Release Notes

v1.19.1

Bundled MSVC runtime DLLs

  • The MSVC DLLs bundled by pyqt-bundle and pyqt-qt-wheel have been updated.

  • The MSVC DLLs now include those for Windows on ARM.

v1.19.0

Support for Qt v6.10

The Qt v6.10.0 installation for Linux on Intel created by the online installer was built using Red Hat Linux v9.4. This means that glibc v2.34 is now required. Earlier versions of Qt required glibc v2.28. The manylinux wheel tags that are generated now reflect the revised dependency.

pyqt-bundle support for lower case wheel names

pyqt-bundle now properly handles lower case wheel names as well as the legacy mixed case names.

Resolves #33

v1.18.2

pyproject.toml now conforms to PEP 639

The licensing information in pyproject.toml now conforms to PEP 639. This means that the minimum setuptools version is v77. That in itself means that the wheel name conforms to the current PyPI requirements.

Bug fixes

  • The wheels created by pyqt-qt-wheel now have lower case names. Resolves #31

v1.18.1

Bug fix

The QtEglFSDeviceIntegration library is now bundled for Qt5 and Qt6.

v1.18.0

pyqt-bundle

Added support for the QtStateMachine module.

v1.17.2

Missing Linux multimedia libraries in Qt v6.8

In Qt v6.8 the QtMultimedia ffmpeg Linux backend depends on new libraries that were not included in the Qt wheels.

Resolves #29

v1.17.1

Updated the default ABIs used

The default ABIs used now match those explicitly specified by PyQt5 and PyQt6.

Resolves #28

Set the minimum glibc version on x86-64 to v2.28

The minimum version of glibc required for Qt v6.8 has been reduced to v2.28. This is the same requirement as older versions of Qt6 and corresponds to the oldest version used by any currently supported Linux distribution.

Resolves #27

Include specific (L)GPL LICENSE file in Qt wheels

Instead of including a generic LICENSE file containing the text of both the LGPL and the GPL in Qt wheels, a specific LGPL or GPL LICENSE file is now included.

Resolves #24

Bug fix

A regression that prevented single architecture Qt installations being bundled on macOS was fixed.

Resolves #26

v1.17.0

Added support for Qt v6.8

  • Added support for the QtGraphs module.

  • Linux wheels now require GLIBC v2.35 (eg. Ubuntu 22.04) on Intel and v2.39 (eg. Ubuntu 24.04) on Arm.

Resolves #16

Re-signing of bundled macOS Qt dynamic libraries

Prior to Qt v6.8 the macOS dynamic libraries were not signed. They are signed in v6.8 and the signature becomes invalid when lipo is used to extract the individual architecture-specific libraries (which is done to produce smaller wheels). The individual architecture-specific libraries are now re-signed by pyqt-bundle.

Resolves #21

Python shared library name on macOS incorrect

The name of the Python shared library on macOS was incorrect which broke PyQt’s qmlscene and Designer plugins.

v1.16.4

Support for Windows on Arm for Qt6

Support was added for creating Qt6 wheels for Windows on Arm.

Resolves #14

Support for Linux on Arm for Qt6

Support was added for creating Qt6 wheels for Linux on Arm.

Resolves #13

v1.16.3

Missing multimedia libraries in Qt v6.7

In Qt v6.7 the QtMultimedia ffmpeg backends depend on new libraries that were not included in the Qt wheels. This affected macOS (Qt v6.7.1) and Windows (Qt v6.7.0).

Resolves #12

Added support for sub-wheels to pyqt-qt-wheel

The (undocumented) pyqt-qt-wheel utility now supports the splitting of a project’s wheel into the main wheel and a sub-wheel. Specifying --sub-wheel generate will generate the sub-wheel, and --sub-wheel exclude will generate the main wheel (ie. a normal wheel without the contents of the sub-wheel). By default a normal wheel is generated.

v1.16.2

ICU libraries missing from Linux Qt wheels

The ICU libraries were missing from the Linux Qt v6.7 wheels.

Resolves #10

v1.16.1

Bundle new QtQuick support libraries

The QtQuick3DHelpersImpl, QtQuickControls2MacOSStyleImpl and QtQuickTimelineBlendTrees libraries added to Qt v6.7.0 are now bundled.

Resolves #8

Missing LICENSE file

The missing LICENSE file was added.

Resolves #7

v1.16.0

Migration to GitHub

The project repository has been migrated to GitHub.

PyQt-builder is now licensed under the BSD-2-Clause license.

The project has now been migrated from setup.py to setuptools_scm and pyproject.toml.

The documentation is now hosted at Read the Docs.

Resolves #1

Bundle new QtQuick support libraries

The QtQuickPhysics libraries added to Qt v6.6.0 are now bundled.

The QtQuickControls2 style libraries added to Qt v6.6.3 are now bundled.

Resolves #6

Improvements to example documentation

The example in the documentation no longer uses deprecated features that will be removed in SIP v7.

The example is now PyQt6-based rather than PyQt5.

Resolves #5

ABI versions

The default ABI versions are now v12.13 and v13.6.