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==2021==


====08. July 2021====
==2025==
 
=== 24. July 2025 ===


* General Topics
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Planning next releases.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs
** 1334 .connect returns now a bool to verify the connection.
** 1613 logging level
** 1618 session manager issue (Qt bug)
** 1619 discussion on accepting the QSettings.value (still in progress)
* Features
** lupdate now has support for Python, and will be available in 6.2 (+ docs)
** adding new API for WebEngine
** gettext tutorial
** pathlib support continues (QUrl)
** PyPy compatibility: still addressing the issues related to the type extensions.
** ApiExtractor: add classmethod attribute to add-function for tr()
** Attempting to expose QtDBus
** Improving docs and tutorials
** Experimenting with python-only modules.


====01. July 2021====
=== 17. July 2025 ===
 
* General Topics
** Most of the team in vacation or in conferences
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.1.2 ready to go out
* Bugs & Features
** Trying CI debug configuration
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3138 PYSIDE-3138] - Creating a shiboken CMake package that enables the user to easily create Python bindings with CMake.
* Bugs
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3134 PYSIDE-3134] -  The format parameter fixed from 'int' to 'str'.
** Documentation broken links, and improve Designer tutorials.
** iOS cross building for all modules completed, however the issue with shared libraries prevent to create widget application on an iOS device.
** PYSIDE-1609 findChild fixed
** Started adding the handover documentation to developer notes.
** PYSIDE-1370 QSharedMemory fixed
** PYSIDE-131 Translations issues fixed (with the problem that we don't have lupdate support on PySide6)
** QtSensors issues on the CI due to update solved.
* Features
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy Support still on going.
** Adding more missing classes.
** Analysing deployment scenario for PySide applications.


====24. June 2021====
=== 10. July 2025 ===
* Feedback from Akademy 2021 sessions
** Tutorials on the Designer process, and other process that might be simple for Qt users, but unknown for Python users.
** More examples on the QML - Python interaction.
** Improve documentation
** Qt Creator support
** Template tool
* Release and Infra
** 6.1.2 coming next week.
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-131 in progress, related to translation with automatic language tools.
* Features
** Trying to address issues related to PyPy (type declaration, and extension structure)
** Add new qml functions (update missing binding)
** Multimedia changes
** WebEngine is partially in the repo.


====17. June 2021====
* General Topics
* Release and Infra
** One person from the team will attend EuroPython and PyCon Portugal.
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5
* Infra & Releases
** New Debug VM setup ready to test
** 6.8.4 will go out tomorrow (most likely)
** Testing new architecture to handle universal binaries on M1 machines
** Testing a new package to include msvc dependencies, that might replace our current mechanism
* Bugs
** 3.13 CI configuration research continues
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1599 PYSIDE-1599] Issue with .pyi files on the CI (to test them) is now fixed, considering wrong signatures that we had and didn't detect.
* Bugs & Features
** Seems like there is something going on with the --quiet options and log levels.
** CMake patches broke debug build (and super project build) but the issues were fixed.
** Cleaning old bugs that were invalid
** Creating a CMake package for shiboken generator, to simplify our build dependencies for C++/Python or binding examples.
* Feature
** Moving forward with the iOS research
** Qt6 API adaption
*** Cross compiling pyside6 is still in progress but with more progress
** There are some corner cases with pathlib that need to be documented and fixed.
*** currently there are a few issues with libclang
** Changes to rely on qtpath instead of qmake (from qt6 changes)
*** OpenGL issues are back, but they are caused by a different thing
** Testing aarch64 and M1 builds
** 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


====10. June 2021====
=== 3. July 2025 ===
* Release and Infra
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5 rescheduled for next week.
** Trying to build 6.2, figuring differences between CentOS and RH (ldd issues)
** Discussion to improve commercial offering installation.
* Bugs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1593 pyi issue (and improvement too)
** Fixing issues related to --/++ operators
* Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499 pathlib support (ready for review)
** Adding many missing classes, enums, etc.
** Adapting QtMultimedia new module and API
** Discussion on Handling native interfaces.
* Events
** Akademy participation (external talk)
** Qt Contributor Summit https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributors_Summit_2021_-_Program


====03. June 2021====
* General Topics
* Release and Infra
** Planning on some new tutorials or demos, and examples https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-136955
** Qt 6.1.1 scheduled for Friday (might be release next week)
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 5.15.5 scheduled for the 10th.
** macOS issue on setting the virtual environment was fixed
** Research on M1 build on the CI
** 3.13 to be enabled soon
*** Locally it works: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1535
** 6.8.4 commercial LTS is the next release.
*** Wheels might be affect (universal binaries are too large)
* Bugs & Features
** Debug build on Windows to be tested.
** 64bit enumeration was implemented
** The possibility of releasing Docker images is being addressed
** signals and threads clarification (and docs)
* Bugs
** Qt Python Scripting cleanup
** Smaller bugs (PYSIDE-1584, PYSIDE-1585 not reproduceable)
** 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.
** Discussion finished https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1567
** 3132 Item delegate crash was fixed, and other minor bugs.
** Issues with XML interface to Python https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1588
** Finalizing pending QtDS tutorial
** Class properties fix and refined code.
** Addressing some warnings from pyside6-deploy (qrc files)
** Multi-inheritance still in progress.
** pyside6-deploy: Nuitka bumped to 2.7.1
* Features
** CMake changes: updating the C++ binding related examples (where header files are in use)
** Small cleanups and fixes
*** This might affect Python/C++ code from many existing applications (documenting it)
** Added more API (PYSIDE-1586) for qtbase for starters
** scikit-core compat changes
** Working on native interfaces (PYSIDE-1568)
*** Investigate outsource builds
** pathlib support https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
*** passing all our parameters to it
*** File system paths in Qt are supported
** Discussion on new repo structure.


====27. May 2021====
=== 26. June 2025 ===


* Release and Infra
* General Topics
** 5.15.5 LTS (Commercial only) release planned.
** 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
** 6.1.1 to be release soon.
** Future discussion on new Python Courses for Qt Academy
** Debug build on Windows (using python_d.exe and pass '--debug' when building, and remove the '--limited-api=yes')
* Infra & Releases
** Research: M1 build CI testing
** CI: Fail to create env problem is still around (seems to be machine-related) - we could disable that config.
* Features
** uv research still pending.
** Improvements to the general pyi generator, and features.
** 3.13 configs still pending.
** pathlib compatibility still in progress
* Bugs & Features
** Shiboken documentation: unused code
** Free threading
* Bugs
*** The current researched approach with our own lock is not the best solution for PySide.
** Multiple inheritance issues, when using explicit and implicit calls to parent constructors (super() vs Class)
*** 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
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1563 (QImage related)
*** A different approach might be needed
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1573 (QML related)
*** Our current testing infra is not enough to simply write tests for nogil python, and many hiccups have been found.
* Changelog policy
*** Some tests cannot be replicated after some issues, so the nondeterministic behavior is a big challenge.
** [Changelog] This class will act like..., to be used for important changes.
** Qt AsyncIO notes
* Research
*** A few ideas on how to finish the implementation was shared
** performance tests
*** The TCP protocol was initially implemented
** Tool: report new classes per Qt versions.
*** New tests were provided to continue the development in the future (using an asyncio event loop)
** Missing Qt API
** Some small tutorial to debug Python and C++, might need a follow-up
** new structure cmake/build
** 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.


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


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


====13. May 2021====
=== 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
*** <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>


* No meeting due to holiday
=== 12. June 2025 ===
* Bugs
* General Topics
** PYSIDE-1566 Designer plugins don't work on macOS - solved & checked in
** QtDS Tutorial still pending
** PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
* Infra & Releases
*** Problem isolated, in progress (needs quite some change)
** RTA discussion on PySide
** - Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
** SBOM research pending, but will be addressed
* Features
** Evaluating using 3.13 in some of our CI nodes
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415 waiting for check-in
* Bugs & Features
** - PYSIDE-1436 Support Python 3.10 - some progress
** Newly discovered missing dll/so on android wheels (libav* from ffmpeg)
** - pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
** Flatpak baseapp is now shipping tools (after users requests)
** - PyPy compatibility stalled - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
*** 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.


====06. May 2021====
=== 5. June 2025 ===
* Infra & Release
* General Topics
** 6.1 postponed for next Thursday
** Bug Fixing week
*** Reverting NumPy integration (made it experimental feature, due to problem with shared library)
** KDE Akademy 2025 - We hope to be there!
*** Qt Designer Plugin (not compatible with Limited API)
** Checking other events we might participate.
*** Update changelog
** Checking out wheelnext: https://wheelnext.dev/
*** Cherry pick exec related changes.
** Should we really go full on Free threaded Python? https://discuss.python.org/t/is-free-threading-our-only-option/91775
*** oss/6.1 tqtc/6.1 (to be created)
* Infra & Releases
* Bugs
** 6.9.1 and 6.5.9 were released.
** PYSIDE-1404 improvements
** Discussion about release practices for a commercial customer (medical)
** Property docs - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1513
*** How should we proceed with SBOMs? Will be tested in some time.
** __feature__ at the end - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1548
*** Qt-Security annotation for critical code https://contribute.qt-project.org/quips/23
** Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
**** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-135177
* Features
* Bugs & Features
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415
** PYSIDE-3187 std::optional handling from new qt api (having an intrinsic type rather than a separate one)
** pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
** Trying QRangeModel for some Python examples. (new api in 6.10)
** PyPy compatibility in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** Adapting to 6.10
** Discussion on keyword-support arguments in shiboken - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1555
** Virtual Keyboard issue: missing files for plugins issue was fixed
** Possible adoption of "/" in signatures.
** 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. April 2021====
=== 29. May 2025 ===
* Infra & Release
* General Topics
** Expected 6.0.4, 6.1, and 5.15.4(LTS) for next week.
* Infra & Releases
** Creating 6.1 soon
** Preparing 6.9.1, 6.5.9
*** Enable macOS testing
** Further work adapting to 6.10, QRangeModel renamed from QGenericItemModel
*** Property documentation
* Bugs & Features
*** Adding glibc version to linux wheel
** Investigating improving support for std::optional [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3107 PYSIDE-3107]
* Bugs
** 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.
** Fixing documentation issues
** QPropertyAnimation constructor annotations fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3012 PYSIDE-3012]
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1425
** Continued work on XCode and library binding, minor problems with Python libraries and trying to integrate PySide6 libraries.
** New discoveries with https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229 not so simple (memory related)
** PYSIDE-2221: Status report is in progress for potential handover.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1264 still pending.
** PYSIDE-769:
* Features
*** Integration and activation of QtAsync tests into the test framework.
** Refactoring in general (import *) stuff.
*** First implementation of a TCP transport; server tests are working.
** Cleaning and updating tests and examples
** Discussion on https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1380


====22. April 2021====
=== 22. May 2025 ===
* Infra & Release
* General Topics
** 6.0.4 release was postponed, but we are on time.
** Some updates from PyConUS
** 6.1 is on track.
** Qt Bridges: We might participate at Akademy
*** wheel name to support more than 1 binary for linux.
** Qt Bridges: We got an accepted talk https://ndctechtown.com/
** Starting to try the new CI macOS machines.
** Qt WS: Talk recording might be delayed to be public.
* Bugs
** PyCon IT: Going there to give a talk
** Minor fixes
** Windows on ARM is getting more attention from other companies.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478
*** There is currently an issue with OpenGL (not being in Qt, hence not in Qt for Python)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1409
*** FreeCAD requires opengl for some reason :S
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229
* Infra & Releases
* Features
** 5.15.19 commercial LTS was released
** Numpy QtChart compatibility
** 6.9.1 postponed by a regression
** PyPy compatibility https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** 6.5.9 still pending (security fix)
** Looking into other module compatibilities
** We might evaluate uv for CI
** Improve documentation for Property use in QML
* Bugs & Features
** Improve the generate_pyi script
** 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. April 2021====
=== 15. May 2025 ===


* Infrastructure
* Infra & Releases
** Setting on track the content of OSS and commercial wheels.
** Preparing 6.9.1
** Qt addons distribution will change in 6.1 and 6.2, so we need to keep an eye on that.
** Released 6.5.9
** New macOS machines for the CI
* Bugs & Features
* Documentation update process to be improved.
** Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt
* Bugs
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2193 PYSIDE-2193] QML property related crash fixed
** There were some problems with the default encoding and the doc build process (python version related)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3098 PYSIDE-3098] NumPy problem with Sequence/Iterable conflict in 6.10 solved
** 1529 fixed, and other issues (QPointF), 1514 QPainter, 1503 QCharts.
** qinstallmessagehandler refcount issue fixed
* Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3078 PYSIDE-3078] QInputDialog get methods accept None as parent.
** Improving examples to use new features and refreshing the code base.
** Cross-compile iOS and PySide6 is done. Now the test phase.
** Performance examples to compare C++ and Python
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 PYSIDE-2221] Free threading research continues.
** Reformatting some code base to use f-strings and warning
*** disable-gil first tiny progress in bug hunting. Shiboken Cyclic test works now
** New tutorials in progress based on Model View
*** Result used for generating locks in PySide constructors
** Internal Qt Hackathon
*** still a few timeout errors and others
*** Focused on integration with matplotlib (Performance discussion)
*** Scripting C++ applications.


====08. April 2021====
=== 8. May 2025 ===
* No meeting


====01. April 2021====
* 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


* Deployment story
=== 1. May 2025 ===
** Add new test for Nuitka (on macOS)
** Update the tutorials, since PyInstaller and cx_Freeze seems to be partially working on Qt6.
** Higher versions from macOS are more restrictive for the bundles that are generated. This leads to new breakage.
* Preparation for 6.0.3 release
* Bug
** PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka compile methods/functions is done
** PYSIDE-1338 Hiding confusing feature frame entries
** Wheel Tester to be improved.
* Features
** pathlib features still in progress.
** Porting more examples to snake_case
** Check snippets_translator tool.
** Make generate_pyi as a generic tool to be merged.


====25. March 2021====
* Labor day, no labor to report


* Infra
=== 24. April 2025 ===
** Evaluation to change the wheel names to specify glibc version for 6.1
** CI issues still with macOS
* Features
** Refactoring examples (snake_case)
** Updating deployment docs.
** PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka, support for compiled functions.
** PYSIDE-1415 make the generate_pyi more general
** PYSIDE-1449 pathlib compatibility
** Improvements on the documentation, tutorials, and examples.
** Enabling snippet translator into the doc building process.
* Bugs
** Fix crash from the new Network components.
** Triage and some other fixes.
** PYSIDE-1502 Compiling pyside2 with build target does not result in PySide2 `support` module being installed
** PYSIDE-1524 warning related to sprintf
** PYSIDE-1019 1038 hidden imports, properties, other fixes.
** There seems to be some problems with PyInstaller on macOS


====18. March 2021====
* 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.


* Infra
=== 17. April 2025 ===
** CI has been showing some issues. 12h timeouts for macOS.
** Soon to have 6.1 branch
** Synchronization of the commercial repository with latest Qt.
* Features
** Improving commercial tools.
** Finding issues and getting ideas to improve the docs.
** Using new qttools directory
** Add option to not copy qt tools to the wheel when building.
** pathlib compatibility patch still on-going
** improvements to the documentation, adding 'doc' directory to each example.
* Bugs
** OpenGLFunctions issues (mailing list announcement)
** PYSIDE-1520 Union types
** PYSIDE-1514 Shiboken module movement patches had some issues, which will be fixed
** PYSIDE-1502 Working on improving the __feature__ option to make them safer in diff installation errors.
** PYSIDE-1019 feature import problem (found in PYSIDE-1338) waiting for review


====11. March 2021====
* 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


* Infra
=== 10. April 2025 ===
** 6.0.2 is out
** 5.15.3 still pending
** Trying to update dependencies for 6.1 (modules)
** auditwheel (research, optional)
** COIN seems to be acting weird, but generally.
* Features
** cleanup snippets and general things in shiboken
** license changes for LTS
** Adding clarifications to the docs.
** Discussion on the proper build processes.
* Bugs
** 1438 Visualization issue
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1516
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1514 shiboken renaming causes an issue for copying files to the wheel.
** Show the __feature__ issues on the traceback.


====5. March 2021====
* General
** 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


*General Topics
=== 3. April 2025 ===
**6.0.2 release preparations
* General
***Final fix for license checking instructions
** We are probably presenting at QtWS!
***OSS RC1 wheels should be available for testing later today
** Check our PyPI organization page: https://pypi.org/org/Qt/
***Merge from pyside-setup/6.0 into tqtc-pyside-setup/6.0 is pending that final fix
** https://peps.python.org/pep-0751/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0768/
**Bugs
** There will be a local meetup in Berlin, where Shiboken will be mentioned and explained a bit https://www.meetup.com/pyberlin/events/306654979/
*** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1438 PYSIDE-1438] Crash in Qt DataVisualisation adressed
* Infra & Releases
*** Bug triage, moved several bugs over to Qt
** 6.8.3 and 6.9.0 were released.
**Features
** Android wheels for 6.9.0 were generated differently for a CI NDK misconfiguration.
*** Cleanup and improvement of injected code snippets in PySide6
** Flatpak releases are waiting for the webengine flatpack update first.
*** Improvements in error handling
* 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


====25. February 2021====
=== 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.


*General Topics
=== 20. March 2025 ===
**Commercial 5.15.3 release next week.
* General
**6.0.2 release next week.
** PyPI organizations accepted Qt!
*Infra updates
** We heard about https://wheelnext.dev/ it seems some ideas could be beneficial.
**Keep an eye on the next Python releases.
* Infra & Releases
*Features
** A few issues in our CI in the last weeks (fixed now)
**Documentation for the designer plugin
** Qt 6.8.3 new snapshot coming
**shiboken: c++ using directive
** Qt 6.9.0 (internal rc2 to test)
**pathlib compatibility support discussion (initial implementation was discarded)
** We will move 'dev' to use Python 3.10+
***Trying to discover all the methods that are related to paths.
* Bugs & Features
*Bugs
** Windows on ARM wheels are ready after a couple of issues (linking) were fixed.
**cx_Freeze issues in 6.0.0/1
** 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


====18. February 2021====
=== 13. March 2025 ===


*General Topics
* General
**Commercial LTS 5.15.3 release.
** QtCS: We need to submit talks in case we want to attend.
**DeveloperWeek conference talk by Corey: will mention Qt for Python.
** Tomorrow Python 3.14a6 will be released https://peps.python.org/pep-0745/
*Infra Update
* Infra & Releases
**TBD: Need of a new branch in qt5.git for the lts qt for python release.
** 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.
*Features
** 6.9.0rc might be released tomorrow, which means PySide6 FF will be due.  
**pathlib.Path (soon to be ready) and fspath support (difficult) in pyside
* Bugs & Features  
**__feature__ documentation
** Many new type hints bugs being reported :)
**Designer patches are done (we still need docs)
** Smart pointers exclusion issues fixed (shiboken)
**documentation generation fixes.
** Designer and Linguist tools fixes (External)
**shiboken: general refactoring (constructors)
** Helping the remoteobject contributions to work better.
**doc: examples code in tabs
** Documentation checks and 6.10 adaption.
**doc: new ideas for tutorials and vocabulary.
** 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.


====11. February 2021====
=== 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)


*General topics
**Issues with Pick-to: 5.15
**Discussion about the usage of pathlib
**Reduce linux wheel size by not including .debug files.
*Infra update
**Timeouts in RHEL
**Preparing addons for 6.1
*Bugs
**Fixing many issues related to sphinx, and documentation in general.
*Features
**Moving the internal shiboken6.shiboken6.Shiboken to shiboken6.Shiboken 1497
**Will be finish today (Documentation about the __feature__ options) PYSIDE-1481
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 usage of constructor properties when enabling true_property
**Migration to pathlib in our code, and add support for fspath in our API, https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
**Examples gallery embedded into the doc building process.
**Designer patch ready for review.
**Commercial tools on-going (icons discussion)
**(in progress) Error handling in shiboken


====4. February 2021====
=== 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.


*General topics
=== 6. February 2025 ===
**6.0.1 release is on its way (the wheels will include the Qt3D modules and the ImageFormat plugins, which were missing in 6.0.0)
* General
**Changelog structure in Qt vs what we have now
** We went to FOSDEM and meet many PySide users!
**Zombie 5.15 patches to be re-generated or cherry-picked to lts-5.15
** Commercial / LTS naming on the Installer.
*Infra update
* Infra & Releases
**Maintenance update went better.
** Reviewing our branching policies. There is interest in branching pyside-setup sooner.
**COIN update is coming next week.
** We might need to move the Android wheels to PyPI (Probably from 6.9 on)
*Bugs
** 6.8.2.1 release is planned in order to fix the missing DLLs in Windows (MSVC)
**(almost done) Shiboken internal namespace renaming.
*** cheery pick is missing for 5.15
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476
** PySide6_DS 4.7 to be released in the next couple of weeks.
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1478
* Bugs & Features
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1487
** Adding TOML support for Python projects in QtCreator
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481
** TypeHints new reports, trying to get an idea of what's causing the errors
*Features
** Issues in Flatpak: updating version, checking a cleanup issue. Addressing dependencies issues for optional packages.
**M2M Protocols modules rebase
** QtQA internal scripting: Adapting an automatic wheel download.
**Shiboken UI rebase
** Size reduction
**Custom Widget designer compatibility
*** Move virtual function overrides. Only generated on the base classes.
**Snippet converter tool
*** 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)


====28. January 2021====
=== 30. January 2025 ===


*Infra update
* General
**'dev' we are missing tests on macOS (in progress). Qt5 bin on macOS 11, and running test on 10.15/13
* Infra & Releases
**trying to build pyside on a custom Qt (with plugins/addons) oss and commercial
** Preparing 6.8.2
*Bugs
* Bugs & Features
**Due to the shiboken module naming issue
** Size reduction [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] : Implemented code reuse for Python overrides of virtual functions
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481 __feature__ documentation
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on multiple inheritance, added more widgets
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476 PySide Property declaration creates properties with the setter name of the function
** Size reduction: PYSIDE-2701 Folding progress: We can now combine multiple foldings of the same function. This will bring some more reduction.
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 constructors info in the stubs (other issues appeared)
** Simplebrowser example updated
***All the future fix related to stubs rely on the change
** adding imageviewer docs
***there might be some issues with relying only on the install dir and not build.
=== 23. January 2025 ===
*Features
**refactoring shiboken
**statmachine module rebirth
**designer patches to include custom widgets.
**enabling clang_options on shiboken
*Branching story
**lts-5.15 issues
***Fix pyside-setup/5.15 and do all the merges     (done)                                        
***Merge pyside-setup/5.15 into tqtc-pyside-setup/5.15    (done)                                        
***Create tqtc-pyside-setup/lts-5.15 from pyside-setup/5.15
***Close pyside-setup/5.15 Make the Pick-to bot merge from Pick-to: 5.15 -> tqtc/lts-5.15
**tqtc
***create tqtc/dev from oss/dev
***move manually the patches that added things for the commercial offering into tqtc/dev (shiboken ui, m2m protocols modules)
**Process to fix bugs
***push to oss/dev Pickt-to: 5.15 (this will go to lts-5.15)
***before release we push oss/dev to tqtc/dev


====21. January 2021====
* General
** [https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kconfig/-/jobs/2497118 KDE testing Qt betas and snapshots]
*** Should we update our Branching policy?
*** Our branching policy:
**** We branch briefly after API Review is done in qt meta repo.
** Yocto libclang issue - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/609352
* Infra & Releases
** 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.


*Infra update
=== 16. January 2025 ===
**'dev' branch seems to be the only broken (maybe 5.15)
**Provisioning is affected
**need to create lts-5.15 branch for commercial releases
**WinRT is broken (at a Qt/CI level)
*Bug fixes
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1458 Discussion about macOS symlinks
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481 __feature__ documentation
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476 PySide Property declaration creates properties with the setter name of the function
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 constructors info in the stubs (other issues appeared)
*Features
**Rename internal shiboken import: 'from shiboken6 import shiboken6 as Shiboken' -> 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken'
***Both options in 6.1,
***Only 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken' from 6.2 on.
**Designer plugin: set environment in the launcher script (instead of the rpath option)
**Removing extra QtCharts namespace (it  was removed in Qt) -> QtDataVisualization?
***Externals helping the migration process.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1477 clang options for shiboken cross build
*Starting work on new tutorials and applications (Data Science and visualization)


====14. January 2021====
* 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.


*Qt Bug fixing week
=== 09. January 2025 ===
*Infra update
**Missing 5.15 merge to tqtc
*Bug fixes
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1470 fixed
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 in progress
*Features
**Contacting people at other IDEs groups to provide a better PySide support. (to create a user story)
**NumPy support to accept numpy.array as 'some' Qt types
**Designer plugin works continues (needs libshiboken) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1455
*Webinar ideas
**__feature__ and Python properties
**Interaction with other modules


====7. January 2021====
* 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
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2966 PYSIDE-2966] Disabled instantiating non-instantiable classes
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 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.
 
==2024==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2024]]
 
==2023==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]
 
==2022==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]
 
==2021==


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


==2020==
==2020==

Revision as of 11:28, 17 July 2025


2025

24. July 2025

  • General Topics
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features

17. July 2025

  • General Topics
    • Most of the team in vacation or in conferences
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-3138 - Creating a shiboken CMake package that enables the user to easily create Python bindings with CMake.
    • PYSIDE-3134 - The format parameter fixed from 'int' to 'str'.
    • iOS cross building for all modules completed, however the issue with shared libraries prevent to create widget application on an iOS device.
    • Started adding the handover documentation to developer notes.

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
  • 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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