From fc1b3352093c8260d2bc1edfa6afc53a8ba672ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Geiger <lukas@um-bruch.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:59:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ci: expose native Qt crashes and stalled test stacks

Generated-with: gpt-6.1-sol (Codex)
---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml                   | 2 +-
 .github/workflows/linux-platform-smoke.yml | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 3e2a329..3656639 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -83,4 +83,4 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install -r requirements.txt pytest Pillow tomli
 
       - name: Run Pytest Test Suite
-        run: pytest -v
+        run: python -X faulthandler -u -m pytest -s -v -o faulthandler_timeout=60
diff --git a/.github/workflows/linux-platform-smoke.yml b/.github/workflows/linux-platform-smoke.yml
index 5347dcb..f8fec9c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/linux-platform-smoke.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/linux-platform-smoke.yml
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Run desktop regressions
         run: |
-          python -m pytest -q tests/test_lsp_client.py tests/test_save_failure_guards.py tests/test_tab_reordering.py
+          python -X faulthandler -u -m pytest -s -q -o faulthandler_timeout=60 tests/test_lsp_client.py tests/test_save_failure_guards.py tests/test_tab_reordering.py
 
       - name: Run Linux platform smoke
-        run: python tests/linux_platform_smoke.py
+        run: python -X faulthandler -u tests/linux_platform_smoke.py
 
   macos-smoke:
     runs-on: macos-latest
@@ -79,4 +79,4 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install -r requirements.txt pytest
 
       - name: Run macOS platform smoke
-        run: python tests/macos_platform_smoke.py
+        run: python -X faulthandler -u tests/macos_platform_smoke.py

From 4635f265195365f83cec67153146743340c94135 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Geiger <lukas@um-bruch.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:19:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] ci: compare isolated highlighter callbacks across Qt
 bindings

Generated-with: gpt-6.1-sol (Codex)
---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 3656639..2ef0920 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,58 @@ permissions:
   contents: read
 
 jobs:
+  qt-binding-probe:
+    name: Isolated Qt binding (${{ matrix.qt }})
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 8
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        qt: ["6.11.3", "6.12.0"]
+    env:
+      QT_QPA_PLATFORM: offscreen
+      PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.11"
+      - name: Install isolated binding
+        run: python -m pip install "PySide6_Essentials==${{ matrix.qt }}"
+      - name: Exercise virtual highlighter callbacks without product code
+        run: |
+          python -X faulthandler -u - <<'PY'
+          import gc
+          import sys
+          import PySide6
+          import shiboken6
+          from PySide6.QtGui import QSyntaxHighlighter, QTextCharFormat, QTextDocument
+          from PySide6.QtWidgets import QApplication
+
+          class Probe(QSyntaxHighlighter):
+              calls = 0
+
+              def highlightBlock(self, text):
+                  self.calls += 1
+                  self.setCurrentBlockState(0)
+                  self.setFormat(0, len(text), QTextCharFormat())
+
+          app = QApplication([])
+          document = QTextDocument()
+          highlighter = Probe(document)
+          print("versions", sys.version, PySide6.__version__, shiboken6.__version__)
+          print("initial None references", sys.getrefcount(None))
+          for iteration in range(1000):
+              document.setPlainText(("plain text " + str(iteration) + "\n") * 10)
+              highlighter.rehighlight()
+              app.processEvents()
+              if iteration % 100 == 0:
+                  gc.collect()
+                  print("iteration", iteration, "callbacks", highlighter.calls,
+                        "None references", sys.getrefcount(None))
+          assert highlighter.calls >= 1000
+          print("PROBE_COMPLETED", highlighter.calls, sys.getrefcount(None))
+          PY
+
   lint:
     name: Lint & Code Style
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

From e8c80d978550400f3a11a528134a48c0bf95e181 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Geiger <lukas@um-bruch.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:24:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] ci: install runtime libraries and use available Qt
 comparison wheel

Generated-with: gpt-6.1-sol (Codex)
---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 2ef0920..37c69c8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        qt: ["6.11.3", "6.12.0"]
+        qt: ["6.11.2", "6.12.0"]
     env:
       QT_QPA_PLATFORM: offscreen
       PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: "3.11"
+      - name: Install Linux Qt runtime
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update -qq
+          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libegl1 libgl1 libxkbcommon-x11-0
       - name: Install isolated binding
         run: python -m pip install "PySide6_Essentials==${{ matrix.qt }}"
       - name: Exercise virtual highlighter callbacks without product code