PySide Changelog

What's new in PySide 1.2.2

Jan 20, 2015
  • PySide:
  • Fix PYSIDE-190: QCoreApplication would deadlock on exit if the global QThreadPool.globalInstance() is running a QRunnable with python code
  • Change GlobalReceiver to explicitly 'use' [dis]connectNotify of the base class in order to avoid hiding these with its own overloads.
  • Add explicit casts when initializing an int[] using {}'s, as required by C++11 to be "well formed"
  • Fix PYSIDE-172: multiple rules for file
  • Use file system encoding instead of assumed 'ascii' when registering qt.conf in Qt resource system
  • Shiboken:
  • Remove rejection lines that cause the sample_list test to fail
  • Remove protected from samblebinding test
  • Add parsing of 'noexcept' keyword
  • Fix function rejections (i.e. support overloads)
  • Fix building with python 3.3 and 3.4
  • Doc: Stop requiring sphinx.ext.refcounting with Sphinx 1.2+
  • Fix for containers with 'const' values
  • Fix compilation issue on OS X 10.9
  • Only use fields in PyTypeObject when defining types
  • Fix buffer overrun processing macro definitions
  • Fix 'special' include handling
  • Fix finding container base classes
  • Refactor and improve added function resolving
  • Work around MSVC's deficient in libsample/transform.cpp
  • Fix description of sample/transform unit test
  • Change wrapping and indent of some code in Handler::startElement to improve consistency
  • Fix '%#' substitution for # > 9
  • Improve dependencies for tests

New in PySide 1.2.1 (Dec 18, 2013)

  • PySide:
  • In memory qt.conf generation and registration
  • Shiboken:
  • Better support for more than 9 arguments to methods
  • Avoiding a segfault when getting the .name attribute on an enum value with no name
  • PySide-setup:
  • Switched to the new setuptools (v0.9.8) which has been merged with Distribute again and works for Python 2 and 3 with one codebase
  • Support for building windows binaries with only Windows SDK installed (Visual Studio is no more required)
  • Removed --msvc-version option. Required msvc compiler version is now resolved from python interpreter version

New in PySide 1.1.2 (Sep 15, 2012)

  • During signal emission don't get return type after callback
  • Invalidate QStandardModel::invisibleRootItem in clear() method
  • QAbstractItemModel has wrong ownership policy for selectionModel()
  • Improved QVector to python conversion
  • Disable docstring generation if tools aren't found.
  • Fixed some issues compiling PySide using VC++
  • Install the shiboken module to site-packages
  • Fix compilation when there is no libxslt installed on the system.
  • Set a default hash function for all ObjectTypes.
  • Fix segfault calling shiboken.dump

New in PySide 1.1.1 (May 28, 2012)

  • Major changes:
  • Unified toolchain! No more GeneratorRunner and ApiExtractor, now you just need Shiboken to compile PySide.
  • Bug fixes:
  • 1105 Spyder fails with HEAD
  • 1126 Segfault when exception is raised in signalInstanceDisconnect
  • 1135 SIGSEGV when loading custom widget using QUiLoader when overriding createWidget()
  • 1041 QAbstractItemModel has wrong ownership policy for selectionModel()
  • 1086 generatorrunner segfault processing #include
  • 1110 Concurrency error causes GC heap corruption
  • 1113 Instantiating QObject in user-defined QML element's constructor crashes if instantiated from QML
  • 1129 Segmentation fault on close by QStandardItem/QStandardItemModel
  • 1104 QSettings has problems with long integers
  • 1108 tests/QtGui/pyside_reload_test.py fails when bytecode writing is disabled
  • 1138 Subclassing of QUiLoader leads to "Internal C++ object already deleted" exception (again)
  • 1124 QPainter.drawPixmapFragments should take a list as first argument
  • 1065 Invalid example in QFileDialog documentation
  • 1092 shiboken names itself a 'generator'
  • 1094 shiboken doesn't complain about invalid options
  • 1044 Incorrect call to parent constructor in example
  • 1139 Crash at exit due to thread state (tstate) being NULL
  • PYSIDE-41 QModelIndex unhashable

New in PySide 1.1.0 (Jan 10, 2012)

  • Major changes:
  • New type converter scheme
  • Bug fixes:
  • 1010 Shiboken Cygwin patch
  • 1034 Error compiling PySide with Python 3.2.2 32bit on Windows
  • 1040 pyside-uic overwriting attributes before they are being used
  • 1053 pyside-lupdate used with .pro files can't handle Windows paths that contain spaces
  • 1060 Subclassing of QUiLoader leads to "Internal C++ object already deleted" exception
  • 1063 Bug writing to files using "QTextStream + QFile + QTextEdit" on Linux
  • 1069 QtCore.QDataStream silently fails on writing Python string
  • 1077 Application exit crash when call QSyntaxHighlighter.document()
  • 1082 OSX binary links are broken
  • 1083 winId returns a PyCObject making it impossible to compare two winIds
  • 1084 Crash (segfault) when writing unicode string on socket
  • 1091 PixmapFragment and drawPixmapFragments are not bound
  • 1095 No examples for shiboken tutorial
  • 1097 QtGui.QShortcut.setKey requires QKeySequence
  • 1101 Report invalid function signatures in typesystem
  • 902 Expose Shiboken functionality through a Python module
  • 969 viewOptions of QAbstractItemView error

New in PySide 1.0.9 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • 1058 Strange code in PySide/QtUiTools/glue/plugins.h
  • 1057 valgrind detected “Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value”
  • 1052 PySideConfig.cmake contains an infinite loop due to missing default for SHIBOKEN_PYTHON_SUFFIX
  • 1048 QGridLayout.itemAtPosition() crashes when it should return None
  • 1037 shiboken fails to build against python 3.2 (both normal and -dbg) on i386 (and others)
  • 1036 Qt.KeyboardModifiers always evaluates to zero
  • 1033 QDialog.DialogCode instances and return value from QDialog.exec_ hash to different values
  • 1031 QState.parentState() or QState.machine() causes python crash at exit
  • 1029 qmlRegisterType Fails to Increase the Ref Count
  • 1028 QWidget winId missing
  • 1016 Calling of Q_INVOKABLE method returning not QVariant is impossible…
  • 1013 connect to QSqlTableModel.primeInsert() causes crash
  • 1012 FTBFS with hardening flags enabled
  • 1011 PySide Cygwin patch
  • 1010 Shiboken Cygwin patch
  • 1009 GeneratorRunner Cygwin patch
  • 1008 ApiExtractor Cygwin patch
  • 891 ApiExtractor doesn’t support doxygen as backend to doc generation.

New in PySide 1.0.7 (Sep 30, 2011)

  • Bug fixes:
  • 996 Missing dependencies for QtWebKit in buildscripts for Fedora
  • 986 Documentation links
  • 985 Provide versioned pyside-docs zip file to help packagers
  • 981 QSettings docs should empathize the behavior changes of value() on different platforms
  • 902 Expose Shiboken functionality through a Python module
  • 997 QDeclarativePropertyMap doesn’t work.
  • 994 QIODevice.readData must use qmemcpy instead of qstrncpy
  • 989 Pickling QColor fails
  • 987 Disconnecting a signal that has not been connected
  • 973 shouldInterruptJavaScript slot override is never called
  • 966 QX11Info.display() missing
  • 959 can’t pass QVariant to the QtWebkit bridge
  • 1006 Segfault in QLabel init
  • 1002 Segmentation fault on PySide/Spyder exit
  • 998 Segfault with Spyder after switching to another app
  • 995 QDeclarativeView.itemAt returns faulty reference. (leading to SEGFAULT)
  • 990 Segfault when trying to disconnect a signal that is not connected
  • 975 Possible memory leak
  • 991 The __repr__ of various types is broken
  • 988 The type supplied with currentChanged signal in QTabWidget has changed in 1.0.6

New in PySide 0.4.0 (Aug 26, 2010)

  • This release had a massive effort to close bugs and prepare to an stable API. The so awaited version 1.0 is on the horizon.
  • Other point covered by this release include the API 2.0. PyQt4 provides two different (and incompatible) APIs.