- Support reproducible builds (#490, #1434, #1582, #1590).
- Strip leading parts of paths in compiled code objects (#1059, #1302, #1724).
- With
--log-level=DEBUG, a dependency graph-file is emitted in the build-directory. - Allow running pyinstaller as user
root. By popular demand, see e.g. #1564, #1459, #1081. - New Hooks: botocore, boto3, distorm3, GObject, GI (G Introspection), GStreamer, GEvent, kivy, lxml.isoschematron, pubsub.core, PyQt5.QtMultimedia, scipy.linalg, shelve.
- Fixed or Updated Hooks: astroid, django, jsonschema logilab, PyQt4, PyQt5, skimage, sklearn.
- Add option
--hiddenimportas an alias for--hidden-import. - (OSX): Fix issues with
st_flags(#1650). - (OSX) Remove warning message about 32bit compatibility (#1586).
- (Linux) The cache is now stored in
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/pyinstallerinstead of$XDG_DATA_HOME- the cache is moved automatically (#1118). - Documentation updates, e.g. about reproducible builds
- Put back full text of GPL license into COPYING.txt.
- Fix crashes when looking for ctypes DLLs (#1608, #1609, #1620).
- Fix: Imports in byte-code not found if code contains a function (#1581).
- Fix recursion into bytes-code when scanning for ctypes (#1620).
- Fix PyCrypto modules to work with crypto feature (
--keyoption) (#1663). - Fix problems with
excludedimportsin some hook excluding the named modules even if used elswhere (#1584, #1600). - Fix freezing of pip 7.1.2 (#1699).
- FreeBSD and Solaris fixes.
- Search for
ldconfigin $PATH first (#1659) - Deny processing outdated package
_xmlplus. - Improvements to the test-suite, testing infrastructure and continuous integration.
- For non-release builds, the exact git revision is not used.
- Internal code refactoring.
- Enhancements and clean-ups to the hooks API - only relevant for hook authors. See the manual for details. E.g:
- Removed
attrsin hooks - they were not used anymore anyway. - Change
add/del_import()to accept arbitrary number of module names. - New hook utility function
copy_metadata().
- Removed
Known Issues