PySimpleGUI 6

Wait, what?

6-Apr-2026

As we've been winding down the commercialization effort, shutting down servers and archiving materials, I saw this week that the PySimpleGUI repositories are going to be of little use. Everything was switched over to using PySimpleGUI 5. The documentation is PySimpleGUI5 specific as well. So, I made a decision a couple of days ago to get the project into a state where it's at least usable and hopefully even useful.

Version 4 on PyPI 4.60.5.1

A first step was to put version 4.60.5 up on PyPI. Version 4.60.5.1 was posted this week so that pip install PySimpleGUI will provide a version of PySimpleGUI that's solid.

PySimpleGUI 6 - Back to LGPL3

There were several years of development that went into the PySimpleGUI 5 effort. Rather than have those bug fixes and new features languish and be useless, I'm releasing them as Open Source.

Not all of the Version 5 code is in 6. Things like the upgrade mechanism and of course the licensing has been removed. As far as functionality, it matches the SDK posted in the Docs.PySimpleGUI.com documentation.

What to expect ahead

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