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==2021==


==== 18. November 2021 ====
==2024==


* Releases and Infra
=== 10. October 2024===
** Issue with ubuntu 20.04 and libOpenGL.so.0 dependency seems to be in the pyside build and not Qt
* General
** Using more cores in the CI now :)
* Infra & Releases
** Apple Silicon story
* Bugs & Features
*** Issues with python provisioning on the CI
** Research on the PyPy CI configuration
** 6.2.2 release at the end of the month
* Bugs
** Shared pointer comparison issue
** Another shared pointer type related issue
* Features
** QmlUncreatable decorator
** Adding Quick3D module (issue with qml registration)
** PyPy changes are getting closer to be fully working.


==== 11. November 2021 ====
=== 3. October 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
* Bugs & Features


* Releases and Infra
=== 26. September 2024===
** Apple Silicon CI to be ready soon
** Windows CI machines slowness to be addressed
** To enable Python 3.10 in a CI configuration
** Research about adding PyPy as a CI configuration
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1520 (related 1675) handling slots type hints
* Features
** Standard containers
** Properly handling sets between C++ and Python
** Adding new QML references examples and new Decorators (still in research)
** Planning restructuring of libpyside to not be qml dependant
** Move to Python enum: Roadmap is fixed, tests started
** PyPy, finding new things and discuss with the team.
*** Improved the pending failing test by fixing a issue on PyCFunction (99 before, 76 to go)


==== 4. November 2021 ====
* 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.


* Releases and Infra
=== 19. September 2024===
** 5.15 commercial LTS problems were solved.
** Apple Silicon wheels still in progress
*** changing the way we provision Python on the CI
** Directory structure for snapshot (internal) installation
* Features
** default expr handling fixes
** memory leak on the keyword arguments handling fixed
** Default templates for containers in progress
** PyPy changes in the progress, learning by doing.
*** Finding new issues on both sides, getting in touch with pypy team
* Bugs
** Issues with the latest MSVC2019 updates are fixed (typedefs)
** Issues found related QSet and set/list transformation
** PYSIDE-1670 singleShot -> single_shot function/property
** Improving the signature module system
** Enums of PySide are still in C++, but they could be moved to Python.


==== 28. October 2021 ====
* 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


* Releases and Infra
=== 12. September 2024===
** CI is under maintenance
* General
** 6.2.1 released
** Team back from Qt Contributor summit
** Commercial LTS 5.15.7 to be released
* Infra & Releases
*** merge from lts to commercial
** Preparing 6.7.3
* Features
** Preparing 6.2.13
** PYSIDE-535: PyPy compatibility, object lifecycles differences with CPython, managed to solve other errors. Removed lld regression. Currently solving Signal&Slots problems. Checking large patches for using pypy as a build target. Py_FromSpect implementation still missing.
** Starting to switch to 6.8
** Default function arguments qualifications in progress
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1666 Container Templates for shiboken
** Release Notes in documentation change read. Could be targeted for 6.8.
* Bugs
** 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-1669: addPixmap str arguments
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
** PYSIDE-1675: mypy compatibility, improvement on the error messages for generic types.
*** Good progress in different error categories. Crucial was to make defaults hashable.
** PYSIDE-1670: __feature__: handle properties with function overloads
*** First removal of duplications was quite effective. More difficult removals are "same type, different variable name" etc.
** PYSIDE-1431: equality check of some signal/instances fails
*** Overlapping signatures need a deep analysis. From 601 errors down to 294.
** PYSIDE-1695: Flags comparison issue
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2859 PYSIDE-2859] Implemented QAbstractItemModel::multiData/QModelRoleDataSpan
** PYSIDE-1697: Memory leak
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2861 PYSIDE-2861] Fixed pyside6-project with relative paths for lupdate
 
** Fixed some compiler warnings/clang-tidy
==== 21. October 2021 ====


=== 05. September 2024===
* General
* General
** QtWS Talk: Hybrid Qt Development: boosting your projects with Python https://www.qt.io/qtws21
** Team mostly at QtCS
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.1 release is coming
** Starting to switch to 6.8
** universal wheels might come in later versions.
* Bugs & Features
** Discussion on incremental wheels to install more things on site-packages/PySide6
** Fixed a potential memory corruption in enum converter generation
** Performance issues on the CI were fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2851 PYSIDE-2851] Tricky bug with @Slot(name=) no working. Still investigating.
* Bugs
** Adapting deployment and other things to 6.8. Some existing bugs and ToDo were solved.
** PYSIDE-1691 Adding Cbor
** Working on creating a "Release Notes" page in Qfp documentation parsing from 'doc/changelogs'
** Complementation for Opaque Containers
** Competitor research for potential new features
* Features
** PyPy compatibility work continues
** MyPy compatibility work continues
** Add bluetooth scanner example


==== 14. October 2021 ====
=== 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
** [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-2846 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.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] Add a Benchmark batch script to measure progress


=== 22. August 2024===
* General
* General
** Bug fixing week
** Bug fixing week
** New contributors from Hacktoberfest
** uv release 0.3.0 https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging
** Tag strings https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-750-tag-strings-for-writing-domain-specific-languages/60408
** discussion related to spy
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.1 release is approaching
** 6.2 issue with ".commercial" tag on the wheels
** We need to setup a new provisioning for Apple Silicon wheels.
** dev will switch to 6.8.0 when the branch is ready.
** Splitting wheels research.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-2786 Finished the 3.10 patch to support the new syntax for the pyi files.
** PYSIDE-1685 Font families
** Enabling a process to test pyi with mypy
** Addressing flaky tests
** Flatpak documentation was merged
** PYSIDE-656 raising exceptions related to mouse events
** Typing issue related to QByteArray.fromRawData
** PYSIDE-1669 QIcon.addPixmap issue with argument 'str'
** QtDS integration continues
* Features
**  
** Implicit conversion in Shiboken
*** Get list of invalid usages from wrappers
*** From 6.3/6.4 enable the option.
** Render control example
** PyPy compatibility work continues
** Improve mypy compatibility will continue


==== 07. October 2021 ====
=== 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
* General
** Blog post published https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-release-6.2
** Talk accepted for KDE Akademy: "Pythonizing Qt"
** Progress regarding a better cross compilation story
** Qt Contributor summit session to work with people from the Squish team.
** Apple Silicon wheels needs some testing
** An intern will most probably join the team.
** PyPi wheel size issue due to macOS wheels having Universal Binaries and new modules
* Infra & Releases
*** Thinking on how to generate wheels for intel and apple silicon without them being too large.
** PySide6_DS will remain being available only for Windows/Linux x86_64 and macOS universal, no aarch64 for Linux
*** Maybe split the wheels into essential modules
** Research continues on Windows arm64
*** Maybe create dependencies groups
* Bugs & Features
** 2 more weeks until we move to use Qt dev on the CI
** PYSIDE-2384 Enum as Sequences issues on Python 3.11
* Release and Infra
** Signal Manager massive refactoring
** COIN updates and some speed issues.
** qmlimportscanner new option to exclude directories (for our tooling)
** Making bug-fix releases from LTS soon to follow the KDE Qt Free Software agreement.
** PYSIDE-2833 loadFromModule should be used for QML projects
* Features
** Fixes in the documentation
** Signal & Slot tutorial to be available in 6.2.1, and hopefully more tutorials
** 6.8 adaption
** Refactoring and cleanup on the primitive types.
** Create the KDE documentation for using the PySide BaseApp for Flatpak (on review)
** Fixing PYSIDE-1673 and PYSIDE-1664
** 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.
** Add qml reference example
** Continue fixing pyi issues
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy development still continues
** Discussion on the next steps on the QtDS integration
** PYSIDE-656 old issue found, that's related to PyPy development.
* Bugs
** Signals are missing from the Class documentation in 6.2.1


==== 30. September 2021 ====
=== 2. August 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** 6.8, 6.7.3 preparations
** "Qt Design Studio components for PySide6" wheels are now available from pypi.org. https://pypi.org/project/PySide6-DS/
* Bugs & Features
** 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-2814 PYSIDE-2814] Deployment: spaces can now be used in extra_args
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2828 PYSIDE-2828] Updated tutorials
** [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


* Release and Infra
=== 25. July 2024===
** We expect a release on time with respect to Qt
* General
** Release blog post almost ready
** Plan with some brainstorming ideas from last session.
** M1 wheels are still in progress.
* Infra & Releases
* Features
** tqtc/dev branch still broken. Waiting for Finland to come back from vacation :D
** Add section to https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_6.2 to highlight features
** DS wheels still need to be tested
** built-in types included into shiboken
* Bugs & Features
** adding wstring support in shiboken, extending limited api a bit.
** arm64 shiboken generator not properly working (libclang)
** Integrating PyPy related changes that don't affect Python functionality
** 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.
* Bugs
** scikit-build research
** changelog tool using textwrap for better formatting
** signature compression research: dealing with some last details.
** adapting examples and other minor revisions.
*** fullname field, and compression of the strings.
** Working on Nuitka testing
** no-gil research will re-start next month, in order to address the new changes from cpython
** Type hints issues being worked out.


==== 23. September 2021 ====


* Release and Infra
=== 18. July 2024===
** Preparation for 6.2
* General
* Features
** We got a talk accepted at Akademy 2024.
** PyPy compatibility is still in progress due to unexpected complications.
** September 11th is the limit to submit features for PySide 6.8.0
** WebChannel module is in plus the markdowneditor example
* Infra & Releases
** Built-in types improvements in shiboken
** Flaky macOS failures were addressed
** Cleaning the old suppress messages from the build
** PySide6 Design Studio wheels to be tested
** Examples and tutorials were added.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
** QSurfaceDataArray issue when handling copies
*** 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.


==== 16. September 2021 ====
=== 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


* Release & Infra
===4. July 2024===
** Mostly focusing on having 6.2 on time
* General
* Bugs
** Next week, two members of the team will be at Europython
** 1659 QUiLoader issue with connecting signals based on strings.
** Don't forget QtWS 2025 submissions (Until first days of August)
** 1660 Taking care of native C++ and Python types in the typesystem
** We might get the help from an intern.
* Features
* Infra & Releases
** Opaque containers improved
** LTS Open Source release is out for 6.2.9 (sources)
** SbkObjectType was removed, and an alias was left to PyObjectType
** QtDS packages are generated now in the CI
** PyPy Support: heavy refactoring required for compatibility. Rewrites, and many other fixes.
** Improvements in https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/
*** Inheritance seems to be the more problematic bit at the moment (__new__)
* 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


==== 09. September 2021 ====
===27. June 2024===


* Releases & Infra
* General
** Commercial LTS 5.15.6 was released yesterday.
** Python language summit blog posts.
** 6.1.3 is already out.
* Infra & Releases
** Some progress on the M1 wheels
** Android wheels configuration is running OK.
* Bugs
** Feature freeze for 6.8 on September 11 (for Qt/C++ RC release)
** CoAP issue made us discover other flaws in shiboken that are fixed.
** Tweaks for the Qt for Python deployment internal guide for Raspberry Pi.
** Sanitizing options needs more research.
* Bugs & Features
* Features
** QtDS: packages ready to go out after CI configuration.
** Updates to the docs before 6.2
** QtDS: export option within the tool planned in 2 weeks.
** Opaque containers still in progress
** qmlnext: the issue with the example task was find and solved.
** Adding new API to be compatible with PyCallable (QThreadPool)
** PYSIDE-2786 Preparation (future statement) of new syntax for Python 3.9
** Progress on the PyPy compatibility effort
*** then checkin of deferred 3.10 changes was done.
** Moving away from distutils to setuptools
** 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.


==== 02. September 2021 ====
===20. June 2024===


* Releases & Infra
* General
** Commercial LTS 5.15.6 should be out soon
** Interviews going on for a new position and internship.
** 6.1.3 should be ready today/tomorrow
* Infra & Releases
** starting migration from distutils to setuptools.
** 6.7.2 was released last Tuesday
* Bugs
** QtDS package is currently awaiting approval from the team.
** OpenGL types issues working with macOS now (to test further examples)
* Bugs & Features
** Triaging
** Android wheels patch integrating. Windows signing issue hopefully fixed.
** Shiboken issues when snippets and function collection with same names (QCoapClient::disconnect and QObject::disconnect)
** 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-1646 signature mapping issues with OpenGL types
** PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak progressing. Discussion with QtCreator led to the impression that an Flatpak extension would be better than Flatpak Baseapp.
* Features
*** This enable PySide6 to be bundled with the QtCreator flatpak app
** PYSIDE-1650 QAccesibility missing API
** Follow-up patches from the internal QtAsyncio presentation.
** Continue research on opaque containers
** There are two functions in asyncio that are not properly documented.
** PYSIDE-1436 Continue fixing things towards a full 3.10 compatibility (fixing refcounts)
** Type hints:
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy compatibility still in progress (many bugs to be tackled)
*** 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.


==== 26. August 2021 ====


* Releases
===13. June 2024===
** Commercial 5.15.6 LTS is being prepared.
** 6.1.3 might be delay a couple of days due to a couple of high prio bugs that were fixed.
* Bugs
** Fixing the OpenGL issues of missing GL* types
** Removing QtQuick classes that were blocking the CI
** Addressing errors on debug mode.
* Features
** Planning fixes for Nuitka to get a better support.
 
====19. August 2021 ====
 
* Bugs
** Various fixes in four patches for Python 3.10
** Bug from 2012 found in shiboken tests after three days debugging Python 3.10
* Features
** Python 3.10 support is totally ready
 
====12. August 2021====


* 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
* Infra & Releases
** Maintenance break
** 6.7.2 packages are ready to be released.
** Still looking into universal binary wheels (some tests failing)
** Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
** Preparing new releases.
** Starting process to test windows arm64 (discussion around libclang)
* Bugs
** Nightly builds:
** Threading/lock issues with QInputDialog and QAbstractSocket
*** Possible solution for linux and macOS arm64 android builds.
** Stripping down shiboken installation files
*** Maybe also for non-unity builds? it has been failing in some corner cases.
* Features
*** We could have dev-android branch so we don't block the normal dev development.
** Moving important new patches from dev to 6.1 (tricky due the changes we have in dev atm)
*** nightly builds merge automatically if everything passes.
** Continuing the test of 3.10
*** PyPy integrations might join a similar configuration as well.
** Addressing new pyi issues
* 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


====5. August 2021====
===06. June 2024===
* Infra & Releases
** Debug CI builds are still in progress.
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1626 uic switching new minor problem with qApp.
** PYSIDE-1617 memory leaks
** New missing information in some .pyi files
** QInputDialog seems to be failing with threads
* Features
** Cleanups related to cheating macros Py Int/Long checks.
** reconstruction of the features for future work


====29. July 2021====
* 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
* Infra & Releases
** Universal binaries still in research
** Some issues with the macOS CI units.
** Some errors were found on the CI debug configuration
** Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
** COIN has some network issues.
** qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
* Bugs
** 6.5.6 commercial LTS was released.
** Refactoring and small issues.
** 6.7.2 release will happen soon (due to an issue with designer)
** feature: fix the UIC switching problem
** 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
** Documentation seems outdated in some places, so fix are coming.
* Bugs & Features
* Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2622 - Standalone mode for Deployment as per many requests from users
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605
** Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
** Removing signature loader files to integrate them into the module.
** 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


====22. July 2021====
===30. May 2024===
* Infrastructure
** Work on OSX11/universal binaries
* Bugs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1629 QML crash
** Debugging https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1626 (snakecase + uic)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1625 exec_ regression
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1623 missing docs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1621 Windows problem fixed by removing temp files
** Debugging memory leaks
* Features
** Research on  https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605 (directly wrapping C++ containers instead of converting them)
** Prototype/Discuss: Remove signature loader completely from physical FS (6.2 I guess)
* Other
** Fixed up documentation for 6.2
** Fixed overload handling in shiboken due to https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/359671
 
====15. July 2021====


* General
** PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
** Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** CI has some issues related to qtbase and Windows
** Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
* Bugs
** PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 Issues when transforming Macros to Functions, leaks were found
** Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
** Fix memory leaks in shiboken
** qtpip is planned to support aarch64
** QMultiMap and QMultiHash was not properly handle (defaultdict) | behavioral change
** 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
*** Before it was a a normal dict, with the last value (all the other values were not preserved)
* Bugs & Features
* Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2766 PYSIDE-2766] - Android wheels from macOS successful. Patches for review.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1252 support classmethods in signatures and properties (static methods become properties, and that's the relation with classmethods)
*** Testing a sample app now + Modifying https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466
** Adding QtDBus (QPendingReply is missing) and QtNetworkAuth modules
** 6.8 adaption is in progress [qtcharts is a bit unstable]
** Tools like qdbusxml2cpp is not supported yet.
** c++20 research to improve libshiboken
** Remote Objects getting some contributions.
** qtscrypt progressing to support signal/slot
** Refreshing QML code and good practices, adding new examples, etc
** dev will support python 3.10+ [for 6.8+]
** WIP qmlRegisterSingletonInstance and research on QML_NAMED_ELEMENT
** PYSIDE-2767 pyi improvements.
** Improve docs: icons, style, content.
** 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.
====08. July 2021====


===23. May 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Planning next releases.
** Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
* Bugs
** 5.15.17 LTS released
** 1334 .connect returns now a bool to verify the connection.
* Bugs & Features
** 1613 logging level
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
** 1618 session manager issue (Qt bug)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2749 PYSIDE-2749] Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
** 1619 discussion on accepting the QSettings.value (still in progress)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2758 PYSIDE-2758] Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
* Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2762 PYSIDE-2762] Fixed a type hinting bug
** lupdate now has support for Python, and will be available in 6.2 (+ docs)
** Brushed up and fixed a few examples
** adding new API for WebEngine
** 6.8 Adaption
** gettext tutorial
** Python 3.13 check
** pathlib support continues (QUrl)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
** PyPy compatibility: still addressing the issues related to the type extensions.
** pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.
** ApiExtractor: add classmethod attribute to add-function for tr()
** Close to macOS cross compilation
** Attempting to expose QtDBus
** Improving docs and tutorials
** Experimenting with python-only modules.


====01. July 2021====
===16. May 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.1.2 ready to go out
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
** Trying CI debug configuration
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
* Bugs
* Bugs & Features
** Documentation broken links, and improve Designer tutorials.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
** PYSIDE-1609 findChild fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
** PYSIDE-1370 QSharedMemory fixed
** 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
** PYSIDE-131 Translations issues fixed (with the problem that we don't have lupdate support on PySide6)
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
** QtSensors issues on the CI due to update solved.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
* Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy Support still on going.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
** Adding more missing classes.
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
** Analysing deployment scenario for PySide applications.
** [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.


====24. June 2021====
===2. May 2024===
* Feedback from Akademy 2021 sessions
** Tutorials on the Designer process, and other process that might be simple for Qt users, but unknown for Python users.
** More examples on the QML - Python interaction.
** Improve documentation
** Qt Creator support
** Template tool
* Release and Infra
** 6.1.2 coming next week.
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-131 in progress, related to translation with automatic language tools.
* Features
** Trying to address issues related to PyPy (type declaration, and extension structure)
** Add new qml functions (update missing binding)
** Multimedia changes
** WebEngine is partially in the repo.


====17. June 2021====
* General
* Release and Infra
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
** New Debug VM setup ready to test
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
** Testing new architecture to handle universal binaries on M1 machines
* Infra & Releases
* Bugs
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1599 PYSIDE-1599] Issue with .pyi files on the CI (to test them) is now fixed, considering wrong signatures that we had and didn't detect.
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
** Seems like there is something going on with the --quiet options and log levels.
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
** Cleaning old bugs that were invalid
* Bugs & Features
* Feature
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
** Qt6 API adaption
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
** There are some corner cases with pathlib that need to be documented and fixed.
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
** Changes to rely on qtpath instead of qmake (from qt6 changes)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
** Testing aarch64 and M1 builds
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676] - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
** BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
*** Issue might require special hw
** Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
*** An internal presentation is being prepared.
** Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
** macOS cross compilation for android being tried


====10. June 2021====
* Release and Infra
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5 rescheduled for next week.
** Trying to build 6.2, figuring differences between CentOS and RH (ldd issues)
** Discussion to improve commercial offering installation.
* Bugs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1593 pyi issue (and improvement too)
** Fixing issues related to --/++ operators
* Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499 pathlib support (ready for review)
** Adding many missing classes, enums, etc.
** Adapting QtMultimedia new module and API
** Discussion on Handling native interfaces.
* Events
** Akademy participation (external talk)
** Qt Contributor Summit https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributors_Summit_2021_-_Program


====03. June 2021====
===25. April 2024===
* Release and Infra
* General
** Qt 6.1.1 scheduled for Friday (might be release next week)
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
** Commercial LTS 5.15.5 scheduled for the 10th.
* Infra & Releases
** Research on M1 build on the CI
** Preparing 6.7.1
*** Locally it works: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1535
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
*** Wheels might be affect (universal binaries are too large)
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
** Debug build on Windows to be tested.
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
** The possibility of releasing Docker images is being addressed
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs
** Added a number of new classes
** Smaller bugs (PYSIDE-1584, PYSIDE-1585 not reproduceable)
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
** Discussion finished https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1567
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
** Issues with XML interface to Python https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1588
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
** Class properties fix and refined code.
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
** Multi-inheritance still in progress.
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
* Features
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
** Small cleanups and fixes
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Added more API (PYSIDE-1586) for qtbase for starters
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
** Working on native interfaces (PYSIDE-1568)
** Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** pathlib support https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
** Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
*** File system paths in Qt are supported
** QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
** Discussion on new repo structure.
*** Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
*** Plan to improve exceptions handling


====27. May 2021====
===18. April 2024===


* Release and Infra
* General
** 5.15.5 LTS (Commercial only) release planned.
** Bug fixing week
** 6.1.1 to be release soon.
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
** Debug build on Windows (using python_d.exe and pass '--debug' when building, and remove the '--limited-api=yes')
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
** Research: M1 build CI testing
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
* Features
* Infra & Releases
** Improvements to the general pyi generator, and features.
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
** pathlib compatibility still in progress
** 6.5.6 release planned
** Shiboken documentation: unused code
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
* Bugs
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
** Multiple inheritance issues, when using explicit and implicit calls to parent constructors (super() vs Class)
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1563 (QImage related)
* Bugs & Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1573 (QML related)
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
* Changelog policy
** QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
** [Changelog] This class will act like..., to be used for important changes.
** PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
* Research
** PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
** performance tests
** PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
** Tool: report new classes per Qt versions.
*** first approach made things less effective
** Missing Qt API
*** The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
** new structure cmake/build
*** 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.


====20. May 2021====
===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.


* 6.2 considerations (checking on newly added modules, examples, tests)
===4. April 2024===
* Added textedit example
* General
* Features
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
** PYSIDE-1415 Make `generate_pyi.py` usable for any binding - checked in
* Infra & Releases
** PYSIDE-1019 __feature__: Support generation of modified .pyi files - done, needs cleanup
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
* Bugs
** Preparing for 6.7.0
** PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
* Bugs & Features
*** working patch written but wrong, the problem is much harder since we need to call __init__ along the MRO and handle keyword args.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** PYSIDE-229 Signal disconnect fails in multiple inheritance situation
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
*** postponed until the above problem is solved since it voids all debugging done
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums


====13. May 2021====
===28. March 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints


* No meeting due to holiday
===21. March 2024===
* Bugs
* General
** PYSIDE-1566 Designer plugins don't work on macOS - solved & checked in
** Ideas to improve the module.
** PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
*** Problem isolated, in progress (needs quite some change)
* Infra & Releases
** - Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
* Features
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415 waiting for check-in
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
** - PYSIDE-1436 Support Python 3.10 - some progress
* Bugs & Features
** - pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
** - PyPy compatibility stalled - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** 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.


====06. May 2021====
===14. March 2024===
* Infra & Release
* General
** 6.1 postponed for next Thursday
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
*** Reverting NumPy integration (made it experimental feature, due to problem with shared library)
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
*** Qt Designer Plugin (not compatible with Limited API)
* Infra & Releases
*** Update changelog
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
*** Cherry pick exec related changes.
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
*** oss/6.1 tqtc/6.1 (to be created)
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
* Bugs
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
** PYSIDE-1404 improvements
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
** Property docs - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1513
* Bugs & Features
** __feature__ at the end - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1548
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
* Features
** Lazy initialization got merged
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415
*** New improvements might land in future versions
** pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
** PyPy compatibility in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
** Discussion on keyword-support arguments in shiboken - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1555
** Using new icons on the examples
** Possible adoption of "/" in signatures.
** 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


====29. April 2021====
===07. March 2024===
* Infra & Release
* General
** Expected 6.0.4, 6.1, and 5.15.4(LTS) for next week.
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
** Creating 6.1 soon
* Infra & Releases
*** Enable macOS testing
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
*** Property documentation
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
*** Adding glibc version to linux wheel
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
* Bugs
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
** Fixing documentation issues
* Bugs & Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1425
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
** New discoveries with https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229 not so simple (memory related)
** all deployment fixes are in.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1264 still pending.
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
* Features
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
** Refactoring in general (import *) stuff.
** Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
** Cleaning and updating tests and examples
** two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
** Discussion on https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1380
** 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.


====22. April 2021====
===29. February 2024===
* Infra & Release
** 6.0.4 release was postponed, but we are on time.
** 6.1 is on track.
*** wheel name to support more than 1 binary for linux.
** Starting to try the new CI macOS machines.
* Bugs
** Minor fixes
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1409
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229
* Features
** Numpy QtChart compatibility
** PyPy compatibility https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** Looking into other module compatibilities
** Improve documentation for Property use in QML
** Improve the generate_pyi script


====15. April 2021====
* 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


* Infrastructure
===22. February 2024===
** Setting on track the content of OSS and commercial wheels.
* General
** Qt addons distribution will change in 6.1 and 6.2, so we need to keep an eye on that.
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
** New macOS machines for the CI
* Infra & Releases
* Documentation update process to be improved.
** 6.6.2 was released!
* Bugs
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
** There were some problems with the default encoding and the doc build process (python version related)
* Bugs & Features
** 1529 fixed, and other issues (QPointF), 1514 QPainter, 1503 QCharts.
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
* Features
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** Improving examples to use new features and refreshing the code base.
** 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.
** Performance examples to compare C++ and Python
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
** Reformatting some code base to use f-strings and warning
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
** New tutorials in progress based on Model View
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
** Internal Qt Hackathon
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
*** Focused on integration with matplotlib (Performance discussion)
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
*** Scripting C++ applications.
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.


====08. April 2021====
===15. February 2024===
* No meeting


====01. April 2021====
* 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.


* Deployment story
** Add new test for Nuitka (on macOS)
** Update the tutorials, since PyInstaller and cx_Freeze seems to be partially working on Qt6.
** Higher versions from macOS are more restrictive for the bundles that are generated. This leads to new breakage.
* Preparation for 6.0.3 release
* Bug
** PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka compile methods/functions is done
** PYSIDE-1338 Hiding confusing feature frame entries
** Wheel Tester to be improved.
* Features
** pathlib features still in progress.
** Porting more examples to snake_case
** Check snippets_translator tool.
** Make generate_pyi as a generic tool to be merged.


====25. March 2021====
===8. February 2024===


* Infra
* General
** Evaluation to change the wheel names to specify glibc version for 6.1
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
** CI issues still with macOS
* Infra & Releases
* Features
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
** Refactoring examples (snake_case)
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
** Updating deployment docs.
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
** PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka, support for compiled functions.
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1415 make the generate_pyi more general
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
** PYSIDE-1449 pathlib compatibility
** singleShot patches merged
** Improvements on the documentation, tutorials, and examples.
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
** Enabling snippet translator into the doc building process.
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
* Bugs
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.
** Fix crash from the new Network components.
** Triage and some other fixes.
** PYSIDE-1502 Compiling pyside2 with build target does not result in PySide2 `support` module being installed
** PYSIDE-1524 warning related to sprintf
** PYSIDE-1019 1038 hidden imports, properties, other fixes.
** There seems to be some problems with PyInstaller on macOS


====18. March 2021====
===1. February 2024===


* Infra
* General
** CI has been showing some issues. 12h timeouts for macOS.
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
** Soon to have 6.1 branch
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
** Synchronization of the commercial repository with latest Qt.
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
* Features
* Infra & Releases
** Improving commercial tools.
** no unity build discussion and checks
** Finding issues and getting ideas to improve the docs.
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
** Using new qttools directory
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
** Add option to not copy qt tools to the wheel when building.
* Bugs & Features
** pathlib compatibility patch still on-going
** 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.
** improvements to the documentation, adding 'doc' directory to each example.
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
** OpenGLFunctions issues (mailing list announcement)
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
** PYSIDE-1520 Union types
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
** PYSIDE-1514 Shiboken module movement patches had some issues, which will be fixed
** General documentation adjustments
** PYSIDE-1502 Working on improving the __feature__ option to make them safer in diff installation errors.  
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
** PYSIDE-1019 feature import problem (found in PYSIDE-1338) waiting for review
** 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


====11. March 2021====


* Infra
===25. January 2024===
** 6.0.2 is out
** 5.15.3 still pending
** Trying to update dependencies for 6.1 (modules)
** auditwheel (research, optional)
** COIN seems to be acting weird, but generally.
* Features
** cleanup snippets and general things in shiboken
** license changes for LTS
** Adding clarifications to the docs.
** Discussion on the proper build processes.
* Bugs
** 1438 Visualization issue
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1516
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1514 shiboken renaming causes an issue for copying files to the wheel.
** Show the __feature__ issues on the traceback.


====5. March 2021====
* 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
*** 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.


*General Topics
===18. January 2024===
**6.0.2 release preparations
***Final fix for license checking instructions
***OSS RC1 wheels should be available for testing later today
***Merge from pyside-setup/6.0 into tqtc-pyside-setup/6.0 is pending that final fix
**Bugs
*** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1438 PYSIDE-1438] Crash in Qt DataVisualisation adressed
*** Bug triage, moved several bugs over to Qt
**Features
*** Cleanup and improvement of injected code snippets in PySide6
*** Improvements in error handling


====25. February 2021====
* 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


*General Topics
===11. January 2024===
**Commercial 5.15.3 release next week.
**6.0.2 release next week.
*Infra updates
**Keep an eye on the next Python releases.
*Features
**Documentation for the designer plugin
**shiboken: c++ using directive
**pathlib compatibility support discussion (initial implementation was discarded)
***Trying to discover all the methods that are related to paths.
*Bugs
**cx_Freeze issues in 6.0.0/1


====18. February 2021====
* General
** Hackathon at TQtC
** CI process presentation
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
* Bugs & Features
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
** macOS request permission API work continues.
** 6.7 adaptions patches
** M2M fixes on the current impl
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
** favicon issue with out docs
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
** Improvements for the doc build process


*General Topics
===04.January 2024===
**Commercial LTS 5.15.3 release.
* General
**DeveloperWeek conference talk by Corey: will mention Qt for Python.
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
*Infra Update
** New OKR organization
**TBD: Need of a new branch in qt5.git for the lts qt for python release.
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
*Features
** PyPy is now on 3.10
**pathlib.Path (soon to be ready) and fspath support (difficult) in pyside
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
**__feature__ documentation
* Infra & Releases
**Designer patches are done (we still need docs)
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
**documentation generation fixes.
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
**shiboken: general refactoring (constructors)
** Android [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)
**doc: examples code in tabs
** Xcode issues with a new M3
**doc: new ideas for tutorials and vocabulary.
** 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.


====11. February 2021====
==2023==


*General topics
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]
**Issues with Pick-to: 5.15
**Discussion about the usage of pathlib
**Reduce linux wheel size by not including .debug files.
*Infra update
**Timeouts in RHEL
**Preparing addons for 6.1
*Bugs
**Fixing many issues related to sphinx, and documentation in general.
*Features
**Moving the internal shiboken6.shiboken6.Shiboken to shiboken6.Shiboken 1497
**Will be finish today (Documentation about the __feature__ options) PYSIDE-1481
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 usage of constructor properties when enabling true_property
**Migration to pathlib in our code, and add support for fspath in our API, https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
**Examples gallery embedded into the doc building process.
**Designer patch ready for review.
**Commercial tools on-going (icons discussion)
**(in progress) Error handling in shiboken


====4. February 2021====
==2022==


*General topics
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]
**6.0.1 release is on its way (the wheels will include the Qt3D modules and the ImageFormat plugins, which were missing in 6.0.0)
**Changelog structure in Qt vs what we have now
**Zombie 5.15 patches to be re-generated or cherry-picked to lts-5.15
*Infra update
**Maintenance update went better.
**COIN update is coming next week.
*Bugs
**(almost done) Shiboken internal namespace renaming.
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1478
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1487
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481
*Features
**M2M Protocols modules rebase
**Shiboken UI rebase
**Custom Widget designer compatibility
**Snippet converter tool


====28. January 2021====
==2021==
 
*Infra update
**'dev' we are missing tests on macOS (in progress). Qt5 bin on macOS 11, and running test on 10.15/13
**trying to build pyside on a custom Qt (with plugins/addons) oss and commercial
*Bugs
**Due to the shiboken module naming issue
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481 __feature__ documentation
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476 PySide Property declaration creates properties with the setter name of the function
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 constructors info in the stubs (other issues appeared)
***All the future fix related to stubs rely on the change
***there might be some issues with relying only on the install dir and not build.
*Features
**refactoring shiboken
**statmachine module rebirth
**designer patches to include custom widgets.
**enabling clang_options on shiboken
*Branching story
**lts-5.15 issues
***Fix pyside-setup/5.15 and do all the merges     (done)                                        
***Merge pyside-setup/5.15 into tqtc-pyside-setup/5.15    (done)                                        
***Create tqtc-pyside-setup/lts-5.15 from pyside-setup/5.15
***Close pyside-setup/5.15 Make the Pick-to bot merge from Pick-to: 5.15 -> tqtc/lts-5.15
**tqtc
***create tqtc/dev from oss/dev
***move manually the patches that added things for the commercial offering into tqtc/dev (shiboken ui, m2m protocols modules)
**Process to fix bugs
***push to oss/dev Pickt-to: 5.15 (this will go to lts-5.15)
***before release we push oss/dev to tqtc/dev
 
====21. January 2021====
 
*Infra update
**'dev' branch seems to be the only broken (maybe 5.15)
**Provisioning is affected
**need to create lts-5.15 branch for commercial releases
**WinRT is broken (at a Qt/CI level)
*Bug fixes
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1458 Discussion about macOS symlinks
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481 __feature__ documentation
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476 PySide Property declaration creates properties with the setter name of the function
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 constructors info in the stubs (other issues appeared)
*Features
**Rename internal shiboken import: 'from shiboken6 import shiboken6 as Shiboken' -> 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken'
***Both options in 6.1,
***Only 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken' from 6.2 on.
**Designer plugin: set environment in the launcher script (instead of the rpath option)
**Removing extra QtCharts namespace (it  was removed in Qt) -> QtDataVisualization?
***Externals helping the migration process.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1477 clang options for shiboken cross build
*Starting work on new tutorials and applications (Data Science and visualization)
 
====14. January 2021====
 
*Qt Bug fixing week
*Infra update
**Missing 5.15 merge to tqtc
*Bug fixes
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1470 fixed
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 in progress
*Features
**Contacting people at other IDEs groups to provide a better PySide support. (to create a user story)
**NumPy support to accept numpy.array as 'some' Qt types
**Designer plugin works continues (needs libshiboken) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1455
*Webinar ideas
**__feature__ and Python properties
**Interaction with other modules
 
====7. January 2021====


*Infra update
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2021]]
**libclang install fixes (issues related to 6.0 and 10.0)
***from the MSVC update, we require 10.0 for 5.15 and 6.0
*Bug fixes
**PYSIDE-1447 qapp flag
**PYSIDE-1463 snake_case init issue
**PYSIDE-1470 shiboken delete qapp
**PYSIDE-79 reopened due to a leak introduced by the fix to PYSIDE-68
*Features
**Possible research PYSIDE-163
**Refactoring shiboken
**PYSIDE-1455 designer plugin
**Snippets translators
**Deployment story for PySide6


==2020==
==2020==

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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