Changelog¶

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased¶

0.25.0 - 2024-12-15¶

Added:

• Update default CPython distributions to 20241206
• Enable LTO for releases
• Update dependencies

0.24.0 - 2024-10-13¶

Changed:

• The PYAPP_DISTRIBUTION_VARIANT has been renamed to PYAPP_DISTRIBUTION_VARIANT_CPU although the former is still supported for backwards compatibility

Added:

• Support Python 3.13 and set as the default version
• Add PYAPP_DISTRIBUTION_VARIANT_GIL option (Python 3.13+)
• Update default CPython distributions to 20241008
• Update default PyPy distributions to 7.3.17
• Update dependencies

0.23.0 - 2024-08-03¶

Added:

• Add PYAPP_UV_SOURCE option

0.22.0 - 2024-05-26¶

Added:

• Add PYAPP_EXPOSE_ALL_COMMANDS option
• Update dependencies

0.21.1 - 2024-05-15¶

Fixed:

• Fix the PYAPP_DISTRIBUTION_PATH_PREFIX option

0.21.0 - 2024-05-15¶

Added:

• Add PYAPP_DISTRIBUTION_PATH_PREFIX option for easier configuring of custom distribution internal paths
• Add PYAPP_ALLOW_UPDATES option for enabling the update management command when project installation is skipped

Fixed:

• Properly hide the update management command when skipping project installation

0.20.1 - 2024-05-14¶

Fixed:

• Properly handle failed downloads

0.20.0 - 2024-05-13¶

Added:

• Add cache management command
• Update dependencies

Fixed:

• Bootstrapping is now safe across multiple processes (a shared resource message is displayed if another process is already bootstrapping)
• The pip management command is now resilient to cache removal
• Management commands now properly support the -h/--help flag

0.19.0 - 2024-04-24¶

Added:

• Add remove management command
• Update dependencies

Fixed:

• Fix UV and the VIRTUAL_ENV environment variable on non-Windows systems

0.18.0 - 2024-04-22¶

Added:

• Update PyPy distributions to 7.3.15

Fixed:

• Fix resolution for legacy 3.7 builds

0.17.0 - 2024-04-21¶

Added:

• Support using UV for virtual environment creation and project installation
• The PATH environment variable is now updated to include the installation's directory of executables
• Update default distributions to 20240415

Fixed:

• Dependencies are now locked

0.16.0 - 2024-03-24¶

Added:

• Add PYAPP_IS_GUI option to support graphical applications

0.15.1 - 2024-03-03¶

Fixed:

• Fix reading metadata with Windows line endings during build time from embedded distributions

0.15.0 - 2024-03-01¶

Added:

• Update default distributions to 20240224
• Update default Python version to 3.12
• Statically link the C runtime on Windows
• Add PYAPP_PROJECT_FEATURES option for selecting extras
• Add new execution mode option PYAPP_EXEC_NOTEBOOK for running Jupyter notebooks

Fixed:

• Properly resolve correct default distributions on MinGW-w64
• Fix embedding custom distributions
• Ignore nonexistent variant options for 3.7 distributions

0.14.0 - 2024-01-21¶

Added:

• Update default distributions to 20240107

0.13.0 - 2023-12-31¶

Added:

• Allow for forwarding of unknown management commands e.g. if apps have their own self commands

Fixed:

• Remove patch for powerpc64le now that the transitive dependency ring is fixed

0.12.0 - 2023-10-07¶

Added:

• Update default distributions to 20231002, adding support for Python 3.12

0.11.1 - 2023-09-14¶

Fixed:

• Fix the Python path for the pypy2.7 distribution

0.11.0 - 2023-09-07¶

Added:

• Update default distributions to 20230826
• Build releases with codegen-units=1

0.10.1 - 2023-06-26¶

Fixed:

• Fix regression in the PYAPP_EXEC_SPEC option

0.10.0 - 2023-06-26¶

Added:

• Add PYAPP_EXEC_SCRIPT option for executing a project using a script
• Add support for overriding the installation directory
• Make the PYAPP_DISTRIBUTION_PATH option implicitly enable PYAPP_DISTRIBUTION_EMBED

Fixed:

• Properly handle cases where options contain line feed characters

0.9.0 - 2023-06-21¶

Changed:

• Custom distributions should now define the relative path to the site-packages directory

Added:

• Add support for PyPy distributions
• Add the PYAPP_UPGRADE_VIRTUALENV option to create virtual environments with virtualenv rather than the stdlib's venv
• Add support for custom distributions with bzip2 compression

Fixed:

• Properly handle cases where temporary files are on different filesystems
• Fix regression in the metadata management command on Windows
• Improve error messages when running binaries that were misconfigured

0.8.0 - 2023-06-09¶

Added:

• Add the ability to externally manage pip with the PYAPP_PIP_EXTERNAL and PYAPP_PIP_VERSION options
• Allow for project installation with a dependency file using the PYAPP_PROJECT_DEPENDENCY_FILE option
• Add management command to directly invoke pip with the installed Python
• Add management command to output the path to the installed Python

Fixed:

• Fix builds for PowerPC64

0.7.0 - 2023-05-24¶

Changed:

• Installations use virtual environments by default; the previous behavior can be enabled with the PYAPP_FULL_ISOLATION option

Added:

• Update default CPython distributions
• Add -r/--restore flag to the update command
• Allow for disabling of management commands
• Add ability to expose optional commands
• Add optional command to directly invoke the installed Python
• Run Python in isolated mode
• Execute projects with execvp on non-Windows systems
• When the management command is enabled its name is available at runtime via an environment variable
• Add different installation wait message for when there is a guarantee of no side effects (e.g. pip's --only-binary :all:)

0.6.0 - 2023-05-16¶

Added:

• Add PYAPP_PROJECT_PATH option to embed the project for installation at runtime
• Add PYAPP_DISTRIBUTION_PATH option to embed the distribution from a local path rather than fetching the source

Fixed:

• Properly handle distributions packed as ZIP files

0.5.0 - 2023-05-11¶

Added:

• Strip symbols from release builds

Fixed:

• Properly pass through all required environment variable options to cross compilation images
• Properly allow configuration of the template used for the metadata command

0.4.0 - 2023-05-11¶

Changed:

• Rename PYAPP_STARSHIP_PROMPT option to PYAPP_METADATA_TEMPLATE

Added:

• Add PYAPP_PIP_EXTRA_ARGS option to provide extra pip install arguments
• Add PYAPP_PIP_ALLOW_CONFIG option to allow runtime configuration of pip
• Add configuration for correct cross compilation

0.3.1 - 2023-05-10¶

Fixed:

• Fix default distribution detection for Linux on architectures other than x86_64

0.3.0 - 2023-05-10¶

Changed:

• Rename PYAPP_DISTRIBUTION_COMPRESSION option to PYAPP_DISTRIBUTION_FORMAT

Added:

• Add --pre flag to the self update command to allow pre-release and development versions
• Add environment variable for detection
• Add PYAPP_SELF_COMMAND option to control the name of the management command
• Add PYAPP_SKIP_INSTALL option to skip project installation
• Remove dependence on OpenSSL

Fixed:

• Properly display error messages from pip install commands
• Fix project version reading for the metadata command on non-Windows systems

0.2.0 - 2023-05-07¶

This is the initial public release.