# 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 {any}`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 {any}`installer.install`.

## v0.2.2 (May 15, 2021)

- Teach {any}`SchemeDictionaryDestination` to create subfolders.

## v0.2.1 (May 15, 2021)

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

## v0.2.0 (May 3, 2021)

- Initial release.

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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].

[dan ryan]: https://github.com/techalchemy
[tzu-ping chung]: https://github.com/uranusjr
[yanked]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0592/#abstract