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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:

  • 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

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!