- Dropped support for Python 3.8
- Removed the
bdist_wheel
setuptools command implementation and entry point. Thewheel.bdist_wheel
module is now just an alias tosetuptools.command.bdist_wheel
, emitting a deprecation warning on import. - Removed vendored
packaging
in favor of a run-time dependency on it - Made the
wheel.metadata
module private (with a deprecation warning if it's imported - Made the
wheel.cli
package private (no deprecation warning) - Fixed an exception when calling the
convert
command with an empty description field