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==2024==
==2025==
 
=== 13. March 2025 ===


===22. February 2024===
* General
* General
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
** QtCS: We need to submit talks in case we want to attend.
** Tomorrow Python 3.14a6 will be released https://peps.python.org/pep-0745/
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.2 was released!
** Windows on ARM research continues and looks good! managed to fix an issue, but a new issues was found on samplebinding. The issue might be related to missing OpenGL.
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
** 6.9.0rc might be released tomorrow, which means PySide6 FF will be due.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features  
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
** Many new type hints bugs being reported :)
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** Smart pointers exclusion issues fixed (shiboken)
** 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.
** Designer and Linguist tools fixes (External)
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
** Helping the remoteobject contributions to work better.
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
** Documentation checks and 6.10 adaption.
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 Going back to the free threaded Python topic in PySide
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
*** Lots of changes since the previous attempt
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3012 Kept working on the pep8 compatibility for type hints issues
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3034 trying to figure out to get type information from public variables
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3046 fixing type issues
** Re-Starting research on iOS compatibility
** QML Bridges: Slots registration is working now! new tests are being written.


===15. February 2024===
=== 6. March 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Brainstorming session was held.
** Jaime's internal presentation will be next Monday at 11am
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
** QtCS registration is up.
** Discussion on IPC options for Qt developers.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
** 6.9 Qt for Python FF happening next week.
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
** Windows on ARM deployment test failing.
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
** Remote object contributions are going well, and we might merge them for 6.9
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
** Binary size reduction research continued, but it seems we have reached the reduction we can, without touching the C++ side of our bindings.
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
** 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.
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
*** Removing object-inheritance in the pyi files
** pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
*** White-space around equal operators issue (default parameters)
** CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
** Update Widget Gallery example
** Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.
** 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.


===8. February 2024===
=== 20. February 2025 ===
 
* General
* General
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
** QtWS possible participation
** QtCS has a priority of bringing more external contributors
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
** 6.9 RC February 28th (maybe postponed)
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
** 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).
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
** RTA trials continue, possibility to use qtpip
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction for virtual functions patch was merged
** singleShot patches merged
** PYSIDE-3002 painted virtual functions solved (even though we had our own opinion about performance)
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
** 3020 SignalInstance disconnect issue fixed
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
** Templates/snippets cleanup in the typesystem.
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.
** 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)


===1. February 2024===


=== 13. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
** Did you know Shiboken translates into "Death Sword"? 死某剣
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
** QtCS happening after QtWS in Munich in early May.
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
** Qt Design Studio integration (internal presentation) with Python to be prepared.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** no unity build discussion and checks
** Windows on ARM research continues.
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
** QtDS wheels to be updated for the new release
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
** 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
* 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.
** Flatpak issue was solved (cleanup)
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
** Brainstorming ideas for QML Next (preparing internal presentation)
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
** Android wheel names to be adapted https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/platform-compatibility-tags/#android
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
** Qt Creator finishing .toml support for Python Projects.
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
** Qt DS Python changes ready to be merged
** General documentation adjustments
*** Tutorial changes to be prepared
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
** Type hints heuristic evaluation in order to address newly found issues related to overloads with similar shape.
** Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
** Handling of value-types in shiboken (refactoring, new features and doc)
** Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
** PYSIDE-3005 OpenGL issues were fixed
** Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues
** 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)


===25. January 2024===
=== 30. January 2025 ===


* General
* 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
* Infra & Releases
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
** Preparing 6.8.2
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
** Size reduction [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] : Implemented code reuse for Python overrides of virtual functions
** 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).
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on multiple inheritance, added more widgets
** 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).
** Size reduction: PYSIDE-2701 Folding progress: We can now combine multiple foldings of the same function. This will bring some more reduction.
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
** Simplebrowser example updated
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
** adding imageviewer docs
** Unity build some issues when building without.
=== 23. January 2025 ===
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
** Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
** armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
** Lazy initialization: re-wrote approach from scratch, to reduce the patches to one that can be analyzed easily. Some complications with this approach that needs to be improve. It can be tried with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/496118
*** https://peps.python.org/pep-0690/ was rejected, but the idea can be implemented per-module
** Moving entry_points declaration to pyproject.toml from setup.py
** Drop the bdist_wheel steps from the CI (old wheels)
** Started working on split commercial wheels, wheels for QtDS and examples on QtCreator.
 
===18. January 2024===


* General
* General
** [https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kconfig/-/jobs/2497118 KDE testing Qt betas and snapshots]
*** Should we update our Branching policy?
*** Our branching policy:
**** We branch briefly after API Review is done in qt meta repo.
** Yocto libclang issue - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/609352
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
** Windows on ARM configuration testing.
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
** 6.8.2 scheduled release next week, and branching will happen today.
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on Stable ABI support and multiple inheritance
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
** [ext] 6.9 Designer release issues with macOS drag and drop + bug fixing
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
** PYSIDE-2990 Slot Executed in Signal's Thread Even With Auto & QueuedConnection
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
*** People is getting the documentation from an outdated wiki page, which is causing new reports.
** Qt 6.7 adaption
*** Wiki will be updated.
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
** Size reduction: we generate a lot of code for parsing keyword arguments. The code was moved to libshiboken and the size was reduced 3%
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
*** Optimization reviews: it seems it's only the virtual functions, but not the actual bindings.
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
** Size reduction: Windows is giving some issues for special characters, which seems to be also present in Linux.
** Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
** Cross compiling and creating wheels with the new JNI classes bindings. Trying to test them in an emulator, found other issues.
** PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
** pyside6-deploy/project and DS changes integrating, hopefully they will be merged today \o/
** pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
** DS-only changes are still in review.
** Improvements to the doc build process
** TOML integration - continue research on adding new format for python projects
** QtGraphWidgets issue with yocto build was fixed.


===11. January 2024===
=== 16. January 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Hackathon at TQtC
** 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!
** CI process presentation
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
** 6.8.2 will be released on 23th January so far, so we expect providing the wheels in the following days.
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
** 3.13 on the CI still on-going.  
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
** 6.5.4 OSS released
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
*** It did built (and installed) for aarch64 and x86_64 but armv7a will be tried later on.
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
*** The main issue with this story was that it was bindings only for cross compiled pyside
** macOS request permission API work continues.
** Exploring toml compatibilities within QtCreator
** 6.7 adaptions patches
** DS patches still needs review.
** M2M fixes on the current impl
** Binary size work continues
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
*** 17% reduction so far, and this could be included in the future-features list.
** favicon issue with out docs
*** Once is ready, we might provide an option to disable it to go back to the more readable wrapper code.
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
*** We might evaluate a template approach once the solution is out, to avoid maintaining regexes.
** Improvements for the doc build process
** 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 ===


===04.January 2024===
* General
* General
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
** FOSDEM 2025: Qt got a stand!
** New OKR organization
** Internal Hackathon going on.
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
** PyPy is now on 3.10
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
** https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/ got restructured and it's now very tidy
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
** Preparing 6.8.2
** Android [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)
** 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
** Xcode issues with a new M3
** Tests with 3.13 on the CI
** Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2966 PYSIDE-2966] Disabled instantiating non-instantiable classes
** async: the module is missing from our docs
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] Examples and tests were ported to use fully qualified enumerations
** async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
** Python Scripting continues (enable adding __repr__ functions)
** new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
** pyside6 designer pyenv crash was fixed
*** We might try a few new configurations for adding this bindings.
** pyside cmake module update crash was fixed
** Tutorial for Boot2Qt and PySide apps deployment
** working on the request permission API for macOS
** Doc changes: adding comments for using uv
** docs: free functions as separate section and other improvements
** QML Next: still working on improved decorators for a smoother integration
** Python scripting in c++ works continues
** Qt Remote Objects: Big set of patches by external contributor
** PyPy 3.10 compatibility patches
** Binary size reduction work continues with new ideas from other projects: folding, string handling, renaming, etc.
** nogil: working again on a compatibility with PEP703
** Yocto builds issues with LLVM still not solved.
*** locking mechanism for our modules.
 
** Typing adjustments, we need '/' in our signatures due to not having keywords parameters.
==2024==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2024]]


==2023==
==2023==

Latest revision as of 09:58, 13 March 2025


2025

13. March 2025

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Windows on ARM research continues and looks good! managed to fix an issue, but a new issues was found on samplebinding. The issue might be related to missing OpenGL.
    • 6.9.0rc might be released tomorrow, which means PySide6 FF will be due.
  • Bugs & Features

6. March 2025

  • General
    • Jaime's internal presentation will be next Monday at 11am
    • QtCS registration is up.
    • Discussion on IPC options for Qt developers.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.9 Qt for Python FF happening next week.
    • Windows on ARM deployment test failing.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Remote object contributions are going well, and we might merge them for 6.9
    • Binary size reduction research continued, but it seems we have reached the reduction we can, without touching the C++ side of our bindings.
    • PYSIDE-3012 Type hints issues were addressed (typing.Sequence -> typing.Collection) even if it is a simple change in theory, to change it internally and for our generation it took a lot of time.
      • Removing object-inheritance in the pyi files
      • White-space around equal operators issue (default parameters)
    • Update Widget Gallery example
    • Changed to adapt std::chrono patches in shiboken (identify overloads and choose the better option)
    • Cleaning up some bug reports, metamethod connection issue fixed.
    • Addressing some coverity issues for Designer
    • Started 6.10 adaption.
    • QML Next works continues.
    • Changes in the build system scripts are still in progress, some stuff is broken when used, but it's going in a good direction.
    • Finalizing the pyside6-project changes to adapt the pyproject.toml changes.
    • Addressing new found QtCreator issues with the pyproject.toml compatibility.

27. February 2025

  • General
    • Windows on ARM improving
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, investigating removing redundant overloads
    • PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, trying wrapper folding, needs massive reordering
    • PYSIDE-3012 replacement of typing.Sequence by collections.abc.Sequence
      • Identified incompatibility with Python < 3.9.8 and Python < 3.10.1, fixed by small patch
      • First change finally done, needs series of further changes
    • 6.10 adaption continues
    • PYSIDE 2942 Slot type annotation fix
    • QTBUG-132266 Checked the code on macOS that the user uploaded, no issues were found related to PySide or macOS.

20. February 2025

  • General
    • QtWS possible participation
    • QtCS has a priority of bringing more external contributors
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.9 RC February 28th (maybe postponed)
    • Windows on ARM test cases failing due to mypy fast cache (requires rust toolchain, that's currently missing from the CI). static libclang doesn't work on ARM builds (but does in x86_64).
    • RTA trials continue, possibility to use qtpip
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction for virtual functions patch was merged
    • PYSIDE-3002 painted virtual functions solved (even though we had our own opinion about performance)
    • 3020 SignalInstance disconnect issue fixed
    • Templates/snippets cleanup in the typesystem.
    • 6.10 adaption continues
    • QtCreator toml changes:
      • psyide6-project adaption to the latest changed related
    • QtDS changes postponed (to be available in QtDS 4.8)
    • PYSIDE-3017 QSerialBus overload order issue was fixed
    • PYSIDE-3012 Still addressing issues (CI currently failing)
    • qtqa improving the wheel testing process.
    • Brainstorming a better approach for QML Next
    • Finishing the folding patches, they don't make a lot of sense at the moment due to previous changes (being added into shiboken)


13. February 2025

  • General
    • Did you know Shiboken translates into "Death Sword"? 死某剣
    • QtCS happening after QtWS in Munich in early May.
    • Qt Design Studio integration (internal presentation) with Python to be prepared.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Windows on ARM research continues.
    • QtDS wheels to be updated for the new release
    • 6.9.0 RC by the end of the February.
    • RTA testing initiative to be restart
    • Evaluating scikit-core-build for replacing build_scripts/
  • Bugs & Features
    • Flatpak issue was solved (cleanup)
    • Brainstorming ideas for QML Next (preparing internal presentation)
    • Android wheel names to be adapted https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/platform-compatibility-tags/#android
    • Qt Creator finishing .toml support for Python Projects.
    • Qt DS Python changes ready to be merged
      • Tutorial changes to be prepared
    • Type hints heuristic evaluation in order to address newly found issues related to overloads with similar shape.
    • Handling of value-types in shiboken (refactoring, new features and doc)
    • PYSIDE-3005 OpenGL issues were fixed
    • PYSIDE-3013 Font issue was fixed
    • PYSIDE-3015 OpcUA support bug fixed
    • PYSIDE-3014 virtual function on QSpinBox issue fixed
    • 6.9 adaption patches
      • Found newly moc changes were breaking our enums
    • Size Reduction
      • hashing functions to re-use them.
      • changing the policy to use absolute size measure (sizebench)
      • Removing a few things from the folding patch, in order to merge it
    • PYSIDE-2997 and PYSIDE-3003 type hints issues were solved. A couple are still open.

6. February 2025

  • General
    • We went to FOSDEM and meet many PySide users!
    • Commercial / LTS naming on the Installer.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Reviewing our branching policies. There is interest in branching pyside-setup sooner.
    • We might need to move the Android wheels to PyPI (Probably from 6.9 on)
    • 6.8.2.1 release is planned in order to fix the missing DLLs in Windows (MSVC)
      • cheery pick is missing for 5.15
    • PySide6_DS 4.7 to be released in the next couple of weeks.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Adding TOML support for Python projects in QtCreator
    • TypeHints new reports, trying to get an idea of what's causing the errors
    • Issues in Flatpak: updating version, checking a cleanup issue. Addressing dependencies issues for optional packages.
    • QtQA internal scripting: Adapting an automatic wheel download.
    • Size reduction
      • Move virtual function overrides. Only generated on the base classes.
      • Discovered and fixed a few multiple inheritance with shiboken
    • Snippets translation tool: Trying to add a feature to use fully qualified enums.
    • clang-tidy warnings were fixes
    • Handling value types on non-default constructors (inspired by 6.9 changes)
    • Discussion on moving away out internal building process to scikit-build
    • Size reduction (folding approach): To publish first results soon.
    • Supporting team member with pyi session to understand the internal mechanism.
    • Ideas from the size reduction research were implemented
    • Changing the benchmark code for the size reduction (which might not include the new changes to shiboken)

30. January 2025

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.8.2
  • Bugs & Features
    • Size reduction PYSIDE-2701 : Implemented code reuse for Python overrides of virtual functions
    • QtPythonScripting: continue working on multiple inheritance, added more widgets
    • Size reduction: PYSIDE-2701 Folding progress: We can now combine multiple foldings of the same function. This will bring some more reduction.
    • Simplebrowser example updated
    • adding imageviewer docs

23. January 2025

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Windows on ARM configuration testing.
    • 6.8.2 scheduled release next week, and branching will happen today.
  • Bugs & Features
    • QtPythonScripting: continue working on Stable ABI support and multiple inheritance
    • [ext] 6.9 Designer release issues with macOS drag and drop + bug fixing
    • PYSIDE-2990 Slot Executed in Signal's Thread Even With Auto & QueuedConnection
      • People is getting the documentation from an outdated wiki page, which is causing new reports.
      • Wiki will be updated.
    • Size reduction: we generate a lot of code for parsing keyword arguments. The code was moved to libshiboken and the size was reduced 3%
      • Optimization reviews: it seems it's only the virtual functions, but not the actual bindings.
    • Size reduction: Windows is giving some issues for special characters, which seems to be also present in Linux.
    • Cross compiling and creating wheels with the new JNI classes bindings. Trying to test them in an emulator, found other issues.
    • pyside6-deploy/project and DS changes integrating, hopefully they will be merged today \o/
    • DS-only changes are still in review.
    • TOML integration - continue research on adding new format for python projects
    • QtGraphWidgets issue with yocto build was fixed.

16. January 2025

  • General
    • Highly probable that one of us will go to FOSDEM to help with the Qt Project stand! so if you /reader/ are going, drop by and say hi!
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.8.2 will be released on 23th January so far, so we expect providing the wheels in the following days.
    • 3.13 on the CI still on-going.
    • 6.5.4 OSS released
  • Bugs & Features
    • Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
      • It did built (and installed) for aarch64 and x86_64 but armv7a will be tried later on.
      • The main issue with this story was that it was bindings only for cross compiled pyside
    • Exploring toml compatibilities within QtCreator
    • DS patches still needs review.
    • Binary size work continues
      • 17% reduction so far, and this could be included in the future-features list.
      • Once is ready, we might provide an option to disable it to go back to the more readable wrapper code.
      • We might evaluate a template approach once the solution is out, to avoid maintaining regexes.
    • Remote Object reviews ready in order to merge changes (only a few details)
    • Qt Python Scripting
      • Multiple inheritance is not supported yet.
      • REPL function to help development
      • Research on Limited API usage.
      • find_python macro in 3.26 allow to find the stable abi
    • docstring changes in order to expose them as docstring per methods.
      • some experiment to add it to the pyi files, but it doesn't show.

09. January 2025

  • General
    • FOSDEM 2025: Qt got a stand!
    • Internal Hackathon going on.
  • Infra & Releases
    • https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/ got restructured and it's now very tidy
    • Preparing 6.8.2
    • 6.8.1.1 Windows and Linux wheels were uploaded for consistency thanks to user-reports when uploading only the 6.8.1.1 on macOS due to a missing module
    • Tests with 3.13 on the CI
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2966 Disabled instantiating non-instantiable classes
    • PYSIDE-1735 Examples and tests were ported to use fully qualified enumerations
    • Python Scripting continues (enable adding __repr__ functions)
    • Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
      • We might try a few new configurations for adding this bindings.
    • Tutorial for Boot2Qt and PySide apps deployment
    • Doc changes: adding comments for using uv
    • QML Next: still working on improved decorators for a smoother integration
    • Qt Remote Objects: Big set of patches by external contributor
    • Binary size reduction work continues with new ideas from other projects: folding, string handling, renaming, etc.
    • Yocto builds issues with LLVM still not solved.

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