packaging 21.0

21.0 - 2021-07-03

• packaging is now only compatible with Python 3.6 and above.

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

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

• 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 (#226)

• 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.