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==2023==


===12. October 2023===
==2025==
 
=== 6. March 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Overview release process.
** Jaime's internal presentation will be next Monday at 11am
** PyConES talk was a succeed! Thanks Adrian
** QtCS registration is up.
** Discussion on IPC options for Qt developers.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6 release has been facing some difficulties, two major bugs were found and fixes.
** 6.9 Qt for Python FF happening next week.
*** Currently there is a refcount issue that made wheels not-usable in 3.12
** Windows on ARM deployment test failing.
** 6.2.10 Commercial LTS will be release in the following days.
** qtpip has been having many issues on the CI (but locally works)
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2480 PYSIDE-2480] linker error was fixed
** Remote object contributions are going well, and we might merge them for 6.9
** Static code analysis issues on source and generated code were fixed
** Binary size reduction research continued, but it seems we have reached the reduction we can, without touching the C++ side of our bindings.
** Started a refactor of the QML registration code
** 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.


===5. October 2023===
=== 27. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Team member on his way to PyCon Spain 2023 https://charlas.2023.es.pycon.org/pycones-2023/talk/NCJBTE/
** Windows on ARM improving
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.3 is being released today.
** Commercial LTS 6.2.10 release to be prepared
** Team alignment on the release of Maintenance Tool/Account/qtpip/aarch64
** Bump CI configuration to drop 3.7, due to 6.6 being 3.8+
** Static qtpip build issues on-going
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Fix chart example issue
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, investigating removing redundant overloads
** Continue research on Python scripting on C++
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, trying wrapper folding, needs massive reordering
** PYSIDE-2462 Smart pointer fix
** PYSIDE-3012 replacement of typing.Sequence by collections.abc.Sequence
** PYSIDE-2230 Python 3.12 support issue for unicode, and other findings for macOS
*** Identified incompatibility with Python < 3.9.8 and Python < 3.10.1, fixed by small patch
** PYSIDE-2080 Linking error was fixed
*** First change finally done, needs series of further changes
** Qt 6.7 adapting the API on dev
** 6.10 adaption continues
** 3.12 pending issues are being investigated
** PYSIDE 2942 Slot type annotation fix
*** tp_dict field was modified (no longer guarantee to exist) moved to an interpreter state for some static types.
** QTBUG-132266 Checked the code on macOS that the user uploaded, no issues were found related to PySide or macOS.
*** [https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/type.html?highlight=pytype_getdict#c.PyType_GetDict PyType_GetDict] was introduced, and it's not Stable API (on Windows is not exposed)
*** Risky status for to the Limited API (without a tp_dict access) -> an emulator was written, PepType_GetDict, so user types the tp_dict is still around. The rule is that if tp_dict is 0, we create a new one.
*** Enum problems were found a well, but they are now fixed.
** Two new examples adapted for Android (and Python)
** General fixes related to android-deployment of Python applications.
** Starting the request permission API research on macOS


===28. September 2023===
=== 20. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** OKRs updates
** QtWS possible participation
** Doc update: 6.6 was branched so the snapshots are updated (needs check)
** QtCS has a priority of bringing more external contributors
** Qt Academy: Python course in the making.
** Qt Creator
*** Welcome screen doesn't have any Python examples.
*** API docs are missing and example docs as well.
** Windows 11 added a new feature (Dev Drive) on the FS that might improve compile times.
** GNU Health Con 2023 participation.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.3 wheels are ready to be tested. Available next week.
** 6.9 RC February 28th (maybe postponed)
** 6.2.10 Commercial LTS in preparation, and re-scheduled.
** 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).
** Team alignment on the release of Maintenance Tool/Account/qtpip
** RTA trials continue, possibility to use qtpip
** aarch64 wheels discussion on distribution
** Bump CI configuration to drop 3.7, due to 6.6 being 3.8+
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Preparation of PyConES presentation: https://charlas.2023.es.pycon.org/pycones-2023/talk/NCJBTE/
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction for virtual functions patch was merged
** Async: Issue with executors, that have sync tasks. 3.11 has a special treatment.
** PYSIDE-3002 painted virtual functions solved (even though we had our own opinion about performance)
** Directory structure in projects needs some rules people can follow.
** 3020 SignalInstance disconnect issue fixed
** PYSIDE-2462: New report regarding shiboken advanced usage.
** Templates/snippets cleanup in the typesystem.
** Fixing integrations and the cherry pick bot (auto pick was misbehave for pyside-setup) - still in discussion
** 6.10 adaption continues
** Python 3.12 still have some issues for the Feature option of the PyTypeObject
** QtCreator toml changes:
** Code analysis on pyside-setup: missing move copy constructors.
*** psyide6-project adaption to the latest changed related
** Fixed a couple of QML tests crashes
** QtDS changes postponed (to be available in QtDS 4.8)
** Testing android deployment tool (revamping some examples, like multimedia, permission, etc)
** 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)


===21. September 2023===


*General
=== 13. February 2025 ===
**Python 3.12.0rc3 is out, final release scheduled for October 2
* General
*Infra & Releases
** Did you know Shiboken translates into "Death Sword"? 死某剣
**6.6 branched
** QtCS happening after QtWS in Munich in early May.
**6.5.3 preparations
** Qt Design Studio integration (internal presentation) with Python to be prepared.
*Bugs & Features
* Infra & Releases
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2465 PYSIDE-2465] (3.11.5 test fail)
** Windows on ARM research continues.
**Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2462 PYSIDE-2462] (smart pointer features)
** QtDS wheels to be updated for the new release
**Refactored options parsing of shiboken
** 6.9.0 RC by the end of the February.
**Fixed clang-tidy static analysis issues
** RTA testing initiative to be restart
**Android permissions API: Adapt more C++ examples
** Evaluating scikit-core-build for replacing build_scripts/
**Couple more cleanups and additions to pyside6-android-deploy
* Bugs & Features
**More manual testing of pyside6-android-deploy. Need to write more integration (mocks) for Android deployment.
** Flatpak issue was solved (cleanup)
**Final cleanup and resolving tests for python-for-android Qt for Python patch
** Brainstorming ideas for QML Next (preparing internal presentation)
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2468 PYSIDE-2468] -requestPermission() on macOS. Tricky scenario similar to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2419 PYSIDE-2419]
** Android wheel names to be adapted https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/platform-compatibility-tags/#android
**asyncio's requirement to use ThreadPoolExecutor keeps screwing us over, but resolution close
** 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.


===14. September 2023===
=== 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)


*Infra & Releases
=== 30. January 2025 ===
**Testing and fixing qtpip for commercial wheels
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2460 PYSIDE-2460] Work on some OpenGL issues, updated hellogl2 example
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2461 PYSIDE-2461] Build system for cross build fixes
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2463 PYSIDE-2463] Fixed some type hints
**Android auto sdk and nkd download merged.
**Requestpermission API and all android changes set for 6.6 merged. Will write tests in the meantime and do some manual testing with deploying apps.
**patchelf removal for Qfp binaries merged.


===07. September 2023===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.8.2
* Bugs & Features
** Size reduction [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 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
* General
**Majority of the team on holiday
** [https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kconfig/-/jobs/2497118 KDE testing Qt betas and snapshots]
*Infra & Releases
*** Should we update our Branching policy?
**Preparing 6.2.10, 6.5.3, 6.6.0
*** Our branching policy:
*Bugs & Features
**** We branch briefly after API Review is done in qt meta repo.
**PYSIDE-2393 pytest problem with feature is fixed
** Yocto libclang issue - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/609352
**PYSIDE-2428 feature problem caused long search, has to be fixed in matplotlib
* Infra & Releases
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2444 PYSIDE-2444] QState.assignProperty - incorrect type annotation
** Windows on ARM configuration testing.
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2454 PYSIDE-2454] Default argument is not used for containers
** 6.8.2 scheduled release next week, and branching will happen today.
**Added some number protocol slots [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2446 PYSIDE-2446]
* Bugs & Features
**Research on submodules [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2447 PYSIDE-2447]
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on Stable ABI support and multiple inheritance
**qtpip for commercial wheels polishing touches
** [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.


===31. August 2023===
=== 16. January 2025 ===


*General
* General
**Python 3.11.5 released
** 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!
**PyCon Spain talk was accepted - Adrian giving a talk for the new Async story, in October.
* Infra & Releases
**People on leave in September
** 6.8.2 will be released on 23th January so far, so we expect providing the wheels in the following days.
**FF on Qt for Python overview
** 3.13 on the CI still on-going.
*Infra & Releases
** 6.5.4 OSS released
**Planning 6.6 for the last days of September
* Bugs & Features
***Maintenance Tool update for qt for python
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
***Features until 12.09
*** It did built (and installed) for aarch64 and x86_64 but armv7a will be tried later on.
****Feature issues + multiple inheritance
*** The main issue with this story was that it was bindings only for cross compiled pyside
****Async story needs some testing
** Exploring toml compatibilities within QtCreator
****Android patches (new modules, plugins, permissions, etc)
** DS patches still needs review.
****qtpip for commercial wheels
** Binary size work continues
****new QtCreator templates?
*** 17% reduction so far, and this could be included in the future-features list.
**6.2.10 Commercial LTS and 6.5.3
*** Once is ready, we might provide an option to disable it to go back to the more readable wrapper code.
*Bugs & Features
*** We might evaluate a template approach once the solution is out, to avoid maintaining regexes.
**Lazy imports still in progress, might be available for 6.7
** Remote Object reviews ready in order to merge changes (only a few details)
**QmlSingleton crash was fixed
** Qt Python Scripting
**JIRA was cleaned a bit, many invalid issues
*** Multiple inheritance is not supported yet.
**Signal signatures were adjusted
*** REPL function to help development
**PYSIDE-748 additional parameter metamethod (old issue)
*** Research on Limited API usage.
**QDataStream read/write data accepting bytes too
*** find_python macro in 3.26 allow to find the stable abi
**New CMake Qt API has lots of features for qml, resources, etc which might not be too compatible with Qt for Python.
** docstring changes in order to expose them as docstring per methods.
**PYSIDE-2429 macOS deployment min version fixed
*** some experiment to add it to the pyi files, but it doesn't show.
**patchelf removal is ready to merge (motivated by android research)
**android: permission API, need some extra testing. Soon ready for review.
**QIODevice buffer object issue was fixed, and is waiting for review (motivated by the async story)
**qtpip development continues.


===24. August 2023===
=== 09. January 2025 ===


*General
* General
**New board on JIRA to reflect our work clearly https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=262&view=planning.nodetail&issueLimit=100
** FOSDEM 2025: Qt got a stand!
**Qt Meetups are starting to popup in Berlin and other countries! we might join some of them.
** Internal Hackathon going on.
**Discussions around improving the Qt Creator experience and UI creation in general.
* Infra & Releases
**There has been some motivation from Qt/C++ to use more CMake in projects (like for resources), which is negatively affecting the Python projects, due to the lack of CMake in the Python projects.
** https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/ got restructured and it's now very tidy
*Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.8.2
**Commercial LTS 5.15.15 to be released soon.
** 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
**6.5.3 scheduled for the first week of September
** Tests with 3.13 on the CI
*Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
**QIODevice::read(char*, qint64) functions are removed, but they are useful for the asyncio story. Discussion on if it's worth exposing them.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2966 PYSIDE-2966] Disabled instantiating non-instantiable classes
**More changes related to QtAsyncIO are ready for review.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] Examples and tests were ported to use fully qualified enumerations
**PYSIDE-2417 overflow issue was fixed
** Python Scripting continues (enable adding __repr__ functions)
**[ot] i18n in the Qt framework
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
**PYSIDE-2418 connection issue with python overloads
*** We might try a few new configurations for adding this bindings.
**6.6 documentation has some issues due to the QtGraph new module
** Tutorial for Boot2Qt and PySide apps deployment
**PYSIDE-2423 connecting signals to python callable doesn't properly work - trying to find a proper solution
** Doc changes: adding comments for using uv
**PYSIDE-2424 Installing shiboken in a non-standard way discussion - it might not be properly fixed.
** QML Next: still working on improved decorators for a smoother integration
**Next Wednesday 10am: session about Shiboken + QtScrypt status
** Qt Remote Objects: Big set of patches by external contributor
**PYSIDE-2419 locale issue on macOS due to the Info.plist that python includes that overrides the QLocale settings. A bug report was filed upstream, and a workaround is suggested.
** Binary size reduction work continues with new ideas from other projects: folding, string handling, renaming, etc.  
**PYSIDE-2421 webengine issue was discussed, it's an Qt/C++ chromium issue.
** Yocto builds issues with LLVM still not solved.
**CMake FindPython patches are still being worked out, the wrong interpreter is being found.
**patchelf removal is causing some issues with cross compilation.
**qtpip works continues.


===17. August 2023===
==2024==


*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2024]]


*Bugs & Features
==2023==
**Investigating on PyPySide MI segfault postponed but on To-Do list [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] More Progress in Lazy Initialization
***the optional __getattr__ in module objects was successfully implemented (but is seldom used)
***lazy init of Enums is probably no more needed, covered by the import scheme below
***most common cases like "from PySide6.QtWidgets import QLabel" supported by another __import__ override
***Keep your fingers crossed, testing starts today
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2419 PYSIDE-2419] QLocale::language() returns wrong on macOS.
***Caused by QLocale infrastructure which looks at Info.plist inside the Python interpreter macOS bundle.
***Working on a hack fix after consulting Tor Arne and Eddy.
**Pacthelf removal - cross compilation breaks. Working on a fix.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2421 PYSIDE-2421] - QWebEngineView.print() - rerouted to Qt
***But, might requires an ownership fix in Shiboken once [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-116052 QTBUG-116052] is resolved
**Research - use the .debug files provided by the Qt installer to debug from VSCode.
***Saves time from not building Qt everytime
***Still ongoing
**QtAsyncio: Implementation of asyncio.Server (one open question remains - asyncio API and Qt API don't always match as cleanly as desirable).
 
===10. August 2023===
 
*General
**
*Infra & Releases
**
*Bugs & Features
**Patchelf removal only partially possible because of using patchelf on prebuilt Qt binaries.
***For Qfp binaries patchelf removal under review. MacOS issue being fixed. This is needed for Android.
**Shiboken module cmake installation bug fixed.
**Progressing with Android C++ to Python callback, now that Qfp binaries could be loaded on startup.
**Further investigating on PyPySide MI segfault [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] Progress in Lazy Initialization
***the new dual registration is done and builds the base for concrete lazy init
***lazy init of Enums postponed because
***an undocumented optional __getattr__ in module objects makes it much easier to lazy-load whole classes, first.
 
===3. August 2023===
 
*General
**New reports board
**QtCreator support
**Integration cycle on gerrit overview
*Infra & Releases
**CI down next Monday for a few hours
**First tests on linux arm64
**Preparing 5.15.15 Commercial LTS
**qtpip first trials on the CI
*Bugs & Features
**Async research continues, new things are being discovered while is being developed
***Implementing a few new things for improving the support
***Initial patch got merged, but a few others are in the making
**Team contributing to QtAcademy
**SQL queries issues, inconsistencies in the API were fixed
**Build with ninja had some problems regarding mixing stdout and stderr
**Testing initial support for rvalues
**2272 fixing signatures for some qmlRegister* functions
**Examples: new mediaplayer was fully ported
**Example gallery scans now a doc directory for images
**Some other multimedia examples are pending for review
**Team contributing to Qt translations
**Adjusting the deployment tool, and fixing issues with pyenv, and upgrading nuitka
**CMake: adjusting the files to use the new API for finding python, reducing our cmake files
***Considering also the removal of patchelf, and follow the cmake approach
**Lazy initialization of enums is showing a good improvement on the performance
 
===27. July 2023===
 
*General
**Shyam wrote trip report to Europython
**Some vacations starting soon for some team members
**Got some cool t-shirts (internal only so far) - Is there interest for merch?
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.2 released
**Some LTS releases soon as well
**Issues on the CI (RHEL8.6) and python interpreter.
**Formalization of release besides wheels on PyPI and account.qt.io
**Soon to enable CI on qtpip
*Bugs & Features
**[ext] designer issue, translations
**PYSIDE-2402 QtHttpServer module was missing on Windows
**QSql methods were un-deprecated (module seems to need more love)
**Port QtGraph example
**AsyncIO module: there is a second change in preparation
**Finally the android issue we had was solved. It seems that patchelf was breaking our binaries, and now we are using a cmake approach instead.
**Enable unity builds for android
**Nuitka will be pinned to a recent version
**PYSIDE-2404 lazy loader research
*Interesting projects we checked
**https://github.com/larryhastings/appeal
**Stable Diffusion
**https://docs.hpyproject.org/en/latest/quickstart.html
**https://github.com/rui314/mold
 
===20. July 2023===
 
*General
**Two team members @ Europython 2023
*Infra & Releases
*Bugs & Features
**Implementing transports and protocols of asyncio API
**Lazy importer still under development. Ongoings:
***necessary to register all types without creating them
***turning all PyTypeObject into PyTypeObject valued functions
***quite hard because deeply buried in the generated code
 
===13. July 2023===
 
*General
**CI is not behaving, so be cautious
**3.12 beta 4 was released
**Next week some people are going to Europython
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.2 still in progress, waiting to have the RC wheels
*Bugs & Features
**Qt Akademy to prepare a Qt for Python course
**Examples: we might adapt our gallery to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115174
**Android: callback issue from C++ to Python, some ideas are around, but the problem persists.
***Might be related to the usage of patchelf.
**Research on Lazy loader continues
***Some ideas are behaving well at the moment, but still being tested.
***We might need to discover some classes that we cannot initialize lazily (manual code injection, need init before usage)
**We need some reviews for the eventloop patch (asyncio)
**An enum class with an issue for stubs.
**qtpip work continues
**Some good-first-issue are planned for the project, so more contributors can join us!
 
===6. July 2023===
 
*General
**PySide 6.6 will support Python 3.8+
**Python 3.12 support will be back-ported to 6.5 only, and not 6.2
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 commercial lts was released yesterday.
**6.5.2 RC wheels to be tested.
**5.15 open commercial lts tags are in the pyside/pyside-setup repo.
**qtpip configuration file being improved and updated
**ARM CI host configuration continues
*Bugs & Features
**Removal of old enums was finished
**Starting to work with lazy loaders for enums
**First iteration of the asyncio support for the qt eventloop, tests are being prepared.
**PYSIDE-2370 cross compilation issue, might be related to host python, provided some options to try.
**Android issue, we cannot get C++ callbacks to Python. Might be related to a python version incompatibility.
**Preparing a contribution back to python-to-android
**Rewriting some enum code
**Add mediaplayer demo in qtdoc for python (some issues with qml)
**Add document viewer qtdoc example
**PYSIDE-2381 QSettings issue
**pyside6-lupdate issues related to encoding.
**qtpip works continues
 
===29. June 2023===
 
*General
**Next maintenance break in August.
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.2 postponed until next week
**6.2.9 Commercial LTS soon to be released (a new qt build)
**5.15.15 LTS in the next weeks
**ARM CI host still in progress
**Brainstorming some additional matrix testing infra for Python versions
**Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases (IFW ticket)
*Bugs & Features
**Research on scripting continues
**Designer related features/ QtCreator
**Memory leak related to REG is solved
**New icon theme for examples coming
**Some qdoc examples might be enabled for Python
**Enum removal is still generating detail discussions
***Two implementation versions are suggested.
***The old ones were written in C++ so the startup time is a lot slower
***Lazy generator is helping a A LOT
**Android dev build - unity had some complications
**Async event loop work, last issues were addressed.
***still some network io features are missing
**[Research] PySide components for QtDS needs to follow QtDS release cycle rather than Qt.
 
 
===21. June 2023===
 
*General
**PyPI limit increase for PySide6-Addons
**PySide 6.6 might have support for Python 3.8+ (due to Python 3.7 EOL in a week)
**Python 3.12b3 is out - test!
**Qt Contributor Summit
***General session + maybe another one for specific topics.
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 is ready, but waiting for Qt/c++ release
**6.5.2 release date is next week.
**Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases
*Bugs & Features
**Android research: extra functionality is there, and working on bluetooth/permission integration with a device (example)
**PYSIDE-2364 Invalid syntax on a pyi file
**Continue with the old enum removal.
***Maybe delayed initialization to improve startup time.
**AsyncIO eventloop work continues
**Research for scripting continues
**6.6 adaptations
**Fix Enum issue with clang with invalid hex
 
===15. June 2023===
 
*General
**Going to EuroPython
**Participation in Qt Academy
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 LTS to be released
**NFS issues in the CI, being worked on.
**ARM host on CI experiencing some issues.
***Some preliminary wheels were generated in order to test.
***Might help the Android story, but this needs to be confirmed.
*Bugs & Features
**Async research revisited
***Testing eventloop wrapping
**Memory leak issue still needs to be fixed (hopefully for 6.5.2)
**Examples in Qt revamp
**Translations and fixes for 6.6
**Discussion about Enums implementation
**Scripting on C++ research continues
**PYSIDE-1735 removing old enums continues
**Android improvements in review
***Adding more modules
**QVariant enum change (temporary patch until Qt7)
**shiboken_generator research to make it publicly available (libclang dependency)
 
===8. June 2023===
 
*General
**Python 3.11.4 released, 3.12.0beta2
**PySide6-addons reaching the 10G limit on PyPI
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.1.1 released due to a regression (introduced by a mem leak fix)
**Maintenance Tool > wheels
***Special case for M2M protocols to be tested
**CI on arm64 continues (Linux and Windows)
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed some type-hint related issues PYSIDE-2357/PYSIDE-2331/PYSIDE-2340
**Scripting research
**Qt pip tool has updated the configuration file and wheels to continue the work on the new tool
**QVariant PyEnum issue -> solution for review
**Android work continues: improving the dependency detection
**PYSIDE-2335 unraisable is finally checked in (the current solution works, it could be improved but low prio -> xml definitions)
**PYSIDE-2354 type error due to the usage of Generic (related to 939) - related to cpython issue
**PYSIDE-1735 old enums removal started
**Example tunings
**Bug fixing week
 
===1. Juni 2023===
 
*General
**Europython - call for first time speakers (open to anyone)
**Waiting until API review to move dev to 6.6
**New Epic/User Stories policy
**Participating into Qt Academy
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.1 released, a leak fix is causing issues with signal connections.
***Initially we thought it was purely functools.partial but there are other cases that are not working.
***Testing alternative solutions, otherwise we revert
***In any case a 6.5.1.1 will be out soon
**Need to test the new conf file for the commercial wheel install mechanism
**5.15 needs to skip libclang16
**Testing maintenance tool with a license without Qt for Automation (for wheel check)
**JIRA release versions are pending.
*Bugs & Features
**(External) Designer fonts issues
**PYSIDE-2347 metaobject tool missing types
**Scxml events missing connections.
**Scripting research (check report)
**Leak research continue
**Issue with new example state machine to be solved (event handling)
**PYSIDE-1930 PYSIDE-2239 QVariant Enum issue, the fix is out, but we need some tests.
**Finish the problem with unraisable exceptions
***Discussion on special cases with a run function
***Blocking functions are still an issue, because we cannot break
**PYSIDE-2354 typing.Generic issue with inheritance in progress
**PyTest research continues
 
===25. Mai 2023===
 
*General
**QtWS - One talk accepted
**Europython - One talk accepted
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.1 one issue was found, so release will be available once we merge the fix.
**5.15.14 to be release soon.
**CI arm64 experiments continue
**Asking about M2M wheels on the maintenance tool, for 6.6
**Solving LTS issues of missing tags on public repo, might take some time.
*Bugs & Features
**Evaluating shiboken6_generator to be published on PyPi
**Few small fixes around the project (release preparation, new features, small bugs, doc issues)
**QtScrypt experimental work continues
**Permission API added (motivated by the android support)
**Improvements for the android deployment.
**Trying to fix an issue of getting Enums to Ints
**Delayed exceptions work continues, trying to fix some corner cases still.
**Starting to explore PEP 658
**Research on PyTest compatibility
**[Designer] Fixing some issues, and warnings
 
===18. Mai 2023===
 
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.1 Preparations
**5.15.14 Preparations
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2325 PYSIDE-2325] typesystem incomplete
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2328 PYSIDE-2328] Segmentation fault/access violation when connecting signal of temporary object
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2329 PYSIDE-2329] Signal connections with init kwargs
**Reverted temporarily the delayed exception patch, in order to not block the 6.5.1 release. This should be discussed at the next meeting
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 PYSIDE-2310]
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 PYSIDE-2321]
 
===11. Mai 2023===
 
*General
**Python Users Berlin meetup talk today
**Europython, QtWS
**Qt FF 02.06
**Android team «ketchup»
**Example revamp update
***Quick examples needs to be ported to loadFromModule (Quick3D, QuickLocation, missing)
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.1 to be release around 15.05 -> shifted to next week.
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 regression
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 memory leak
**5.15.14 to be release around 16.05
*Bugs & Features
**Fixing regressions issue related to threads - delayed exceptions
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 event handlers issues
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 virtual method override - still in progress
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2230 3.12 support
**nogil research continues - mutex might slow down things, but doing a proper division of the code could help.
**QML example tutorials - one review pending
**2313 longtype issue with numpy
**examples revamping - loadFromModule
**Icon library -> icon theme soon available on a new module.
**PYSIDE-2316 sharedpointer template issues
**Shiboken refactoring
**Finally the memory leak is fixed
**Enhancing android story, detection of modules, finding dependencies, got ideas from the current qt/c++ tool.
**Build infrastructure, setup.py install has been deprecated since 3.11 - looking into a new build infrastructure.
**Internal technical talks
***Shiboken generating bindings
***Shiboken for documentation generation
***type hints generation
***QML integration via decorators
 
===4. Mai 2023===
 
*General
**Europython talk by Shyam still under consideration
**Qt for Android catch up meeting scheduled for 09/05/2023
**Discussion with kivy developers done on discord. They seem to be onboard with the Qt support.
*Infra & Releases
*Bugs & Features
**Android Deployment Enhancements - Bringing pyside6-android-deploy at the level of androiddeployqt - Ongoing
**python-for-android PR Enhancements - Ongoing
**PYSIDE-1951 super().__lt__ global solution ongoing
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2206 PYSIDE-2206] QML examples/tutorials revamping
**PYSIDE-2221 Python runs NoGil version of mandelbrot.py 7.7 times faster on a 10-code M1 machine
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2288 PYSIDE-2288] Fixed Clang 16 support for 6.6/6.5.
**PYSIDE-2310 Crashing without error reporting in Qt-based threads, debugging
**PYSIDE-2299 Ongoing, current attempt fixes most tests but leaves some SegFaults, might be a dead-end.
 
===27. April 2023===
 
*General
**Planning collaboration with other projects like Kivy, towards a better mobile support.
**QtWS talks submitted
**PyConES, PyConPT, PyConAPAC
**Qt for Android catching up meeting
**Bug fixing week
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.8 wrong source code was published PYSIDE-2297
*Bugs & Features
*PYSIDE-1951 super() and `__lt__` operator issue related to our wrapper.
*asyncio work continues
*enhancements for python-for-android to improve the android stories
*pyside6-android-deploy polished as well
*2299 memory leak might have special cases related to the callback
*clang16 is giving some issues in Qt
*Icon examples libraries for the python examples research
*Snippet translator improvements
 
===20. April 2023===
 
*Bugs & Features
**Work on support for clang 16, which changes behavior quite a bit
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2284 PYSIDE-2284] issue with NoneType
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2285 PYSIDE-2285] Type hints / Tuples
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2298 PYSIDE-2298] and others, fixed some missing 6.5 API
**Added new tools - pyside6-qmlsc (commercial only) and pyside6-qmlcachegen
**Simplified tool adding process
**PySide6 to Android Deployment blog published 🤞
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 PYSIDE-1564] Final approach was implemented with a new super() class. But This approach was not helpful. Issue finally closed.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 PYSIDE-1951] A solution was finally found and implemented. Trying to improve.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2304 PYSIDE-2304] Issue resolved, Cooperative Multiple Inheritance explained with a custom example, customer is happy
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 PYSIDE-2299] Cause for memory leak has been found, but fix will not be trivial (might require extensive refactoring in worst case).
**Debugging QtAsyncIoEventLoop, partly functional but still early.
 
===13. April 2023===
 
*General
**SF 24.04 -> 16.05 ooo
**CM 19.04 -> 27.04 ooo
**QtCreator beta now includes an extra option to create virtual environments
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.0 released, but one missing DLL on windows for people without hw acceleration.
***To be fixed in 6.5.1
**6.2.8 LTS to be released this week
**Improving current state of the maintenance tool for Python
**Second version of the packages in the server
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-684-a-per-interpreter-gil/19583
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-711-pybi-a-standard-format-for-distributing-python-binaries/25547
**Qt Design Studio integration is on research
*Bugs & Features
**Type hints PYSIDE-2284 issue with NoneType
**2283 Platform dependencies into our docs
**Clang16 improvements to be compatible
**Research on the missing DLL issue on Windows
**Research on a memory leak possible related to Signal instances.
**asyncio debugging with a self-made event loop
**Improving the python-for-android changes to prepare a patch
**Technical Preview blog post for Android in the making
**PYSIDE-2294 multiple inheritance issue for a corner case with positional arguments
***Researching a new approach that could improve things further
 
===6. April 2023===
 
*General
**New Python releases 3.11.3, 3.10.11
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.0 released
**6.2.8 commercial LTS to go out soon
**Review Maitenance Tool integration
**qtpip server configuration still in progress
*Bugs & Features
**Android: preparing post, tests, and general improvements.
**PYSIDE-2266 venv issue with the deployment tool.
**Documentation was released for 6.5.0 and many things were polished.
**Async: continue working on the event loop wrapper implementation.
**Research on memory leak that pyqtgraph found
**Brushing up tutorials: expenses
**Adding new examples: simplebrowser, screen capture
**Documentation: found some issues with qdoc (from the move of examples to auto tests)
**PYSIDE-2278 type hinting issue was fixed
**Improvements to the documentation
**Cleaning imports from examples
**Add isort to the development guide
**Exploring other projects where Python can shine
 
===30. March 2023===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.5 to be released next week
**including requirements.txt along the commercial bundle
***research if possible retroactively
**qtpip research continues
*Bugs & Features
**Features that needs to be in before 6.5
***deployment tool nuitka patch
***android tool
***tutorial of thew new quick styled app
**Improving enums to avoid using the old implementation
**Deployment tool and android research continues
**Async research on asyncio and trio proper integration
**Refactoring
**Shiboken examples are not displayed on the docs
**Updating the new image of the project
**Re-porting multimedia examples, simplebrowser
**Initial support for permission API
**small fixes on metaobjectdump
 
 
===23. March 2023===
 
*General
**QtWS CfP open
**EuroPython talks submitted
**Keeping an eye on future Python events
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 is out
***pypy3 3.9.12 compatible, newer versions included an incompatibility
**6.5 branching out today
*Bugs & Features
**async support continues.
**Fixing a couple of issues related to the pyside6-deploy tool.
***venv compatibility
***qml apps are not properly working
**android support almost ready for TP
**PYSIDE-2261 cython signature module incompatibility fixed
**Removed goto from PySide
**Multiple inheritance issues were fixed.
**old Enums are being removed, and the startup time will improve a bit (still in progress)
**PYSIDE-971 GL funtions implementation
**including texttospeech into the wheels (missing by mistake)
**adapting scripts to 6.5
**metaobjectdump issue fixed
**doc updates
 
===16. March 2023===
 
*General
**Preparing submissions for Europython
**New company colors
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 release next week (no release branch)
**Issues with Nuitka 1.5.1 (released yesterday) and the CI didn't like it. Pining 1.5
*Bugs & Features
**qtpip: add support for many other operators (for versions)
**PYSIDE-2254 exit crash issue was fixed
**PYSIDE-2251 designer issue when not initializing virtual environment.
**qmlsurface example ported (polishing the C++ code as well)
**example icons: discussions to standardize them a bit
**android research: fixing some issues with qtquick
**PYSIDE-1564 multiple inheritance work continues, really far but found new issues. Generalizing the solution a bit from a Shiboken point of view. Research on how shiboken handle multiple inheritance to be compatible with Python's way.
**PYSIDE-2255 virtual method issue related to access to those members.
**Generalization of QApplication usage on the tests.
**Research: Add course to QtLearn related to Qt for Python
**doc: some links are broken.
**doc: migration to sphinx-design from sphinx-panels
 
===9. March 2023===
 
*General
**Packing use-cases
**Europython CfP: https://ep2023.europython.eu/cfp
*Infra & Releases
**Preparing 5.15.13: release might be today if nothing goes wrong.
**Wheel bundles on the account.qt.io, and soon to be available in the Maintenance Tool
*Bugs & Features
**Re-added QtLocation
**Added larger examples for QtLocation, QtDataVisualization
**Android research continues, preparing a TP
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2169 Leak related to AsyncIO was finally fixed: related to the new Enum implementation
***PyErr_Fetch/Restore does ref counting, and not borrow ref
**qtpip works continues
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 bug signal instance: fixed most if not all possible errors.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1403 pyi still produces something not fully working with IDEs
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 First version of the implementation of multiple inheritance is working
***Not a general solution, but a good approach (compatible with a competitor).
***Working on a full support to handle multiple inheritance
 
===2. March 2023===
 
*General
**Preparing internal/external material
**Next monday CI maintenance break
*Infra & Releases
**commercial wheel bundles available on account.qt.io
**6.4.3 release was postponed
*Bugs & Features
**Improvements for qtpip
**postEvent() memory leak still has an unknown origin
**PYSIDE-2236 QMetaMethod.fromSignal added
**PYSIDE-2237 be careful with using reserved words in examples/docs/...
**PYSIDE-2239 opaquecontainers wrong dunder name
**PYSIDE-2206 Examples revamping
***Maybe we keep some examples around even if they are removed in Qt/C++
**Android work continues! looking good with 6.5
**PYSIDE-1564 Multiple inheritance story was improved, still in progress.
 
===23. February 2023===
 
*General
**Giving a talk at Python La Paz (on Saturday) - in Spanish
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 ready to start the release process
**Change to fix the windows signing is merged
*Bugs & Features
**3.12 compatibility changes will reach 5.15, 6.2, and the future 6.5 LTS
**PYSIDE-79 (caused by PYSIDE-68) refcounting issues addressed
**Continue the 3.12 support because of some new issues found
**PYSIDE-1564: Multiple inheritance support is still being worked (old ABC issues might be related)
**Issues with documentation build (sphinx)
**Research on a memory leak related to the asyncio example: it's not related to asyncio, but from the posting action (pyside, and not Qt, because a C++ example with no async doesn't have any leak)
**PYSIDE-2234 adding QRunnableCreate
**fixed 6.5 issues with cross compilation
**Designer examples revamp
**Works continues on qtpip (a pip wrapper to install commercial wheels)
**PYSIDE-2232 NixOS issues was fixed (another was deferred)
**Research on the std::span support
**Unity compilation research continues
**Bug cleanup, closing and fixing old ones.
**OpenGL getProc issue is being worked on.
**PYSIDE-2192 interactive matplotlib issue (hook)
 
===16. February 2023===
 
*General
**Development of a tool for commercial wheel installation started, and other general improvements.
**Blog posts -> 6.5 release, and Android research.
**Don't forget about Europython.
*Infra & Releases
**Branching dev to 6.5 when the Qt/C++ 6.5.0 RC is out (16 Mar '23)
***Only fixes go to dev with Pick-to: 6.5 if necessary
***new features remain in dev (for 6.6)
*Bugs & Features
**nogil research was positive, and most of our test work. It would require for us to modify the generator for each function/module.
***mandelbrot example works and improves its performance around 3.5 times.
**Python 3.12 will include an incompatibility due to the changes in the type generation
***https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/60074#issuecomment-1430115581
***some other issues were found, but not as critical as the tp_new issue.
**It will be possible to install pyside6 in conda environments starting from 6.4.3 and 6.5
**commercial identifier on commercial wheels will be replaced to be compatible with distutils
**asyncio research continues
**Adapting the deploy tool to include compatibility with android (in progress)
**research on ML-based tool to transform c++ <-> python
**Getting started docs updated
**qtdoc documentation content will be included in the docs
**doc issues: some broken links and references
**General slides to be updated
 
 
===09. February 2023===
 
*General
**How to make our API better for pathlib?
**3.11.2 released, 3.10.10 as well
**https://peps.python.org/pep-0675/
*Infra & Releases
**LTS tags cannot be pushed to community repo (permissions), hopefully in this week.
**Maintenance Tool updates soon
**Binary signing still need a little change to be working
**dev to use 6.5 starting today
*Bugs & Features
**Android research in progress, looking good :)
**A solution was proposed to fix the usage of PySide6 in conda environments: still needs tweaks to work, mainly related to an internal qt.conf that's loaded at runtime.
**PYSIDE-2222 custom widget plugin, load with uic crash
**PYSIDE-2201 was fixed: introducing weak references into the SignalInstances.
**PYSIDE-79 was possible to solve (from PYSIDE-68 solution). Still needs to some documentation to be written.
**PYSIDE-2221 research on future compatibility with NoGIL Python https://github.com/colesbury/nogil https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
**https://github.com/blueloveTH/pocketpy also interesting
 
===02. February 2023===
 
*General
**Europython 2023 will be in Prague! 17-23 July
*Infra & Release
**Improving wheel creation in our CI (signing windows, and other things)
**Soon we will have released LTS in the OSS repo (after some complications)
**CI Maintenance break coming next Monday (keep an eye open to the Python configuration)
*Bugs & Features
**Unity builds were helping pyside/shiboken, and some tests are being done in qt/c++
**meta task on revamping examples in the Qt Project
**Adding uic functionality and documentation
**Doc reviews, some issues were found
**Android development continues, and looks good!
**introducing --log-level to change --verbose-build and --quiet
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance continues:
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Weak Reference handling is complete
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Research on Reference bug continues
**create_wheels.py --builddir to explicitly provide build directory
**WIP: QtAsyncIoEventLoop using Qt's event dispatcher, using BaseEventLoop and BaseSelectorEventLoop for guidance
 
===26. January 2023===
 
*Infra & Releases
**Fixed issues with Windows signing
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2204 PYSIDE-2204 qt.conf encoding]
**Fixed bugs in pyside6-metaobjectdump (QML) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2202 PYSIDE-2202] , [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2203 PYSIDE-2203]
**PYSIDE-2194: Possibly requires refactoring of QLowEnergyController to use the new WinRT API, instead of COM API
**Android Deployment - Patches incoming to automate cross compilation to produce android wheels
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance
***Implement Weak Reference Handling
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Handle early destruction of the object better
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Trying to finally fix the reference leak using weakref.
**Alternative approach to Anaconda issue: Register internal qt6.conf with site-packages prefix (still WIP).
**WIP: Implement class QtAsyncIoEventLoop(asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) that wraps around Qt's event loop to enable Qt + asyncio.
**Memory leak with current asyncio example (or space leak?)
 
===19. January 2023===
 
*General
**Hackathon in TQtC
**The WebAssembly PySide Team was almost doubled in size (+1 brain, +1 hand)
*Infra & Releases
**Windows signing to be improved.
**LTS releases into oss repo: some issues appeared but will be merged soon.
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1994: De-virtualization of Shiboken embedded Python files is now an option controlled dynamically by SBK_EMBED
***PYSIDE-1019: A dormant __feature__ initialization timing problem was fixed while implementing de-virtualization
**PYSIDE-1735: De-coupling of old and new enums was started
**PYSIDE-1564: Debugging of multiple inheritance continues
**Fixed some bluetooth functions in PySide6.
**Low Energy Scanner Example
**PYSIDE-2194: Progressing with this. Definitely a thread issue which allow-thread doesn't seem to fix.
**Possible solution for problems with PySide6 inside conda (compat package with qt6.conf file), but investigating if best solution
 
===12. January 2023===
 
*General
**Next week is Hackathon, meeting will be shorter
**Discussion on how to gather information, and sharing material around Qt for Python
*Infra & Releases
**6.5 RC planning -> feature freeze for PySide
**6.4.2 was released last Monday
**CMake Jumbo builds issue with Windows signing
**LTS branches to land in pyside-setup soon
*Bugs & Features
**Async examples: addressing memory leak and cpu usage due to the event loop interactions
**Review conda packaging story and PySide6
**De-virtualization of Python files: still some issues
**Incompatibility with pywin32: __feature__ related when trying to check if the ext module uses PySide. Also related to an issue with the inspect module.
**Installing PySide6.support via CMake (was previously not considered)
**Work continues on the multiple inheritance issues related to classes based on QObject
**locate issues related to to* methods
**std::array support in shiboken (still in progress)
**fixing imports in matplotlib examples
**adaptation to 6.5
**splitting shiboken generator source to its own
**Android deployment works - tested on Widget applications
**Fixing QTBUG-109510 leading to discovering issues with certain functions in PySide6. Being fixed.
 
===5. January 2023===


*General
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]
**Next monday CI maintenance
**OKRs
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.12 LTS, 6.2.7 LTS released
**Open Source LTS releases to be moved to the pyside-setup
**6.4 CI hanging, issues on lts-5.15 due to Python
**6.4.2 to be release in the following days
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1931 SQL issue regarding allow-thread
**helping 6.5 translations
**Adaptations with 6.5
**QSharedPointer -> std::shared_ptr attempt
**research on adding std::span into shiboken
**PYSIDE-2160 properties qml types issues
**Tutorials language review
**Android research continues
**QTBUG-109510 BTLE issue on pyside


==2022==
==2022==

Latest revision as of 09:46, 6 March 2025


2025

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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