Sourced from wheel's releases.
0.46.0
- Dropped support for Python 3.8
- Removed the
bdist_wheelsetuptools command implementation and entry point. Thewheel.bdist_wheelmodule is now just an alias tosetuptools.command.bdist_wheel, emitting a deprecation warning on import.- Removed vendored
packagingin favor of a run-time dependency on it- Made the
wheel.metadatamodule private (with a deprecation warning if it's imported- Made the
wheel.clipackage private (no deprecation warning)- Fixed an exception when calling the
convertcommand with an empty description field
Sourced from wheel's changelog.
Release Notes
0.46.0 (2025-04-03)
- Dropped support for Python 3.8
- Removed the
bdist_wheelsetuptools command implementation and entry point. Thewheel.bdist_wheelmodule is now just an alias tosetuptools.command.bdist_wheel, emitting a deprecation warning on import.- Removed vendored
packagingin favor of a run-time dependency on it- Made the
wheel.metadatamodule private (with a deprecation warning if it's imported- Made the
wheel.clipackage private (no deprecation warning)- Fixed an exception when calling the
convertcommand with an empty description field0.45.1 (2024-11-23)
- Fixed pure Python wheels converted from eggs and wininst files having the ABI tag in the file name
0.45.0 (2024-11-08)
Refactored the
convertcommand to not need setuptools to be installedDon't configure setuptools logging unless running
bdist_wheelAdded a redirection from
wheel.bdist_wheel.bdist_wheeltosetuptools.command.bdist_wheel.bdist_wheelto improve compatibility withsetuptools' latest fixes.Projects are still advised to migrate away from the deprecated module and import the
setuptools' implementation explicitly. (PR by@​abravalheri)0.44.0 (2024-08-04)
- Canonicalized requirements in METADATA file (PR by Wim Jeantine-Glenn)
- Deprecated the
bdist_wheelmodule, as the code was migrated tosetuptoolsitself0.43.0 (2024-03-11)
- Dropped support for Python 3.7
- Updated vendored
packagingto 24.00.42.0 (2023-11-26)
- Allowed removing build tag with
wheel tags --build ""- Fixed
wheel packandwheel tagswriting updatedWHEELfields after a blank line, causing other tools to ignore them- Fixed
wheel packandwheel tagswritingWHEELwith CRLF line endings or a mix of CRLF and LF
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1da6583
Created a new releasea99cdd5
Refactored the codebase (#655)374c402
[pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#647)6427a57
Switched to SPDX license classifier42ed975
Updated the short description3028d38
Fixed test failures (#651)edb5f7a
Check for empty description when converting metadata (#646)426b8dd
Added the Python 3.13 classifier