This major release introduces support for Python 3.12 and 3.13, and drops support for Python 3.8, following the official Python support schedule. This release also drops support for values of bundle_files<3 for Python 3.12 and newer (see #225 for further details).

Note: the former setup.py py2exe command line interface is not yet deleted, but it is most likely not functional on 3.12+ due to the lack of distutils. I will remove it as announced in an upcoming minor release.

What's Changed

• Add support for Python 3.12
• Add support for Python 3.13
• Remove support for Python 3.8
• runtime: raise RuntimeError with bundle_files<3 in Python 3.12+ (see #225)
• Add support for MinGW by @raedrizqie in #214

New Contributors

• @raedrizqie made their first contribution in #214

Full Changelog: v0.13.0.2...v0.14.0.0

This release includes several bug fixes.Thanks to all the people that contributed to it.

Changelog:

• Reintroduce ability to specify different version info for each of the frozen binaries. by @lukaszgo1 in #194
• Fix build with setuptools v70.0.0 by @lazka in #211
• fix a bug in MemoryModule.c:PerformBaseRelocation by @H4ckF0rFun in #210
• fix missing initialization settings for the frozen Python interpreter (#186)
• add runtime support for setuptools v72
• fix the matplotlib, numpy, and scipy hooks

New Contributors

• @lukaszgo1 made their first contribution in #194
• @lazka made their first contribution in #211
• @H4ckF0rFun made their first contribution in #210

Full Changelog: v0.13.0.1...v0.13.0.2

This release includes several fixes and it will be the last one that supports the deprecated setup API. Thanks to all the people that contributed to it.

Changelog:

• improved the hook for pkg_resources to detect its vendored content automatically (issue #175 raised by @Athanasius).
• the matplotlib hook now does not exclude wx automatically (issue #169 raised by @infinity77).
• README: fix external link to freeze API (issue #162 raised by @novski).
• adapted the hook for matplotlib to support their use of delvewheel (PR #182 by @zobac).
• adapted the hooks for numpy and pandas to support the new .libs location,

This major release introduces support for Python 3.11 and drops support for Python 3.7, following the official Python support schedule. This release also removes the already deprecated command line interface of py2exe (formerly accessible via build_exe or -m py2exe). In addition, this release deprecates win32 wheels, due to increasing difficulties in testing them properly (see #157 for further information).

Note: contrary to what was announced in 0.12.x, this release does not remove the setup.py py2exe interface, but keeps it as deprecated, because not enough time has passed since the deprecation. Removal is still scheduled to happen before the release of Python 3.12 (when distutils will be removed upstream).

Changelog:

• Add support for Python 3.11
• Drop support for Python 3.7
• Drop support for win32 wheels:
  • win32 wheels are still built and shipped but are provided untested. Issues experienced when using these wheels will not be investigated. See #157 for further information.
• Remove build_exe command line interface. Please use the py2exe.freeze API.
• Migrated the frozen Python bootloader to the new PyConfig initialization API.
• _memimporter: switch to sys.modules dict to check for reimports instead of _PyImport_FindExtensionObject
• runtime.LOAD_FROM_DIR: remove deprecated call to imp.load_dynamic`

Time for a patch release with a few minor fixes. Thanks to all the people that contributed to this release.

Changelog:

• Update scipy hook to support version 1.9.2 and above.
• freeze: update docstrings and documentation (issue #152 raised by @Athanasius).

Time for an immediate patch release, as the just deprecated setup.py interface was immediately broken...

Changelog:

• builds set with the deprecated setup.py API were crashing runtime since they do not contain or support version_info (issue #151 raised by @Athanasius)

This new major release introduces a new API to use py2exe: the freeze function. Further information about how to use this function can be found in its documentation. A migration guide from the existing interfaces is also available here.

In addition, this release marks the existing setup.py py2exe and distutils.core.setup interfaces as deprecated. This was necessary due to the upstream deprecation of distutils and of the whole setup.py CLI. Both these interfaces will be completely removed in the next major release of py2exe. Further information about the rationale behind these changes can be found in #150 and #127. Special thanks to @Athanasius and @effigies for fruitful discussions during this migration.

As a result of this migration, some configuration options formerly available in setup were formally discontinued. Please refer to the py2exe.freeze documentation for a comprehensive list of all the supported options.

Changelog:

• Introduce the new py2exe.freeze API. Documentation can be found here.
• Use of the setup.py py2exe command and of distutils is deprecated Both these interfaces will be removed in the next major release.
• Add two hooks to fix the bundling of winrt (issue #118 by @willf668) and passlib (issue #144 by @urishab).

This patch release includes several minor fixes. Thanks to all the people that contributed to this release.

Changelog:

• The Stderr.write method used for logs of windows apps now returns the number of written bytes, PR #134 by @manueljacob.
• Change default path of the log file created for windows apps to %APPDATA%, issue #138 by @mharbison72.
• Restore hook functionality for pkg_resources, issue #139 by @Athanasius.
• Restore explicit ImportError message when a module is required but it is listed in the ModuleFinder.excludes list, mentioned in issue #132 by @mharbison72.

Time for a new minor release. Package distribution metadata are now inserted in the bundle, to be fetched by importlib.metadata or pkg_resources. As usual, thanks to all the people that contributed to this release.

Changelog:

• Drop support for Python 3.6
• Include package metadata in the bundle archive (issue #126 by @Athanasius)
• Fixed a bug that prevented to use the optimize option when six was in the bundle (issue #120 by @MaxBQb)
• Fixed a bug that ignored the optimize flag for some packages (issue #125 by @nchidsey)
• Add setup_requires keyword in the py2exe setup scripts (issue #124 by @HeavyTony2)
• Support building py2exe with setuptools>=60

This patch release includes a fix for issue #114, raised by @lukaszgo1.

Changelog:

• vendor.modulefinder: pass m.__dest_file__ to compile to show relative paths in Tracebacks that occur from frozen applications (issue #114, regression from 0.10.x , original fix #12).