Qt for Python Development Notes

2025

24. July 2025

• General Topics
• Infra & Releases
• Bugs & Features

17. July 2025

• General Topics
• Infra & Releases
• Bugs & Features

10. July 2025

• General Topics
  • One person from the team will attend EuroPython and PyCon Portugal.
• Infra & Releases
  • 6.8.4 will go out tomorrow (most likely)
  • Testing a new package to include msvc dependencies, that might replace our current mechanism
  • 3.13 CI configuration research continues
• Bugs & Features
  • CMake patches broke debug build (and super project build) but the issues were fixed.
  • Creating a CMake package for shiboken generator, to simplify our build dependencies for C++/Python or binding examples.
  • Moving forward with the iOS research
    • Cross compiling pyside6 is still in progress but with more progress
    • currently there are a few issues with libclang
    • OpenGL issues are back, but they are caused by a different thing
  • PYSIDE-3134 predefined characters for the QString format behavior discussion
  • PYSIDE-3132 crash related to item delegates was fixed
  • PYSIDE-3133 keyword argument issue was fixed
  • Example icon library was removed
  • Splitting the nogil patches in order to granularize the solution.
  • PYSIDE-2938 msvc runtime dependencies still in progress, doing tests. Reverting an old file to avoid packaging the CI host machine files (they are now outdated)
  • PYSIDE-3135 discussion on a regression affecting typing.Self
  • iOS cross building from shiboken, tweaking the code a bit
  • Split AsyncIO patches for adding support little by little, but there are still tests that are not working. We need interested people to contribute to these fixes.
  • Reviewing existing type hints issues
  • build script assessment before trying scikit-build-core

3. July 2025

• General Topics
  • Planning on some new tutorials or demos, and examples https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-136955
• 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 6.9.1 and 6.5.9 were released.
  • Discussion about release practices for a commercial customer (medical)
    • 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
  • 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
  • We are probably presenting at QtWS!
  • Check our PyPI organization page: https://pypi.org/org/Qt/
  • https://peps.python.org/pep-0751/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0768/
  • There will be a local meetup in Berlin, where Shiboken will be mentioned and explained a bit https://www.meetup.com/pyberlin/events/306654979/
• Infra & Releases
  • 6.8.3 and 6.9.0 were released.
  • Android wheels for 6.9.0 were generated differently for a CI NDK misconfiguration.
  • Flatpak releases are waiting for the webengine flatpack update first.
• Bugs & Features
  • Adding property support for QML bridges
  • Minor changes to the deployment tool, and qtpip
  • Working on the presentation for QtWS
  • Continue the research for iOS support, it seems there are a few issues with the other frameworks that support it.
    • Distributing apps on iOS is tricky, it requires a Dev account ($$), with a free account you can only upload the app with a cable for 7 days, and then it expires (We wonder what would happen with data)
    • For uploading, you need to turn-on developer mode, which raises a message of "privacy being reduced"
    • iPad applications seems to have the same behavior.
  • Might check https://github.com/benfogle/crossenv and https://github.com/beeware/mobile-forge
  • PYSIDE-3059 was fixed
  • PYSIDE-3012 was updated with new suggestions
  • Free threading Python support continues PYSIDE-2221
    • A few changes we had for nogil are not necessary anymore.
    • Our mandelbrot example didn't show a good performance. After discussion with CPython core devs, there was an issue on Python 3.13.{1,2} (not on 3.13.0) that made some slowness. (On M1 it was 8x faster, but now it was 4.3x, the speed lost causes are still in research)
    • https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/131989

27. March 2025

• General
  • A few comments on the state of the auto-generated documentation in our telegram group. We expect the community to help us by filing issues they find (per page) so we can try to address them.
• Infra & Releases
  • Status of 6.8.3
    • Android NDK change is still updating. We might use some additional wheels for the release.
    • Flatpak update will be done as well.
  • Status of 6.9.0
    • New NDK is already there, and the tests have succeed.
    • Branching 6.9.0 today/tomorrow after last changes
• Bugs & Features
  • 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
  • QtCS: We need to submit talks in case we want to attend.
  • Tomorrow Python 3.14a6 will be released https://peps.python.org/pep-0745/
• Infra & Releases
  • Windows on ARM research continues and looks good! managed to fix an issue, but a new issues was found on samplebinding. The issue might be related to missing OpenGL.
  • 6.9.0rc might be released tomorrow, which means PySide6 FF will be due.
• Bugs & Features
  • Many new type hints bugs being reported :)
  • Smart pointers exclusion issues fixed (shiboken)
  • Designer and Linguist tools fixes (External)
  • Helping the remoteobject contributions to work better.
  • Documentation checks and 6.10 adaption.
  • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 Going back to the free threaded Python topic in PySide
    • Lots of changes since the previous attempt
  • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3012 Kept working on the pep8 compatibility for type hints issues
  • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3034 trying to figure out to get type information from public variables
  • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3046 fixing type issues
  • Re-Starting research on iOS compatibility
  • QML Bridges: Slots registration is working now! new tests are being written.

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
  • 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
  • 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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