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==2023==


===12. October 2023===
==2024==


=== 10. October 2024===
* General
* General
** Overview release process.
** PyConES talk was a succeed! Thanks Adrian
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6 release has been facing some difficulties, two major bugs were found and fixes.
*** Currently there is a refcount issue that made wheels not-usable in 3.12
** 6.2.10 Commercial LTS will be release in the following days.
** qtpip has been having many issues on the CI (but locally works)
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2480 PYSIDE-2480] linker error was fixed
** Static code analysis issues on source and generated code were fixed
** Started a refactor of the QML registration code
** Mock based tests for Android deployment revealed bugs. Fixed them.
** PYSIDE-2485 - Crash in QLocale::bcp47Name. Under Investigation.
** Fixed a bug with QtAsyncio where closing a program with the close button would throw ugly errors.


===5. October 2023===
=== 3. October 2024===
* General
* General
** Team member on his way to PyCon Spain 2023 https://charlas.2023.es.pycon.org/pycones-2023/talk/NCJBTE/
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.3 is being released today.
** Commercial LTS 6.2.10 release to be prepared
** Team alignment on the release of Maintenance Tool/Account/qtpip/aarch64
** Bump CI configuration to drop 3.7, due to 6.6 being 3.8+
** Static qtpip build issues on-going
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Fix chart example issue
** Continue research on Python scripting on C++
** PYSIDE-2462 Smart pointer fix
** PYSIDE-2230 Python 3.12 support issue for unicode, and other findings for macOS
** PYSIDE-2080 Linking error was fixed
** Qt 6.7 adapting the API on dev
** 3.12 pending issues are being investigated
*** tp_dict field was modified (no longer guarantee to exist) moved to an interpreter state for some static types.
*** [https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/type.html?highlight=pytype_getdict#c.PyType_GetDict PyType_GetDict] was introduced, and it's not Stable API (on Windows is not exposed)
*** Risky status for to the Limited API (without a tp_dict access) -> an emulator was written, PepType_GetDict, so user types the tp_dict is still around. The rule is that if tp_dict is 0, we create a new one.
*** Enum problems were found a well, but they are now fixed.
** Two new examples adapted for Android (and Python)
** General fixes related to android-deployment of Python applications.
** Starting the request permission API research on macOS


===28. September 2023===
=== 26. September 2024===
 
* General
* General
** OKRs updates
** Python Scripting: We might need to figure out ownership in order to embed into other C++ apps.
** Doc update: 6.6 was branched so the snapshots are updated (needs check)
** 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.
** Qt Academy: Python course in the making.
** Intern starting on Oct 1st
** Qt Creator
*** Welcome screen doesn't have any Python examples.
*** API docs are missing and example docs as well.
** Windows 11 added a new feature (Dev Drive) on the FS that might improve compile times.
** GNU Health Con 2023 participation.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.3 wheels are ready to be tested. Available next week.
** Preparing 6.7.3 (waiting for qt release)
** 6.2.10 Commercial LTS in preparation, and re-scheduled.
** Commercial LTS 6.5.7 to be released soon (changelog pending to be merged)
** Team alignment on the release of Maintenance Tool/Account/qtpip
** qtpip 0.1.3 to be released soon.
** aarch64 wheels discussion on distribution
** Bump CI configuration to drop 3.7, due to 6.6 being 3.8+
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Preparation of PyConES presentation: https://charlas.2023.es.pycon.org/pycones-2023/talk/NCJBTE/
** Updating and completing documentation
** Async: Issue with executors, that have sync tasks. 3.11 has a special treatment.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2870 PYSIDE-2870] fixed (QStateMachine.postEvent causes a crash)
** Directory structure in projects needs some rules people can follow.
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
** PYSIDE-2462: New report regarding shiboken advanced usage.
** 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
** Fixing integrations and the cherry pick bot (auto pick was misbehave for pyside-setup) - still in discussion
** qtpip adaptation for newer pip versions + commercial wheel preference over lts wheels
** Python 3.12 still have some issues for the Feature option of the PyTypeObject
** Finance Manager Tutorial - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592131
** Code analysis on pyside-setup: missing move copy constructors.
** Type hints: Analysis for multi-signature problem (overloads). 600 errors -> 46 ! (from mypy)
** Fixed a couple of QML tests crashes
*** override: inheritance issue with specific fields
** Testing android deployment tool (revamping some examples, like multimedia, permission, etc)
*** overload/overlap: diff return types
*** some dunder methods might need special treatment.


===21. September 2023===
=== 19. September 2024===


*General
* General
**Python 3.12.0rc3 is out, final release scheduled for October 2
** Promoting the idea of writing Python plugins for Qt/C++ interfaces.
*Infra & Releases
*** we most probably rely on libshiboken for having consistency in the PythonScripting module and PySide
**6.6 branched
** Participation in Meeting C++
**6.5.3 preparations
** PyCon Sweden participation
*Bugs & Features
* Infra & Releases
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2465 PYSIDE-2465] (3.11.5 test fail)
** 6.2.13 Commercial LTS was released
**Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2462 PYSIDE-2462] (smart pointer features)
** qtpip update to be release in order to fix a few wheel names issues.
**Refactored options parsing of shiboken
** Preparing for 6.8.0, and 6.7.3
**Fixed clang-tidy static analysis issues
** PySide6_DS 4.6 by the end of September
**Android permissions API: Adapt more C++ examples
* Bugs & Features
**Couple more cleanups and additions to pyside6-android-deploy
** PYSIDE-2839 type hints for custom signals
**More manual testing of pyside6-android-deploy. Need to write more integration (mocks) for Android deployment.
** PYSIDE-2846 Fixing a lot of type errors from examples and tests
**Final cleanup and resolving tests for python-for-android Qt for Python patch
*** Currently on one of the last big issues related to overloads, optional unions, false-positives
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2468 PYSIDE-2468] -requestPermission() on macOS. Tricky scenario similar to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2419 PYSIDE-2419]
** 6.7.3, 6.8.0 changelogs
**asyncio's requirement to use ThreadPoolExecutor keeps screwing us over, but resolution close
** 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


===14. September 2023===
=== 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.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 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.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2859 PYSIDE-2859] Implemented QAbstractItemModel::multiData/QModelRoleDataSpan
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2861 PYSIDE-2861] Fixed pyside6-project with relative paths for lupdate
** Fixed some compiler warnings/clang-tidy


*Infra & Releases
=== 05. September 2024===
**Testing and fixing qtpip for commercial wheels
* General
*Bugs & Features
** Team mostly at QtCS
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2460 PYSIDE-2460] Work on some OpenGL issues, updated hellogl2 example
* Infra & Releases
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2461 PYSIDE-2461] Build system for cross build fixes
** Starting to switch to 6.8
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2463 PYSIDE-2463] Fixed some type hints
* Bugs & Features
**Android auto sdk and nkd download merged.
** Fixed a potential memory corruption in enum converter generation
**Requestpermission API and all android changes set for 6.6 merged. Will write tests in the meantime and do some manual testing with deploying apps.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2851 PYSIDE-2851] Tricky bug with @Slot(name=) no working. Still investigating.
**patchelf removal for Qfp binaries merged.
** 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


===07. September 2023===
=== 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


*General
=== 22. August 2024===
**Majority of the team on holiday
* General
*Infra & Releases
** Bug fixing week
**Preparing 6.2.10, 6.5.3, 6.6.0
** uv release 0.3.0 https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging
*Bugs & Features
** Tag strings https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-750-tag-strings-for-writing-domain-specific-languages/60408
**PYSIDE-2393 pytest problem with feature is fixed
** discussion related to spy
**PYSIDE-2428 feature problem caused long search, has to be fixed in matplotlib
* Infra & Releases
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2444 PYSIDE-2444] QState.assignProperty - incorrect type annotation
** 6.2 issue with ".commercial" tag on the wheels
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2454 PYSIDE-2454] Default argument is not used for containers
** dev will switch to 6.8.0 when the branch is ready.
**Added some number protocol slots [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2446 PYSIDE-2446]
* Bugs & Features
**Research on submodules [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2447 PYSIDE-2447]
** PYSIDE-2786 Finished the 3.10 patch to support the new syntax for the pyi files.
**qtpip for commercial wheels polishing touches
** Enabling a process to test pyi with mypy
** Flatpak documentation was merged
** Typing issue related to QByteArray.fromRawData
** QtDS integration continues
**  


===31. August 2023===
=== 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


*General
=== 8. August 2024===
**Python 3.11.5 released
* General
**PyCon Spain talk was accepted - Adrian giving a talk for the new Async story, in October.
** Talk accepted for KDE Akademy: "Pythonizing Qt"
**People on leave in September
** Qt Contributor summit session to work with people from the Squish team.
**FF on Qt for Python overview
** An intern will most probably join the team.
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
**Planning 6.6 for the last days of September
** PySide6_DS will remain being available only for Windows/Linux x86_64 and macOS universal, no aarch64 for Linux
***Maintenance Tool update for qt for python
** Research continues on Windows arm64
***Features until 12.09
* Bugs & Features
****Feature issues + multiple inheritance
** PYSIDE-2384 Enum as Sequences issues on Python 3.11
****Async story needs some testing
** Signal Manager massive refactoring
****Android patches (new modules, plugins, permissions, etc)
** qmlimportscanner new option to exclude directories (for our tooling)
****qtpip for commercial wheels
** PYSIDE-2833 loadFromModule should be used for QML projects
****new QtCreator templates?
** Fixes in the documentation
**6.2.10 Commercial LTS and 6.5.3
** 6.8 adaption
*Bugs & Features
** Create the KDE documentation for using the PySide BaseApp for Flatpak (on review)
**Lazy imports still in progress, might be available for 6.7
** 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.
**QmlSingleton crash was fixed
** Continue fixing pyi issues
**JIRA was cleaned a bit, many invalid issues
** Discussion on the next steps on the QtDS integration
**Signal signatures were adjusted
**PYSIDE-748 additional parameter metamethod (old issue)
**QDataStream read/write data accepting bytes too
**New CMake Qt API has lots of features for qml, resources, etc which might not be too compatible with Qt for Python.
**PYSIDE-2429 macOS deployment min version fixed
**patchelf removal is ready to merge (motivated by android research)
**android: permission API, need some extra testing. Soon ready for review.
**QIODevice buffer object issue was fixed, and is waiting for review (motivated by the async story)
**qtpip development continues.


===24. August 2023===
=== 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


*General
=== 25. July 2024===
**New board on JIRA to reflect our work clearly https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=262&view=planning.nodetail&issueLimit=100
* General
**Qt Meetups are starting to popup in Berlin and other countries! we might join some of them.
** Plan with some brainstorming ideas from last session.
**Discussions around improving the Qt Creator experience and UI creation in general.
* Infra & Releases
**There has been some motivation from Qt/C++ to use more CMake in projects (like for resources), which is negatively affecting the Python projects, due to the lack of CMake in the Python projects.
** tqtc/dev branch still broken. Waiting for Finland to come back from vacation :D
*Infra & Releases
** DS wheels still need to be tested
**Commercial LTS 5.15.15 to be released soon.
* Bugs & Features
**6.5.3 scheduled for the first week of September
** arm64 shiboken generator not properly working (libclang)
*Bugs & Features
** 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.
**QIODevice::read(char*, qint64) functions are removed, but they are useful for the asyncio story. Discussion on if it's worth exposing them.
** scikit-build research
**More changes related to QtAsyncIO are ready for review.
** signature compression research: dealing with some last details.
**PYSIDE-2417 overflow issue was fixed
*** fullname field, and compression of the strings.
**[ot] i18n in the Qt framework
** no-gil research will re-start next month, in order to address the new changes from cpython
**PYSIDE-2418 connection issue with python overloads
** Type hints issues being worked out.
**6.6 documentation has some issues due to the QtGraph new module
**PYSIDE-2423 connecting signals to python callable doesn't properly work - trying to find a proper solution
**PYSIDE-2424 Installing shiboken in a non-standard way discussion - it might not be properly fixed.
**Next Wednesday 10am: session about Shiboken + QtScrypt status
**PYSIDE-2419 locale issue on macOS due to the Info.plist that python includes that overrides the QLocale settings. A bug report was filed upstream, and a workaround is suggested.
**PYSIDE-2421 webengine issue was discussed, it's an Qt/C++ chromium issue.
**CMake FindPython patches are still being worked out, the wrong interpreter is being found.
**patchelf removal is causing some issues with cross compilation.
**qtpip works continues.


===17. August 2023===


=== 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 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 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.


*Bugs & Features
=== 11. July 2024===
**Investigating on PyPySide MI segfault postponed but on To-Do list [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
* General
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] More Progress in Lazy Initialization
** Two members of the team at Europython
***the optional __getattr__ in module objects was successfully implemented (but is seldom used)
* Bugs & Features
***lazy init of Enums is probably no more needed, covered by the import scheme below
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
***most common cases like "from PySide6.QtWidgets import QLabel" supported by another __import__ override
*** An LZMA compressor has been written in Python and C++ with 4.5% win.
***Keep your fingers crossed, testing starts today
*** Reimplementation in C++ only is even easier. (when considered worth it)
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2419 PYSIDE-2419] QLocale::language() returns wrong on macOS.
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind implementation
***Caused by QLocale infrastructure which looks at Info.plist inside the Python interpreter macOS bundle.
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2803 PYSIDE-2803] - qmlimportscanner and Windows cmd line length limitation
***Working on a hack fix after consulting Tor Arne and Eddy.
** Refactoring and cleanup of the Signals/Slot handling code
**Pacthelf removal - cross compilation breaks. Working on a fix.
** Added missing libraries for the QtMultiMedia ffmpeg plugin on macOS
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2421 PYSIDE-2421] - QWebEngineView.print() - rerouted to Qt
***But, might requires an ownership fix in Shiboken once [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-116052 QTBUG-116052] is resolved
**Research - use the .debug files provided by the Qt installer to debug from VSCode.
***Saves time from not building Qt everytime
***Still ongoing
**QtAsyncio: Implementation of asyncio.Server (one open question remains - asyncio API and Qt API don't always match as cleanly as desirable).


===10. August 2023===
===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
** LTS Open Source release is out for 6.2.9 (sources)
** QtDS packages are generated now in the CI
** Improvements in https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/
* 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


*General
===27. June 2024===
**
*Infra & Releases
**
*Bugs & Features
**Patchelf removal only partially possible because of using patchelf on prebuilt Qt binaries.
***For Qfp binaries patchelf removal under review. MacOS issue being fixed. This is needed for Android.
**Shiboken module cmake installation bug fixed.
**Progressing with Android C++ to Python callback, now that Qfp binaries could be loaded on startup.
**Further investigating on PyPySide MI segfault [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] Progress in Lazy Initialization
***the new dual registration is done and builds the base for concrete lazy init
***lazy init of Enums postponed because
***an undocumented optional __getattr__ in module objects makes it much easier to lazy-load whole classes, first.


===3. August 2023===
* 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.


*General
===20. June 2024===
**New reports board
**QtCreator support
**Integration cycle on gerrit overview
*Infra & Releases
**CI down next Monday for a few hours
**First tests on linux arm64
**Preparing 5.15.15 Commercial LTS
**qtpip first trials on the CI
*Bugs & Features
**Async research continues, new things are being discovered while is being developed
***Implementing a few new things for improving the support
***Initial patch got merged, but a few others are in the making
**Team contributing to QtAcademy
**SQL queries issues, inconsistencies in the API were fixed
**Build with ninja had some problems regarding mixing stdout and stderr
**Testing initial support for rvalues
**2272 fixing signatures for some qmlRegister* functions
**Examples: new mediaplayer was fully ported
**Example gallery scans now a doc directory for images
**Some other multimedia examples are pending for review
**Team contributing to Qt translations
**Adjusting the deployment tool, and fixing issues with pyenv, and upgrading nuitka
**CMake: adjusting the files to use the new API for finding python, reducing our cmake files
***Considering also the removal of patchelf, and follow the cmake approach
**Lazy initialization of enums is showing a good improvement on the performance


===27. July 2023===
* 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.


*General
**Shyam wrote trip report to Europython
**Some vacations starting soon for some team members
**Got some cool t-shirts (internal only so far) - Is there interest for merch?
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.2 released
**Some LTS releases soon as well
**Issues on the CI (RHEL8.6) and python interpreter.
**Formalization of release besides wheels on PyPI and account.qt.io
**Soon to enable CI on qtpip
*Bugs & Features
**[ext] designer issue, translations
**PYSIDE-2402 QtHttpServer module was missing on Windows
**QSql methods were un-deprecated (module seems to need more love)
**Port QtGraph example
**AsyncIO module: there is a second change in preparation
**Finally the android issue we had was solved. It seems that patchelf was breaking our binaries, and now we are using a cmake approach instead.
**Enable unity builds for android
**Nuitka will be pinned to a recent version
**PYSIDE-2404 lazy loader research
*Interesting projects we checked
**https://github.com/larryhastings/appeal
**Stable Diffusion
**https://docs.hpyproject.org/en/latest/quickstart.html
**https://github.com/rui314/mold


===20. July 2023===
===13. June 2024===


*General
* General
**Two team members @ Europython 2023
** 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.
*Infra & 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.
*Bugs & Features
*** Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
**Implementing transports and protocols of asyncio API
** Qt Group is sponsoring EuroPython 2024: and we will give a talk!
**Lazy importer still under development. Ongoings:
* Infra & Releases
***necessary to register all types without creating them
** 6.7.2 packages are ready to be released.
***turning all PyTypeObject into PyTypeObject valued functions
** Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
***quite hard because deeply buried in the generated code
** Starting process to test windows arm64 (discussion around libclang)
** Nightly builds:
*** Possible solution for linux and macOS arm64 android builds.
*** Maybe also for non-unity builds? it has been failing in some corner cases.
*** We could have dev-android branch so we don't block the normal dev development.
*** nightly builds merge automatically if everything passes.
*** PyPy integrations might join a similar configuration as well.
* Bugs & Features
** Android wheels from macOS host through coin successful. Assembling the final patch. Coin still running tests for an Android build and error-ing still needs to be resolved.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2702 PYSIDE-2702] - Flatpak base app implementation started.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2781 PYSIDE-2781] - pyside6-deploy failure investigation ongoing. Could be a Nuitka issue. User using the latest Nuitka.
** Working on improve our typing implementations.
** QtAsyncio: internal presentation including the theory behind and some live examples.
** Lazy load: disabled for PyPy, fixing some shiboken-tests
** QtScrypt: development continues
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2780 PYSIDE-2780] refcount bug in the lazy import fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] 3.13 compatibility patches are ready, nogil under development
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] reduction of binary sizes under investigation, estimating the achievable reduction


===13. July 2023===
===06. June 2024===


*General
* General
**CI is not behaving, so be cautious
** Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
**3.12 beta 4 was released
** PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
**Next week some people are going to Europython
** Must read https://peps.python.org/pep-0741/
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
**6.5.2 still in progress, waiting to have the RC wheels
** Some issues with the macOS CI units.
*Bugs & Features
** Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
**Qt Akademy to prepare a Qt for Python course
** qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
**Examples: we might adapt our gallery to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115174
** 6.5.6 commercial LTS was released.
**Android: callback issue from C++ to Python, some ideas are around, but the problem persists.
** 6.7.2 release will happen soon (due to an issue with designer)
***Might be related to the usage of patchelf.
** 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
**Research on Lazy loader continues
* Bugs & Features
***Some ideas are behaving well at the moment, but still being tested.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2622 - Standalone mode for Deployment as per many requests from users
***We might need to discover some classes that we cannot initialize lazily (manual code injection, need init before usage)
** Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
**We need some reviews for the eventloop patch (asyncio)
** 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)
**An enum class with an issue for stubs.
** Patches ready for updating python syntax to drop typing.Optional (and use | instead) that will go in once we drop 3.9
**qtpip work continues
** Preparing presentation and improvements to QtAsyncio
**Some good-first-issue are planned for the project, so more contributors can join us!
** 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


===6. July 2023===
===30. May 2024===


*General
* General
**PySide 6.6 will support Python 3.8+
** PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
**Python 3.12 support will be back-ported to 6.5 only, and not 6.2
** Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 commercial lts was released yesterday.
** Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
**6.5.2 RC wheels to be tested.
** PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
**5.15 open commercial lts tags are in the pyside/pyside-setup repo.
** Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
**qtpip configuration file being improved and updated
** qtpip is planned to support aarch64
**ARM CI host configuration continues
** 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
*Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
**Removal of old enums was finished
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2766 PYSIDE-2766] - Android wheels from macOS successful. Patches for review.
**Starting to work with lazy loaders for enums
*** Testing a sample app now + Modifying https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466
**First iteration of the asyncio support for the qt eventloop, tests are being prepared.
** 6.8 adaption is in progress [qtcharts is a bit unstable]
**PYSIDE-2370 cross compilation issue, might be related to host python, provided some options to try.
** c++20 research to improve libshiboken
**Android issue, we cannot get C++ callbacks to Python. Might be related to a python version incompatibility.
** qtscrypt progressing to support signal/slot
**Preparing a contribution back to python-to-android
** dev will support python 3.10+ [for 6.8+]
**Rewriting some enum code
** PYSIDE-2767 pyi improvements.
**Add mediaplayer demo in qtdoc for python (some issues with qml)
** lazy init for nested types disrupted the smart pointer support.
**Add document viewer qtdoc example
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2440 type hints optionallity is planned to be implemented.
**PYSIDE-2381 QSettings issue
**pyside6-lupdate issues related to encoding.
**qtpip works continues


===29. June 2023===
===23. May 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
** 5.15.17 LTS released
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2749 PYSIDE-2749] Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2758 PYSIDE-2758] Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2762 PYSIDE-2762] Fixed a type hinting bug
** Brushed up and fixed a few examples
** 6.8 Adaption
** Python 3.13 check
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
** pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.
** Close to macOS cross compilation


*General
===16. May 2024===
**Next maintenance break in August.
* General
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
**6.5.2 postponed until next week
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
**6.2.9 Commercial LTS soon to be released (a new qt build)
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
**5.15.15 LTS in the next weeks
* Bugs & Features
**ARM CI host still in progress
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
**Brainstorming some additional matrix testing infra for Python versions
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
**Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases (IFW ticket)
** 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
*Bugs & Features
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
**Research on scripting continues
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
**Designer related features/ QtCreator
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
**Memory leak related to REG is solved
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
**New icon theme for examples coming
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
**Some qdoc examples might be enabled for Python
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2620 PYSIDE-2620] - Adapting to 6.8
**Enum removal is still generating detail discussions
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2745 PYSIDE-2745] - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
***Two implementation versions are suggested.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] - Lazy Loading completed by supporting subtypes. This gives 8-9% more performance.
***The old ones were written in C++ so the startup time is a lot slower
** Support for Python 3.13 started - first compatibility before switching to disable-gil
***Lazy generator is helping a A LOT
** Possibilities explored to lazy load signatures or save space.
**Android dev build - unity had some complications
**Async event loop work, last issues were addressed.
***still some network io features are missing
**[Research] PySide components for QtDS needs to follow QtDS release cycle rather than Qt.


===2. May 2024===


===21. June 2023===
* General
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676] - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
** BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
*** Issue might require special hw
** Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
*** An internal presentation is being prepared.
** Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
** macOS cross compilation for android being tried


*General
**PyPI limit increase for PySide6-Addons
**PySide 6.6 might have support for Python 3.8+ (due to Python 3.7 EOL in a week)
**Python 3.12b3 is out - test!
**Qt Contributor Summit
***General session + maybe another one for specific topics.
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 is ready, but waiting for Qt/c++ release
**6.5.2 release date is next week.
**Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases
*Bugs & Features
**Android research: extra functionality is there, and working on bluetooth/permission integration with a device (example)
**PYSIDE-2364 Invalid syntax on a pyi file
**Continue with the old enum removal.
***Maybe delayed initialization to improve startup time.
**AsyncIO eventloop work continues
**Research for scripting continues
**6.6 adaptations
**Fix Enum issue with clang with invalid hex


===15. June 2023===
===25. April 2024===
* General
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.1
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
* Bugs & Features
** Added a number of new classes
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
** Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
** QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
*** Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
*** Plan to improve exceptions handling


*General
===18. April 2024===
**Going to EuroPython
**Participation in Qt Academy
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 LTS to be released
**NFS issues in the CI, being worked on.
**ARM host on CI experiencing some issues.
***Some preliminary wheels were generated in order to test.
***Might help the Android story, but this needs to be confirmed.
*Bugs & Features
**Async research revisited
***Testing eventloop wrapping
**Memory leak issue still needs to be fixed (hopefully for 6.5.2)
**Examples in Qt revamp
**Translations and fixes for 6.6
**Discussion about Enums implementation
**Scripting on C++ research continues
**PYSIDE-1735 removing old enums continues
**Android improvements in review
***Adding more modules
**QVariant enum change (temporary patch until Qt7)
**shiboken_generator research to make it publicly available (libclang dependency)


===8. June 2023===
* General
** 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.


*General
===11. April 2024===
**Python 3.11.4 released, 3.12.0beta2
* General
**PySide6-addons reaching the 10G limit on PyPI
** Bug fixing week.
*Infra & Releases
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
**6.5.1.1 released due to a regression (introduced by a mem leak fix)
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
**Maintenance Tool > wheels
** Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
***Special case for M2M protocols to be tested
** Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
**CI on arm64 continues (Linux and Windows)
** New epics with brainstorming ideas.
*Bugs & Features
* Infra & Releases
**Fixed some type-hint related issues PYSIDE-2357/PYSIDE-2331/PYSIDE-2340
** 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.
**Scripting research
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
**Qt pip tool has updated the configuration file and wheels to continue the work on the new tool
** QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
**QVariant PyEnum issue -> solution for review
** Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has  still some issues with the structure.
**Android work continues: improving the dependency detection
* Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-2335 unraisable is finally checked in (the current solution works, it could be improved but low prio -> xml definitions)
** Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
**PYSIDE-2354 type error due to the usage of Generic (related to 939) - related to cpython issue
** PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
**PYSIDE-1735 old enums removal started
** PYSIDE-2669 designer issue
**Example tunings
** PYSIDE-2675 Addressing the lazy import issues that were found in 6.7.0
**Bug fixing week
*** 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.


===1. Juni 2023===
===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
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums


*General
===28. March 2024===
**Europython - call for first time speakers (open to anyone)
* General
**Waiting until API review to move dev to 6.6
* Infra & Releases
**New Epic/User Stories policy
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
**Participating into Qt Academy
* Bugs & Features
*Infra & Releases
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
**6.5.1 released, a leak fix is causing issues with signal connections.
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
***Initially we thought it was purely functools.partial but there are other cases that are not working.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
***Testing alternative solutions, otherwise we revert
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
***In any case a 6.5.1.1 will be out soon
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints
**Need to test the new conf file for the commercial wheel install mechanism
**5.15 needs to skip libclang16
**Testing maintenance tool with a license without Qt for Automation (for wheel check)
**JIRA release versions are pending.
*Bugs & Features
**(External) Designer fonts issues
**PYSIDE-2347 metaobject tool missing types
**Scxml events missing connections.
**Scripting research (check report)
**Leak research continue
**Issue with new example state machine to be solved (event handling)
**PYSIDE-1930 PYSIDE-2239 QVariant Enum issue, the fix is out, but we need some tests.
**Finish the problem with unraisable exceptions
***Discussion on special cases with a run function
***Blocking functions are still an issue, because we cannot break
**PYSIDE-2354 typing.Generic issue with inheritance in progress
**PyTest research continues


===25. Mai 2023===
===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.


*General
===14. March 2024===
**QtWS - One talk accepted
* General
**Europython - One talk accepted
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
*Infra & Releases
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
**6.5.1 one issue was found, so release will be available once we merge the fix.
* Infra & Releases
**5.15.14 to be release soon.
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
**CI arm64 experiments continue
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
**Asking about M2M wheels on the maintenance tool, for 6.6
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
**Solving LTS issues of missing tags on public repo, might take some time.
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
*Bugs & Features
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
**Evaluating shiboken6_generator to be published on PyPi
* Bugs & Features
**Few small fixes around the project (release preparation, new features, small bugs, doc issues)
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
**QtScrypt experimental work continues
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
**Permission API added (motivated by the android support)
** Lazy initialization got merged
**Improvements for the android deployment.
*** New improvements might land in future versions
**Trying to fix an issue of getting Enums to Ints
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
**Delayed exceptions work continues, trying to fix some corner cases still.
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
**Starting to explore PEP 658
** Using new icons on the examples
**Research on PyTest compatibility
** Testing libclang 18
**[Designer] Fixing some issues, and warnings
** 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


===18. Mai 2023===
===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.


*Infra & Releases
===29. February 2024===
**6.5.1 Preparations
**5.15.14 Preparations
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2325 PYSIDE-2325] typesystem incomplete
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2328 PYSIDE-2328] Segmentation fault/access violation when connecting signal of temporary object
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2329 PYSIDE-2329] Signal connections with init kwargs
**Reverted temporarily the delayed exception patch, in order to not block the 6.5.1 release. This should be discussed at the next meeting
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 PYSIDE-2310]
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 PYSIDE-2321]


===11. Mai 2023===
* 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


*General
===22. February 2024===
**Python Users Berlin meetup talk today
* General
**Europython, QtWS
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
**Qt FF 02.06
* Infra & Releases
**Android team «ketchup»
** 6.6.2 was released!
**Example revamp update
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
***Quick examples needs to be ported to loadFromModule (Quick3D, QuickLocation, missing)
* Bugs & Features
*Infra & Releases
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
**6.5.1 to be release around 15.05 -> shifted to next week.
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 regression
** 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.
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 memory leak
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
**5.15.14 to be release around 16.05
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
*Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
**Fixing regressions issue related to threads - delayed exceptions
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 event handlers issues
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 virtual method override - still in progress
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2230 3.12 support
**nogil research continues - mutex might slow down things, but doing a proper division of the code could help.
**QML example tutorials - one review pending
**2313 longtype issue with numpy
**examples revamping - loadFromModule
**Icon library -> icon theme soon available on a new module.
**PYSIDE-2316 sharedpointer template issues
**Shiboken refactoring
**Finally the memory leak is fixed
**Enhancing android story, detection of modules, finding dependencies, got ideas from the current qt/c++ tool.
**Build infrastructure, setup.py install has been deprecated since 3.11 - looking into a new build infrastructure.
**Internal technical talks
***Shiboken generating bindings
***Shiboken for documentation generation
***type hints generation
***QML integration via decorators


===4. Mai 2023===
===15. February 2024===


*General
* General
**Europython talk by Shyam still under consideration
** Brainstorming session was held.
**Qt for Android catch up meeting scheduled for 09/05/2023
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
**Discussion with kivy developers done on discord. They seem to be onboard with the Qt support.
* Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
*Bugs & Features
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
**Android Deployment Enhancements - Bringing pyside6-android-deploy at the level of androiddeployqt - Ongoing
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
**python-for-android PR Enhancements - Ongoing
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
**PYSIDE-1951 super().__lt__ global solution ongoing
* Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2206 PYSIDE-2206] QML examples/tutorials revamping
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
**PYSIDE-2221 Python runs NoGil version of mandelbrot.py 7.7 times faster on a 10-code M1 machine
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2288 PYSIDE-2288] Fixed Clang 16 support for 6.6/6.5.
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
**PYSIDE-2310 Crashing without error reporting in Qt-based threads, debugging
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
**PYSIDE-2299 Ongoing, current attempt fixes most tests but leaves some SegFaults, might be a dead-end.
** 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.


===27. April 2023===


*General
===8. February 2024===
**Planning collaboration with other projects like Kivy, towards a better mobile support.
**QtWS talks submitted
**PyConES, PyConPT, PyConAPAC
**Qt for Android catching up meeting
**Bug fixing week
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.8 wrong source code was published PYSIDE-2297
*Bugs & Features
*PYSIDE-1951 super() and `__lt__` operator issue related to our wrapper.
*asyncio work continues
*enhancements for python-for-android to improve the android stories
*pyside6-android-deploy polished as well
*2299 memory leak might have special cases related to the callback
*clang16 is giving some issues in Qt
*Icon examples libraries for the python examples research
*Snippet translator improvements


===20. April 2023===
* 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.


*Bugs & Features
===1. February 2024===
**Work on support for clang 16, which changes behavior quite a bit
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2284 PYSIDE-2284] issue with NoneType
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2285 PYSIDE-2285] Type hints / Tuples
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2298 PYSIDE-2298] and others, fixed some missing 6.5 API
**Added new tools - pyside6-qmlsc (commercial only) and pyside6-qmlcachegen
**Simplified tool adding process
**PySide6 to Android Deployment blog published 🤞
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 PYSIDE-1564] Final approach was implemented with a new super() class. But This approach was not helpful. Issue finally closed.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 PYSIDE-1951] A solution was finally found and implemented. Trying to improve.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2304 PYSIDE-2304] Issue resolved, Cooperative Multiple Inheritance explained with a custom example, customer is happy
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 PYSIDE-2299] Cause for memory leak has been found, but fix will not be trivial (might require extensive refactoring in worst case).
**Debugging QtAsyncIoEventLoop, partly functional but still early.


===13. April 2023===
* General
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
* Infra & Releases
** no unity build discussion and checks
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
* Bugs & Features
** singleShot timer implementation (to use underlying c++ impl) - still an issue with a context object, and a signal as a functor. A new QObject::connect might handle the situation. More changes to come in order to fix newly discovered issues.
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
** General documentation adjustments
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
** Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
** Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
** Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues


*General
**SF 24.04 -> 16.05 ooo
**CM 19.04 -> 27.04 ooo
**QtCreator beta now includes an extra option to create virtual environments
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.0 released, but one missing DLL on windows for people without hw acceleration.
***To be fixed in 6.5.1
**6.2.8 LTS to be released this week
**Improving current state of the maintenance tool for Python
**Second version of the packages in the server
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-684-a-per-interpreter-gil/19583
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-711-pybi-a-standard-format-for-distributing-python-binaries/25547
**Qt Design Studio integration is on research
*Bugs & Features
**Type hints PYSIDE-2284 issue with NoneType
**2283 Platform dependencies into our docs
**Clang16 improvements to be compatible
**Research on the missing DLL issue on Windows
**Research on a memory leak possible related to Signal instances.
**asyncio debugging with a self-made event loop
**Improving the python-for-android changes to prepare a patch
**Technical Preview blog post for Android in the making
**PYSIDE-2294 multiple inheritance issue for a corner case with positional arguments
***Researching a new approach that could improve things further


===6. April 2023===
===25. January 2024===


*General
* General
**New Python releases 3.11.3, 3.10.11
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
*Infra & Releases
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
**6.5.0 released
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
**6.2.8 commercial LTS to go out soon
* Infra & Releases
**Review Maitenance Tool integration
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
**qtpip server configuration still in progress
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
*Bugs & Features
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
**Android: preparing post, tests, and general improvements.
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
**PYSIDE-2266 venv issue with the deployment tool.
* Bugs & Features
**Documentation was released for 6.5.0 and many things were polished.
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
**Async: continue working on the event loop wrapper implementation.
** 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).
**Research on memory leak that pyqtgraph found
** 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).
**Brushing up tutorials: expenses
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
**Adding new examples: simplebrowser, screen capture
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
**Documentation: found some issues with qdoc (from the move of examples to auto tests)
** Unity build some issues when building without.
**PYSIDE-2278 type hinting issue was fixed
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
**Improvements to the documentation
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
**Cleaning imports from examples
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
**Add isort to the development guide
** Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
**Exploring other projects where Python can shine
** 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.


===30. March 2023===
===18. January 2024===


*General
* General
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
**6.5 to be released next week
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
**including requirements.txt along the commercial bundle
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
***research if possible retroactively
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
**qtpip research continues
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
*Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
**Features that needs to be in before 6.5
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
***deployment tool nuitka patch
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
***android tool
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
***tutorial of thew new quick styled app
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
**Improving enums to avoid using the old implementation
** Qt 6.7 adaption
**Deployment tool and android research continues
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
**Async research on asyncio and trio proper integration
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
**Refactoring
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
**Shiboken examples are not displayed on the docs
** Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
**Updating the new image of the project
** PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
**Re-porting multimedia examples, simplebrowser
** pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
**Initial support for permission API
** Improvements to the doc build process
**small fixes on metaobjectdump


===11. January 2024===


===23. March 2023===
* General
** Hackathon at TQtC
** CI process presentation
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
* Bugs & Features
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
** macOS request permission API work continues.
** 6.7 adaptions patches
** M2M fixes on the current impl
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
** favicon issue with out docs
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
** Improvements for the doc build process


*General
===04.January 2024===
**QtWS CfP open
* General
**EuroPython talks submitted
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
**Keeping an eye on future Python events
** New OKR organization
*Infra & Releases
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
**6.4.3 is out
** PyPy is now on 3.10
***pypy3 3.9.12 compatible, newer versions included an incompatibility
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
**6.5 branching out today
* Infra & Releases
*Bugs & Features
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
**async support continues.
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
**Fixing a couple of issues related to the pyside6-deploy tool.
** Android [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)
***venv compatibility
** Xcode issues with a new M3
***qml apps are not properly working
** Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
**android support almost ready for TP
* Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-2261 cython signature module incompatibility fixed
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
**Removed goto from PySide
** async: the module is missing from our docs
**Multiple inheritance issues were fixed.
** async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
**old Enums are being removed, and the startup time will improve a bit (still in progress)
** new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
**PYSIDE-971 GL funtions implementation
** pyside6 designer pyenv crash was fixed
**including texttospeech into the wheels (missing by mistake)
** pyside cmake module update crash was fixed
**adapting scripts to 6.5
** working on the request permission API for macOS
**metaobjectdump issue fixed
** docs: free functions as separate section and other improvements
**doc updates
** 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.


===16. March 2023===
==2023==
 
*General
**Preparing submissions for Europython
**New company colors
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 release next week (no release branch)
**Issues with Nuitka 1.5.1 (released yesterday) and the CI didn't like it. Pining 1.5
*Bugs & Features
**qtpip: add support for many other operators (for versions)
**PYSIDE-2254 exit crash issue was fixed
**PYSIDE-2251 designer issue when not initializing virtual environment.
**qmlsurface example ported (polishing the C++ code as well)
**example icons: discussions to standardize them a bit
**android research: fixing some issues with qtquick
**PYSIDE-1564 multiple inheritance work continues, really far but found new issues. Generalizing the solution a bit from a Shiboken point of view. Research on how shiboken handle multiple inheritance to be compatible with Python's way.
**PYSIDE-2255 virtual method issue related to access to those members.
**Generalization of QApplication usage on the tests.
**Research: Add course to QtLearn related to Qt for Python
**doc: some links are broken.
**doc: migration to sphinx-design from sphinx-panels
 
===9. March 2023===
 
*General
**Packing use-cases
**Europython CfP: https://ep2023.europython.eu/cfp
*Infra & Releases
**Preparing 5.15.13: release might be today if nothing goes wrong.
**Wheel bundles on the account.qt.io, and soon to be available in the Maintenance Tool
*Bugs & Features
**Re-added QtLocation
**Added larger examples for QtLocation, QtDataVisualization
**Android research continues, preparing a TP
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2169 Leak related to AsyncIO was finally fixed: related to the new Enum implementation
***PyErr_Fetch/Restore does ref counting, and not borrow ref
**qtpip works continues
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 bug signal instance: fixed most if not all possible errors.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1403 pyi still produces something not fully working with IDEs
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 First version of the implementation of multiple inheritance is working
***Not a general solution, but a good approach (compatible with a competitor).
***Working on a full support to handle multiple inheritance
 
===2. March 2023===
 
*General
**Preparing internal/external material
**Next monday CI maintenance break
*Infra & Releases
**commercial wheel bundles available on account.qt.io
**6.4.3 release was postponed
*Bugs & Features
**Improvements for qtpip
**postEvent() memory leak still has an unknown origin
**PYSIDE-2236 QMetaMethod.fromSignal added
**PYSIDE-2237 be careful with using reserved words in examples/docs/...
**PYSIDE-2239 opaquecontainers wrong dunder name
**PYSIDE-2206 Examples revamping
***Maybe we keep some examples around even if they are removed in Qt/C++
**Android work continues! looking good with 6.5
**PYSIDE-1564 Multiple inheritance story was improved, still in progress.
 
===23. February 2023===
 
*General
**Giving a talk at Python La Paz (on Saturday) - in Spanish
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 ready to start the release process
**Change to fix the windows signing is merged
*Bugs & Features
**3.12 compatibility changes will reach 5.15, 6.2, and the future 6.5 LTS
**PYSIDE-79 (caused by PYSIDE-68) refcounting issues addressed
**Continue the 3.12 support because of some new issues found
**PYSIDE-1564: Multiple inheritance support is still being worked (old ABC issues might be related)
**Issues with documentation build (sphinx)
**Research on a memory leak related to the asyncio example: it's not related to asyncio, but from the posting action (pyside, and not Qt, because a C++ example with no async doesn't have any leak)
**PYSIDE-2234 adding QRunnableCreate
**fixed 6.5 issues with cross compilation
**Designer examples revamp
**Works continues on qtpip (a pip wrapper to install commercial wheels)
**PYSIDE-2232 NixOS issues was fixed (another was deferred)
**Research on the std::span support
**Unity compilation research continues
**Bug cleanup, closing and fixing old ones.
**OpenGL getProc issue is being worked on.
**PYSIDE-2192 interactive matplotlib issue (hook)
 
===16. February 2023===
 
*General
**Development of a tool for commercial wheel installation started, and other general improvements.
**Blog posts -> 6.5 release, and Android research.
**Don't forget about Europython.
*Infra & Releases
**Branching dev to 6.5 when the Qt/C++ 6.5.0 RC is out (16 Mar '23)
***Only fixes go to dev with Pick-to: 6.5 if necessary
***new features remain in dev (for 6.6)
*Bugs & Features
**nogil research was positive, and most of our test work. It would require for us to modify the generator for each function/module.
***mandelbrot example works and improves its performance around 3.5 times.
**Python 3.12 will include an incompatibility due to the changes in the type generation
***https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/60074#issuecomment-1430115581
***some other issues were found, but not as critical as the tp_new issue.
**It will be possible to install pyside6 in conda environments starting from 6.4.3 and 6.5
**commercial identifier on commercial wheels will be replaced to be compatible with distutils
**asyncio research continues
**Adapting the deploy tool to include compatibility with android (in progress)
**research on ML-based tool to transform c++ <-> python
**Getting started docs updated
**qtdoc documentation content will be included in the docs
**doc issues: some broken links and references
**General slides to be updated
 
 
===09. February 2023===
 
*General
**How to make our API better for pathlib?
**3.11.2 released, 3.10.10 as well
**https://peps.python.org/pep-0675/
*Infra & Releases
**LTS tags cannot be pushed to community repo (permissions), hopefully in this week.
**Maintenance Tool updates soon
**Binary signing still need a little change to be working
**dev to use 6.5 starting today
*Bugs & Features
**Android research in progress, looking good :)
**A solution was proposed to fix the usage of PySide6 in conda environments: still needs tweaks to work, mainly related to an internal qt.conf that's loaded at runtime.
**PYSIDE-2222 custom widget plugin, load with uic crash
**PYSIDE-2201 was fixed: introducing weak references into the SignalInstances.
**PYSIDE-79 was possible to solve (from PYSIDE-68 solution). Still needs to some documentation to be written.
**PYSIDE-2221 research on future compatibility with NoGIL Python https://github.com/colesbury/nogil https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
**https://github.com/blueloveTH/pocketpy also interesting
 
===02. February 2023===
 
*General
**Europython 2023 will be in Prague! 17-23 July
*Infra & Release
**Improving wheel creation in our CI (signing windows, and other things)
**Soon we will have released LTS in the OSS repo (after some complications)
**CI Maintenance break coming next Monday (keep an eye open to the Python configuration)
*Bugs & Features
**Unity builds were helping pyside/shiboken, and some tests are being done in qt/c++
**meta task on revamping examples in the Qt Project
**Adding uic functionality and documentation
**Doc reviews, some issues were found
**Android development continues, and looks good!
**introducing --log-level to change --verbose-build and --quiet
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance continues:
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Weak Reference handling is complete
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Research on Reference bug continues
**create_wheels.py --builddir to explicitly provide build directory
**WIP: QtAsyncIoEventLoop using Qt's event dispatcher, using BaseEventLoop and BaseSelectorEventLoop for guidance
 
===26. January 2023===
 
*Infra & Releases
**Fixed issues with Windows signing
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2204 PYSIDE-2204 qt.conf encoding]
**Fixed bugs in pyside6-metaobjectdump (QML) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2202 PYSIDE-2202] , [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2203 PYSIDE-2203]
**PYSIDE-2194: Possibly requires refactoring of QLowEnergyController to use the new WinRT API, instead of COM API
**Android Deployment - Patches incoming to automate cross compilation to produce android wheels
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance
***Implement Weak Reference Handling
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Handle early destruction of the object better
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Trying to finally fix the reference leak using weakref.
**Alternative approach to Anaconda issue: Register internal qt6.conf with site-packages prefix (still WIP).
**WIP: Implement class QtAsyncIoEventLoop(asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) that wraps around Qt's event loop to enable Qt + asyncio.
**Memory leak with current asyncio example (or space leak?)
 
===19. January 2023===
 
*General
**Hackathon in TQtC
**The WebAssembly PySide Team was almost doubled in size (+1 brain, +1 hand)
*Infra & Releases
**Windows signing to be improved.
**LTS releases into oss repo: some issues appeared but will be merged soon.
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1994: De-virtualization of Shiboken embedded Python files is now an option controlled dynamically by SBK_EMBED
***PYSIDE-1019: A dormant __feature__ initialization timing problem was fixed while implementing de-virtualization
**PYSIDE-1735: De-coupling of old and new enums was started
**PYSIDE-1564: Debugging of multiple inheritance continues
**Fixed some bluetooth functions in PySide6.
**Low Energy Scanner Example
**PYSIDE-2194: Progressing with this. Definitely a thread issue which allow-thread doesn't seem to fix.
**Possible solution for problems with PySide6 inside conda (compat package with qt6.conf file), but investigating if best solution
 
===12. January 2023===
 
*General
**Next week is Hackathon, meeting will be shorter
**Discussion on how to gather information, and sharing material around Qt for Python
*Infra & Releases
**6.5 RC planning -> feature freeze for PySide
**6.4.2 was released last Monday
**CMake Jumbo builds issue with Windows signing
**LTS branches to land in pyside-setup soon
*Bugs & Features
**Async examples: addressing memory leak and cpu usage due to the event loop interactions
**Review conda packaging story and PySide6
**De-virtualization of Python files: still some issues
**Incompatibility with pywin32: __feature__ related when trying to check if the ext module uses PySide. Also related to an issue with the inspect module.
**Installing PySide6.support via CMake (was previously not considered)
**Work continues on the multiple inheritance issues related to classes based on QObject
**locate issues related to to* methods
**std::array support in shiboken (still in progress)
**fixing imports in matplotlib examples
**adaptation to 6.5
**splitting shiboken generator source to its own
**Android deployment works - tested on Widget applications
**Fixing QTBUG-109510 leading to discovering issues with certain functions in PySide6. Being fixed.
 
===5. January 2023===


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


==2022==
==2022==

Revision as of 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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