pyinstaller 3.0

on Python PyPI

• Python 3 support (3.3 / 3.4 / 3.5).
• Remove support for Python 2.6 and lower.
• Full unicode support in the bootloader (#824, #1224, #1323, #1340, #1396)
  • (Windows) Python 2.7 apps can now run from paths with non-ASCII characters
  • (Windows) Python 2.7 onefile apps can now run for users whose usernames
    contain non-ASCII characters
  • Fix sys.getfilesystemencoding() to return correct values (#446, #885).
• (OSX) Executables built with PyInstaller under OS X can now be digitally
  signed.
• (OSX) 32bit precompiled bootloader no longer distributed, only 64bit.
• (Windows) for 32bit bootloader enable flag LARGEADDRESSAWARE that allows
  to use 4GB of RAM.
• New hooks: amazon-product-api, appy, certifi, countrycode, cryptography, gi,
  httplib2, jsonschema, keyring, lensfunpy, mpl_toolkits.basemap, ncclient,
  netCDF4, OpenCV, osgeo, patsy, PsychoPy, pycountry, pycparser, PyExcelerate,
  PyGobject, pymssql, PyNaCl, PySiDe.QtCore, PySide.QtGui, rawpy, requests,
  scapy, scipy, six, SpeechRecognition, u1db, weasyprint, Xlib.
• Hook fixes: babel, ctypes, django, IPython, pint, PyEnchant, Pygments, PyQt5,
  PySide, pyusb, sphinx, sqlalchemy, tkinter, wxPython.
• Add support for automatically including data files from eggs.
• Add support for directory eggs support.
• Add support for all kind of namespace packages e.g.
  zope.interface, PEP302 (#502, #615, #665, #1346).
• Add support for pkgutil.extend_path().
• New option --key to obfuscate the Python bytecode.
• New option --exclude-module to ignore a specific module or package.
• (Windows) New option --uac-admin to request admin permissions
  before starting the app.
• (Windows) New option --uac-uiaccess allows an elevated
  application to work with Remote Desktop.
• (Windows) New options for Side-by-side Assembly searching:
  • --win-private-assemblies bundled Shared Assemblies into the
    application will be changed into Private Assemblies
  • --win-no-prefer-redirects while searching for Assemblies
    PyInstaller will prefer not to follow policies that redirect to
    newer versions.
• (OSX) New option --osx-bundle-identifier to set .app bundle identifier.
• (Windows) Remove old COM server support.
• Allow override PyInstaller default config directory by environment
  variable PYINSTALLER_CONFIG_DIR.
• Add FreeBSD support.
• AIX fixes.
• Solaris fixes.
• Use library modulegraph for module dependency analysis.
• Bootloader debug messages LOADER: ... printed to stderr.
• PyInstaller no longer extends sys.path and bundled 3rd-party
  libraries do not interfere with their other versions.
• Enhancemants to Analysis():
  • New arguments excludedimports to exclude Python modules in
    import hooks.
  • New argument binaries to bundle dynamic libraries in .spec
    file and in import hooks.
  • New argument datas to bundle additional data files in .spec
    file and in import hooks.
• A lot of internal code refactoring.
• Test suite migrated to pytest framework.
• Improved testing infrastructure with continuous integration (Travis - Linux,
  Appveyor - Windows)
• Wiki and bug tracker migrated to github.

Known Issues

• Apps built with Windows 10 and Python 3.5 may not run on Windows versions
  earlier than 10 (#1566).
• The multipackage (MERGE) feature (#1527) is currenty broken.
• (OSX) Support for OpenDocument events (#1309) is broken.