Hatchling history¶

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

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

Unreleased¶

1.14.0 - 2023-04-02¶

Added:

• Add trove-classifiers as a dependency

Fixed:

• Properly normalize metadata descriptions that contain line breaks

1.13.0 - 2023-02-09¶

Added:

• Update the set of known trove classifiers to version 2023.2.8

1.12.2 - 2023-01-05¶

Fixed:

• Add macos-max-compat option to the wheel target that is enabled by default to support the latest version 22.0 of the packaging library

1.12.1 - 2022-12-31¶

Fixed:

• Fix minor regression in the PEP 517/660 function signatures that was discovered by Fedora

1.12.0 - 2022-12-30¶

Added:

• Improve readability of exceptions
• Add extra_metadata build data to the wheel target
• Retroactively support License-Expression core metadata starting at version 2.1
• Add more type hints
• Update the set of known trove classifiers to version 2022.12.22
• Update SPDX license information to version 3.19
• Store Hatchling's metadata in pyproject.toml

Fixed:

• Acknowledge the ARCHFLAGS environment variable on macOS for the wheel target when build hooks set the infer_tag build data to true
• Fix dependency checking when encountering broken distributions
• Fix the support-legacy option for the sdist target when using a src-layout project structure
• Remove unnecessary encoding declaration in the default template for the version build hook

1.11.1 - 2022-10-19¶

Fixed:

• Fix default file selection behavior of the wheel target when there is a single top-level module

1.11.0 - 2022-10-08¶

Added:

• Add env version source to retrieve the version from an environment variable
• Add validate-bump option to the standard version scheme

Fixed:

• Use proper CSV formatting for the RECORD metadata file of the wheel target to avoid warnings during installation by pip if, for example, file names contain commas
• Fix installations with pip for build hooks that modify runtime dependencies
• Decreasing verbosity now has no affect on output that should always be displayed

1.10.0 - 2022-09-18¶

Added:

• Add the following to the list of directories that cannot be traversed: __pypackages__, .hg, .hatch, .tox, .nox
• Add deprecated option to allow ambiguous features

Fixed:

• Improve tracking of dynamic metadata
• Fix core metadata for entries in project.optional-dependencies that use direct references

1.9.0 - 2022-09-09¶

Changed:

• File pattern matching now more closely resembles Git's behavior

Added:

• Implement a minimal version of prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel and prepare_metadata_for_build_editable for non-frontend tools that only need to inspect a project's metadata
• Add metadata command to view PEP 621 project metadata
• Improve error messages for SPDX license errors
• Retroactively support License-File for core metadata starting at version 2.1
• Bump the minimum supported version of pathspec to 0.10.1

Fixed:

• Allow the valid non-SPDX license values LicenseRef-Public-Domain and LicenseRef-Proprietary
• Show the help text of the CLI when no subcommand is selected

1.8.1 - 2022-08-25¶

Fixed:

• Fix default file inclusion for wheel build targets when both the project name and package directory name are not normalized

1.8.0 - 2022-08-16¶

Added:

• Add get_known_classifiers method to metadata hooks

Fixed:

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

1.7.1 - 2022-08-13¶

Fixed:

• Fix the value of the relative_path attribute of included files, that some build plugins may use, when selecting explicit paths

1.7.0 - 2022-08-12¶

Added:

• Add require-runtime-features option for builders and build hooks
• Check for unknown trove classifiers
• Update SPDX license information to version 3.18

Fixed:

• Add better error message for wheel target dev mode installations that define path rewrites with the sources option
• Note the allow-direct-references option in the relevant error messages

1.6.0 - 2022-07-23¶

Changed:

• When no build targets are specified on the command line, now default to sdist and wheel targets rather than what happens to be defined in config
• The code version source now only supports files with known extensions
• Global build hooks now run before target-specific build hooks to better match expected behavior

Added:

• The code version source now supports loading extension modules
• Add search-paths option for the code version source

Fixed:

• Fix removing sources using an empty string value in the mapping
• The strict-naming option now also applies to the metadata directory of wheel targets

1.5.0 - 2022-07-11¶

Added:

• Support the final draft of PEP 639
• Add strict-naming option for sdist and wheel targets

Fixed:

• Project names are now stored in sdist and wheel target core metadata exactly as defined in pyproject.toml without normalization to allow control of how PyPI displays them

1.4.1 - 2022-07-04¶

Fixed:

• Fix forced inclusion of important files like licenses for sdist targets when using the explicit selection options
• Don't sort project URL metadata so that the rendered order on PyPI can be controlled

1.4.0 - 2022-07-03¶

Changed:

• The packages option uses the new only-include option to provide targeted inclusion, since that is desired most of the time. You can retain the old behavior by using the include and sources options together.

Added:

• Support PEP 561 type hinting
• Add version build hook
• Add only-include option
• The editable version of wheel targets now respects the force-include option by default
• The force-include option now supports path rewriting with the sources option
• The wheel target shared-data and extra-metadata options now respect file selection options
• The wheel target now auto-detects single module layouts
• Improve performance by never entering directories that are guaranteed to be undesirable like __pycache__ rather than excluding individual files within
• Update SPDX license information to version 3.17

Fixed:

• Don't write empty entry points file for wheel targets if there are no entry points defined
• Allow metadata hooks to set the version in all cases
• Prevent duplicate file entries from inclusion when using the force-include option

1.3.1 - 2022-05-30¶

Fixed:

• Better populate global variables for the code version source

1.3.0 - 2022-05-22¶

Removed:

• Remove unused global args context string formatting field

Added:

• Improve error messages for the env context string formatting field

Fixed:

• Fix uri context string formatting modifier on Windows

1.2.0 - 2022-05-20¶

Added:

• Allow context formatting for project.dependencies and project.optional-dependencies

1.1.0 - 2022-05-19¶

Added:

• Add uri and real context string formatting modifiers for file system paths

1.0.0 - 2022-05-17¶

Changed:

• Drop support for Python 2

Added:

• Improve error messaging for invalid versions
• Update project metadata to reflect support for Python 3.11

0.25.1 - 2022-06-14¶

Fixed:

• Fix support for Windows on Python 2 by removing its support for symlinks

0.25.0 - 2022-05-15¶

Added:

• Add skip-excluded-dirs build option
• Allow build data to add additional project dependencies for wheel and sdist build targets
• Add force_include_editable build data for the wheel build target
• Add build_hooks build data
• Add support for Mercurial's .hgignore files when using glob syntax
• Update project metadata to reflect the adoption by PyPA

Fixed:

• Properly use underscores for the name of force_include build data
• No longer greedily skip excluded directories by default

0.24.0 - 2022-04-28¶

This is the initial public release of the Hatchling build system. Support for Python 2 will be dropped in version 1.