Changelog for PyInstaller 3.0 – 3.2.1

3.2.1 (2017-01-15)

  • 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)

3.2 (2016-05-03)

  • 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 pypi 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.

3.1.1 (2016-01-31)

Fixed the following issues:

  • 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)

3.1 (2016-01-09)

  • 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.

3.0 (2015-10-04)

  • 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.