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== 2020 ==


==== 12. November 2020 ====
==2024==


* Infra
===13. June 2024===
** Tests running for dev configurations, still fighting.
*** CentOS issues with LimitedAPI
*** macOS Qt namespace header from QtCore
** There are some issues with clang6 and 5.15
** 5.15.2 Soon to be release.
* Removed AddedFunction::TypeInfo in favor of the code model parser.
* Cleanup related to our headers.
* Error message patches are finished (extension feature)
* Fix bug related to class properties.
* There has been new demand on how to contribute examples, and where to get more examples
** We should try to take this topic once again.
* Many new bug reports in our backlog! a good sign that more people is using it :)


==== 5. November 2020 ====
* General
* Infra update
** Python 3.9 story: the decision was made without considering that 3.9 is still getting security releases, so we have decided to keep supporting Python 3.9 for PySide 6.8 LTS, but we might drop it in the middle of some bug-fix releases.
** NFS issue last night (COIN was down)
*** Things that are considered to support certain python versions are: Internal CI Python versions for each OS, Python version lifecycle https://devguide.python.org/versions/, features that will improve user experience from new versions.
** 5.15 is fixed after the numpy pin
*** Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
** 5.15.2 start preparation for the release.
** Qt Group is sponsoring EuroPython 2024: and we will give a talk!
** Planning the CI configuration for dev
* Infra & Releases
* __feature__ error messages handling
** 6.7.2 packages are ready to be released.
* Evaluate generate_pyi.py as a tool
** Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
* Rename from pyside2 -> pyside6
** Starting process to test windows arm64 (discussion around libclang)
* Still on Qt6 reactive mode
** Nightly builds:
* Bug fixes
*** Possible solution for linux and macOS arm64 android builds.
* declare-function attribute for typesystem (motivated by QList)
*** Maybe also for non-unity builds? it has been failing in some corner cases.
*** We could have dev-android branch so we don't block the normal dev development.
*** nightly builds merge automatically if everything passes.
*** PyPy integrations might join a similar configuration as well.
* Bugs & Features
** Android wheels from macOS host through coin successful. Assembling the final patch. Coin still running tests for an Android build and error-ing still needs to be resolved.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2702 PYSIDE-2702] - Flatpak base app implementation started.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2781 PYSIDE-2781] - pyside6-deploy failure investigation ongoing. Could be a Nuitka issue. User using the latest Nuitka.
** Working on improve our typing implementations.
** QtAsyncio: internal presentation including the theory behind and some live examples.
** Lazy load: disabled for PyPy, fixing some shiboken-tests
** QtScrypt: development continues
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2780 PYSIDE-2780] refcount bug in the lazy import fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] 3.13 compatibility patches are ready, nogil under development
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] reduction of binary sizes under investigation, estimating the achievable reduction


===06. June 2024===


==== 29. October 2020 ====
* General
* Infra Update
** Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
** 5.15.2 in the horizon
** PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
* Qt6 efforts
** Must read https://peps.python.org/pep-0741/
** Catching up with the latest changes in qtbase and friends.
* Infra & Releases
** Dropping support for Python 2 and 3.5
** Some issues with the macOS CI units.
** Rename of shiboken2 -> shiboken6 (already merged)
** Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
** Transforming Macros into Functions on the CMakeLists files
** qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
** Test failures on QList (fancy templates)
** 6.5.6 commercial LTS was released.
** Build documentation issues.
** 6.7.2 release will happen soon (due to an issue with designer)
* Class properties on dev
** the Python 3.9 macOS CI configuration will be updated to 3.11, and the windows with 3.11 will be updated to 3.12
** Integrated, took some extra time.
* Bugs & Features
* Error messages with __feature__
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2622 - Standalone mode for Deployment as per many requests from users
** Improvements overall related to the types.
** Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
* Bug fixing and Documentation
** https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466 ready, but waiting for macOS x86_64 to update Python to 3.11 - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qt5/+/565565/4 (Thanks Simo)
** Updating internal references
** Patches ready for updating python syntax to drop typing.Optional (and use | instead) that will go in once we drop 3.9
* Extra
** Preparing presentation and improvements to QtAsyncio
** Participation in GNU Health Conference https://www.gnuhealthcon.org/2020-online/index.html
** PYSIDE-2440 will be prepared.
** op codes changing in Python, is altering some of our internal implementation, like the forgiveness mode.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 planned work for the no-gil feature in Python 3.13
** smart pointers with lazy loading were not working, but a fix was merged.
** Qt Designer had a regression that motivated 6.7.2
** Qt 6.8 adaption taking a lot of work due to doc changes and QtGraphs
** PYSIDE-2772 issue ended up being a user problem


==== 22. October 2020 ====
===30. May 2024===
* Qt 6 work
* Refactoring shiboken2 for Qt 6
* Investigated [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1408 PYSIDE-1408], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1410 PYSIDE-1410], no conclusions so far
* Implementation of class properties ready for review tomorrow, will be integrated in dev branch.
* Solving issue with the deprecated wheel.pep425tags
* Updating documentation to include reference to new branches, build documentation, etc.
* QtWS20 Talk


==== 15. October 2020 ====
* General
** PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
** Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
* Infra & Releases
** Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
** PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
** Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
** qtpip is planned to support aarch64
** 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2766 PYSIDE-2766] - Android wheels from macOS successful. Patches for review.
*** Testing a sample app now + Modifying https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466
** 6.8 adaption is in progress [qtcharts is a bit unstable]
** c++20 research to improve libshiboken
** qtscrypt progressing to support signal/slot
** dev will support python 3.10+ [for 6.8+]
** PYSIDE-2767 pyi improvements.
** lazy init for nested types disrupted the smart pointer support.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2440 type hints optionallity is planned to be implemented.


* Infra update
===23. May 2024===
** COIN configuration on macOS Python 2.7 'intel' is a bit weird and it fails for https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/315756
* General
** 5.15 will go to cherry-pick mode and 'dev' will become the default branch
* Infra & Releases
*** This is motivated from the true_propery patches being merged
** Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
*** Some pending patches
** 5.15.17 LTS released
* Trying to enable QtConcurrent methods (some)
* Bugs & Features
** what about Python-only alternatives like https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/concurrent.html
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
* Bug fixes
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2749 PYSIDE-2749] Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
** uic 'things' to  review for 5.15
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2758 PYSIDE-2758] Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
** QtCreator templates bugs to be reported.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2762 PYSIDE-2762] Fixed a type hinting bug
* Qt 6 Effort
** Brushed up and fixed a few examples
** Still more work here...
** 6.8 Adaption
** Examples, and dealing with the latest from dev
** Python 3.13 check
* Some embedded cross compiling effort
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
** pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.
** Close to macOS cross compilation


==== 8. October 2020 ====
===16. May 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
** Exclude .qsb, .webp, .cpp.o and .qen from deployment due to Nuitka error. Error report raised in Nuitka - https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2854
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2620 PYSIDE-2620] - Adapting to 6.8
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2745 PYSIDE-2745] - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] - Lazy Loading completed by supporting subtypes. This gives 8-9% more performance.
** Support for Python 3.13 started - first compatibility before switching to disable-gil
** Possibilities explored to lazy load signatures or save space.


* Infra
===2. May 2024===
** Timeouts maybe when the test_wheel hangs?
** Cache the wheels we install for the installation process, somehow.
* PYSIDE-827 Commands help
** Complicated refactoring, but it's waiting for review atm.
* Bugs fix
** export macro issue
** experiment with QtConcurrent PYSIDE-1202
** PYSIDE-1098 getframe was not properly working with 1 as argument.
** (on hold for Qt6) PYSIDE-1019 Properties modified for static ones
** fix static string leak
** PYSIDE-1128 QScintilla research
* Qt 6 efforts
** Fixing tests, and more.


==== 1. October 2020 ====
* General
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676] - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
** BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
*** Issue might require special hw
** Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
*** An internal presentation is being prepared.
** Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
** macOS cross compilation for android being tried


* Infra
** Still the 'usual' timeouts while installing Python requirements. Maybe we could fix this?
* Documentation
** Access .qch documentations files offline - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTWEBSITE-944
** Documentation fixes related to RST syntax and code snippets.
* Bug fixing
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-31 PYSIDE-31] no news, postponed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1075 PYSIDE-1075] Fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1326 PYSIDE-1326] Fix ready
* Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 PYSIDE-1019] property support ready for Python property.
** PYSIDE-1019 Property almost completely rewritten to pass the Python tests. Almost done.
** PYSIDE-1019 shiboken: It is also possible to have properties for projects not using the PySide2 extension
* Qt6 Port
** Still adapting API changes
* Extras
** PySide Property turned out to be quite incompatible with Python properties.
** Ready to implement static Property.
** We might get some QA related help for the whole project :)
** We will continue with  adding the command line options to the build/install steps


==== 24. September 2020 ====
===25. April 2024===
* General
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.1
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
* Bugs & Features
** Added a number of new classes
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
** Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
** QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
*** Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
*** Plan to improve exceptions handling


* Infra
===18. April 2024===
** One strange error related to PYSIDE-1388
** Trying to merge the change to test 3.8.1 on Windows too
* Bug fixing spree
** PYSIDE-1017
** PYSIDE-1224
** PYSIDE-665
** PYSIDE-1388
* Qt6 progress
** QML was working for some period
** Qt3D compiling
* overloadID feature for typesystems (order of overloads)
* PYSIDE-68
* Simplyfying the signature module
** motivated by the feature support
* PYSIDE-31
* Research Options update, replacing the ad-hoc class with argparse
** Include patch that display custom options into the distutils implementation


==== 17. September 2020 ====
* General
** Bug fixing week
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
** 6.5.6 release planned
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
* Bugs & Features
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
** QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
** PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
** PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
** PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
*** first approach made things less effective
*** The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
*** New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
** 825 qml bug is still around
*** PYSIDE-2676 seems to be a new approach to fix it
** A few customer bugs made it the bug fixing week.
** PYSIDE-2675 type discovery code, class inheritance
** QtAudio -> QAudio refactory
** Virtual function compatibility to modify the signature (from typesystem)
** PYSIDE-2492 uic issues for Enum compatibility
*** More improvements for Python projects (import options)
** PYSIDE-2685 nan type definition
** Removing code from shiboken
** 6.8 Adaption already started
** PYSIDE-2689 sphinx directives doesn't seems to be compatible with the search context.


* 5.15.1 released
===11. April 2024===
* Qt 6 efforts
* General
* Properties features submitted [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 PYSIDE-1019]
** Bug fixing week.
* Bug fixing efforts, provided work arounds or fixes for
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-972 PYSIDE-972]
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1212 PYSIDE-1212]
** Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1354 PYSIDE-1354]
** Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1367 PYSIDE-1367]
** New epics with brainstorming ideas.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1381 PYSIDE-1381]
* Infra & Releases
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1383 PYSIDE-1383]
** 6.7.0 was released, we found a couple of issues we are trying to solve, and 6.7.1 will soon be released due to a binary compatibility break, and other small breakage.
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
** QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
** Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has  still some issues with the structure.  
* Bugs & Features
** Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
** PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
** PYSIDE-2669 designer issue
** PYSIDE-2675 Addressing the lazy import issues that were found in 6.7.0
*** Studying the possible solution, but it needs to consider other cases as well.
*** the *-import handling seems to be related, and affecting the mro content, duplicating some entries.
*** the type discovery handler might be related as well
** Still working on the qml 825 bug issues.


==== 10. September 2020 ====
===4. April 2024===
* 5.15.1 release waiting for final
* General
** blog post about some features
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
* Try a new python version on the CI
* Infra & Releases
* Qt 6 efforts
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
** Adding back the tools (uic/rcc)
** Preparing for 6.7.0
** New feature shiboken overload order
* Bugs & Features
** Waiting for the properties features before moving 5.15 to cherry pick mode
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** Major changes will get into dev as soon as we move 5.15 to cherry pick.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
* Review repeated overloads from a Python point of view and remove the unnecesary ones.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
* PYSIDE-74 is fixed, and now every object will have a __ne__ and __eq__
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums
* testing: Ensure that build dir precedes site-packages.
* Writable properties is still in development, and closer to be done
** what do we do with the internal pyside properties? TBD
* Akademy 2020 participation
** GNU Health uses PySide2!
** Kirigami for Python users


==== 3. September 2020 ====
===28. March 2024===
* Infra update
* General
** libclang 10 issue, we need a shared library, but the latest had static only.
* Infra & Releases
*** Using the QtCreator one solved the issue.
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
** snapshots wheels broken atm
* Bugs & Features
** Plan for 5.15.1
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
* True properties
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
** make static properties needed around 10% of the cases, it collides with limited api.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
** new corner case for non-standard properties.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
** Use in runtime the information from the Meta Object.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints
* Bug fixes
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1177 __doc__
** Doc build regression
** Nuitka compatibility
* Qt6 related work
** Adapting the latest state of qtbase
** Simplify our CMakeLists files to use what is provided by libclang
* QML breakage with the latest state of dev


==== 27. August 2020 ====
===21. March 2024===
* Infra update
* General
** Waiting on confirmation for 5.15.1 release
** Ideas to improve the module.
** Discard mingw config
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
** Include a Linux 64bit Python 3.8.x config
* Infra & Releases
* True property features
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
** Basic implementation in-place with shiboken support.
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
** Tackling errors from the parser
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
** The data from ApiExtractor should be improved
* Bugs & Features
** Pending tasks: (1) Support for static properties (~20-30), (2) add missing properties via some heuristic, maybe adding support for the typesystem special entries, and (3) improve support for the signature model.
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
* Bugs fixing
** PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
** Many old bugs closed, due to being fixed or invalid in newer versions.
** Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
** Prioritization plan for some of the remaining
** QtRhi missing API provided
** Important bug for the project https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478 we need a better error propagation.
** Memory leak regression being worked out
* lupdate compatibility delayed
** Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
* QML interaction
** Android deployment and qml tool documentations
** ListProperty was heavily improved, adding missing argument options and checks.
** Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
** Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
** QAsyncio bug fixed
** Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.


===14. March 2024===
* General
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
* Bugs & Features
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
** Lazy initialization got merged
*** New improvements might land in future versions
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
** Using new icons on the examples
** Testing libclang 18
** QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
** QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
** New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
** permission API changes got merge
** android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
** PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed


==== 20. August 2020 ====
===07. March 2024===
* Infra update
* General
** Fix for virtualenv problems on RedHat.
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
** Speed issues on the CI
* Infra & Releases
** we still require a libclang update.
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
** Waiting for a date for 5.15.1
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
* (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 (features properties)
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
* (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1328 (static/dyn methods)
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
* Qt6 changes
* Bugs & Features
** QStringRef replacement by QStringView
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
** Fixing broken tests
** all deployment fixes are in.
* Discussion around https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1363
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
** We could generate manylinux2014 wheels.
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
* Fixed some issues with ListProperty on the QML integration :)
** Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
** two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
** PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
** PYSIDE-2619 gentoo issue with a build
** PYSIDE-2624 typing issue with '/' is being researched
** Qt Icon Teams issues were discovered
** PYSIDE-2602 virtual function research on a special signature
** One regression related to the QObject.connect changes.


==== 13. August 2020 ====
===29. February 2024===


* Infra update
* General
** dev is still open for direct submit.
** Leap day!
** libclang 10 update keeps waiting fixes to qttools.
** Documentation changes
** The python3.8 test will get amended later today.
* Infra & Releases
* Bug fixing
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
** Missing classes
** 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
** 3D related
** 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
** pyi incomplete
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
** QmlComponent deadlock
** General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
* (in progress) Qt Property access
* Bugs & Features
** Issues with the binding manager (functions inside properties)
** PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
** The feature switching needs to be slower (no features, snake_case, etc)
** PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
* Planned work on 3.9 compatibility
** PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
* QML ListProperty in dev is broken
** PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
** Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
** PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
** macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
** Windows BTLE services crash
** QIO-class are required for some new QAsyncio API using pipes
** Lazy loading moving forward, but still a few issues are around
*** A couple of shiboken tests seems to have outdated imports that are not helping.
*** shiboken compatibility types missing
** Typing issues being solved in order to improve the pyi quality


==== 6. August 2020 ====
===22. February 2024===
* General
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.2 was released!
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
* Bugs & Features
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** Definition of done for QtAsyncio story, some functions will be implemented, but other ones (until reaching the whole set of user facing API) will be implemented in the future.
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.


* Infra update
===15. February 2024===
** libclang versioning issues (we need 8+, we have 6)
** Adding Python 3.8.1 for Python (needs review)
* Research for commercial opportunities
* (in progress) Qt Property access
** prototype waiting for review
** some complications with inherited attributes/properties
** Class properties are a complication, since we need to make a difference with instance properties.
* (in progress) Shiboken initialization more verbose
** for Freezing tools.
* Check for signature/stubs documentation.


==== 30. July 2020 ====
* General
** Brainstorming session was held.
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
* Bugs & Features
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
** pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
** CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
** Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.


* No meeting


==== 23. July 2020 ====
===8. February 2024===


* Infra update
* General
** 5.15 and dev -> Python 3.8.1 (Windows) => Working
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
** Some issues with some images.
* Infra & Releases
* (needs review) Selectable features
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
** New example to test
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
** AL Completion issues
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
** signal/slots will remain camelCase at the moment.
* Bugs & Features
* (in progress) Python 3.9 compatibility
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
** Signature module requires some work.
** singleShot patches merged
* (in progress) Qt 6 porting
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
** Issues with templates in Qt6
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
** QByteArrayView might be an issue
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.
** Documentation needs qttools, it might work with cmake/qt6
* (in progress) QML interaction
** qmlRegisterSingletonType ready
** qmlRegisterUncreatableType is the next step


==== 16. July 2020 ====
===1. February 2024===


* Infra update
* General
** Updates on the Windows VM template to get some optimization.
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
** Getting Python 3.8.1 on Windows to test the latest minor version.
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
* (in progress) Selectable features
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
** COIN issues after the history log deletion (prune)
* Infra & Releases
** Issues with the initialization on scriptableapplication (patch on gerrit)
** no unity build discussion and checks
* (in progress) PySide 6
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
** Progress being done in Windows and macOS
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
* QML update (on dev -> Qt6)
* Bugs & Features
** Removed the limit to 50 types https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/307424
** singleShot timer implementation (to use underlying c++ impl) - still an issue with a context object, and a signal as a functor. A new QObject::connect might handle the situation. More changes to come in order to fix newly discovered issues.
** qmlRegisterSingletonType patch waiting for review https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/307908
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
** General documentation adjustments
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
** Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
** Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
** Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues


==== 9. July 2020 ====


* Infra update
===25. January 2024===
** 5.14 issues related to virtualenv (but 5.14.2 works)
** dev is open for direct merges.
** 5.14.2.3 macOS needs review to be released.
** sdist packages WIP patch.
* Python 3.9b4 is out and we will try it out.
* (in progress) Selectable features
** new corner cases were found, so they are being tackled.
* (in progress) access Qt properties directly
** decide which are the properties at runtime.
** Maybe sources/pyside2/PySide2/global.h.in:41 can help
*** #define QT_ANNOTATE_ACCESS_SPECIFIER(a) __attribute__((annotate(#a)))
* (in progress) Qt6 compatibility
** Dealing with test failures.
** Issues OpenGLWidgets
** We need to update the MetaType registration mechanisms to start working on QML register types


* General
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
* Infra & Releases
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
* Bugs & Features
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
** PYSIDE-2575: Added a new argument to QtAsyncio to configure whether the QCoreApplication at the core of QtAsyncio should be shut down when asyncio finishes (requested by user).
** SingleShot timer issue: Slight "complexity explosion" because correct implementation for one case requires implementation of QObject.connect overload with context arguments (and we implement QObject.connect ourselves, see PySide::qobjectConnectCallback).
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
** Unity build some issues when building without.
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
** Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
** armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
** Lazy initialization: re-wrote approach from scratch, to reduce the patches to one that can be analyzed easily. Some complications with this approach that needs to be improve. It can be tried with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/496118
*** https://peps.python.org/pep-0690/ was rejected, but the idea can be implemented per-module
** Moving entry_points declaration to pyproject.toml from setup.py
** Drop the bdist_wheel steps from the CI (old wheels)
** Started working on split commercial wheels, wheels for QtDS and examples on QtCreator.


==== 2. July 2020 ====
===18. January 2024===


* Infra Update
* General
** Timeouts issues, increasing it is not a solution.
* Infra & Releases
** How to proceed with dev to use Qt6
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
*** merge without CI
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
*** clarify the yaml configuration
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
** 5.14.2.3 new release planned
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
* Selectable Features
* Bugs & Features
** snake_case for camelCase names.
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
** (in progress) access Qt properties directly:
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
*** For 'label = QLabel("hello")', we could do 'label.text = "bye"' instead of using the 'label.setText("bye")'.
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
* Qt6 compatibility
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
** QML working on Linux (this will enable us to work on the registration)
** Qt 6.7 adaption
* Some improvements in the documentation generation must be done to speed up the process.
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
* pyside2_config.py file to CMake
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
** include XConfig.cmake files on the wheel
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
* sdist package
** Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
** nice to have: pip install -e ., but at the moment we have three egg-info directories (error)
** PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
* Starting again with the cross compilation of PySide for embedded linux.
** pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
==== 25. June 2020 ====
** Improvements to the doc build process


* Infra update
===11. January 2024===
** Release of the second set of Windows 64bit wheels.
** Issues on the CI due to some internal issues, everything should be running soon.
* (in progress) from __future__ import newapi
** it's tricky to provide snake_case instead of camelCase
** issues with tp_getattro
** creating modified Python objects to replace the original types at runtime
* (in progress) from __future__ import newproperties
** Still many things to go
* PYSIDE-1282 pthread crash solved, and will be merge in 5.14
* Indentation fixes for generated code. Prefix adaptation for a standard format so it can be loaded in QtCreator (from warning and stuff)
* Qt for Python 6 is partially working in some platforms
** Still many missing modules,
** CMakeLists.txt files needs some love,
** Needs to adapt CI for the new dev branch
** Windows has some issues still :)
* libclang situation, are we sharing the same version for qdoc, qtcreator, qt, etc...?
** Need to check in case we decide to update
* Commercial wheels split progress


==== 18. June 2020 ====
* General
** Hackathon at TQtC
** CI process presentation
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
* Bugs & Features
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
** macOS request permission API work continues.
** 6.7 adaptions patches
** M2M fixes on the current impl
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
** favicon issue with out docs
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
** Improvements for the doc build process


* Infra update
===04.January 2024===
** The new windows wheels still had some issues, it seems the latest are OK, and we would need to publish '_2' wheels.
* General
** Some issues with macOS builds for 5.15.0
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
* Qt6 compatibility
** New OKR organization
** This is stopping the improvements in the QML integration story
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
** We need this merged before continuing https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/301979
** PyPy is now on 3.10
* Merged a bug fix to 5.12 (the CI was not broken)
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
* (in progress) Qt6 Properties camelCase to lower_case
* Infra & Releases
** Not a trivial task
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
** It's possible to rename dynamically functions, and other things.
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
** Containers needs to be taken care too
** Android [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)
** Having more than one object with the same ID is challenging
** Xcode issues with a new M3
** Issues with str based objects
** Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
* Fixed PYSIDE-1332, PYSIDE-1327
* Bugs & Features
* (in progress) Commercial wheel are almost ready on Linux, later some changes for Windows and macOS are required.
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
* (in progress) WigglyWidget example almost there
** async: the module is missing from our docs
* (in progress) New StyleSheet tutorial.
** async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
==== 11. June 2020 ====
** new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
** pyside6 designer pyenv crash was fixed
** pyside cmake module update crash was fixed
** working on the request permission API for macOS
** docs: free functions as separate section and other improvements
** Python scripting in c++ works continues
** PyPy 3.10 compatibility patches
** nogil: working again on a compatibility with PEP703
*** locking mechanism for our modules.
** Typing adjustments, we need '/' in our signatures due to not having keywords parameters.


* Infra Update
==2023==
** MSVC 2019 DLL issue with 5.15.0, we shipped a DLL that was too new. (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1323)
** A new set of wheels will be available for Windows users (without a modern MSVC)
* QEnum implementation
** Waiting for review
** Qt5 compatible
** QFlag is also exposed
* Research: Qt6 Properties camelCase to lower_case
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019
* Started to fix missing types information: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1318
* Fix memory leaks in property accesors (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1321),
* Fix code generation bugs (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1325)
* Incremental wheels
* Missing pyside2uic features
* Backports for 5.12
** Ask Gerrit admins
** Try one last patch.


==== 4. June 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]


* CI Update
==2022==
** Limited API reports work
** Improve integrations on macOS
* Documentation updates for Qt Assistant
* PYSIDE-1257 cx_Freeze issues seems to be related to cx_Freeze itself.
* Q_ENUM and QFlag will be soon available.
* New Shiboken example to expose a custom Qt Widget to Python
* loadUiType is back into PySide (relies on pyside2-uic on PATH)
* Other bug fixes.


==== 28. May 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]
* Releases
** 5.15.0 and 5.14.2.2 were released :) https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-5.15.0-is-out
** Thoughts about 5.14.2.3
** 5.15.1 release is still not defined
* Documentation
* CI Status
** The limited-api check was somehow bypass by one specific patch https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/298845 We need to keep an eye to avoid this in the future.
* Backlog status [https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=262&view=planning.nodetail&selectedIssue=PYSIDE-463&issueLimit=100 check it here]
* QML Integration update
** We are working on finishing the implementation of Q_ENUM, to be able to use the singletonType registration
** Additionally, we are looking into the uncreatableType registration too.
* Development branch for Qt6
** We need the following before jumping into dev.
*** QList/QVector
*** QString -> integrated (clarity)


==== 21. May 2020 ====
==2021==
* '''Holiday'''


==== 14. May 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2021]]


* CI Updates
==2020==
** CI blocked due to some provisioning issues in red hat
** 5.14.2.2 Release is on hold
** 5.15 commercial release in preparation
** License check
* 5.15 Release
** Pickling changes
** Examples
** loadUiType
* Tutorials rcc, designer
** Add project's tutorial.
* Continue research of using Qt6
* __qualname__ attributes are almost done
** This changes was required for the pickling support.


==== 7. May 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2020]]
* CI Updates
** Issues with the provisioning, for example the connection with PyPi, still in progress.
** We will add a requirements.txt for provisioning.
* Issues
** PYSIDE-1255 Signal not reached in QML
** Pickling Qt Enums PYSIDE-15
*** Almost finished, but we are waiting for PYSIDE-1285 to be fix (modulename, qualname).
** Many other minor bugs have been fixed, but still there are a couple of strange ones.
** First attempts to build shiboken with Qt6
** Ideas repo re-organization
* Features
** Commercial addons
** Tutorials
*** rcc
*** uic
*** QTranslator (*)
*** ...
** QtAssistant integration
** loadUiType
** The new way of registering QML properties needs to be applied to the code base.


==== 30. April 2020 ====
==2019==
* CI Updates
** Issues with pip upgrades
** Planning new Python versions for new configurations.
* Update on bugs still around after 5.14.2.1
** 1271: Deadlock (fixed)
** 1255: Signal not reached in QML (still in progress)
** 1280: Research
* Features
** QML interaction
** Q_ENUM and pickling SbkEnum
** Commercial Addons


==== 23. April 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2019]]
* 5.14.2.1 Release
* New bugs around threading:
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1271
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1255 needs to be reopen.
* Documentation changes around the replacement of the old pysideuic module
* Q_ENUM update
** How to get a reference from the QMetaObjectBuilder without a QObject based project?
* mypy compatibility
** depends a bit on the Q_ENUM


==== 16. April 2020 ====
==2018==


* Plan for 5.14.2-1 release
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]
* Research on Pickling support, PYSIDE-15
* Provided fix for PYSIDE-1267  related to efforts of exposing QScintilla
* Object dumper to help debugging python implementations
* Debugging options for the code model.
* pysideuic old functionality into the QUiTools module
** compileUI
** loadUiType
* Q_ENUM discussion
 
==== 9. April 2020 ====
 
* Most bugs reported in 5.14.2 are fix on 5.14
** Preparing the process for the release of 5.14.2-1
** Check about versioning on pypi to not override 5.14.2 wheels.
* PYSIDE-813 is now fixed
* PYSIDE-1255, Signals not being emitted.
* Working on Q_ENUM
 
==== 2. April 2020 ====
 
* 5.14.2 is out:
** keep an eye on new bug reports.
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1253
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1254
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1255
** The new documentation is out too: https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/
* 'manylinux1' discussion
* CI status
* 'loadUiType' status https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1223
** two approaches for it, a Python and another in C.
* PYSIDE-813
** Finding where the reference is gone, but there is the only issue left.
** All the other issues were solved.
** A solution should be out soon.
* Research on adding Python support for Qt's lupdate: PYSIDE-1252
 
==== 26. March 2020 ====
 
* 5.14.2 Release
* OKRs Update
** Looking for commercial opportunities
* PYSIDE-813 new discoveries found:
** There are a couple of issues with one of the PYSIDE-803 patches that will be solved soon.
** PYSIDE-164 is out of the picture
* Lambda functions for QWebEngineCallback PYSIDE-946 so we can expose the missing bindings.
* QVariant conversions tweaks PYSIDE-1250
* Working on adding 'loadUiType' into PySide PYSIDE-1223
* Research on adding Python support for Qt's lupdate: PYSIDE-1252
 
==== 19. March 2020 ====
 
* 5.14.2 Release preparations
* Work on Widget gallery example
* Done: Refinements to wheel-tester.py
* Done: Reworked test_wheel.py for macOS
* Done: Fixed PYSIDE-1247 signature warning in Python 3.6
* In progress: Instrumentation of PYSIDE-164/813
 
==== 12. March 2020 ====
 
* CI Status
** Everything up and running
** 5.14.2 to be released next week hopefully.
* PYSIDE-803
** Almost there!
** retrieveMetaObject improvements.
** We will try to test it without the allow-thread patch to evaluate performance.
* PYSIDE-813
** we will keep PYSIDE-164 open until we find a solution that fixes both.
* Starting to evaluate std::function compatibility with Shiboken.
 
==== 5. March 2020 ====
 
* CI Update
** Including Python 3.8
** Maybe using alternatives to have many Python versions.
* Priority bugs
** PYSIDE-803
*** major changes in (caching)
*** still other minor patches to be merged.
*** allow-thread patch has a bug, maybe this can be detach from the snippets one.
** PYSIDE-813
*** PYSIDE-164 appears again if we fix it,
*** Maybe a solution is to fix 164 in another way.
* 5.15 feature status
* Changes for Qt 6
** Changes in the [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/284225 QMetaType representation]
*** Reference of the [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtdeclarative/+/285788 new system in qtdeclarative]
** Wishlist for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-904 Qt6 opportunities]
 
==== 27. February 2020 ====
 
* CI Updates
** 5.12 cherry-picks
* qApp
** Deprecation message or alias (when using QtWidgets.qApp)
* PYSIDE-803
** Missing patches to be merged
*** Python 2.7 issues
*** allow-thread commit message (add a changelog)
*** second caching mechanism to be studied after we merge the first set of patches.
*** Third attempt after the stackless gilstate approach
** Documentation
* Python 3.8 testing is still being worked out
 
==== 20. February 2020 ====
 
* CI Updates
** Cherry-picking some changes to 5.12 to fix the virtualenv 20 issues.
** macOS timeouts
** possibility of merging simple changes directly.
* qApp issues
** Patches ready for review
* PYSIDE-803
** Patches needs some polishing
* Testrunner improvements
** stdout/stderr issues with ctest on windows
** smart pointers tests crashing, due to qApp issues.
** Python 3.8 is also giving problems (DLLs missing)
** debug builds on windows does not work.
* Shiboken documentation being reorganized
* Starting testing Python 3.9
 
==== 13. February 2020 ====
 
* CI updates
** Windows package signing will be possible, hopefully soon.
* Documentation updates
** Example gallery
** WebChannel example merged,
* Python 3.8 changes on Windows are still being tackled.
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-803 status: A patch waiting for review is there, but we need to combine it with the other solutions we currently have. Still, there are some corner cases where the problem is not properly solved.
** qApp issues to be solved, but we will remove the import features. qApp will remain as a built-in.
* OKRS 1Q/2020
 
==== 6. February 2020 ====
 
* CI status and issues with the Qt provisioning 5.12
** 5.12.7 release will take more time to add new features.
** 5.14 has some issues with OpenGLFunctions.
* Documentation: Interest for the new shiboken2 documentation structure and usage of the ApiExtractor.
* Python 3.8 compatibility with older branches.
* Updates on PYSIDE-803 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803?focusedCommentId=496894&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-496894 link]
* Suggestion about iterations a-la-python https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1216
* Events
** Qt World Summit 2020 Palm Springs
** PyCon US
 
==== 30. January 2020 ====
* 5.14.1 release rolling
* Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1204 PYSIDE-1204]
* Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1191 PYSIDE-1191] PySide2 5.14 source now builds against Qt 5.12 as well
* Further research on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
** full instrumentation of generated source for tracing,
** discovery of new hooks to support. Still in flux.
* Fixed some issues of Python 3.8 (most prominently warnings about implicit conversion to integers for QFlags), will be fixed in 5.14.2
* qApp macro [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1178 PYSIDE-1178] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1158 PYSIDE-1158] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1135 PYSIDE-1135] finally closed. One cleanup check in may follow.
 
==== 23. January 2020 ====
* Fix for CI/macOS problem is in, but it requires some merges in Qt5. Until all required merges are done, we will use Qt5 5.14.1 with Qt For Python 5.14
* Research on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Proposed an "until" attribute for typesystem files to make it possible to build Pyside 5.14 against Qt 5.12  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1195 PYSIDE-1195]
* Improved the view of compare app for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Analysis of PyQt5 and SIP implementation
 
==== 16. January 2020 ====
* CI/macOS problems are being worked.
* qApp fix waiting to be merged.
* first attempts to tackle [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Python 3.8 fix to old branches is required for distributions using 5.12 LTS like Conda.
* Working on Q_ENUM support.
* Viewer for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803] is ready to try. Please check out https://git.qt.io/playground/pyside-compare.git and give feedback.
 
==== 9. January 2020 ====
* [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1185 PYSIDE-803] needs to be tackled soon, it's critical, and we cannot carry that into Qt6.
* Python 3.8.1 on Windows has [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285797/ some issues] while building.
* qApp macro changes [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285655 discussion].
* documentation updates are still pending.
* with the release of 5.14 we have been fixing many details from uic's Python support.
* designer's RUNPATH [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285712 needed to be patched], waiting for approval,
* A modular way of packing wheels is being studied.
* Re-take the Python extensions for QtCreator project evaluation.
 
== 2019 ==
* [[Qt for Python Development Notes 2019]]
 
== 2018 ==
 
* [[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]

Latest revision as of 09:45, 13 June 2024


2024

13. June 2024

  • General
    • Python 3.9 story: the decision was made without considering that 3.9 is still getting security releases, so we have decided to keep supporting Python 3.9 for PySide 6.8 LTS, but we might drop it in the middle of some bug-fix releases.
      • Things that are considered to support certain python versions are: Internal CI Python versions for each OS, Python version lifecycle https://devguide.python.org/versions/, features that will improve user experience from new versions.
      • Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
    • Qt Group is sponsoring EuroPython 2024: and we will give a talk!
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.2 packages are ready to be released.
    • Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
    • Starting process to test windows arm64 (discussion around libclang)
    • Nightly builds:
      • Possible solution for linux and macOS arm64 android builds.
      • Maybe also for non-unity builds? it has been failing in some corner cases.
      • We could have dev-android branch so we don't block the normal dev development.
      • nightly builds merge automatically if everything passes.
      • PyPy integrations might join a similar configuration as well.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Android wheels from macOS host through coin successful. Assembling the final patch. Coin still running tests for an Android build and error-ing still needs to be resolved.
    • PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak base app implementation started.
    • PYSIDE-2781 - pyside6-deploy failure investigation ongoing. Could be a Nuitka issue. User using the latest Nuitka.
    • Working on improve our typing implementations.
    • QtAsyncio: internal presentation including the theory behind and some live examples.
    • Lazy load: disabled for PyPy, fixing some shiboken-tests
    • QtScrypt: development continues
    • PYSIDE-2780 refcount bug in the lazy import fixed
    • PYSIDE-2751 3.13 compatibility patches are ready, nogil under development
    • PYSIDE-2701 reduction of binary sizes under investigation, estimating the achievable reduction

06. June 2024

  • General
    • Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
    • PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
    • Must read https://peps.python.org/pep-0741/
  • Infra & Releases
    • Some issues with the macOS CI units.
    • Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
    • qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
    • 6.5.6 commercial LTS was released.
    • 6.7.2 release will happen soon (due to an issue with designer)
    • the Python 3.9 macOS CI configuration will be updated to 3.11, and the windows with 3.11 will be updated to 3.12
  • Bugs & Features
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2622 - Standalone mode for Deployment as per many requests from users
    • Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
    • https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466 ready, but waiting for macOS x86_64 to update Python to 3.11 - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qt5/+/565565/4 (Thanks Simo)
    • Patches ready for updating python syntax to drop typing.Optional (and use | instead) that will go in once we drop 3.9
    • Preparing presentation and improvements to QtAsyncio
    • PYSIDE-2440 will be prepared.
    • op codes changing in Python, is altering some of our internal implementation, like the forgiveness mode.
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 planned work for the no-gil feature in Python 3.13
    • smart pointers with lazy loading were not working, but a fix was merged.
    • Qt Designer had a regression that motivated 6.7.2
    • Qt 6.8 adaption taking a lot of work due to doc changes and QtGraphs
    • PYSIDE-2772 issue ended up being a user problem

30. May 2024

  • General
    • PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
    • Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
  • Infra & Releases
    • Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
    • PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
    • Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
    • qtpip is planned to support aarch64
    • 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
  • Bugs & Features

23. May 2024

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

16. May 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
    • 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2753 - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
    • PYSIDE-2750 - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
    • Exclude .qsb, .webp, .cpp.o and .qen from deployment due to Nuitka error. Error report raised in Nuitka - https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2854
    • Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
    • PYSIDE-2748 - Fixed a type hint error
    • PYSIDE-2747 - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
    • PYSIDE-2711 - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
    • Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
    • PYSIDE-2620 - Adapting to 6.8
    • PYSIDE-2745 - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
    • PYSIDE-2404 - Lazy Loading completed by supporting subtypes. This gives 8-9% more performance.
    • Support for Python 3.13 started - first compatibility before switching to disable-gil
    • Possibilities explored to lazy load signatures or save space.

2. May 2024

  • General
    • OKR reviews for the next quarter.
    • Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
    • Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
    • 6.7.1 to be released next week.
    • Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2698 - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
    • PYSIDE-2705 - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
    • macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
    • PYSIDE-2709 - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
    • Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
    • Enumeration support in QtScrypt
    • PYSIDE-2676 - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
    • BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
      • Issue might require special hw
    • Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
      • An internal presentation is being prepared.
    • Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
    • macOS cross compilation for android being tried


25. April 2024

  • General
    • Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.7.1
    • 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
    • sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
    • PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Added a number of new classes
    • PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
    • Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
    • Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
      • Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization PYSIDE-2675
    • Work on a crash in Python 3.12 PYSIDE-2676
    • Fixed memory leaks PYSIDE-1617
    • Work on our QML list property support PYSIDE-2698
    • Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
    • Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - PYSIDE-2698
    • Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
    • QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
      • Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
      • Plan to improve exceptions handling

18. April 2024

  • General
    • Bug fixing week
    • PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
    • Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
    • Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
    • 6.5.6 release planned
    • 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
    • DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
    • We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
    • QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
    • PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
    • PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
    • PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
      • first approach made things less effective
      • The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
      • New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
    • 825 qml bug is still around
      • PYSIDE-2676 seems to be a new approach to fix it
    • A few customer bugs made it the bug fixing week.
    • PYSIDE-2675 type discovery code, class inheritance
    • QtAudio -> QAudio refactory
    • Virtual function compatibility to modify the signature (from typesystem)
    • PYSIDE-2492 uic issues for Enum compatibility
      • More improvements for Python projects (import options)
    • PYSIDE-2685 nan type definition
    • Removing code from shiboken
    • 6.8 Adaption already started
    • PYSIDE-2689 sphinx directives doesn't seems to be compatible with the search context.

11. April 2024

  • General
    • Bug fixing week.
    • Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
    • Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
    • Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
    • Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
    • New epics with brainstorming ideas.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 was released, we found a couple of issues we are trying to solve, and 6.7.1 will soon be released due to a binary compatibility break, and other small breakage.
    • 5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
    • QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
    • Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has still some issues with the structure.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
    • PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
    • PYSIDE-2669 designer issue
    • PYSIDE-2675 Addressing the lazy import issues that were found in 6.7.0
      • Studying the possible solution, but it needs to consider other cases as well.
      • the *-import handling seems to be related, and affecting the mro content, duplicating some entries.
      • the type discovery handler might be related as well
    • Still working on the qml 825 bug issues.

4. April 2024

  • General
    • Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
  • Infra & Releases
    • Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
    • Preparing for 6.7.0
  • Bugs & Features

28. March 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2654 Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
    • Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
    • PYSIDE-2652 Fixed an int overflow
    • PYSIDE-2649 Work on building without OpenGL
    • PYSIDE-2653 Fixed a syntax error in type hints

21. March 2024

  • General
    • Ideas to improve the module.
    • Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
    • 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
    • 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
  • Bugs & Features
    • 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
    • PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
    • Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
    • QtRhi missing API provided
    • Memory leak regression being worked out
    • Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
    • Android deployment and qml tool documentations
    • Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
    • Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
    • QAsyncio bug fixed
    • Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.

14. March 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
    • 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
    • 6.6.3 will be release next week.
    • qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
    • dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
  • Bugs & Features
    • Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
    • PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
    • Lazy initialization got merged
      • New improvements might land in future versions
    • PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
    • PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
    • Using new icons on the examples
    • Testing libclang 18
    • QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
    • QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
    • New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
    • permission API changes got merge
    • android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
    • PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed

07. March 2024

  • General
    • Participation in FOSS Backstage
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
    • 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
    • qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
    • Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
  • Bugs & Features
    • permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
    • all deployment fixes are in.
    • lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
      • Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
    • Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
    • two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
    • PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
    • PYSIDE-2619 gentoo issue with a build
    • PYSIDE-2624 typing issue with '/' is being researched
    • Qt Icon Teams issues were discovered
    • PYSIDE-2602 virtual function research on a special signature
    • One regression related to the QObject.connect changes.

29. February 2024

  • General
    • Leap day!
    • Documentation changes
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
    • 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
    • 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
    • qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
    • General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
    • PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
    • PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
    • PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
    • Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
    • PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
    • macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
    • Windows BTLE services crash
    • QIO-class are required for some new QAsyncio API using pipes
    • Lazy loading moving forward, but still a few issues are around
      • A couple of shiboken tests seems to have outdated imports that are not helping.
      • shiboken compatibility types missing
    • Typing issues being solved in order to improve the pyi quality

22. February 2024

  • General
    • Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.6.2 was released!
    • qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
  • Bugs & Features
    • Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
    • QtAsyncio blog post was published.
    • Definition of done for QtAsyncio story, some functions will be implemented, but other ones (until reaching the whole set of user facing API) will be implemented in the future.
    • Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
    • Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
    • PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
    • 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
    • 6.7 changelog drafted.
    • Started to improve the type hinting issues.

15. February 2024

  • General
    • Brainstorming session was held.
    • Europython Call for Proposal is open!
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
    • Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
    • Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
    • Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
  • Bugs & Features
    • singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
    • 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
    • 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
    • lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
    • pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
    • CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
    • Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.


8. February 2024

  • General
    • We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
  • Infra & Releases
    • Addressing some issues with the android wheels
    • 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
    • Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
  • Bugs & Features
    • macOS: permission api patches ready for review
    • singleShot patches merged
    • Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
    • Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
    • Preparations for 6.7 continues.

1. February 2024

  • General
    • Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
    • Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
    • CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
  • Infra & Releases
    • no unity build discussion and checks
    • 6.6.2 to be released next week.
    • More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
  • Bugs & Features
    • singleShot timer implementation (to use underlying c++ impl) - still an issue with a context object, and a signal as a functor. A new QObject::connect might handle the situation. More changes to come in order to fix newly discovered issues.
    • Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
    • PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
    • Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
    • 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
    • General documentation adjustments
    • Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
    • Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
    • Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
    • Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues


25. January 2024

  • General
    • Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
    • Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
    • Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
  • Infra & Releases
    • Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
    • Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
    • The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
    • New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
  • Bugs & Features
    • VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
    • PYSIDE-2575: Added a new argument to QtAsyncio to configure whether the QCoreApplication at the core of QtAsyncio should be shut down when asyncio finishes (requested by user).
    • SingleShot timer issue: Slight "complexity explosion" because correct implementation for one case requires implementation of QObject.connect overload with context arguments (and we implement QObject.connect ourselves, see PySide::qobjectConnectCallback).
    • Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
    • Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
    • Unity build some issues when building without.
    • 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
    • QTBUG-99313 related issues
    • macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
    • Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
    • armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
    • Lazy initialization: re-wrote approach from scratch, to reduce the patches to one that can be analyzed easily. Some complications with this approach that needs to be improve. It can be tried with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/496118
    • Moving entry_points declaration to pyproject.toml from setup.py
    • Drop the bdist_wheel steps from the CI (old wheels)
    • Started working on split commercial wheels, wheels for QtDS and examples on QtCreator.

18. January 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
    • Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
    • 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
    • Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
  • Bugs & Features
    • Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
    • PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
    • PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
    • Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
    • Qt 6.7 adaption
    • Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
    • macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
    • singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
    • Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
    • PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
    • pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
    • Improvements to the doc build process

11. January 2024

  • General
    • Hackathon at TQtC
    • CI process presentation
  • Infra & Releases
    • Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
    • Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
    • 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
    • CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
    • Update of the Python versions are pending.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
    • Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
    • New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
    • macOS request permission API work continues.
    • 6.7 adaptions patches
    • M2M fixes on the current impl
    • Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
    • favicon issue with out docs
    • Making our doc diagram generation optional
    • Improvements for the doc build process

04.January 2024

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

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