The documentation for this release is at https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/pyoxidizer/0.23.0/.

Backwards Compatibility Notes

• The minimum Rust version has been changed from 1.60 to 1.61 to facilitate
  use of features required by some Rust crates.

Bug Fixes

• Default macOS Python distributions should no longer crash when running
  tkinter. This fixes a regression introduced in the 0.20 release.
• The paths to Python modules when using Python 3.10 is now properly resolved.
  Before, buggy version string parsing caused various code to look for Python
  modules in a 3.1 directory instead of 3.10. (#569, #600).
• Changed interpreter initialization logic around sys.meta_path handling to
  be more resistant to additional entries. If site is imported during
  interpreter initialization, a .pth file in site-packages could have
  the side-effect of registering additional entries on sys.meta_path.
  Before, this could confuse our interpreter initialization code and result in
  OxidizedFinder not found on sys.meta_path[0] (this should never happen)
  errors. Our overly strict code is now more tolerant of unknown entries on
  sys.meta_path and this error should no longer occur. (#602)

Changes

• Default CPython distributions upgraded. CPython 3.8.13 -> 3.8.15; 3.9.13 ->
  3.9.15; 3.10.4 -> 3.10.8.
  See https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/releases/tag/20220630,
  https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/releases/tag/20220802,
  https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/releases/tag/20221002, and
  https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/releases/tag/20221106
  for additional changes.
• PyO3 Rust crate(s) upgraded from 0.16.5 to 0.17.1.
• The mechanism for passing custom arguments to the linker for exporting
  symbols from built executables has transitioned from using .cargo/config
  files to emitting cargo:rustc-link-arg=FLAG lines from Cargo build
  scripts. There should be no change in behavior. Generated Rust projects with a
  .cargo/config overriding rustflags to pass linker arguments can safely
  delete these lines, as they are no longer necessary.
• SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib is now unconditionally set when invoking
  Python packaging tools. Previously, it was only set when statically linking
  libpython. The new behavior ensures that we consistently use the distutils
  from the Python stdlib and not the distutils in setuptools. The reason for
  this change was to work around a change in behavior in modern
  setuptools/distutils resulting in extension module building failing due to
  new failures resolving the path to Python.h.