couple of issues with one of the PYSIDE-803 patches that will be solved soon.
** PYSIDE-164 is out of the picture
* Lambda functions for QWebEngineCallback PYSIDE-946 so we can expose the missing bindings.
* QVariant conversions tweaks PYSIDE-1250
* Working on adding 'loadUiType' into PySide PYSIDE-1223
* Research on adding Python support for Qt's lupdate: PYSIDE-1252


==== 19. March 2020 ====
===25. January 2024===


* 5.14.2 Release preparations
* General
* Work on Widget gallery example
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
* Done: Refinements to wheel-tester.py
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
* Done: Reworked test_wheel.py for macOS
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
* Done: Fixed PYSIDE-1247 signature warning in Python 3.6
* Infra & Releases
* In progress: Instrumentation of PYSIDE-164/813
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
* Bugs & Features
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
** PYSIDE-2575: Added a new argument to QtAsyncio to configure whether the QCoreApplication at the core of QtAsyncio should be shut down when asyncio finishes (requested by user).
** SingleShot timer issue: Slight "complexity explosion" because correct implementation for one case requires implementation of QObject.connect overload with context arguments (and we implement QObject.connect ourselves, see PySide::qobjectConnectCallback).
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
** Unity build some issues when building without.
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
** Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
** armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
** Lazy initialization: re-wrote approach from scratch, to reduce the patches to one that can be analyzed easily. Some complications with this approach that needs to be improve. It can be tried with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/496118
*** https://peps.python.org/pep-0690/ was rejected, but the idea can be implemented per-module
** Moving entry_points declaration to pyproject.toml from setup.py
** Drop the bdist_wheel steps from the CI (old wheels)
** Started working on split commercial wheels, wheels for QtDS and examples on QtCreator.


==== 12. March 2020 ====
===18. January 2024===


* CI Status
* General
** Everything up and running
* Infra & Releases
** 5.14.2 to be released next week hopefully.
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
* PYSIDE-803
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
** Almost there!
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
** retrieveMetaObject improvements.
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
** We will try to test it without the allow-thread patch to evaluate performance.
* Bugs & Features
* PYSIDE-813
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
** we will keep PYSIDE-164 open until we find a solution that fixes both.
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
* Starting to evaluate std::function compatibility with Shiboken.
** 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


==== 5. March 2020 ====
===11. January 2024===


* CI Update
* General
** Including Python 3.8
** Hackathon at TQtC
** Maybe using alternatives to have many Python versions.
** CI process presentation
* Priority bugs
* Infra & Releases
** PYSIDE-803
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
*** major changes in (caching)
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
*** still other minor patches to be merged.
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
*** allow-thread patch has a bug, maybe this can be detach from the snippets one.
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** PYSIDE-813
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
*** PYSIDE-164 appears again if we fix it,
* Bugs & Features
*** Maybe a solution is to fix 164 in another way.
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
* 5.15 feature status
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
* Changes for Qt 6
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
** Changes in the [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/284225 QMetaType representation]
** macOS request permission API work continues.
*** Reference of the [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtdeclarative/+/285788 new system in qtdeclarative]
** 6.7 adaptions patches
** Wishlist for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-904 Qt6 opportunities]
** 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


==== 27. February 2020 ====
===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.


* CI Updates
==2023==
** 5.12 cherry-picks
* qApp
** Deprecation message or alias (when using QtWidgets.qApp)
* PYSIDE-803
** Missing patches to be merged
*** Python 2.7 issues
*** allow-thread commit message (add a changelog)
*** second caching mechanism to be studied after we merge the first set of patches.
*** Third attempt after the stackless gilstate approach
** Documentation
* Python 3.8 testing is still being worked out


==== 20. February 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]


* CI Updates
==2022==
** Cherry-picking some changes to 5.12 to fix the virtualenv 20 issues.
** macOS timeouts
** possibility of merging simple changes directly.
* qApp issues
** Patches ready for review
* PYSIDE-803
** Patches needs some polishing
* Testrunner improvements
** stdout/stderr issues with ctest on windows
** smart pointers tests crashing, due to qApp issues.
** Python 3.8 is also giving problems (DLLs missing)
** debug builds on windows does not work.
* Shiboken documentation being reorganized
* Starting testing Python 3.9


==== 13. February 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]


* CI updates
==2021==
** Windows package signing will be possible, hopefully soon.
* Documentation updates
** Example gallery
** WebChannel example merged,
* Python 3.8 changes on Windows are still being tackled.
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-803 status: A patch waiting for review is there, but we need to combine it with the other solutions we currently have. Still, there are some corner cases where the problem is not properly solved.
** qApp issues to be solved, but we will remove the import features. qApp will remain as a built-in.
* OKRS 1Q/2020


==== 6. February 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2021]]


* CI status and issues with the Qt provisioning 5.12
==2020==
** 5.12.7 release will take more time to add new features.
** 5.14 has some issues with OpenGLFunctions.
* Documentation: Interest for the new shiboken2 documentation structure and usage of the ApiExtractor.
* Python 3.8 compatibility with older branches.
* Updates on PYSIDE-803 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803?focusedCommentId=496894&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-496894 link]
* Suggestion about iterations a-la-python https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1216
* Events
** Qt World Summit 2020 Palm Springs
** PyCon US


==== 30. January 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2020]]
* 5.14.1 release rolling
* Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1204 PYSIDE-1204]
* Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1191 PYSIDE-1191] PySide2 5.14 source now builds against Qt 5.12 as well
* Further research on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
** full instrumentation of generated source for tracing,
** discovery of new hooks to support. Still in flux.
* Fixed some issues of Python 3.8 (most prominently warnings about implicit conversion to integers for QFlags), will be fixed in 5.14.2
* qApp macro [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1178 PYSIDE-1178] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1158 PYSIDE-1158] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1135 PYSIDE-1135] finally closed. One cleanup check in may follow.


==== 23. January 2020 ====
==2019==
* Fix for CI/macOS problem is in, but it requires some merges in Qt5. Until all required merges are done, we will use Qt5 5.14.1 with Qt For Python 5.14
* Research on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Proposed an "until" attribute for typesystem files to make it possible to build Pyside 5.14 against Qt 5.12  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1195 PYSIDE-1195]
* Improved the view of compare app for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Analysis of PyQt5 and SIP implementation


==== 16. January 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2019]]
* CI/macOS problems are being worked.
* qApp fix waiting to be merged.
* first attempts to tackle [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Python 3.8 fix to old branches is required for distributions using 5.12 LTS like Conda.
* Working on Q_ENUM support.
* Viewer for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803] is ready to try. Please check out https://git.qt.io/playground/pyside-compare.git and give feedback.


==== 9. January 2020 ====
==2018==
* [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1185 PYSIDE-803] needs to be tackled soon, it's critical, and we cannot carry that into Qt6.
* Python 3.8.1 on Windows has [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285797/ some issues] while building.
* qApp macro changes [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285655 discussion].
* documentation updates are still pending.
* with the release of 5.14 we have been fixing many details from uic's Python support.
* designer's RUNPATH [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285712 needed to be patched], waiting for approval,
* A modular way of packing wheels is being studied.
* Re-take the Python extensions for QtCreator project evaluation.


== 2019 ==
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]
* [[Qt for Python Development Notes 2019]]
 
== 2018 ==
 
* [[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]

Revision as of 09:35, 27 September 2024


2024

10. October 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features

3. October 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features

26. September 2024

  • General
    • Python Scripting: We might need to figure out ownership in order to embed into other C++ apps.
    • DS integration: workaround to deploy with the following version (with no other python files) but there has been work on improving it for the next release.
    • Intern starting on Oct 1st
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.7.3 (waiting for qt release)
    • Commercial LTS 6.5.7 to be released soon (changelog pending to be merged)
    • qtpip 0.1.3 to be released soon.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Updating and completing documentation
    • PYSIDE-2870 fixed (QStateMachine.postEvent causes a crash)
    • Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
    • pyside6-deploy changes for QtDS projects + corresponding changes in upcoming DS releases (needs work by DS team)- https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592554
    • qtpip adaptation for newer pip versions + commercial wheel preference over lts wheels
    • Finance Manager Tutorial - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592131
    • Type hints: Analysis for multi-signature problem (overloads). 600 errors -> 46 ! (from mypy)
      • override: inheritance issue with specific fields
      • overload/overlap: diff return types
      • some dunder methods might need special treatment.

19. September 2024

  • General
    • Promoting the idea of writing Python plugins for Qt/C++ interfaces.
      • we most probably rely on libshiboken for having consistency in the PythonScripting module and PySide
    • Participation in Meeting C++
    • PyCon Sweden participation
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.13 Commercial LTS was released
    • qtpip update to be release in order to fix a few wheel names issues.
    • Preparing for 6.8.0, and 6.7.3
    • PySide6_DS 4.6 by the end of September
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2839 type hints for custom signals
    • PYSIDE-2846 Fixing a lot of type errors from examples and tests
      • Currently on one of the last big issues related to overloads, optional unions, false-positives
    • 6.7.3, 6.8.0 changelogs
    • Python 3.13 checks and fixing compatibilities
    • Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
    • PYSIDE-2863 lupdate issue
    • PYSIDE-2845 snake_case conflict with C++ API
    • Fixing examples deprecations
    • Updating generated UI files
    • Working on a new tutorial to mix PySide with other Python modules
    • qtpip fixing resolution for naming and JSON new structure
    • QMLNext research continues

12. September 2024

  • General
    • Team back from Qt Contributor summit
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.7.3
    • Preparing 6.2.13
    • Starting to switch to 6.8
  • Bugs & Features
    • Release Notes in documentation change read. Could be targeted for 6.8.
    • Currently working on a QtQuick Finance-Manager tutorial using PySide6 as frontend, and FastApi + Pydantic + SqlAlchemy as backend. This will be a 4 part tutorial with each part extending the previous one.
    • PYSIDE-2846 - towards MyPy testing of type hints
      • Good progress in different error categories. Crucial was to make defaults hashable.
      • First removal of duplications was quite effective. More difficult removals are "same type, different variable name" etc.
      • Overlapping signatures need a deep analysis. From 601 errors down to 294.
    • PYSIDE-2859 Implemented QAbstractItemModel::multiData/QModelRoleDataSpan
    • PYSIDE-2861 Fixed pyside6-project with relative paths for lupdate
    • Fixed some compiler warnings/clang-tidy

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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