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==2021==


=== 25. November 2021 ===
==2025==


* Releases and Infra
=== 5. June 2025 ===
** 6.2.2 next Tuesday
* General Topics
*** Quick3D and Universal wheels, Shared pointers None story.
** Bug Fixing week
** OpenGL issue solved for setup.py wheel creation (cmake builds are affected)
** KDE Akademy 2025 - We hope to be there!
** Research on 3.10.0 on Windows
** Checking other events we might participate.
* Bugs
** Checking out wheelnext: https://wheelnext.dev/
** PYSIDE-1710 problematic to keep compatibility with Python 2
** Should we really go full on Free threaded Python? https://discuss.python.org/t/is-free-threading-our-only-option/91775
*** wheel tester fails, let us stop testing on python 2
* Infra & Releases
** share smart pointer issues, comparison and nullptr
** 6.9.1 and 6.5.9 were released.
** 1715 crash is fixed
** Discussion about release practices for a commercial customer (medical)
** gallery tool issue with a jpeg file
*** How should we proceed with SBOMs? Will be tested in some time.
* Features
*** Qt-Security annotation for critical code https://contribute.qt-project.org/quips/23
** documentation warnings
**** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-135177
** brushing up some opengl code
* Bugs & Features
** creating a libpysideqml
** PYSIDE-3187 std::optional handling from new qt api (having an intrinsic type rather than a separate one)
** Continuing with the PyPy issues
** Trying QRangeModel for some Python examples. (new api in 6.10)
** Adapting to 6.10
** Virtual Keyboard issue: missing files for plugins issue was fixed
** PYSIDE-3112 android deployment issue
** Finishing the CMake config files for shiboken/pyside in order to get more options once it's installed. This might help us simplifying use cases like scriptableapplication.
** Updated flatpak package, and a new issue related to missing tools.
** iOS research
*** Managed to embed Python in an iOS application
*** there seems to be an issue with linking between so files
*** dynamics libs are needed, but removing a few .so files PySide is not recognized. When removing the frameworks ones, another issue appear, when having them both, there is also an issue.
*** We might need to re-think the OpenGL finds for iOS patches
** QtCreator wizard uses pyproject.toml


==== 18. November 2021 ====
=== 29. May 2025 ===
* General Topics
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.9.1, 6.5.9
** Further work adapting to 6.10, QRangeModel renamed from QGenericItemModel
* Bugs & Features
** Investigating improving support for std::optional [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3107 PYSIDE-3107]
** Progressing with shipping CMake configs with PySide6 and Shiboken6 wheels. Trickly resolving install time and packaging configuration. Had to resort to patch the CMake configs before packaging.
** QPropertyAnimation constructor annotations fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3012 PYSIDE-3012]
** Continued work on XCode and library binding, minor problems with Python libraries and trying to integrate PySide6 libraries.
** PYSIDE-2221: Status report is in progress for potential handover.
** PYSIDE-769:
*** Integration and activation of QtAsync tests into the test framework.
*** First implementation of a TCP transport; server tests are working.


* Releases and Infra
=== 22. May 2025 ===
** Issue with ubuntu 20.04 and libOpenGL.so.0 dependency seems to be in the pyside build and not Qt
* General Topics
** Using more cores in the CI now :)
** Some updates from PyConUS
** Apple Silicon story
** Qt Bridges: We might participate at Akademy
*** Issues with python provisioning on the CI
** Qt Bridges: We got an accepted talk https://ndctechtown.com/
** Research on the PyPy CI configuration
** Qt WS: Talk recording might be delayed to be public.
** 6.2.2 release at the end of the month
** PyCon IT: Going there to give a talk
* Bugs
** Windows on ARM is getting more attention from other companies.
** Shared pointer comparison issue
*** There is currently an issue with OpenGL (not being in Qt, hence not in Qt for Python)
** Another shared pointer type related issue
*** FreeCAD requires opengl for some reason :S
* Features
* Infra & Releases
** QmlUncreatable decorator
** 5.15.19 commercial LTS was released
** Adding Quick3D module (issue with qml registration)
** 6.9.1 postponed by a regression
** PyPy changes are getting closer to be fully working.
** 6.5.9 still pending (security fix)
** We might evaluate uv for CI
* Bugs & Features
** We will work on being more compatible with uv (shiboken issue finding dlls)
** iOS research: managed to cross compile the project, but there seems to be an issue still when trying to use it from XCode side of things. We might need to try the setup.py approach rather than CMake.
** API deprecations that needs to be handle: missing functions on the typesystem and in some test cases. QtXml (QDomDocument) missing new function needs to be added as well (overload issue). Some works needs to be done in the examples as well.
** Thoughts on limiting the disable gil solution that we have at the moment. There has been a lot of crashes and issues by implementing our own locking mechanism.
** QtAsyncIO has been brought up in some community discussions, so we might work more on this. There are many NotImplemented issues around, that would be good to have.
** Qt Python Scripting: Aiming for 6.11, and to find a place to distribute it. Due to the limitation of virtual functions, it's mostly about doing a bit of scripting on top of the Qt/C++ applications. Does it justify it to be a new Qt module? maybe we could use Qt solutions. We need another person to check the API, to have a second opinion.
*** There are some ideas of virtual-function override from pybind11, but then we would require shiboken ownership mechanisms, that will increase dependencies (and size)
*** Release process of qt-modules is strict.
** PYSIDE-2193 variance in QML Properties. QVariant/PyObjects issues were found and fixed.
** Got interest of doing RTA internally, that's generating more reports.
** CMake relocation files shipping that are not being included anymore (headers or cmake files), but got required by Qt Bridges.
** New cmake variables are being required for Qt Bridges.
** Message handler changes are still pending for CI issues.


==== 11. November 2021 ====
=== 15. May 2025 ===


* Releases and Infra
* Infra & Releases
** Apple Silicon CI to be ready soon
** Preparing 6.9.1
** Windows CI machines slowness to be addressed
** Released 6.5.9
** To enable Python 3.10 in a CI configuration
* Bugs & Features
** Research about adding PyPy as a CI configuration
** Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt
* Bugs
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2193 PYSIDE-2193] QML property related crash fixed
** PYSIDE-1520 (related 1675) handling slots type hints
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3098 PYSIDE-3098] NumPy problem with Sequence/Iterable conflict in 6.10 solved
* Features
** qinstallmessagehandler refcount issue fixed
** Standard containers
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3078 PYSIDE-3078] QInputDialog get methods accept None as parent.
** Properly handling sets between C++ and Python
** Cross-compile iOS and PySide6 is done. Now the test phase.
** Adding new QML references examples and new Decorators (still in research)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 PYSIDE-2221] Free threading research continues.
** Planning restructuring of libpyside to not be qml dependant
*** disable-gil first tiny progress in bug hunting. Shiboken Cyclic test works now
** Move to Python enum: Roadmap is fixed, tests started
*** Result used for generating locks in PySide constructors
** PyPy, finding new things and discuss with the team.
*** still a few timeout errors and others
*** Improved the pending failing test by fixing a issue on PyCFunction (99 before, 76 to go)


==== 4. November 2021 ====
=== 8. May 2025 ===


* Releases and Infra
* General
** 5.15 commercial LTS problems were solved.
** Team returned form QtWS
** Apple Silicon wheels still in progress
* Infra & Releases
*** changing the way we provision Python on the CI
** Preparing 6.9.1
** Directory structure for snapshot (internal) installation
* Bugs & Features
* Features
** Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt Graphs
** default expr handling fixes
** Add some functionality to shiboken to accommodate 6.10
** memory leak on the keyword arguments handling fixed
** Free threading research continues by running intense stress tests
** Default templates for containers in progress
** Ported QtCharts Audio example to Qt Graphs
** PyPy changes in the progress, learning by doing.
** Worked on PYSIDE-3092, issue regarding the collections import. However CI test failed unrelated to patch. Currently working on that.
*** Finding new issues on both sides, getting in touch with pypy team
** No new update on the error the OpenGL/OpenGLES libraries, for cross-compiling iOS and PySide6
* Bugs
** Issues with the latest MSVC2019 updates are fixed (typedefs)
** Issues found related QSet and set/list transformation
** PYSIDE-1670 singleShot -> single_shot function/property
** Improving the signature module system
** Enums of PySide are still in C++, but they could be moved to Python.


==== 28. October 2021 ====
=== 1. May 2025 ===


* Releases and Infra
* Labor day, no labor to report
** CI is under maintenance
** 6.2.1 released
** Commercial LTS 5.15.7 to be released
*** merge from lts to commercial
* Features
** PYSIDE-535: PyPy compatibility, object lifecycles differences with CPython, managed to solve other errors. Removed lld regression. Currently solving Signal&Slots problems. Checking large patches for using pypy as a build target. Py_FromSpect implementation still missing.
** Default function arguments qualifications in progress
** PYSIDE-1666 Container Templates for shiboken
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1669: addPixmap str arguments
** PYSIDE-1675: mypy compatibility, improvement on the error messages for generic types.
** PYSIDE-1670: __feature__: handle properties with function overloads
** PYSIDE-1431: equality check of some signal/instances fails
** PYSIDE-1695: Flags comparison issue
** PYSIDE-1697: Memory leak


==== 21. October 2021 ====
=== 24. April 2025 ===


* General
* General
** QtWS Talk: Hybrid Qt Development: boosting your projects with Python https://www.qt.io/qtws21
** 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
** 6.2.1 release is coming
** 5.15.19 commercial LTS needs to go out next week, but we are investigating a few CI failures.
** universal wheels might come in later versions.
** 6.5.9 commercial LTS will be released tomorrow.
** Discussion on incremental wheels to install more things on site-packages/PySide6
** 6.8 public branch is closed, moved to LTS
** Performance issues on the CI were fixed
** Raising python version from 3.8 to 3.10 on a testing ci configuration.
* Bugs
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1691 Adding Cbor
** Moving new qml integration support content from pyside-setup to the new repository.
** Complementation for Opaque Containers
** Type hints patches to fix PYSIDE-3007 PYSIDE-3012 PYSIDE-3029 (related to the constructors of a few classes, and properties)
* Features
** 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.
** PyPy compatibility work continues
** 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.
** MyPy compatibility work continues
** Cleaning up new bug reports
** Add bluetooth scanner example
** 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.


==== 14. October 2021 ====
=== 17. April 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Bug fixing week
** Easter break, we will back on Tuesday :D
** New contributors from Hacktoberfest
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.1 release is approaching
** qtpip new release planned, after changing the qt version to a previous one. There was an issue with SSL.
** We need to setup a new provisioning for Apple Silicon wheels.
** qtpip: we might align the build/test configuration on the CI to be consistent with PySide
** Splitting wheels research.
** Python 3.13 needs to be added to a CI configuration.
* Bugs
** We might add a special non-blocking configuration for Free threaded python
** PYSIDE-1685 Font families
** Keeping in an eye on PEP751
** Addressing flaky tests
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-656 raising exceptions related to mouse events
** Cleaning up some of the latest bug reports.
** PYSIDE-1669 QIcon.addPixmap issue with argument 'str'
** Addressing the webengine issue for the yocto builds.
* Features
** PYSIDE-3061 Windows debug build failing on pyi generation
** Implicit conversion in Shiboken
** 6.10 adaption in the horizon.
*** Get list of invalid usages from wrappers
** Continue the disable-gil support
*** From 6.3/6.4 enable the option.
*** Checking the previous patches to see if they are still relevant, but it seems a few things changed.
** Render control example
*** There seems to be an issue with calling super with arguments
** PyPy compatibility work continues
** iOS support continues, the cross compilation process still has a few issues (QtCore).
** Improve mypy compatibility will continue
** 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


==== 07. October 2021 ====
=== 10. April 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Blog post published https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-release-6.2
** Internal dry-run for our QtWS talk in a couple of weeks.
** Progress regarding a better cross compilation story
** We don't have a session for the Qt Contributor Summit
** Apple Silicon wheels needs some testing
** We are looking forward to be around Akademy this year https://akademy.kde.org/
** PyPi wheel size issue due to macOS wheels having Universal Binaries and new modules
* Infra & Releases
*** Thinking on how to generate wheels for intel and apple silicon without them being too large.
** Maintenance break last Monday left some issues in the CI
*** Maybe split the wheels into essential modules
** PySide6_DS is missing from the qt org on pypi, will add later
*** Maybe create dependencies groups
* Bugs & Features
** 2 more weeks until we move to use Qt dev on the CI
** PYSIDE-3012 type hints: still working on the last issue.
* Release and Infra
** PYSIDE-3021 type hints: was fixed
** COIN updates and some speed issues.
** 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)
** Making bug-fix releases from LTS soon to follow the KDE Qt Free Software agreement.
** Planning to make Qt Python Scripting available.
* Features
** Addressing a couple of deployment issues
** Signal & Slot tutorial to be available in 6.2.1, and hopefully more tutorials
** Brainstorming and creating our presentation for QtWS
** Refactoring and cleanup on the primitive types.
** Finalizing properties and tests for the new qml integrations.
** Fixing PYSIDE-1673 and PYSIDE-1664
** PYSIDE-2221 continues: Testing different strategies to reach gil-less Thread Safety
** Add qml reference example
*** - cannot simply replicate the GIL
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy development still continues
*** - ongoing: automate the working bucket examples from nogil with cppgenerator
** PYSIDE-656 old issue found, that's related to PyPy development.
* Bugs
** Signals are missing from the Class documentation in 6.2.1


==== 30. September 2021 ====
=== 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


* Release and Infra
=== 27. March 2025 ===
** We expect a release on time with respect to Qt
* General
** Release blog post almost ready
** 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.
** M1 wheels are still in progress.
* Infra & Releases
* Features
** Status of 6.8.3
** Add section to https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_6.2 to highlight features
*** Android NDK change is still updating. We might use some additional wheels for the release.
** built-in types included into shiboken
*** Flatpak update will be done as well.
** adding wstring support in shiboken, extending limited api a bit.
** Status of 6.9.0
** Integrating PyPy related changes that don't affect Python functionality
*** New NDK is already there, and the tests have succeed.
* Bugs
*** Branching 6.9.0 today/tomorrow after last changes
** changelog tool using textwrap for better formatting
* Bugs & Features
** adapting examples and other minor revisions.
** 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.
** Working on Nuitka testing
** 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.


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


* Release and Infra
=== 13. March 2025 ===
** Preparation for 6.2
* Features
** PyPy compatibility is still in progress due to unexpected complications.
** WebChannel module is in plus the markdowneditor example
** Built-in types improvements in shiboken
** Cleaning the old suppress messages from the build
** Examples and tutorials were added.
* Bugs
** QSurfaceDataArray issue when handling copies


==== 16. September 2021 ====
* 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
** 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
** Many new type hints bugs being reported :)
** Smart pointers exclusion issues fixed (shiboken)
** Designer and Linguist tools fixes (External)
** Helping the remoteobject contributions to work better.
** Documentation checks and 6.10 adaption.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 Going back to the free threaded Python topic in PySide
*** 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.


* Release & Infra
=== 6. March 2025 ===
** Mostly focusing on having 6.2 on time
* Bugs
** 1659 QUiLoader issue with connecting signals based on strings.
** 1660 Taking care of native C++ and Python types in the typesystem
* Features
** Opaque containers improved
** SbkObjectType was removed, and an alias was left to PyObjectType
** PyPy Support: heavy refactoring required for compatibility. Rewrites, and many other fixes.
*** Inheritance seems to be the more problematic bit at the moment (__new__)


==== 09. September 2021 ====
* 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.


* Releases & Infra
=== 27. February 2025 ===
** Commercial LTS 5.15.6 was released yesterday.
* General
** 6.1.3 is already out.
** Windows on ARM improving
** Some progress on the M1 wheels
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, investigating removing redundant overloads
** CoAP issue made us discover other flaws in shiboken that are fixed.
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, trying wrapper folding, needs massive reordering
** Sanitizing options needs more research.
** PYSIDE-3012 replacement of typing.Sequence by collections.abc.Sequence
* Features
*** Identified incompatibility with Python < 3.9.8 and Python < 3.10.1, fixed by small patch
** Updates to the docs before 6.2
*** First change finally done, needs series of further changes
** Opaque containers still in progress
** 6.10 adaption continues
** Adding new API to be compatible with PyCallable (QThreadPool)
** PYSIDE 2942 Slot type annotation fix
** Progress on the PyPy compatibility effort
** QTBUG-132266 Checked the code on macOS that the user uploaded, no issues were found related to PySide or macOS.
** Moving away from distutils to setuptools
 
==== 02. September 2021 ====
 
* Releases & Infra
** Commercial LTS 5.15.6 should be out soon
** 6.1.3 should be ready today/tomorrow
** starting migration from distutils to setuptools.
* Bugs
** OpenGL types issues working with macOS now (to test further examples)
** Triaging
** Shiboken issues when snippets and function collection with same names (QCoapClient::disconnect and QObject::disconnect)
** PYSIDE-1646 signature mapping issues with OpenGL types
* Features
** PYSIDE-1650 QAccesibility missing API
** Continue research on opaque containers
** PYSIDE-1436 Continue fixing things towards a full 3.10 compatibility (fixing refcounts)
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy compatibility still in progress (many bugs to be tackled)
 
==== 26. August 2021 ====
 
* Releases
** Commercial 5.15.6 LTS is being prepared.
** 6.1.3 might be delay a couple of days due to a couple of high prio bugs that were fixed.
* Bugs
** Fixing the OpenGL issues of missing GL* types
** Removing QtQuick classes that were blocking the CI
** Addressing errors on debug mode.
* Features
** Planning fixes for Nuitka to get a better support.
 
====19. August 2021 ====
 
* Bugs
** Various fixes in four patches for Python 3.10
** Bug from 2012 found in shiboken tests after three days debugging Python 3.10
* Features
** Python 3.10 support is totally ready
 
====12. August 2021====


=== 20. February 2025 ===
* General
** QtWS possible participation
** QtCS has a priority of bringing more external contributors
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Maintenance break
** 6.9 RC February 28th (maybe postponed)
** Still looking into universal binary wheels (some tests failing)
** 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).
** Preparing new releases.
** RTA trials continue, possibility to use qtpip
* Bugs
* Bugs & Features
** Threading/lock issues with QInputDialog and QAbstractSocket
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction for virtual functions patch was merged
** Stripping down shiboken installation files
** PYSIDE-3002 painted virtual functions solved (even though we had our own opinion about performance)
* Features
** 3020 SignalInstance disconnect issue fixed
** Moving important new patches from dev to 6.1 (tricky due the changes we have in dev atm)
** Templates/snippets cleanup in the typesystem.
** Continuing the test of 3.10
** 6.10 adaption continues
** Addressing new pyi issues
** 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)


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


====29. July 2021====
=== 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
* Infra & Releases
** Universal binaries still in research
** Windows on ARM research continues.
** Some errors were found on the CI debug configuration
** QtDS wheels to be updated for the new release
** COIN has some network issues.
** 6.9.0 RC by the end of the February.
* Bugs
** RTA testing initiative to be restart
** Refactoring and small issues.
** Evaluating scikit-core-build for replacing build_scripts/
** feature: fix the UIC switching problem
* Bugs & Features
** Documentation seems outdated in some places, so fix are coming.
** Flatpak issue was solved (cleanup)
* Features
** Brainstorming ideas for QML Next (preparing internal presentation)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605
** Android wheel names to be adapted https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/platform-compatibility-tags/#android
** Removing signature loader files to integrate them into the module.
** Qt Creator finishing .toml support for Python Projects.
 
** Qt DS Python changes ready to be merged
====22. July 2021====
*** Tutorial changes to be prepared
* Infrastructure
** Type hints heuristic evaluation in order to address newly found issues related to overloads with similar shape.
** Work on OSX11/universal binaries
** Handling of value-types in shiboken (refactoring, new features and doc)
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-3005 OpenGL issues were fixed
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1629 QML crash
** PYSIDE-3013 Font issue was fixed
** Debugging https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1626 (snakecase + uic)
** PYSIDE-3015 OpcUA support bug fixed
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1625 exec_ regression
** PYSIDE-3014 virtual function on QSpinBox issue fixed
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1623 missing docs
** 6.9 adaption patches
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1621 Windows problem fixed by removing temp files
*** Found newly moc changes were breaking our enums
** Debugging memory leaks
** Size Reduction
* Features
*** hashing functions to re-use them.
** Research on  https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605 (directly wrapping C++ containers instead of converting them)
*** changing the policy to use absolute size measure (sizebench)
** Prototype/Discuss: Remove signature loader completely from physical FS (6.2 I guess)
*** Removing a few things from the folding patch, in order to merge it
* Other
** PYSIDE-2997 and PYSIDE-3003 type hints issues were solved. A couple are still open.  
** Fixed up documentation for 6.2
** Fixed overload handling in shiboken due to https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/359671
 
====15. July 2021====


=== 6. February 2025 ===
* General
** We went to FOSDEM and meet many PySide users!
** Commercial / LTS naming on the Installer.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** CI has some issues related to qtbase and Windows
** Reviewing our branching policies. There is interest in branching pyside-setup sooner.
* Bugs
** We might need to move the Android wheels to PyPI (Probably from 6.9 on)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 Issues when transforming Macros to Functions, leaks were found
** 6.8.2.1 release is planned in order to fix the missing DLLs in Windows (MSVC)
** Fix memory leaks in shiboken
*** cheery pick is missing for 5.15
** QMultiMap and QMultiHash was not properly handle (defaultdict) | behavioral change
** PySide6_DS 4.7 to be released in the next couple of weeks.
*** Before it was a a normal dict, with the last value (all the other values were not preserved)
* Bugs & Features
* Features
** Adding TOML support for Python projects in QtCreator
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1252 support classmethods in signatures and properties (static methods become properties, and that's the relation with classmethods)
** TypeHints new reports, trying to get an idea of what's causing the errors
** Adding QtDBus (QPendingReply is missing) and QtNetworkAuth modules
** Issues in Flatpak: updating version, checking a cleanup issue. Addressing dependencies issues for optional packages.
** Tools like qdbusxml2cpp is not supported yet.
** QtQA internal scripting: Adapting an automatic wheel download.
** Remote Objects getting some contributions.
** Size reduction
** Refreshing QML code and good practices, adding new examples, etc
*** Move virtual function overrides. Only generated on the base classes.
** WIP qmlRegisterSingletonInstance and research on QML_NAMED_ELEMENT
*** Discovered and fixed a few multiple inheritance with shiboken
** Improve docs: icons, style, content.
** 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)


====08. July 2021====
=== 30. January 2025 ===


* General
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Planning next releases.
** Preparing 6.8.2
* Bugs
* Bugs & Features
** 1334 .connect returns now a bool to verify the connection.
** Size reduction [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] : Implemented code reuse for Python overrides of virtual functions
** 1613 logging level
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on multiple inheritance, added more widgets
** 1618 session manager issue (Qt bug)
** Size reduction: PYSIDE-2701 Folding progress: We can now combine multiple foldings of the same function. This will bring some more reduction.
** 1619 discussion on accepting the QSettings.value (still in progress)
** Simplebrowser example updated
* Features
** adding imageviewer docs
** lupdate now has support for Python, and will be available in 6.2 (+ docs)
=== 23. January 2025 ===
** adding new API for WebEngine
** gettext tutorial
** pathlib support continues (QUrl)
** PyPy compatibility: still addressing the issues related to the type extensions.
** ApiExtractor: add classmethod attribute to add-function for tr()
** Attempting to expose QtDBus
** Improving docs and tutorials
** Experimenting with python-only modules.


====01. July 2021====
* General
** [https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kconfig/-/jobs/2497118 KDE testing Qt betas and snapshots]
*** Should we update our Branching policy?
*** Our branching policy:
**** We branch briefly after API Review is done in qt meta repo.
** Yocto libclang issue - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/609352
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.1.2 ready to go out
** Windows on ARM configuration testing.
** Trying CI debug configuration
** 6.8.2 scheduled release next week, and branching will happen today.
* Bugs
* Bugs & Features
** Documentation broken links, and improve Designer tutorials.
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on Stable ABI support and multiple inheritance
** PYSIDE-1609 findChild fixed
** [ext] 6.9 Designer release issues with macOS drag and drop + bug fixing
** PYSIDE-1370 QSharedMemory fixed
** PYSIDE-2990 Slot Executed in Signal's Thread Even With Auto & QueuedConnection
** PYSIDE-131 Translations issues fixed (with the problem that we don't have lupdate support on PySide6)
*** People is getting the documentation from an outdated wiki page, which is causing new reports.
** QtSensors issues on the CI due to update solved.
*** Wiki will be updated.
* Features
** Size reduction: we generate a lot of code for parsing keyword arguments. The code was moved to libshiboken and the size was reduced 3%
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy Support still on going.
*** Optimization reviews: it seems it's only the virtual functions, but not the actual bindings.
** Adding more missing classes.
** Size reduction: Windows is giving some issues for special characters, which seems to be also present in Linux.
** Analysing deployment scenario for PySide applications.
** 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.


====24. June 2021====
=== 16. January 2025 ===
* Feedback from Akademy 2021 sessions
** Tutorials on the Designer process, and other process that might be simple for Qt users, but unknown for Python users.
** More examples on the QML - Python interaction.
** Improve documentation
** Qt Creator support
** Template tool
* Release and Infra
** 6.1.2 coming next week.
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-131 in progress, related to translation with automatic language tools.
* Features
** Trying to address issues related to PyPy (type declaration, and extension structure)
** Add new qml functions (update missing binding)
** Multimedia changes
** WebEngine is partially in the repo.


====17. June 2021====
* General
* Release and Infra
** 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!
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5
* Infra & Releases
** New Debug VM setup ready to test
** 6.8.2 will be released on 23th January so far, so we expect providing the wheels in the following days.
** Testing new architecture to handle universal binaries on M1 machines
** 3.13 on the CI still on-going.
* Bugs
** 6.5.4 OSS released
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1599 PYSIDE-1599] Issue with .pyi files on the CI (to test them) is now fixed, considering wrong signatures that we had and didn't detect.
* Bugs & Features
** Seems like there is something going on with the --quiet options and log levels.
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
** Cleaning old bugs that were invalid
*** It did built (and installed) for aarch64 and x86_64 but armv7a will be tried later on.
* Feature
*** The main issue with this story was that it was bindings only for cross compiled pyside
** Qt6 API adaption
** Exploring toml compatibilities within QtCreator
** There are some corner cases with pathlib that need to be documented and fixed.
** DS patches still needs review.
** Changes to rely on qtpath instead of qmake (from qt6 changes)
** Binary size work continues
** Testing aarch64 and M1 builds
*** 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.


====10. June 2021====
=== 09. January 2025 ===
* Release and Infra
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5 rescheduled for next week.
** Trying to build 6.2, figuring differences between CentOS and RH (ldd issues)
** Discussion to improve commercial offering installation.
* Bugs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1593 pyi issue (and improvement too)
** Fixing issues related to --/++ operators
* Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499 pathlib support (ready for review)
** Adding many missing classes, enums, etc.
** Adapting QtMultimedia new module and API
** Discussion on Handling native interfaces.
* Events
** Akademy participation (external talk)
** Qt Contributor Summit https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributors_Summit_2021_-_Program


====03. June 2021====
* General
* Release and Infra
** FOSDEM 2025: Qt got a stand!
** Qt 6.1.1 scheduled for Friday (might be release next week)
** Internal Hackathon going on.
** Commercial LTS 5.15.5 scheduled for the 10th.
* Infra & Releases
** Research on M1 build on the CI
** https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/ got restructured and it's now very tidy
*** Locally it works: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1535
** Preparing 6.8.2
*** Wheels might be affect (universal binaries are too large)
** 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
** Debug build on Windows to be tested.
** Tests with 3.13 on the CI
** The possibility of releasing Docker images is being addressed
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2966 PYSIDE-2966] Disabled instantiating non-instantiable classes
** Smaller bugs (PYSIDE-1584, PYSIDE-1585 not reproduceable)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] Examples and tests were ported to use fully qualified enumerations
** Discussion finished https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1567
** Python Scripting continues (enable adding __repr__ functions)
** Issues with XML interface to Python https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1588
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
** Class properties fix and refined code.
*** We might try a few new configurations for adding this bindings.
** Multi-inheritance still in progress.
** Tutorial for Boot2Qt and PySide apps deployment
* Features
** Doc changes: adding comments for using uv
** Small cleanups and fixes
** QML Next: still working on improved decorators for a smoother integration
** Added more API (PYSIDE-1586) for qtbase for starters
** Qt Remote Objects: Big set of patches by external contributor
** Working on native interfaces (PYSIDE-1568)
** Binary size reduction work continues with new ideas from other projects: folding, string handling, renaming, etc.
** pathlib support https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
** Yocto builds issues with LLVM still not solved.
*** File system paths in Qt are supported
** Discussion on new repo structure.


====27. May 2021====
==2024==


* Release and Infra
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2024]]
** 5.15.5 LTS (Commercial only) release planned.
** 6.1.1 to be release soon.
** Debug build on Windows (using python_d.exe and pass '--debug' when building, and remove the '--limited-api=yes')
** Research: M1 build CI testing
* Features
** Improvements to the general pyi generator, and features.
** pathlib compatibility still in progress
** Shiboken documentation: unused code
* Bugs
** Multiple inheritance issues, when using explicit and implicit calls to parent constructors (super() vs Class)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1563 (QImage related)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1573 (QML related)
* Changelog policy
** [Changelog] This class will act like..., to be used for important changes.
* Research
** performance tests
** Tool: report new classes per Qt versions.
** Missing Qt API
** new structure cmake/build


====20. May 2021====
==2023==


* 6.2 considerations (checking on newly added modules, examples, tests)
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]
* Added textedit example
* Features
** PYSIDE-1415 Make `generate_pyi.py` usable for any binding - checked in
** PYSIDE-1019 __feature__: Support generation of modified .pyi files - done, needs cleanup
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
*** working patch written but wrong, the problem is much harder since we need to call __init__ along the MRO and handle keyword args.
** PYSIDE-229 Signal disconnect fails in multiple inheritance situation
*** postponed until the above problem is solved since it voids all debugging done


====13. May 2021====
==2022==


* No meeting due to holiday
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1566 Designer plugins don't work on macOS - solved & checked in
** PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
*** Problem isolated, in progress (needs quite some change)
** - Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
* Features
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415 waiting for check-in
** - PYSIDE-1436 Support Python 3.10 - some progress
** - pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
** - PyPy compatibility stalled - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535


====06. May 2021====
==2021==
* Infra & Release
** 6.1 postponed for next Thursday
*** Reverting NumPy integration (made it experimental feature, due to problem with shared library)
*** Qt Designer Plugin (not compatible with Limited API)
*** Update changelog
*** Cherry pick exec related changes.
*** oss/6.1 tqtc/6.1 (to be created)
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1404 improvements
** Property docs - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1513
** __feature__ at the end - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1548
** Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
* Features
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415
** pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
** PyPy compatibility in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** Discussion on keyword-support arguments in shiboken - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1555
** Possible adoption of "/" in signatures.
 
====29. April 2021====
* Infra & Release
** Expected 6.0.4, 6.1, and 5.15.4(LTS) for next week.
** Creating 6.1 soon
*** Enable macOS testing
*** Property documentation
*** Adding glibc version to linux wheel
* Bugs
** Fixing documentation issues
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1425
** New discoveries with https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229 not so simple (memory related)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1264 still pending.
* Features
** Refactoring in general (import *) stuff.
** Cleaning and updating tests and examples
** Discussion on https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1380
 
====22. April 2021====
* Infra & Release
** 6.0.4 release was postponed, but we are on time.
** 6.1 is on track.
*** wheel name to support more than 1 binary for linux.
** Starting to try the new CI macOS machines.
* Bugs
** Minor fixes
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1409
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229
* Features
** Numpy QtChart compatibility
** PyPy compatibility https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** Looking into other module compatibilities
** Improve documentation for Property use in QML
** Improve the generate_pyi script
 
====15. April 2021====
 
* Infrastructure
** Setting on track the content of OSS and commercial wheels.
** Qt addons distribution will change in 6.1 and 6.2, so we need to keep an eye on that.
** New macOS machines for the CI
* Documentation update process to be improved.
* Bugs
** There were some problems with the default encoding and the doc build process (python version related)
** 1529 fixed, and other issues (QPointF), 1514 QPainter, 1503 QCharts.
* Features
** Improving examples to use new features and refreshing the code base.
** Performance examples to compare C++ and Python
** Reformatting some code base to use f-strings and warning
** New tutorials in progress based on Model View
** Internal Qt Hackathon
*** Focused on integration with matplotlib (Performance discussion)
*** Scripting C++ applications.
 
====08. April 2021====
* No meeting
 
====01. April 2021====
 
* Deployment story
** Add new test for Nuitka (on macOS)
** Update the tutorials, since PyInstaller and cx_Freeze seems to be partially working on Qt6.
** Higher versions from macOS are more restrictive for the bundles that are generated. This leads to new breakage.
* Preparation for 6.0.3 release
* Bug
** PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka compile methods/functions is done
** PYSIDE-1338 Hiding confusing feature frame entries
** Wheel Tester to be improved.
* Features
** pathlib features still in progress.
** Porting more examples to snake_case
** Check snippets_translator tool.
** Make generate_pyi as a generic tool to be merged.
 
====25. March 2021====
 
* Infra
** Evaluation to change the wheel names to specify glibc version for 6.1
** CI issues still with macOS
* Features
** Refactoring examples (snake_case)
** Updating deployment docs.
** PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka, support for compiled functions.
** PYSIDE-1415 make the generate_pyi more general
** PYSIDE-1449 pathlib compatibility
** Improvements on the documentation, tutorials, and examples.
** Enabling snippet translator into the doc building process.
* Bugs
** Fix crash from the new Network components.
** Triage and some other fixes.
** PYSIDE-1502 Compiling pyside2 with build target does not result in PySide2 `support` module being installed
** PYSIDE-1524 warning related to sprintf
** PYSIDE-1019 1038 hidden imports, properties, other fixes.
** There seems to be some problems with PyInstaller on macOS
 
====18. March 2021====
 
* Infra
** CI has been showing some issues. 12h timeouts for macOS.
** Soon to have 6.1 branch
** Synchronization of the commercial repository with latest Qt.
* Features
** Improving commercial tools.
** Finding issues and getting ideas to improve the docs.
** Using new qttools directory
** Add option to not copy qt tools to the wheel when building.
** pathlib compatibility patch still on-going
** improvements to the documentation, adding 'doc' directory to each example.
* Bugs
** OpenGLFunctions issues (mailing list announcement)
** PYSIDE-1520 Union types
** PYSIDE-1514 Shiboken module movement patches had some issues, which will be fixed
** PYSIDE-1502 Working on improving the __feature__ option to make them safer in diff installation errors.
** PYSIDE-1019 feature import problem (found in PYSIDE-1338) waiting for review
 
====11. March 2021====
 
* Infra
** 6.0.2 is out
** 5.15.3 still pending
** Trying to update dependencies for 6.1 (modules)
** auditwheel (research, optional)
** COIN seems to be acting weird, but generally.
* Features
** cleanup snippets and general things in shiboken
** license changes for LTS
** Adding clarifications to the docs.
** Discussion on the proper build processes.
* Bugs
** 1438 Visualization issue
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1516
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1514 shiboken renaming causes an issue for copying files to the wheel.
** Show the __feature__ issues on the traceback.
 
====5. March 2021====
 
*General Topics
**6.0.2 release preparations
***Final fix for license checking instructions
***OSS RC1 wheels should be available for testing later today
***Merge from pyside-setup/6.0 into tqtc-pyside-setup/6.0 is pending that final fix
**Bugs
*** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1438 PYSIDE-1438] Crash in Qt DataVisualisation adressed
*** Bug triage, moved several bugs over to Qt
**Features
*** Cleanup and improvement of injected code snippets in PySide6
*** Improvements in error handling
 
====25. February 2021====
 
*General Topics
**Commercial 5.15.3 release next week.
**6.0.2 release next week.
*Infra updates
**Keep an eye on the next Python releases.
*Features
**Documentation for the designer plugin
**shiboken: c++ using directive
**pathlib compatibility support discussion (initial implementation was discarded)
***Trying to discover all the methods that are related to paths.
*Bugs
**cx_Freeze issues in 6.0.0/1
 
====18. February 2021====
 
*General Topics
**Commercial LTS 5.15.3 release.
**DeveloperWeek conference talk by Corey: will mention Qt for Python.
*Infra Update
**TBD: Need of a new branch in qt5.git for the lts qt for python release.
*Features
**pathlib.Path (soon to be ready) and fspath support (difficult) in pyside
**__feature__ documentation
**Designer patches are done (we still need docs)
**documentation generation fixes.
**shiboken: general refactoring (constructors)
**doc: examples code in tabs
**doc: new ideas for tutorials and vocabulary.
 
====11. February 2021====
 
*General topics
**Issues with Pick-to: 5.15
**Discussion about the usage of pathlib
**Reduce linux wheel size by not including .debug files.
*Infra update
**Timeouts in RHEL
**Preparing addons for 6.1
*Bugs
**Fixing many issues related to sphinx, and documentation in general.
*Features
**Moving the internal shiboken6.shiboken6.Shiboken to shiboken6.Shiboken 1497
**Will be finish today (Documentation about the __feature__ options) PYSIDE-1481
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 usage of constructor properties when enabling true_property
**Migration to pathlib in our code, and add support for fspath in our API, https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
**Examples gallery embedded into the doc building process.
**Designer patch ready for review.
**Commercial tools on-going (icons discussion)
**(in progress) Error handling in shiboken
 
====4. February 2021====
 
*General topics
**6.0.1 release is on its way (the wheels will include the Qt3D modules and the ImageFormat plugins, which were missing in 6.0.0)
**Changelog structure in Qt vs what we have now
**Zombie 5.15 patches to be re-generated or cherry-picked to lts-5.15
*Infra update
**Maintenance update went better.
**COIN update is coming next week.
*Bugs
**(almost done) Shiboken internal namespace renaming.
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1478
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1487
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481
*Features
**M2M Protocols modules rebase
**Shiboken UI rebase
**Custom Widget designer compatibility
**Snippet converter tool
 
====28. January 2021====
 
*Infra update
**'dev' we are missing tests on macOS (in progress). Qt5 bin on macOS 11, and running test on 10.15/13
**trying to build pyside on a custom Qt (with plugins/addons) oss and commercial
*Bugs
**Due to the shiboken module naming issue
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481 __feature__ documentation
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476 PySide Property declaration creates properties with the setter name of the function
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 constructors info in the stubs (other issues appeared)
***All the future fix related to stubs rely on the change
***there might be some issues with relying only on the install dir and not build.
*Features
**refactoring shiboken
**statmachine module rebirth
**designer patches to include custom widgets.
**enabling clang_options on shiboken
*Branching story
**lts-5.15 issues
***Fix pyside-setup/5.15 and do all the merges     (done)                                        
***Merge pyside-setup/5.15 into tqtc-pyside-setup/5.15    (done)                                        
***Create tqtc-pyside-setup/lts-5.15 from pyside-setup/5.15
***Close pyside-setup/5.15 Make the Pick-to bot merge from Pick-to: 5.15 -> tqtc/lts-5.15
**tqtc
***create tqtc/dev from oss/dev
***move manually the patches that added things for the commercial offering into tqtc/dev (shiboken ui, m2m protocols modules)
**Process to fix bugs
***push to oss/dev Pickt-to: 5.15 (this will go to lts-5.15)
***before release we push oss/dev to tqtc/dev
 
====21. January 2021====
 
*Infra update
**'dev' branch seems to be the only broken (maybe 5.15)
**Provisioning is affected
**need to create lts-5.15 branch for commercial releases
**WinRT is broken (at a Qt/CI level)
*Bug fixes
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1458 Discussion about macOS symlinks
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481 __feature__ documentation
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476 PySide Property declaration creates properties with the setter name of the function
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 constructors info in the stubs (other issues appeared)
*Features
**Rename internal shiboken import: 'from shiboken6 import shiboken6 as Shiboken' -> 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken'
***Both options in 6.1,
***Only 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken' from 6.2 on.
**Designer plugin: set environment in the launcher script (instead of the rpath option)
**Removing extra QtCharts namespace (it  was removed in Qt) -> QtDataVisualization?
***Externals helping the migration process.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1477 clang options for shiboken cross build
*Starting work on new tutorials and applications (Data Science and visualization)
 
====14. January 2021====
 
*Qt Bug fixing week
*Infra update
**Missing 5.15 merge to tqtc
*Bug fixes
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1470 fixed
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 in progress
*Features
**Contacting people at other IDEs groups to provide a better PySide support. (to create a user story)
**NumPy support to accept numpy.array as 'some' Qt types
**Designer plugin works continues (needs libshiboken) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1455
*Webinar ideas
**__feature__ and Python properties
**Interaction with other modules
 
====7. January 2021====


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


==2020==
==2020==

Revision as of 08:51, 5 June 2025


2025

5. June 2025

  • General Topics
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-3187 std::optional handling from new qt api (having an intrinsic type rather than a separate one)
    • Trying QRangeModel for some Python examples. (new api in 6.10)
    • Adapting to 6.10
    • Virtual Keyboard issue: missing files for plugins issue was fixed
    • PYSIDE-3112 android deployment issue
    • Finishing the CMake config files for shiboken/pyside in order to get more options once it's installed. This might help us simplifying use cases like scriptableapplication.
    • Updated flatpak package, and a new issue related to missing tools.
    • iOS research
      • Managed to embed Python in an iOS application
      • there seems to be an issue with linking between so files
      • dynamics libs are needed, but removing a few .so files PySide is not recognized. When removing the frameworks ones, another issue appear, when having them both, there is also an issue.
      • We might need to re-think the OpenGL finds for iOS patches
    • QtCreator wizard uses pyproject.toml

29. May 2025

  • General Topics
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.9.1, 6.5.9
    • Further work adapting to 6.10, QRangeModel renamed from QGenericItemModel
  • Bugs & Features
    • Investigating improving support for std::optional PYSIDE-3107
    • Progressing with shipping CMake configs with PySide6 and Shiboken6 wheels. Trickly resolving install time and packaging configuration. Had to resort to patch the CMake configs before packaging.
    • QPropertyAnimation constructor annotations fixed PYSIDE-3012
    • Continued work on XCode and library binding, minor problems with Python libraries and trying to integrate PySide6 libraries.
    • PYSIDE-2221: Status report is in progress for potential handover.
    • PYSIDE-769:
      • Integration and activation of QtAsync tests into the test framework.
      • First implementation of a TCP transport; server tests are working.

22. May 2025

  • General Topics
    • Some updates from PyConUS
    • Qt Bridges: We might participate at Akademy
    • Qt Bridges: We got an accepted talk https://ndctechtown.com/
    • Qt WS: Talk recording might be delayed to be public.
    • PyCon IT: Going there to give a talk
    • Windows on ARM is getting more attention from other companies.
      • There is currently an issue with OpenGL (not being in Qt, hence not in Qt for Python)
      • FreeCAD requires opengl for some reason :S
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.19 commercial LTS was released
    • 6.9.1 postponed by a regression
    • 6.5.9 still pending (security fix)
    • We might evaluate uv for CI
  • Bugs & Features
    • We will work on being more compatible with uv (shiboken issue finding dlls)
    • iOS research: managed to cross compile the project, but there seems to be an issue still when trying to use it from XCode side of things. We might need to try the setup.py approach rather than CMake.
    • API deprecations that needs to be handle: missing functions on the typesystem and in some test cases. QtXml (QDomDocument) missing new function needs to be added as well (overload issue). Some works needs to be done in the examples as well.
    • Thoughts on limiting the disable gil solution that we have at the moment. There has been a lot of crashes and issues by implementing our own locking mechanism.
    • QtAsyncIO has been brought up in some community discussions, so we might work more on this. There are many NotImplemented issues around, that would be good to have.
    • Qt Python Scripting: Aiming for 6.11, and to find a place to distribute it. Due to the limitation of virtual functions, it's mostly about doing a bit of scripting on top of the Qt/C++ applications. Does it justify it to be a new Qt module? maybe we could use Qt solutions. We need another person to check the API, to have a second opinion.
      • There are some ideas of virtual-function override from pybind11, but then we would require shiboken ownership mechanisms, that will increase dependencies (and size)
      • Release process of qt-modules is strict.
    • PYSIDE-2193 variance in QML Properties. QVariant/PyObjects issues were found and fixed.
    • Got interest of doing RTA internally, that's generating more reports.
    • CMake relocation files shipping that are not being included anymore (headers or cmake files), but got required by Qt Bridges.
    • New cmake variables are being required for Qt Bridges.
    • Message handler changes are still pending for CI issues.

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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