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==2024==
==2025==


===13. June 2024===
=== 15. May 2025 ===


* General
** Python 3.9 story: the decision was made without considering that 3.9 is still getting security releases, so we have decided to keep supporting Python 3.9 for PySide 6.8 LTS, but we might drop it in the middle of some bug-fix releases.
*** Things that are considered to support certain python versions are: Internal CI Python versions for each OS, Python version lifecycle https://devguide.python.org/versions/, features that will improve user experience from new versions.
*** Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
** Qt Group is sponsoring EuroPython 2024: and we will give a talk!
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.2 packages are ready to be released.
** Preparing 6.9.1
** Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
** Released 6.5.9
** Starting process to test windows arm64 (discussion around libclang)
** Nightly builds:
*** Possible solution for linux and macOS arm64 android builds.
*** Maybe also for non-unity builds? it has been failing in some corner cases.
*** We could have dev-android branch so we don't block the normal dev development.
*** nightly builds merge automatically if everything passes.
*** PyPy integrations might join a similar configuration as well.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Android wheels from macOS host through coin successful. Assembling the final patch. Coin still running tests for an Android build and error-ing still needs to be resolved.
** Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2702 PYSIDE-2702] - Flatpak base app implementation started.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2193 PYSIDE-2193] QML property related crash fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2781 PYSIDE-2781] - pyside6-deploy failure investigation ongoing. Could be a Nuitka issue. User using the latest Nuitka.
** Working on improve our typing implementations.
** QtAsyncio: internal presentation including the theory behind and some live examples.
** Lazy load: disabled for PyPy, fixing some shiboken-tests
** QtScrypt: development continues
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2780 PYSIDE-2780] refcount bug in the lazy import fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] 3.13 compatibility patches are ready, nogil under development
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] reduction of binary sizes under investigation, estimating the achievable reduction


===06. June 2024===
=== 8. May 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
** Team returned form QtWS
** PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
** Must read https://peps.python.org/pep-0741/
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Some issues with the macOS CI units.
** Preparing 6.9.1
** Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
** qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
** 6.5.6 commercial LTS was released.
** 6.7.2 release will happen soon (due to an issue with designer)
** the Python 3.9 macOS CI configuration will be updated to 3.11, and the windows with 3.11 will be updated to 3.12
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2622 - Standalone mode for Deployment as per many requests from users
** Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt Graphs
** Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
** Add some functionality to shiboken to accommodate 6.10
** https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466 ready, but waiting for macOS x86_64 to update Python to 3.11 - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qt5/+/565565/4 (Thanks Simo)
** Free threading research continues by running intense stress tests
** Patches ready for updating python syntax to drop typing.Optional (and use | instead) that will go in once we drop 3.9
** Ported QtCharts Audio example to Qt Graphs
** Preparing presentation and improvements to QtAsyncio
** Worked on PYSIDE-3092, issue regarding the collections import. However CI test failed unrelated to patch. Currently working on that.
** PYSIDE-2440 will be prepared.
** No new update on the error the OpenGL/OpenGLES libraries, for cross-compiling iOS and PySide6
** op codes changing in Python, is altering some of our internal implementation, like the forgiveness mode.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 planned work for the no-gil feature in Python 3.13
** smart pointers with lazy loading were not working, but a fix was merged.
** Qt Designer had a regression that motivated 6.7.2
** Qt 6.8 adaption taking a lot of work due to doc changes and QtGraphs
** PYSIDE-2772 issue ended up being a user problem


===30. May 2024===
=== 1. May 2025 ===


* General
* Labor day, no labor to report
** PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
** Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
* Infra & Releases
** Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
** PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
** Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
** qtpip is planned to support aarch64
** 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2766 PYSIDE-2766] - Android wheels from macOS successful. Patches for review.
*** Testing a sample app now + Modifying https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466
** 6.8 adaption is in progress [qtcharts is a bit unstable]
** c++20 research to improve libshiboken
** qtscrypt progressing to support signal/slot
** dev will support python 3.10+ [for 6.8+]
** PYSIDE-2767 pyi improvements.
** lazy init for nested types disrupted the smart pointer support.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2440 type hints optionallity is planned to be implemented.


===23. May 2024===
=== 24. April 2025 ===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
** 5.15.17 LTS released
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2749 PYSIDE-2749] Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2758 PYSIDE-2758] Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2762 PYSIDE-2762] Fixed a type hinting bug
** Brushed up and fixed a few examples
** 6.8 Adaption
** Python 3.13 check
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
** pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.
** Close to macOS cross compilation


===16. May 2024===
* General
* General
** QtWS talk approaching https://www.qt.io/qt-world-summit-2025
** We are evaluating the possibility to sponsor a couple of Python conferences!
** There will not be a Qt for Python session during QtCS
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
** 5.15.19 commercial LTS needs to go out next week, but we are investigating a few CI failures.
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
** 6.5.9 commercial LTS will be released tomorrow.
** 6.8 public branch is closed, moved to LTS
** Raising python version from 3.8 to 3.10 on a testing ci configuration.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
** Moving new qml integration support content from pyside-setup to the new repository.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
** Type hints patches to fix PYSIDE-3007 PYSIDE-3012 PYSIDE-3029 (related to the constructors of a few classes, and properties)
** Exclude .qsb, .webp, .cpp.o and .qen from deployment due to Nuitka error. Error report raised in Nuitka - https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2854
** PYSIDE-2352 iOS research: newer versions of Qt and Qt for iOS seems to fix a few issues we had while cross compiling. There is an issue with OpenGL support.
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
** PYSIDE-2221 continue free threading research: an open discussion for ownership issues that were solved in a way that needs confirmation. Stress testing the solutions to avoid thread inconsistency problems.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
** Cleaning up new bug reports
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
** PYSIDE-3067 newly discovered crash was fixed.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
** Utilities classes were submitted to avoid exceptions in some scenarios.
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
** PYSIDE-3066 enumerations not restored in QVariant. External contributed.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2620 PYSIDE-2620] - Adapting to 6.8
** PYSIDE-3061 Windows build issue.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2745 PYSIDE-2745] - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
** PYSIDE-3069 Graphics item crash still being investigated.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] - Lazy Loading completed by supporting subtypes. This gives 8-9% more performance.
** More and more costumer cases are popping up, meaning the usage of PySide is growing :)
** Support for Python 3.13 started - first compatibility before switching to disable-gil
** PYSIDE-3048 There is an enum issue with type hints that require them to be int. We are still discussing on what's the right solution.
** Possibilities explored to lazy load signatures or save space.


===2. May 2024===
=== 17. April 2025 ===


* General
* General
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
** Easter break, we will back on Tuesday :D
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
** qtpip new release planned, after changing the qt version to a previous one. There was an issue with SSL.
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
** qtpip: we might align the build/test configuration on the CI to be consistent with PySide
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
** Python 3.13 needs to be added to a CI configuration.
** We might add a special non-blocking configuration for Free threaded python
** Keeping in an eye on PEP751
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
** Cleaning up some of the latest bug reports.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
** Addressing the webengine issue for the yocto builds.
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
** PYSIDE-3061 Windows debug build failing on pyi generation
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
** 6.10 adaption in the horizon.
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
** Continue the disable-gil support
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
*** Checking the previous patches to see if they are still relevant, but it seems a few things changed.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676] - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
*** There seems to be an issue with calling super with arguments
** BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
** iOS support continues, the cross compilation process still has a few issues (QtCore).
*** Issue might require special hw
** There seems to be a few type hints issues that are still not fixed, due to not being too simple.
** Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
** Removing tomlkit dependency from pyside6-project
*** An internal presentation is being prepared.
** multilib support for yocto builds
** Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
** macOS cross compilation for android being tried


=== 10. April 2025 ===


===25. April 2024===
* General
* General
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
** Internal dry-run for our QtWS talk in a couple of weeks.
** We don't have a session for the Qt Contributor Summit
** We are looking forward to be around Akademy this year https://akademy.kde.org/
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.1
** Maintenance break last Monday left some issues in the CI
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
** PySide6_DS is missing from the qt org on pypi, will add later
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Added a number of new classes
** PYSIDE-3012 type hints: still working on the last issue.
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
** PYSIDE-3021 type hints: was fixed
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
** Continue the research on iOS support: still trying to cross compile pyside with a iOS python. Trying other deployment tools that could help us with the process. Dealing with the static/dynamic shiboken libs (static requirement from iOS)
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
** Planning to make Qt Python Scripting available.
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
** Addressing a couple of deployment issues
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
** Brainstorming and creating our presentation for QtWS
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
** Finalizing properties and tests for the new qml integrations.
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** PYSIDE-2221 continues: Testing different strategies to reach gil-less Thread Safety
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
*** - cannot simply replicate the GIL
** Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
*** - ongoing: automate the working bucket examples from nogil with cppgenerator
** Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
** QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
*** Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
*** Plan to improve exceptions handling
 
===18. April 2024===


=== 3. April 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Bug fixing week
** We are probably presenting at QtWS!
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
** Check our PyPI organization page: https://pypi.org/org/Qt/
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
** https://peps.python.org/pep-0751/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0768/
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
** There will be a local meetup in Berlin, where Shiboken will be mentioned and explained a bit https://www.meetup.com/pyberlin/events/306654979/
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
** 6.8.3 and 6.9.0 were released.
** 6.5.6 release planned
** Android wheels for 6.9.0 were generated differently for a CI NDK misconfiguration.
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
** Flatpak releases are waiting for the webengine flatpack update first.
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
** Adding property support for QML bridges
** QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
** Minor changes to the deployment tool, and qtpip
** PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
** Working on the presentation for QtWS
** PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
** Continue the research for iOS support, it seems there are a few issues with the other frameworks that support it.
** PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
*** Distributing apps on iOS is tricky, it requires a Dev account ($$), with a free account you can only upload the app with a cable for 7 days, and then it expires (We wonder what would happen with data)
*** first approach made things less effective
*** For uploading, you need to turn-on developer mode, which raises a message of "privacy being reduced"
*** The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
*** iPad applications seems to have the same behavior.
*** New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
** Might check https://github.com/benfogle/crossenv and https://github.com/beeware/mobile-forge
** 825 qml bug is still around
** PYSIDE-3059 was fixed
*** PYSIDE-2676 seems to be a new approach to fix it
** PYSIDE-3012 was updated with new suggestions
** A few customer bugs made it the bug fixing week.
** Free threading Python support continues PYSIDE-2221
** PYSIDE-2675 type discovery code, class inheritance
*** A few changes we had for nogil are not necessary anymore.
** QtAudio -> QAudio refactory
*** Our mandelbrot example didn't show a good performance. After discussion with CPython core devs, there was an issue on Python 3.13.{1,2} (not on 3.13.0) that made some slowness. (On M1 it was 8x faster, but now it was 4.3x, the speed lost causes are still in research)
** Virtual function compatibility to modify the signature (from typesystem)
*** https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/131989
** PYSIDE-2492 uic issues for Enum compatibility
*** More improvements for Python projects (import options)
** PYSIDE-2685 nan type definition
** Removing code from shiboken
** 6.8 Adaption already started
** PYSIDE-2689 sphinx directives doesn't seems to be compatible with the search context.


===11. April 2024===
=== 27. March 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Bug fixing week.
** A few comments on the state of the auto-generated documentation in our telegram group. We expect the community to help us by filing issues they find (per page) so we can try to address them.
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
** Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
** Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
** New epics with brainstorming ideas.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 was released, we found a couple of issues we are trying to solve, and 6.7.1 will soon be released due to a binary compatibility break, and other small breakage.
** Status of 6.8.3
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
*** Android NDK change is still updating. We might use some additional wheels for the release.
** QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
*** Flatpak update will be done as well.
** Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has  still some issues with the structure.  
** Status of 6.9.0
*** New NDK is already there, and the tests have succeed.
*** Branching 6.9.0 today/tomorrow after last changes
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
** PYSIDE-3054 settrace bug was addressed, it was more important and difficult that we thought. Even some extra time was added to the import phase due to the recursion.
** PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
** Leaving the handling of Exception aside for shiboken.
** PYSIDE-2669 designer issue
** Type hints issues are still being addressed.
** PYSIDE-2675 Addressing the lazy import issues that were found in 6.7.0
*** PYSIDE-3047 Debug option in Qt generates extra code in PySide, interfering with the wrappers. Function returns a qDebug rather than a QPolygon.
*** Studying the possible solution, but it needs to consider other cases as well.
*** Other issues were addressed PYSIDE-3050 PYSIDE-3055 PYSIDE-3056 PYSIDE-3058
*** the *-import handling seems to be related, and affecting the mro content, duplicating some entries.
** Research on project structures to be more compatible with Xcode
*** the type discovery handler might be related as well
** PYSIDE-3052 QMessageLogger and fix qInstallMessageHandler
** Still working on the qml 825 bug issues.
** Bumping the nuitka version we use for pyside-deploy (2.6.8)
** Docs on debugging QtQuick app on QtCreator was missing a reference to create a QQmlDebuggingEnabler globally.
** qtpip - download android commercial wheel shows wrong wheel name on stdout- being fixed.


===4. April 2024===
=== 20. March 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
** PyPI organizations accepted Qt!
** We heard about https://wheelnext.dev/ it seems some ideas could be beneficial.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
** A few issues in our CI in the last weeks (fixed now)
** Preparing for 6.7.0
** Qt 6.8.3 new snapshot coming
** Qt 6.9.0 (internal rc2 to test)
** We will move 'dev' to use Python 3.10+
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** Windows on ARM wheels are ready after a couple of issues (linking) were fixed.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** PYSIDE-3049 - Missing plugin for qmllint (fixed)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** QML Bridges: Working on properties.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums
** PYSIDE-3052 - QMessageLogger missing class (in progress)
** Working on merging the contributions on QtRemoteObjects
** PYSIDE-2854 - Support for [colocated objects|https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/632241] in shiboken (structs issue, might support c++ unions)
** PYSIDE-3040 GTK Theming issue with PySide install
** Qt 6.10 adaption continues
** Speed of overriding methods (previously cached) - new fix is improving the performance, but duck-punching was not properly working.
*** Can this be excluded from the caching?
** The list of new improvements for type hints keeps growing (which is good!) so many issues has been solved.
** We might need to find a solution for the implicit conversions we do (like qdatetime/py_datetime)
** Discussion about Optional and pointer arguments that have a default value.
** Some property types (public class variables) are missing type information


===28. March 2024===
=== 13. March 2025 ===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints


===21. March 2024===
* General
* General
** Ideas to improve the module.
** QtCS: We need to submit talks in case we want to attend.
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
** Tomorrow Python 3.14a6 will be released https://peps.python.org/pep-0745/
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
** 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.
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
** 6.9.0rc might be released tomorrow, which means PySide6 FF will be due.  
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
* Bugs & Features  
* Bugs & Features
** Many new type hints bugs being reported :)
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
** Smart pointers exclusion issues fixed (shiboken)
** PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
** Designer and Linguist tools fixes (External)
** Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
** Helping the remoteobject contributions to work better.
** QtRhi missing API provided
** Documentation checks and 6.10 adaption.
** Memory leak regression being worked out
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 Going back to the free threaded Python topic in PySide
** Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
*** Lots of changes since the previous attempt
** Android deployment and qml tool documentations
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3012 Kept working on the pep8 compatibility for type hints issues
** Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3034 trying to figure out to get type information from public variables
** Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3046 fixing type issues
** QAsyncio bug fixed
** Re-Starting research on iOS compatibility
** Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.
** QML Bridges: Slots registration is working now! new tests are being written.


===14. March 2024===
=== 6. March 2025 ===
* General
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
* Bugs & Features
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
** Lazy initialization got merged
*** New improvements might land in future versions
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
** Using new icons on the examples
** Testing libclang 18
** QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
** QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
** New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
** permission API changes got merge
** android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
** PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed


===07. March 2024===
* General
* General
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
** Jaime's internal presentation will be next Monday at 11am
** QtCS registration is up.
** Discussion on IPC options for Qt developers.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
** 6.9 Qt for Python FF happening next week.
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
** Windows on ARM deployment test failing.
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
** Remote object contributions are going well, and we might merge them for 6.9
** all deployment fixes are in.
** Binary size reduction research continued, but it seems we have reached the reduction we can, without touching the C++ side of our bindings.
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
** 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.
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
*** Removing object-inheritance in the pyi files
** Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
*** White-space around equal operators issue (default parameters)
** two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
** Update Widget Gallery example
** PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
** Changed to adapt std::chrono patches in shiboken (identify overloads and choose the better option)
** PYSIDE-2619 gentoo issue with a build
** Cleaning up some  bug reports, metamethod connection issue fixed.
** PYSIDE-2624 typing issue with '/' is being researched
** Addressing some coverity issues for Designer
** Qt Icon Teams issues were discovered
** Started 6.10 adaption.
** PYSIDE-2602 virtual function research on a special signature
** QML Next works continues.
** One regression related to the QObject.connect changes.
** 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.
===29. February 2024===
** Addressing new found QtCreator issues with the pyproject.toml compatibility.


=== 27. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Leap day!
** Windows on ARM improving
** Documentation changes
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
** 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
** 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
** General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, investigating removing redundant overloads
** PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, trying wrapper folding, needs massive reordering
** PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
** PYSIDE-3012 replacement of typing.Sequence by collections.abc.Sequence
** PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
*** Identified incompatibility with Python < 3.9.8 and Python < 3.10.1, fixed by small patch
** Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
*** First change finally done, needs series of further changes
** PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
** 6.10 adaption continues
** macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
** PYSIDE 2942 Slot type annotation fix
** Windows BTLE services crash
** QTBUG-132266 Checked the code on macOS that the user uploaded, no issues were found related to PySide or macOS.
** QIO-class are required for some new QAsyncio API using pipes
** Lazy loading moving forward, but still a few issues are around
*** A couple of shiboken tests seems to have outdated imports that are not helping.
*** shiboken compatibility types missing
** Typing issues being solved in order to improve the pyi quality


===22. February 2024===
=== 20. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
** QtWS possible participation
** QtCS has a priority of bringing more external contributors
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.2 was released!
** 6.9 RC February 28th (maybe postponed)
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction for virtual functions patch was merged
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** PYSIDE-3002 painted virtual functions solved (even though we had our own opinion about performance)
** 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.
** 3020 SignalInstance disconnect issue fixed
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
** Templates/snippets cleanup in the typesystem.
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
** 6.10 adaption continues
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
** QtCreator toml changes:
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
*** psyide6-project adaption to the latest changed related
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
** QtDS changes postponed (to be available in QtDS 4.8)
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.
** 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)


===15. February 2024===


=== 13. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Brainstorming session was held.
** Did you know Shiboken translates into "Death Sword"? 死某剣
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
** QtCS happening after QtWS in Munich in early May.
** Qt Design Studio integration (internal presentation) with Python to be prepared.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
** Windows on ARM research continues.
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
** QtDS wheels to be updated for the new release
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
** 6.9.0 RC by the end of the February.
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
** RTA testing initiative to be restart
** Evaluating scikit-core-build for replacing build_scripts/
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
** Flatpak issue was solved (cleanup)
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
** Brainstorming ideas for QML Next (preparing internal presentation)
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
** Android wheel names to be adapted https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/platform-compatibility-tags/#android
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
** Qt Creator finishing .toml support for Python Projects.
** pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
** Qt DS Python changes ready to be merged
** CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
*** Tutorial changes to be prepared
** Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.
** 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
===8. February 2024===
** 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
* General
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
** We went to FOSDEM and meet many PySide users!
** Commercial / LTS naming on the Installer.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
** Reviewing our branching policies. There is interest in branching pyside-setup sooner.
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
** We might need to move the Android wheels to PyPI (Probably from 6.9 on)
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
** Adding TOML support for Python projects in QtCreator
** singleShot patches merged
** TypeHints new reports, trying to get an idea of what's causing the errors
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
** Issues in Flatpak: updating version, checking a cleanup issue. Addressing dependencies issues for optional packages.
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
** QtQA internal scripting: Adapting an automatic wheel download.
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.
** 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)


===1. February 2024===
=== 30. January 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** no unity build discussion and checks
** Preparing 6.8.2
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
* 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.
** Size reduction [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] : Implemented code reuse for Python overrides of virtual functions
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on multiple inheritance, added more widgets
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
** Size reduction: PYSIDE-2701 Folding progress: We can now combine multiple foldings of the same function. This will bring some more reduction.
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
** Simplebrowser example updated
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
** adding imageviewer docs
** General documentation adjustments
=== 23. January 2025 ===
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
** Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
** Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
** Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues
 
 
===25. January 2024===


* General
* General
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
** [https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kconfig/-/jobs/2497118 KDE testing Qt betas and snapshots]
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
*** Should we update our Branching policy?
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
*** 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
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
** Windows on ARM configuration testing.
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
** 6.8.2 scheduled release next week, and branching will happen today.
** 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
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on Stable ABI support and multiple inheritance
** 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).
** [ext] 6.9 Designer release issues with macOS drag and drop + bug fixing
** 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).
** PYSIDE-2990 Slot Executed in Signal's Thread Even With Auto & QueuedConnection
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
*** People is getting the documentation from an outdated wiki page, which is causing new reports.
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
*** Wiki will be updated.
** Unity build some issues when building without.
** Size reduction: we generate a lot of code for parsing keyword arguments. The code was moved to libshiboken and the size was reduced 3%
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
*** Optimization reviews: it seems it's only the virtual functions, but not the actual bindings.
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
** Size reduction: Windows is giving some issues for special characters, which seems to be also present in Linux.
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
** Cross compiling and creating wheels with the new JNI classes bindings. Trying to test them in an emulator, found other issues.
** Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
** pyside6-deploy/project and DS changes integrating, hopefully they will be merged today \o/
** armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
** DS-only changes are still in review.
** 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
** TOML integration - continue research on adding new format for python projects
*** https://peps.python.org/pep-0690/ was rejected, but the idea can be implemented per-module
** QtGraphWidgets issue with yocto build was fixed.
** 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===
=== 16. January 2025 ===


* General
* 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
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
** 6.8.2 will be released on 23th January so far, so we expect providing the wheels in the following days.
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
** 3.13 on the CI still on-going.  
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
** 6.5.4 OSS released
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
*** It did built (and installed) for aarch64 and x86_64 but armv7a will be tried later on.
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
*** The main issue with this story was that it was bindings only for cross compiled pyside
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
** Exploring toml compatibilities within QtCreator
** Qt 6.7 adaption
** DS patches still needs review.
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
** Binary size work continues
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
*** 17% reduction so far, and this could be included in the future-features list.
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
*** Once is ready, we might provide an option to disable it to go back to the more readable wrapper code.
** Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
*** We might evaluate a template approach once the solution is out, to avoid maintaining regexes.
** PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
** Remote Object reviews ready in order to merge changes (only a few details)
** pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
** Qt Python Scripting
** Improvements to the doc build process
*** 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.


===11. January 2024===
=== 09. January 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Hackathon at TQtC
** FOSDEM 2025: Qt got a stand!
** CI process presentation
** Internal Hackathon going on.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
** https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/ got restructured and it's now very tidy
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
** Preparing 6.8.2
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
** 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
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** Tests with 3.13 on the CI
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2966 PYSIDE-2966] Disabled instantiating non-instantiable classes
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] Examples and tests were ported to use fully qualified enumerations
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
** Python Scripting continues (enable adding __repr__ functions)
** macOS request permission API work continues.
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
** 6.7 adaptions patches
*** We might try a few new configurations for adding this bindings.
** M2M fixes on the current impl
** Tutorial for Boot2Qt and PySide apps deployment
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
** Doc changes: adding comments for using uv
** favicon issue with out docs
** QML Next: still working on improved decorators for a smoother integration
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
** Qt Remote Objects: Big set of patches by external contributor
** Improvements for the doc build process
** Binary size reduction work continues with new ideas from other projects: folding, string handling, renaming, etc.
** Yocto builds issues with LLVM still not solved.
 
==2024==


===04.January 2024===
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2024]]
* General
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
** New OKR organization
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
** PyPy is now on 3.10
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
* Infra & Releases
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
** Android [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)
** Xcode issues with a new M3
** Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
* Bugs & Features
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
** async: the module is missing from our docs
** async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
** new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
** pyside6 designer pyenv crash was fixed
** pyside cmake module update crash was fixed
** working on the request permission API for macOS
** docs: free functions as separate section and other improvements
** Python scripting in c++ works continues
** PyPy 3.10 compatibility patches
** nogil: working again on a compatibility with PEP703
*** locking mechanism for our modules.
** Typing adjustments, we need '/' in our signatures due to not having keywords parameters.


==2023==
==2023==

Latest revision as of 14:08, 14 May 2025


2025

15. May 2025

  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.9.1
    • Released 6.5.9
  • Bugs & Features
    • Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt
    • PYSIDE-2193 QML property related crash fixed

8. May 2025

  • General
    • Team returned form QtWS
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.9.1
  • Bugs & Features
    • Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt Graphs
    • Add some functionality to shiboken to accommodate 6.10
    • Free threading research continues by running intense stress tests
    • Ported QtCharts Audio example to Qt Graphs
    • Worked on PYSIDE-3092, issue regarding the collections import. However CI test failed unrelated to patch. Currently working on that.
    • No new update on the error the OpenGL/OpenGLES libraries, for cross-compiling iOS and PySide6

1. May 2025

  • Labor day, no labor to report

24. April 2025

  • General
    • QtWS talk approaching https://www.qt.io/qt-world-summit-2025
    • We are evaluating the possibility to sponsor a couple of Python conferences!
    • There will not be a Qt for Python session during QtCS
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.19 commercial LTS needs to go out next week, but we are investigating a few CI failures.
    • 6.5.9 commercial LTS will be released tomorrow.
    • 6.8 public branch is closed, moved to LTS
    • Raising python version from 3.8 to 3.10 on a testing ci configuration.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Moving new qml integration support content from pyside-setup to the new repository.
    • Type hints patches to fix PYSIDE-3007 PYSIDE-3012 PYSIDE-3029 (related to the constructors of a few classes, and properties)
    • PYSIDE-2352 iOS research: newer versions of Qt and Qt for iOS seems to fix a few issues we had while cross compiling. There is an issue with OpenGL support.
    • PYSIDE-2221 continue free threading research: an open discussion for ownership issues that were solved in a way that needs confirmation. Stress testing the solutions to avoid thread inconsistency problems.
    • Cleaning up new bug reports
    • PYSIDE-3067 newly discovered crash was fixed.
    • Utilities classes were submitted to avoid exceptions in some scenarios.
    • PYSIDE-3066 enumerations not restored in QVariant. External contributed.
    • PYSIDE-3061 Windows build issue.
    • PYSIDE-3069 Graphics item crash still being investigated.
    • More and more costumer cases are popping up, meaning the usage of PySide is growing :)
    • PYSIDE-3048 There is an enum issue with type hints that require them to be int. We are still discussing on what's the right solution.

17. April 2025

  • General
    • Easter break, we will back on Tuesday :D
  • Infra & Releases
    • qtpip new release planned, after changing the qt version to a previous one. There was an issue with SSL.
    • qtpip: we might align the build/test configuration on the CI to be consistent with PySide
    • Python 3.13 needs to be added to a CI configuration.
    • We might add a special non-blocking configuration for Free threaded python
    • Keeping in an eye on PEP751
  • Bugs & Features
    • Cleaning up some of the latest bug reports.
    • Addressing the webengine issue for the yocto builds.
    • PYSIDE-3061 Windows debug build failing on pyi generation
    • 6.10 adaption in the horizon.
    • Continue the disable-gil support
      • Checking the previous patches to see if they are still relevant, but it seems a few things changed.
      • There seems to be an issue with calling super with arguments
    • iOS support continues, the cross compilation process still has a few issues (QtCore).
    • There seems to be a few type hints issues that are still not fixed, due to not being too simple.
    • Removing tomlkit dependency from pyside6-project
    • multilib support for yocto builds

10. April 2025

  • General
    • Internal dry-run for our QtWS talk in a couple of weeks.
    • We don't have a session for the Qt Contributor Summit
    • We are looking forward to be around Akademy this year https://akademy.kde.org/
  • Infra & Releases
    • Maintenance break last Monday left some issues in the CI
    • PySide6_DS is missing from the qt org on pypi, will add later
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-3012 type hints: still working on the last issue.
    • PYSIDE-3021 type hints: was fixed
    • Continue the research on iOS support: still trying to cross compile pyside with a iOS python. Trying other deployment tools that could help us with the process. Dealing with the static/dynamic shiboken libs (static requirement from iOS)
    • Planning to make Qt Python Scripting available.
    • Addressing a couple of deployment issues
    • Brainstorming and creating our presentation for QtWS
    • Finalizing properties and tests for the new qml integrations.
    • PYSIDE-2221 continues: Testing different strategies to reach gil-less Thread Safety
      • - cannot simply replicate the GIL
      • - ongoing: automate the working bucket examples from nogil with cppgenerator

3. April 2025

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.8.3 and 6.9.0 were released.
    • Android wheels for 6.9.0 were generated differently for a CI NDK misconfiguration.
    • Flatpak releases are waiting for the webengine flatpack update first.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Adding property support for QML bridges
    • Minor changes to the deployment tool, and qtpip
    • Working on the presentation for QtWS
    • Continue the research for iOS support, it seems there are a few issues with the other frameworks that support it.
      • Distributing apps on iOS is tricky, it requires a Dev account ($$), with a free account you can only upload the app with a cable for 7 days, and then it expires (We wonder what would happen with data)
      • For uploading, you need to turn-on developer mode, which raises a message of "privacy being reduced"
      • iPad applications seems to have the same behavior.
    • Might check https://github.com/benfogle/crossenv and https://github.com/beeware/mobile-forge
    • PYSIDE-3059 was fixed
    • PYSIDE-3012 was updated with new suggestions
    • Free threading Python support continues PYSIDE-2221
      • A few changes we had for nogil are not necessary anymore.
      • Our mandelbrot example didn't show a good performance. After discussion with CPython core devs, there was an issue on Python 3.13.{1,2} (not on 3.13.0) that made some slowness. (On M1 it was 8x faster, but now it was 4.3x, the speed lost causes are still in research)
      • https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/131989

27. March 2025

  • General
    • A few comments on the state of the auto-generated documentation in our telegram group. We expect the community to help us by filing issues they find (per page) so we can try to address them.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Status of 6.8.3
      • Android NDK change is still updating. We might use some additional wheels for the release.
      • Flatpak update will be done as well.
    • Status of 6.9.0
      • New NDK is already there, and the tests have succeed.
      • Branching 6.9.0 today/tomorrow after last changes
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-3054 settrace bug was addressed, it was more important and difficult that we thought. Even some extra time was added to the import phase due to the recursion.
    • Leaving the handling of Exception aside for shiboken.
    • Type hints issues are still being addressed.
      • PYSIDE-3047 Debug option in Qt generates extra code in PySide, interfering with the wrappers. Function returns a qDebug rather than a QPolygon.
      • Other issues were addressed PYSIDE-3050 PYSIDE-3055 PYSIDE-3056 PYSIDE-3058
    • Research on project structures to be more compatible with Xcode
    • PYSIDE-3052 QMessageLogger and fix qInstallMessageHandler
    • Bumping the nuitka version we use for pyside-deploy (2.6.8)
    • Docs on debugging QtQuick app on QtCreator was missing a reference to create a QQmlDebuggingEnabler globally.
    • qtpip - download android commercial wheel shows wrong wheel name on stdout- being fixed.

20. March 2025

  • General
    • PyPI organizations accepted Qt!
    • We heard about https://wheelnext.dev/ it seems some ideas could be beneficial.
  • Infra & Releases
    • A few issues in our CI in the last weeks (fixed now)
    • Qt 6.8.3 new snapshot coming
    • Qt 6.9.0 (internal rc2 to test)
    • We will move 'dev' to use Python 3.10+
  • Bugs & Features
    • Windows on ARM wheels are ready after a couple of issues (linking) were fixed.
    • PYSIDE-3049 - Missing plugin for qmllint (fixed)
    • QML Bridges: Working on properties.
    • PYSIDE-3052 - QMessageLogger missing class (in progress)
    • Working on merging the contributions on QtRemoteObjects
    • PYSIDE-2854 - Support for [colocated objects|https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/632241] in shiboken (structs issue, might support c++ unions)
    • PYSIDE-3040 GTK Theming issue with PySide install
    • Qt 6.10 adaption continues
    • Speed of overriding methods (previously cached) - new fix is improving the performance, but duck-punching was not properly working.
      • Can this be excluded from the caching?
    • The list of new improvements for type hints keeps growing (which is good!) so many issues has been solved.
    • We might need to find a solution for the implicit conversions we do (like qdatetime/py_datetime)
    • Discussion about Optional and pointer arguments that have a default value.
    • Some property types (public class variables) are missing type information

13. March 2025

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

6. March 2025

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

27. February 2025

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

20. February 2025

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


13. February 2025

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

6. February 2025

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

30. January 2025

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

23. January 2025

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

16. January 2025

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

09. January 2025

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

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