- Even the "main" script is now byte-compiled (#1847, #1856)
- The manual is on readthedocs.io now (#1578)
- On installation try to compile the bootloader if there is none for the current plattform (#1377)
- (Unix) Use
objcopyto create a valid ELF file (#1812, #1831) - (Linux): Compile with
_FORTIFY_SOURCE(#1820) - New, updated and fixed hooks: CherryPy (#1860), Cryptography (#1425, #1861), enchant (1562), gi.repository.GdkPixbuf (#1843), gst (#1963), Lib2to3 (#1768), PyQt4, PyQt5, PySide (#1783, #1897, #1887), SciPy (#1908, #1909), sphinx (#1911, #1912), sqlalchemy (#1951), traitlets wx.lib.pubsub (#1837, #1838),
- For windowed mode add
isatty()for our dummy NullWriter (#1883) - Suppress "Failed to execute script" in case of SystemExit (#1869)
- Do not apply Upx compressor for bootloader files (#1863)
- Fix absolute path for lib used via ctypes (#1934)
- (OSX) Fix binary cache on NFS (#1573, #1849)
- (Windows) Fix message in grab_version (#1923)
- (Windows) Fix wrong icon paramter in Windows example (#1764)
- (Windows) Fix win32 unicode handling (#1878)
- (Windows) Fix unnecessary rebuilds caused by rebuilding winmanifest (#1933)
- (Cygwin) Fix finding the Python library for Cygwin 64-bit (#1307, #1810, #1811)
- (OSX) Fix compilation issue (#1882)
- (Windows) No longer bundle
pefile, use package from for windows (#1357) - (Windows) Provide a more robust means of executing a Python script
- AIX fixes.
- Update waf to version 1.8.20 (#1868)
- Fix excludedimports, more predictable order how hooks are applied #1651
- Internal impovements and code clean-up (#1754, #1760, #1794, #1858, #1862, #1887, #1907, #1913)
- Clean-ups fixes and improvements for the test suite
Known Issues