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==2023==


===3. August 2023===
==2024==
 
===18. April 2024===


* General
* General
** New reports board
** Bug fixing week
** QtCreator support
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
** Integration cycle on gerrit overview
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** CI down next Monday for a few hours
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
** First tests on linux arm64
** 6.5.6 release planned
** Preparing 5.15.15 Commercial LTS
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
** qtpip first trials on the CI
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Async research continues, new things are being discovered while is being developed
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
*** Implementing a few new things for improving the support
** QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
*** Initial patch got merged, but a few others are in the making
** PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
** Team contributing to QtAcademy
** PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
** SQL queries issues, inconsistencies in the API were fixed
** PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
** Build with ninja had some problems regarding mixing stdout and stderr
*** first approach made things less effective
** Testing initial support for rvalues
*** The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
** 2272 fixing signatures for some qmlRegister* functions
*** New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
** Examples: new mediaplayer was fully ported
** 825 qml bug is still around
** Example gallery scans now a doc directory for images
*** PYSIDE-2676 seems to be a new approach to fix it
** Some other multimedia examples are pending for review
** A few customer bugs made it the bug fixing week.
** Team contributing to Qt translations
** PYSIDE-2675 type discovery code, class inheritance
** Adjusting the deployment tool, and fixing issues with pyenv, and upgrading nuitka
** QtAudio -> QAudio refactory
** CMake: adjusting the files to use the new API for finding python, reducing our cmake files
** Virtual function compatibility to modify the signature (from typesystem)
*** Considering also the removal of patchelf, and follow the cmake approach
** PYSIDE-2492 uic issues for Enum compatibility
** Lazy initialization of enums is showing a good improvement on the performance
*** 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.


===27. July 2023===
===11. April 2024===
* General
* General
** Shyam wrote trip report to Europython
** Bug fixing week.
** Some vacations starting soon for some team members
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
** Got some cool t-shirts (internal only so far) - Is there interest for merch?
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
** Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
** Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
** New epics with brainstorming ideas.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.2 released
** 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.
** Some LTS releases soon as well
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
** Issues on the CI (RHEL8.6) and python interpreter.
** QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
** Formalization of release besides wheels on PyPI and account.qt.io
** Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has  still some issues with the structure.  
** Soon to enable CI on qtpip
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** [ext] designer issue, translations
** Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
** PYSIDE-2402 QtHttpServer module was missing on Windows
** PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
** QSql methods were un-deprecated (module seems to need more love)
** PYSIDE-2669 designer issue
** Port QtGraph example
** PYSIDE-2675 Addressing the lazy import issues that were found in 6.7.0
** AsyncIO module: there is a second change in preparation
*** Studying the possible solution, but it needs to consider other cases as well.
** Finally the android issue we had was solved. It seems that patchelf was breaking our binaries, and now we are using a cmake approach instead.
*** the *-import handling seems to be related, and affecting the mro content, duplicating some entries.
** Enable unity builds for android
*** the type discovery handler might be related as well
** Nuitka will be pinned to a recent version
** Still working on the qml 825 bug issues.
** PYSIDE-2404 lazy loader research
* Interesting projects we checked
** https://github.com/larryhastings/appeal
** Stable Diffusion
** https://docs.hpyproject.org/en/latest/quickstart.html
** https://github.com/rui314/mold


===20. July 2023===
===4. April 2024===
* General
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
* Infra & Releases
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
** Preparing for 6.7.0
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums


===28. March 2024===
* General
* General
** Two team members @ Europython 2023
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Implementing transports and protocols of asyncio API
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
** Lazy importer still under development. Ongoings:
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
*** necessary to register all types without creating them
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
*** turning all PyTypeObject into PyTypeObject valued functions
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
*** quite hard because deeply buried in the generated code
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints


===13. July 2023===
===21. March 2024===
* General
* General
** CI is not behaving, so be cautious
** Ideas to improve the module.
** 3.12 beta 4 was released
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
** Next week some people are going to Europython
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.2 still in progress, waiting to have the RC wheels
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** Qt Akademy to prepare a Qt for Python course
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
** Examples: we might adapt our gallery to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115174
** PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
** Android: callback issue from C++ to Python, some ideas are around, but the problem persists.
** Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
*** Might be related to the usage of patchelf.
** QtRhi missing API provided
** Research on Lazy loader continues
** Memory leak regression being worked out
*** Some ideas are behaving well at the moment, but still being tested.
** Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
*** We might need to discover some classes that we cannot initialize lazily (manual code injection, need init before usage)
** Android deployment and qml tool documentations
** We need some reviews for the eventloop patch (asyncio)
** Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
** An enum class with an issue for stubs.
** Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
** qtpip work continues
** QAsyncio bug fixed
** Some good-first-issue are planned for the project, so more contributors can join us!
** Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.


===6. July 2023===
===14. March 2024===
* General
* General
** PySide 6.6 will support Python 3.8+
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
** Python 3.12 support will be back-ported to 6.5 only, and not 6.2
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.9 commercial lts was released yesterday.
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
** 6.5.2 RC wheels to be tested.
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
** 5.15 open commercial lts tags are in the pyside/pyside-setup repo.
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
** qtpip configuration file being improved and updated
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
** ARM CI host configuration continues
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Removal of old enums was finished
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** Starting to work with lazy loaders for enums
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
** First iteration of the asyncio support for the qt eventloop, tests are being prepared.
** Lazy initialization got merged
** PYSIDE-2370 cross compilation issue, might be related to host python, provided some options to try.
*** New improvements might land in future versions
** Android issue, we cannot get C++ callbacks to Python. Might be related to a python version incompatibility.
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
** Preparing a contribution back to python-to-android
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
** Rewriting some enum code
** Using new icons on the examples
** Add mediaplayer demo in qtdoc for python (some issues with qml)
** Testing libclang 18
** Add document viewer qtdoc example
** QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
** PYSIDE-2381 QSettings issue
** QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
** pyside6-lupdate issues related to encoding.
** New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
** qtpip works continues
** permission API changes got merge
** android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
** PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed


===29. June 2023===
===07. March 2024===
* General
* General
** Next maintenance break in August.
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.2 postponed until next week
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
** 6.2.9 Commercial LTS soon to be released (a new qt build)
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
** 5.15.15 LTS in the next weeks
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
** ARM CI host still in progress
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
** Brainstorming some additional matrix testing infra for Python versions
** Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases (IFW ticket)
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Research on scripting continues
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
** Designer related features/ QtCreator
** all deployment fixes are in.
** Memory leak related to REG is solved
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
** New icon theme for examples coming
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
** Some qdoc examples might be enabled for Python
** Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
** Enum removal is still generating detail discussions
** two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
*** Two implementation versions are suggested.
** PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
*** The old ones were written in C++ so the startup time is a lot slower
** PYSIDE-2619 gentoo issue with a build
*** Lazy generator is helping a A LOT
** PYSIDE-2624 typing issue with '/' is being researched
** Android dev build - unity had some complications
** Qt Icon Teams issues were discovered
** Async event loop work, last issues were addressed.
** PYSIDE-2602 virtual function research on a special signature
*** still some network io features are missing
** One regression related to the QObject.connect changes.
** [Research] PySide components for QtDS needs to follow QtDS release cycle rather than Qt.


===29. February 2024===


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


===21. June 2023===
===22. February 2024===
 
* General
* General
** PyPI limit increase for PySide6-Addons
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
** PySide 6.6 might have support for Python 3.8+ (due to Python 3.7 EOL in a week)
** Python 3.12b3 is out - test!
** Qt Contributor Summit
*** General session + maybe another one for specific topics.
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.9 is ready, but waiting for Qt/c++ release
** 6.6.2 was released!
** 6.5.2 release date is next week.
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
** Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Android research: extra functionality is there, and working on bluetooth/permission integration with a device (example)
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
** PYSIDE-2364 Invalid syntax on a pyi file
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** Continue with the old enum removal.
** 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.
*** Maybe delayed initialization to improve startup time.
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
** AsyncIO eventloop work continues
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
** Research for scripting continues
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
** 6.6 adaptations
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
** Fix Enum issue with clang with invalid hex
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.


===15. June 2023===
===15. February 2024===


* General
* General
** Going to EuroPython
** Brainstorming session was held.
** Participation in Qt Academy
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.9 LTS to be released
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
** NFS issues in the CI, being worked on.
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
** ARM host on CI experiencing some issues.
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
*** Some preliminary wheels were generated in order to test.
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
*** Might help the Android story, but this needs to be confirmed.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Async research revisited
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
*** Testing eventloop wrapping
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
** Memory leak issue still needs to be fixed (hopefully for 6.5.2)
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
** Examples in Qt revamp
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
** Translations and fixes for 6.6
** pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
** Discussion about Enums implementation
** CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
** Scripting on C++ research continues
** Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.
** PYSIDE-1735 removing old enums continues
** Android improvements in review
*** Adding more modules
** QVariant enum change (temporary patch until Qt7)
** shiboken_generator research to make it publicly available (libclang dependency)


===8. June 2023===
 
===8. February 2024===


* General
* General
** Python 3.11.4 released, 3.12.0beta2
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
** PySide6-addons reaching the 10G limit on PyPI
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.1.1 released due to a regression (introduced by a mem leak fix)
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
** Maintenance Tool > wheels
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
*** Special case for M2M protocols to be tested
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
** CI on arm64 continues (Linux and Windows)
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Fixed some type-hint related issues PYSIDE-2357/PYSIDE-2331/PYSIDE-2340
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
** Scripting research
** singleShot patches merged
** Qt pip tool has updated the configuration file and wheels to continue the work on the new tool
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
** QVariant PyEnum issue -> solution for review
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
** Android work continues: improving the dependency detection
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.
** PYSIDE-2335 unraisable is finally checked in (the current solution works, it could be improved but low prio -> xml definitions)
 
** PYSIDE-2354 type error due to the usage of Generic (related to 939) - related to cpython issue
===1. February 2024===
** PYSIDE-1735 old enums removal started
** Example tunings
** Bug fixing week


===1. Juni 2023===
* General
* General
** Europython - call for first time speakers (open to anyone)
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
** Waiting until API review to move dev to 6.6
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
** New Epic/User Stories policy
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
** Participating into Qt Academy
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.1 released, a leak fix is causing issues with signal connections.
** no unity build discussion and checks
*** Initially we thought it was purely functools.partial but there are other cases that are not working.  
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
*** Testing alternative solutions, otherwise we revert
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
*** In any case a 6.5.1.1 will be out soon
** Need to test the new conf file for the commercial wheel install mechanism
** 5.15 needs to skip libclang16
** Testing maintenance tool with a license without Qt for Automation (for wheel check)
** JIRA release versions are pending.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** (External) Designer fonts issues
** 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.
** PYSIDE-2347 metaobject tool missing types
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
** Scxml events missing connections.
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
** Scripting research (check report)
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
** Leak research continue
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
** Issue with new example state machine to be solved (event handling)
** General documentation adjustments
** PYSIDE-1930 PYSIDE-2239 QVariant Enum issue, the fix is out, but we need some tests.
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
** Finish the problem with unraisable exceptions
** Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
*** Discussion on special cases with a run function
** Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
*** Blocking functions are still an issue, because we cannot break
** Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues
** PYSIDE-2354 typing.Generic issue with inheritance in progress
 
** PyTest research continues
 
===25. January 2024===


===25. Mai 2023===
* General
* General
** QtWS - One talk accepted
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
** Europython - One talk accepted
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.1 one issue was found, so release will be available once we merge the fix.
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
** 5.15.14 to be release soon.
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
** CI arm64 experiments continue
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
** Asking about M2M wheels on the maintenance tool, for 6.6
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
** Solving LTS issues of missing tags on public repo, might take some time.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Evaluating shiboken6_generator to be published on PyPi
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
** Few small fixes around the project (release preparation, new features, small bugs, doc issues)
** 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).
** QtScrypt experimental work continues
** 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).
** Permission API added (motivated by the android support)
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
** Improvements for the android deployment.
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
** Trying to fix an issue of getting Enums to Ints
** Unity build some issues when building without.
** Delayed exceptions work continues, trying to fix some corner cases still.
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
** Starting to explore PEP 658
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
** Research on PyTest compatibility
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
** [Designer] Fixing some issues, and warnings
** 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. Mai 2023===
===18. January 2024===


* General
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.1 Preparations
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
** 5.15.14 Preparations
** 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
* Bugs & Features
** Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2325 PYSIDE-2325] typesystem incomplete
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
** Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2328 PYSIDE-2328] Segmentation fault/access violation when connecting signal of temporary object
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
** Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2329 PYSIDE-2329] Signal connections with init kwargs
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
** Reverted temporarily the delayed exception patch, in order to not block the 6.5.1 release. This should be discussed at the next meeting
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
*** Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 PYSIDE-2310]
** Qt 6.7 adaption
*** Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 PYSIDE-2321]
** 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. Mai 2023===
===11. January 2024===


* General
* General
** Python Users Berlin meetup talk today
** Hackathon at TQtC
** Europython, QtWS
** CI process presentation
** Qt FF 02.06
** Android team «ketchup»
** Example revamp update
*** Quick examples needs to be ported to loadFromModule (Quick3D, QuickLocation, missing)
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.5.1 to be release around 15.05 -> shifted to next week.
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 regression
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 memory leak
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
** 5.15.14 to be release around 16.05
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** Fixing regressions issue related to threads - delayed exceptions
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 event handlers issues
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 virtual method override - still in progress
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2230 3.12 support
** macOS request permission API work continues.
** nogil research continues - mutex might slow down things, but doing a proper division of the code could help.
** 6.7 adaptions patches
** QML example tutorials - one review pending
** M2M fixes on the current impl
** 2313 longtype issue with numpy
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
** examples revamping - loadFromModule
** favicon issue with out docs
** Icon library -> icon theme soon available on a new module.
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
** PYSIDE-2316 sharedpointer template issues
** Improvements for the doc build process
** Shiboken refactoring
** Finally the memory leak is fixed
** Enhancing android story, detection of modules, finding dependencies, got ideas from the current qt/c++ tool.
** Build infrastructure, setup.py install has been deprecated since 3.11 - looking into a new build infrastructure.
** Internal technical talks
*** Shiboken generating bindings
*** Shiboken for documentation generation
*** type hints generation
*** QML integration via decorators


===4. Mai 2023===
===04.January 2024===
* General
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
** New OKR organization
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
** PyPy is now on 3.10
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
* Infra & Releases
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
** Android [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.


*General
==2023==
**Europython talk by Shyam still under consideration
**Qt for Android catch up meeting scheduled for 09/05/2023
**Discussion with kivy developers done on discord. They seem to be onboard with the Qt support.
*Infra & Releases
*Bugs & Features
**Android Deployment Enhancements - Bringing pyside6-android-deploy at the level of androiddeployqt - Ongoing
**python-for-android PR Enhancements - Ongoing
**PYSIDE-1951 super().__lt__ global solution ongoing
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2206 PYSIDE-2206] QML examples/tutorials revamping
**PYSIDE-2221 Python runs NoGil version of mandelbrot.py 7.7 times faster on a 10-code M1 machine
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2288 PYSIDE-2288] Fixed Clang 16 support for 6.6/6.5.
**PYSIDE-2310 Crashing without error reporting in Qt-based threads, debugging
**PYSIDE-2299 Ongoing, current attempt fixes most tests but leaves some SegFaults, might be a dead-end.
 
===27. April 2023===
 
*General
**Planning collaboration with other projects like Kivy, towards a better mobile support.
**QtWS talks submitted
**PyConES, PyConPT, PyConAPAC
**Qt for Android catching up meeting
**Bug fixing week
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.8 wrong source code was published PYSIDE-2297
*Bugs & Features
*PYSIDE-1951 super() and `__lt__` operator issue related to our wrapper.
*asyncio work continues
*enhancements for python-for-android to improve the android stories
*pyside6-android-deploy polished as well
*2299 memory leak might have special cases related to the callback
*clang16 is giving some issues in Qt
*Icon examples libraries for the python examples research
*Snippet translator improvements
 
===20. April 2023===
 
*Bugs & Features
**Work on support for clang 16, which changes behavior quite a bit
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2284 PYSIDE-2284] issue with NoneType
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2285 PYSIDE-2285] Type hints / Tuples
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2298 PYSIDE-2298] and others, fixed some missing 6.5 API
**Added new tools - pyside6-qmlsc (commercial only) and pyside6-qmlcachegen
**Simplified tool adding process
**PySide6 to Android Deployment blog published 🤞
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 PYSIDE-1564] Final approach was implemented with a new super() class. But This approach was not helpful. Issue finally closed.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 PYSIDE-1951] A solution was finally found and implemented. Trying to improve.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2304 PYSIDE-2304] Issue resolved, Cooperative Multiple Inheritance explained with a custom example, customer is happy
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 PYSIDE-2299] Cause for memory leak has been found, but fix will not be trivial (might require extensive refactoring in worst case).
**Debugging QtAsyncIoEventLoop, partly functional but still early.
 
===13. April 2023===
 
*General
**SF 24.04 -> 16.05 ooo
**CM 19.04 -> 27.04 ooo
**QtCreator beta now includes an extra option to create virtual environments
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.0 released, but one missing DLL on windows for people without hw acceleration.
***To be fixed in 6.5.1
**6.2.8 LTS to be released this week
**Improving current state of the maintenance tool for Python
**Second version of the packages in the server
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-684-a-per-interpreter-gil/19583
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-711-pybi-a-standard-format-for-distributing-python-binaries/25547
**Qt Design Studio integration is on research
*Bugs & Features
**Type hints PYSIDE-2284 issue with NoneType
**2283 Platform dependencies into our docs
**Clang16 improvements to be compatible
**Research on the missing DLL issue on Windows
**Research on a memory leak possible related to Signal instances.
**asyncio debugging with a self-made event loop
**Improving the python-for-android changes to prepare a patch
**Technical Preview blog post for Android in the making
**PYSIDE-2294 multiple inheritance issue for a corner case with positional arguments
***Researching a new approach that could improve things further
 
===6. April 2023===
 
*General
**New Python releases 3.11.3, 3.10.11
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.0 released
**6.2.8 commercial LTS to go out soon
**Review Maitenance Tool integration
**qtpip server configuration still in progress
*Bugs & Features
**Android: preparing post, tests, and general improvements.
**PYSIDE-2266 venv issue with the deployment tool.
**Documentation was released for 6.5.0 and many things were polished.
**Async: continue working on the event loop wrapper implementation.
**Research on memory leak that pyqtgraph found
**Brushing up tutorials: expenses
**Adding new examples: simplebrowser, screen capture
**Documentation: found some issues with qdoc (from the move of examples to auto tests)
**PYSIDE-2278 type hinting issue was fixed
**Improvements to the documentation
**Cleaning imports from examples
**Add isort to the development guide
**Exploring other projects where Python can shine
 
===30. March 2023===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.5 to be released next week
**including requirements.txt along the commercial bundle
***research if possible retroactively
**qtpip research continues
*Bugs & Features
**Features that needs to be in before 6.5
***deployment tool nuitka patch
***android tool
***tutorial of thew new quick styled app
**Improving enums to avoid using the old implementation
**Deployment tool and android research continues
**Async research on asyncio and trio proper integration
**Refactoring
**Shiboken examples are not displayed on the docs
**Updating the new image of the project
**Re-porting multimedia examples, simplebrowser
**Initial support for permission API
**small fixes on metaobjectdump
 
 
===23. March 2023===
 
*General
**QtWS CfP open
**EuroPython talks submitted
**Keeping an eye on future Python events
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 is out
***pypy3 3.9.12 compatible, newer versions included an incompatibility
**6.5 branching out today
*Bugs & Features
**async support continues.
**Fixing a couple of issues related to the pyside6-deploy tool.
***venv compatibility
***qml apps are not properly working
**android support almost ready for TP
**PYSIDE-2261 cython signature module incompatibility fixed
**Removed goto from PySide
**Multiple inheritance issues were fixed.
**old Enums are being removed, and the startup time will improve a bit (still in progress)
**PYSIDE-971 GL funtions implementation
**including texttospeech into the wheels (missing by mistake)
**adapting scripts to 6.5
**metaobjectdump issue fixed
**doc updates
 
===16. March 2023===
 
*General
**Preparing submissions for Europython
**New company colors
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 release next week (no release branch)
**Issues with Nuitka 1.5.1 (released yesterday) and the CI didn't like it. Pining 1.5
*Bugs & Features
**qtpip: add support for many other operators (for versions)
**PYSIDE-2254 exit crash issue was fixed
**PYSIDE-2251 designer issue when not initializing virtual environment.
**qmlsurface example ported (polishing the C++ code as well)
**example icons: discussions to standardize them a bit
**android research: fixing some issues with qtquick
**PYSIDE-1564 multiple inheritance work continues, really far but found new issues. Generalizing the solution a bit from a Shiboken point of view. Research on how shiboken handle multiple inheritance to be compatible with Python's way.
**PYSIDE-2255 virtual method issue related to access to those members.
**Generalization of QApplication usage on the tests.
**Research: Add course to QtLearn related to Qt for Python
**doc: some links are broken.
**doc: migration to sphinx-design from sphinx-panels
 
===9. March 2023===
 
*General
**Packing use-cases
**Europython CfP: https://ep2023.europython.eu/cfp
*Infra & Releases
**Preparing 5.15.13: release might be today if nothing goes wrong.
**Wheel bundles on the account.qt.io, and soon to be available in the Maintenance Tool
*Bugs & Features
**Re-added QtLocation
**Added larger examples for QtLocation, QtDataVisualization
**Android research continues, preparing a TP
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2169 Leak related to AsyncIO was finally fixed: related to the new Enum implementation
***PyErr_Fetch/Restore does ref counting, and not borrow ref
**qtpip works continues
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 bug signal instance: fixed most if not all possible errors.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1403 pyi still produces something not fully working with IDEs
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 First version of the implementation of multiple inheritance is working
***Not a general solution, but a good approach (compatible with a competitor).
***Working on a full support to handle multiple inheritance
 
===2. March 2023===
 
*General
**Preparing internal/external material
**Next monday CI maintenance break
*Infra & Releases
**commercial wheel bundles available on account.qt.io
**6.4.3 release was postponed
*Bugs & Features
**Improvements for qtpip
**postEvent() memory leak still has an unknown origin
**PYSIDE-2236 QMetaMethod.fromSignal added
**PYSIDE-2237 be careful with using reserved words in examples/docs/...
**PYSIDE-2239 opaquecontainers wrong dunder name
**PYSIDE-2206 Examples revamping
***Maybe we keep some examples around even if they are removed in Qt/C++
**Android work continues! looking good with 6.5
**PYSIDE-1564 Multiple inheritance story was improved, still in progress.
 
===23. February 2023===
 
*General
**Giving a talk at Python La Paz (on Saturday) - in Spanish
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 ready to start the release process
**Change to fix the windows signing is merged
*Bugs & Features
**3.12 compatibility changes will reach 5.15, 6.2, and the future 6.5 LTS
**PYSIDE-79 (caused by PYSIDE-68) refcounting issues addressed
**Continue the 3.12 support because of some new issues found
**PYSIDE-1564: Multiple inheritance support is still being worked (old ABC issues might be related)
**Issues with documentation build (sphinx)
**Research on a memory leak related to the asyncio example: it's not related to asyncio, but from the posting action (pyside, and not Qt, because a C++ example with no async doesn't have any leak)
**PYSIDE-2234 adding QRunnableCreate
**fixed 6.5 issues with cross compilation
**Designer examples revamp
**Works continues on qtpip (a pip wrapper to install commercial wheels)
**PYSIDE-2232 NixOS issues was fixed (another was deferred)
**Research on the std::span support
**Unity compilation research continues
**Bug cleanup, closing and fixing old ones.
**OpenGL getProc issue is being worked on.
**PYSIDE-2192 interactive matplotlib issue (hook)
 
===16. February 2023===
 
*General
**Development of a tool for commercial wheel installation started, and other general improvements.
**Blog posts -> 6.5 release, and Android research.
**Don't forget about Europython.
*Infra & Releases
**Branching dev to 6.5 when the Qt/C++ 6.5.0 RC is out (16 Mar '23)
***Only fixes go to dev with Pick-to: 6.5 if necessary
***new features remain in dev (for 6.6)
*Bugs & Features
**nogil research was positive, and most of our test work. It would require for us to modify the generator for each function/module.
***mandelbrot example works and improves its performance around 3.5 times.
**Python 3.12 will include an incompatibility due to the changes in the type generation
***https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/60074#issuecomment-1430115581
***some other issues were found, but not as critical as the tp_new issue.
**It will be possible to install pyside6 in conda environments starting from 6.4.3 and 6.5
**commercial identifier on commercial wheels will be replaced to be compatible with distutils
**asyncio research continues
**Adapting the deploy tool to include compatibility with android (in progress)
**research on ML-based tool to transform c++ <-> python
**Getting started docs updated
**qtdoc documentation content will be included in the docs
**doc issues: some broken links and references
**General slides to be updated
 
 
===09. February 2023===
 
*General
**How to make our API better for pathlib?
**3.11.2 released, 3.10.10 as well
**https://peps.python.org/pep-0675/
*Infra & Releases
**LTS tags cannot be pushed to community repo (permissions), hopefully in this week.
**Maintenance Tool updates soon
**Binary signing still need a little change to be working
**dev to use 6.5 starting today
*Bugs & Features
**Android research in progress, looking good :)
**A solution was proposed to fix the usage of PySide6 in conda environments: still needs tweaks to work, mainly related to an internal qt.conf that's loaded at runtime.
**PYSIDE-2222 custom widget plugin, load with uic crash
**PYSIDE-2201 was fixed: introducing weak references into the SignalInstances.
**PYSIDE-79 was possible to solve (from PYSIDE-68 solution). Still needs to some documentation to be written.
**PYSIDE-2221 research on future compatibility with NoGIL Python https://github.com/colesbury/nogil https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
**https://github.com/blueloveTH/pocketpy also interesting
 
===02. February 2023===
 
*General
**Europython 2023 will be in Prague! 17-23 July
*Infra & Release
**Improving wheel creation in our CI (signing windows, and other things)
**Soon we will have released LTS in the OSS repo (after some complications)
**CI Maintenance break coming next Monday (keep an eye open to the Python configuration)
*Bugs & Features
**Unity builds were helping pyside/shiboken, and some tests are being done in qt/c++
**meta task on revamping examples in the Qt Project
**Adding uic functionality and documentation
**Doc reviews, some issues were found
**Android development continues, and looks good!
**introducing --log-level to change --verbose-build and --quiet
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance continues:
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Weak Reference handling is complete
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Research on Reference bug continues
**create_wheels.py --builddir to explicitly provide build directory
**WIP: QtAsyncIoEventLoop using Qt's event dispatcher, using BaseEventLoop and BaseSelectorEventLoop for guidance
 
===26. January 2023===
 
*Infra & Releases
**Fixed issues with Windows signing
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2204 PYSIDE-2204 qt.conf encoding]
**Fixed bugs in pyside6-metaobjectdump (QML) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2202 PYSIDE-2202] , [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2203 PYSIDE-2203]
**PYSIDE-2194: Possibly requires refactoring of QLowEnergyController to use the new WinRT API, instead of COM API
**Android Deployment - Patches incoming to automate cross compilation to produce android wheels
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance
***Implement Weak Reference Handling
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Handle early destruction of the object better
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Trying to finally fix the reference leak using weakref.
**Alternative approach to Anaconda issue: Register internal qt6.conf with site-packages prefix (still WIP).
**WIP: Implement class QtAsyncIoEventLoop(asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) that wraps around Qt's event loop to enable Qt + asyncio.
**Memory leak with current asyncio example (or space leak?)
 
===19. January 2023===
 
*General
**Hackathon in TQtC
**The WebAssembly PySide Team was almost doubled in size (+1 brain, +1 hand)
*Infra & Releases
**Windows signing to be improved.
**LTS releases into oss repo: some issues appeared but will be merged soon.
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1994: De-virtualization of Shiboken embedded Python files is now an option controlled dynamically by SBK_EMBED
***PYSIDE-1019: A dormant __feature__ initialization timing problem was fixed while implementing de-virtualization
**PYSIDE-1735: De-coupling of old and new enums was started
**PYSIDE-1564: Debugging of multiple inheritance continues
**Fixed some bluetooth functions in PySide6.
**Low Energy Scanner Example
**PYSIDE-2194: Progressing with this. Definitely a thread issue which allow-thread doesn't seem to fix.
**Possible solution for problems with PySide6 inside conda (compat package with qt6.conf file), but investigating if best solution
 
===12. January 2023===
 
*General
**Next week is Hackathon, meeting will be shorter
**Discussion on how to gather information, and sharing material around Qt for Python
*Infra & Releases
**6.5 RC planning -> feature freeze for PySide
**6.4.2 was released last Monday
**CMake Jumbo builds issue with Windows signing
**LTS branches to land in pyside-setup soon
*Bugs & Features
**Async examples: addressing memory leak and cpu usage due to the event loop interactions
**Review conda packaging story and PySide6
**De-virtualization of Python files: still some issues
**Incompatibility with pywin32: __feature__ related when trying to check if the ext module uses PySide. Also related to an issue with the inspect module.
**Installing PySide6.support via CMake (was previously not considered)
**Work continues on the multiple inheritance issues related to classes based on QObject
**locate issues related to to* methods
**std::array support in shiboken (still in progress)
**fixing imports in matplotlib examples
**adaptation to 6.5
**splitting shiboken generator source to its own
**Android deployment works - tested on Widget applications
**Fixing QTBUG-109510 leading to discovering issues with certain functions in PySide6. Being fixed.
 
===5. January 2023===


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


==2022==
==2022==

Revision as of 08:33, 18 April 2024


2024

18. April 2024

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

11. April 2024

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

4. April 2024

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

28. March 2024

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

21. March 2024

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

14. March 2024

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

07. March 2024

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

29. February 2024

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

22. February 2024

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

15. February 2024

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


8. February 2024

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

1. February 2024

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


25. January 2024

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

18. January 2024

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

11. January 2024

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

04.January 2024

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

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