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


*General
==2024==
**
*Infra & Releases
**
*Bugs & Features
**Investigating on PyPySide MI segfault postponed but on To-Do list [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] More Progress in Lazy Initialization
***the optional __getattr__ in module objects was successfully implemented (but is seldom used)
***lazy init of Enums is probably no more needed, covered by the import scheme below
***most common cases like "from PySide6.QtWidgets import QLabel" supported by another __import__ override
***Keep your fingers crossed, testing starts today
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2419 PYSIDE-2419] QLocale::language() returns wrong on macOS.
*** Caused by QLocale infrastructure which looks at Info.plist inside the Python interpreter macOS bundle.
*** Working on a hack fix after consulting Tor Arne and Eddy.
** Pacthelf removal - cross compilation breaks. Working on a fix.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2421 PYSIDE-2421] - QWebEngineView.print() - rerouted to Qt
*** But, might requires an ownership fix in Shiboken once [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-116052 QTBUG-116052] is resolved
** Research - use the .debug files provided by the Qt installer to debug from VSCode.
*** Saves time from not building Qt everytime
*** Still ongoing
** QtAsyncio: Implementation of asyncio.Server (one open question remains - asyncio API and Qt API don't always match as cleanly as desirable).


===10. August 2023===
===18. April 2024===


*General
* General
**
** Bug fixing week
*Infra & Releases
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
**
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
*Bugs & Features
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
**Patchelf removal only partially possible because of using patchelf on prebuilt Qt binaries.  
* Infra & Releases
***For Qfp binaries patchelf removal under review. MacOS issue being fixed. This is needed for Android.
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
**Shiboken module cmake installation bug fixed.
** 6.5.6 release planned
**Progressing with Android C++ to Python callback, now that Qfp binaries could be loaded on startup.
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
**Further investigating on PyPySide MI segfault [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] Progress in Lazy Initialization
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
***the new dual registration is done and builds the base for concrete lazy init
* Bugs & Features
***lazy init of Enums postponed because
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
***an undocumented optional __getattr__ in module objects makes it much easier to lazy-load whole classes, first.
** 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.


===3. August 2023===
===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.


*General
===4. April 2024===
**New reports board
* General
**QtCreator support
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
**Integration cycle on gerrit overview
* Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
**CI down next Monday for a few hours
** Preparing for 6.7.0
**First tests on linux arm64
* Bugs & Features
**Preparing 5.15.15 Commercial LTS
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
**qtpip first trials on the CI
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
*Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
**Async research continues, new things are being discovered while is being developed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums
***Implementing a few new things for improving the support
***Initial patch got merged, but a few others are in the making
**Team contributing to QtAcademy
**SQL queries issues, inconsistencies in the API were fixed
**Build with ninja had some problems regarding mixing stdout and stderr
**Testing initial support for rvalues
**2272 fixing signatures for some qmlRegister* functions
**Examples: new mediaplayer was fully ported
**Example gallery scans now a doc directory for images
**Some other multimedia examples are pending for review
**Team contributing to Qt translations
**Adjusting the deployment tool, and fixing issues with pyenv, and upgrading nuitka
**CMake: adjusting the files to use the new API for finding python, reducing our cmake files
***Considering also the removal of patchelf, and follow the cmake approach
**Lazy initialization of enums is showing a good improvement on the performance


===27. July 2023===
===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
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints


*General
===21. March 2024===
**Shyam wrote trip report to Europython
* General
**Some vacations starting soon for some team members
** Ideas to improve the module.
**Got some cool t-shirts (internal only so far) - Is there interest for merch?
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
**6.5.2 released
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
**Some LTS releases soon as well
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
**Issues on the CI (RHEL8.6) and python interpreter.
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
**Formalization of release besides wheels on PyPI and account.qt.io
* Bugs & Features
**Soon to enable CI on qtpip
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
*Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
**[ext] designer issue, translations
** Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
**PYSIDE-2402 QtHttpServer module was missing on Windows
** QtRhi missing API provided
**QSql methods were un-deprecated (module seems to need more love)
** Memory leak regression being worked out
**Port QtGraph example
** Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
**AsyncIO module: there is a second change in preparation
** Android deployment and qml tool documentations
**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.
** Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
**Enable unity builds for android
** Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
**Nuitka will be pinned to a recent version
** QAsyncio bug fixed
**PYSIDE-2404 lazy loader research
** Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.
*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===
===14. March 2024===
* General
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
* Bugs & Features
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
** Lazy initialization got merged
*** New improvements might land in future versions
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
** Using new icons on the examples
** Testing libclang 18
** QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
** QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
** New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
** permission API changes got merge
** android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
** PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed


*General
===07. March 2024===
**Two team members @ Europython 2023
* General
*Infra & Releases
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
*Bugs & Features
* Infra & Releases
**Implementing transports and protocols of asyncio API
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
**Lazy importer still under development. Ongoings:
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
***necessary to register all types without creating them
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
***turning all PyTypeObject into PyTypeObject valued functions
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
***quite hard because deeply buried in the generated code
* 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.


===13. July 2023===
===29. February 2024===


*General
* General
**CI is not behaving, so be cautious
** Leap day!
**3.12 beta 4 was released
** Documentation changes
**Next week some people are going to Europython
* Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
**6.5.2 still in progress, waiting to have the RC wheels
** 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
*Bugs & Features
** 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
**Qt Akademy to prepare a Qt for Python course
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
**Examples: we might adapt our gallery to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115174
** General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
**Android: callback issue from C++ to Python, some ideas are around, but the problem persists.
* Bugs & Features
***Might be related to the usage of patchelf.
** PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
**Research on Lazy loader continues
** PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
***Some ideas are behaving well at the moment, but still being tested.
** PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
***We might need to discover some classes that we cannot initialize lazily (manual code injection, need init before usage)
** PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
**We need some reviews for the eventloop patch (asyncio)
** Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
**An enum class with an issue for stubs.
** PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
**qtpip work continues
** macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
**Some good-first-issue are planned for the project, so more contributors can join us!
** 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


===6. July 2023===
===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.


*General
===15. February 2024===
**PySide 6.6 will support Python 3.8+
**Python 3.12 support will be back-ported to 6.5 only, and not 6.2
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 commercial lts was released yesterday.
**6.5.2 RC wheels to be tested.
**5.15 open commercial lts tags are in the pyside/pyside-setup repo.
**qtpip configuration file being improved and updated
**ARM CI host configuration continues
*Bugs & Features
**Removal of old enums was finished
**Starting to work with lazy loaders for enums
**First iteration of the asyncio support for the qt eventloop, tests are being prepared.
**PYSIDE-2370 cross compilation issue, might be related to host python, provided some options to try.
**Android issue, we cannot get C++ callbacks to Python. Might be related to a python version incompatibility.
**Preparing a contribution back to python-to-android
**Rewriting some enum code
**Add mediaplayer demo in qtdoc for python (some issues with qml)
**Add document viewer qtdoc example
**PYSIDE-2381 QSettings issue
**pyside6-lupdate issues related to encoding.
**qtpip works continues


===29. June 2023===
* General
** 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.


*General
**Next maintenance break in August.
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.2 postponed until next week
**6.2.9 Commercial LTS soon to be released (a new qt build)
**5.15.15 LTS in the next weeks
**ARM CI host still in progress
**Brainstorming some additional matrix testing infra for Python versions
**Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases (IFW ticket)
*Bugs & Features
**Research on scripting continues
**Designer related features/ QtCreator
**Memory leak related to REG is solved
**New icon theme for examples coming
**Some qdoc examples might be enabled for Python
**Enum removal is still generating detail discussions
***Two implementation versions are suggested.
***The old ones were written in C++ so the startup time is a lot slower
***Lazy generator is helping a A LOT
**Android dev build - unity had some complications
**Async event loop work, last issues were addressed.
***still some network io features are missing
**[Research] PySide components for QtDS needs to follow QtDS release cycle rather than Qt.


===8. February 2024===


===21. June 2023===
* 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.


*General
===1. February 2024===
**PyPI limit increase for PySide6-Addons
**PySide 6.6 might have support for Python 3.8+ (due to Python 3.7 EOL in a week)
**Python 3.12b3 is out - test!
**Qt Contributor Summit
***General session + maybe another one for specific topics.
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 is ready, but waiting for Qt/c++ release
**6.5.2 release date is next week.
**Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases
*Bugs & Features
**Android research: extra functionality is there, and working on bluetooth/permission integration with a device (example)
**PYSIDE-2364 Invalid syntax on a pyi file
**Continue with the old enum removal.
***Maybe delayed initialization to improve startup time.
**AsyncIO eventloop work continues
**Research for scripting continues
**6.6 adaptations
**Fix Enum issue with clang with invalid hex


===15. June 2023===
* General
** 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


*General
**Going to EuroPython
**Participation in Qt Academy
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.9 LTS to be released
**NFS issues in the CI, being worked on.
**ARM host on CI experiencing some issues.
***Some preliminary wheels were generated in order to test.
***Might help the Android story, but this needs to be confirmed.
*Bugs & Features
**Async research revisited
***Testing eventloop wrapping
**Memory leak issue still needs to be fixed (hopefully for 6.5.2)
**Examples in Qt revamp
**Translations and fixes for 6.6
**Discussion about Enums implementation
**Scripting on C++ research continues
**PYSIDE-1735 removing old enums continues
**Android improvements in review
***Adding more modules
**QVariant enum change (temporary patch until Qt7)
**shiboken_generator research to make it publicly available (libclang dependency)


===8. June 2023===
===25. January 2024===


*General
* General
**Python 3.11.4 released, 3.12.0beta2
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
**PySide6-addons reaching the 10G limit on PyPI
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
*Infra & Releases
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
**6.5.1.1 released due to a regression (introduced by a mem leak fix)
* Infra & Releases
**Maintenance Tool > wheels
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
***Special case for M2M protocols to be tested
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
**CI on arm64 continues (Linux and Windows)
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
*Bugs & Features
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
**Fixed some type-hint related issues PYSIDE-2357/PYSIDE-2331/PYSIDE-2340
* Bugs & Features
**Scripting research
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
**Qt pip tool has updated the configuration file and wheels to continue the work on the new tool
** 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).
**QVariant PyEnum issue -> solution for review
** 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).
**Android work continues: improving the dependency detection
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
**PYSIDE-2335 unraisable is finally checked in (the current solution works, it could be improved but low prio -> xml definitions)
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
**PYSIDE-2354 type error due to the usage of Generic (related to 939) - related to cpython issue
** Unity build some issues when building without.
**PYSIDE-1735 old enums removal started
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
**Example tunings
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
**Bug fixing week
** 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.


===1. Juni 2023===
===18. January 2024===


*General
* General
**Europython - call for first time speakers (open to anyone)
* Infra & Releases
**Waiting until API review to move dev to 6.6
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
**New Epic/User Stories policy
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
**Participating into Qt Academy
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
*Infra & Releases
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
**6.5.1 released, a leak fix is causing issues with signal connections.
* Bugs & Features
***Initially we thought it was purely functools.partial but there are other cases that are not working.
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
***Testing alternative solutions, otherwise we revert
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
***In any case a 6.5.1.1 will be out soon
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
**Need to test the new conf file for the commercial wheel install mechanism
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
**5.15 needs to skip libclang16
** Qt 6.7 adaption
**Testing maintenance tool with a license without Qt for Automation (for wheel check)
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
**JIRA release versions are pending.
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
*Bugs & Features
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
**(External) Designer fonts issues
** Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
**PYSIDE-2347 metaobject tool missing types
** PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
**Scxml events missing connections.
** pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
**Scripting research (check report)
** Improvements to the doc build process
**Leak research continue
**Issue with new example state machine to be solved (event handling)
**PYSIDE-1930 PYSIDE-2239 QVariant Enum issue, the fix is out, but we need some tests.
**Finish the problem with unraisable exceptions
***Discussion on special cases with a run function
***Blocking functions are still an issue, because we cannot break
**PYSIDE-2354 typing.Generic issue with inheritance in progress
**PyTest research continues


===25. Mai 2023===
===11. January 2024===


*General
* General
**QtWS - One talk accepted
** Hackathon at TQtC
**Europython - One talk accepted
** CI process presentation
*Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
**6.5.1 one issue was found, so release will be available once we merge the fix.
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
**5.15.14 to be release soon.
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
**CI arm64 experiments continue
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
**Asking about M2M wheels on the maintenance tool, for 6.6
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
**Solving LTS issues of missing tags on public repo, might take some time.
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
*Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
**Evaluating shiboken6_generator to be published on PyPi
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
**Few small fixes around the project (release preparation, new features, small bugs, doc issues)
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
**QtScrypt experimental work continues
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
**Permission API added (motivated by the android support)
** macOS request permission API work continues.
**Improvements for the android deployment.
** 6.7 adaptions patches
**Trying to fix an issue of getting Enums to Ints
** M2M fixes on the current impl
**Delayed exceptions work continues, trying to fix some corner cases still.
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
**Starting to explore PEP 658
** favicon issue with out docs
**Research on PyTest compatibility
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
**[Designer] Fixing some issues, and warnings
** Improvements for the doc build process


===18. 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.


*Infra & Releases
==2023==
**6.5.1 Preparations
**5.15.14 Preparations
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2325 PYSIDE-2325] typesystem incomplete
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2328 PYSIDE-2328] Segmentation fault/access violation when connecting signal of temporary object
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2329 PYSIDE-2329] Signal connections with init kwargs
**Reverted temporarily the delayed exception patch, in order to not block the 6.5.1 release. This should be discussed at the next meeting
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 PYSIDE-2310]
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 PYSIDE-2321]
 
===11. Mai 2023===
 
*General
**Python Users Berlin meetup talk today
**Europython, QtWS
**Qt FF 02.06
**Android team «ketchup»
**Example revamp update
***Quick examples needs to be ported to loadFromModule (Quick3D, QuickLocation, missing)
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.1 to be release around 15.05 -> shifted to next week.
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 regression
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 memory leak
**5.15.14 to be release around 16.05
*Bugs & Features
**Fixing regressions issue related to threads - delayed exceptions
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 event handlers issues
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 virtual method override - still in progress
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2230 3.12 support
**nogil research continues - mutex might slow down things, but doing a proper division of the code could help.
**QML example tutorials - one review pending
**2313 longtype issue with numpy
**examples revamping - loadFromModule
**Icon library -> icon theme soon available on a new module.
**PYSIDE-2316 sharedpointer template issues
**Shiboken refactoring
**Finally the memory leak is fixed
**Enhancing android story, detection of modules, finding dependencies, got ideas from the current qt/c++ tool.
**Build infrastructure, setup.py install has been deprecated since 3.11 - looking into a new build infrastructure.
**Internal technical talks
***Shiboken generating bindings
***Shiboken for documentation generation
***type hints generation
***QML integration via decorators
 
===4. Mai 2023===
 
*General
**Europython talk by Shyam still under consideration
**Qt for Android catch up meeting scheduled for 09/05/2023
**Discussion with kivy developers done on discord. They seem to be onboard with the Qt support.
*Infra & Releases
*Bugs & Features
**Android Deployment Enhancements - Bringing pyside6-android-deploy at the level of androiddeployqt - Ongoing
**python-for-android PR Enhancements - Ongoing
**PYSIDE-1951 super().__lt__ global solution ongoing
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2206 PYSIDE-2206] QML examples/tutorials revamping
**PYSIDE-2221 Python runs NoGil version of mandelbrot.py 7.7 times faster on a 10-code M1 machine
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2288 PYSIDE-2288] Fixed Clang 16 support for 6.6/6.5.
**PYSIDE-2310 Crashing without error reporting in Qt-based threads, debugging
**PYSIDE-2299 Ongoing, current attempt fixes most tests but leaves some SegFaults, might be a dead-end.
 
===27. April 2023===
 
*General
**Planning collaboration with other projects like Kivy, towards a better mobile support.
**QtWS talks submitted
**PyConES, PyConPT, PyConAPAC
**Qt for Android catching up meeting
**Bug fixing week
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.8 wrong source code was published PYSIDE-2297
*Bugs & Features
*PYSIDE-1951 super() and `__lt__` operator issue related to our wrapper.
*asyncio work continues
*enhancements for python-for-android to improve the android stories
*pyside6-android-deploy polished as well
*2299 memory leak might have special cases related to the callback
*clang16 is giving some issues in Qt
*Icon examples libraries for the python examples research
*Snippet translator improvements
 
===20. April 2023===
 
*Bugs & Features
**Work on support for clang 16, which changes behavior quite a bit
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2284 PYSIDE-2284] issue with NoneType
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2285 PYSIDE-2285] Type hints / Tuples
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2298 PYSIDE-2298] and others, fixed some missing 6.5 API
**Added new tools - pyside6-qmlsc (commercial only) and pyside6-qmlcachegen
**Simplified tool adding process
**PySide6 to Android Deployment blog published 🤞
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 PYSIDE-1564] Final approach was implemented with a new super() class. But This approach was not helpful. Issue finally closed.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 PYSIDE-1951] A solution was finally found and implemented. Trying to improve.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2304 PYSIDE-2304] Issue resolved, Cooperative Multiple Inheritance explained with a custom example, customer is happy
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 PYSIDE-2299] Cause for memory leak has been found, but fix will not be trivial (might require extensive refactoring in worst case).
**Debugging QtAsyncIoEventLoop, partly functional but still early.
 
===13. April 2023===
 
*General
**SF 24.04 -> 16.05 ooo
**CM 19.04 -> 27.04 ooo
**QtCreator beta now includes an extra option to create virtual environments
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.0 released, but one missing DLL on windows for people without hw acceleration.
***To be fixed in 6.5.1
**6.2.8 LTS to be released this week
**Improving current state of the maintenance tool for Python
**Second version of the packages in the server
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-684-a-per-interpreter-gil/19583
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-711-pybi-a-standard-format-for-distributing-python-binaries/25547
**Qt Design Studio integration is on research
*Bugs & Features
**Type hints PYSIDE-2284 issue with NoneType
**2283 Platform dependencies into our docs
**Clang16 improvements to be compatible
**Research on the missing DLL issue on Windows
**Research on a memory leak possible related to Signal instances.
**asyncio debugging with a self-made event loop
**Improving the python-for-android changes to prepare a patch
**Technical Preview blog post for Android in the making
**PYSIDE-2294 multiple inheritance issue for a corner case with positional arguments
***Researching a new approach that could improve things further
 
===6. April 2023===
 
*General
**New Python releases 3.11.3, 3.10.11
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.0 released
**6.2.8 commercial LTS to go out soon
**Review Maitenance Tool integration
**qtpip server configuration still in progress
*Bugs & Features
**Android: preparing post, tests, and general improvements.
**PYSIDE-2266 venv issue with the deployment tool.
**Documentation was released for 6.5.0 and many things were polished.
**Async: continue working on the event loop wrapper implementation.
**Research on memory leak that pyqtgraph found
**Brushing up tutorials: expenses
**Adding new examples: simplebrowser, screen capture
**Documentation: found some issues with qdoc (from the move of examples to auto tests)
**PYSIDE-2278 type hinting issue was fixed
**Improvements to the documentation
**Cleaning imports from examples
**Add isort to the development guide
**Exploring other projects where Python can shine
 
===30. March 2023===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.5 to be released next week
**including requirements.txt along the commercial bundle
***research if possible retroactively
**qtpip research continues
*Bugs & Features
**Features that needs to be in before 6.5
***deployment tool nuitka patch
***android tool
***tutorial of thew new quick styled app
**Improving enums to avoid using the old implementation
**Deployment tool and android research continues
**Async research on asyncio and trio proper integration
**Refactoring
**Shiboken examples are not displayed on the docs
**Updating the new image of the project
**Re-porting multimedia examples, simplebrowser
**Initial support for permission API
**small fixes on metaobjectdump
 
 
===23. March 2023===
 
*General
**QtWS CfP open
**EuroPython talks submitted
**Keeping an eye on future Python events
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 is out
***pypy3 3.9.12 compatible, newer versions included an incompatibility
**6.5 branching out today
*Bugs & Features
**async support continues.
**Fixing a couple of issues related to the pyside6-deploy tool.
***venv compatibility
***qml apps are not properly working
**android support almost ready for TP
**PYSIDE-2261 cython signature module incompatibility fixed
**Removed goto from PySide
**Multiple inheritance issues were fixed.
**old Enums are being removed, and the startup time will improve a bit (still in progress)
**PYSIDE-971 GL funtions implementation
**including texttospeech into the wheels (missing by mistake)
**adapting scripts to 6.5
**metaobjectdump issue fixed
**doc updates
 
===16. March 2023===
 
*General
**Preparing submissions for Europython
**New company colors
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 release next week (no release branch)
**Issues with Nuitka 1.5.1 (released yesterday) and the CI didn't like it. Pining 1.5
*Bugs & Features
**qtpip: add support for many other operators (for versions)
**PYSIDE-2254 exit crash issue was fixed
**PYSIDE-2251 designer issue when not initializing virtual environment.
**qmlsurface example ported (polishing the C++ code as well)
**example icons: discussions to standardize them a bit
**android research: fixing some issues with qtquick
**PYSIDE-1564 multiple inheritance work continues, really far but found new issues. Generalizing the solution a bit from a Shiboken point of view. Research on how shiboken handle multiple inheritance to be compatible with Python's way.
**PYSIDE-2255 virtual method issue related to access to those members.
**Generalization of QApplication usage on the tests.
**Research: Add course to QtLearn related to Qt for Python
**doc: some links are broken.
**doc: migration to sphinx-design from sphinx-panels
 
===9. March 2023===
 
*General
**Packing use-cases
**Europython CfP: https://ep2023.europython.eu/cfp
*Infra & Releases
**Preparing 5.15.13: release might be today if nothing goes wrong.
**Wheel bundles on the account.qt.io, and soon to be available in the Maintenance Tool
*Bugs & Features
**Re-added QtLocation
**Added larger examples for QtLocation, QtDataVisualization
**Android research continues, preparing a TP
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2169 Leak related to AsyncIO was finally fixed: related to the new Enum implementation
***PyErr_Fetch/Restore does ref counting, and not borrow ref
**qtpip works continues
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 bug signal instance: fixed most if not all possible errors.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1403 pyi still produces something not fully working with IDEs
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 First version of the implementation of multiple inheritance is working
***Not a general solution, but a good approach (compatible with a competitor).
***Working on a full support to handle multiple inheritance
 
===2. March 2023===
 
*General
**Preparing internal/external material
**Next monday CI maintenance break
*Infra & Releases
**commercial wheel bundles available on account.qt.io
**6.4.3 release was postponed
*Bugs & Features
**Improvements for qtpip
**postEvent() memory leak still has an unknown origin
**PYSIDE-2236 QMetaMethod.fromSignal added
**PYSIDE-2237 be careful with using reserved words in examples/docs/...
**PYSIDE-2239 opaquecontainers wrong dunder name
**PYSIDE-2206 Examples revamping
***Maybe we keep some examples around even if they are removed in Qt/C++
**Android work continues! looking good with 6.5
**PYSIDE-1564 Multiple inheritance story was improved, still in progress.
 
===23. February 2023===
 
*General
**Giving a talk at Python La Paz (on Saturday) - in Spanish
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.3 ready to start the release process
**Change to fix the windows signing is merged
*Bugs & Features
**3.12 compatibility changes will reach 5.15, 6.2, and the future 6.5 LTS
**PYSIDE-79 (caused by PYSIDE-68) refcounting issues addressed
**Continue the 3.12 support because of some new issues found
**PYSIDE-1564: Multiple inheritance support is still being worked (old ABC issues might be related)
**Issues with documentation build (sphinx)
**Research on a memory leak related to the asyncio example: it's not related to asyncio, but from the posting action (pyside, and not Qt, because a C++ example with no async doesn't have any leak)
**PYSIDE-2234 adding QRunnableCreate
**fixed 6.5 issues with cross compilation
**Designer examples revamp
**Works continues on qtpip (a pip wrapper to install commercial wheels)
**PYSIDE-2232 NixOS issues was fixed (another was deferred)
**Research on the std::span support
**Unity compilation research continues
**Bug cleanup, closing and fixing old ones.
**OpenGL getProc issue is being worked on.
**PYSIDE-2192 interactive matplotlib issue (hook)
 
===16. February 2023===
 
*General
**Development of a tool for commercial wheel installation started, and other general improvements.
**Blog posts -> 6.5 release, and Android research.
**Don't forget about Europython.
*Infra & Releases
**Branching dev to 6.5 when the Qt/C++ 6.5.0 RC is out (16 Mar '23)
***Only fixes go to dev with Pick-to: 6.5 if necessary
***new features remain in dev (for 6.6)
*Bugs & Features
**nogil research was positive, and most of our test work. It would require for us to modify the generator for each function/module.
***mandelbrot example works and improves its performance around 3.5 times.
**Python 3.12 will include an incompatibility due to the changes in the type generation
***https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/60074#issuecomment-1430115581
***some other issues were found, but not as critical as the tp_new issue.
**It will be possible to install pyside6 in conda environments starting from 6.4.3 and 6.5
**commercial identifier on commercial wheels will be replaced to be compatible with distutils
**asyncio research continues
**Adapting the deploy tool to include compatibility with android (in progress)
**research on ML-based tool to transform c++ <-> python
**Getting started docs updated
**qtdoc documentation content will be included in the docs
**doc issues: some broken links and references
**General slides to be updated
 
 
===09. February 2023===
 
*General
**How to make our API better for pathlib?
**3.11.2 released, 3.10.10 as well
**https://peps.python.org/pep-0675/
*Infra & Releases
**LTS tags cannot be pushed to community repo (permissions), hopefully in this week.
**Maintenance Tool updates soon
**Binary signing still need a little change to be working
**dev to use 6.5 starting today
*Bugs & Features
**Android research in progress, looking good :)
**A solution was proposed to fix the usage of PySide6 in conda environments: still needs tweaks to work, mainly related to an internal qt.conf that's loaded at runtime.
**PYSIDE-2222 custom widget plugin, load with uic crash
**PYSIDE-2201 was fixed: introducing weak references into the SignalInstances.
**PYSIDE-79 was possible to solve (from PYSIDE-68 solution). Still needs to some documentation to be written.
**PYSIDE-2221 research on future compatibility with NoGIL Python https://github.com/colesbury/nogil https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
**https://github.com/blueloveTH/pocketpy also interesting
 
===02. February 2023===
 
*General
**Europython 2023 will be in Prague! 17-23 July
*Infra & Release
**Improving wheel creation in our CI (signing windows, and other things)
**Soon we will have released LTS in the OSS repo (after some complications)
**CI Maintenance break coming next Monday (keep an eye open to the Python configuration)
*Bugs & Features
**Unity builds were helping pyside/shiboken, and some tests are being done in qt/c++
**meta task on revamping examples in the Qt Project
**Adding uic functionality and documentation
**Doc reviews, some issues were found
**Android development continues, and looks good!
**introducing --log-level to change --verbose-build and --quiet
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance continues:
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Weak Reference handling is complete
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Research on Reference bug continues
**create_wheels.py --builddir to explicitly provide build directory
**WIP: QtAsyncIoEventLoop using Qt's event dispatcher, using BaseEventLoop and BaseSelectorEventLoop for guidance
 
===26. January 2023===
 
*Infra & Releases
**Fixed issues with Windows signing
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2204 PYSIDE-2204 qt.conf encoding]
**Fixed bugs in pyside6-metaobjectdump (QML) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2202 PYSIDE-2202] , [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2203 PYSIDE-2203]
**PYSIDE-2194: Possibly requires refactoring of QLowEnergyController to use the new WinRT API, instead of COM API
**Android Deployment - Patches incoming to automate cross compilation to produce android wheels
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance
***Implement Weak Reference Handling
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Handle early destruction of the object better
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Trying to finally fix the reference leak using weakref.
**Alternative approach to Anaconda issue: Register internal qt6.conf with site-packages prefix (still WIP).
**WIP: Implement class QtAsyncIoEventLoop(asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) that wraps around Qt's event loop to enable Qt + asyncio.
**Memory leak with current asyncio example (or space leak?)
 
===19. January 2023===
 
*General
**Hackathon in TQtC
**The WebAssembly PySide Team was almost doubled in size (+1 brain, +1 hand)
*Infra & Releases
**Windows signing to be improved.
**LTS releases into oss repo: some issues appeared but will be merged soon.
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1994: De-virtualization of Shiboken embedded Python files is now an option controlled dynamically by SBK_EMBED
***PYSIDE-1019: A dormant __feature__ initialization timing problem was fixed while implementing de-virtualization
**PYSIDE-1735: De-coupling of old and new enums was started
**PYSIDE-1564: Debugging of multiple inheritance continues
**Fixed some bluetooth functions in PySide6.
**Low Energy Scanner Example
**PYSIDE-2194: Progressing with this. Definitely a thread issue which allow-thread doesn't seem to fix.
**Possible solution for problems with PySide6 inside conda (compat package with qt6.conf file), but investigating if best solution
 
===12. January 2023===
 
*General
**Next week is Hackathon, meeting will be shorter
**Discussion on how to gather information, and sharing material around Qt for Python
*Infra & Releases
**6.5 RC planning -> feature freeze for PySide
**6.4.2 was released last Monday
**CMake Jumbo builds issue with Windows signing
**LTS branches to land in pyside-setup soon
*Bugs & Features
**Async examples: addressing memory leak and cpu usage due to the event loop interactions
**Review conda packaging story and PySide6
**De-virtualization of Python files: still some issues
**Incompatibility with pywin32: __feature__ related when trying to check if the ext module uses PySide. Also related to an issue with the inspect module.
**Installing PySide6.support via CMake (was previously not considered)
**Work continues on the multiple inheritance issues related to classes based on QObject
**locate issues related to to* methods
**std::array support in shiboken (still in progress)
**fixing imports in matplotlib examples
**adaptation to 6.5
**splitting shiboken generator source to its own
**Android deployment works - tested on Widget applications
**Fixing QTBUG-109510 leading to discovering issues with certain functions in PySide6. Being fixed.
 
===5. January 2023===


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


==2022==
==2022==

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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