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pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.15.0

Please see the v6.15.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.14.2.

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Published by bwoodsend 7 months ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.14.2

Please see the v6.14.2 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.14.1.

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Published by bwoodsend 8 months ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.14.1

Please see the v6.14.1 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.14.0.

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Published by bwoodsend 9 months ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.14.0

Please see the v6.14.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.13.0.

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Published by bwoodsend 9 months ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.13.0

Please see the v6.13.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.12.0.

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Published by bwoodsend 11 months ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.12.0

Please see the v6.12.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.11.1.

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Published by bwoodsend about 1 year ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.11.1

Please see the v6.11.1 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.11.0.

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Published by bwoodsend over 1 year ago

pyinstaller -

Please see the v6.11.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.10.0.

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Published by bwoodsend over 1 year ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.10.0

Please see the v6.10.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.9.0.

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Published by bwoodsend over 1 year ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.9.0

Please see the v6.9.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.8.0.

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Published by bwoodsend over 1 year ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.8.0

Please see the v6.8.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.7.0.

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Published by bwoodsend over 1 year ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.7.0

Please see the v6.7.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.6.0.

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Published by bwoodsend almost 2 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.6.0

Please see the v6.6.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.5.0.

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Published by bwoodsend almost 2 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.5.0

Please see the v6.5.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.4.0.

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Published by bwoodsend almost 2 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.4.0

Please see the v6.4.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.3.0.

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Published by bwoodsend about 2 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.3.0

Please see the v6.3.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.2.0.

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Published by bwoodsend about 2 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.2.0

Please see the v6.2.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.1.0.

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Published by bwoodsend over 2 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.1.0

Please see the v6.1.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v6.0.0.

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Published by bwoodsend over 2 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v6.0.0

Please see the v6.0.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.13.2.

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Published by bwoodsend over 2 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.13.2

Please see the v5.13.2 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.13.1.

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Published by bwoodsend over 2 years ago

Please see the v5.13.1 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.13.0. Note that this is a bugfix only release. It's primary purpose is to publish https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/pull/7827.

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Published by bwoodsend over 2 years ago

pyinstaller -

Please see the v5.13.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.12.0.

Note that this is intended to be the last v5.x release. v6.0 will contain breaking changes from #7619, #7713 and #6999. If you want to avoid unexpected disruption, you may wish to pin pyinstaller (e.g. pip install "pyinstaller<6").

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Published by bwoodsend over 2 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.12.0

Please see the v5.12.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.11.0.

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Published by bwoodsend over 2 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.11.0

Please see the v5.11.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.10.1.

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Published by bwoodsend almost 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.10.1

Please see the v5.10.1 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.10.0.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend almost 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.10.0

Please see the v5.10.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.9.0.

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Published by bwoodsend almost 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.9.0

Please see the v5.9.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.8.0.

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Published by bwoodsend almost 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.8.0

Please see the v5.8.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.7.0.

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Published by bwoodsend about 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.7.0

Please see the v5.7.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.6.2.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend about 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.6.2

Please see the v5.6.2 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.6.1.

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Published by bwoodsend over 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.6.1

Please see the v5.6.1 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.6.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend over 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.6

Please see the v5.6 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.5.

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Published by bwoodsend over 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.5

Please see the v5.5 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.4.1.

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Published by bwoodsend over 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.4.1

Please see the v5.4.1 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.4.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend over 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.4

Please see the v5.4 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.3.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend over 3 years ago

pyinstaller -

Please see the v5.3 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.2.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend over 3 years ago

pyinstaller -

Please see the v5.2 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v5.1.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend over 3 years ago

pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/tag/v5.1

Please see the v5.1 section of the changelog for a list of the changes.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend almost 4 years ago

pyinstaller - Release v5.0

Please see the v5.0 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v4.10.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend almost 4 years ago

pyinstaller - Release v4.10

Please see the v4.10 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v4.9.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend almost 4 years ago

pyinstaller - Release v4.9

Please see the v4.9 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v4.8.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend about 4 years ago

pyinstaller - Release v4.8

Please see the v4.8 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v4.7.

- Python
Published by rokm about 4 years ago

pyinstaller - Release v4.7

Please see the v4.7 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v4.6.

- Python
Published by Legorooj over 4 years ago

pyinstaller - Release v4.6

Please see the v4.6 section of the changelog for a list of the changes since v4.5.1.

- Python
Published by Legorooj over 4 years ago

pyinstaller - Release 4.5.1

Please see the v4.5.1 section of the changelog for a list of the bufixes since v4.5.

- Python
Published by Legorooj over 4 years ago

pyinstaller - v4.5

Please see the v4.5 section of the changelog for the new features and bufixes since v4.4.

- Python
Published by Legorooj over 4 years ago

pyinstaller -

See the the v4.4 section of the changelog for the new features and bugfixes since v4.3.

- Python
Published by bwoodsend over 4 years ago

pyinstaller - v4.3

Please see the changelog if you wish to see a full list of changes.

- Python
Published by Legorooj almost 5 years ago

pyinstaller -

You can find a detailed list of changes in this release in the change log section of the manual.

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Published by htgoebel about 5 years ago

pyinstaller -

You can find a detailed list of changes in this release in the change log section of the manual.

- Python
Published by htgoebel over 5 years ago

pyinstaller -

Release 4.0 adds support for 3rd-party packages to provide PyInstaller hooks along with the package. This allows Maintainers of other Python packages to deliver up-to-date PyInstaller hooks as part of their package. See our sample project for more information.

PyInstaller uses this option itself to provide updated hooks much faster: Many hooks are moved into the new package pyinstaller-hooks-contrib which is updated monthly. This package is installed automatically when installing PyInstaller, but can also be updated independently.

Finally, this version drops support for Python 2.7, which is end-of-life since January 2020.. The minimum required version is now Python 3.5. The last version supporting Python 2.7 was PyInstaller 3.6.

You can find a detailed list of changes in this release in the change log section of the manual.

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Published by htgoebel over 5 years ago

pyinstaller -

See https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/v3.6/CHANGES.html for Changelog.

- Python
Published by htgoebel about 6 years ago

pyinstaller -

See https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/v3.5/CHANGES.html for Changelog.

- Python
Published by htgoebel over 6 years ago

pyinstaller -

See https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/v3.4/CHANGES.html for Changelog.

- Python
Published by htgoebel over 7 years ago

pyinstaller -

Hooks

Fix imports in hooks accessibleoutput and soundlib (#2860).
Fix ImportError for sysconfig for 3.5.4 Conda (#3105, #3106).
Fix shapely hook for conda environments on Windows (#2838).
Add hook for unidecode.

Bootloader

(Windows) Pre-build bootloaders (and custom-build ones using MSVC) can be used on Windows XP again. Set minimum target OS to XP (#2974).

Bootloader build

Fix build for FreeBSD (#2861, #2862).

PyInstaller Core

Usage: Add help-message clarifying use of options when a spec-file is provided (#3039).
Add printing infos on UnicodeDecodeError in execcommand(all).
(win32) Issue an error message on errors loading the icon file (#2039).
(aarch64) Use correct bootloader for 64-bit ARM (#2873).
(OS X) Fix replacement of run-time search path keywords (@… ) (#3100).
Modulegraph
- Fix recursion too deep errors cause by reimporting SWIG-like modules (#2911, #3040, #3061).
- Keep order of imported identifiers.

Test-suite and Continuous Integration

In Continuous Integration tests: Enable flake8-diff linting. This will refuse all changed lines not following PEP 8.
Enable parallel testing on Windows,
Update requirements.
Add more test cases for modulegraph.
Fix a test-case for order of module import.
Add test-cases to check scripts do not share the same global vars (see below).

Documentation

Add clarification about treatment of options when a spec-file is provided (#3039).
Add docs for running PyInstaller with Python optimizations (#2905).
Add notes about limitations of Cython support.
Add information how to handle undetected ctypes libraries.
Add notes about requirements and restrictions of SWIG support.
Add note to clarify what binary files are.
Add a Development Guide.
Extend "How to Contribute".
Add "Running the Test Suite".
Remove badges from the Readme (#2853).
Update outdated sections in man-pages and other enhancements to the man-page.

Known Issues

All scripts frozen into the package, as well as all run-time hooks, share the same global variables. This issue exists since v3.2 but was discovered only lately, see #3037. This may lead to leaking global variables from run-time hooks into the script and from one script to subsequent ones. It should have effects in rare cases only, though.
Further see the Known Issues for release 3.3.

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Published by htgoebel about 8 years ago

pyinstaller -

Add Support for Python 3.6! Many thanks to xiovat! (#2331, #2341)
New command line options for adding data files (--datas, #1990) and binaries (--binaries, #703)
Add command line option '--runtime-tmpdir'.
Bootloaders for Windows are now build using MSVC and statically linked with the run-time-library (CRT). This solved a lot of issues related to .dlls being incompatible with the ones required by python.dll.
Bootloaders for GNU/Linux are now officially no LSB binaries. This was already the case since release 3.1, but documented the other way round. Also the build defaults to non-LSB binaries now. (#2369)
We improved and stabilized both building the bootloaders and the continuous integration tests. See below for details. Many thanks to all who worked on this.
To ease solving issues with packages included wrongly, the html-file with a cross-reference is now always generated. It's visual appearance has been modernized (#2765).

Incompatible changes

Command-line option obsoleted several version ago are not longer handled gracefully but raise an error (#2413)
Installation: PyInstaller removed some internal copies of 3rd-party packages. These are now taken from their official releases at PyPI (#2589). This results in PyInstaller to no longer can be used from just an unpacked archive, but needs to be installed like any Python package. This should effect only a few people, e.g. the developers.
Following :pep:527, we only release one source archive now and decided to use .tar.gz (#2754).

Hooks

New and Updated hooks: accessibleoutput2 (#2266), ADIOS (#2096), CherryPy (#2112), PySide2 (#2471, #2744) (#2472), Sphinx (#2612, 2708) (#2708), appdir (#2478), clr (#2048), cryptodome (#2125), cryptography (#2013), dclab (#2657), django (#2037), django migrations (#1795), django.contrib (#2336), google.cloud, google.cloud.storage, gstreamer (#2603), imageio (#2696), langcodes (#2682), libaudioverse (#2709), mpltoolkits (#2400), numba, llvmlite (#2113), openpyxl (#2066), pylint, pymssql, pyopencl, pyproj (#2677), pytest (#2119), qtawesome (#2617), redmine, requests (#2334), setuptools, setuptools (#2565), shapely (#2569), sound_lib (#2267), sysconfig, uniseg (#2683), urllib3, wx.rc (#2295),
- numpy: Look for .dylib libraries, too ( (#2544), support numpy MKL builds (#1881, #2111)
- osgeo: Add conda specific places to check for auxiliary data (#2401)
- QT and related
- Add hooks for PySide2
- Eliminate run-time hook by placing files in the correct directory
- Fix path in homebrew for searching for qmake (#2354)
- Repair Qt dll location (#2403)
- Bundle PyQT 5.7 DLLs (#2152)
- PyQt5: Return qml plugin path including subdirectory (#2694)
- Fix hooks for PyQt5.QtQuick (#2743)
- PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets: Include files needed by QWebEngine
- GKT+ and related
- Fix Gir file path on windows.
- Fix unnecessary file search & generation when GI's typelib is exists
- gi: change gir search path when running from a virtualenv
- gi: package gdk-pixbuf in osx codesign agnostic dir
- gi: rewrite the GdkPixbuf loader cache at runtime on Linux
- gi: support onefile mode for GdkPixbuf
- gi: support using gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-64 when present
- gi: GIR files are only required on OSX
- gio: copy the mime.cache also
- Fix hooks for PyGObject on windows platform (#2306)
Fixed hooks: botocore (#2384), clr (#1801), gstreamer (#2417), h5py (#2686), pylint, Tix data files (#1660), usb.core (#2088), win32com on non-windows-systems (#2479)
Fix multiprocess spawn mode on POSIX OSs (#2322, #2505, #2759, #2795).

Bootloader

Add tempdir option to control where bootloader will extract files (#2221)
(Windows) in releases posted on PyPI requires msvcr*.dll (#2343)
Fix unsafe string manipulation, resource and memory leaks. Thanks to Vito Kortbeek (#2489, #2502, #2503)
Remove a left-over use of getenv()
Set proper LISTEN_PID (set by systemd) in child process (#2345)
Adds PID to bootloader log messages (#2466, #2480)
(Windows) Use wputenvs() instead of SetEnvironmentVariableW()
(Windows) Enhance error messages (#1431)
(Windows) Add workaround for a Python 3 issue http://bugs.python.org/issue29778 (#2496, #2844)
(OS X): Use single process for --onedir mode (#2616, #2618)
(GNU/Linux) Compile bootloaders with --no-lsb by default (#2369)
(GNU/Linux) Fix: linux64 bootloader requires glibc 2.14 (#2160)
(GNU/Linux) setdynamiclibrary_path change breaks plugin library use (#625)

Bootloader build

The bootloader build was largely overhauled. In the wscript, the build no longer depends on the Python interpreter's bit-size, but on the compiler. We have a machine for building bootloaders for Windows and cross-building for OS X. Thus all mainteriner are now able to build the bootloaders for all supported platforms.

Add "official" build-script.
(GNU/Linux) Make --no-lsb the default, add option --lsb.
Largely overhauled Vagrantfile:
- Make Darwin bootloaders build in OS X box (unused)
- Make Windows bootloaders build using MSVC
- Allow specifying cross-target on linux64.
- Enable cross-building for OS X.
- Enable cross-building for Windows (unused)
- Add box for building osxcross.
Largely overhauled wscript:
- Remove options --target-cpu.
- Use compiler's target arch, not Python's.
- Major overhaul of the script
- Build zlib if required, not if "on windows".
- Remove obsolete warnings.
- Update Solaris, AIX and HPUX support.
- Add flags for 'strip' tool in AIX platform.
- Don't set POSIX / SUS version defines.
(GNU/Linux) for 64-bit arm/aarch ignore the :program:gcc flag -m64 (#2801).

Module loader

Implement PEP-451 ModuleSpec type import system (#2377)
Fix: Import not thread-save? (#2010, #2371)

PyInstaller Core

Analyze: Check Python version when testing whether to rebuild.
Analyze: Don't fail on syntax error in modules, simply ignore them.
Better error message when datas are not found. (#2308)
Building: OSX: Use unicode literals when creating Info.plist XML
Building: Don't fail if "datas" filename contain glob special characters. (#2314)
Building: Read runtime-tmpdir from .spec-file.
Building: Update a comment.
building: warn users if bincache gets corrupted. (#2614)
Cli-utils: Remove graceful handling of obsolete command line options.
Configure: Create new parent-dir when moving old cache-dir. (#2679)
Depend: Include vcruntime140.dll on Windows. (#2487)
Depend: print nice error message if analyzed script has syntax error.
Depend: When scanning for ctypes libs remove non-basename binaries.
Enhance run-time error message on ctypes import error.
Fix #2585: py2 non-unicode sys.path been tempted by os.path.abspath(). (#2585)
Fix crash if extension module has hidden import to ctypes. (#2492)
Fix handling of obsolete command line options. (#2411)
Fix versioninfo.py breakage on Python 3.x (#2623)
Fix: "Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing" (#2124)
Fix: UnicodeDecodeError - collectdatafiles does not return filenames as unicode (#1604)
Remove graceful handling of obsolete command line options. (#2413)
Make grab version more polite on non-windows (#2054)
Make utils/win32/versioninfo.py round trip the version info correctly.
Makespec: Fix version number processing for PyCrypto. (#2476)
Optimizations and refactoring to modulegraph and scanning for ctypes dependencies.
pyinstaller should not crash when hitting an encoding error in source code (#2212)
Remove destination for COLLECT and EXE prior to copying it (#2701)
Remove uninformative traceback when adding not found data files (#2346)
threading bug while processing imports (#2010)
utils/hooks: Add logging to collectdatafiles.
(win32) Support using pypiwin32 or pywin32-ctypes (#2602)
(win32) Use os.path.normpath to ensure that system libs are excluded.
(win32) Look for libpython%.%.dll in Windows MSYS2 (#2571)
(win32) Make versioninfo.py round trip the version info correctly (#2599)
(win32) Ensure that pywin32 isn't imported before check_requirements is called
(win32) pyi-grab_version and --version-file not working? (#1347)
(win32) Close PE() object to avoid mmap memory leak (#2026)
(win32) Fix: ProductVersion in windows version info doesn't show in some cases (#846)
(win32) Fix multi-byte path bootloader import issue with python2 (#2585)
(win32) Forward DYLDLIBRARYPATH through arch command. (#2035)
(win32) Add vcruntime140.dll towinincludes for Python 3.5 an 3.6 (#2487)
(OS X) Add libpython%d.%dm.dylib to Darwin (isdarwin) PYDYLIBNAMES. (#1971)
(OS X) macOS bundle Info.plist should be in UTF-8 (#2615)
(OS X) multiprocessing spawn in python 3 does not work on macOS (#2322)
(OS X) Pyinstaller not able to find path (@rpath) of dynamic library (#1514)
Modulegraph
- Align with upstream version 0.13.
- Add the upstream test-suite
- Warn on syntax error and unicode error. (#2430)
- Implement enumerate_instructions() (#2720)
- Switch byte-code analysis to use Instruction (like dis3 does) (#2423)
- Log warning on unicode error instead of only a debug message (#2418)
- Use standard logging for messages. (#2433)
- Fix to reimport failed SWIG C modules (1522, #2578).
Included 3rd-party libraries
- Remove bundled pefile and macholib, use the releases from PyPI. (#1920, #2689)
- altgraph: Update to altgraph 0.13, add upstream test-suite.

Utilities

:program:grab_version.py: Display a friendly error message when utility fails (#859, #2792).

Test-suite and Continuous Integration

Rearrange requirements files.
Pin required versions – now updated using pyup (#2745)
Hide useless trace-backs of helper-functions.
Add a test for PyQt5.QtQuick.
Add functional tests for PySide2
Add test for new feature --runtime-tmpdir.
Fix regression-test for #2492.
unit: Add test-cases for PyiModuleGraph.
unit/altgraph: Bringing in upstream altgraph test-suite.
unit/modulegraph: Bringing in the modulegraph test-suite.
Continuous Integration
- Lots of enhancements to the CI tests to make them more stabile and reliable.
- Pin required versions – now updated using pyup (#2745)
- OS X is now tested along with GNU/Linux at Travis CI (#2508)
- Travis: Use stages (#2753)
- appveyor: Save cache on failure (#2690)
- appveyor: Verify built bootloaders have the expected arch.

Documentation

Add information how to donate (#2755, #2772).
Add how to install the development version using pip.
Fix installation instructions for development version. (#2761)
Better examples for hidden imports.
Clarify and fix "Adding Data Files" and "Adding Binary Files". (#2482)
Document new command line option '--runtime-tmpdir'.
pyinstaller works on powerpc linux, big endian arch (#2000)
Largely rewrite section "Building the Bootloader", update from the wiki page.
Describe building LSB-compliant bootloader as (now) special case.
help2rst: Add cross-reference labels for option-headers.
Enable sphinx.ext.intersphinx and links to our website.
Sphinx should not "adjust" display of command line documentation (#2217)

Known Issues

Data-files from wheels, unzipped eggs or not ad egg at all are not included automatically. This can be worked around using a hook-file, but may not suffice when using --onefile and something like python-daemon.
The multipackage (MERGE) feature (#1527) is currently broken.
(OSX) Support for OpenDocument events (#1309) is broken.
(Windows) With Python 2.7 the frozen application may not run if the user-name (more specifically %TEMPDIR%) includes some Unicode characters. This does not happen with all Unicode characters, but only some and seems to be a windows bug. As a work-around please upgrade to Python 3 (#2754, #2767).
(Windows) For Python >= 3.5 targeting Windows < 10, the developer needs to take special care to include the Visual C++ run-time .dlls. Please see the section :ref:Platform-specific Notes <Platform-specific Notes - Windows> in the manual. (#1566)
For Python 3.3, imports are not thread-safe (#2371#). Since Python 3.3 is end of live at 2017-09-29, we are not going to fix this.

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Published by htgoebel over 8 years ago

pyinstaller -

New, updated and fixed hooks: botocore (#2094), gi (#2347), jira (#2222), PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets (#2269), skimage (#2195, 2225), sphinx (#2323,) xsge_gui (#2251).

Fixed the following issues: - Don't fail if working directory already exists (#1994) - Avoid encoding errors in main script (#1976) - Fix hasher digest bytes not str (#2229, #2230) - (Windows) Fix additional dependency on the msvcrt10.dll (#1974) - (Windows) Correctly decode a bytes object produced by pefile (#1981) - (Windows) Package pefile with pyinstaller. This partially undoes some changes in 3.2 in which the packaged pefiles were removed to use the pypi version instead. The pypi version was considerably slower in some applications, and still has a couple of small issues on PY3. (#1920) - (OS X) PyQt5 packaging issues on MacOS (#1874) - (OS X) Replace run-time search path keyword (#1965) - (OS X) (Re-) add argv emulation for OSX, 64-bit (#2219) - (OS X) use decode("utf-8") to convert bytes in getImports_macholib() (#1973) - (Bootloader) fix segfaults (#2176) - (setup.py) pass option --no-lsb on GNU/Linux only (#1975) - Updates and fixes in documentation, manuals, et al. (#1986, 2002, #2153, #2227, #2231)

- Python
Published by htgoebel about 9 years ago

pyinstaller -

Even the "main" script is now byte-compiled (#1847, #1856)
The manual is on readthedocs.io now (#1578)
On installation try to compile the bootloader if there is none for the current plattform (#1377)
(Unix) Use objcopy to create a valid ELF file (#1812, #1831)
(Linux): Compile with _FORTIFY_SOURCE (#1820)
New, updated and fixed hooks: CherryPy (#1860), Cryptography (#1425, #1861), enchant (1562), gi.repository.GdkPixbuf (#1843), gst (#1963), Lib2to3 (#1768), PyQt4, PyQt5, PySide (#1783, #1897, #1887), SciPy (#1908, #1909), sphinx (#1911, #1912), sqlalchemy (#1951), traitlets wx.lib.pubsub (#1837, #1838),
For windowed mode add isatty() for our dummy NullWriter (#1883)
Suppress "Failed to execute script" in case of SystemExit (#1869)
Do not apply Upx compressor for bootloader files (#1863)
Fix absolute path for lib used via ctypes (#1934)
(OSX) Fix binary cache on NFS (#1573, #1849)
(Windows) Fix message in grab_version (#1923)
(Windows) Fix wrong icon paramter in Windows example (#1764)
(Windows) Fix win32 unicode handling (#1878)
(Windows) Fix unnecessary rebuilds caused by rebuilding winmanifest (#1933)
(Cygwin) Fix finding the Python library for Cygwin 64-bit (#1307, #1810, #1811)
(OSX) Fix compilation issue (#1882)
(Windows) No longer bundle pefile, use package from for windows (#1357)
(Windows) Provide a more robust means of executing a Python script
AIX fixes.
Update waf to version 1.8.20 (#1868)
Fix excludedimports, more predictable order how hooks are applied #1651
Internal impovements and code clean-up (#1754, #1760, #1794, #1858, #1862, #1887, #1907, #1913)
Clean-ups fixes and improvements for the test suite

Known Issues - Apps built with Windows 10 and Python 3.5 may not run on Windows versions earlier than 10 (#1566). - The multipackage (MERGE) feature (#1527) is currently broken. - (OSX) Support for OpenDocument events (#1309) is broken.

- Python
Published by htgoebel almost 10 years ago

pyinstaller -

Fix problems with setuptools 19.4 (#1772, #1773, #1790, #1791)
3.1 does not collect certain direct imports (#1780)
Git reports wrong version even if on unchanged release (#1778)
Don't resolve symlinks in modulegraph.py (#1750, #1755)
ShortFileName not returned in win32 util (#1799)

- Python
Published by htgoebel about 10 years ago

pyinstaller -

Support reproducible builds (#490, #1434, #1582, #1590).
Strip leading parts of paths in compiled code objects (#1059, #1302, #1724).
With --log-level=DEBUG, a dependency graph-file is emitted in the build-directory.
Allow running pyinstaller as user root. By popular demand, see e.g. #1564, #1459, #1081.
New Hooks: botocore, boto3, distorm3, GObject, GI (G Introspection), GStreamer, GEvent, kivy, lxml.isoschematron, pubsub.core, PyQt5.QtMultimedia, scipy.linalg, shelve.
Fixed or Updated Hooks: astroid, django, jsonschema logilab, PyQt4, PyQt5, skimage, sklearn.
Add option --hiddenimport as an alias for --hidden-import.
(OSX): Fix issues with st_flags (#1650).
(OSX) Remove warning message about 32bit compatibility (#1586).
(Linux) The cache is now stored in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/pyinstaller instead of $XDG_DATA_HOME - the cache is moved automatically (#1118).
Documentation updates, e.g. about reproducible builds
Put back full text of GPL license into COPYING.txt.
Fix crashes when looking for ctypes DLLs (#1608, #1609, #1620).
Fix: Imports in byte-code not found if code contains a function (#1581).
Fix recursion into bytes-code when scanning for ctypes (#1620).
Fix PyCrypto modules to work with crypto feature (--key option) (#1663).
Fix problems with excludedimports in some hook excluding the named modules even if used elswhere (#1584, #1600).
Fix freezing of pip 7.1.2 (#1699).
FreeBSD and Solaris fixes.
Search for ldconfig in $PATH first (#1659)
Deny processing outdated package _xmlplus.
Improvements to the test-suite, testing infrastructure and continuous integration.
For non-release builds, the exact git revision is not used.
Internal code refactoring.
Enhancements and clean-ups to the hooks API - only relevant for hook authors. See the manual for details. E.g:
- Removed attrs in hooks - they were not used anymore anyway.
- Change add/del_import() to accept arbitrary number of module names.
- New hook utility function copy_metadata().

Known Issues - Apps built with Windows 10 and Python 3.5 may not run on Windows versions earlier than 10 (#1566). - The multipackage (MERGE) feature (#1527) is currently broken. - (OSX) Support for OpenDocument events (#1309) is broken.

- Python
Published by htgoebel about 10 years ago

pyinstaller -

Python 3 support (3.3 / 3.4 / 3.5).
Remove support for Python 2.6 and lower.
Full unicode support in the bootloader (#824, #1224, #1323, #1340, #1396)
- (Windows) Python 2.7 apps can now run from paths with non-ASCII characters
- (Windows) Python 2.7 onefile apps can now run for users whose usernames contain non-ASCII characters
- Fix sys.getfilesystemencoding() to return correct values (#446, #885).
(OSX) Executables built with PyInstaller under OS X can now be digitally signed.
(OSX) 32bit precompiled bootloader no longer distributed, only 64bit.
(Windows) for 32bit bootloader enable flag LARGEADDRESSAWARE that allows to use 4GB of RAM.
New hooks: amazon-product-api, appy, certifi, countrycode, cryptography, gi, httplib2, jsonschema, keyring, lensfunpy, mpl_toolkits.basemap, ncclient, netCDF4, OpenCV, osgeo, patsy, PsychoPy, pycountry, pycparser, PyExcelerate, PyGobject, pymssql, PyNaCl, PySiDe.QtCore, PySide.QtGui, rawpy, requests, scapy, scipy, six, SpeechRecognition, u1db, weasyprint, Xlib.
Hook fixes: babel, ctypes, django, IPython, pint, PyEnchant, Pygments, PyQt5, PySide, pyusb, sphinx, sqlalchemy, tkinter, wxPython.
Add support for automatically including data files from eggs.
Add support for directory eggs support.
Add support for all kind of namespace packages e.g. zope.interface, PEP302 (#502, #615, #665, #1346).
Add support for pkgutil.extend_path().
New option --key to obfuscate the Python bytecode.
New option --exclude-module to ignore a specific module or package.
(Windows) New option --uac-admin to request admin permissions before starting the app.
(Windows) New option --uac-uiaccess allows an elevated application to work with Remote Desktop.
(Windows) New options for Side-by-side Assembly searching:
- --win-private-assemblies bundled Shared Assemblies into the application will be changed into Private Assemblies
- --win-no-prefer-redirects while searching for Assemblies PyInstaller will prefer not to follow policies that redirect to newer versions.
(OSX) New option --osx-bundle-identifier to set .app bundle identifier.
(Windows) Remove old COM server support.
Allow override PyInstaller default config directory by environment variable PYINSTALLER_CONFIG_DIR.
Add FreeBSD support.
AIX fixes.
Solaris fixes.
Use library modulegraph for module dependency analysis.
Bootloader debug messages LOADER: ... printed to stderr.
PyInstaller no longer extends sys.path and bundled 3rd-party libraries do not interfere with their other versions.
Enhancemants to Analysis():
- New arguments excludedimports to exclude Python modules in import hooks.
- New argument binaries to bundle dynamic libraries in .spec file and in import hooks.
- New argument datas to bundle additional data files in .spec file and in import hooks.
A lot of internal code refactoring.
Test suite migrated to pytest framework.
Improved testing infrastructure with continuous integration (Travis - Linux, Appveyor - Windows)
Wiki and bug tracker migrated to github.

Known Issues - Apps built with Windows 10 and Python 3.5 may not run on Windows versions earlier than 10 (#1566). - The multipackage (MERGE) feature (#1527) is currenty broken. - (OSX) Support for OpenDocument events (#1309) is broken.