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==2024==
==2025==


=== 7. November 2024 ===
=== 24. July 2025 ===


* General
* General Topics
** QML next following up.
** New hire joined the team!
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.18 commercial LTS was released last Monday.
** CI Maintenance break coming (Monday)
** RC for 6.8.1 on Monday to test.
** Linux on ARM is now built on Ubuntu 24.04
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** __all__ new amend due to an improvement idea.
** Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3144 PYSIDE-3144], crash in shiboken's type system parser
** rich comparison operators support for the type hints.
** Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3137 PYSIDE-3137], warning in libpyside
** QWebEngineDesktopMediaRequest issue
** Research on supporting Python 3.14
** Qt Python Scripting: add support for shared pointers and solving refcount issues
** Windows build fails with the introduction of the Shiboken6Tools CMake package - invetigating
** Designer planned improvements for the VScode extension
** Updated samplebinding, widgetbinding, scriptableapplication to use the new CMake package instead of pyside_config.py
** Qt Python Scripting: Looking at containers
** Documentation of the using the new CMake function to call shiboken-generator
** Working on performance issues when overloading virtual functions
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3139 PYSIDE-3139], fixed missing optional returns.
*** Remarks on caching the whole method, they might cause issues.
** Handover documentation added however on pause until the changes are merged.
** doc fixes: references and links were needed.
** Started type hints documentation.
** On-boarding and catching up with the project
** Looking at a new examples to be ported
** QtCreator issue when setting it up with MSVC
** Cleaning up some old compatibility code (Python 2 times)
** Improvements on the macro/function usage for the Limited API compatibility.


=== 31. October 2024 ===
=== 17. July 2025 ===


* General
* General Topics
** Bug Fixing week
** Most of the team in vacation or in conferences
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15 integration was solved (Python 2 related) - 5.15.18 commercial LTS will be soon available.
** Closing a few CI related bugs.
** Debian 11 ARM configuration replaced by ubuntu 24.04
** Qt 6.8.1 by the end of next month
** SBOM changes will land in our repositories at some point
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Documentation improvements (nesting inner classes into some modules)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3138 PYSIDE-3138] - Creating a shiboken CMake package that enables the user to easily create Python bindings with CMake.
** doc: Adding a ad-hoc hack with a fake headline in order to get good search results
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3134 PYSIDE-3134] - The format parameter fixed from 'int' to 'str'.
** QPyS: Adapting for shared pointer
** iOS cross building for all modules completed, however the issue with shared libraries prevent to create widget application on an iOS device.
** Fixing the __all__ re-definition that we have in our PySide6/__init__.py
** Started adding the handover documentation to developer notes.
** Windows Debug Builds are showing a few issues


=== 24. October 2024 ===
=== 10. July 2025 ===


* General
* General Topics
** Planning to make QtPythonScripting out.
** One person from the team will attend EuroPython and PyCon Portugal.
** QMLNext planning continues.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.8.0.2 might go out soon considering the last issues that were discovered. Also to include the fix for the directory that made it incompatible with qtpip.
** 6.8.4 will go out tomorrow (most likely)
** 5.15.18 Commercial LTS will be released by the end of the month
** Testing a new package to include msvc dependencies, that might replace our current mechanism
** 3.13 CI configuration research continues
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** New maps demo is working.
** CMake patches broke debug build (and super project build) but the issues were fixed.
** Multimedia: Now we are using the plugins from the CI provisioning.
** Creating a CMake package for shiboken generator, to simplify our build dependencies for C++/Python or binding examples.
** Reproducible builds for yocto.
** Moving forward with the iOS research
** 6.8.0 regression from the re-write of the signal&slot mechanism.
*** Cross compiling pyside6 is still in progress but with more progress
** 'QPyS' (QtPythonScripting) work continues.
*** currently there are a few issues with libclang
*** Ownership will not be an issue, because objects will live in C++.
*** OpenGL issues are back, but they are caused by a different thing
*** smart pointers support are required for a QtC integration
** PYSIDE-3134 predefined characters for the QString format behavior discussion
*** From lua: they do have a way of use different pointers for the variables.
** PYSIDE-3132 crash related to item delegates was fixed
*** be careful with dynamic_cast
** PYSIDE-3133 keyword argument issue was fixed
*** A sub-set of classes are exposed to lua only, so we might follow a similar approach.
** Example icon library was removed
*** Documentation is being updated
** Splitting the nogil patches in order to granularize the solution.
** Updates to the new tutorials (PySide + other Python modules)
** PYSIDE-2938 msvc runtime dependencies still in progress, doing tests. Reverting an old file to avoid packaging the CI host machine files (they are now outdated)
** qtpip research on a staging option
** PYSIDE-3135 discussion on a regression affecting typing.Self
** VSCode extension: discussions on the PySide integration for the recently announced addon.
** iOS cross building from shiboken, tweaking the code a bit
** PYSIDE-2895 __all__ reproducible builds for Yocto
** Split AsyncIO patches for adding support little by little, but there are still tests that are not working. We need interested people to contribute to these fixes.
** PYSIDE-2903 issues with '# type:' in the stubs
** Reviewing existing type hints issues
** PYSIDE-2846 Adding documentation for the mypy support
** build script assessment before trying scikit-build-core


=== 17. October 2024 ===
=== 3. July 2025 ===
* General
** 6.8.0.1 is fully compatible with Python 3.13.0, but the meta info of the wheels was wrong.
** New intern joined the company, and will be helping with QtDS + Qt for Python integration
* Infra & Releases
** PySide 6.5.7 (commercial LTS) and 6.8.0 (6.8.0.1) were released
** 6.4.0 release was removed from PyPI (due to the existence of 6.4.0.1)
** qtpip 0.1.4 was released
** Maintenance break in our CI: a few security changes were applied and we have new restrictions regarding the installation of other repositories
** New limits will be requested to PyPI
** Symbolic links in the macOS wheels are being copied a couple of times and not preserved.
** libclang in our provisioning increased size, so we need to double check the wheel size.
** Multimedia plugins on Windows are being copied to the wheel, they might be copied from install directly.
* Bugs & Features
** Finished the mypy checks and adding tests, hopefully merged soon.
*** in-place asymmetry seems to be an issue with some signatures.
** PYSIDE-2891 32bit builds where broken, even if they are not supported it was addressed
** PYSIDE-2893 6.8.0 doc regression was fixed
** PYSIDE-2804 Custom enumerations in Qt Designer (not possible)
** Qt 6.9 adaption in progress
** OpenStreetMap demo being ported
** Qt Scripting polishing a bit further
** PYSIDE-2835 closed issue wrt sql+nuitka that broke after a new nuitka release.
** Continue work on the Finances tutorial
** pyside6-deploy command line simplification in progress


=== 10. October 2024===
* General Topics
* General
** Planning on some new tutorials or demos, and examples https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-136955
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.8
** macOS issue on setting the virtual environment was fixed
** Preparing 6.5.7
** 3.13 to be enabled soon
** 6.8.4 commercial LTS is the next release.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2885 PYSIDE-2885] Fix build against  read-only Qt
** 64bit enumeration was implemented
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2883 PYSIDE-2883] Fix incomplete/undocumented QtWebEngine API
** signals and threads clarification (and docs)
** Last minute fixes for 6.8, new QtWebEngine API
** Qt Python Scripting cleanup
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
** Free threading Python changes, threads sanitizer on windows for testing. Few new crashes on linux were discovered, most things work but our stress test is failing.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2850 PYSIDE-2850] More work on the Finance Manager Tutorial
** 3132 Item delegate crash was fixed, and other minor bugs.
** pyside6-android-deploy fix for 6.8.0, and adding a new option to cross-compile tool to just download Android NDK and SDK.
** Finalizing pending QtDS tutorial
** Update pyside6-android-deploy documentaion.
** Addressing some warnings from pyside6-deploy (qrc files)
** pyside6-deploy: Nuitka bumped to 2.7.1
** CMake changes: updating the C++ binding related examples (where header files are in use)
*** This might affect Python/C++ code from many existing applications (documenting it)
** scikit-core compat changes
*** Investigate outsource builds
*** passing all our parameters to it


=== 3. October 2024===
=== 26. June 2025 ===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing for 6.8
* Bugs & Features
** Various documentation fixes
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
** Porting further C++ demos
** pyside6-deploy support for design studio
** qtpip support for Android wheels
** Update flatpak baseapp to 6.7.3


=== 26. September 2024===
* General Topics
 
** We need to catch up with the notes about some of the on-going processes: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/652346
* General
** Future discussion on new Python Courses for Qt Academy
** Python Scripting: We might need to figure out ownership in order to embed into other C++ apps.
** DS integration: workaround to deploy with the following version (with no other python files) but there has been work on improving it for the next release.
** Intern starting on Oct 1st
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.3 (waiting for qt release)
** CI: Fail to create env problem is still around (seems to be machine-related) - we could disable that config.
** Commercial LTS 6.5.7 to be released soon (changelog pending to be merged)
** uv research still pending.
** qtpip 0.1.3 to be released soon.
** 3.13 configs still pending.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Updating and completing documentation
** Free threading
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2870 PYSIDE-2870] fixed (QStateMachine.postEvent causes a crash)
*** The current researched approach with our own lock is not the best solution for PySide.
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
*** We have proof other people not picking this approach, and go with a sub-interpreter one: https://discuss.python.org/t/is-free-threading-our-only-option/91775
** pyside6-deploy changes for QtDS projects + corresponding changes in upcoming DS releases (needs work by DS team)- https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592554
*** A different approach might be needed
** qtpip adaptation for newer pip versions + commercial wheel preference over lts wheels
*** Our current testing infra is not enough to simply write tests for nogil python, and many hiccups have been found.
** Finance Manager Tutorial - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592131
*** Some tests cannot be replicated after some issues, so the nondeterministic behavior is a big challenge.
** Type hints: Analysis for multi-signature problem (overloads). 600 errors -> 46 ! (from mypy)
** Qt AsyncIO notes
*** override: inheritance issue with specific fields
*** A few ideas on how to finish the implementation was shared
*** overload/overlap: diff return types
*** The TCP protocol was initially implemented
*** some dunder methods might need special treatment.
*** New tests were provided to continue the development in the future (using an asyncio event loop)
** Some small tutorial to debug Python and C++, might need a follow-up
** Qt Creator discussion with people using old PySide versions, and using the new pyproject.toml approach.
** Cross building support on shiboken
*** yocto was not affected
*** we might need to check if iOS works
** PYSIDE-3095 small fix to pyside6-project
** Qt Python Scripting
*** Small internal API review
*** Cleanup
** To catch-up with the cmake improvements to our build system (orthogonal to the scikit-core research)
*** this will allow us to properly have the module as projects configures to be find them.
*** In the future, we will simplify our CMakeLists.txt for hybrid applications, a lot!
** iOS research continues
*** Cross compiling is still an issue due to the shared/static
*** OpenGL issue has a workaround, but still researching on the underneath
*** Waiting for shiboken to have compatibility with cross compiling to check if it works.


=== 19. September 2024===


* General
** Promoting the idea of writing Python plugins for Qt/C++ interfaces.
*** we most probably rely on libshiboken for having consistency in the PythonScripting module and PySide
** Participation in Meeting C++
** PyCon Sweden participation
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.13 Commercial LTS was released
** qtpip update to be release in order to fix a few wheel names issues.
** Preparing for 6.8.0, and 6.7.3
** PySide6_DS 4.6 by the end of September
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2839 type hints for custom signals
** PYSIDE-2846 Fixing a lot of type errors from examples and tests
*** Currently on one of the last big issues related to overloads, optional unions, false-positives
** 6.7.3, 6.8.0 changelogs
** Python 3.13 checks and fixing compatibilities
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
** PYSIDE-2863 lupdate issue
** PYSIDE-2845 snake_case conflict with C++ API
** Fixing examples deprecations
** Updating generated UI files
** Working on a new tutorial to mix PySide with other Python modules
** qtpip fixing resolution for naming and JSON new structure
** QMLNext research continues


=== 12. September 2024===
=== 19. June 2025 ===
* General
* General Topics
** Team back from Qt Contributor summit
** Possible marketing support for the project
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.3
** Research on enable 3.13 via pyenv continue
** Preparing 6.2.13
** To investigate errors while creating venvs
** Starting to switch to 6.8
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Release Notes in documentation change read. Could be targeted for 6.8.
** QtWidgets apps on iOS still in research
** Currently working on a QtQuick Finance-Manager tutorial using PySide6 as frontend, and FastApi + Pydantic + SqlAlchemy as backend. This will be a 4 part tutorial with each part extending the previous one.  
*** Some issues with the qt libraries, duplicate symbols.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
*** Some discussion with others about shared/static libraries for iOS (Qt doesnt' seems to be able to work properly) - shared libs for iOS task is not prioritized yet.
*** Good progress in different error categories. Crucial was to make defaults hashable.
** CMake discussion to enable Qt Bridges from the PySide build system.
*** First removal of duplications was quite effective. More difficult removals are "same type, different variable name" etc.
*** The problem is our current build structure, where we build shiboken first and then pyside patching paths.
*** Overlapping signatures need a deep analysis. From 601 errors down to 294.
*** We might introduce an option to enable this configuration.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2859 PYSIDE-2859] Implemented QAbstractItemModel::multiData/QModelRoleDataSpan
** Add QtMultimedia libraries (libav*) to the android wheels.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2861 PYSIDE-2861] Fixed pyside6-project with relative paths for lupdate
** Documenting more open research topics (QtAsyncIO, Disable GIL, Debugging, Class properties, PyPy) and maybe more.
** Fixed some compiler warnings/clang-tidy
** Fix enumeration issues in Qt Designer
** libxst issues at build time were addressed
** Research: cross build for shiboken to recognize targets PYSIDE-3105. To support both approaches
*** <code>list(APPEND shiboken_command "--platform=${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}" "--arch=${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR}" "--compiler-path=${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER}")}</code>
*** <code>list(APPEND shiboken_command "--clang-option=--target="aarch64-none-linux-android"" "--compiler-path=${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER}")</code>


=== 05. September 2024===
=== 12. June 2025 ===
* General
* General Topics
** Team mostly at QtCS
** QtDS Tutorial still pending
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Starting to switch to 6.8
** RTA discussion on PySide
** SBOM research pending, but will be addressed
** Evaluating using 3.13 in some of our CI nodes
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Fixed a potential memory corruption in enum converter generation
** Newly discovered missing dll/so on android wheels (libav* from ffmpeg)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2851 PYSIDE-2851] Tricky bug with @Slot(name=) no working. Still investigating.  
** Flatpak baseapp is now shipping tools (after users requests)
** Adapting deployment and other things to 6.8. Some existing bugs and ToDo were solved.
*** Waiting for the webengine baseapp to be merged
** Working on creating a "Release Notes" page in Qfp documentation parsing from 'doc/changelogs'
** Alexandru helping with some CMake changes we are trying to incorporate into pyside, in order to improve the discoverability of the installed packages.
** Competitor research for potential new features
** iOS research
*** Small Qt application is working at the moment (QTimer log example)
*** shiboken python module works.
*** QtGui and QtWidgets needs special handling from iOS side
*** Trying the XCode simulator (to avoid usage of the physical device) - architecture issues when built (mismatch on intel/apple silicon)
*** Note from android: there was a missing opengl component, that needed to be added.
** Started to documenting a few of the on-going initiatives/patches.
*** Disable GIL, QtAsyncIO, etc
** Regression 6.9.1 - QGraphicsView that was fixed
** ActiveQt issues lead to discovering that we could use the meta object in order to enable Enums on Qt Designers
** Discussion about Enum declared within a Python class, and declaring properties with that on the same class (python limitation)
** Planning on maybe adapting shiboken for easy cross build functionalities.


=== 29. August 2024===
=== 5. June 2025 ===
* General
* General Topics
** Continue discussion on a better qml integration
** Bug Fixing week
* Bugs & Features
** KDE Akademy 2025 - We hope to be there!
** Added pyside6-svgtoqml - 6.8
** Checking other events we might participate.
** Added missing binaries to 6.8. This include some QtQuick modules.
** Checking out wheelnext: https://wheelnext.dev/
** Deprecated ToDo fixed in pyside6-deploy
** Should we really go full on Free threaded Python? https://discuss.python.org/t/is-free-threading-our-only-option/91775
** Updated Nuitka version to 2.4.8
** Code Design simplification of pyside6-deploy
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2835 PYSIDE-2835] - error message setup in pyside6-deploy. Issue raised in Nuitka.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
*** Reformatted helper functions in generate_pyi with class methods
*** Changed all typing classes to have prefix "typing" against name clashes (tricky)
*** Started systematic fixture of errors: 533 in 7 categories (was 601 before prefix). Seeking general fixture algorithms.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] Add a Benchmark batch script to measure progress
 
=== 22. August 2024===
* General
** Bug fixing week
** uv release 0.3.0 https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging
** Tag strings https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-750-tag-strings-for-writing-domain-specific-languages/60408
** discussion related to spy
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2 issue with ".commercial" tag on the wheels
** 6.9.1 and 6.5.9 were released.
** dev will switch to 6.8.0 when the branch is ready.
** Discussion about release practices for a commercial customer (medical)
*** How should we proceed with SBOMs? Will be tested in some time.
*** Qt-Security annotation for critical code https://contribute.qt-project.org/quips/23
**** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-135177
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2786 Finished the 3.10 patch to support the new syntax for the pyi files.
** PYSIDE-3187 std::optional handling from new qt api (having an intrinsic type rather than a separate one)
** Enabling a process to test pyi with mypy
** Trying QRangeModel for some Python examples. (new api in 6.10)
** Flatpak documentation was merged
** Adapting to 6.10
** Typing issue related to QByteArray.fromRawData
** Virtual Keyboard issue: missing files for plugins issue was fixed
** QtDS integration continues
** PYSIDE-3112 android deployment issue
**  
** Finishing the CMake config files for shiboken/pyside in order to get more options once it's installed. This might help us simplifying use cases like scriptableapplication.
** Updated flatpak package, and a new issue related to missing tools.
** iOS research
*** Managed to embed Python in an iOS application
*** there seems to be an issue with linking between so files
*** dynamics libs are needed, but removing a few .so files PySide is not recognized. When removing the frameworks ones, another issue appear, when having them both, there is also an issue.
*** We might need to re-think the OpenGL finds for iOS patches
** QtCreator wizard uses pyproject.toml


=== 15. August 2024===
=== 29. May 2025 ===
* General
* General Topics
** Bug fixing weekS (2 weeks)
** Planning for future work on QtDS
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Fixing an issue to properly discover the installed WebEngine
** Preparing 6.9.1, 6.5.9
** Note: 6.5 aarch64 releases are only around for PySide, not Qt/C++.
** Further work adapting to 6.10, QRangeModel renamed from QGenericItemModel
** Continue work on libclang pre-built on windows arm64
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2833 Doc changes: qml tutorials, re-gen docs to fix
** Investigating improving support for std::optional [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3107 PYSIDE-3107]
** Updated Qt Python Scripting (QtPyScript? name to be confirmed)
** Progressing with shipping CMake configs with PySide6 and Shiboken6 wheels. Trickly resolving install time and packaging configuration. Had to resort to patch the CMake configs before packaging.
** 6.7.3 changelog preparation
** QPropertyAnimation constructor annotations fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3012 PYSIDE-3012]
** Adjusting branches, because of missing patches.
** Continued work on XCode and library binding, minor problems with Python libraries and trying to integrate PySide6 libraries.
** pyi: fixing more issues
** PYSIDE-2221: Status report is in progress for potential handover.
** research on improving the qml + python interaction
** PYSIDE-769:  
*** Integration and activation of QtAsync tests into the test framework.
*** First implementation of a TCP transport; server tests are working.


=== 8. August 2024===
=== 22. May 2025 ===
* General
* General Topics
** Talk accepted for KDE Akademy: "Pythonizing Qt"
** Some updates from PyConUS
** Qt Contributor summit session to work with people from the Squish team.
** Qt Bridges: We might participate at Akademy
** An intern will most probably join the team.
** Qt Bridges: We got an accepted talk https://ndctechtown.com/
** Qt WS: Talk recording might be delayed to be public.
** PyCon IT: Going there to give a talk
** Windows on ARM is getting more attention from other companies.
*** There is currently an issue with OpenGL (not being in Qt, hence not in Qt for Python)
*** FreeCAD requires opengl for some reason :S
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** PySide6_DS will remain being available only for Windows/Linux x86_64 and macOS universal, no aarch64 for Linux
** 5.15.19 commercial LTS was released
** Research continues on Windows arm64
** 6.9.1 postponed by a regression
** 6.5.9 still pending (security fix)
** We might evaluate uv for CI
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2384 Enum as Sequences issues on Python 3.11
** We will work on being more compatible with uv (shiboken issue finding dlls)
** Signal Manager massive refactoring
** iOS research: managed to cross compile the project, but there seems to be an issue still when trying to use it from XCode side of things. We might need to try the setup.py approach rather than CMake.
** qmlimportscanner new option to exclude directories (for our tooling)
** API deprecations that needs to be handle: missing functions on the typesystem and in some test cases. QtXml (QDomDocument) missing new function needs to be added as well (overload issue). Some works needs to be done in the examples as well.
** PYSIDE-2833 loadFromModule should be used for QML projects
** Thoughts on limiting the disable gil solution that we have at the moment. There has been a lot of crashes and issues by implementing our own locking mechanism.
** Fixes in the documentation
** QtAsyncIO has been brought up in some community discussions, so we might work more on this. There are many NotImplemented issues around, that would be good to have.
** 6.8 adaption
** Qt Python Scripting: Aiming for 6.11, and to find a place to distribute it. Due to the limitation of virtual functions, it's mostly about doing a bit of scripting on top of the Qt/C++ applications. Does it justify it to be a new Qt module? maybe we could use Qt solutions. We need another person to check the API, to have a second opinion.
** Create the KDE documentation for using the PySide BaseApp for Flatpak (on review)
*** There are some ideas of virtual-function override from pybind11, but then we would require shiboken ownership mechanisms, that will increase dependencies (and size)
** Improving the documentation, getting ideas from other frameworks/projects. We will try to keep old links working with some alias, and fixing many broken links.
*** Release process of qt-modules is strict.
** Continue fixing pyi issues
** PYSIDE-2193 variance in QML Properties. QVariant/PyObjects issues were found and fixed.
** Discussion on the next steps on the QtDS integration
** Got interest of doing RTA internally, that's generating more reports.
** CMake relocation files shipping that are not being included anymore (headers or cmake files), but got required by Qt Bridges.
** New cmake variables are being required for Qt Bridges.
** Message handler changes are still pending for CI issues.


=== 2. August 2024===
=== 15. May 2025 ===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** 6.8, 6.7.3 preparations
** "Qt Design Studio components for PySide6" wheels are now available from pypi.org. https://pypi.org/project/PySide6-DS/
* Bugs & Features
** Some pyi issues were fixed ( [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2788 PYSIDE-2788], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2752 PYSIDE-2752] )
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2814 PYSIDE-2814] Deployment: spaces can now be used in extra_args
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2828 PYSIDE-2828] Updated tutorials
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2820 PYSIDE-2820] Fixed Opaque containers to work with QML
** Some refactoring of the PySide's signal handling
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2825 PYSIDE-2825] Added QtWebView
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2630 PYSIDE-2630] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2794 PYSIDE-2794]  pyside6-deploy issue related to filling QML files from venv is fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2806 PYSIDE-2806] Fixed app name issue for pyside6-deploy
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2785 PYSIDE-2785] Fixed site-packages issue for pyside6-deploy
** Cleanup and added missing modules to flatpak. Still need review. The corresponding patches are merged in pyside-setu - https://github.com/pyside/io.qt.PySide.BaseApp/pulls
** Added README to PySide flatpak recipe. Needs review - https://github.com/pyside/io.qt.PySide.BaseApp/pulls
** Working on updating the KDE PyQt documentation to also target PySide
** Added minibrowser WebView example


=== 25. July 2024===
* General
** Plan with some brainstorming ideas from last session.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** tqtc/dev branch still broken. Waiting for Finland to come back from vacation :D
** Preparing 6.9.1
** DS wheels still need to be tested
** Released 6.5.9
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** arm64 shiboken generator not properly working (libclang)
** Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt
** flatpak support: patch was merged, and there were a couple of issues that have a possible fix. After that, the KDE documentation will be modified in order to offer the option for users to use PySide as well.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2193 PYSIDE-2193] QML property related crash fixed
** scikit-build research
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3098 PYSIDE-3098] NumPy problem with Sequence/Iterable conflict in 6.10 solved
** signature compression research: dealing with some last details.
** qinstallmessagehandler refcount issue fixed
*** fullname field, and compression of the strings.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3078 PYSIDE-3078] QInputDialog get methods accept None as parent.
** no-gil research will re-start next month, in order to address the new changes from cpython
** Cross-compile iOS and PySide6 is done. Now the test phase.
** Type hints issues being worked out.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 PYSIDE-2221] Free threading research continues.
*** disable-gil first tiny progress in bug hunting. Shiboken Cyclic test works now
*** Result used for generating locks in PySide constructors
*** still a few timeout errors and others


=== 8. May 2025 ===


=== 18. July 2024===
* General
* General
** We got a talk accepted at Akademy 2024.
** Team returned form QtWS
** September 11th is the limit to submit features for PySide 6.8.0
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Flaky macOS failures were addressed
** Preparing 6.9.1
** PySide6 Design Studio wheels to be tested
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
** Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt Graphs
*** LZMA compression moved to ZLIB and C++. Compression on Windows 8.7 %, macOS 4.7 %
** Add some functionality to shiboken to accommodate 6.10
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind continues.
** Free threading research continues by running intense stress tests
*** Overlap with PYSIDE-2404: Startup time optimization of ZLIB compression almost ready.
** Ported QtCharts Audio example to Qt Graphs
** Finding some use-cases from PySide users during EuroPython.
** Worked on PYSIDE-3092, issue regarding the collections import. However CI test failed unrelated to patch. Currently working on that.
** Flatpak recipes are ready to be tested, meaning projects relying on flatpak (like KDE) will be able to use PySide in their builds :D
** No new update on the error the OpenGL/OpenGLES libraries, for cross-compiling iOS and PySide6
** macOS multimedia missing plugins.
** QtWebView might be added for completeness.
** Feedback from EuroPython: More tutorials, and examples with applied cases, rather than too basic or too advanced ones.


=== 11. July 2024===
=== 1. May 2025 ===
* General
** Two members of the team at Europython
* Bugs & Features
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
*** An LZMA compressor has been written in Python and C++ with 4.5% win.
*** Reimplementation in C++ only is even easier. (when considered worth it)
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind implementation
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2803 PYSIDE-2803] - qmlimportscanner and Windows cmd line length limitation
** Refactoring and cleanup of the Signals/Slot handling code
** Added missing libraries for the QtMultiMedia ffmpeg plugin on macOS


===4. July 2024===
* Labor day, no labor to report
* General
** Next week, two members of the team will be at Europython
** Don't forget QtWS 2025 submissions (Until first days of August)
** We might get the help from an intern.
* Infra & Releases
** LTS Open Source release is out for 6.2.9 (sources)
** QtDS packages are generated now in the CI
** Improvements in https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/
* Bugs & Features
** Fixed PYSIDE-2790: Implemented task "uncancelling" and cancel count mechanism
** Fixed PYSIDE-2799: Turns out cancelling handles when cancelling tasks can cause issues
** PYSIDE-2798 might not be (easily) fixable entirely
*** Qt and asyncio collide when Qt shuts everything down too early for asyncio's liking, e.g. when closing the window.
*** Setting keep_running=True is probably a suitable workaround.
** Submitted cherry-picks to 6.7 for a number of changes (mostly QtAsyncio) where the pick-to line was forgotten
** PYSIDE-2701 activities:
*** implemented removal of the fullName field
*** started implementation of common function end replacement
*** started work on SignatureStrings compression with LZMA
** PYSIDE-2793 (PYSIDE-1057) Memory leak in slot connection. Some were fixed, but there is still one that's very old (PYSIDE-79)
** singleShot newly added signature has some complications when disconnected
** NumPy 2.0 compatibility patches were merged.
** Signal Handling research and review
** PYSIDE-2192 Input hook handling (for matplotlib) was addressed thank to some suggestion.
** PYSIDE-2805 Suggestion overload QMessageBox.open for passing a new slot.
** 6.8 Adaption continues.
** PYSIDE-2803 support bug on windows with pyside6-deploy command too long
** Flatpak: shiboken is building, but pyside has some issues still.
** Research on windows arm64
** Testing DS packages


===27. June 2024===
=== 24. April 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Python language summit blog posts.
** 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
** Android wheels configuration is running OK.
** 5.15.19 commercial LTS needs to go out next week, but we are investigating a few CI failures.
** Feature freeze for 6.8 on September 11 (for Qt/C++ RC release)
** 6.5.9 commercial LTS will be released tomorrow.
** Tweaks for the Qt for Python deployment internal guide for Raspberry Pi.
** 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
** QtDS: packages ready to go out after CI configuration.
** Moving new qml integration support content from pyside-setup to the new repository.
** QtDS: export option within the tool planned in 2 weeks.
** Type hints patches to fix PYSIDE-3007 PYSIDE-3012 PYSIDE-3029 (related to the constructors of a few classes, and properties)
** qmlnext: the issue with the example task was find and solved.
** 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-2786 Preparation (future statement) of new syntax for Python 3.9
** 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.
*** then checkin of deferred 3.10 changes was done.
** Cleaning up new bug reports
** PYSIDE-2701 activities:
** PYSIDE-3067 newly discovered crash was fixed.
*** Removal of generated fullname field (in progress)
** Utilities classes were submitted to avoid exceptions in some scenarios.
*** Further analysis of possible folding savings
** PYSIDE-3066 enumerations not restored in QVariant. External contributed.
*** Revived the 2019 PySide 2 comparison viewer
** PYSIDE-3061 Windows build issue.
** PYSIDE-2795 FreeCAD problem was solved.
** PYSIDE-3069 Graphics item crash still being investigated.
** PYSIDE-2792 Nested class QMetaObject::Connection (for custom Connection classes)
** More and more costumer cases are popping up, meaning the usage of PySide is growing :)
** 6.8 QtGraph examples. The module keeps changing.
** 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.
** PYSIDE-2793 memory leak on modbus client.
** Nuitka upgrade 2.3.7: issues with Python 3.12 were fixed.
** Some new issues and limitations on the android ci conf (building python from source)
** Flatpak task continues, and people from KDE is involved in the discussion.
** pyside6-deploy support case with command line length limitations
** PYSIDE-2790 Few new bug reports related to QtAsyncio: uncancel not implemented.
** QtAsyncio cancel errors are not propagated.


===20. June 2024===
=== 17. April 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Interviews going on for a new position and internship.
** Easter break, we will back on Tuesday :D
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.2 was released last Tuesday
** qtpip new release planned, after changing the qt version to a previous one. There was an issue with SSL.
** QtDS package is currently awaiting approval from the team.
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** Android wheels patch integrating. Windows signing issue hopefully fixed.  
** Cleaning up some of the latest bug reports.
** PYSIDE-2781 - Nuitka sporadic failure with Python 3.12. Collaborating with Kay, and with help from ctismer, the issue is fixed. Was caused due to bytecode handling of Nuitka.
** Addressing the webengine issue for the yocto builds.
** PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak progressing. Discussion with QtCreator led to the impression that an Flatpak extension would be better than Flatpak Baseapp.
** PYSIDE-3061 Windows debug build failing on pyi generation
*** This enable PySide6 to be bundled with the QtCreator flatpak app
** 6.10 adaption in the horizon.
** Follow-up patches from the internal QtAsyncio presentation.
** Continue the disable-gil support
** There are two functions in asyncio that are not properly documented.
*** Checking the previous patches to see if they are still relevant, but it seems a few things changed.
** Type hints:
*** There seems to be an issue with calling super with arguments
*** Discussion about updating the generator, in order to use 3.10+ notation (even if we are compatible with 3.9). Possibility to use 'from __future__ import annotations'
** iOS support continues, the cross compilation process still has a few issues (QtCore).
** PYSIDE-2701 - Binary reduction approach ideas
** There seems to be a few type hints issues that are still not fixed, due to not being too simple.
** QtDS exporting python files will be started soon.
** Removing tomlkit dependency from pyside6-project
** Improved QML integration being studied.
** multilib support for yocto builds
 


===13. June 2024===
=== 10. April 2025 ===


* General
* 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.
** Internal dry-run for our QtWS talk in a couple of weeks.
*** 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.
** We don't have a session for the Qt Contributor Summit
*** Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
** We are looking forward to be around Akademy this year https://akademy.kde.org/
** 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.
** Maintenance break last Monday left some issues in the CI
** Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
** PySide6_DS is missing from the qt org on pypi, will add later
** 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.
** PYSIDE-3012 type hints: still working on the last issue.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2702 PYSIDE-2702] - Flatpak base app implementation started.
** PYSIDE-3021 type hints: was 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.
** 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)
** Working on improve our typing implementations.
** Planning to make Qt Python Scripting available.
** QtAsyncio: internal presentation including the theory behind and some live examples.
** Addressing a couple of deployment issues
** Lazy load: disabled for PyPy, fixing some shiboken-tests
** Brainstorming and creating our presentation for QtWS
** QtScrypt: development continues
** Finalizing properties and tests for the new qml integrations.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2780 PYSIDE-2780] refcount bug in the lazy import fixed
** PYSIDE-2221 continues: Testing different strategies to reach gil-less Thread Safety
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] 3.13 compatibility patches are ready, nogil under development
*** - cannot simply replicate the GIL
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] reduction of binary sizes under investigation, estimating the achievable reduction
*** - ongoing: automate the working bucket examples from nogil with cppgenerator
 
===06. June 2024===


=== 3. April 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
** We are probably presenting at QtWS!
** PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
** Check our PyPI organization page: https://pypi.org/org/Qt/
** Must read https://peps.python.org/pep-0741/
** https://peps.python.org/pep-0751/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0768/
** 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
** Some issues with the macOS CI units.
** 6.8.3 and 6.9.0 were released.
** Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
** Android wheels for 6.9.0 were generated differently for a CI NDK misconfiguration.
** qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
** Flatpak releases are waiting for the webengine flatpack update first.
** 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
** Adding property support for QML bridges
** Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
** Minor changes to the deployment tool, and qtpip
** 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)
** Working on the presentation for QtWS
** Patches ready for updating python syntax to drop typing.Optional (and use | instead) that will go in once we drop 3.9
** Continue the research for iOS support, it seems there are a few issues with the other frameworks that support it.
** Preparing presentation and improvements to QtAsyncio
*** 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)
** PYSIDE-2440 will be prepared.
*** For uploading, you need to turn-on developer mode, which raises a message of "privacy being reduced"
** op codes changing in Python, is altering some of our internal implementation, like the forgiveness mode.
*** iPad applications seems to have the same behavior.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 planned work for the no-gil feature in Python 3.13
** Might check https://github.com/benfogle/crossenv and https://github.com/beeware/mobile-forge
** smart pointers with lazy loading were not working, but a fix was merged.
** PYSIDE-3059 was fixed
** Qt Designer had a regression that motivated 6.7.2
** PYSIDE-3012 was updated with new suggestions
** Qt 6.8 adaption taking a lot of work due to doc changes and QtGraphs
** Free threading Python support continues PYSIDE-2221
** PYSIDE-2772 issue ended up being a user problem
*** 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)
===30. May 2024===
*** https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/131989


=== 27. March 2025 ===
* General
* General
** PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
** 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.
** Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
** Status of 6.8.3
** PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
*** Android NDK change is still updating. We might use some additional wheels for the release.
** Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
*** Flatpak update will be done as well.
** qtpip is planned to support aarch64
** Status of 6.9.0
** 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
*** New NDK is already there, and the tests have succeed.
*** Branching 6.9.0 today/tomorrow after last changes
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2766 PYSIDE-2766] - Android wheels from macOS successful. Patches for review.
** 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.
*** Testing a sample app now + Modifying https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466
** Leaving the handling of Exception aside for shiboken.
** 6.8 adaption is in progress [qtcharts is a bit unstable]
** Type hints issues are still being addressed.
** c++20 research to improve libshiboken
*** PYSIDE-3047 Debug option in Qt generates extra code in PySide, interfering with the wrappers. Function returns a qDebug rather than a QPolygon.
** qtscrypt progressing to support signal/slot
*** Other issues were addressed PYSIDE-3050 PYSIDE-3055 PYSIDE-3056 PYSIDE-3058
** dev will support python 3.10+ [for 6.8+]
** Research on project structures to be more compatible with Xcode
** PYSIDE-2767 pyi improvements.
** PYSIDE-3052 QMessageLogger and fix qInstallMessageHandler
** lazy init for nested types disrupted the smart pointer support.
** Bumping the nuitka version we use for pyside-deploy (2.6.8)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2440 type hints optionallity is planned to be implemented.
** 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.


===23. May 2024===
=== 20. March 2025 ===
* General
* General
** PyPI organizations accepted Qt!
** We heard about https://wheelnext.dev/ it seems some ideas could be beneficial.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
** A few issues in our CI in the last weeks (fixed now)
** 5.15.17 LTS released
** 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-2747 PYSIDE-2747] Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
** Windows on ARM wheels are ready after a couple of issues (linking) were fixed.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2749 PYSIDE-2749] Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
** PYSIDE-3049 - Missing plugin for qmllint (fixed)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2758 PYSIDE-2758] Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
** QML Bridges: Working on properties.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2762 PYSIDE-2762] Fixed a type hinting bug
** PYSIDE-3052 - QMessageLogger missing class (in progress)
** Brushed up and fixed a few examples
** Working on merging the contributions on QtRemoteObjects
** 6.8 Adaption
** PYSIDE-2854 - Support for [colocated objects|https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/632241] in shiboken (structs issue, might support c++ unions)
** Python 3.13 check
** PYSIDE-3040 GTK Theming issue with PySide install
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
** Qt 6.10 adaption continues
** pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.  
** Speed of overriding methods (previously cached) - new fix is improving the performance, but duck-punching was not properly working.
** Close to macOS cross compilation
*** 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


===16. May 2024===
=== 13. March 2025 ===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
** Exclude .qsb, .webp, .cpp.o and .qen from deployment due to Nuitka error. Error report raised in Nuitka - https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2854
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2620 PYSIDE-2620] - Adapting to 6.8
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2745 PYSIDE-2745] - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] - Lazy Loading completed by supporting subtypes. This gives 8-9% more performance.
** Support for Python 3.13 started - first compatibility before switching to disable-gil
** Possibilities explored to lazy load signatures or save space.


===2. May 2024===
* General
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676] - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
** BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
*** Issue might require special hw
** Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
*** An internal presentation is being prepared.
** Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
** macOS cross compilation for android being tried
===25. April 2024===
* General
* General
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
** 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
** Preparing 6.7.1
** 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.
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
** 6.9.0rc might be released tomorrow, which means PySide6 FF will be due.  
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
* Bugs & Features  
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
** Many new type hints bugs being reported :)
* Bugs & Features
** Smart pointers exclusion issues fixed (shiboken)
** Added a number of new classes
** Designer and Linguist tools fixes (External)
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
** Helping the remoteobject contributions to work better.
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
** Documentation checks and 6.10 adaption.
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2221 Going back to the free threaded Python topic in PySide
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
*** Lots of changes since the previous attempt
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3012 Kept working on the pep8 compatibility for type hints issues
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3034 trying to figure out to get type information from public variables
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-3046 fixing type issues
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
** Re-Starting research on iOS compatibility
** Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** QML Bridges: Slots registration is working now! new tests are being written.
** 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===
=== 6. March 2025 ===
 
* General
** Bug fixing week
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
* Infra & Releases
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
** 6.5.6 release planned
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
* Bugs & Features
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
** QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
** PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
** PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
** PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
*** first approach made things less effective
*** The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
*** New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
** 825 qml bug is still around
*** PYSIDE-2676 seems to be a new approach to fix it
** A few customer bugs made it the bug fixing week.
** PYSIDE-2675 type discovery code, class inheritance
** QtAudio -> QAudio refactory
** Virtual function compatibility to modify the signature (from typesystem)
** PYSIDE-2492 uic issues for Enum compatibility
*** More improvements for Python projects (import options)
** PYSIDE-2685 nan type definition
** Removing code from shiboken
** 6.8 Adaption already started
** PYSIDE-2689 sphinx directives doesn't seems to be compatible with the search context.


===11. April 2024===
* General
* General
** Bug fixing week.
** Jaime's internal presentation will be next Monday at 11am
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
** QtCS registration is up.
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
** Discussion on IPC options for Qt developers.
** 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.
** 6.9 Qt for Python FF happening next week.
**  5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
** Windows on ARM deployment test failing.
** QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
** Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has  still some issues with the structure.  
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
** Remote object contributions are going well, and we might merge them for 6.9
** PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
** Binary size reduction research continued, but it seems we have reached the reduction we can, without touching the C++ side of our bindings.
** PYSIDE-2669 designer issue
** 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.
** PYSIDE-2675 Addressing the lazy import issues that were found in 6.7.0
*** Removing object-inheritance in the pyi files
*** Studying the possible solution, but it needs to consider other cases as well.
*** White-space around equal operators issue (default parameters)
*** the *-import handling seems to be related, and affecting the mro content, duplicating some entries.
** Update Widget Gallery example
*** the type discovery handler might be related as well
** Changed to adapt std::chrono patches in shiboken (identify overloads and choose the better option)
** Still working on the qml 825 bug issues.
** 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.


===4. April 2024===
=== 27. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
** Windows on ARM improving
* Infra & Releases
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
** Preparing for 6.7.0
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, investigating removing redundant overloads
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction, trying wrapper folding, needs massive reordering
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** PYSIDE-3012 replacement of typing.Sequence by collections.abc.Sequence
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums
*** 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.


===28. March 2024===
=== 20. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** QtWS possible participation
** QtCS has a priority of bringing more external contributors
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
** PYSIDE-2701 Size reduction for virtual functions patch was merged
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
** PYSIDE-3002 painted virtual functions solved (even though we had our own opinion about performance)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
** 3020 SignalInstance disconnect issue fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
** Templates/snippets cleanup in the typesystem.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints
** 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)


===21. March 2024===
* General
** Ideas to improve the module.
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
* Bugs & Features
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
** PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
** Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
** QtRhi missing API provided
** Memory leak regression being worked out
** Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
** Android deployment and qml tool documentations
** Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
** Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
** QAsyncio bug fixed
** Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.


===14. March 2024===
=== 13. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
** Did you know Shiboken translates into "Death Sword"? 死某剣
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
** QtCS happening after QtWS in Munich in early May.
** Qt Design Studio integration (internal presentation) with Python to be prepared.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
** Windows on ARM research continues.
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
** QtDS wheels to be updated for the new release
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
** 6.9.0 RC by the end of the February.
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
** RTA testing initiative to be restart
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
** Evaluating scikit-core-build for replacing build_scripts/
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** Flatpak issue was solved (cleanup)
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
** Brainstorming ideas for QML Next (preparing internal presentation)
** Lazy initialization got merged
** Android wheel names to be adapted https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/platform-compatibility-tags/#android
*** New improvements might land in future versions
** Qt Creator finishing .toml support for Python Projects.
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
** Qt DS Python changes ready to be merged
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
*** Tutorial changes to be prepared
** Using new icons on the examples
** Type hints heuristic evaluation in order to address newly found issues related to overloads with similar shape.
** Testing libclang 18
** Handling of value-types in shiboken (refactoring, new features and doc)
** QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
** PYSIDE-3005 OpenGL issues were fixed
** QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
** PYSIDE-3013 Font issue was fixed
** New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
** PYSIDE-3015 OpcUA support bug fixed
** permission API changes got merge
** PYSIDE-3014 virtual function on QSpinBox issue fixed
** android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
** 6.9 adaption patches
** PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed
*** 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.


===07. March 2024===
=== 6. February 2025 ===
* General
* General
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
** We went to FOSDEM and meet many PySide users!
** Commercial / LTS naming on the Installer.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
** Reviewing our branching policies. There is interest in branching pyside-setup sooner.
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
** We might need to move the Android wheels to PyPI (Probably from 6.9 on)
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
** 6.8.2.1 release is planned in order to fix the missing DLLs in Windows (MSVC)
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
*** cheery pick is missing for 5.15
** PySide6_DS 4.7 to be released in the next couple of weeks.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
** Adding TOML support for Python projects in QtCreator
** all deployment fixes are in.
** TypeHints new reports, trying to get an idea of what's causing the errors
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
** Issues in Flatpak: updating version, checking a cleanup issue. Addressing dependencies issues for optional packages.
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
** QtQA internal scripting: Adapting an automatic wheel download.
** Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
** Size reduction
** two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
*** Move virtual function overrides. Only generated on the base classes.
** PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
*** Discovered and fixed a few multiple inheritance with shiboken
** PYSIDE-2619 gentoo issue with a build
** Snippets translation tool: Trying to add a feature to use fully qualified enums.
** PYSIDE-2624 typing issue with '/' is being researched
** clang-tidy warnings were fixes
** Qt Icon Teams issues were discovered
** Handling value types on non-default constructors (inspired by 6.9 changes)
** PYSIDE-2602 virtual function research on a special signature
** Discussion on moving away out internal building process to scikit-build
** One regression related to the QObject.connect changes.
** 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)


===29. February 2024===
=== 30. January 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Leap day!
** Documentation changes
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
** Preparing 6.8.2
** 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
** Size reduction [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] : Implemented code reuse for Python overrides of virtual functions
** PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on multiple inheritance, added more widgets
** PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
** Size reduction: PYSIDE-2701 Folding progress: We can now combine multiple foldings of the same function. This will bring some more reduction.
** PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
** Simplebrowser example updated
** Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
** adding imageviewer docs
** PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
=== 23. January 2025 ===
** macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
** Windows BTLE services crash
** QIO-class are required for some new QAsyncio API using pipes
** Lazy loading moving forward, but still a few issues are around
*** A couple of shiboken tests seems to have outdated imports that are not helping.
*** shiboken compatibility types missing
** Typing issues being solved in order to improve the pyi quality


===22. February 2024===
* General
* General
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
** [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
** 6.6.2 was released!
** Windows on ARM configuration testing.
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
** 6.8.2 scheduled release next week, and branching will happen today.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
** QtPythonScripting: continue working on Stable ABI support and multiple inheritance
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** [ext] 6.9 Designer release issues with macOS drag and drop + bug fixing
** 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.
** PYSIDE-2990 Slot Executed in Signal's Thread Even With Auto & QueuedConnection
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
*** People is getting the documentation from an outdated wiki page, which is causing new reports.
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
*** Wiki will be updated.
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
** 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 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
*** Optimization reviews: it seems it's only the virtual functions, but not the actual bindings.
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
** Size reduction: Windows is giving some issues for special characters, which seems to be also present in Linux.
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.
** 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.


===15. February 2024===
=== 16. January 2025 ===


* General
* General
** Brainstorming session was held.
** 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!
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
** 6.8.2 will be released on 23th January so far, so we expect providing the wheels in the following days.
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
** 3.13 on the CI still on-going.
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
** 6.5.4 OSS released
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
*** It did built (and installed) for aarch64 and x86_64 but armv7a will be tried later on.
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
*** The main issue with this story was that it was bindings only for cross compiled pyside
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
** Exploring toml compatibilities within QtCreator
** pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
** DS patches still needs review.
** CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
** Binary size work continues
** Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.
*** 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.


===8. February 2024===
=== 09. January 2025 ===


* General
* General
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
** FOSDEM 2025: Qt got a stand!
** Internal Hackathon going on.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
** https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/ got restructured and it's now very tidy
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
** Preparing 6.8.2
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2966 PYSIDE-2966] Disabled instantiating non-instantiable classes
** singleShot patches merged
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] Examples and tests were ported to use fully qualified enumerations
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
** Python Scripting continues (enable adding __repr__ functions)
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
** Discussion about QJni* bindings when cross compiling.
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.
*** 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.


===1. February 2024===
==2024==
 
* General
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
* Infra & Releases
** no unity build discussion and checks
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
* Bugs & Features
** singleShot timer implementation (to use underlying c++ impl) - still an issue with a context object, and a signal as a functor. A new QObject::connect might handle the situation. More changes to come in order to fix newly discovered issues.
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
** General documentation adjustments
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
** Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
** Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
** Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues
 
 
===25. January 2024===
 
* General
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
* Infra & Releases
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
* Bugs & Features
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
** PYSIDE-2575: Added a new argument to QtAsyncio to configure whether the QCoreApplication at the core of QtAsyncio should be shut down when asyncio finishes (requested by user).
** SingleShot timer issue: Slight "complexity explosion" because correct implementation for one case requires implementation of QObject.connect overload with context arguments (and we implement QObject.connect ourselves, see PySide::qobjectConnectCallback).
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
** Unity build some issues when building without.
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
** Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
** armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
** Lazy initialization: re-wrote approach from scratch, to reduce the patches to one that can be analyzed easily. Some complications with this approach that needs to be improve. It can be tried with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/496118
*** 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
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
* Bugs & Features
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
** Qt 6.7 adaption
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
** Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
** PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
** pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
** Improvements to the doc build process
 
===11. January 2024===
 
* General
** Hackathon at TQtC
** CI process presentation
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
* Bugs & Features
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
** macOS request permission API work continues.
** 6.7 adaptions patches
** M2M fixes on the current impl
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
** favicon issue with out docs
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
** Improvements for the doc build process


===04.January 2024===
*[[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 10:17, 24 July 2025


2025

24. July 2025

  • General Topics
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed PYSIDE-3144, crash in shiboken's type system parser
    • Fixed PYSIDE-3137, warning in libpyside
    • Research on supporting Python 3.14
    • Windows build fails with the introduction of the Shiboken6Tools CMake package - invetigating
    • Updated samplebinding, widgetbinding, scriptableapplication to use the new CMake package instead of pyside_config.py
    • Documentation of the using the new CMake function to call shiboken-generator
    • PYSIDE-3139, fixed missing optional returns.
    • Handover documentation added however on pause until the changes are merged.
    • Started type hints documentation.

17. July 2025

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

10. July 2025

  • General Topics
    • One person from the team will attend EuroPython and PyCon Portugal.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.8.4 will go out tomorrow (most likely)
    • Testing a new package to include msvc dependencies, that might replace our current mechanism
    • 3.13 CI configuration research continues
  • Bugs & Features
    • CMake patches broke debug build (and super project build) but the issues were fixed.
    • Creating a CMake package for shiboken generator, to simplify our build dependencies for C++/Python or binding examples.
    • Moving forward with the iOS research
      • Cross compiling pyside6 is still in progress but with more progress
      • currently there are a few issues with libclang
      • OpenGL issues are back, but they are caused by a different thing
    • PYSIDE-3134 predefined characters for the QString format behavior discussion
    • PYSIDE-3132 crash related to item delegates was fixed
    • PYSIDE-3133 keyword argument issue was fixed
    • Example icon library was removed
    • Splitting the nogil patches in order to granularize the solution.
    • PYSIDE-2938 msvc runtime dependencies still in progress, doing tests. Reverting an old file to avoid packaging the CI host machine files (they are now outdated)
    • PYSIDE-3135 discussion on a regression affecting typing.Self
    • iOS cross building from shiboken, tweaking the code a bit
    • Split AsyncIO patches for adding support little by little, but there are still tests that are not working. We need interested people to contribute to these fixes.
    • Reviewing existing type hints issues
    • build script assessment before trying scikit-build-core

3. July 2025

  • General Topics
  • Infra & Releases
    • macOS issue on setting the virtual environment was fixed
    • 3.13 to be enabled soon
    • 6.8.4 commercial LTS is the next release.
  • Bugs & Features
    • 64bit enumeration was implemented
    • signals and threads clarification (and docs)
    • Qt Python Scripting cleanup
    • Free threading Python changes, threads sanitizer on windows for testing. Few new crashes on linux were discovered, most things work but our stress test is failing.
    • 3132 Item delegate crash was fixed, and other minor bugs.
    • Finalizing pending QtDS tutorial
    • Addressing some warnings from pyside6-deploy (qrc files)
    • pyside6-deploy: Nuitka bumped to 2.7.1
    • CMake changes: updating the C++ binding related examples (where header files are in use)
      • This might affect Python/C++ code from many existing applications (documenting it)
    • scikit-core compat changes
      • Investigate outsource builds
      • passing all our parameters to it

26. June 2025

  • General Topics
  • Infra & Releases
    • CI: Fail to create env problem is still around (seems to be machine-related) - we could disable that config.
    • uv research still pending.
    • 3.13 configs still pending.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Free threading
      • The current researched approach with our own lock is not the best solution for PySide.
      • We have proof other people not picking this approach, and go with a sub-interpreter one: https://discuss.python.org/t/is-free-threading-our-only-option/91775
      • A different approach might be needed
      • Our current testing infra is not enough to simply write tests for nogil python, and many hiccups have been found.
      • Some tests cannot be replicated after some issues, so the nondeterministic behavior is a big challenge.
    • Qt AsyncIO notes
      • A few ideas on how to finish the implementation was shared
      • The TCP protocol was initially implemented
      • New tests were provided to continue the development in the future (using an asyncio event loop)
    • Some small tutorial to debug Python and C++, might need a follow-up
    • Qt Creator discussion with people using old PySide versions, and using the new pyproject.toml approach.
    • Cross building support on shiboken
      • yocto was not affected
      • we might need to check if iOS works
    • PYSIDE-3095 small fix to pyside6-project
    • Qt Python Scripting
      • Small internal API review
      • Cleanup
    • To catch-up with the cmake improvements to our build system (orthogonal to the scikit-core research)
      • this will allow us to properly have the module as projects configures to be find them.
      • In the future, we will simplify our CMakeLists.txt for hybrid applications, a lot!
    • iOS research continues
      • Cross compiling is still an issue due to the shared/static
      • OpenGL issue has a workaround, but still researching on the underneath
      • Waiting for shiboken to have compatibility with cross compiling to check if it works.


19. June 2025

  • General Topics
    • Possible marketing support for the project
  • Infra & Releases
    • Research on enable 3.13 via pyenv continue
    • To investigate errors while creating venvs
  • Bugs & Features
    • QtWidgets apps on iOS still in research
      • Some issues with the qt libraries, duplicate symbols.
      • Some discussion with others about shared/static libraries for iOS (Qt doesnt' seems to be able to work properly) - shared libs for iOS task is not prioritized yet.
    • CMake discussion to enable Qt Bridges from the PySide build system.
      • The problem is our current build structure, where we build shiboken first and then pyside patching paths.
      • We might introduce an option to enable this configuration.
    • Add QtMultimedia libraries (libav*) to the android wheels.
    • Documenting more open research topics (QtAsyncIO, Disable GIL, Debugging, Class properties, PyPy) and maybe more.
    • Fix enumeration issues in Qt Designer
    • libxst issues at build time were addressed
    • Research: cross build for shiboken to recognize targets PYSIDE-3105. To support both approaches
      • list(APPEND shiboken_command "--platform=${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}" "--arch=${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR}" "--compiler-path=${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER}")}
        
      • list(APPEND shiboken_command "--clang-option=--target="aarch64-none-linux-android"" "--compiler-path=${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER}")
        

12. June 2025

  • General Topics
    • QtDS Tutorial still pending
  • Infra & Releases
    • RTA discussion on PySide
    • SBOM research pending, but will be addressed
    • Evaluating using 3.13 in some of our CI nodes
  • Bugs & Features
    • Newly discovered missing dll/so on android wheels (libav* from ffmpeg)
    • Flatpak baseapp is now shipping tools (after users requests)
      • Waiting for the webengine baseapp to be merged
    • Alexandru helping with some CMake changes we are trying to incorporate into pyside, in order to improve the discoverability of the installed packages.
    • iOS research
      • Small Qt application is working at the moment (QTimer log example)
      • shiboken python module works.
      • QtGui and QtWidgets needs special handling from iOS side
      • Trying the XCode simulator (to avoid usage of the physical device) - architecture issues when built (mismatch on intel/apple silicon)
      • Note from android: there was a missing opengl component, that needed to be added.
    • Started to documenting a few of the on-going initiatives/patches.
      • Disable GIL, QtAsyncIO, etc
    • Regression 6.9.1 - QGraphicsView that was fixed
    • ActiveQt issues lead to discovering that we could use the meta object in order to enable Enums on Qt Designers
    • Discussion about Enum declared within a Python class, and declaring properties with that on the same class (python limitation)
    • Planning on maybe adapting shiboken for easy cross build functionalities.

5. June 2025

  • General Topics
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-3187 std::optional handling from new qt api (having an intrinsic type rather than a separate one)
    • Trying QRangeModel for some Python examples. (new api in 6.10)
    • Adapting to 6.10
    • Virtual Keyboard issue: missing files for plugins issue was fixed
    • PYSIDE-3112 android deployment issue
    • Finishing the CMake config files for shiboken/pyside in order to get more options once it's installed. This might help us simplifying use cases like scriptableapplication.
    • Updated flatpak package, and a new issue related to missing tools.
    • iOS research
      • Managed to embed Python in an iOS application
      • there seems to be an issue with linking between so files
      • dynamics libs are needed, but removing a few .so files PySide is not recognized. When removing the frameworks ones, another issue appear, when having them both, there is also an issue.
      • We might need to re-think the OpenGL finds for iOS patches
    • QtCreator wizard uses pyproject.toml

29. May 2025

  • General Topics
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.9.1, 6.5.9
    • Further work adapting to 6.10, QRangeModel renamed from QGenericItemModel
  • Bugs & Features
    • Investigating improving support for std::optional PYSIDE-3107
    • Progressing with shipping CMake configs with PySide6 and Shiboken6 wheels. Trickly resolving install time and packaging configuration. Had to resort to patch the CMake configs before packaging.
    • QPropertyAnimation constructor annotations fixed PYSIDE-3012
    • Continued work on XCode and library binding, minor problems with Python libraries and trying to integrate PySide6 libraries.
    • PYSIDE-2221: Status report is in progress for potential handover.
    • PYSIDE-769:
      • Integration and activation of QtAsync tests into the test framework.
      • First implementation of a TCP transport; server tests are working.

22. May 2025

  • General Topics
    • Some updates from PyConUS
    • Qt Bridges: We might participate at Akademy
    • Qt Bridges: We got an accepted talk https://ndctechtown.com/
    • Qt WS: Talk recording might be delayed to be public.
    • PyCon IT: Going there to give a talk
    • Windows on ARM is getting more attention from other companies.
      • There is currently an issue with OpenGL (not being in Qt, hence not in Qt for Python)
      • FreeCAD requires opengl for some reason :S
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.19 commercial LTS was released
    • 6.9.1 postponed by a regression
    • 6.5.9 still pending (security fix)
    • We might evaluate uv for CI
  • Bugs & Features
    • We will work on being more compatible with uv (shiboken issue finding dlls)
    • iOS research: managed to cross compile the project, but there seems to be an issue still when trying to use it from XCode side of things. We might need to try the setup.py approach rather than CMake.
    • API deprecations that needs to be handle: missing functions on the typesystem and in some test cases. QtXml (QDomDocument) missing new function needs to be added as well (overload issue). Some works needs to be done in the examples as well.
    • Thoughts on limiting the disable gil solution that we have at the moment. There has been a lot of crashes and issues by implementing our own locking mechanism.
    • QtAsyncIO has been brought up in some community discussions, so we might work more on this. There are many NotImplemented issues around, that would be good to have.
    • Qt Python Scripting: Aiming for 6.11, and to find a place to distribute it. Due to the limitation of virtual functions, it's mostly about doing a bit of scripting on top of the Qt/C++ applications. Does it justify it to be a new Qt module? maybe we could use Qt solutions. We need another person to check the API, to have a second opinion.
      • There are some ideas of virtual-function override from pybind11, but then we would require shiboken ownership mechanisms, that will increase dependencies (and size)
      • Release process of qt-modules is strict.
    • PYSIDE-2193 variance in QML Properties. QVariant/PyObjects issues were found and fixed.
    • Got interest of doing RTA internally, that's generating more reports.
    • CMake relocation files shipping that are not being included anymore (headers or cmake files), but got required by Qt Bridges.
    • New cmake variables are being required for Qt Bridges.
    • Message handler changes are still pending for CI issues.

15. May 2025

  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.9.1
    • Released 6.5.9
  • Bugs & Features
    • Continuing work on 6.10, investingating what the new QGenericItemModel can do for getting data from numpy into Qt
    • PYSIDE-2193 QML property related crash fixed
    • PYSIDE-3098 NumPy problem with Sequence/Iterable conflict in 6.10 solved
    • qinstallmessagehandler refcount issue fixed
    • PYSIDE-3078 QInputDialog get methods accept None as parent.
    • Cross-compile iOS and PySide6 is done. Now the test phase.
    • PYSIDE-2221 Free threading research continues.
      • disable-gil first tiny progress in bug hunting. Shiboken Cyclic test works now
      • Result used for generating locks in PySide constructors
      • still a few timeout errors and others

8. May 2025

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

1. May 2025

  • Labor day, no labor to report

24. April 2025

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

17. April 2025

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

10. April 2025

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

3. April 2025

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

27. March 2025

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

20. March 2025

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

13. March 2025

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

6. March 2025

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

27. February 2025

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

20. February 2025

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


13. February 2025

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

6. February 2025

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

30. January 2025

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

23. January 2025

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

16. January 2025

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

09. January 2025

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

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