= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Zach, Tom, Eric

November 3, 2025

= Agenda =

* Qt updates to fix Mac crashes in Qt 6.9.2.
  - Crash in swap_buffers #19178
  - Crash in NSAccessibility #19187
  - OpenGL error after wake from sleep #19185
  - Crash in NSAutoreleasePool #19180
  - Tabbed tools don't show tabs often #19078
* ChimeraX 1.11 release schedule
* Chimera not working with macOS 26, graphics pane positioned over command-line.
* Work in progress reports
* Inside ribbon color?
* Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes.

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= Discussion =

* TOML bundle builder error reports
 - Looked at how to reduce the cascade of tracebacks that result when a bundle install fails #19262.
 - Zach will fix it to try to only show the first error.

* Ambertools bug fix
 - Greg's ambertools bug fix on plato did not make it into nightly builds because github cache needs clearing because same filename used for new version.
 - Zach has removed it from github cache.
 - Happens rarely since plato binaries that chimerax build uses are usually not altered with same file name, usually new file name for new version used.

* 1.11 tickets
 - Zach will remilestone his 1.11 tickets that will not be fixed in 1.11.
 - Greg was not at meeting so we don't know which of his 1.11 tickets need fixing.  Will review on Thursday.

* Stacked tools missing tabs
 - The Qt 6.9 bug where stacked ChimeraX tools sometimes do not show tabs is also present in Qt 6.10.
 - Tom tested.  Also tried Qt 6.8.2 with current daily build and does not exhibit this bug.
 - Also tried removing our floating tool Qt code and that did not change the bug.

* Release candidates
 - Still plan on having ChimeraX 1.11 release candidates start next week.

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