ANN: PyQt6 v6.10.0 Released

[Phil Thompson]

On 26/10/2025 13:30, Marko Luther wrote:
> Dear Phil,
> 
> thanks for this release!
> 
>> On 22. Oct 2025, at 14:40, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> PyQt6 v6.10.0 and related packages have been released and uploaded to 
>> PyPI.
>> 
>> The exceptions are the PyQt6-WebEngine-Qt6 wheels which means that 
>> installing PyQt6-WebEngine will probably break. The missing wheels are 
>> available at the local server. Once the PyPI project size limits have 
>> been fixed I will upload them.
>> 
>> Phil
> 
> on installing pyqt6_qt6-6.10.0-py3-none-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl from
> PyPip on my Python.org Python 3.13 installation, the file
> libpyqt6qmlplugin.dylib is installed under
> 
> ../site-packages/PyQt6/Qt6/plugins/PyQt6/
> 
> Besides having a PyQt6 folder underneath the Qt6 folder is
> interesting, this lib confuses the Python 3.13 builds of my app via
> py2app as it directly references Python 3.14 (which therefore gets
> collected).
> 
> # otool -L libpyqt6qmlplugin.dylib
> libpyqt6qmlplugin.dylib:
> libpyqt6qmlplugin.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 
> 0.0.0)
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.14/Python
> (compatibility version 3.14.0, current version 3.14.0)
> @rpath/QtGui.framework/Versions/A/QtGui (compatibility version 6.0.0,
> current version 6.10.0)
> /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit
> (compatibility version 45.0.0, current version 2487.60.105)
> /System/Library/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO
> (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Metal.framework/Versions/A/Metal
> (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 343.19.0)
> @rpath/QtQml.framework/Versions/A/QtQml (compatibility version 6.0.0,
> current version 6.10.0)
> @rpath/QtNetwork.framework/Versions/A/QtNetwork (compatibility version
> 6.0.0, current version 6.10.0)
> @rpath/QtCore.framework/Versions/A/QtCore (compatibility version
> 6.0.0, current version 6.10.0)
> /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
> (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 275.0.0)
> /System/Library/Frameworks/DiskArbitration.framework/Versions/A/DiskArbitration
> (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
> 
> Is this intensionally?
> 
> Thanks for all your work on PyQt!
> Marko

It's not intentional but it's not new - it seems to be there in v6.9.0 
as well (and probably earlier). It's actually from the PyQt6-Qt6 wheel 
(not the PyQt6 wheel) - the Qt installation that it is built from wasn't 
as clean as I thought. You can safely remove the directory.

Thanks,
Phil