New features
* Make importing `qtpy` thread-safe
* Add a uic module to make loadUI work for PySide
* Add QtTest support for PySide
Bugfixes
**Issues**
* [Issue 42](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/issues/42) - Wrong old PyQt4 version check
* [Issue 21](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/issues/21) - Patch QComboBox with PySide?
* [Issue 16](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/issues/16) - Add loadUI functionality
In this release 3 issues were closed
**Pull requests**
* [PR 43](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/43) - Don't check PyQt version with qtpy's version for old PyQt versions
* [PR 41](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/41) - `qtpy.__version__` should be QtPy version, not Qt version
* [PR 40](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/40) - Mention qt-helpers in README.md, and add myself to AUTHORS.md
* [PR 39](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/39) - Fix remaining segmentation fault that occurs with the patched QComboBox in PySide
* [PR 38](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/38) - QtTest for PySide
* [PR 37](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/37) - Automatically load custom widget classes when using PySide
* [PR 33](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/33) - Ignore case for QT_API env variable in qtpy submodules
* [PR 32](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/32) - Remove QItemSelectionModel from QtWidgets for PyQt4 and PySide
* [PR 31](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/31) - Add compatibility for QItemSelectionModel
* [PR 29](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/29) - Use ci-helpers (from Astropy) for CI and enable AppVeyor
* [PR 28](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/28) - Make tests.py into proper unit test, and add Qt version info to pytest header
* [PR 27](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/27) - Make sure loadUi is available
* [PR 25](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy/pull/25) - Add patched version of QComboBox
In this release 13 pull requests were merged
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