Changelog¶

v1.0.1 (May 11, 2026)¶

Include docs and tests in sdist again (#322)
Fix long path issue on Windows (#321)
Fix date in changelog (#324)
Use os.path.abspath() instead of Path.resolve() for performance (#326)

v1.0.0 (Mar 28, 2026)¶

Drop support for Python 3.9, 3.8, and 3.7 (#305, #242, #206)
Add support and Python 3.13 and 3.14 (#201, #282)
Add --overwrite-existing CLI option (#216)
Add --validate-record CLI option (#161)
Support installing multiple wheels (#203)
Handle invalid hash algorithms (#179)
Stream-based validation instead of in-memory (#98)
Add validate_stream methods (#99)
Consolidate and refine validation APIs (#108, #111)
Sort entries before writing RECORD (#245)
Do not install pycache from wheels (#307)
Fix a path traversal bug (#317)
Update launcher scripts and Windows behavior (#212, #181)
Fix Windows relpath bug (#286)
Migrate to dataclasses (#200)
Use cached_property for memoization (#243)
Refactor installer.scripts (#239)
Decouple test modules (#104)
Avoid cross-module imports from .utils (#102)
Lazy imports for performance (#226)
Complete type annotations and enforce strict mypy (#173)
Deprecate RecordEntry.validate (#186)
Fix documentation typos and grammar (#309, #210)
Improve docstrings and internal documentation (#100)

v0.7.0 (Mar 17, 2023)¶

Improve handling of non-normalized .dist-info folders (#168)
Explicitly use policy=compat32 (#163)
Normalize RECORD file paths when parsing (#152)
Search wheels for .dist-info directories (#137)
Separate validation of RECORD (#147, #167)

v0.6.0 (Dec 7, 2022)¶

Add support for Python 3.11 (#154)
Encode hashes in RECORD files correctly (#141)
Add py.typed marker file (#138)
Implement --prefix option (#103)
Fix the unbound is_executable (#115)
Construct RECORD file using csv.writer (#118)
Move away from import installer.xyz style imports (#110)
Improve existing documentation content (typos, formatting) (#109)

v0.5.1 (Mar 11, 2022)¶

Change all names in installer.__main__ to be underscore prefixed.
Update project URL after move to the pypa organisation.
Rewrite imports to be compatible with vendoring.

v0.5.0 (Feb 16, 2022)¶

Add a CLI, to install a wheel into the currently-running Python.
Convert Windows paths to / separated when writing RECORD.
Drop support for Python 3.6 and lower.
Preserve the executable bit from wheels being installed.
Write records in RECORD with relative paths.
Improve API documentation.

v0.4.0 (Oct 13, 2021)¶

Pass schemes into WheelDestination.finalize_installation.

v0.3.0 (Oct 11, 2021)¶

Add support for ARM 64 executables on Windows.
Improve handling of wheels that contain entries for directories.

v0.2.3 (Jul 29, 2021)¶

Fix entry point handling in installer.install.

v0.2.2 (May 15, 2021)¶

Teach SchemeDictionaryDestination to create subfolders.

v0.2.1 (May 15, 2021)¶

Change parse_record_file to yield the elements as a tuple, instead of RecordEntry objects.
Implement WheelFile, completing the end-to-end wheel installation pipeline.
Generate RecordEntry for RECORD file in the installer.install, instead of requiring every WheelDestination implementation to do the exact same thing.

v0.2.0 (May 3, 2021)¶

Initial release.

Thank you to Dan Ryan and Tzu-ping Chung for the project name on PyPI. The PyPI releases before 0.2.0 come from https://github.com/sarugaku/installer and have been yanked.