= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Zach, Greg, Tom, Eric

December 8, 2025

= Agenda =

* Release candidate issues
* 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
* 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 =

* UCSF IT Security
 - Discussion of UCSF IT "science zone" for less encumbering security regimen.
 - UCSF IT proposed proxy server "DMZ zone" will only address web services, not general computer access.

* ffmpeg update
 - Greg updated ffmpeg prebuilt versions on all platforms.

* Rocky 10 builds failing
 - Rocky 10 build failing to download !AmberTools from plato.
 - Zach says Ambertools should be cached by github actions.
 - Greg will fix github actions script to make sure ambertools is cached.

* Animations custom init
 - Zach will use get method to get the Animation manager so a custom init is not needed.

* Release date
 - Zach will make release on Monday December 15 provided no serious problems in release candidate arise this week.

* !PyQt 6.10.1
 - We will update !PyQt in daily build after new years.
 - Keeping Qt version the same as release candidate until then may help us debug release problems using daily development branch.

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= Action Items =