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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

1.27.0 - 2024-11-26

Added:

  • Update the default version of core metadata to 2.4

1.26.3 - 2024-11-12

Fixed:

  • Support an old import path that is still used by some consumers like Hatch

1.26.2 - 2024-11-12

Fixed:

  • Back-populate string license fields (License-Expression) for core metadata versions prior to 2.4
  • Remove the License-Expression and License-Files core metadata from version 2.2 that was missed in the previous minor release

1.26.1 - 2024-11-10

Fixed:

  • Add backward compatibility for the old license-files metadata field
  • Support an old import path that is still used by some consumers like Hatch

1.26.0 - 2024-11-10

Changed:

  • The license-files metadata field has been updated to the latest spec and is now just an array of glob patterns

Added:

  • Support version 2.4 of core metadata for the wheel and sdist targets
  • Add HATCH_METADATA_CLASSIFIERS_NO_VERIFY environment variable to disable trove classifier verification
  • Add .pixi to the list of directories that cannot be traversed
  • Bump the minimum supported version of packaging to 24.2

Fixed:

  • No longer write package metadata for license expressions and files for versions of core metadata prior to 2.4
  • Properly enable Zip64 support for the wheel target
  • Properly ignore parent .gitingore files when the project root matches one of the patterns

1.25.0 - 2024-06-22

Changed:

  • The macos-max-compat option for the wheel target is now disabled by default and will be removed in a future release

Added:

  • Artifacts for the wheel and sdist targets now have their permission bits normalized

Fixed:

  • Ignore manylinux/musllinux tags for the wheel target artifact name when enabling the infer_tag build data
  • The wheel target build data infer_tag when enabled now respects the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable

1.24.2 - 2024-04-22

Fixed:

  • Add .venv to the list of directories that cannot be traversed
  • Output from the core Application utility now writes to stderr

1.24.1 - 2024-04-18

Fixed:

  • Maintain file permissions for shared-scripts option/shared_scripts build data of the wheel target

1.24.0 - 2024-04-16

Added:

  • Add shared_data and shared_scripts build data for the wheel target

1.23.0 - 2024-04-14

Added:

  • Add shared-scripts option for the wheel target

Fixed:

  • Support recursive optional dependencies
  • Set the packaging dependency version as >=23.2 to avoid its URL validation which can conflict with context formatting

1.22.5 - 2024-04-04

Fixed:

  • Fix reading metadata from source distributions when fields are dynamic but not part of core metadata like entry points

1.22.4 - 2024-03-23

Fixed:

  • Only read source distribution metadata for fields that are explicitly defined as dynamic

1.22.3 - 2024-03-19

Fixed:

  • Fix the custom build hook when using dynamic dependencies

1.22.2 - 2024-03-16

Fixed:

  • Fix regression when loading metadata from source distributions
  • Fix metadata hooks when building wheels from source distributions

1.22.1 - 2024-03-16

Fixed:

  • Update the default version of core metadata to 2.3

1.22.0 - 2024-03-16

Deprecated:

  • The app build target has been renamed to binary to reduce ambiguity with the name of an upcoming feature. The former name will still be usable for several minor releases.

Added:

  • Metadata for the wheel target now defaults to the PKG-INFO metadata within source distributions
  • Add dependencies method to the build hook interface so that hooks can themselves dynamically define dependencies
  • Update the default version of core metadata to 2.2
  • Update SPDX license information to version 3.23
  • Improve error message for when the default heuristics for wheel file inclusion fail

Fixed:

  • Properly support core metadata version 2.2
  • Remove editables as a direct dependency
  • Fix default wheel tag when the supported Python version declaration is strict
  • Load VCS ignore patterns first so that whitelisted patterns can be excluded by project configuration
  • Don't consider VCS ignore files that are outside of the VCS boundary
  • The sdist build target now gracefully ignores UNIX socket files
  • Begin ignoring certain files ubiquitously, like .DS_Store on macOS

1.21.1 - 2024-01-25

Fixed:

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

1.21.0 - 2023-12-18

Added:

  • Add parent context modifier for path fields

1.20.0 - 2023-12-13

Added:

  • Add bypass-selection option to the wheel build target to allow for empty (metadata-only) wheels

Fixed:

  • Fix regression in 1.19.1 that allowed exclude to count toward inclusion selection, thus bypassing the default inclusion selection heuristics
  • Fix writing optional dependency core metadata in situations where there are multiple environment markers

1.19.1 - 2023-12-12

Fixed:

  • Add better error message when the wheel build target cannot determine what to ship
  • Consider forced inclusion patterns and build-time artifacts as file selection since some build hooks generate the entire wheel contents without user configuration

1.19.0 - 2023-12-11

Changed:

  • An error will now be raised if a force-included path does not exist
  • An error will now be raised for the wheel build target if no file selection options are defined

Added:

  • Officially support Python 3.12
  • Allow using an empty string for the sources option to add a prefix to distribution paths

Fixed:

  • Properly handle non-zero version epoch for the standard version scheme
  • Fix the wheel build target for case insensitive file systems when the project metadata name does not match the directory name on disk
  • The app build target no longer has suppressed output
  • Prevent duplicate paths when projects require the sources option while build hooks overwrite included paths
  • Properly escape spaces for URI context formatting

1.18.0 - 2023-06-12

Changed:

  • Drop support for Python 3.7

Added:

  • Update the list of directories that are always excluded for builds

1.17.1 - 2023-06-03

Fixed:

  • Fix dev mode when the project has symlinks and file inclusion is defined with the packages or only-include options
  • Change the name of generated PTH files for dev mode so they come first lexicographically and therefore load first

1.17.0 - 2023-05-12

Added:

  • The app build target now embeds the project version in the name of binaries

1.16.1 - 2023-05-11

Fixed:

  • Fix determining the built executable path for the app build target option when using a local copy of PyApp when there is an explicit target triple set

1.16.0 - 2023-05-11

Added:

  • Add app build target option to build using a local copy of the PyApp repository

1.15.0 - 2023-05-09

Added:

  • Add app build target

1.14.1 - 2023-04-23

Fixed:

  • Fix internal archive root naming for the sdist target when strict-naming is disabled to match the file name in order to support the expectation of some frontends

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.