Changelog#

23.0 - 2023-01-08#

  • Allow "extra" to be None in the marker environment (#650)

  • Refactor tags._generic_api to use EXT_SUFFIX (#607)

  • Correctly handle trailing whitespace on URL requirements (#642)

  • Fix typing for specifiers.BaseSpecifier.filter() (#643)

  • Use stable Python 3.11 in tests (#641)

  • Correctly handle non-normalised specifiers in requirements (#634)

  • Move to src/ layout (#626)

  • Remove __about__ file, in favour of keeping constants in __init__ (#626)

22.0 - 2022-12-07#

  • Explicitly declare support for Python 3.11 (#587)

  • Remove support for Python 3.6 (#500)

  • Remove LegacySpecifier and LegacyVersion (#407)

  • Add __hash__ and __eq__ to Requirement (#499)

  • Add a cpNNN-none-any tag (#541)

  • Adhere to PEP 685 when evaluating markers with extras (#545)

  • Allow accepting locally installed prereleases with SpecifierSet (#515)

  • Allow pre-release versions in marker evaluation (#523)

  • Correctly parse ELF for musllinux on Big Endian (#538)

  • Document packaging.utils.NormalizedName (#565)

  • Document exceptions raised by functions in packaging.utils (#544)

  • Fix compatible version specifier incorrectly strip trailing 0 (#493)

  • Fix macOS platform tags with old macOS SDK (#513)

  • Forbid prefix version matching on pre-release/post-release segments (#563)

  • Normalize specifier version for prefix matching (#561)

  • Improve documentation for packaging.specifiers and packaging.version. (#572)

  • Marker.evaluate will now assume evaluation environment with empty extra. Evaluating markers like "extra == 'xyz'" without passing any extra in the environment will no longer raise an exception (#550)

  • Remove dependency on pyparsing, by replacing it with a hand-written parser. This package now has no runtime dependencies (#468)

  • Update return type hint for Specifier.filter and SpecifierSet.filter to use Iterator instead of Iterable (#584)

21.3 - 2021-11-17#

  • Add a pp3-none-any tag (#311)

  • Replace the blank pyparsing 3 exclusion with a 3.0.5 exclusion (#481, #486)

  • Fix a spelling mistake (#479)

21.2 - 2021-10-29#

  • Update documentation entry for 21.1.

21.1 - 2021-10-29#

  • Update pin to pyparsing to exclude 3.0.0.

21.0 - 2021-07-03#

  • PEP 656: musllinux support (#411)

  • Drop support for Python 2.7, Python 3.4 and Python 3.5.

  • Replace distutils usage with sysconfig (#396)

  • Add support for zip files in parse_sdist_filename (#429)

  • Use cached _hash attribute to short-circuit tag equality comparisons (#417)

  • Specify the default value for the specifier argument to SpecifierSet (#437)

  • Proper keyword-only “warn” argument in packaging.tags (#403)

  • Correctly remove prerelease suffixes from ~= check (#366)

  • Fix type hints for Version.post and Version.dev (#393)

  • Use typing alias UnparsedVersion (#398)

  • Improve type inference for packaging.specifiers.filter() (#430)

  • Tighten the return type of canonicalize_version() (#402)

20.9 - 2021-01-29#

  • Run isort over the code base (#377)

  • Add support for the macosx_10_*_universal2 platform tags (#379)

  • Introduce packaging.utils.parse_wheel_filename() and parse_sdist_filename() (#387 and #389)

20.8 - 2020-12-11#

  • Revert back to setuptools for compatibility purposes for some Linux distros (#363)

  • Do not insert an underscore in wheel tags when the interpreter version number is more than 2 digits (#372)

20.7 - 2020-11-28#

No unreleased changes.

20.6 - 2020-11-28#

Note

This release was subsequently yanked, and these changes were included in 20.7.

  • Fix flit configuration, to include LICENSE files (#357)

  • Make intel a recognized CPU architecture for the universal macOS platform tag (#361)

  • Add some missing type hints to packaging.requirements (issue:350)

20.5 - 2020-11-27#

  • Officially support Python 3.9 (#343)

  • Deprecate the LegacyVersion and LegacySpecifier classes (#321)

  • Handle OSError on non-dynamic executables when attempting to resolve the glibc version string.

20.4 - 2020-05-19#

  • Canonicalize version before comparing specifiers. (#282)

  • Change type hint for canonicalize_name to return packaging.utils.NormalizedName. This enables the use of static typing tools (like mypy) to detect mixing of normalized and un-normalized names.

20.3 - 2020-03-05#

  • Fix changelog for 20.2.

20.2 - 2020-03-05#

  • Fix a bug that caused a 32-bit OS that runs on a 64-bit ARM CPU (e.g. ARM-v8, aarch64), to report the wrong bitness.

20.1 - 2020-01-24#

  • Fix a bug caused by reuse of an exhausted iterator. (#257)

20.0 - 2020-01-06#

  • Add type hints (#191)

  • Add proper trove classifiers for PyPy support (#198)

  • Scale back depending on ctypes for manylinux support detection (#171)

  • Use sys.implementation.name where appropriate for packaging.tags (#193)

  • Expand upon the API provided by packaging.tags: interpreter_name(), mac_platforms(), compatible_tags(), cpython_tags(), generic_tags() (#187)

  • Officially support Python 3.8 (#232)

  • Add major, minor, and micro aliases to packaging.version.Version (#225)

  • Properly mark packaging has being fully typed by adding a py.typed file (#226)

19.2 - 2019-09-18#

  • Remove dependency on attrs (#178, #179)

  • Use appropriate fallbacks for CPython ABI tag (#181, #185)

  • Add manylinux2014 support (#186)

  • Improve ABI detection (#181)

  • Properly handle debug wheels for Python 3.8 (#172)

  • Improve detection of debug builds on Windows (#194)

19.1 - 2019-07-30#

  • Add the packaging.tags module. (#156)

  • Correctly handle two-digit versions in python_version (#119)

19.0 - 2019-01-20#

  • Fix string representation of PEP 508 direct URL requirements with markers.

  • Better handling of file URLs

    This allows for using file:///absolute/path, which was previously prevented due to the missing netloc.

    This allows for all file URLs that urlunparse turns back into the original URL to be valid.

18.0 - 2018-09-26#

  • Improve error messages when invalid requirements are given. (#129)

17.1 - 2017-02-28#

  • Fix utils.canonicalize_version when supplying non PEP 440 versions.

17.0 - 2017-02-28#

  • Drop support for python 2.6, 3.2, and 3.3.

  • Define minimal pyparsing version to 2.0.2 (#91).

  • Add epoch, release, pre, dev, and post attributes to Version and LegacyVersion (#34).

  • Add Version().is_devrelease and LegacyVersion().is_devrelease to make it easy to determine if a release is a development release.

  • Add utils.canonicalize_version to canonicalize version strings or Version instances (#121).

16.8 - 2016-10-29#

  • Fix markers that utilize in so that they render correctly.

  • Fix an erroneous test on Python RC releases.

16.7 - 2016-04-23#

  • Add support for the deprecated python_implementation marker which was an undocumented setuptools marker in addition to the newer markers.

16.6 - 2016-03-29#

  • Add support for the deprecated, PEP 345 environment markers in addition to the newer markers.

16.5 - 2016-02-26#

  • Fix a regression in parsing requirements with whitespaces between the comma separators.

16.4 - 2016-02-22#

  • Fix a regression in parsing requirements like foo (==4).

16.3 - 2016-02-21#

  • Fix a bug where packaging.requirements:Requirement was overly strict when matching legacy requirements.

16.2 - 2016-02-09#

  • Add a function that implements the name canonicalization from PEP 503.

16.1 - 2016-02-07#

  • Implement requirement specifiers from PEP 508.

16.0 - 2016-01-19#

  • Relicense so that packaging is available under either the Apache License, Version 2.0 or a 2 Clause BSD license.

  • Support installation of packaging when only distutils is available.

  • Fix == comparison when there is a prefix and a local version in play. (#41).

  • Implement environment markers from PEP 508.

15.3 - 2015-08-01#

  • Normalize post-release spellings for rev/r prefixes. #35

15.2 - 2015-05-13#

  • Fix an error where the arbitrary specifier (===) was not correctly allowing pre-releases when it was being used.

  • Expose the specifier and version parts through properties on the Specifier classes.

  • Allow iterating over the SpecifierSet to get access to all of the Specifier instances.

  • Allow testing if a version is contained within a specifier via the in operator.

15.1 - 2015-04-13#

  • Fix a logic error that was causing inconsistent answers about whether or not a pre-release was contained within a SpecifierSet or not.

15.0 - 2015-01-02#

  • Add Version().is_postrelease and LegacyVersion().is_postrelease to make it easy to determine if a release is a post release.

  • Add Version().base_version and LegacyVersion().base_version to make it easy to get the public version without any pre or post release markers.

  • Support the update to PEP 440 which removed the implied !=V.* when using either >V or <V and which instead special cased the handling of pre-releases, post-releases, and local versions when using >V or <V.

14.5 - 2014-12-17#

  • Normalize release candidates as rc instead of c.

  • Expose the VERSION_PATTERN constant, a regular expression matching a valid version.

14.4 - 2014-12-15#

  • Ensure that versions are normalized before comparison when used in a specifier with a less than (<) or greater than (>) operator.

14.3 - 2014-11-19#

  • BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE Refactor specifier support so that it can sanely handle legacy specifiers as well as PEP 440 specifiers.

  • BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE Move the specifier support out of packaging.version into packaging.specifiers.

14.2 - 2014-09-10#

  • Add prerelease support to Specifier.

  • Remove the ability to do item in Specifier() and replace it with Specifier().contains(item) in order to allow flags that signal if a prerelease should be accepted or not.

  • Add a method Specifier().filter() which will take an iterable and returns an iterable with items that do not match the specifier filtered out.

14.1 - 2014-09-08#

  • Allow LegacyVersion and Version to be sorted together.

  • Add packaging.version.parse() to enable easily parsing a version string as either a Version or a LegacyVersion depending on it’s PEP 440 validity.

14.0 - 2014-09-05#

  • Initial release.