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==2024==
==2025==


=== 24. October 2024 ===
=== 3. July 2025 ===


* General
* General Topics
** Planning to make QtPythonScripting out.
** Planning on some new tutorials or demos, and examples https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-136955
** QMLNext planning continues.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.8.0.2 might go out soon considering the last issues that were discovered. Also to include the fix for the directory that made it incompatible with qtpip.
** macOS issue on setting the virtual environment was fixed
** 5.15.18 Commercial LTS will be released by the end of the month
** 3.13 to be enabled soon
** 6.8.4 commercial LTS is the next release.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** New maps demo is working.
** 64bit enumeration was implemented
** Multimedia: Now we are using the plugins from the CI provisioning.
** signals and threads clarification (and docs)
** Reproducible builds for yocto.
** Qt Python Scripting cleanup
** 6.8.0 regression from the re-write of the signal&slot mechanism.
** Free threading Python changes, threads sanitizer on windows for testing. Few new crashes on linux were discovered, most things work but our stress test is failing.
** 'QPyS' (QtPythonScripting) work continues.
** 3132 Item delegate crash was fixed, and other minor bugs.
*** Ownership will not be an issue, because objects will live in C++.
** Finalizing pending QtDS tutorial
*** smart pointers support are required for a QtC integration
** Addressing some warnings from pyside6-deploy (qrc files)
*** From lua: they do have a way of use different pointers for the variables.
** pyside6-deploy: Nuitka bumped to 2.7.1
*** be careful with dynamic_cast
** CMake changes: updating the C++ binding related examples (where header files are in use)
*** A sub-set of classes are exposed to lua only, so we might follow a similar approach.
*** This might affect Python/C++ code from many existing applications (documenting it)
*** Documentation is being updated
** scikit-core compat changes
** Updates to the new tutorials (PySide + other Python modules)
*** Investigate outsource builds
** qtpip research on a staging option
*** passing all our parameters to it
** VSCode extension: discussions on the PySide integration for the recently announced addon.
** PYSIDE-2895 __all__ reproducible builds for Yocto
** PYSIDE-2903 issues with '# type:' in the stubs
** PYSIDE-2846 Adding documentation for the mypy support


=== 17. October 2024 ===
=== 26. June 2025 ===
* General
** 6.8.0.1 is fully compatible with Python 3.13.0, but the meta info of the wheels was wrong.
** New intern joined the company, and will be helping with QtDS + Qt for Python integration
* Infra & Releases
** PySide 6.5.7 (commercial LTS) and 6.8.0 (6.8.0.1) were released
** 6.4.0 release was removed from PyPI (due to the existence of 6.4.0.1)
** qtpip 0.1.4 was released
** Maintenance break in our CI: a few security changes were applied and we have new restrictions regarding the installation of other repositories
** New limits will be requested to PyPI
** Symbolic links in the macOS wheels are being copied a couple of times and not preserved.
** libclang in our provisioning increased size, so we need to double check the wheel size.
** Multimedia plugins on Windows are being copied to the wheel, they might be copied from install directly.
* Bugs & Features
** Finished the mypy checks and adding tests, hopefully merged soon.
*** in-place asymmetry seems to be an issue with some signatures.
** PYSIDE-2891 32bit builds where broken, even if they are not supported it was addressed
** PYSIDE-2893 6.8.0 doc regression was fixed
** PYSIDE-2804 Custom enumerations in Qt Designer (not possible)
** Qt 6.9 adaption in progress
** OpenStreetMap demo being ported
** Qt Scripting polishing a bit further
** PYSIDE-2835 closed issue wrt sql+nuitka that broke after a new nuitka release.
** Continue work on the Finances tutorial
** pyside6-deploy command line simplification in progress


=== 10. October 2024===
* General Topics
* General
** We need to catch up with the notes about some of the on-going processes: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/652346
** Future discussion on new Python Courses for Qt Academy
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.8
** CI: Fail to create env problem is still around (seems to be machine-related) - we could disable that config.
** Preparing 6.5.7
** uv research still pending.
** 3.13 configs still pending.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2885 PYSIDE-2885] Fix build against  read-only Qt
** Free threading
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2883 PYSIDE-2883] Fix incomplete/undocumented QtWebEngine API
*** The current researched approach with our own lock is not the best solution for PySide.
** Last minute fixes for 6.8, new QtWebEngine API
*** We have proof other people not picking this approach, and go with a sub-interpreter one: https://discuss.python.org/t/is-free-threading-our-only-option/91775
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
*** A different approach might be needed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2850 PYSIDE-2850] More work on the Finance Manager Tutorial
*** Our current testing infra is not enough to simply write tests for nogil python, and many hiccups have been found.
** pyside6-android-deploy fix for 6.8.0, and adding a new option to cross-compile tool to just download Android NDK and SDK.
*** Some tests cannot be replicated after some issues, so the nondeterministic behavior is a big challenge.
** Update pyside6-android-deploy documentaion.
** Qt AsyncIO notes
*** A few ideas on how to finish the implementation was shared
*** The TCP protocol was initially implemented
*** New tests were provided to continue the development in the future (using an asyncio event loop)
** Some small tutorial to debug Python and C++, might need a follow-up
** Qt Creator discussion with people using old PySide versions, and using the new pyproject.toml approach.
** Cross building support on shiboken
*** yocto was not affected
*** we might need to check if iOS works
** PYSIDE-3095 small fix to pyside6-project
** Qt Python Scripting
*** Small internal API review
*** Cleanup
** To catch-up with the cmake improvements to our build system (orthogonal to the scikit-core research)
*** this will allow us to properly have the module as projects configures to be find them.
*** In the future, we will simplify our CMakeLists.txt for hybrid applications, a lot!
** iOS research continues
*** Cross compiling is still an issue due to the shared/static
*** OpenGL issue has a workaround, but still researching on the underneath
*** Waiting for shiboken to have compatibility with cross compiling to check if it works.


=== 3. October 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing for 6.8
* Bugs & Features
** Various documentation fixes
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
** Porting further C++ demos
** pyside6-deploy support for design studio
** qtpip support for Android wheels
** Update flatpak baseapp to 6.7.3


=== 26. September 2024===


* General
=== 19. June 2025 ===
** Python Scripting: We might need to figure out ownership in order to embed into other C++ apps.
* General Topics
** DS integration: workaround to deploy with the following version (with no other python files) but there has been work on improving it for the next release.
** Possible marketing support for the project
** Intern starting on Oct 1st
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.3 (waiting for qt release)
** Research on enable 3.13 via pyenv continue
** Commercial LTS 6.5.7 to be released soon (changelog pending to be merged)
** To investigate errors while creating venvs
** qtpip 0.1.3 to be released soon.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Updating and completing documentation
** QtWidgets apps on iOS still in research
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2870 PYSIDE-2870] fixed (QStateMachine.postEvent causes a crash)
*** Some issues with the qt libraries, duplicate symbols.
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
*** Some discussion with others about shared/static libraries for iOS (Qt doesnt' seems to be able to work properly) - shared libs for iOS task is not prioritized yet.
** pyside6-deploy changes for QtDS projects + corresponding changes in upcoming DS releases (needs work by DS team)- https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592554
** CMake discussion to enable Qt Bridges from the PySide build system.
** qtpip adaptation for newer pip versions + commercial wheel preference over lts wheels
*** The problem is our current build structure, where we build shiboken first and then pyside patching paths.
** Finance Manager Tutorial - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592131
*** We might introduce an option to enable this configuration.
** Type hints: Analysis for multi-signature problem (overloads). 600 errors -> 46 ! (from mypy)
** Add QtMultimedia libraries (libav*) to the android wheels.
*** override: inheritance issue with specific fields
** Documenting more open research topics (QtAsyncIO, Disable GIL, Debugging, Class properties, PyPy) and maybe more.
*** overload/overlap: diff return types
** Fix enumeration issues in Qt Designer
*** some dunder methods might need special treatment.
** libxst issues at build time were addressed
** Research: cross build for shiboken to recognize targets PYSIDE-3105. To support both approaches
*** <code>list(APPEND shiboken_command "--platform=${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}" "--arch=${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR}" "--compiler-path=${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER}")}</code>
*** <code>list(APPEND shiboken_command "--clang-option=--target="aarch64-none-linux-android"" "--compiler-path=${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER}")</code>


=== 19. September 2024===
=== 12. June 2025 ===
 
* General Topics
* General
** QtDS Tutorial still pending
** Promoting the idea of writing Python plugins for Qt/C++ interfaces.
*** we most probably rely on libshiboken for having consistency in the PythonScripting module and PySide
** Participation in Meeting C++
** PyCon Sweden participation
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.13 Commercial LTS was released
** RTA discussion on PySide
** qtpip update to be release in order to fix a few wheel names issues.
** SBOM research pending, but will be addressed
** Preparing for 6.8.0, and 6.7.3
** Evaluating using 3.13 in some of our CI nodes
** PySide6_DS 4.6 by the end of September
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2839 type hints for custom signals
** Newly discovered missing dll/so on android wheels (libav* from ffmpeg)
** PYSIDE-2846 Fixing a lot of type errors from examples and tests
** Flatpak baseapp is now shipping tools (after users requests)
*** Currently on one of the last big issues related to overloads, optional unions, false-positives
*** Waiting for the webengine baseapp to be merged
** 6.7.3, 6.8.0 changelogs
** Alexandru helping with some CMake changes we are trying to incorporate into pyside, in order to improve the discoverability of the installed packages.
** Python 3.13 checks and fixing compatibilities
** iOS research
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
*** Small Qt application is working at the moment (QTimer log example)
** PYSIDE-2863 lupdate issue
*** shiboken python module works.
** PYSIDE-2845 snake_case conflict with C++ API
*** QtGui and QtWidgets needs special handling from iOS side
** Fixing examples deprecations
*** Trying the XCode simulator (to avoid usage of the physical device) - architecture issues when built (mismatch on intel/apple silicon)
** Updating generated UI files
*** Note from android: there was a missing opengl component, that needed to be added.
** Working on a new tutorial to mix PySide with other Python modules
** Started to documenting a few of the on-going initiatives/patches.
** qtpip fixing resolution for naming and JSON new structure
*** Disable GIL, QtAsyncIO, etc
** QMLNext research continues
** Regression 6.9.1 - QGraphicsView that was fixed
** ActiveQt issues lead to discovering that we could use the meta object in order to enable Enums on Qt Designers
** Discussion about Enum declared within a Python class, and declaring properties with that on the same class (python limitation)
** Planning on maybe adapting shiboken for easy cross build functionalities.


=== 12. September 2024===
=== 5. June 2025 ===
* General
* General Topics
** Team back from Qt Contributor summit
** Bug Fixing week
** KDE Akademy 2025 - We hope to be there!
** Checking other events we might participate.
** Checking out wheelnext: https://wheelnext.dev/
** Should we really go full on Free threaded Python? https://discuss.python.org/t/is-free-threading-our-only-option/91775
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.3
** 6.9.1 and 6.5.9 were released.
** Preparing 6.2.13
** Discussion about release practices for a commercial customer (medical)
** Starting to switch to 6.8
*** How should we proceed with SBOMs? Will be tested in some time.
*** Qt-Security annotation for critical code https://contribute.qt-project.org/quips/23
**** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-135177
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Release Notes in documentation change read. Could be targeted for 6.8.
** PYSIDE-3187 std::optional handling from new qt api (having an intrinsic type rather than a separate one)
** Currently working on a QtQuick Finance-Manager tutorial using PySide6 as frontend, and FastApi + Pydantic + SqlAlchemy as backend. This will be a 4 part tutorial with each part extending the previous one.  
** Trying QRangeModel for some Python examples. (new api in 6.10)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
** Adapting to 6.10
*** Good progress in different error categories. Crucial was to make defaults hashable.
** Virtual Keyboard issue: missing files for plugins issue was fixed
*** First removal of duplications was quite effective. More difficult removals are "same type, different variable name" etc.
** PYSIDE-3112 android deployment issue
*** Overlapping signatures need a deep analysis. From 601 errors down to 294.
** 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.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2859 PYSIDE-2859] Implemented QAbstractItemModel::multiData/QModelRoleDataSpan
** Updated flatpak package, and a new issue related to missing tools.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2861 PYSIDE-2861] Fixed pyside6-project with relative paths for lupdate
** iOS research
** Fixed some compiler warnings/clang-tidy
*** 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


=== 05. September 2024===
=== 29. May 2025 ===
* General
* General Topics
** Team mostly at QtCS
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Starting to switch to 6.8
** Preparing 6.9.1, 6.5.9
* Bugs & Features
** Further work adapting to 6.10, QRangeModel renamed from QGenericItemModel
** Fixed a potential memory corruption in enum converter generation
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2851 PYSIDE-2851] Tricky bug with @Slot(name=) no working. Still investigating.  
** Adapting deployment and other things to 6.8. Some existing bugs and ToDo were solved.
** Working on creating a "Release Notes" page in Qfp documentation parsing from 'doc/changelogs'
** Competitor research for potential new features
 
=== 29. August 2024===
* General
** Continue discussion on a better qml integration
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Added pyside6-svgtoqml - 6.8
** Investigating improving support for std::optional [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3107 PYSIDE-3107]
** Added missing binaries to 6.8. This include some QtQuick modules.
** 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.
** Deprecated ToDo fixed in pyside6-deploy
** QPropertyAnimation constructor annotations fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3012 PYSIDE-3012]
** Updated Nuitka version to 2.4.8
** Continued work on XCode and library binding, minor problems with Python libraries and trying to integrate PySide6 libraries.
** Code Design simplification of pyside6-deploy
** PYSIDE-2221: Status report is in progress for potential handover.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2835 PYSIDE-2835] - error message setup in pyside6-deploy. Issue raised in Nuitka.
** PYSIDE-769:
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
*** Integration and activation of QtAsync tests into the test framework.
*** Reformatted helper functions in generate_pyi with class methods
*** First implementation of a TCP transport; server tests are working.
*** Changed all typing classes to have prefix "typing" against name clashes (tricky)
*** Started systematic fixture of errors: 533 in 7 categories (was 601 before prefix). Seeking general fixture algorithms.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] Add a Benchmark batch script to measure progress


=== 22. August 2024===
=== 22. May 2025 ===
* General
* General Topics
** Bug fixing week
** Some updates from PyConUS
** uv release 0.3.0 https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging
** Qt Bridges: We might participate at Akademy
** Tag strings https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-750-tag-strings-for-writing-domain-specific-languages/60408
** Qt Bridges: We got an accepted talk https://ndctechtown.com/
** discussion related to spy
** 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
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2 issue with ".commercial" tag on the wheels
** 5.15.19 commercial LTS was released
** dev will switch to 6.8.0 when the branch is ready.
** 6.9.1 postponed by a regression
** 6.5.9 still pending (security fix)
** We might evaluate uv for CI
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2786 Finished the 3.10 patch to support the new syntax for the pyi files.
** We will work on being more compatible with uv (shiboken issue finding dlls)
** Enabling a process to test pyi with mypy
** 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.
** Flatpak documentation was merged
** 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.
** Typing issue related to QByteArray.fromRawData
** 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.
** QtDS integration continues
** 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. August 2024===
=== 15. May 2025 ===
* General
** Bug fixing weekS (2 weeks)
** Planning for future work on QtDS
* Infra & Releases
** Fixing an issue to properly discover the installed WebEngine
** Note: 6.5 aarch64 releases are only around for PySide, not Qt/C++.
** Continue work on libclang pre-built on windows arm64
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2833 Doc changes: qml tutorials, re-gen docs to fix
** Updated Qt Python Scripting (QtPyScript? name to be confirmed)
** 6.7.3 changelog preparation
** Adjusting branches, because of missing patches.
** pyi: fixing more issues
** research on improving the qml + python interaction


=== 8. August 2024===
* General
** Talk accepted for KDE Akademy: "Pythonizing Qt"
** Qt Contributor summit session to work with people from the Squish team.
** An intern will most probably join the team.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** PySide6_DS will remain being available only for Windows/Linux x86_64 and macOS universal, no aarch64 for Linux
** Preparing 6.9.1
** Research continues on Windows arm64
** Released 6.5.9
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2384 Enum as Sequences issues on Python 3.11
** Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt
** Signal Manager massive refactoring
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2193 PYSIDE-2193] QML property related crash fixed
** qmlimportscanner new option to exclude directories (for our tooling)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3098 PYSIDE-3098] NumPy problem with Sequence/Iterable conflict in 6.10 solved
** PYSIDE-2833 loadFromModule should be used for QML projects
** qinstallmessagehandler refcount issue fixed
** Fixes in the documentation
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3078 PYSIDE-3078] QInputDialog get methods accept None as parent.
** 6.8 adaption
** Cross-compile iOS and PySide6 is done. Now the test phase.
** Create the KDE documentation for using the PySide BaseApp for Flatpak (on review)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 PYSIDE-2221] Free threading research continues.
** Improving the documentation, getting ideas from other frameworks/projects. We will try to keep old links working with some alias, and fixing many broken links.
*** disable-gil first tiny progress in bug hunting. Shiboken Cyclic test works now
** Continue fixing pyi issues
*** Result used for generating locks in PySide constructors
** Discussion on the next steps on the QtDS integration
*** still a few timeout errors and others


=== 2. August 2024===
=== 8. May 2025 ===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** 6.8, 6.7.3 preparations
** "Qt Design Studio components for PySide6" wheels are now available from pypi.org. https://pypi.org/project/PySide6-DS/
* Bugs & Features
** Some pyi issues were fixed ( [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2788 PYSIDE-2788], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2752 PYSIDE-2752] )
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2814 PYSIDE-2814] Deployment: spaces can now be used in extra_args
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2828 PYSIDE-2828] Updated tutorials
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2820 PYSIDE-2820] Fixed Opaque containers to work with QML
** Some refactoring of the PySide's signal handling
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2825 PYSIDE-2825] Added QtWebView
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2630 PYSIDE-2630] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2794 PYSIDE-2794]  pyside6-deploy issue related to filling QML files from venv is fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2806 PYSIDE-2806] Fixed app name issue for pyside6-deploy
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2785 PYSIDE-2785] Fixed site-packages issue for pyside6-deploy
** Cleanup and added missing modules to flatpak. Still need review. The corresponding patches are merged in pyside-setu - https://github.com/pyside/io.qt.PySide.BaseApp/pulls
** Added README to PySide flatpak recipe. Needs review - https://github.com/pyside/io.qt.PySide.BaseApp/pulls
** Working on updating the KDE PyQt documentation to also target PySide
** Added minibrowser WebView example


=== 25. July 2024===
* General
* General
** Plan with some brainstorming ideas from last session.
** Team returned form QtWS
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** tqtc/dev branch still broken. Waiting for Finland to come back from vacation :D
** Preparing 6.9.1
** DS wheels still need to be tested
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** arm64 shiboken generator not properly working (libclang)
** Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt Graphs
** flatpak support: patch was merged, and there were a couple of issues that have a possible fix. After that, the KDE documentation will be modified in order to offer the option for users to use PySide as well.
** Add some functionality to shiboken to accommodate 6.10
** scikit-build research
** Free threading research continues by running intense stress tests
** signature compression research: dealing with some last details.
** Ported QtCharts Audio example to Qt Graphs
*** fullname field, and compression of the strings.
** Worked on PYSIDE-3092, issue regarding the collections import. However CI test failed unrelated to patch. Currently working on that.
** no-gil research will re-start next month, in order to address the new changes from cpython
** No new update on the error the OpenGL/OpenGLES libraries, for cross-compiling iOS and PySide6
** Type hints issues being worked out.


=== 1. May 2025 ===


=== 18. July 2024===
* Labor day, no labor to report
* General
** We got a talk accepted at Akademy 2024.
** September 11th is the limit to submit features for PySide 6.8.0
* Infra & Releases
** Flaky macOS failures were addressed
** PySide6 Design Studio wheels to be tested
* Bugs & Features
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
*** LZMA compression moved to ZLIB and C++. Compression on Windows 8.7 %, macOS 4.7 %
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind continues.
*** Overlap with PYSIDE-2404: Startup time optimization of ZLIB compression almost ready.
** Finding some use-cases from PySide users during EuroPython.
** Flatpak recipes are ready to be tested, meaning projects relying on flatpak (like KDE) will be able to use PySide in their builds :D
** macOS multimedia missing plugins.
** QtWebView might be added for completeness.
** Feedback from EuroPython: More tutorials, and examples with applied cases, rather than too basic or too advanced ones.


=== 11. July 2024===
=== 24. April 2025 ===
* General
** Two members of the team at Europython
* Bugs & Features
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
*** An LZMA compressor has been written in Python and C++ with 4.5% win.
*** Reimplementation in C++ only is even easier. (when considered worth it)
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind implementation
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2803 PYSIDE-2803] - qmlimportscanner and Windows cmd line length limitation
** Refactoring and cleanup of the Signals/Slot handling code
** Added missing libraries for the QtMultiMedia ffmpeg plugin on macOS


===4. July 2024===
* General
* General
** Next week, two members of the team will be at Europython
** QtWS talk approaching https://www.qt.io/qt-world-summit-2025
** Don't forget QtWS 2025 submissions (Until first days of August)
** We are evaluating the possibility to sponsor a couple of Python conferences!
** We might get the help from an intern.
** There will not be a Qt for Python session during QtCS
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** LTS Open Source release is out for 6.2.9 (sources)
** 5.15.19 commercial LTS needs to go out next week, but we are investigating a few CI failures.
** QtDS packages are generated now in the CI
** 6.5.9 commercial LTS will be released tomorrow.
** Improvements in https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/
** 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
** Fixed PYSIDE-2790: Implemented task "uncancelling" and cancel count mechanism
** Moving new qml integration support content from pyside-setup to the new repository.
** Fixed PYSIDE-2799: Turns out cancelling handles when cancelling tasks can cause issues
** Type hints patches to fix PYSIDE-3007 PYSIDE-3012 PYSIDE-3029 (related to the constructors of a few classes, and properties)
** PYSIDE-2798 might not be (easily) fixable entirely
** 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.
*** Qt and asyncio collide when Qt shuts everything down too early for asyncio's liking, e.g. when closing the window.
** 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.
*** Setting keep_running=True is probably a suitable workaround.
** Cleaning up new bug reports
** Submitted cherry-picks to 6.7 for a number of changes (mostly QtAsyncio) where the pick-to line was forgotten
** PYSIDE-3067 newly discovered crash was fixed.
** PYSIDE-2701 activities:
** Utilities classes were submitted to avoid exceptions in some scenarios.
*** implemented removal of the fullName field
** PYSIDE-3066 enumerations not restored in QVariant. External contributed.
*** started implementation of common function end replacement
** PYSIDE-3061 Windows build issue.
*** started work on SignatureStrings compression with LZMA
** PYSIDE-3069 Graphics item crash still being investigated.
** PYSIDE-2793 (PYSIDE-1057) Memory leak in slot connection. Some were fixed, but there is still one that's very old (PYSIDE-79)
** More and more costumer cases are popping up, meaning the usage of PySide is growing :)
** singleShot newly added signature has some complications when disconnected
** 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.
** NumPy 2.0 compatibility patches were merged.
** Signal Handling research and review
** PYSIDE-2192 Input hook handling (for matplotlib) was addressed thank to some suggestion.
** PYSIDE-2805 Suggestion overload QMessageBox.open for passing a new slot.
** 6.8 Adaption continues.
** PYSIDE-2803 support bug on windows with pyside6-deploy command too long
** Flatpak: shiboken is building, but pyside has some issues still.
** Research on windows arm64
** Testing DS packages


===27. June 2024===
=== 17. April 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Python language summit blog posts.
** Easter break, we will back on Tuesday :D
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Android wheels configuration is running OK.
** qtpip new release planned, after changing the qt version to a previous one. There was an issue with SSL.
** Feature freeze for 6.8 on September 11 (for Qt/C++ RC release)
** qtpip: we might align the build/test configuration on the CI to be consistent with PySide
** Tweaks for the Qt for Python deployment internal guide for Raspberry Pi.
** 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
** QtDS: packages ready to go out after CI configuration.
** Cleaning up some of the latest bug reports.
** QtDS: export option within the tool planned in 2 weeks.
** Addressing the webengine issue for the yocto builds.
** qmlnext: the issue with the example task was find and solved.
** PYSIDE-3061 Windows debug build failing on pyi generation
** PYSIDE-2786 Preparation (future statement) of new syntax for Python 3.9
** 6.10 adaption in the horizon.
*** then checkin of deferred 3.10 changes was done.
** Continue the disable-gil support
** PYSIDE-2701 activities:
*** Checking the previous patches to see if they are still relevant, but it seems a few things changed.
*** Removal of generated fullname field (in progress)
*** There seems to be an issue with calling super with arguments
*** Further analysis of possible folding savings
** iOS support continues, the cross compilation process still has a few issues (QtCore).
*** Revived the 2019 PySide 2 comparison viewer
** There seems to be a few type hints issues that are still not fixed, due to not being too simple.
** PYSIDE-2795 FreeCAD problem was solved.
** Removing tomlkit dependency from pyside6-project
** PYSIDE-2792 Nested class QMetaObject::Connection (for custom Connection classes)
** multilib support for yocto builds
** 6.8 QtGraph examples. The module keeps changing.
** PYSIDE-2793 memory leak on modbus client.
** Nuitka upgrade 2.3.7: issues with Python 3.12 were fixed.
** Some new issues and limitations on the android ci conf (building python from source)
** Flatpak task continues, and people from KDE is involved in the discussion.
** pyside6-deploy support case with command line length limitations
** PYSIDE-2790 Few new bug reports related to QtAsyncio: uncancel not implemented.
** QtAsyncio cancel errors are not propagated.


===20. June 2024===
=== 10. April 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Interviews going on for a new position and internship.
** 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
** 6.7.2 was released last Tuesday
** Maintenance break last Monday left some issues in the CI
** QtDS package is currently awaiting approval from the team.
** PySide6_DS is missing from the qt org on pypi, will add later
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Android wheels patch integrating. Windows signing issue hopefully fixed.  
** PYSIDE-3012 type hints: still working on the last issue.
** PYSIDE-2781 - Nuitka sporadic failure with Python 3.12. Collaborating with Kay, and with help from ctismer, the issue is fixed. Was caused due to bytecode handling of Nuitka.
** PYSIDE-3021 type hints: was fixed
** PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak progressing. Discussion with QtCreator led to the impression that an Flatpak extension would be better than Flatpak Baseapp.
** 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)
*** This enable PySide6 to be bundled with the QtCreator flatpak app
** Planning to make Qt Python Scripting available.
** Follow-up patches from the internal QtAsyncio presentation.
** Addressing a couple of deployment issues
** There are two functions in asyncio that are not properly documented.
** Brainstorming and creating our presentation for QtWS
** Type hints:
** Finalizing properties and tests for the new qml integrations.
*** Discussion about updating the generator, in order to use 3.10+ notation (even if we are compatible with 3.9). Possibility to use 'from __future__ import annotations'
** PYSIDE-2221 continues: Testing different strategies to reach gil-less Thread Safety
** PYSIDE-2701 - Binary reduction approach ideas
*** - cannot simply replicate the GIL
** QtDS exporting python files will be started soon.
*** - ongoing: automate the working bucket examples from nogil with cppgenerator
** Improved QML integration being studied.
 
 
===13. June 2024===


=== 3. April 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Python 3.9 story: the decision was made without considering that 3.9 is still getting security releases, so we have decided to keep supporting Python 3.9 for PySide 6.8 LTS, but we might drop it in the middle of some bug-fix releases.
** We are probably presenting at QtWS!
*** Things that are considered to support certain python versions are: Internal CI Python versions for each OS, Python version lifecycle https://devguide.python.org/versions/, features that will improve user experience from new versions.
** Check our PyPI organization page: https://pypi.org/org/Qt/
*** Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
** https://peps.python.org/pep-0751/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0768/
** Qt Group is sponsoring EuroPython 2024: and we will give a talk!
** 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
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.2 packages are ready to be released.
** 6.8.3 and 6.9.0 were released.
** Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
** Android wheels for 6.9.0 were generated differently for a CI NDK misconfiguration.
** Starting process to test windows arm64 (discussion around libclang)
** Flatpak releases are waiting for the webengine flatpack update first.
** Nightly builds:
*** Possible solution for linux and macOS arm64 android builds.
*** Maybe also for non-unity builds? it has been failing in some corner cases.
*** We could have dev-android branch so we don't block the normal dev development.
*** nightly builds merge automatically if everything passes.
*** PyPy integrations might join a similar configuration as well.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Android wheels from macOS host through coin successful. Assembling the final patch. Coin still running tests for an Android build and error-ing still needs to be resolved.
** Adding property support for QML bridges
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2702 PYSIDE-2702] - Flatpak base app implementation started.
** Minor changes to the deployment tool, and qtpip
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2781 PYSIDE-2781] - pyside6-deploy failure investigation ongoing. Could be a Nuitka issue. User using the latest Nuitka.
** Working on the presentation for QtWS
** Working on improve our typing implementations.
** Continue the research for iOS support, it seems there are a few issues with the other frameworks that support it.
** QtAsyncio: internal presentation including the theory behind and some live examples.
*** 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)
** Lazy load: disabled for PyPy, fixing some shiboken-tests
*** For uploading, you need to turn-on developer mode, which raises a message of "privacy being reduced"
** QtScrypt: development continues
*** iPad applications seems to have the same behavior.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2780 PYSIDE-2780] refcount bug in the lazy import fixed
** Might check https://github.com/benfogle/crossenv and https://github.com/beeware/mobile-forge
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] 3.13 compatibility patches are ready, nogil under development
** PYSIDE-3059 was fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] reduction of binary sizes under investigation, estimating the achievable reduction
** PYSIDE-3012 was updated with new suggestions
 
** Free threading Python support continues PYSIDE-2221
===06. June 2024===
*** 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
* General
** Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
** 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.
** PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
** Must read https://peps.python.org/pep-0741/
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Some issues with the macOS CI units.
** Status of 6.8.3
** Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
*** Android NDK change is still updating. We might use some additional wheels for the release.
** qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
*** Flatpak update will be done as well.
** 6.5.6 commercial LTS was released.
** Status of 6.9.0
** 6.7.2 release will happen soon (due to an issue with designer)
*** New NDK is already there, and the tests have succeed.
** the Python 3.9 macOS CI configuration will be updated to 3.11, and the windows with 3.11 will be updated to 3.12
*** Branching 6.9.0 today/tomorrow after last changes
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2622 - Standalone mode for Deployment as per many requests from users
** 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.
** Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
** Leaving the handling of Exception aside for shiboken.
** https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466 ready, but waiting for macOS x86_64 to update Python to 3.11 - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qt5/+/565565/4 (Thanks Simo)
** Type hints issues are still being addressed.
** Patches ready for updating python syntax to drop typing.Optional (and use | instead) that will go in once we drop 3.9
*** PYSIDE-3047 Debug option in Qt generates extra code in PySide, interfering with the wrappers. Function returns a qDebug rather than a QPolygon.
** Preparing presentation and improvements to QtAsyncio
*** Other issues were addressed PYSIDE-3050 PYSIDE-3055 PYSIDE-3056 PYSIDE-3058
** PYSIDE-2440 will be prepared.
** Research on project structures to be more compatible with Xcode
** op codes changing in Python, is altering some of our internal implementation, like the forgiveness mode.
** PYSIDE-3052 QMessageLogger and fix qInstallMessageHandler
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 planned work for the no-gil feature in Python 3.13
** Bumping the nuitka version we use for pyside-deploy (2.6.8)
** smart pointers with lazy loading were not working, but a fix was merged.
** Docs on debugging QtQuick app on QtCreator was missing a reference to create a QQmlDebuggingEnabler globally.
** Qt Designer had a regression that motivated 6.7.2
** qtpip - download android commercial wheel shows wrong wheel name on stdout- being fixed.
** Qt 6.8 adaption taking a lot of work due to doc changes and QtGraphs
** PYSIDE-2772 issue ended up being a user problem
 
===30. May 2024===


=== 20. March 2025 ===
* General
* General
** PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
** PyPI organizations accepted Qt!
** Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
** We heard about https://wheelnext.dev/ it seems some ideas could be beneficial.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
** A few issues in our CI in the last weeks (fixed now)
** PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
** Qt 6.8.3 new snapshot coming
** Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
** Qt 6.9.0 (internal rc2 to test)
** qtpip is planned to support aarch64
** We will move 'dev' to use Python 3.10+
** 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2766 PYSIDE-2766] - Android wheels from macOS successful. Patches for review.
** Windows on ARM wheels are ready after a couple of issues (linking) were fixed.
*** Testing a sample app now + Modifying https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466
** PYSIDE-3049 - Missing plugin for qmllint (fixed)
** 6.8 adaption is in progress [qtcharts is a bit unstable]
** QML Bridges: Working on properties.
** c++20 research to improve libshiboken
** PYSIDE-3052 - QMessageLogger missing class (in progress)
** qtscrypt progressing to support signal/slot
** Working on merging the contributions on QtRemoteObjects
** dev will support python 3.10+ [for 6.8+]
** 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-2767 pyi improvements.
** PYSIDE-3040 GTK Theming issue with PySide install
** lazy init for nested types disrupted the smart pointer support.
** Qt 6.10 adaption continues
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2440 type hints optionallity is planned to be implemented.
** 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


===23. May 2024===
=== 13. March 2025 ===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
** 5.15.17 LTS released
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2749 PYSIDE-2749] Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2758 PYSIDE-2758] Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2762 PYSIDE-2762] Fixed a type hinting bug
** Brushed up and fixed a few examples
** 6.8 Adaption
** Python 3.13 check
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
** pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.
** Close to macOS cross compilation


===16. May 2024===
* General
* 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
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
** 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.
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
** 6.9.0rc might be released tomorrow, which means PySide6 FF will be due.  
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features  
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
** Many new type hints bugs being reported :)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
** Smart pointers exclusion issues fixed (shiboken)
** Exclude .qsb, .webp, .cpp.o and .qen from deployment due to Nuitka error. Error report raised in Nuitka - https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2854
** Designer and Linguist tools fixes (External)
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
** Helping the remoteobject contributions to work better.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
** Documentation checks and 6.10 adaption.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 Going back to the free threaded Python topic in PySide
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
*** Lots of changes since the previous attempt
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3012 Kept working on the pep8 compatibility for type hints issues
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2620 PYSIDE-2620] - Adapting to 6.8
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3034 trying to figure out to get type information from public variables
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2745 PYSIDE-2745] - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3046 fixing type issues
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] - Lazy Loading completed by supporting subtypes. This gives 8-9% more performance.
** Re-Starting research on iOS compatibility
** Support for Python 3.13 started - first compatibility before switching to disable-gil
** QML Bridges: Slots registration is working now! new tests are being written.
** Possibilities explored to lazy load signatures or save space.


===2. May 2024===
=== 6. March 2025 ===


* General
* General
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
** Jaime's internal presentation will be next Monday at 11am
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
** QtCS registration is up.
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
** Discussion on IPC options for Qt developers.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
** 6.9 Qt for Python FF happening next week.
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
** Windows on ARM deployment test failing.
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
** Remote object contributions are going well, and we might merge them for 6.9
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
** Binary size reduction research continued, but it seems we have reached the reduction we can, without touching the C++ side of our bindings.
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
** 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.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
*** Removing object-inheritance in the pyi files
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
*** White-space around equal operators issue (default parameters)
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
** Update Widget Gallery example
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676] - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
** Changed to adapt std::chrono patches in shiboken (identify overloads and choose the better option)
** BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
** Cleaning up some  bug reports, metamethod connection issue fixed.
*** Issue might require special hw
** Addressing some coverity issues for Designer
** Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
** Started 6.10 adaption.
*** An internal presentation is being prepared.
** QML Next works continues.
** Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
** Changes in the build system scripts are still in progress, some stuff is broken when used, but it's going in a good direction.
** macOS cross compilation for android being tried
** Finalizing the pyside6-project changes to adapt the pyproject.toml changes.
** Addressing new found QtCreator issues with the pyproject.toml compatibility.


 
=== 27. February 2025 ===
===25. April 2024===
* General
* General
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
** Windows on ARM improving
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.1
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Added a number of new classes
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, investigating removing redundant overloads
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, trying wrapper folding, needs massive reordering
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
** PYSIDE-3012 replacement of typing.Sequence by collections.abc.Sequence
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
*** Identified incompatibility with Python < 3.9.8 and Python < 3.10.1, fixed by small patch
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
*** First change finally done, needs series of further changes
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
** 6.10 adaption continues
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
** PYSIDE 2942 Slot type annotation fix
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** QTBUG-132266 Checked the code on macOS that the user uploaded, no issues were found related to PySide or macOS.
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
** Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
** QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
*** Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
*** Plan to improve exceptions handling
 
===18. April 2024===


=== 20. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Bug fixing week
** QtWS possible participation
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
** QtCS has a priority of bringing more external contributors
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
** 6.9 RC February 28th (maybe postponed)
** 6.5.6 release planned
** 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).
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
** RTA trials continue, possibility to use qtpip
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction for virtual functions patch was merged
** QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
** PYSIDE-3002 painted virtual functions solved (even though we had our own opinion about performance)
** PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
** 3020 SignalInstance disconnect issue fixed
** PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
** Templates/snippets cleanup in the typesystem.
** PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
** 6.10 adaption continues
*** first approach made things less effective
** QtCreator toml changes:
*** The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
*** psyide6-project adaption to the latest changed related
*** New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
** QtDS changes postponed (to be available in QtDS 4.8)
** 825 qml bug is still around
** PYSIDE-3017 QSerialBus overload order issue was fixed
*** PYSIDE-2676 seems to be a new approach to fix it
** PYSIDE-3012 Still addressing issues (CI currently failing)
** A few customer bugs made it the bug fixing week.
** qtqa improving  the wheel testing process.
** PYSIDE-2675 type discovery code, class inheritance
** Brainstorming a better approach for QML Next
** QtAudio -> QAudio refactory
** Finishing the folding patches, they don't make a lot of sense at the moment due to previous changes (being added into shiboken)
** Virtual function compatibility to modify the signature (from typesystem)
** PYSIDE-2492 uic issues for Enum compatibility
*** More improvements for Python projects (import options)
** PYSIDE-2685 nan type definition
** Removing code from shiboken
** 6.8 Adaption already started
** PYSIDE-2689 sphinx directives doesn't seems to be compatible with the search context.


===11. April 2024===
* General
** Bug fixing week.
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
** Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
** Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
** New epics with brainstorming ideas.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 was released, we found a couple of issues we are trying to solve, and 6.7.1 will soon be released due to a binary compatibility break, and other small breakage.
**  5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
** QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
** Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has  still some issues with the structure.
* Bugs & Features
** Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
** PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
** PYSIDE-2669 designer issue
** PYSIDE-2675 Addressing the lazy import issues that were found in 6.7.0
*** Studying the possible solution, but it needs to consider other cases as well.
*** the *-import handling seems to be related, and affecting the mro content, duplicating some entries.
*** the type discovery handler might be related as well
** Still working on the qml 825 bug issues.
===4. April 2024===
* General
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
* Infra & Releases
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
** Preparing for 6.7.0
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums
===28. March 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints
===21. March 2024===
* General
** Ideas to improve the module.
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
* Bugs & Features
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
** PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
** Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
** QtRhi missing API provided
** Memory leak regression being worked out
** Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
** Android deployment and qml tool documentations
** Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
** Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
** QAsyncio bug fixed
** Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.


===14. March 2024===
=== 13. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
** Did you know Shiboken translates into "Death Sword"? 死某剣
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
** QtCS happening after QtWS in Munich in early May.
** Qt Design Studio integration (internal presentation) with Python to be prepared.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
** Windows on ARM research continues.
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
** QtDS wheels to be updated for the new release
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
** 6.9.0 RC by the end of the February.
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
** RTA testing initiative to be restart
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
** Evaluating scikit-core-build for replacing build_scripts/
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** Flatpak issue was solved (cleanup)
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
** Brainstorming ideas for QML Next (preparing internal presentation)
** Lazy initialization got merged
** Android wheel names to be adapted https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/platform-compatibility-tags/#android
*** New improvements might land in future versions
** Qt Creator finishing .toml support for Python Projects.
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
** Qt DS Python changes ready to be merged
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
*** Tutorial changes to be prepared
** Using new icons on the examples
** Type hints heuristic evaluation in order to address newly found issues related to overloads with similar shape.
** Testing libclang 18
** Handling of value-types in shiboken (refactoring, new features and doc)
** QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
** PYSIDE-3005 OpenGL issues were fixed
** QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
** PYSIDE-3013 Font issue was fixed
** New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
** PYSIDE-3015 OpcUA support bug fixed
** permission API changes got merge
** PYSIDE-3014 virtual function on QSpinBox issue fixed
** android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
** 6.9 adaption patches
** PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed
*** 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.


===07. March 2024===
=== 6. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
** We went to FOSDEM and meet many PySide users!
** Commercial / LTS naming on the Installer.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
** Reviewing our branching policies. There is interest in branching pyside-setup sooner.
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
** We might need to move the Android wheels to PyPI (Probably from 6.9 on)
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
** 6.8.2.1 release is planned in order to fix the missing DLLs in Windows (MSVC)
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
*** cheery pick is missing for 5.15
** PySide6_DS 4.7 to be released in the next couple of weeks.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
** Adding TOML support for Python projects in QtCreator
** all deployment fixes are in.
** TypeHints new reports, trying to get an idea of what's causing the errors
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
** Issues in Flatpak: updating version, checking a cleanup issue. Addressing dependencies issues for optional packages.
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
** QtQA internal scripting: Adapting an automatic wheel download.
** Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
** Size reduction
** two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
*** Move virtual function overrides. Only generated on the base classes.
** PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
*** Discovered and fixed a few multiple inheritance with shiboken
** PYSIDE-2619 gentoo issue with a build
** Snippets translation tool: Trying to add a feature to use fully qualified enums.
** PYSIDE-2624 typing issue with '/' is being researched
** clang-tidy warnings were fixes
** Qt Icon Teams issues were discovered
** Handling value types on non-default constructors (inspired by 6.9 changes)
** PYSIDE-2602 virtual function research on a special signature
** Discussion on moving away out internal building process to scikit-build
** One regression related to the QObject.connect changes.
** 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)


===29. February 2024===
=== 30. January 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Leap day!
** Documentation changes
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
** Preparing 6.8.2
** 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
** 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
** General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
** Size reduction [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] : Implemented code reuse for Python overrides of virtual functions
** PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on multiple inheritance, added more widgets
** PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
** Size reduction: PYSIDE-2701 Folding progress: We can now combine multiple foldings of the same function. This will bring some more reduction.
** PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
** Simplebrowser example updated
** Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
** adding imageviewer docs
** PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
=== 23. January 2025 ===
** macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
** Windows BTLE services crash
** QIO-class are required for some new QAsyncio API using pipes
** Lazy loading moving forward, but still a few issues are around
*** A couple of shiboken tests seems to have outdated imports that are not helping.
*** shiboken compatibility types missing
** Typing issues being solved in order to improve the pyi quality


===22. February 2024===
* General
* General
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
** [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
** 6.6.2 was released!
** Windows on ARM configuration testing.
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
** 6.8.2 scheduled release next week, and branching will happen today.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on Stable ABI support and multiple inheritance
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** [ext] 6.9 Designer release issues with macOS drag and drop + bug fixing
** Definition of done for QtAsyncio story, some functions will be implemented, but other ones (until reaching the whole set of user facing API) will be implemented in the future.
** PYSIDE-2990 Slot Executed in Signal's Thread Even With Auto & QueuedConnection
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
*** People is getting the documentation from an outdated wiki page, which is causing new reports.
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
*** Wiki will be updated.
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
** Size reduction: we generate a lot of code for parsing keyword arguments. The code was moved to libshiboken and the size was reduced 3%
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
*** Optimization reviews: it seems it's only the virtual functions, but not the actual bindings.
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
** Size reduction: Windows is giving some issues for special characters, which seems to be also present in Linux.
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.
** 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.


===15. February 2024===
=== 16. January 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Brainstorming session was held.
** 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!
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
** 6.8.2 will be released on 23th January so far, so we expect providing the wheels in the following days.
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
** 3.13 on the CI still on-going.
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
** 6.5.4 OSS released
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
*** It did built (and installed) for aarch64 and x86_64 but armv7a will be tried later on.
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
*** The main issue with this story was that it was bindings only for cross compiled pyside
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
** Exploring toml compatibilities within QtCreator
** pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
** DS patches still needs review.
** CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
** Binary size work continues
** Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.
*** 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.


===8. February 2024===
=== 09. January 2025 ===


* General
* General
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
** FOSDEM 2025: Qt got a stand!
** Internal Hackathon going on.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
** https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/ got restructured and it's now very tidy
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
** Preparing 6.8.2
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2966 PYSIDE-2966] Disabled instantiating non-instantiable classes
** singleShot patches merged
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] Examples and tests were ported to use fully qualified enumerations
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
** Python Scripting continues (enable adding __repr__ functions)
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.
*** 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.


===1. February 2024===
==2024==
 
* General
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
* Infra & Releases
** no unity build discussion and checks
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
* Bugs & Features
** singleShot timer implementation (to use underlying c++ impl) - still an issue with a context object, and a signal as a functor. A new QObject::connect might handle the situation. More changes to come in order to fix newly discovered issues.
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
** General documentation adjustments
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
** Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
** Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
** Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues
 
 
===25. January 2024===
 
* General
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
* Infra & Releases
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
* Bugs & Features
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
** PYSIDE-2575: Added a new argument to QtAsyncio to configure whether the QCoreApplication at the core of QtAsyncio should be shut down when asyncio finishes (requested by user).
** SingleShot timer issue: Slight "complexity explosion" because correct implementation for one case requires implementation of QObject.connect overload with context arguments (and we implement QObject.connect ourselves, see PySide::qobjectConnectCallback).
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
** Unity build some issues when building without.
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
** Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
** armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
** Lazy initialization: re-wrote approach from scratch, to reduce the patches to one that can be analyzed easily. Some complications with this approach that needs to be improve. It can be tried with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/496118
*** https://peps.python.org/pep-0690/ was rejected, but the idea can be implemented per-module
** Moving entry_points declaration to pyproject.toml from setup.py
** Drop the bdist_wheel steps from the CI (old wheels)
** Started working on split commercial wheels, wheels for QtDS and examples on QtCreator.
 
===18. January 2024===
 
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
* Bugs & Features
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
** Qt 6.7 adaption
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
** Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
** PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
** pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
** Improvements to the doc build process
 
===11. January 2024===
 
* General
** Hackathon at TQtC
** CI process presentation
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
* Bugs & Features
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
** macOS request permission API work continues.
** 6.7 adaptions patches
** M2M fixes on the current impl
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
** favicon issue with out docs
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
** Improvements for the doc build process


===04.January 2024===
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2024]]
* General
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
** New OKR organization
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
** PyPy is now on 3.10
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
* Infra & Releases
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
** Android [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)
** Xcode issues with a new M3
** Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
* Bugs & Features
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
** async: the module is missing from our docs
** async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
** new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
** pyside6 designer pyenv crash was fixed
** pyside cmake module update crash was fixed
** working on the request permission API for macOS
** docs: free functions as separate section and other improvements
** Python scripting in c++ works continues
** PyPy 3.10 compatibility patches
** nogil: working again on a compatibility with PEP703
*** locking mechanism for our modules.
** Typing adjustments, we need '/' in our signatures due to not having keywords parameters.


==2023==
==2023==

Revision as of 08:30, 3 July 2025


2025

3. July 2025

  • General Topics
  • Infra & Releases
    • macOS issue on setting the virtual environment was fixed
    • 3.13 to be enabled soon
    • 6.8.4 commercial LTS is the next release.
  • Bugs & Features
    • 64bit enumeration was implemented
    • signals and threads clarification (and docs)
    • Qt Python Scripting cleanup
    • Free threading Python changes, threads sanitizer on windows for testing. Few new crashes on linux were discovered, most things work but our stress test is failing.
    • 3132 Item delegate crash was fixed, and other minor bugs.
    • Finalizing pending QtDS tutorial
    • Addressing some warnings from pyside6-deploy (qrc files)
    • pyside6-deploy: Nuitka bumped to 2.7.1
    • CMake changes: updating the C++ binding related examples (where header files are in use)
      • This might affect Python/C++ code from many existing applications (documenting it)
    • scikit-core compat changes
      • Investigate outsource builds
      • passing all our parameters to it

26. June 2025

  • General Topics
  • Infra & Releases
    • CI: Fail to create env problem is still around (seems to be machine-related) - we could disable that config.
    • uv research still pending.
    • 3.13 configs still pending.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Free threading
      • The current researched approach with our own lock is not the best solution for PySide.
      • We have proof other people not picking this approach, and go with a sub-interpreter one: https://discuss.python.org/t/is-free-threading-our-only-option/91775
      • A different approach might be needed
      • Our current testing infra is not enough to simply write tests for nogil python, and many hiccups have been found.
      • Some tests cannot be replicated after some issues, so the nondeterministic behavior is a big challenge.
    • Qt AsyncIO notes
      • A few ideas on how to finish the implementation was shared
      • The TCP protocol was initially implemented
      • New tests were provided to continue the development in the future (using an asyncio event loop)
    • Some small tutorial to debug Python and C++, might need a follow-up
    • Qt Creator discussion with people using old PySide versions, and using the new pyproject.toml approach.
    • Cross building support on shiboken
      • yocto was not affected
      • we might need to check if iOS works
    • PYSIDE-3095 small fix to pyside6-project
    • Qt Python Scripting
      • Small internal API review
      • Cleanup
    • To catch-up with the cmake improvements to our build system (orthogonal to the scikit-core research)
      • this will allow us to properly have the module as projects configures to be find them.
      • In the future, we will simplify our CMakeLists.txt for hybrid applications, a lot!
    • iOS research continues
      • Cross compiling is still an issue due to the shared/static
      • OpenGL issue has a workaround, but still researching on the underneath
      • Waiting for shiboken to have compatibility with cross compiling to check if it works.


19. June 2025

  • General Topics
    • Possible marketing support for the project
  • Infra & Releases
    • Research on enable 3.13 via pyenv continue
    • To investigate errors while creating venvs
  • Bugs & Features
    • QtWidgets apps on iOS still in research
      • Some issues with the qt libraries, duplicate symbols.
      • Some discussion with others about shared/static libraries for iOS (Qt doesnt' seems to be able to work properly) - shared libs for iOS task is not prioritized yet.
    • CMake discussion to enable Qt Bridges from the PySide build system.
      • The problem is our current build structure, where we build shiboken first and then pyside patching paths.
      • We might introduce an option to enable this configuration.
    • Add QtMultimedia libraries (libav*) to the android wheels.
    • Documenting more open research topics (QtAsyncIO, Disable GIL, Debugging, Class properties, PyPy) and maybe more.
    • Fix enumeration issues in Qt Designer
    • libxst issues at build time were addressed
    • Research: cross build for shiboken to recognize targets PYSIDE-3105. To support both approaches
      • list(APPEND shiboken_command "--platform=${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}" "--arch=${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR}" "--compiler-path=${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER}")}
        
      • list(APPEND shiboken_command "--clang-option=--target="aarch64-none-linux-android"" "--compiler-path=${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER}")
        

12. June 2025

  • General Topics
    • QtDS Tutorial still pending
  • Infra & Releases
    • RTA discussion on PySide
    • SBOM research pending, but will be addressed
    • Evaluating using 3.13 in some of our CI nodes
  • Bugs & Features
    • Newly discovered missing dll/so on android wheels (libav* from ffmpeg)
    • Flatpak baseapp is now shipping tools (after users requests)
      • Waiting for the webengine baseapp to be merged
    • Alexandru helping with some CMake changes we are trying to incorporate into pyside, in order to improve the discoverability of the installed packages.
    • iOS research
      • Small Qt application is working at the moment (QTimer log example)
      • shiboken python module works.
      • QtGui and QtWidgets needs special handling from iOS side
      • Trying the XCode simulator (to avoid usage of the physical device) - architecture issues when built (mismatch on intel/apple silicon)
      • Note from android: there was a missing opengl component, that needed to be added.
    • Started to documenting a few of the on-going initiatives/patches.
      • Disable GIL, QtAsyncIO, etc
    • Regression 6.9.1 - QGraphicsView that was fixed
    • ActiveQt issues lead to discovering that we could use the meta object in order to enable Enums on Qt Designers
    • Discussion about Enum declared within a Python class, and declaring properties with that on the same class (python limitation)
    • Planning on maybe adapting shiboken for easy cross build functionalities.

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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