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

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

Unreleased

Changed:

  • Drop support for Python 3.8
  • Environment type plugins are now no longer expected to support a pseudo-build environment as any environment now may be used for building. The following methods have been removed: build_environment, build_environment_exists, run_builder, construct_build_command

Added:

  • Upgrade Ruff to 0.13.2
  • The version and project metadata commands now support projects that do not use Hatchling as the build backend
  • The version command accepts a --force option, allowing for downgrades when an explicit version number is given.
  • Build environments can now be configured, the default build environment is hatch-build
  • The environment interface now has the following methods and properties in order to better support builds on remote machines: project_root, sep, pathsep, fs_context
  • Bump the minimum supported version of packaging to 24.2

Fixed:

  • Fix issue where terminal output would be out of sync during build.
  • Fix for Click Sentinel value when using run command

1.13.0 - 2024-10-13

Added:

  • Support managing Python 3.13 distributions

1.12.0 - 2024-05-28

Changed:

  • The run/env run and test commands now treat inclusion variable options as an intersection rather than a union to allow for specific targeting of environments

Added:

  • Add ability to control the source of Python distributions
  • Upgrade Ruff to 0.4.5
  • Upgrade PyApp to 0.22.0 for binary builds

Fixed:

  • The fmt command no longer hides the commands that are being executed
  • Add default timeout for network requests, useful when installing Python distributions
  • Fix syntax highlighting contrast for the config show command

1.11.1 - 2024-05-23

Added:

  • Add official GitHub Action for installing Hatch

Fixed:

  • Fix terminal.styles.spinner configuration
  • Fix entry points in the pre-built distributions that binaries use

1.11.0 - 2024-05-14

Added:

  • Upgrade PyApp to 0.21.1 for binary builds

Fixed:

  • On Linux, install the highest compatible Python distribution variant based on CPU architecture rather than assuming recent hardware

1.10.0 - 2024-05-02

Changed:

  • The run/env run, fmt and shell commands now only change the current working directory to the project root if not already inside the project
  • The shell command now accepts a single argument to specify the environment to enter which overrides the standard choice mechanisms. The arguments determining shell options have been converted to flags.

Added:

  • Add test command
  • The run command can now execute scripts that define inline metadata for dependencies and Python version constraints
  • The virtual environment type now supports the ability to use UV in place of pip & virtualenv
  • Add self report command for submitting pre-populated bug reports to GitHub
  • The reserved environment used for static analysis is now completely configurable
  • Add the following methods to the environment interface for complete control over output during life cycle management: app_status_creation, app_status_pre_installation, app_status_post_installation, app_status_project_installation, app_status_dependency_state_check, app_status_dependency_installation_check, app_status_dependency_synchronization
  • Add binaries for 32-bit versions of Windows
  • Read configuration from any ~/.pypirc file for the index publisher
  • Use the Git user as the default username for new project URL metadata
  • Add HATCH_DEBUG environment variable that when enabled will show local variables in the case of unhandled tracebacks
  • The env show command now outputs data about all internal environments when using the --json flag
  • Upgrade default CPython distributions to 20240415
  • Upgrade default PyPy distributions to 7.3.15
  • Upgrade Ruff to 0.4.2
  • Upgrade PyApp to 0.19.0 for binary builds
  • Bump the minimum supported version of Hatchling to 1.24.2
  • Bump the minimum supported version of virtualenv to 20.26.1

Fixed:

  • Maintain consistent data paths for case insensitive file systems
  • When projects derive dependencies from metadata hooks, there is now by default a status indicator for when the hooks are executed for better responsiveness
  • Properly support projects with a pyproject.toml file but no project table e.g. applications
  • Fix the fmt command when automatically installing plugin dependencies
  • Fix dependency inheritance for the template of the types environment for new projects
  • Fix warnings related to tar file extraction on Python 3.12+ when unpacking Python distributions for installation
  • De-select Ruff rule E501 for the fmt command by default since it conflicts with the formatter
  • Fix colored output from build targets on the first run (build environment creation status indicator issue)
  • Set the packaging dependency version as >=23.2 to avoid its URL validation which can conflict with context formatting
  • Fix the exit code when there happens to be an unhandled exception
  • No longer capture both stdout and stderr streams when parsing metadata payloads from build environments
  • Fix the README.md file template for new projects to avoid Markdown linting issues

1.9.7 - 2024-04-24

Fixed:

  • Limit the maximum version of virtualenv due to a backward incompatible change
  • Upgrade PyApp to 0.12.0 for binary builds

1.9.4 - 2024-03-12

Fixed:

  • Limit the maximum version of Hatchling in anticipation of backward incompatible changes

1.9.3 - 2024-01-25

Fixed:

  • Fix loading of local plugins to account for newly released versions of a dependency

1.9.2 - 2024-01-21

Fixed:

  • Fix the default token variable name for publishing to PyPI

1.9.1 - 2023-12-25

Fixed:

  • Ensure that the dependency_hash method of the environment interface is called after sync_dependencies for cases where the hash is only known at that point, such as for dependency lockers
  • Only acknowledge the HATCH_PYTHON_VARIANT_* environment variables for Python resolution for supported platforms and architectures
  • Fix Python resolution when there are metadata hooks with unsatisfied dependencies

1.9.0 - 2023-12-19

Changed:

  • Environments prefixed by hatch- are now considered internal and used for special purposes such as configuration for static analysis

Added:

  • Enable docstring formatting by default for static analysis
  • Allow for overriding config of internal environments
  • Concretely state the expected API contract for the environment interface methods find and check_compatibility
  • Upgrade Ruff to 0.1.8
  • Bump the minimum supported version of Hatchling to 1.21.0

Fixed:

  • Ignore a project's Python requirement for environments where the project is not installed
  • When not persisting config for static analysis, properly manage internal settings when Ruff's top level table already exists
  • Ignore compatibility checks when environments have already been created, significantly improving performance of environment usage
  • Properly allow overriding of the path option for the virtual environment type
  • Fix nushell activation on non-Windows systems

1.8.1 - 2023-12-14

Fixed:

  • Fix regression in calling subprocesses with updated PATH
  • Fix automatic installation of environment plugins when running as a standalone binary
  • Change default location of Python installations

1.8.0 - 2023-12-11

Changed:

  • Drop support for Python 3.7
  • The get_build_process method of the environment interface has been removed; plugins should use the new run_builder method instead
  • Remove pyperclip dependency and the --copy flag of the config find command
  • When running the build command all output from builders is now displayed as-is in real time without the stripping of ANSI codes
  • Version information (for Hatch itself) is now derived from Git

Added:

  • Support Python 3.12
  • Add installers and standalone binaries
  • Add the ability to manage Python installations
  • Add fmt command
  • The virtual environment type can now automatically download requested versions of Python that are not installed
  • Add dependency_hash method to the environment interface
  • The state of installed dependencies for environments is saved as metadata so if dependency definitions have not changed then no checking is performed, which can be computationally expensive
  • The build command now supports backends other than Hatchling
  • Allow the use of features for environments when skip-install is enabled
  • The default is now __token__ when prompting for a username for the publish command
  • Add a new run_builder method to the environment interface
  • Bump the minimum supported version of Hatchling to 1.19.0
  • Bump the minimum supported version of click to 8.0.6

Fixed:

  • Fix nushell activation
  • Better handling of flat storage directory hierarchies for the virtual environment type
  • Display useful information when running the version command outside of a project rather than erroring
  • Fix the project metadata command by only capturing stdout from the backend
  • Properly support Google Artifact Registry
  • Fix parsing dependencies for environments when warnings are emitted

1.7.0 - 2023-04-03

Changed:

  • The src-layout project template option is now enabled by default
  • Non-critical output now goes to stderr

Added:

  • Add tool.hatch.env.requires configuration to automatically install dependencies for environment and environment collector plugins
  • Add custom environment collector
  • Improve syncing of dependencies provided through Git direct references
  • Add isolated_data_directory attribute to the environment interface
  • Increase the timeout for and add retries to the index publisher
  • Expand home and environment variables in configured cache and data directories
  • Improve readability of exceptions
  • Update project templates
  • Bump the minimum supported version of Hatchling to 1.14.0

Fixed:

  • Fix displaying the version with the version command when the version is static and build dependencies are unmet
  • Fix build environments for the virtual environment type when storing within a relative path
  • Work around System Integrity Protection on macOS when running commands
  • Allow setuptools metadata migration for projects without setup.py if setup.cfg is present
  • Handle additional edge cases for setuptools metadata migration
  • Support boolean values for the config set command

1.6.3 - 2022-10-24

Fixed:

  • Fix version command when the version is dynamic and build dependencies are unmet

1.6.2 - 2022-10-20

Fixed:

  • Fix getting dynamic metadata from hooks for environments when dependencies are not dynamic

1.6.1 - 2022-10-16

Fixed:

  • Computing the path to the user's home directory now gracefully falls back to ~ when it cannot be determined

1.6.0 - 2022-10-08

Changed:

  • The run_shell_command environment interface method now accepts arbitrary subprocess.Popen keyword arguments. This is not strictly breaking, but will be utilized in upcoming features.
  • The internal directory structure for storing virtual environments is now more nested. This is not breaking, but any local environments will be created anew.

Added:

  • Add project command group to view details about the project like PEP 621 metadata
  • Better support for auto-detection of environments by tools like Visual Studio Code now that the storage directory of virtual environments will be flat if Hatch's configured virtual environment directory resides somewhere within the project root or if it is set to a .virtualenvs directory within the user's home directory
  • Build environments for the virtual environment type are now cached for improved performance
  • Add build_environment_exists method to the environment interface for implementations that cache the build environment
  • Add path option to the virtual environment type
  • Add --initialize-auth flag to the index publisher to allow for the saving of authentication information before publishing
  • Support Bash on Windows for the shell command
  • The setuptools migration script no longer modifies the formatting of existing pyproject.toml configuration
  • Bump the minimum supported version of Hatchling to 1.11.0

Fixed:

  • Environments now respect dynamically defined project dependencies
  • The dep hash and all dep show commands now respect dynamically defined project dependencies
  • The env show, dep hash, and all dep show commands now honor context formatting
  • Fix matrix variable inclusion filtering of the run and env run commands when there are multiple possible variables
  • Build environment compatibility is now checked before use
  • Decreasing verbosity now has no affect on output that should always be displayed
  • Handle more edge cases in the setuptools migration script
  • Environments now respect user defined environment variables for context formatting
  • Update the scripts in the generated test environment template for new projects to reflect the documentation
  • Allow extra-dependencies in environment overrides
  • Depend on packaging explicitly rather than relying on it being a transitive dependency of Hatchling

1.5.0 - 2022-08-28

Added:

  • The index publisher now recognizes repository-specific options
  • Add the --ignore-compat flag to the env run command
  • Setting the HATCH_PYTHON environment variable to self will now force the use of the Python executable Hatch is running on for virtual environment creation

Fixed:

  • Fix the --force-continue flag of the env run command
  • Handle more edge cases in the setuptools migration script

1.4.2 - 2022-08-16

Fixed:

  • Fix check for updating static versions with the version command when metadata hooks are in use

1.4.1 - 2022-08-13

Fixed:

  • Fix non-detached inheritance disabling for environments

1.4.0 - 2022-08-06

Added:

  • The default Python for virtual environments now checks PATH before using the one Hatch is running on
  • Values for environment env-vars now support context formatting
  • Add name override for environments to allow for regular expression matching
  • The index publisher now better supports non-PyPI indices
  • Add certificate options to the index publisher
  • Display waiting text when checking dependencies and removing environments
  • Display help text the first time the shell command is executed
  • Update project templates with Python 3.11 and the latest versions of various GitHub Actions
  • Add support for Almquist (ash) shells
  • Add hyperlink as a dependency for better handling of package index URLs
  • Bump the minimum supported version of virtualenv to 20.16.2
  • Bump the minimum supported version of tomlkit to 0.11.1

Fixed:

  • Acknowledge extra-dependencies for the env show command
  • Fix locating executables within virtual environments on Debian
  • Fix managing the terminal size inside the shell command
  • Fix default code coverage file omission for the src-layout project template option

1.3.1 - 2022-07-11

Fixed:

  • Support -h/--help flag for the run command

1.3.0 - 2022-07-10

Changed:

  • Rename the default publishing plugin from pypi to the more generic index

Added:

  • Support the absence of pyproject.toml files, as is the case for apps and non-Python projects
  • Hide scripts that start with an underscore for the env show command by default
  • Ignoring the exit codes of commands by prefixing with hyphens now works with entire named scripts
  • Add a way to require confirmation for publishing
  • Add --force-continue flag to the env run command
  • Make tracebacks colorful and less verbose
  • When shell configuration has not been defined, attempt to use the current shell based on parent processes before resorting to the defaults
  • The shell name pwsh is now an alias for powershell
  • Remove atomicwrites dependency
  • Relax constraint on userpath dependency
  • Bump the minimum supported version of Hatchling to 1.4.1

Fixed:

  • Keep environments in sync with the dependencies of the selected features
  • Use utf-8 for all files generated for new projects
  • Escape special characters Git may return in the user name when writing generated files for new projects
  • Normalize the package name to lowercase in setuptools migration script
  • Fix parsing of source distributions during publishing

1.2.1 - 2022-05-30

Fixed:

  • Fix handling of top level data_files in setuptools migration script

1.2.0 - 2022-05-22

Changed:

  • The enter_shell environment plugin method now accepts an additional args parameter

Added:

  • Allow context string formatting for environment dependencies
  • Add environment context string formatting fields env_name, env_type, matrix, verbosity, and args
  • Support overriding the default arguments used to spawn shells on non-Windows systems
  • Bump the minimum supported version of Hatchling to 1.3.0

Fixed:

  • Improve setuptools migration script

1.1.2 - 2022-05-20

Fixed:

  • Bump the minimum supported version of Hatchling to 1.2.0
  • Update project metadata to reflect support for Python 3.11

1.1.1 - 2022-05-12

Fixed:

  • Fix setuptools migration script for non-Windows systems

1.1.0 - 2022-05-12

Changed:

  • In order to simplify the implementation of command execution for environment plugins, the run_shell_commands method has been replaced by the singular run_shell_command. A new command_context method has been added to more easily satisfy complex use cases.
  • The finalize_command environment plugin method has been removed in favor of the newly introduced context formatting functionality.

Added:

  • Add context formatting functionality i.e. the ability to insert values into configuration like environment variables and command line arguments
  • Any verbosity for command execution will now always display headers, even for single environments
  • Every executed command is now displayed when running multiple commands or when verbosity is enabled
  • Similar to make, ignore the exit code of executed commands that start with - (a hyphen)
  • Add ability for the --init flag of the new command to automatically migrate setuptools configuration
  • Update project metadata to reflect the adoption by PyPA and production stability

1.0.0 - 2022-04-28

This is the first stable release of Hatch v1, a complete rewrite. Enjoy!