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==2022==
==2023==


===18. August 2022===
===21. September 2023===


*General
*General
**Python 3.12.0rc3 is out, final release scheduled for October 2
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.3.2 preparations continued
**6.6 branched
**6.5.3 preparations
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2031 PYSIDE-2031], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1721 PYSIDE-1721] Work on C++ doc snippet conversion
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2465 PYSIDE-2465] (3.11.5 test fail)
** Work on porting further examples
**Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2462 PYSIDE-2462] (smart pointer features)
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2025 PYSIDE-2025] Investigated issues in Datavisualization
**Refactored options parsing of shiboken
** WASM research
**Fixed clang-tidy static analysis issues
** PyEnum: Story finished API-wise. To come are optimizations and removal of old enum code.
**Android permissions API: Adapt more C++ examples
** Signature test simplified and activated, again. Signatures are now always tested.
**Couple more cleanups and additions to pyside6-android-deploy
** PyEnum: Working on documentation
**More manual testing of pyside6-android-deploy. Need to write more integration (mocks) for Android deployment.
** Profiling signature module. Rewrite parts in C? cProfile and line-profiler (3.9)
**Final cleanup and resolving tests for python-for-android Qt for Python patch
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2468 PYSIDE-2468] -requestPermission() on macOS. Tricky scenario similar to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2419 PYSIDE-2419]
**asyncio's requirement to use ThreadPoolExecutor keeps screwing us over, but resolution close


===11. August 2022===
===14. September 2023===


*General
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.3.2 preparations started
**Testing and fixing qtpip for commercial wheels
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1984 PYSIDE-1984] Work on modelview tutorials and snippet conversion
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2460 PYSIDE-2460] Work on some OpenGL issues, updated hellogl2 example
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2019 PYSIDE-2019], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2025 PYSIDE-2025] Work on  Datavisualization issues
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2461 PYSIDE-2461] Build system for cross build fixes
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2017 PYSIDE-2017] Added some OpenGL functions
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2463 PYSIDE-2463] Fixed some type hints
**Unit test discovery - progressing
**Android auto sdk and nkd download merged.
**PYSIDE-1312 - takeRow() missing in QFormLayout
**Requestpermission API and all android changes set for 6.6 merged. Will write tests in the meantime and do some manual testing with deploying apps.
**Windows binding examples fixed  for debug builds
**patchelf removal for Qfp binaries merged.
**Wrapping up PyEnum
**Examining documentation - looking for possible adaptations
**Desktop deployment with nuitka - progressing
**PySide6 vs PyQt6 - slides for marketing


===04. August 2022===
===07. September 2023===


*General
*General
**Majority of the team on holiday
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**3.11 compatibility will not be backported to 5.15.x releases for x < 11
**Preparing 6.2.10, 6.5.3, 6.6.0
**Windows 6.3.1 sources package seems to be missing on account.qt.io
**PyPy branch has been properly working lately
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-2004 Adding qmlls and qmlformat
**PYSIDE-2393 pytest problem with feature is fixed
**Android story evolving, at least with QtCore there is a PoC, UI elements are a bit more challenging due the plugins related to the Java/C++ interaction.
**PYSIDE-2428 feature problem caused long search, has to be fixed in matplotlib
**Deployment functionality being studied for pyside6-projet
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2444 PYSIDE-2444] QState.assignProperty - incorrect type annotation
**QML Wayland issue discovered while porting an example
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2454 PYSIDE-2454] Default argument is not used for containers
**Following up on a former QUrl issue that was an overlook, not a bug.
**Added some number protocol slots [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2446 PYSIDE-2446]
**Test discovery in IDEs (vscode), issues with the structure the unittest requires, will try to use pytest
**Research on submodules [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2447 PYSIDE-2447]
**PYSIDE-1995 C++ exceptions propagation
**qtpip for commercial wheels polishing touches
**PYSIDE-1996 Widgets classes might have constructor parameters
**OpenGLFunctions missing functions that require some numpy interaction
**Python 3.11 compatibility on dev, 6.3, 6.2, and 5.15
**Snippet converter was improved, still work to do.
**solved issue related to pyenv and --enabled-shared
***--enable-shared was not officially recommended for Python and is now optional for PySide
**Working towards Debian PySide packages, adapting many things.
**PyEnum revealed bugs when partially moving from IntEnum to Enum, making issue splitting necessary:
***QKeySequence implementation was fixed
***a few more problems to be solved before final check-in of the PyEnum conclusion
***Then PyEnum documentation will become complete and will be finished, next.


===28. Juli 2022===
===31. August 2023===


*General
*General
**Akademy 2022 KDE - October 2nd - Qt for Python
**Python 3.11.5 released
 
**PyCon Spain talk was accepted - Adrian giving a talk for the new Async story, in October.
**People on leave in September
**FF on Qt for Python overview
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.6 LTS early September release
**Planning 6.6 for the last days of September
 
***Maintenance Tool update for qt for python
***Features until 12.09
****Feature issues + multiple inheritance
****Async story needs some testing
****Android patches (new modules, plugins, permissions, etc)
****qtpip for commercial wheels
****new QtCreator templates?
**6.2.10 Commercial LTS and 6.5.3
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Shiboken and Pyside imports in android works, but not the event loop (QApplication, QCoreApplication) ie. QLibraryInfo works in Android
**Lazy imports still in progress, might be available for 6.7
***Needs special handling and requires QtLoader.java in Python.
**QmlSingleton crash was fixed
***Possibility of creating an infrastructure for Android deployment that doesn't need Kivy Framework
**JIRA was cleaned a bit, many invalid issues
**VS Code test discovery (in progress, but halted for now)
**Signal signatures were adjusted
**Window and Splash screen qml example being ported to C++
**PYSIDE-748 additional parameter metamethod (old issue)
**Qml example resulted into noticing a bug in QUrl PythontoCpp() conversion
**QDataStream read/write data accepting bytes too
**PyEnum - final stages of closing gap between PyQt. Distinguish between Enum, IntEnum and Flag, IntFlag.
**New CMake Qt API has lots of features for qml, resources, etc which might not be too compatible with Qt for Python.
**Test crash issue seems to be solved with python built with --enable-shared
**PYSIDE-2429 macOS deployment min version fixed
***Opportunity to get rid of the whole issue, waiting for fix of CI
**patchelf removal is ready to merge (motivated by android research)
**android: permission API, need some extra testing. Soon ready for review.
**QIODevice buffer object issue was fixed, and is waiting for review (motivated by the async story)
**qtpip development continues.


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===24. August 2023===


===21. Juli 2022===
*General
**New board on JIRA to reflect our work clearly https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=262&view=planning.nodetail&issueLimit=100
**Qt Meetups are starting to popup in Berlin and other countries! we might join some of them.
**Discussions around improving the Qt Creator experience and UI creation in general.
**There has been some motivation from Qt/C++ to use more CMake in projects (like for resources), which is negatively affecting the Python projects, due to the lack of CMake in the Python projects.
*Infra & Releases
**Commercial LTS 5.15.15 to be released soon.
**6.5.3 scheduled for the first week of September
*Bugs & Features
**QIODevice::read(char*, qint64) functions are removed, but they are useful for the asyncio story. Discussion on if it's worth exposing them.
**More changes related to QtAsyncIO are ready for review.
**PYSIDE-2417 overflow issue was fixed
**[ot] i18n in the Qt framework
**PYSIDE-2418 connection issue with python overloads
**6.6 documentation has some issues due to the QtGraph new module
**PYSIDE-2423 connecting signals to python callable doesn't properly work - trying to find a proper solution
**PYSIDE-2424 Installing shiboken in a non-standard way discussion - it might not be properly fixed.
**Next Wednesday 10am: session about Shiboken + QtScrypt status
**PYSIDE-2419 locale issue on macOS due to the Info.plist that python includes that overrides the QLocale settings. A bug report was filed upstream, and a workaround is suggested.
**PYSIDE-2421 webengine issue was discussed, it's an Qt/C++ chromium issue.
**CMake FindPython patches are still being worked out, the wrong interpreter is being found.
**patchelf removal is causing some issues with cross compilation.
**qtpip works continues.


*General
===17. August 2023===
**Possible participation at Akademy
**What about https://www.pycon.se/ ?


*Infra & Releases
**6.2.5 commercial LTS was released.
**6.3.2 release to happen in the middle August
**PyPy CI is partially working (still some issues)


*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**New spreadsheet example was added.
**Investigating on PyPySide MI segfault postponed but on To-Do list [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
**QVariant issue related to Enums was at the end fixed.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] More Progress in Lazy Initialization
**Enabling automatic testing on VSC requires __init__.py files in all directories
***the optional __getattr__ in module objects was successfully implemented (but is seldom used)
**We might add a .vscode/settings.json for development purposes
***lazy init of Enums is probably no more needed, covered by the import scheme below
**The Windows Debug tutorial will be expanded :)
***most common cases like "from PySide6.QtWidgets import QLabel" supported by another __import__ override
**Deployment: struggling with formatting of libraries
***Keep your fingers crossed, testing starts today
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1996 seems to be a pyi issue
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2419 PYSIDE-2419] QLocale::language() returns wrong on macOS.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 Finished the implementation, starting with the documentation
***Caused by QLocale infrastructure which looks at Info.plist inside the Python interpreter macOS bundle.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1970 __slots__ issue might be related to the usage of old python versions
***Working on a hack fix after consulting Tor Arne and Eddy.
**Adapting changes from QtCore like Q_DECLARE_METATYPE and changes to Q_ARG/invokeMethod
**Pacthelf removal - cross compilation breaks. Working on a fix.
**Helping the Qt6 and PySide6 story on Debian
**[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).


===14. Juli 2022===
===10. August 2023===


*General
*General
**
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.5 commercial LTS wheels to be published.
**
**PyPy CI issue remains, but some ideas in place
**Enabling Python betas: maybe we could use a new COIN feature.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**PyEnum chain is ready for review
**Patchelf removal only partially possible because of using patchelf on prebuilt Qt binaries.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1988 Old shiboken was found and fixed
***For Qfp binaries patchelf removal under review. MacOS issue being fixed. This is needed for Android.
***We need to check the interfaces more often, otherwise we will find nasty issues like this one.
**Shiboken module cmake installation bug fixed.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1960 was finally fixed as well and compatible with the new PyEnum approach.
**Progressing with Android C++ to Python callback, now that Qfp binaries could be loaded on startup.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 seems to be trickier
**Further investigating on PyPySide MI segfault [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
***complicated only to keep compatibility with the old Enum approach.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] Progress in Lazy Initialization
**Documentation for the new Enum system soon to be finished, then we will ask for feedback from you dear reader.
***the new dual registration is done and builds the base for concrete lazy init
**QTBUG QLocale issue was found when using en_DE locale (fix was submitted)
***lazy init of Enums postponed because
**Android story is progressing well :D
***an undocumented optional __getattr__ in module objects makes it much easier to lazy-load whole classes, first.
***Still figuring out wheel structure and testing
**Sample binding example of QObject classes as base
**Continue with the PySide yocto cross compilation


===07. Juli 2022===
===3. August 2023===


*General
*General
**New reports board
**QtCreator support
**Integration cycle on gerrit overview
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**PyPy CI issues and currently offline
**CI down next Monday for a few hours
**macOS CI issues last week, it should work properly now.
**First tests on linux arm64
**wheel name update on 6.2
**Preparing 5.15.15 Commercial LTS
**Commercial LTS 6.2.5 planned for next week.
**qtpip first trials on the CI
**Plans to try beta python versions on the CI
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**PyEnum story continues, trying to mitigate some problems that appear from the initializations. Initialization now is done in one phase. Working from 3.6 to 3.10, still having issues with 3.11
**Async research continues, new things are being discovered while is being developed
**Deployment story continues, and things are looking good for Android :O
***Implementing a few new things for improving the support
**New team member setting up things, building Qt, PySide, and many other things
***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


===30. June 2022===
===27. July 2023===


*General
*General
**New team member will start on Friday
**Shyam wrote trip report to Europython
**Intern interview next week
**Some vacations starting soon for some team members
**Experience improvements
**Got some cool t-shirts (internal only so far) - Is there interest for merch?
***Add note to Qt Creator Wizard
***Video tutorials
***Survey to understand
**Designer icons (create SVGs, can we use them?)
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**dev is now 6.4
**6.5.2 released
**precheck on gerrit requires 'full' when the dialog is opened
**Some LTS releases soon as well
**Source of 5.15.6 to be release soon.
**Issues on the CI (RHEL8.6) and python interpreter.
**TODO: 5.15, 62 wheel name adapt
**Formalization of release besides wheels on PyPI and account.qt.io
**Soon to enable CI on qtpip
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**1970 slots issue still in progress, seems to be tricky.
**[ext] designer issue, translations
**Continuing improving the cross compiling story
**PYSIDE-2402 QtHttpServer module was missing on Windows
**PyEnum changes are still in the work.
**QSql methods were un-deprecated (module seems to need more love)
***Dealing with defaults values and initialization
**Port QtGraph example
**3.11 compatibility continues
**AsyncIO module: there is a second change in preparation
**vectorcall support improved
**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.
**Fix new numpy version 1.23
**Enable unity builds for android
**unique_ptr new example
**Nuitka will be pinned to a recent version
**QSpatialAudio added
**PYSIDE-2404 lazy loader research
**WebAssembly research continues
*Interesting projects we checked
**https://github.com/larryhastings/appeal
**Stable Diffusion
**https://docs.hpyproject.org/en/latest/quickstart.html
**https://github.com/rui314/mold


===23. June 2022===
===20. July 2023===


*Infra and Releases
*General
**NumPy 1.23 broke dev and PyPy :(
**Two team members @ Europython 2023
**We need to pin the other packages to avoid breakage
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.5 commercial LTS to be released next week
**5.15.6 source code to be released in the following weeks.
***wheel name adapt patch pending
**Research: CI cores will be reduced in favor of finding available VMs faster.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1964 PYSIDE-1964] Improved messages for kwargs
**Implementing transports and protocols of asyncio API
**6.4 preparations, API and documentation
**Lazy importer still under development. Ongoings:
**Initial work on Python 3.11
***necessary to register all types without creating them
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1945 PYSIDE-1945] python to cpp conversion more updates
***turning all PyTypeObject into PyTypeObject valued functions
**Strict/Forgiving PyEnum implementation was done
***quite hard because deeply buried in the generated code
***remove duplicated enums in outer scope but silently emulate them,
***support the old Flags names to be used
***pretend externally a strict interface in .PYI and line completion
**Bugs fixing 1968 1934 (type hinting issue) 1972 (snippet translate)
**trying to tackle the __slots__ issue 1970
***for debug builds it break, but release only 3.10 breaks
**QVariant Enum issue 1974 168


===16. June 2022===
===13. July 2023===


*Bug fixing week
*General
*QtDevCon
**CI is not behaving, so be cautious
**Meeting new people using PySide!
**3.12 beta 4 was released
**Talk went well :) got some feedback.
**Next week some people are going to Europython
*Releases & Infra
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.10 Commercial released
**6.5.2 still in progress, waiting to have the RC wheels
***adapt wheel names
*Bugs & Features
**6.3.1 to be released in the following days
**Qt Akademy to prepare a Qt for Python course
***RPATH issue with designer.
**Examples: we might adapt our gallery to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115174
**Issues with COIN
**Android: callback issue from C++ to Python, some ideas are around, but the problem persists.
**Issues with Windows builds, they are broken on Windows PYSIDE-1962
***Might be related to the usage of patchelf.
*Features & Bugs
**Research on Lazy loader continues
**non-limited api issue
***Some ideas are behaving well at the moment, but still being tested.
**continue with the Python Enum story
***We might need to discover some classes that we cannot initialize lazily (manual code injection, need init before usage)
***issues wrt backward compatibility
**We need some reviews for the eventloop patch (asyncio)
**Issue with __slots__ on QObject classes (related to 3.10 on macOS and Linux in general)
**An enum class with an issue for stubs.
**1945 python to cpp conversion more updates
**qtpip work continues
**research on 3.11 continues
**Some good-first-issue are planned for the project, so more contributors can join us!
**1959 __mul__ operator
**1930 QVariant on linux issue was fixed
**1934 type hinting issues
*Extras
**New commercial portal account.qt.io
**Webinar today at 5pm CEST
**Don't forget 6.4 will drop python 3.6 support


===09. June 2022===
===6. July 2023===


*Next week is Bug Fixing Week
*General
**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
*Infra & Releases
**commercial LTS 5.15.10 to be released
**6.2.9 commercial lts was released yesterday.
**6.3.1 to be release next week
**6.5.2 RC wheels to be tested.
**Changing the python version on windows is generating new errors.
**5.15 open commercial lts tags are in the pyside/pyside-setup repo.
**CI times are too long, so there is some plan to improve the waiting times.
**qtpip configuration file being improved and updated
**ARM CI host configuration continues
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Tooling research
**Removal of old enums was finished
**Issues with special application cases, QML threading and stuff
**Starting to work with lazy loaders for enums
**Access violation on debug builds on Python 3.7, on COIN it was a release build and presented the issue as well
**First iteration of the asyncio support for the qt eventloop, tests are being prepared.
**Adding new QML files to the wheel (GraphicalEffects)
**PYSIDE-2370 cross compilation issue, might be related to host python, provided some options to try.
**Continue research with WebAssembly
**Android issue, we cannot get C++ callbacks to Python. Might be related to a python version incompatibility.
**Discussion with pyqtgraph to improve API in favor of their module and performance.
**Preparing a contribution back to python-to-android
**Continue work with Qt Enums as Python Enums. Code generation needs some fixes still. Python 3.6 is causing issues...mainly for debug mode and limited API.
**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===


===02. June 2022===
*General
 
**Next maintenance break in August.
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Windows 10: 3.6 -> 3.7, and add Windows 11: 3.10
**6.5.2 postponed until next week
**Signing binaries on Windows is time consuming
**6.2.9 Commercial LTS soon to be released (a new qt build)
**6.2 Commercial LTS close to 6.3.1 OSS release.
**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
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1731 signatures issues related to QFlags
**Research on scripting continues
**PYSIDE-1760 flake8 fixtures broke pyside builds, because it had some effect regarding the replacement of distutils by setuptools.
**Designer related features/ QtCreator
**PyEnum improvements, adding them in the enclosing scopes.
**Memory leak related to REG is solved
**Continue the research on the deployment story
**New icon theme for examples coming
**PYSIDE-1930 QVariant issues
**Some qdoc examples might be enabled for Python
**PYSIDE-1939 Crashes related to return value from shiboken heuristics
**Enum removal is still generating detail discussions
**The project now adopted SDPX licensing (2 lines instead of a wall of text)
***Two implementation versions are suggested.
**PYSIDE-1947 data() and constData() from QAudioBuffer
***The old ones were written in C++ so the startup time is a lot slower
**PYSIDE-661 moving around messages, we still need to tackle some memory improvements.
***Lazy generator is helping a A LOT
**Documentation updates
**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.




===26. May 2022===
===21. June 2023===


*Holiday
*General
**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


===19. May 2022===
===15. June 2023===


*General
**Going to EuroPython
**Participation in Qt Academy
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.5 source code ready to be released
**6.2.9 LTS to be released
**6.3.1 delayed to mid-June
**NFS issues in the CI, being worked on.
**6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release
**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
*Bugs & Features
**1905 specify free functions in Shiboken
**Async research revisited
**move the error messages to libshiboken
***Testing eventloop wrapping
**1932 QEnum issues
**Memory leak issue still needs to be fixed (hopefully for 6.5.2)
**Starting research on webassembly
**Examples in Qt revamp
**Continue research on improve our deployment
**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)


story
===8. June 2023===


**Improve timeouts related to testing
*General
**Enum story is ready for review, additional improvements might come in the future. This feature will be optional before 6.4, and from 6.4 on it will be mandatory (Using Python Enum instead of our own Enum implementation)
**Python 3.11.4 released, 3.12.0beta2
**PyIndex_Check issue
**PySide6-addons reaching the 10G limit on PyPI
*Infra & Releases
**6.5.1.1 released due to a regression (introduced by a mem leak fix)
**Maintenance Tool > wheels
***Special case for M2M protocols to be tested
**CI on arm64 continues (Linux and Windows)
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed some type-hint related issues PYSIDE-2357/PYSIDE-2331/PYSIDE-2340
**Scripting research
**Qt pip tool has updated the configuration file and wheels to continue the work on the new tool
**QVariant PyEnum issue -> solution for review
**Android work continues: improving the dependency detection
**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
**PYSIDE-1735 old enums removal started
**Example tunings
**Bug fixing week


===12. May 2022===
===1. Juni 2023===


*General
**Europython - call for first time speakers (open to anyone)
**Waiting until API review to move dev to 6.6
**New Epic/User Stories policy
**Participating into Qt Academy
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.4 sources should be released soon, preparing 5.15.5
**6.5.1 released, a leak fix is causing issues with signal connections.
**Special pypy branch for nightly integrations
***Initially we thought it was purely functools.partial but there are other cases that are not working.
***Testing alternative solutions, otherwise we revert
***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
**1898 QMetaObject invokeMethod added Q_ARG
**(External) Designer fonts issues
**1919 Crash was fixed
**PYSIDE-2347 metaobject tool missing types
**1912 context properties, adding missing API
**Scxml events missing connections.
**NumPy dependencies are moved to Shiboken (pyqtgraph discussion)
**Scripting research (check report)
**General refactoring
**Leak research continue
**1912 unique_ptr issues
**Issue with new example state machine to be solved (event handling)
**1878 pyside-qml tool to quickly prototype/view qml code
**PYSIDE-1930 PYSIDE-2239 QVariant Enum issue, the fix is out, but we need some tests.
**Research on support for new platforms
**Finish the problem with unraisable exceptions
**Attempting to use PyTest instead of unittest
***Discussion on special cases with a run function
**Missing PyIndex_Check in 3.7 issue
***Blocking functions are still an issue, because we cannot break
**PYSIDE-2354 typing.Generic issue with inheritance in progress
**PyTest research continues


===5. May 2022===
===25. Mai 2023===


*General
**QtWS - One talk accepted
**Europython - One talk accepted
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Starting new commercial branch for 6.2 LTS, 6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release.
**6.5.1 one issue was found, so release will be available once we merge the fix.
**Preparing new 5.15.4 OSS package (according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation)
**5.15.14 to be release soon.
**CI arm64 experiments continue
**Asking about M2M wheels on the maintenance tool, for 6.6
**Solving LTS issues of missing tags on public repo, might take some time.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Python 3.7 PyIndex_Check issue to be addressed in 6.2 and 6.3
**Evaluating shiboken6_generator to be published on PyPi
**Research and improvements on the Raspberry Pi story
**Few small fixes around the project (release preparation, new features, small bugs, doc issues)
**QtWebEngine: Missing setCookieFilter and setNotificationPresenter
**QtScrypt experimental work continues
**Can't use category based logging from PySide
**Permission API added (motivated by the android support)
**Continue research on deployment story
**Improvements for the android deployment.
**1880 DataVisualization + NumPy
**Trying to fix an issue of getting Enums to Ints
**1898 QMetaObject.invokeMethod with arguments not possible
**Delayed exceptions work continues, trying to fix some corner cases still.
**1901 Enum "QVariantList" passed to Property breaks property datatype
**Starting to explore PEP 658
**shiboken to generate deterministic includes
**Research on PyTest compatibility
**Enum new implementation patch is mature to be included in dev and start additional testing
**[Designer] Fixing some issues, and warnings
**Research on testing improvements


===28. April 2022===
===18. Mai 2023===


*Infra & Releases
**6.5.1 Preparations
**5.15.14 Preparations
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1895 PYSIDE-1895], strings with 0 chars.
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2325 PYSIDE-2325] typesystem incomplete
**Diagnosed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1893 PYSIDE-1893], object deletion with lambdas.
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2328 PYSIDE-2328] Segmentation fault/access violation when connecting signal of temporary object
**Worked on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 PYSIDE-1859], native Win handles
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2329 PYSIDE-2329] Signal connections with init kwargs
**Continued [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1880 PYSIDE-1880] QDataVisualization
**Reverted temporarily the delayed exception patch, in order to not block the 6.5.1 release. This should be discussed at the next meeting
**String migration of the code according to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-98434 QTBUG-98434] and related cleanups
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 PYSIDE-2310]
**Improved isolation between tests and __feature__ settings, reset() method implemented.
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 PYSIDE-2321]
**Migration to PyEnum [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] is now error-free:
***qformlayout_test.py gives phantasy values when no elements exist. Python enums can't handle that.


===21. April 2022===
===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
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 is the las OSS release, 6.2 LTS being prepared
**6.5.1 to be release around 15.05 -> shifted to next week.
**6.3.x will continue as the new OSS release.
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 regression
**Issues from people having 6.2.4 and upgrading to 6.3.0. The recommendation is to uninstall the old version and install the new version. This is mainly to an issue we found while upgrading that files were removed, leaving no Qt modules available.
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 memory leak
*Bug & Features
**5.15.14 to be release around 16.05
**QDataVisualization + ItemModel request for data handling (performance discussion), issues seems to be on the C++ implementation of the module.
*Bugs & Features
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 Windows handle classes issue
**Fixing regressions issue related to threads - delayed exceptions
**Found some issues with previous setuptools versions on Linux
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 event handlers issues
**1890 fixing cmake build for the new __all__ resolution.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 virtual method override - still in progress
**New Enum implementation for PySide is already in progress, it's aimed to be in place for 6.4 to avoid breaking existing code. Be aware, that there are things that are currently supported by a wrong implementation, and code adaptation will be required.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2230 3.12 support
**Improving tests overall (due to the enum changes)
**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


===14. April 2022===
===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
*Infra & Releases
**6.3 was released: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-details-on-the-new-6.3-release
**6.3 was branched
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Continue the research on qml plugins and deployment story
**Android Deployment Enhancements - Bringing pyside6-android-deploy at the level of androiddeployqt - Ongoing
**Refactoring and improvements to the build_scripts
**python-for-android PR Enhancements - Ongoing
**Python Qt Enums in progress, still some hard-to-find issues to solve
**PYSIDE-1951 super().__lt__ global solution ongoing
**1627 issue regarding QAction API related to QMenu
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2206 PYSIDE-2206] QML examples/tutorials revamping
**Shiboken refactorings
**PYSIDE-2221 Python runs NoGil version of mandelbrot.py 7.7 times faster on a 10-code M1 machine
**1883 QTest issues
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2288 PYSIDE-2288] Fixed Clang 16 support for 6.6/6.5.
**1880 Request for 3D ItemModel functionality -> added new examples
**PYSIDE-2310 Crashing without error reporting in Qt-based threads, debugging
**Smart pointers and std::optional support
**PYSIDE-2299 Ongoing, current attempt fixes most tests but leaves some SegFaults, might be a dead-end.


===7. April 2022===
===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
*Infra & Releases
**New commercial 5.15 releases, difficulties with libclang 12
**5.15.8 wrong source code was published PYSIDE-2297
**_Py_Mangle issues on >=5.15.4 to be included in 5.15.4 source packages (and others)
**Branching 6.3 in the next days.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1876 qmlparserstatus issue fixed
*PYSIDE-1951 super() and `__lt__` operator issue related to our wrapper.
**Fix TOC doc issue and adapt new qtbase changes
*asyncio work continues
**refactorings to reduce size of generated code
*enhancements for python-for-android to improve the android stories
**smartpointers improvements, adding tests and tuning implementation
*pyside6-android-deploy polished as well
**PYSIDE-1878 improving qml and python interaction (plugins)
*2299 memory leak might have special cases related to the callback
**Working on the new Qt Python Enums approach (will be a TP with a compile time option)
*clang16 is giving some issues in Qt
**Improve some issues on 5.15.x regarding Python 3.10 compatibility (_Py_Mangle)
*Icon examples libraries for the python examples research
*Snippet translator improvements


===31. March 2022===
===20. April 2023===


*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-187O fixed.
**Work on support for clang 16, which changes behavior quite a bit
**Wheel size reduction - new flag --no-size-optimization - ready to merge.
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2284 PYSIDE-2284] issue with NoneType
**pyqmlscene  (starts with PySide6QmlPlugin) in the working. Requirements gathering from Qml team.
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2285 PYSIDE-2285] Type hints / Tuples
**shiboken6-genpyi was fixed (was not functional after the Python virtualization)
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2298 PYSIDE-2298] and others, fixed some missing 6.5 API
**adaptation of PySide6.__all__ after the wheel split, still a problem not understood
**Added new tools - pyside6-qmlsc (commercial only) and pyside6-qmlcachegen
**PYSIDE-1735: Use Python Enums to handle Qt Enum. Making fast progress.
**Simplified tool adding process
**PYSIDE-535: completing PyPy documentation to introduce the project for 6.3
**PySide6 to Android Deployment blog published 🤞
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1874 PYSIDE-1874] SIGSEGV when accessing __doc__ of a Property fixed
**[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.


===24. March 2022===
===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
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 was released
**6.5.0 released, but one missing DLL on windows for people without hw acceleration.
**5.15.3 sources were updated to include pyside2-tools, and 3.10 compatibility.
***To be fixed in 6.5.1
**We will replace 3.6.1 by 3.7.x to test on windows
**6.2.8 LTS to be released this week
**Adding new set of wheels to the download.qt.io snapshots
**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
*Bugs & Features
**Research on reducing wheel sizes via compiling flags and other things.
**Type hints PYSIDE-2284 issue with NoneType
**REG PYSIDE-1870 still in progress
**2283 Platform dependencies into our docs
**Fixing doc issues, and sphinx related changes.
**Clang16 improvements to be compatible
**1862 top level cmake build fixed
**Research on the missing DLL issue on Windows
**1868 crash on frame buffer (factory function)
**Research on a memory leak possible related to Signal instances.
**Adapting to changes in Qt/C++
**asyncio debugging with a self-made event loop
**share_ptr handling refactoring to write independently of the platform
**Improving the python-for-android changes to prepare a patch
**wheel_tester issue on macos was fixed (scriptableapplication building with qmake only), it uses cmake and ninja now.
**Technical Preview blog post for Android in the making
**Issue in pyside6 re-introduced an old issue: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/401438
**PYSIDE-2294 multiple inheritance issue for a corner case with positional arguments
**Continue with the work on Enums in PySide
***Researching a new approach that could improve things further
**Improvements to the create wheel process


===17. March 2022===
===6. April 2023===


*General
*General
**New Python releases 3.11.3, 3.10.11
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 release is ready to be out today.
**6.5.0 released
**LTS 5.15.3 source code will be re-uploaded due to missing pyside2-tools
**6.2.8 commercial LTS to go out soon
**Review Maitenance Tool integration
**qtpip server configuration still in progress
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**QmlExtension research for PySide projects
**Android: preparing post, tests, and general improvements.
**Research for new ideas to improve PySide and Shiboken
**PYSIDE-2266 venv issue with the deployment tool.
**Stripping binaries a bit to reduce wheel size
**Documentation was released for 6.5.0 and many things were polished.
**QtPropertyMap is not exposed
**Async: continue working on the event loop wrapper implementation.
**Update the documentation (Signal/Slots, modules desc, and more)
**Research on memory leak that pyqtgraph found
**Replacing count() functions by size() internally.
**Brushing up tutorials: expenses
**Improving the testing framework (special cases for apple silicon)
**Adding new examples: simplebrowser, screen capture
**PYSIDE-1843: Continue fixing failing tests for PyPy
**Documentation: found some issues with qdoc (from the move of examples to auto tests)
**Research: Improvements to Qt Enums to rely on Python Enums
**PYSIDE-2278 type hinting issue was fixed
**Wheel splitting might need a small size increase on PyPi
**Improvements to the documentation
**Cleaning imports from examples
**Add isort to the development guide
**Exploring other projects where Python can shine


===10. March 2022===
===30. March 2023===


*General
*General
**Position still open and many candidates in the pipeline.
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Python CI version updates: 3.8 (linux) 3.7 (win) mac (3.9)
**6.5 to be released next week
**PyPy issues on the CI being addressed, almost fully functional.
**including requirements.txt along the commercial bundle
**6.2.4 still waiting for Qt to be released.
***research if possible retroactively
**5.15.3 source was released according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation
**qtpip research continues
***Sadly, it doesn't include the patches to be Python 3.10 compatible
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Research on new PySide features on-going, extra things, internals, and performance
**Features that needs to be in before 6.5
**QtNfc module was added
***deployment tool nuitka patch
**qFuzzyCompare issue was fixed
***android tool
**Improvements on the shiboken containers parsing
***tutorial of thew new quick styled app
**Compatibility with older python version and pypy tests
**Improving enums to avoid using the old implementation
**QmlPropertyMap issue was fixed
**Deployment tool and android research continues
**Still fixing tests for PyPy and new Qt builds
**Async research on asyncio and trio proper integration
***New issues were found, but many were fixes. At the moment: 14 in Core, and 18 in all the modules
**Refactoring
**New wheel structure being discussed: splitting the big wheels into at least two
**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
 


===3. March 2022===
===23. March 2023===


*General
*General
**QtWS CfP open
**EuroPython talks submitted
**Keeping an eye on future Python events
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 ready to be released, but qt was postponed for 15.03.2022
**6.4.3 is out
**PyPy CI builds are still being tested
***pypy3 3.9.12 compatible, newer versions included an incompatibility
**Next week there will be a CI maintenance break
**6.5 branching out today
**Python versions: 3.6 (linux + win) 3.9 (mac) | 3.10 test win
*Bugs & Features
***3.6 will be deprecated in 6.3, so we will change CI versions
**async support continues.
***3.8 (win), 3.10 (x), 3.7 (x)
**Fixing a couple of issues related to the pyside6-deploy tool.
**6.3 branching still pending a few wheel modifications, and tags.
***venv compatibility
*Bug & Features
***qml apps are not properly working
**PyPy build on windows presented a few challenges, and PyPy issues were found and reported.
**android support almost ready for TP
**pyi generation also had issues due to a virtualenv + windows configurations being wrong, regarding the import orders.
**PYSIDE-2261 cython signature module incompatibility fixed
**Enum refactoring is still in progress.
**Removed goto from PySide
**container conversion research
**Multiple inheritance issues were fixed.
**1835 building 5.15 without limited api
**old Enums are being removed, and the startup time will improve a bit (still in progress)
**qml research on property values, and group properties will be fix as well
**PYSIDE-971 GL funtions implementation
**research on new opportunities to improve PySide as a Python module
**including texttospeech into the wheels (missing by mistake)
**re-working the wheel generation
**adapting scripts to 6.5
**metaobjectdump issue fixed
**doc updates


===24. February 2022===
===16. March 2023===


*General
*General
**Preparing submissions for Europython
**New company colors
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
*Bug & Feature
**6.4.3 release next week (no release branch)
**PYSIDE-1824 BT issue was fixed
**Issues with Nuitka 1.5.1 (released yesterday) and the CI didn't like it. Pining 1.5
**PYSIDE-1826 Image provider
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1827 metatype slot pending (metacall handle improvements)
**qtpip: add support for many other operators (for versions)
**Research on arguments conversion
**PYSIDE-2254 exit crash issue was fixed
**PYSIDE-1815 set modified parameter function (reddit example)
**PYSIDE-2251 designer issue when not initializing virtual environment.
**PYSIDE-1809 signature modules issues.
**qmlsurface example ported (polishing the C++ code as well)
**PYSIDE-1821 Byte handling changes
**example icons: discussions to standardize them a bit
**Research on new ideas for the PySide module
**android research: fixing some issues with qtquick
**PYSIDE-1705 Property support in constructors (relation with __feature__)
**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-1735 Python Enums to handle Qt Enums (prototypes)
**PYSIDE-2255 virtual method issue related to access to those members.
***PYSIDE-1731 mypy regression issue (related to enums)
**Generalization of QApplication usage on the tests.
**PyPy work continues, focused on compatibility with the newest version (supporting python 3.9)
**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===


===17. February 2022===
*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
*General
**New Documentation Engineer joined the Foundation Area.
**Preparing internal/external material
*Infrastructure & Releases
**Next monday CI maintenance break
**3.10.0 configuration to be tested
*Infra & Releases
**Research on improvements for the packages in download.qt.io
**commercial wheel bundles available on account.qt.io
**Testing PyPy on the CI
**6.4.3 release was postponed
**Python 3.6 will be deprecated in PySide 6.3 and removed in 6.4
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Addressing compatibility with other deployment tools.
**Improvements for qtpip
**QmlExtended QmlAttach will be available in 6.3
**postEvent() memory leak still has an unknown origin
**PYSIDE-1812 cross build task custom clang options
**PYSIDE-2236 QMetaMethod.fromSignal added
**Research with C++20 to build pyside, and vector call new API in 3.9+
**PYSIDE-2237 be careful with using reserved words in examples/docs/...
**PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1763 __feature__ issues were fixed and working on providing support for property in constructors PYSIDE-1705 (a bit more difficult)
**PYSIDE-2239 opaquecontainers wrong dunder name
**PYSIDE-1815 QtNetworkAuth.QAbstractOAuth is missing modifyParametersFunction/setModifyParametersFunction
**PYSIDE-2206 Examples revamping
**PYSIDE-1821 Add support for std::byte
***Maybe we keep some examples around even if they are removed in Qt/C++
**PYSIDE-1809 wrong name type annotation for setProperty() and property()
**Android work continues! looking good with 6.5
**PYSIDE-1564 Multiple inheritance story was improved, still in progress.


===10. February 2022===
===23. February 2023===


*General
*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
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1806 PYSIDE-1806] CMake version check fixed
**3.12 compatibility changes will reach 5.15, 6.2, and the future 6.5 LTS
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1804 PYSIDE-1804] Big endian test failure fixed
**PYSIDE-79 (caused by PYSIDE-68) refcounting issues addressed
**Work in progress to add further QML decorators
**Continue the 3.12 support because of some new issues found
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1702 PYSIDE-1702] snake_case handling now does explicitly not touch user defined classes.
**PYSIDE-1564: Multiple inheritance support is still being worked (old ABC issues might be related)
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1758 PYSIDE-1758] Leave the underscore variable alone in QApplication
**Issues with documentation build (sphinx)
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 PYSIDE-535] Remove a disambiguation patch no longer needed
**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)
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1765] Widget subclass' minimumSizeHint not called with true_property
**PYSIDE-2234 adding QRunnableCreate
**Work in progress on: [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1753 PYSIDE-1753] setStyleSheet available even if snake_case (complex)
**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)


===03. February 2022===
===16. February 2023===


*General
*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
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 was released.
**Branching dev to 6.5 when the Qt/C++ 6.5.0 RC is out (16 Mar '23)
**Waiting for a scheduled CI break on Monday
***Only fixes go to dev with Pick-to: 6.5 if necessary
**OSS packages for 5.15.3 source to be available soon.
***new features remain in dev (for 6.6)
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Updating new Qt dev API (targeting 6.4)
**nogil research was positive, and most of our test work. It would require for us to modify the generator for each function/module.
**Adjusting a designer issue with a crash on views
***mandelbrot example works and improves its performance around 3.5 times.
**Improving examples: Old OpenGL API
**Python 3.12 will include an incompatibility due to the changes in the type generation
**PYSIDE-1801 signal crash issue addressed
***https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/60074#issuecomment-1430115581
**PYSIDE-1804 QByteArray issue
***some other issues were found, but not as critical as the tp_new issue.
**Improving QML: getting some issues with QML_ATTACHED
**It will be possible to install pyside6 in conda environments starting from 6.4.3 and 6.5
**Writing PyPy Documentation to explain motivation, changes, and usage.
**commercial identifier on commercial wheels will be replaced to be compatible with distutils
**PyPy Compatibility:
**asyncio research continues
***Got nice performance results with the working mandelbrot example
**Adapting the deploy tool to include compatibility with android (in progress)
***Still working on some last tests that are not properly working.
**research on ML-based tool to transform c++ <-> python
**PYSIDE-1798 fixing enum issue
**Getting started docs updated
**Continue the work on the python-lsp issues on QtCreator
**qtdoc documentation content will be included in the docs
**doc issues: some broken links and references
**General slides to be updated


===27. January 2022===
 
===09. February 2023===


*General
*General
**Communicate issue with Apple Silicon and our wheels. There is a bug on Python so using limited API and creating wheels with Python 3.8, make them unusable for 3.6 and 3.7
**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
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 to be release soon.
**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
*Bugs & Features
**Qt Creator LSP issue has an initial solution
**Android research in progress, looking good :)
**Curating a list of new features for Shiboken
**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.
**Working on an issue related to help() function on top of custom modules
**PYSIDE-2222 custom widget plugin, load with uic crash
**PYSIDE-1057 memory leak in progress
**PYSIDE-2201 was fixed: introducing weak references into the SignalInstances.
**Fixing examples to be compatible with PyPy and addressing corner cases
**PYSIDE-79 was possible to solve (from PYSIDE-68 solution). Still needs to some documentation to be written.
**QPainter was transformed into a context manager
**PYSIDE-2221 research on future compatibility with NoGIL Python https://github.com/colesbury/nogil https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
**Building pyside with PyPy 3.8 is possible (3.9 is still in alpha)
**https://github.com/blueloveTH/pocketpy also interesting
**Working on a new tree example
**1788 allow-thread issue with event functions
**Add threaded OpenGL example
**Add data()/constData() to OpaqueContainers
**Continue work on QML integration


===20. January 2022===
===02. February 2023===


*General
*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
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 release next week
**Fixed issues with Windows signing
**Waiting a bit before branching 6.3
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**QtCreator Python LSP issue to be worked on
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2204 PYSIDE-2204 qt.conf encoding]
**Continue with the research related to new Shiboken features.
**Fixed bugs in pyside6-metaobjectdump (QML) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2202 PYSIDE-2202] , [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2203 PYSIDE-2203]
**Fixing general bugs from support
**PYSIDE-2194: Possibly requires refactoring of QLowEnergyController to use the new WinRT API, instead of COM API
**Adapting new API for 6.3
**Android Deployment - Patches incoming to automate cross compilation to produce android wheels
**Improving QML story with custom types
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance
**PyPy compatibility is focused on making some last examples to work, some issues with PyPy are being found as well.
***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?)


===13. January 2022===
===19. January 2023===


*General
**Hackathon in TQtC
**The WebAssembly PySide Team was almost doubled in size (+1 brain, +1 hand)
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Maintenance in the CI, still a few things to be improved.
**Windows signing to be improved.
**New version of Gerrit is available as well.
**LTS releases into oss repo: some issues appeared but will be merged soon.
**5.15.8 Commercial LTS was released
*Bugs & Features
**5.15.2.1 to be release soon, special version with Python 3.10 support
**PYSIDE-1994: De-virtualization of Shiboken embedded Python files is now an option controlled dynamically by SBK_EMBED
*Bugs and Features
***PYSIDE-1019: A dormant __feature__ initialization timing problem was fixed while implementing de-virtualization
**PYSIDE-1755 Fixing issues with __code__ (related to slots)
**PYSIDE-1735: De-coupling of old and new enums was started
**Improved documentation
**PYSIDE-1564: Debugging of multiple inheritance continues
**Looking for new features for Shiboken
**Fixed some bluetooth functions in PySide6.
**Working on improving the LSP story on QtCreator https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-jsonrpc/issues/5
**Low Energy Scanner Example
**PYSIDE-1764 suggestion on avoid the generation/wrapping of methods within objects.
**PYSIDE-2194: Progressing with this. Definitely a thread issue which allow-thread doesn't seem to fix.
**PYSIDE-1730 signal/method namespace crash, generated by old fixes on old bugs.
**Possible solution for problems with PySide6 inside conda (compat package with qt6.conf file), but investigating if best solution
**Add capacity/reserve functions to OpaqueContainers
**QML references examples issues, to discover missing details on the qml interaction
**Clarifying the conversion rules on the typesystem: native, target
**PYSIDE-1768 and PYSIDE-1769 WebEngine issues were solved.
**uic missing imports
**PYSIDE-1751 equality test for signals is rewritten and working better
**QXYSeries: adding missing addons to enable methods


===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.


===06. January 2022===
===5. January 2023===


*General
*General
**New bridge between Telegram <-> IRC
**Next monday CI maintenance
*Infra & Release
**OKRs
**Planning 5.15.2 new release (5.15.2.1) to include Python 3.10 support.
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.8 Commercial LTS to be release in the next couple of days.
**5.15.12 LTS, 6.2.7 LTS released
**6.2.3 planned for 2022.01.18
**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
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1755 __code__ inspection on slot connection is buggy (breaks, e.g. MagicMock testing)
**PYSIDE-1931 SQL issue regarding allow-thread
**Ported new examples QRegularExpression editor and MimeTypes
**helping 6.5 translations
**Research to get new Shiboken features
**Adaptations with 6.5
**Updating translations
**QSharedPointer -> std::shared_ptr attempt
**In progress enabling qmllint in pyside project thanks to an external tool
**research on adding std::span into shiboken
**Addressing signal issues for different use-cases, multiple inheritance
**PYSIDE-2160 properties qml types issues
***There is a relation with PyPy issues as well
**Tutorials language review
**PYSIDE-1760 Racing condition without virtual environments (preloading setuptools)
**Android research continues
**true_property issues were solved.
**QTBUG-109510 BTLE issue on pyside
**continue work to have a more modular pyside installation with more wheels
 
**research on manylinux compatibility
==2022==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]


==2021==
==2021==

Latest revision as of 18:05, 21 September 2023

2023

21. September 2023

  • General
    • Python 3.12.0rc3 is out, final release scheduled for October 2
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.6 branched
    • 6.5.3 preparations
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2465 (3.11.5 test fail)
    • Work on PYSIDE-2462 (smart pointer features)
    • Refactored options parsing of shiboken
    • Fixed clang-tidy static analysis issues
    • Android permissions API: Adapt more C++ examples
    • Couple more cleanups and additions to pyside6-android-deploy
    • More manual testing of pyside6-android-deploy. Need to write more integration (mocks) for Android deployment.
    • Final cleanup and resolving tests for python-for-android Qt for Python patch
    • PYSIDE-2468 -requestPermission() on macOS. Tricky scenario similar to PYSIDE-2419
    • asyncio's requirement to use ThreadPoolExecutor keeps screwing us over, but resolution close

14. September 2023

  • Infra & Releases
    • Testing and fixing qtpip for commercial wheels
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2460 Work on some OpenGL issues, updated hellogl2 example
    • PYSIDE-2461 Build system for cross build fixes
    • PYSIDE-2463 Fixed some type hints
    • Android auto sdk and nkd download merged.
    • Requestpermission API and all android changes set for 6.6 merged. Will write tests in the meantime and do some manual testing with deploying apps.
    • patchelf removal for Qfp binaries merged.

07. September 2023

  • General
    • Majority of the team on holiday
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.2.10, 6.5.3, 6.6.0
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2393 pytest problem with feature is fixed
    • PYSIDE-2428 feature problem caused long search, has to be fixed in matplotlib
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2444 QState.assignProperty - incorrect type annotation
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2454 Default argument is not used for containers
    • Added some number protocol slots PYSIDE-2446
    • Research on submodules PYSIDE-2447
    • qtpip for commercial wheels polishing touches

31. August 2023

  • General
    • Python 3.11.5 released
    • PyCon Spain talk was accepted - Adrian giving a talk for the new Async story, in October.
    • People on leave in September
    • FF on Qt for Python overview
  • Infra & Releases
    • Planning 6.6 for the last days of September
      • Maintenance Tool update for qt for python
      • Features until 12.09
        • Feature issues + multiple inheritance
        • Async story needs some testing
        • Android patches (new modules, plugins, permissions, etc)
        • qtpip for commercial wheels
        • new QtCreator templates?
    • 6.2.10 Commercial LTS and 6.5.3
  • Bugs & Features
    • Lazy imports still in progress, might be available for 6.7
    • QmlSingleton crash was fixed
    • JIRA was cleaned a bit, many invalid issues
    • Signal signatures were adjusted
    • PYSIDE-748 additional parameter metamethod (old issue)
    • QDataStream read/write data accepting bytes too
    • New CMake Qt API has lots of features for qml, resources, etc which might not be too compatible with Qt for Python.
    • PYSIDE-2429 macOS deployment min version fixed
    • patchelf removal is ready to merge (motivated by android research)
    • android: permission API, need some extra testing. Soon ready for review.
    • QIODevice buffer object issue was fixed, and is waiting for review (motivated by the async story)
    • qtpip development continues.

24. August 2023

  • General
    • New board on JIRA to reflect our work clearly https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=262&view=planning.nodetail&issueLimit=100
    • Qt Meetups are starting to popup in Berlin and other countries! we might join some of them.
    • Discussions around improving the Qt Creator experience and UI creation in general.
    • There has been some motivation from Qt/C++ to use more CMake in projects (like for resources), which is negatively affecting the Python projects, due to the lack of CMake in the Python projects.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Commercial LTS 5.15.15 to be released soon.
    • 6.5.3 scheduled for the first week of September
  • Bugs & Features
    • QIODevice::read(char*, qint64) functions are removed, but they are useful for the asyncio story. Discussion on if it's worth exposing them.
    • More changes related to QtAsyncIO are ready for review.
    • PYSIDE-2417 overflow issue was fixed
    • [ot] i18n in the Qt framework
    • PYSIDE-2418 connection issue with python overloads
    • 6.6 documentation has some issues due to the QtGraph new module
    • PYSIDE-2423 connecting signals to python callable doesn't properly work - trying to find a proper solution
    • PYSIDE-2424 Installing shiboken in a non-standard way discussion - it might not be properly fixed.
    • Next Wednesday 10am: session about Shiboken + QtScrypt status
    • PYSIDE-2419 locale issue on macOS due to the Info.plist that python includes that overrides the QLocale settings. A bug report was filed upstream, and a workaround is suggested.
    • PYSIDE-2421 webengine issue was discussed, it's an Qt/C++ chromium issue.
    • CMake FindPython patches are still being worked out, the wrong interpreter is being found.
    • patchelf removal is causing some issues with cross compilation.
    • qtpip works continues.

17. August 2023

  • Bugs & Features
    • Investigating on PyPySide MI segfault postponed but on To-Do list PYSIDE-1991
    • 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
    • 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.
    • PYSIDE-2421 - QWebEngineView.print() - rerouted to Qt
      • But, might requires an ownership fix in Shiboken once 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

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Patchelf removal only partially possible because of using patchelf on prebuilt Qt binaries.
      • For Qfp binaries patchelf removal under review. MacOS issue being fixed. This is needed for Android.
    • Shiboken module cmake installation bug fixed.
    • Progressing with Android C++ to Python callback, now that Qfp binaries could be loaded on startup.
    • Further investigating on PyPySide MI segfault PYSIDE-1991
    • PYSIDE-2404 Progress in Lazy Initialization
      • the new dual registration is done and builds the base for concrete lazy init
      • lazy init of Enums postponed because
      • an undocumented optional __getattr__ in module objects makes it much easier to lazy-load whole classes, first.

3. August 2023

  • General
    • New reports board
    • QtCreator support
    • Integration cycle on gerrit overview
  • Infra & Releases
    • CI down next Monday for a few hours
    • First tests on linux arm64
    • Preparing 5.15.15 Commercial LTS
    • qtpip first trials on the CI
  • Bugs & Features
    • Async research continues, new things are being discovered while is being developed
      • 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

  • General
    • Shyam wrote trip report to Europython
    • Some vacations starting soon for some team members
    • Got some cool t-shirts (internal only so far) - Is there interest for merch?
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.2 released
    • Some LTS releases soon as well
    • Issues on the CI (RHEL8.6) and python interpreter.
    • Formalization of release besides wheels on PyPI and account.qt.io
    • Soon to enable CI on qtpip
  • Bugs & Features
    • [ext] designer issue, translations
    • PYSIDE-2402 QtHttpServer module was missing on Windows
    • QSql methods were un-deprecated (module seems to need more love)
    • Port QtGraph example
    • AsyncIO module: there is a second change in preparation
    • 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.
    • Enable unity builds for android
    • Nuitka will be pinned to a recent version
    • PYSIDE-2404 lazy loader research
  • Interesting projects we checked

20. July 2023

  • General
    • Two team members @ Europython 2023
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Implementing transports and protocols of asyncio API
    • Lazy importer still under development. Ongoings:
      • necessary to register all types without creating them
      • turning all PyTypeObject into PyTypeObject valued functions
      • quite hard because deeply buried in the generated code

13. July 2023

  • General
    • CI is not behaving, so be cautious
    • 3.12 beta 4 was released
    • Next week some people are going to Europython
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.2 still in progress, waiting to have the RC wheels
  • Bugs & Features
    • Qt Akademy to prepare a Qt for Python course
    • Examples: we might adapt our gallery to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115174
    • Android: callback issue from C++ to Python, some ideas are around, but the problem persists.
      • Might be related to the usage of patchelf.
    • Research on Lazy loader continues
      • Some ideas are behaving well at the moment, but still being tested.
      • We might need to discover some classes that we cannot initialize lazily (manual code injection, need init before usage)
    • We need some reviews for the eventloop patch (asyncio)
    • An enum class with an issue for stubs.
    • qtpip work continues
    • Some good-first-issue are planned for the project, so more contributors can join us!

6. July 2023

  • General
    • 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
    • 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.


21. June 2023

  • General
    • 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
    • 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

  • General
    • Python 3.11.4 released, 3.12.0beta2
    • PySide6-addons reaching the 10G limit on PyPI
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.1.1 released due to a regression (introduced by a mem leak fix)
    • Maintenance Tool > wheels
      • Special case for M2M protocols to be tested
    • CI on arm64 continues (Linux and Windows)
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed some type-hint related issues PYSIDE-2357/PYSIDE-2331/PYSIDE-2340
    • Scripting research
    • Qt pip tool has updated the configuration file and wheels to continue the work on the new tool
    • QVariant PyEnum issue -> solution for review
    • Android work continues: improving the dependency detection
    • 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
    • PYSIDE-1735 old enums removal started
    • Example tunings
    • Bug fixing week

1. Juni 2023

  • General
    • Europython - call for first time speakers (open to anyone)
    • Waiting until API review to move dev to 6.6
    • New Epic/User Stories policy
    • Participating into Qt Academy
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.1 released, a leak fix is causing issues with signal connections.
      • Initially we thought it was purely functools.partial but there are other cases that are not working.
      • Testing alternative solutions, otherwise we revert
      • 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
    • (External) Designer fonts issues
    • PYSIDE-2347 metaobject tool missing types
    • Scxml events missing connections.
    • Scripting research (check report)
    • 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

  • General
    • QtWS - One talk accepted
    • Europython - One talk accepted
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.1 one issue was found, so release will be available once we merge the fix.
    • 5.15.14 to be release soon.
    • CI arm64 experiments continue
    • Asking about M2M wheels on the maintenance tool, for 6.6
    • Solving LTS issues of missing tags on public repo, might take some time.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Evaluating shiboken6_generator to be published on PyPi
    • Few small fixes around the project (release preparation, new features, small bugs, doc issues)
    • QtScrypt experimental work continues
    • Permission API added (motivated by the android support)
    • Improvements for the android deployment.
    • Trying to fix an issue of getting Enums to Ints
    • Delayed exceptions work continues, trying to fix some corner cases still.
    • Starting to explore PEP 658
    • Research on PyTest compatibility
    • [Designer] Fixing some issues, and warnings

18. Mai 2023

  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.1 Preparations
    • 5.15.14 Preparations
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2325 typesystem incomplete
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2328 Segmentation fault/access violation when connecting signal of temporary object
    • Fixed 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

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
  • 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
    • 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
    • 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 PYSIDE-2284 issue with NoneType
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2285 Type hints / Tuples
    • Fixed 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 🤞
    • PYSIDE-1564 Final approach was implemented with a new super() class. But This approach was not helpful. Issue finally closed.
    • PYSIDE-1951 A solution was finally found and implemented. Trying to improve.
    • PYSIDE-2304 Issue resolved, Cooperative Multiple Inheritance explained with a custom example, customer is happy
    • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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
    • 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
  • 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:
    • 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 PYSIDE-2204 qt.conf encoding
    • Fixed bugs in pyside6-metaobjectdump (QML) PYSIDE-2202 , 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
      • PYSIDE-2201 Handle early destruction of the object better
      • 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
    • 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

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