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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

0.24.0 - 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.