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==2022==


===09. June 2022===
==2025==
 
=== 15. May 2025 ===


* Next week is Bug Fixing Week
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** commercial LTS 5.15.10 to be released
** Preparing 6.9.1
** 6.3.1 to be release next week
** Released 6.5.9
** Changing the python version on windows is generating new errors.
** CI times are too long, so there is some plan to improve the waiting times.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Tooling research
** Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt
** Issues with special application cases, QML threading and stuff
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2193 PYSIDE-2193] QML property related crash fixed
** Access violation on debug builds on Python 3.7, on COIN it was a release build and presented the issue as well
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3098 PYSIDE-3098] NumPy problem with Sequence/Iterable conflict in 6.10 solved
** Adding new QML files to the wheel (GraphicalEffects)
** qinstallmessagehandler refcount issue fixed
** Continue research with WebAssembly
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3078 PYSIDE-3078] QInputDialog get methods accept None as parent.
** Discussion with pyqtgraph to improve API in favor of their module and performance.
** Cross-compile iOS and PySide6 is done. Now the test phase.
** Continue work with Qt Enums as Python Enums. Code generation needs some fixes still. Python 3.6 is causing issues...mainly for debug mode and limited API.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 PYSIDE-2221] Free threading research continues.
*** disable-gil first tiny progress in bug hunting. Shiboken Cyclic test works now
*** Result used for generating locks in PySide constructors
*** still a few timeout errors and others


=== 8. May 2025 ===


===02. June 2022===
* General
** Team returned form QtWS
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Windows 10: 3.6 -> 3.7, and add Windows 11: 3.10
** Preparing 6.9.1
** Signing binaries on Windows is time consuming
** 6.2 Commercial LTS close to 6.3.1 OSS release.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1731 signatures issues related to QFlags
** Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt Graphs
** PYSIDE-1760 flake8 fixtures broke pyside builds, because it had some effect regarding the replacement of distutils by setuptools.
** Add some functionality to shiboken to accommodate 6.10
** PyEnum improvements, adding them in the enclosing scopes.
** Free threading research continues by running intense stress tests
** Continue the research on the deployment story
** Ported QtCharts Audio example to Qt Graphs
** PYSIDE-1930 QVariant issues
** Worked on PYSIDE-3092, issue regarding the collections import. However CI test failed unrelated to patch. Currently working on that.
** PYSIDE-1939 Crashes related to return value from shiboken heuristics
** No new update on the error the OpenGL/OpenGLES libraries, for cross-compiling iOS and PySide6
** The project now adopted SDPX licensing (2 lines instead of a wall of text)
** PYSIDE-1947 data() and constData() from QAudioBuffer
** PYSIDE-661 moving around messages, we still need to tackle some memory improvements.
** Documentation updates


=== 1. May 2025 ===


===26. May 2022===
* Labor day, no labor to report
* Holiday


===19. May 2022===
=== 24. April 2025 ===


* General
** QtWS talk approaching https://www.qt.io/qt-world-summit-2025
** We are evaluating the possibility to sponsor a couple of Python conferences!
** There will not be a Qt for Python session during QtCS
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.5 source code ready to be released
** 5.15.19 commercial LTS needs to go out next week, but we are investigating a few CI failures.
** 6.3.1 delayed to mid-June
** 6.5.9 commercial LTS will be released tomorrow.
** 6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release
** 6.8 public branch is closed, moved to LTS
** Raising python version from 3.8 to 3.10 on a testing ci configuration.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** 1905 specify free functions in Shiboken
** Moving new qml integration support content from pyside-setup to the new repository.
** move the error messages to libshiboken
** Type hints patches to fix PYSIDE-3007 PYSIDE-3012 PYSIDE-3029 (related to the constructors of a few classes, and properties)
** 1932 QEnum issues
** PYSIDE-2352 iOS research: newer versions of Qt and Qt for iOS seems to fix a few issues we had while cross compiling. There is an issue with OpenGL support.
** Starting research on webassembly
** PYSIDE-2221 continue free threading research: an open discussion for ownership issues that were solved in a way that needs confirmation. Stress testing the solutions to avoid thread inconsistency problems.
** Continue research on improve our deployment
** Cleaning up new bug reports
story
** PYSIDE-3067 newly discovered crash was fixed.
** Improve timeouts related to testing
** Utilities classes were submitted to avoid exceptions in some scenarios.
** Enum story is ready for review, additional improvements might come in the future. This feature will be optional before 6.4, and from 6.4 on it will be mandatory (Using Python Enum instead of our own Enum implementation)
** PYSIDE-3066 enumerations not restored in QVariant. External contributed.
** PyIndex_Check issue
** PYSIDE-3061 Windows build issue.
** PYSIDE-3069 Graphics item crash still being investigated.
** More and more costumer cases are popping up, meaning the usage of PySide is growing :)
** PYSIDE-3048 There is an enum issue with type hints that require them to be int. We are still discussing on what's the right solution.


===12. May 2022===
=== 17. April 2025 ===


* General
** Easter break, we will back on Tuesday :D
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.4 sources should be released soon, preparing 5.15.5
** qtpip new release planned, after changing the qt version to a previous one. There was an issue with SSL.
** Special pypy branch for nightly integrations
** qtpip: we might align the build/test configuration on the CI to be consistent with PySide
** Python 3.13 needs to be added to a CI configuration.
** We might add a special non-blocking configuration for Free threaded python
** Keeping in an eye on PEP751
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** 1898 QMetaObject invokeMethod added Q_ARG
** Cleaning up some of the latest bug reports.
** 1919 Crash was fixed
** Addressing the webengine issue for the yocto builds.
** 1912 context properties, adding missing API
** PYSIDE-3061 Windows debug build failing on pyi generation
** NumPy dependencies are moved to Shiboken (pyqtgraph discussion)
** 6.10 adaption in the horizon.
** General refactoring
** Continue the disable-gil support
** 1912 unique_ptr issues
*** Checking the previous patches to see if they are still relevant, but it seems a few things changed.
** 1878 pyside-qml tool to quickly prototype/view qml code
*** There seems to be an issue with calling super with arguments
** Research on support for new platforms
** iOS support continues, the cross compilation process still has a few issues (QtCore).
** Attempting to use PyTest instead of unittest
** There seems to be a few type hints issues that are still not fixed, due to not being too simple.
** Missing PyIndex_Check in 3.7 issue
** Removing tomlkit dependency from pyside6-project
** multilib support for yocto builds


===5. May 2022===
=== 10. April 2025 ===


* General
** Internal dry-run for our QtWS talk in a couple of weeks.
** We don't have a session for the Qt Contributor Summit
** We are looking forward to be around Akademy this year https://akademy.kde.org/
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Starting new commercial branch for 6.2 LTS, 6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release.
** Maintenance break last Monday left some issues in the CI
** Preparing new 5.15.4 OSS package (according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation)
** PySide6_DS is missing from the qt org on pypi, will add later
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Python 3.7 PyIndex_Check issue to be addressed in 6.2 and 6.3
** PYSIDE-3012 type hints: still working on the last issue.
** Research and improvements on the Raspberry Pi story
** PYSIDE-3021 type hints: was fixed
** QtWebEngine: Missing setCookieFilter and setNotificationPresenter
** Continue the research on iOS support: still trying to cross compile pyside with a iOS python. Trying other deployment tools that could help us with the process. Dealing with the static/dynamic shiboken libs (static requirement from iOS)
** Can't use category based logging from PySide
** Planning to make Qt Python Scripting available.
** Continue research on deployment story
** Addressing a couple of deployment issues
** 1880 DataVisualization + NumPy
** Brainstorming and creating our presentation for QtWS
** 1898 QMetaObject.invokeMethod with arguments not possible
** Finalizing properties and tests for the new qml integrations.
** 1901 Enum "QVariantList" passed to Property breaks property datatype
** PYSIDE-2221 continues: Testing different strategies to reach gil-less Thread Safety
** shiboken to generate deterministic includes
*** - cannot simply replicate the GIL
** Enum new implementation patch is mature to be included in dev and start additional testing
*** - ongoing: automate the working bucket examples from nogil with cppgenerator
** Research on testing improvements


===28. April 2022===
=== 3. April 2025 ===
* General
** We are probably presenting at QtWS!
** Check our PyPI organization page: https://pypi.org/org/Qt/
** https://peps.python.org/pep-0751/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0768/
** There will be a local meetup in Berlin, where Shiboken will be mentioned and explained a bit https://www.meetup.com/pyberlin/events/306654979/
* Infra & Releases
** 6.8.3 and 6.9.0 were released.
** Android wheels for 6.9.0 were generated differently for a CI NDK misconfiguration.
** Flatpak releases are waiting for the webengine flatpack update first.
* Bugs & Features
** Adding property support for QML bridges
** Minor changes to the deployment tool, and qtpip
** Working on the presentation for QtWS
** Continue the research for iOS support, it seems there are a few issues with the other frameworks that support it.
*** Distributing apps on iOS is tricky, it requires a Dev account ($$), with a free account you can only upload the app with a cable for 7 days, and then it expires (We wonder what would happen with data)
*** For uploading, you need to turn-on developer mode, which raises a message of "privacy being reduced"
*** iPad applications seems to have the same behavior.
** Might check https://github.com/benfogle/crossenv and https://github.com/beeware/mobile-forge
** PYSIDE-3059 was fixed
** PYSIDE-3012 was updated with new suggestions
** Free threading Python support continues PYSIDE-2221
*** A few changes we had for nogil are not necessary anymore.
*** Our mandelbrot example didn't show a good performance. After discussion with CPython core devs, there was an issue on Python 3.13.{1,2} (not on 3.13.0) that made some slowness. (On M1 it was 8x faster, but now it was 4.3x, the speed lost causes are still in research)
*** https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/131989


=== 27. March 2025 ===
* General
** A few comments on the state of the auto-generated documentation in our telegram group. We expect the community to help us by filing issues they find (per page) so we can try to address them.
* Infra & Releases
** Status of 6.8.3
*** Android NDK change is still updating. We might use some additional wheels for the release.
*** Flatpak update will be done as well.
** Status of 6.9.0
*** New NDK is already there, and the tests have succeed.
*** Branching 6.9.0 today/tomorrow after last changes
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1895 PYSIDE-1895], strings with 0 chars.
** PYSIDE-3054 settrace bug was addressed, it was more important and difficult that we thought. Even some extra time was added to the import phase due to the recursion.
** Diagnosed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1893 PYSIDE-1893], object deletion with lambdas.
** Leaving the handling of Exception aside for shiboken.
** Worked on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 PYSIDE-1859], native Win handles
** Type hints issues are still being addressed.
** Continued [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1880 PYSIDE-1880] QDataVisualization
*** PYSIDE-3047 Debug option in Qt generates extra code in PySide, interfering with the wrappers. Function returns a qDebug rather than a QPolygon.
** String migration of the code according to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-98434 QTBUG-98434] and related cleanups
*** Other issues were addressed PYSIDE-3050 PYSIDE-3055 PYSIDE-3056 PYSIDE-3058
** Improved isolation between tests and __feature__ settings, reset() method implemented.
** Research on project structures to be more compatible with Xcode
** Migration to PyEnum [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] is now error-free:
** PYSIDE-3052 QMessageLogger and fix qInstallMessageHandler
*** qformlayout_test.py gives phantasy values when no elements exist. Python enums can't handle that.
** Bumping the nuitka version we use for pyside-deploy (2.6.8)
** Docs on debugging QtQuick app on QtCreator was missing a reference to create a QQmlDebuggingEnabler globally.
** qtpip - download android commercial wheel shows wrong wheel name on stdout- being fixed.


===21. April 2022===
=== 20. March 2025 ===
* General
** PyPI organizations accepted Qt!
** We heard about https://wheelnext.dev/ it seems some ideas could be beneficial.
* Infra & Releases
** A few issues in our CI in the last weeks (fixed now)
** Qt 6.8.3 new snapshot coming
** Qt 6.9.0 (internal rc2 to test)
** We will move 'dev' to use Python 3.10+
* Bugs & Features
** Windows on ARM wheels are ready after a couple of issues (linking) were fixed.
** PYSIDE-3049 - Missing plugin for qmllint (fixed)
** QML Bridges: Working on properties.
** PYSIDE-3052 - QMessageLogger missing class (in progress)
** Working on merging the contributions on QtRemoteObjects
** PYSIDE-2854 - Support for [colocated objects|https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/632241] in shiboken (structs issue, might support c++ unions)
** PYSIDE-3040 GTK Theming issue with PySide install
** Qt 6.10 adaption continues
** Speed of overriding methods (previously cached) - new fix is improving the performance, but duck-punching was not properly working.
*** Can this be excluded from the caching?
** The list of new improvements for type hints keeps growing (which is good!) so many issues has been solved.
** We might need to find a solution for the implicit conversions we do (like qdatetime/py_datetime)
** Discussion about Optional and pointer arguments that have a default value.
** Some property types (public class variables) are missing type information
 
=== 13. March 2025 ===


* General
** QtCS: We need to submit talks in case we want to attend.
** Tomorrow Python 3.14a6 will be released https://peps.python.org/pep-0745/
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.4 is the las OSS release, 6.2 LTS being prepared
** Windows on ARM research continues and looks good! managed to fix an issue, but a new issues was found on samplebinding. The issue might be related to missing OpenGL.
** 6.3.x will continue as the new OSS release.
** 6.9.0rc might be released tomorrow, which means PySide6 FF will be due.  
** Issues from people having 6.2.4 and upgrading to 6.3.0. The recommendation is to uninstall the old version and install the new version. This is mainly to an issue we found while upgrading that files were removed, leaving no Qt modules available.
* Bugs & Features
* Bug & Features
** Many new type hints bugs being reported :)
** QDataVisualization + ItemModel request for data handling (performance discussion), issues seems to be on the C++ implementation of the module.
** Smart pointers exclusion issues fixed (shiboken)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 Windows handle classes issue
** Designer and Linguist tools fixes (External)
** Found some issues with previous setuptools versions on Linux
** Helping the remoteobject contributions to work better.
** 1890 fixing cmake build for the new __all__ resolution.
** Documentation checks and 6.10 adaption.
** New Enum implementation for PySide is already in progress, it's aimed to be in place for 6.4 to avoid breaking existing code. Be aware, that there are things that are currently supported by a wrong implementation, and code adaptation will be required.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 Going back to the free threaded Python topic in PySide
** Improving tests overall (due to the enum changes)
*** Lots of changes since the previous attempt
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3012 Kept working on the pep8 compatibility for type hints issues
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3034 trying to figure out to get type information from public variables
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3046 fixing type issues
** Re-Starting research on iOS compatibility
** QML Bridges: Slots registration is working now! new tests are being written.


===14. April 2022===
=== 6. March 2025 ===


* General
** Jaime's internal presentation will be next Monday at 11am
** QtCS registration is up.
** Discussion on IPC options for Qt developers.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.3 was released: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-details-on-the-new-6.3-release
** 6.9 Qt for Python FF happening next week.
** 6.3 was branched
** Windows on ARM deployment test failing.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Continue the research on qml plugins and deployment story
** Remote object contributions are going well, and we might merge them for 6.9
** Refactoring and improvements to the build_scripts
** Binary size reduction research continued, but it seems we have reached the reduction we can, without touching the C++ side of our bindings.
** Python Qt Enums in progress, still some hard-to-find issues to solve
** PYSIDE-3012 Type hints issues were addressed (typing.Sequence -> typing.Collection) even if it is a simple change in theory, to change it internally and for our generation it took a lot of time.
** 1627 issue regarding QAction API related to QMenu
*** Removing object-inheritance in the pyi files
** Shiboken refactorings
*** White-space around equal operators issue (default parameters)
** 1883 QTest issues
** Update Widget Gallery example
** 1880 Request for 3D ItemModel functionality -> added new examples
** Changed to adapt std::chrono patches in shiboken (identify overloads and choose the better option)
** Smart pointers and std::optional support
** Cleaning up some  bug reports, metamethod connection issue fixed.
** Addressing some coverity issues for Designer
** Started 6.10 adaption.
** QML Next works continues.
** Changes in the build system scripts are still in progress, some stuff is broken when used, but it's going in a good direction.
** Finalizing the pyside6-project changes to adapt the pyproject.toml changes.
** Addressing new found QtCreator issues with the pyproject.toml compatibility.


===7. April 2022===
=== 27. February 2025 ===
* General
** Windows on ARM improving
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, investigating removing redundant overloads
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, trying wrapper folding, needs massive reordering
** PYSIDE-3012 replacement of typing.Sequence by collections.abc.Sequence
*** Identified incompatibility with Python < 3.9.8 and Python < 3.10.1, fixed by small patch
*** First change finally done, needs series of further changes
** 6.10 adaption continues
** PYSIDE 2942 Slot type annotation fix
** QTBUG-132266 Checked the code on macOS that the user uploaded, no issues were found related to PySide or macOS.
 
=== 20. February 2025 ===
* General
** QtWS possible participation
** QtCS has a priority of bringing more external contributors
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** New commercial 5.15 releases, difficulties with libclang 12
** 6.9 RC February 28th (maybe postponed)
** _Py_Mangle issues on >=5.15.4 to be included in 5.15.4 source packages (and others)
** Windows on ARM test cases failing due to mypy fast cache (requires rust toolchain, that's currently missing from the CI). static libclang doesn't work on ARM builds (but does in x86_64).
** Branching 6.3 in the next days.
** RTA trials continue, possibility to use qtpip
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1876 qmlparserstatus issue fixed
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction for virtual functions patch was merged
** Fix TOC doc issue and adapt new qtbase changes
** PYSIDE-3002 painted virtual functions solved (even though we had our own opinion about performance)
** refactorings to reduce size of generated code
** 3020 SignalInstance disconnect issue fixed
** smartpointers improvements, adding tests and tuning implementation
** Templates/snippets cleanup in the typesystem.
** PYSIDE-1878 improving qml and python interaction (plugins)
** 6.10 adaption continues
** Working on the new Qt Python Enums approach (will be a TP with a compile time option)
** QtCreator toml changes:
** Improve some issues on 5.15.x regarding Python 3.10 compatibility (_Py_Mangle)
*** psyide6-project adaption to the latest changed related
** QtDS changes postponed (to be available in QtDS 4.8)
** PYSIDE-3017 QSerialBus overload order issue was fixed
** PYSIDE-3012 Still addressing issues (CI currently failing)
** qtqa improving  the wheel testing process.
** Brainstorming a better approach for QML Next
** Finishing the folding patches, they don't make a lot of sense at the moment due to previous changes (being added into shiboken)


===31. March 2022===


=== 13. February 2025 ===
* General
** Did you know Shiboken translates into "Death Sword"? 死某剣
** QtCS happening after QtWS in Munich in early May.
** Qt Design Studio integration (internal presentation) with Python to be prepared.
* Infra & Releases
** Windows on ARM research continues.
** QtDS wheels to be updated for the new release
** 6.9.0 RC by the end of the February.
** RTA testing initiative to be restart
** Evaluating scikit-core-build for replacing build_scripts/
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-187O fixed.
** Flatpak issue was solved (cleanup)
** Wheel size reduction - new flag --no-size-optimization - ready to merge.
** Brainstorming ideas for QML Next (preparing internal presentation)
** pyqmlscene  (starts with PySide6QmlPlugin) in the working. Requirements gathering from Qml team.
** Android wheel names to be adapted https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/platform-compatibility-tags/#android
** shiboken6-genpyi was fixed (was not functional after the Python virtualization)
** Qt Creator finishing .toml support for Python Projects.
** adaptation of PySide6.__all__ after the wheel split, still a problem not understood
** Qt DS Python changes ready to be merged
** PYSIDE-1735: Use Python Enums to handle Qt Enum. Making fast progress.
*** Tutorial changes to be prepared
** PYSIDE-535: completing PyPy documentation to introduce the project for 6.3
** Type hints heuristic evaluation in order to address newly found issues related to overloads with similar shape.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1874 PYSIDE-1874] SIGSEGV when accessing __doc__ of a Property fixed
** Handling of value-types in shiboken (refactoring, new features and doc)
** PYSIDE-3005 OpenGL issues were fixed
** PYSIDE-3013 Font issue was fixed
** PYSIDE-3015 OpcUA support bug fixed
** PYSIDE-3014 virtual function on QSpinBox issue fixed
** 6.9 adaption patches
*** Found newly moc changes were breaking our enums
** Size Reduction
*** hashing functions to re-use them.
*** changing the policy to use absolute size measure (sizebench)
*** Removing a few things from the folding patch, in order to merge it
** PYSIDE-2997 and PYSIDE-3003 type hints issues were solved. A couple are still open.


===24. March 2022===
=== 6. February 2025 ===
* General
** We went to FOSDEM and meet many PySide users!
** Commercial / LTS naming on the Installer.
* Infra & Releases
** Reviewing our branching policies. There is interest in branching pyside-setup sooner.
** We might need to move the Android wheels to PyPI (Probably from 6.9 on)
** 6.8.2.1 release is planned in order to fix the missing DLLs in Windows (MSVC)
*** cheery pick is missing for 5.15
** PySide6_DS 4.7 to be released in the next couple of weeks.
* Bugs & Features
** Adding TOML support for Python projects in QtCreator
** TypeHints new reports, trying to get an idea of what's causing the errors
** Issues in Flatpak: updating version, checking a cleanup issue. Addressing dependencies issues for optional packages.
** QtQA internal scripting: Adapting an automatic wheel download.
** Size reduction
*** Move virtual function overrides. Only generated on the base classes.
*** Discovered and fixed a few multiple inheritance with shiboken
** Snippets translation tool: Trying to add a feature to use fully qualified enums.
** clang-tidy warnings were fixes
** Handling value types on non-default constructors (inspired by 6.9 changes)
** Discussion on moving away out internal building process to scikit-build
** Size reduction (folding approach): To publish first results soon.
** Supporting team member with pyi session to understand the internal mechanism.
** Ideas from the size reduction research were implemented
** Changing the benchmark code for the size reduction (which might not include the new changes to shiboken)


*Infra & Releases
=== 30. January 2025 ===
**6.2.4 was released
**5.15.3 sources were updated to include pyside2-tools, and 3.10 compatibility.
**We will replace 3.6.1 by 3.7.x to test on windows
**Adding new set of wheels to the download.qt.io snapshots
*Bugs & Features
**Research on reducing wheel sizes via compiling flags and other things.
**REG PYSIDE-1870 still in progress
**Fixing doc issues, and sphinx related changes.
**1862 top level cmake build fixed
**1868 crash on frame buffer (factory function)
**Adapting to changes in Qt/C++
**share_ptr handling refactoring to write independently of the platform
**wheel_tester issue on macos was fixed (scriptableapplication building with qmake only), it uses cmake and ninja now.
**Issue in pyside6 re-introduced an old issue: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/401438
**Continue with the work on Enums in PySide
**Improvements to the create wheel process


===17. March 2022===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.8.2
* Bugs & Features
** Size reduction [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] : Implemented code reuse for Python overrides of virtual functions
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on multiple inheritance, added more widgets
** Size reduction: PYSIDE-2701 Folding progress: We can now combine multiple foldings of the same function. This will bring some more reduction.
** Simplebrowser example updated
** adding imageviewer docs
=== 23. January 2025 ===


*General
* General
*Infra & Releases
** [https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kconfig/-/jobs/2497118 KDE testing Qt betas and snapshots]
**6.2.4 release is ready to be out today.
*** Should we update our Branching policy?
**LTS 5.15.3 source code will be re-uploaded due to missing pyside2-tools
*** Our branching policy:
*Bugs & Features
**** We branch briefly after API Review is done in qt meta repo.
**QmlExtension research for PySide projects
** Yocto libclang issue - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/609352
**Research for new ideas to improve PySide and Shiboken
* Infra & Releases
**Stripping binaries a bit to reduce wheel size
** Windows on ARM configuration testing.
**QtPropertyMap is not exposed
** 6.8.2 scheduled release next week, and branching will happen today.
**Update the documentation (Signal/Slots, modules desc, and more)
* Bugs & Features
**Replacing count() functions by size() internally.
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on Stable ABI support and multiple inheritance
**Improving the testing framework (special cases for apple silicon)
** [ext] 6.9 Designer release issues with macOS drag and drop + bug fixing
**PYSIDE-1843: Continue fixing failing tests for PyPy
** PYSIDE-2990 Slot Executed in Signal's Thread Even With Auto & QueuedConnection
**Research: Improvements to Qt Enums to rely on Python Enums
*** People is getting the documentation from an outdated wiki page, which is causing new reports.
**Wheel splitting might need a small size increase on PyPi
*** Wiki will be updated.
** Size reduction: we generate a lot of code for parsing keyword arguments. The code was moved to libshiboken and the size was reduced 3%
*** Optimization reviews: it seems it's only the virtual functions, but not the actual bindings.
** Size reduction: Windows is giving some issues for special characters, which seems to be also present in Linux.
** Cross compiling and creating wheels with the new JNI classes bindings. Trying to test them in an emulator, found other issues.
** pyside6-deploy/project and DS changes integrating, hopefully they will be merged today \o/
** DS-only changes are still in review.
** TOML integration - continue research on adding new format for python projects
** QtGraphWidgets issue with yocto build was fixed.


===10. March 2022===
=== 16. January 2025 ===


*General
* General
**Position still open and many candidates in the pipeline.
** Highly probable that one of us will go to FOSDEM to help with the Qt Project stand! so if you /reader/ are going, drop by and say hi!
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
**Python CI version updates: 3.8 (linux) 3.7 (win) mac (3.9)
** 6.8.2 will be released on 23th January so far, so we expect providing the wheels in the following days.
**PyPy issues on the CI being addressed, almost fully functional.
** 3.13 on the CI still on-going.  
**6.2.4 still waiting for Qt to be released.
** 6.5.4 OSS released
**5.15.3 source was released according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation
* Bugs & Features
***Sadly, it doesn't include the patches to be Python 3.10 compatible
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
*Bugs & Features
*** It did built (and installed) for aarch64 and x86_64 but armv7a will be tried later on.
**Research on new PySide features on-going, extra things, internals, and performance
*** The main issue with this story was that it was bindings only for cross compiled pyside
**QtNfc module was added
** Exploring toml compatibilities within QtCreator
**qFuzzyCompare issue was fixed
** DS patches still needs review.
**Improvements on the shiboken containers parsing
** Binary size work continues
**Compatibility with older python version and pypy tests
*** 17% reduction so far, and this could be included in the future-features list.
**QmlPropertyMap issue was fixed
*** Once is ready, we might provide an option to disable it to go back to the more readable wrapper code.
**Still fixing tests for PyPy and new Qt builds
*** We might evaluate a template approach once the solution is out, to avoid maintaining regexes.
***New issues were found, but many were fixes. At the moment: 14 in Core, and 18 in all the modules
** Remote Object reviews ready in order to merge changes (only a few details)
**New wheel structure being discussed: splitting the big wheels into at least two
** Qt Python Scripting
*** Multiple inheritance is not supported yet.
*** REPL function to help development
*** Research on Limited API usage.
*** find_python macro in 3.26 allow to find the stable abi
** docstring changes in order to expose them as docstring per methods.
*** some experiment to add it to the pyi files, but it doesn't show.


===3. March 2022===
=== 09. January 2025 ===


*General
* General
*Infra & Releases
** FOSDEM 2025: Qt got a stand!
**6.2.4 ready to be released, but qt was postponed for 15.03.2022
** Internal Hackathon going on.
**PyPy CI builds are still being tested
* Infra & Releases
**Next week there will be a CI maintenance break
** https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/ got restructured and it's now very tidy
**Python versions: 3.6 (linux + win) 3.9 (mac) | 3.10 test win
** Preparing 6.8.2
***3.6 will be deprecated in 6.3, so we will change CI versions
** 6.8.1.1 Windows and Linux wheels were uploaded for consistency thanks to user-reports when uploading only the 6.8.1.1 on macOS due to a missing module
***3.8 (win), 3.10 (x), 3.7 (x)
** Tests with 3.13 on the CI
**6.3 branching still pending a few wheel modifications, and tags.
* Bugs & Features
*Bug & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2966 PYSIDE-2966] Disabled instantiating non-instantiable classes
**PyPy build on windows presented a few challenges, and PyPy issues were found and reported.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] Examples and tests were ported to use fully qualified enumerations
**pyi generation also had issues due to a virtualenv + windows configurations being wrong, regarding the import orders.
** Python Scripting continues (enable adding __repr__ functions)
**Enum refactoring is still in progress.
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
**container conversion research
*** We might try a few new configurations for adding this bindings.
**1835 building 5.15 without limited api
** Tutorial for Boot2Qt and PySide apps deployment
**qml research on property values, and group properties will be fix as well
** Doc changes: adding comments for using uv
**research on new opportunities to improve PySide as a Python module
** QML Next: still working on improved decorators for a smoother integration
**re-working the wheel generation
** Qt Remote Objects: Big set of patches by external contributor
** Binary size reduction work continues with new ideas from other projects: folding, string handling, renaming, etc.
** Yocto builds issues with LLVM still not solved.


===24. February 2022===
==2024==


*General
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2024]]
*Infra & Releases
*Bug & Feature
**PYSIDE-1824 BT issue was fixed
**PYSIDE-1826 Image provider
**PYSIDE-1827 metatype slot pending (metacall handle improvements)
**Research on arguments conversion
**PYSIDE-1815 set modified parameter function (reddit example)
**PYSIDE-1809 signature modules issues.
**PYSIDE-1821 Byte handling changes
**Research on new ideas for the PySide module
**PYSIDE-1705 Property support in constructors (relation with __feature__)
**PYSIDE-1735 Python Enums to handle Qt Enums (prototypes)
***PYSIDE-1731 mypy regression issue (related to enums)
**PyPy work continues, focused on compatibility with the newest version (supporting python 3.9)


==2023==


===17. February 2022===
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]


*General
==2022==
**New Documentation Engineer joined the Foundation Area.
*Infrastructure & Releases
**3.10.0 configuration to be tested
**Research on improvements for the packages in download.qt.io
**Testing PyPy on the CI
**Python 3.6 will be deprecated in PySide 6.3 and removed in 6.4
*Bugs & Features
**Addressing compatibility with other deployment tools.
**QmlExtended QmlAttach will be available in 6.3
**PYSIDE-1812 cross build task custom clang options
**Research with C++20 to build pyside, and vector call new API in 3.9+
**PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1763 __feature__ issues were fixed and working on providing support for property in constructors PYSIDE-1705 (a bit more difficult)
**PYSIDE-1815 QtNetworkAuth.QAbstractOAuth is missing modifyParametersFunction/setModifyParametersFunction
**PYSIDE-1821 Add support for std::byte
**PYSIDE-1809 wrong name type annotation for setProperty() and property()
 
===10. February 2022===
 
*General
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1806 PYSIDE-1806] CMake version check fixed
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1804 PYSIDE-1804] Big endian test failure fixed
**Work in progress to add further QML decorators
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1702 PYSIDE-1702] snake_case handling now does explicitly not touch user defined classes.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1758 PYSIDE-1758] Leave the underscore variable alone in QApplication
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 PYSIDE-535] Remove a disambiguation patch no longer needed
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1765] Widget subclass' minimumSizeHint not called with true_property
**Work in progress on: [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1753 PYSIDE-1753] setStyleSheet available even if snake_case (complex)
 
===03. February 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 was released.
**Waiting for a scheduled CI break on Monday
**OSS packages for 5.15.3 source to be available soon.
*Bugs & Features
**Updating new Qt dev API (targeting 6.4)
**Adjusting a designer issue with a crash on views
**Improving examples: Old OpenGL API
**PYSIDE-1801 signal crash issue addressed
**PYSIDE-1804 QByteArray issue
**Improving QML: getting some issues with QML_ATTACHED
**Writing PyPy Documentation to explain motivation, changes, and usage.
**PyPy Compatibility:
***Got nice performance results with the working mandelbrot example
***Still working on some last tests that are not properly working.
**PYSIDE-1798 fixing enum issue
**Continue the work on the python-lsp issues on QtCreator
 
===27. January 2022===
 
*General
**Communicate issue with Apple Silicon and our wheels. There is a bug on Python so using limited API and creating wheels with Python 3.8, make them unusable for 3.6 and 3.7
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 to be release soon.
*Bugs & Features
**Qt Creator LSP issue has an initial solution
**Curating a list of new features for Shiboken
**Working on an issue related to help() function on top of custom modules
**PYSIDE-1057 memory leak in progress
**Fixing examples to be compatible with PyPy and addressing corner cases
**QPainter was transformed into a context manager
**Building pyside with PyPy 3.8 is possible (3.9 is still in alpha)
**Working on a new tree example
**1788 allow-thread issue with event functions
**Add threaded OpenGL example
**Add data()/constData() to OpaqueContainers
**Continue work on QML integration
 
===20. January 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 release next week
**Waiting a bit before branching 6.3
*Bugs & Features
**QtCreator Python LSP issue to be worked on
**Continue with the research related to new Shiboken features.
**Fixing general bugs from support
**Adapting new API for 6.3
**Improving QML story with custom types
**PyPy compatibility is focused on making some last examples to work, some issues with PyPy are being found as well.
 
===13. January 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**Maintenance in the CI, still a few things to be improved.
**New version of Gerrit is available as well.
**5.15.8 Commercial LTS was released
**5.15.2.1 to be release soon, special version with Python 3.10 support
*Bugs and Features
**PYSIDE-1755 Fixing issues with __code__ (related to slots)
**Improved documentation
**Looking for new features for Shiboken
**Working on improving the LSP story on QtCreator https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-jsonrpc/issues/5
**PYSIDE-1764 suggestion on avoid the generation/wrapping of methods within objects.
**PYSIDE-1730 signal/method namespace crash, generated by old fixes on old bugs.
**Add capacity/reserve functions to OpaqueContainers
**QML references examples issues, to discover missing details on the qml interaction
**Clarifying the conversion rules on the typesystem: native, target
**PYSIDE-1768 and PYSIDE-1769 WebEngine issues were solved.
**uic missing imports
**PYSIDE-1751 equality test for signals is rewritten and working better
**QXYSeries: adding missing addons to enable methods
 
 
===06. January 2022===


*General
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]
**New bridge between Telegram <-> IRC
*Infra & Release
**Planning 5.15.2 new release (5.15.2.1) to include Python 3.10 support.
**5.15.8 Commercial LTS to be release in the next couple of days.
**6.2.3 planned for 2022.01.18
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1755 __code__ inspection on slot connection is buggy (breaks, e.g. MagicMock testing)
**Ported new examples QRegularExpression editor and MimeTypes
**Research to get new Shiboken features
**Updating translations
**In progress enabling qmllint in pyside project thanks to an external tool
**Addressing signal issues for different use-cases, multiple inheritance
***There is a relation with PyPy issues as well
**PYSIDE-1760 Racing condition without virtual environments (preloading setuptools)
**true_property issues were solved.
**continue work to have a more modular pyside installation with more wheels
**research on manylinux compatibility


==2021==
==2021==

Revision as of 17:05, 15 May 2025


2025

15. May 2025

  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.9.1
    • Released 6.5.9
  • Bugs & Features
    • Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt
    • PYSIDE-2193 QML property related crash fixed
    • PYSIDE-3098 NumPy problem with Sequence/Iterable conflict in 6.10 solved
    • qinstallmessagehandler refcount issue fixed
    • PYSIDE-3078 QInputDialog get methods accept None as parent.
    • Cross-compile iOS and PySide6 is done. Now the test phase.
    • PYSIDE-2221 Free threading research continues.
      • disable-gil first tiny progress in bug hunting. Shiboken Cyclic test works now
      • Result used for generating locks in PySide constructors
      • still a few timeout errors and others

8. May 2025

  • General
    • Team returned form QtWS
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.9.1
  • Bugs & Features
    • Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt Graphs
    • Add some functionality to shiboken to accommodate 6.10
    • Free threading research continues by running intense stress tests
    • Ported QtCharts Audio example to Qt Graphs
    • Worked on PYSIDE-3092, issue regarding the collections import. However CI test failed unrelated to patch. Currently working on that.
    • No new update on the error the OpenGL/OpenGLES libraries, for cross-compiling iOS and PySide6

1. May 2025

  • Labor day, no labor to report

24. April 2025

  • General
    • QtWS talk approaching https://www.qt.io/qt-world-summit-2025
    • We are evaluating the possibility to sponsor a couple of Python conferences!
    • There will not be a Qt for Python session during QtCS
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.19 commercial LTS needs to go out next week, but we are investigating a few CI failures.
    • 6.5.9 commercial LTS will be released tomorrow.
    • 6.8 public branch is closed, moved to LTS
    • Raising python version from 3.8 to 3.10 on a testing ci configuration.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Moving new qml integration support content from pyside-setup to the new repository.
    • Type hints patches to fix PYSIDE-3007 PYSIDE-3012 PYSIDE-3029 (related to the constructors of a few classes, and properties)
    • PYSIDE-2352 iOS research: newer versions of Qt and Qt for iOS seems to fix a few issues we had while cross compiling. There is an issue with OpenGL support.
    • PYSIDE-2221 continue free threading research: an open discussion for ownership issues that were solved in a way that needs confirmation. Stress testing the solutions to avoid thread inconsistency problems.
    • Cleaning up new bug reports
    • PYSIDE-3067 newly discovered crash was fixed.
    • Utilities classes were submitted to avoid exceptions in some scenarios.
    • PYSIDE-3066 enumerations not restored in QVariant. External contributed.
    • PYSIDE-3061 Windows build issue.
    • PYSIDE-3069 Graphics item crash still being investigated.
    • More and more costumer cases are popping up, meaning the usage of PySide is growing :)
    • PYSIDE-3048 There is an enum issue with type hints that require them to be int. We are still discussing on what's the right solution.

17. April 2025

  • General
    • Easter break, we will back on Tuesday :D
  • Infra & Releases
    • qtpip new release planned, after changing the qt version to a previous one. There was an issue with SSL.
    • qtpip: we might align the build/test configuration on the CI to be consistent with PySide
    • Python 3.13 needs to be added to a CI configuration.
    • We might add a special non-blocking configuration for Free threaded python
    • Keeping in an eye on PEP751
  • Bugs & Features
    • Cleaning up some of the latest bug reports.
    • Addressing the webengine issue for the yocto builds.
    • PYSIDE-3061 Windows debug build failing on pyi generation
    • 6.10 adaption in the horizon.
    • Continue the disable-gil support
      • Checking the previous patches to see if they are still relevant, but it seems a few things changed.
      • There seems to be an issue with calling super with arguments
    • iOS support continues, the cross compilation process still has a few issues (QtCore).
    • There seems to be a few type hints issues that are still not fixed, due to not being too simple.
    • Removing tomlkit dependency from pyside6-project
    • multilib support for yocto builds

10. April 2025

  • General
    • Internal dry-run for our QtWS talk in a couple of weeks.
    • We don't have a session for the Qt Contributor Summit
    • We are looking forward to be around Akademy this year https://akademy.kde.org/
  • Infra & Releases
    • Maintenance break last Monday left some issues in the CI
    • PySide6_DS is missing from the qt org on pypi, will add later
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-3012 type hints: still working on the last issue.
    • PYSIDE-3021 type hints: was fixed
    • Continue the research on iOS support: still trying to cross compile pyside with a iOS python. Trying other deployment tools that could help us with the process. Dealing with the static/dynamic shiboken libs (static requirement from iOS)
    • Planning to make Qt Python Scripting available.
    • Addressing a couple of deployment issues
    • Brainstorming and creating our presentation for QtWS
    • Finalizing properties and tests for the new qml integrations.
    • PYSIDE-2221 continues: Testing different strategies to reach gil-less Thread Safety
      • - cannot simply replicate the GIL
      • - ongoing: automate the working bucket examples from nogil with cppgenerator

3. April 2025

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.8.3 and 6.9.0 were released.
    • Android wheels for 6.9.0 were generated differently for a CI NDK misconfiguration.
    • Flatpak releases are waiting for the webengine flatpack update first.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Adding property support for QML bridges
    • Minor changes to the deployment tool, and qtpip
    • Working on the presentation for QtWS
    • Continue the research for iOS support, it seems there are a few issues with the other frameworks that support it.
      • Distributing apps on iOS is tricky, it requires a Dev account ($$), with a free account you can only upload the app with a cable for 7 days, and then it expires (We wonder what would happen with data)
      • For uploading, you need to turn-on developer mode, which raises a message of "privacy being reduced"
      • iPad applications seems to have the same behavior.
    • Might check https://github.com/benfogle/crossenv and https://github.com/beeware/mobile-forge
    • PYSIDE-3059 was fixed
    • PYSIDE-3012 was updated with new suggestions
    • Free threading Python support continues PYSIDE-2221
      • A few changes we had for nogil are not necessary anymore.
      • Our mandelbrot example didn't show a good performance. After discussion with CPython core devs, there was an issue on Python 3.13.{1,2} (not on 3.13.0) that made some slowness. (On M1 it was 8x faster, but now it was 4.3x, the speed lost causes are still in research)
      • https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/131989

27. March 2025

  • General
    • A few comments on the state of the auto-generated documentation in our telegram group. We expect the community to help us by filing issues they find (per page) so we can try to address them.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Status of 6.8.3
      • Android NDK change is still updating. We might use some additional wheels for the release.
      • Flatpak update will be done as well.
    • Status of 6.9.0
      • New NDK is already there, and the tests have succeed.
      • Branching 6.9.0 today/tomorrow after last changes
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-3054 settrace bug was addressed, it was more important and difficult that we thought. Even some extra time was added to the import phase due to the recursion.
    • Leaving the handling of Exception aside for shiboken.
    • Type hints issues are still being addressed.
      • PYSIDE-3047 Debug option in Qt generates extra code in PySide, interfering with the wrappers. Function returns a qDebug rather than a QPolygon.
      • Other issues were addressed PYSIDE-3050 PYSIDE-3055 PYSIDE-3056 PYSIDE-3058
    • Research on project structures to be more compatible with Xcode
    • PYSIDE-3052 QMessageLogger and fix qInstallMessageHandler
    • Bumping the nuitka version we use for pyside-deploy (2.6.8)
    • Docs on debugging QtQuick app on QtCreator was missing a reference to create a QQmlDebuggingEnabler globally.
    • qtpip - download android commercial wheel shows wrong wheel name on stdout- being fixed.

20. March 2025

  • General
    • PyPI organizations accepted Qt!
    • We heard about https://wheelnext.dev/ it seems some ideas could be beneficial.
  • Infra & Releases
    • A few issues in our CI in the last weeks (fixed now)
    • Qt 6.8.3 new snapshot coming
    • Qt 6.9.0 (internal rc2 to test)
    • We will move 'dev' to use Python 3.10+
  • Bugs & Features
    • Windows on ARM wheels are ready after a couple of issues (linking) were fixed.
    • PYSIDE-3049 - Missing plugin for qmllint (fixed)
    • QML Bridges: Working on properties.
    • PYSIDE-3052 - QMessageLogger missing class (in progress)
    • Working on merging the contributions on QtRemoteObjects
    • PYSIDE-2854 - Support for [colocated objects|https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/632241] in shiboken (structs issue, might support c++ unions)
    • PYSIDE-3040 GTK Theming issue with PySide install
    • Qt 6.10 adaption continues
    • Speed of overriding methods (previously cached) - new fix is improving the performance, but duck-punching was not properly working.
      • Can this be excluded from the caching?
    • The list of new improvements for type hints keeps growing (which is good!) so many issues has been solved.
    • We might need to find a solution for the implicit conversions we do (like qdatetime/py_datetime)
    • Discussion about Optional and pointer arguments that have a default value.
    • Some property types (public class variables) are missing type information

13. March 2025

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Windows on ARM research continues and looks good! managed to fix an issue, but a new issues was found on samplebinding. The issue might be related to missing OpenGL.
    • 6.9.0rc might be released tomorrow, which means PySide6 FF will be due.
  • Bugs & Features

6. March 2025

  • General
    • Jaime's internal presentation will be next Monday at 11am
    • QtCS registration is up.
    • Discussion on IPC options for Qt developers.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.9 Qt for Python FF happening next week.
    • Windows on ARM deployment test failing.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Remote object contributions are going well, and we might merge them for 6.9
    • Binary size reduction research continued, but it seems we have reached the reduction we can, without touching the C++ side of our bindings.
    • PYSIDE-3012 Type hints issues were addressed (typing.Sequence -> typing.Collection) even if it is a simple change in theory, to change it internally and for our generation it took a lot of time.
      • Removing object-inheritance in the pyi files
      • White-space around equal operators issue (default parameters)
    • Update Widget Gallery example
    • Changed to adapt std::chrono patches in shiboken (identify overloads and choose the better option)
    • Cleaning up some bug reports, metamethod connection issue fixed.
    • Addressing some coverity issues for Designer
    • Started 6.10 adaption.
    • QML Next works continues.
    • Changes in the build system scripts are still in progress, some stuff is broken when used, but it's going in a good direction.
    • Finalizing the pyside6-project changes to adapt the pyproject.toml changes.
    • Addressing new found QtCreator issues with the pyproject.toml compatibility.

27. February 2025

  • General
    • Windows on ARM improving
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, investigating removing redundant overloads
    • PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, trying wrapper folding, needs massive reordering
    • PYSIDE-3012 replacement of typing.Sequence by collections.abc.Sequence
      • Identified incompatibility with Python < 3.9.8 and Python < 3.10.1, fixed by small patch
      • First change finally done, needs series of further changes
    • 6.10 adaption continues
    • PYSIDE 2942 Slot type annotation fix
    • QTBUG-132266 Checked the code on macOS that the user uploaded, no issues were found related to PySide or macOS.

20. February 2025

  • General
    • QtWS possible participation
    • QtCS has a priority of bringing more external contributors
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.9 RC February 28th (maybe postponed)
    • Windows on ARM test cases failing due to mypy fast cache (requires rust toolchain, that's currently missing from the CI). static libclang doesn't work on ARM builds (but does in x86_64).
    • RTA trials continue, possibility to use qtpip
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction for virtual functions patch was merged
    • PYSIDE-3002 painted virtual functions solved (even though we had our own opinion about performance)
    • 3020 SignalInstance disconnect issue fixed
    • Templates/snippets cleanup in the typesystem.
    • 6.10 adaption continues
    • QtCreator toml changes:
      • psyide6-project adaption to the latest changed related
    • QtDS changes postponed (to be available in QtDS 4.8)
    • PYSIDE-3017 QSerialBus overload order issue was fixed
    • PYSIDE-3012 Still addressing issues (CI currently failing)
    • qtqa improving the wheel testing process.
    • Brainstorming a better approach for QML Next
    • Finishing the folding patches, they don't make a lot of sense at the moment due to previous changes (being added into shiboken)


13. February 2025

  • General
    • Did you know Shiboken translates into "Death Sword"? 死某剣
    • QtCS happening after QtWS in Munich in early May.
    • Qt Design Studio integration (internal presentation) with Python to be prepared.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Windows on ARM research continues.
    • QtDS wheels to be updated for the new release
    • 6.9.0 RC by the end of the February.
    • RTA testing initiative to be restart
    • Evaluating scikit-core-build for replacing build_scripts/
  • Bugs & Features
    • Flatpak issue was solved (cleanup)
    • Brainstorming ideas for QML Next (preparing internal presentation)
    • Android wheel names to be adapted https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/platform-compatibility-tags/#android
    • Qt Creator finishing .toml support for Python Projects.
    • Qt DS Python changes ready to be merged
      • Tutorial changes to be prepared
    • Type hints heuristic evaluation in order to address newly found issues related to overloads with similar shape.
    • Handling of value-types in shiboken (refactoring, new features and doc)
    • PYSIDE-3005 OpenGL issues were fixed
    • PYSIDE-3013 Font issue was fixed
    • PYSIDE-3015 OpcUA support bug fixed
    • PYSIDE-3014 virtual function on QSpinBox issue fixed
    • 6.9 adaption patches
      • Found newly moc changes were breaking our enums
    • Size Reduction
      • hashing functions to re-use them.
      • changing the policy to use absolute size measure (sizebench)
      • Removing a few things from the folding patch, in order to merge it
    • PYSIDE-2997 and PYSIDE-3003 type hints issues were solved. A couple are still open.

6. February 2025

  • General
    • We went to FOSDEM and meet many PySide users!
    • Commercial / LTS naming on the Installer.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Reviewing our branching policies. There is interest in branching pyside-setup sooner.
    • We might need to move the Android wheels to PyPI (Probably from 6.9 on)
    • 6.8.2.1 release is planned in order to fix the missing DLLs in Windows (MSVC)
      • cheery pick is missing for 5.15
    • PySide6_DS 4.7 to be released in the next couple of weeks.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Adding TOML support for Python projects in QtCreator
    • TypeHints new reports, trying to get an idea of what's causing the errors
    • Issues in Flatpak: updating version, checking a cleanup issue. Addressing dependencies issues for optional packages.
    • QtQA internal scripting: Adapting an automatic wheel download.
    • Size reduction
      • Move virtual function overrides. Only generated on the base classes.
      • Discovered and fixed a few multiple inheritance with shiboken
    • Snippets translation tool: Trying to add a feature to use fully qualified enums.
    • clang-tidy warnings were fixes
    • Handling value types on non-default constructors (inspired by 6.9 changes)
    • Discussion on moving away out internal building process to scikit-build
    • Size reduction (folding approach): To publish first results soon.
    • Supporting team member with pyi session to understand the internal mechanism.
    • Ideas from the size reduction research were implemented
    • Changing the benchmark code for the size reduction (which might not include the new changes to shiboken)

30. January 2025

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.8.2
  • Bugs & Features
    • Size reduction PYSIDE-2701 : Implemented code reuse for Python overrides of virtual functions
    • QtPythonScripting: continue working on multiple inheritance, added more widgets
    • Size reduction: PYSIDE-2701 Folding progress: We can now combine multiple foldings of the same function. This will bring some more reduction.
    • Simplebrowser example updated
    • adding imageviewer docs

23. January 2025

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Windows on ARM configuration testing.
    • 6.8.2 scheduled release next week, and branching will happen today.
  • Bugs & Features
    • QtPythonScripting: continue working on Stable ABI support and multiple inheritance
    • [ext] 6.9 Designer release issues with macOS drag and drop + bug fixing
    • PYSIDE-2990 Slot Executed in Signal's Thread Even With Auto & QueuedConnection
      • People is getting the documentation from an outdated wiki page, which is causing new reports.
      • Wiki will be updated.
    • Size reduction: we generate a lot of code for parsing keyword arguments. The code was moved to libshiboken and the size was reduced 3%
      • Optimization reviews: it seems it's only the virtual functions, but not the actual bindings.
    • Size reduction: Windows is giving some issues for special characters, which seems to be also present in Linux.
    • Cross compiling and creating wheels with the new JNI classes bindings. Trying to test them in an emulator, found other issues.
    • pyside6-deploy/project and DS changes integrating, hopefully they will be merged today \o/
    • DS-only changes are still in review.
    • TOML integration - continue research on adding new format for python projects
    • QtGraphWidgets issue with yocto build was fixed.

16. January 2025

  • General
    • Highly probable that one of us will go to FOSDEM to help with the Qt Project stand! so if you /reader/ are going, drop by and say hi!
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.8.2 will be released on 23th January so far, so we expect providing the wheels in the following days.
    • 3.13 on the CI still on-going.
    • 6.5.4 OSS released
  • Bugs & Features
    • Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
      • It did built (and installed) for aarch64 and x86_64 but armv7a will be tried later on.
      • The main issue with this story was that it was bindings only for cross compiled pyside
    • Exploring toml compatibilities within QtCreator
    • DS patches still needs review.
    • Binary size work continues
      • 17% reduction so far, and this could be included in the future-features list.
      • Once is ready, we might provide an option to disable it to go back to the more readable wrapper code.
      • We might evaluate a template approach once the solution is out, to avoid maintaining regexes.
    • Remote Object reviews ready in order to merge changes (only a few details)
    • Qt Python Scripting
      • Multiple inheritance is not supported yet.
      • REPL function to help development
      • Research on Limited API usage.
      • find_python macro in 3.26 allow to find the stable abi
    • docstring changes in order to expose them as docstring per methods.
      • some experiment to add it to the pyi files, but it doesn't show.

09. January 2025

  • General
    • FOSDEM 2025: Qt got a stand!
    • Internal Hackathon going on.
  • Infra & Releases
    • https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/ got restructured and it's now very tidy
    • Preparing 6.8.2
    • 6.8.1.1 Windows and Linux wheels were uploaded for consistency thanks to user-reports when uploading only the 6.8.1.1 on macOS due to a missing module
    • Tests with 3.13 on the CI
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2966 Disabled instantiating non-instantiable classes
    • PYSIDE-1735 Examples and tests were ported to use fully qualified enumerations
    • Python Scripting continues (enable adding __repr__ functions)
    • Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
      • We might try a few new configurations for adding this bindings.
    • Tutorial for Boot2Qt and PySide apps deployment
    • Doc changes: adding comments for using uv
    • QML Next: still working on improved decorators for a smoother integration
    • Qt Remote Objects: Big set of patches by external contributor
    • Binary size reduction work continues with new ideas from other projects: folding, string handling, renaming, etc.
    • Yocto builds issues with LLVM still not solved.

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