Release History¶
Changes in master, but not released yet are under the draft section.
towncrier, version 21.9.0
Beyond v16.7.11¶
Releases for the rewrite and beyond are available here.
v16.7.11 (2021-07-20)¶
Bugfixes¶
- Preserve compatibility with Python 3.10 - by
hroncok (#2109)
- Bump embedded pip/setuptools/wheel - by
gaborbernat. (#2151)
Miscellaneous¶
- Don’t attempt to use setuptools 44+ with Python 3.4 - by
hroncok (#1677)
v16.7.10 (2020-02-24)¶
Bugfixes¶
- fix error printing in bailout for Python < 2.7 - by
AdamWill and hroncok (#1651)
v16.7.9 (2019-12-15)¶
Bugfixes¶
- upgrade setuptools from
41.6.0 to 42.0.2 (#1460)
v16.7.8 (2019-11-22)¶
Bugfixes¶
- upgrade setuptools from 41.4.0 to 41.6.0 (#1442)
v16.7.7 (2019-10-22)¶
Bugfixes¶
- fix virtualenv creation when
--no-pip argument used. (#1430)
- upgrade bundled pip from
19.3 to 19.3.1 (#1433)
v16.7.6 (2019-10-16)¶
Bugfixes¶
- fix to support for Python 3 on MacOS 10.15 provided by Xcode (#1402)
- bump bundled pip from
19.2.3 to 19.3 and setuptools from 41.2.0 to 41.4.0 (#1428)
v16.7.5 (2019-09-03)¶
Bugfixes¶
- upgrade pip from
19.2.2 to 19.2.3 (#1414)
v16.7.4 (2019-08-23)¶
Bugfixes¶
- fix powershell activation when sourced (#1398)
- upgrade wheel from
0.33.4 to 0.33.6 and setuptools from 41.1.0 to 41.2.0 (#1409)
v16.7.3 (2019-08-16)¶
Bugfixes¶
- upgrade pip from
19.1.1 to 19.2.2 and setuptools from 41.0.1 to 41.1.0 (#1404)
v16.7.2 (2019-07-26)¶
Bugfixes¶
- fix regression - sh activation script not working under sh (only bash) (#1396)
v16.7.1 (2019-07-25)¶
Features¶
- pip bumped to 19.2.1 (#1392)
v16.7.0 (2019-07-23)¶
Features¶
activate.ps1 syntax and style updated to follow PSStyleAnalyzer rules (#1371)
- Allow creating virtual environments for
3.xy. (#1385)
- Report error when running activate scripts directly, instead of sourcing. By reporting an error instead of running silently, the user get immediate feedback that the script was not used correctly. Only Bash and PowerShell are supported for now. (#1388)
- add pip 19.2 (19.1.1 is kept to still support python 3.4 dropped by latest pip) (#1389)
v16.6.2 (2019-07-14)¶
Bugfixes¶
- Extend the LICENSE search paths list by
lib64/pythonX.Y to support Linux
vendors who install their Python to /usr/lib64/pythonX.Y (Gentoo, Fedora,
openSUSE, RHEL and others) - by hroncok (#1382)
v16.6.1 (2019-06-16)¶
Bugfixes¶
- Raise an error if the target path contains the operating systems path separator (using this would break our activation scripts) - by @rrauenza. (#395)
- Fix an additional issue with #1339, where the user specifies
--python
pointing to a venv redirector executable. (#1364)
v16.6.0 (2019-05-15)¶
Features¶
Drop Jython support. Jython became slower and slower in the last few months and significantly holds back our
CI and development. As there’s very little user base for it decided to drop support for it. If there are Jython
developers reach out to us to see how we can add back support. (#1354)
Upgrade embedded packages:
- upgrade wheel from
0.33.1 to 0.33.4
- upgrade pip from
19.1 to 19.1.1 (#1356)
v16.5.0 (2019-04-24)¶
Bugfixes¶
- Add tests covering prompt manipulation during activation/deactivation,
and harmonize behavior of all supported shells - by
bskinn (#1330)
- Handle running virtualenv from within a virtual environment created
using the stdlib
venv module. Fixes #1339. (#1345)
Features¶
-p option accepts Python version in following formats now: X, X-ZZ, X.Y and X.Y-ZZ, where ZZ is 32 or 64. (Windows only) (#1340)
- upgrade pip from
19.0.3 to 19.1 (#1346)
- upgrade setuptools from
40.8.0 to ``41.0.1 (#1346)
v16.4.3 (2019-03-01)¶
Bugfixes¶
- Revert the symlink fix, causing debian packaging issues. (#1390)
v16.4.1 (2019-02-22)¶
Bugfixes¶
- Fix
license() builtin by copying the LICENSE file into the virtualenv - by asottile. (#1317)
Features¶
- bump vendored pip to
19.0.3 and wheel to 0.33.1 (#1321)
v16.4.0 (2019-02-09)¶
Bugfixes¶
- fixes the scenario where the python base install is symlinked with relative symlinks (#490)
- Use
importlib over imp in virtualenv.py for python >= 3.4 - by Anthony Sottile (#1293)
- Copy or link PyPy header files instead of include directory itself (#1302)
- Allow virtualenv creation with older pip not having
config command
correspondingly disabling configuration related features (such as pip cert
setting) in this case. (#1303)
Features¶
- upgrade to pip
19.0.2 and setuptools 40.8.0 (#1312)
v16.3.0 (2019-01-25)¶
Bugfixes¶
- Use
importlib over deprecated imp` in ``distutils/__init__.py for python 3 - by Anthony Sottile (#955)
- Preserve
cert option defined in pip.conf or environment variable. (#1273)
- fixed a
ResourceWarning: unclosed file in call_subprocess() - by Mickaël Schoentgen (#1277)
- pre-import some built-in modules in
site.py on PyPy according to PyPy’s site.py - by microdog (#1281)
- Copy files from
sys.exec_prefix only if it is really different path than
used prefix, bugfix for #1270 (#1282)
Features¶
- Enable virtualenv to be distributed as a
zipapp or to be run as a
wheel with PYTHONPATH=virtualenv...any.whl python -mvirtualenv - by
Anthony Sottile (#1092)
- bump vendored pip from
18.1 to 19.0.1 (#1291)
Documentation¶
- discourage installation as
root, including sudo - by altendky (#1061)
v16.2.0 (2018-12-31)¶
Bugfixes¶
copyfile handles relative symlinks and symlinks to symlinks, avoiding problems when Python was installed using stow or homebrew. (#268)
- Fix preserving of original path when using fish and a subshell. (#904)
- Drop the source layout of the project, going back to how the source was laid out before
16.1.0. (#1241)
- Fix bootstrap script generation broken with
16.0.0. Support now both CPython, pypy, jython. (#1244)
lib64 symlink is again relative (as was with < 16.1.0). (#1248)
Features¶
fish version 3 support for the activation script. (#1275)
powershell activator is no longer signed. (#816)
pyproject.toml with PEP-517 and PEP-518 is now provided. tox.ini is now packaged with the sdist. Distributions repackaging the library should use tox -e py to run the test suite on the sdist. (#909)
activate_this.py improvements: set VIRTUAL_ENV environment variable; pypy, pypy3 and jython support. (#1057)
- The xonsh shell is now supported by generating the
xon.sh activation script. (#1206)
- Support
pip wheels with removed certifi's cacert.pem. (#1252)
- Upgrade setuptools from
40.5.0 to 40.6.3 and wheel from 0.32.2 to 0.32.3. (#1257)
powershell now also provides the pydoc function that uses the virtual environments pydoc. (#1258)
- Migrate to a
setup.cfg based build. Minimum setuptools required to build is setuptools >= 40.6.3, this is automatically acquired for all PEP-518 builders (recommended), or acquired via the old setup_requires method otherwise. Move exclusively to a setuptools generated console entry point script, this now does make setuptools >= 18.0.0 a runtime dependency (install requires). Source and issue tracker now is shown on PyPi (supplied as package metadata) beside the homepage. (#1259)
Deprecations (removal in next major release)¶
- Using
python setup.py test is now marked as deprecated and will be removed in next release. Use tox instead, always. (#909)
- Using the project directly from the source layout is now deprecated. Going ahead people wanting to use the project without installing the virtualenv are encouraged to download the wheel from PyPi and extract it to access the
virtualenv.py file. We’ll be switching to a src layout with next release. (#1241)
- No longer support
distutils build/installation, now setuptools >= 40.6.3 is required. (#1259)
Documentation¶
activate_this.py recommend exec(open(this_file).read(), {'__file__': this_file}) as it works both on Python 2 and 3. (#1057)
- Clarify how this project relates to the standard libraries
venv and when one would still want to use this tool. (#1086)
- Move to a
towncrier generated changelog to avoid merge conflicts, generate draft changelog documentation. Prefix version string in changelog with v to make the hyperlinks stable. (#1234)
v16.1.0 (2018-10-31)¶
- Fixed documentation to use pypi.org and correct curl options; #1042
- bug fix: ensure prefix is absolute when creating a new virtual environment #1208
- upgrade setuptools from
39.1.0 to 40.5.0
- upgrade wheel from
0.31.1 to 0.32.2
- upgrade pip from
10.0.1 to 18.1
activate.csh does not use basename and handles newlines #1200
- fix failure to copy on platforms that use lib64 #1189
- enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by default, thanks to a new
sys.__interactivehook__ on Python 3 #967
- suppress warning of usage of the deprecated
imp module #1238
v16.0.0 (2018-05-16)¶
- Drop support for Python 2.6.
- Upgrade pip to 10.0.1.
- Upgrade setuptools to 39.1.0.
- Upgrade wheel to 0.31.1.
v15.2.0 (2018-03-21)¶
- Upgrade setuptools to 39.0.1.
- Upgrade pip to 9.0.3.
- Upgrade wheel to 0.30.0.
v15.1.0 (2016-11-15)¶
- Support Python 3.6.
- Upgrade setuptools to 28.0.0.
- Upgrade pip to 9.0.1.
- Don’t install pre-release versions of pip, setuptools, or wheel from PyPI.
v15.0.3 (2016-08-05)¶
- Test for given python path actually being an executable file, #939
- Only search for copy actual existing Tcl/Tk directories (PR #937)
- Generically search for correct Tcl/Tk version (PR #926, PR #933)
- Upgrade setuptools to 22.0.5
v15.0.2 (2016-05-28)¶
- Copy Tcl/Tk libs on Windows to allow them to run,
fixes #93 (PR #888)
- Upgrade setuptools to 21.2.1.
- Upgrade pip to 8.1.2.
v15.0.1 (2016-03-17)¶
- Print error message when DEST_DIR exists and is a file
- Upgrade setuptools to 20.3
- Upgrade pip to 8.1.1.
v15.0.0 (2016-03-05)¶
- Remove the
virtualenv-N.N script from the package; this can no longer be
correctly created from a wheel installation.
Resolves #851, #692
- Remove accidental runtime dependency on pip by extracting certificate in the
subprocess.
- Upgrade setuptools 20.2.2.
- Upgrade pip to 8.1.0.
v14.0.6 (2016-02-07)¶
- Upgrade setuptools to 20.0
- Upgrade wheel to 0.29.0
- Fix an error where virtualenv didn’t pass in a working ssl certificate for
pip, causing “weird” errors related to ssl.
v14.0.5 (2016-02-01)¶
- Homogenize drive letter casing for both prefixes and filenames. #858
v14.0.4 (2016-01-31)¶
- Upgrade setuptools to 19.6.2
- Revert ac4ea65; only correct drive letter case.
Fixes #856, #815
v14.0.3 (2016-01-28)¶
- Upgrade setuptools to 19.6.1
v14.0.2 (2016-01-28)¶
- Upgrade setuptools to 19.6
- Suppress any errors from
unset on different shells (PR #843)
- Normalize letter case for prefix path checking. Fixes #837
v14.0.1 (2016-01-21)¶
- Upgrade from pip 8.0.0 to 8.0.2.
- Fix the default of
--(no-)download to default to downloading.
v14.0.0 (2016-01-19)¶
- BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE Drop support for Python 3.2.
- Upgrade setuptools to 19.4
- Upgrade wheel to 0.26.0
- Upgrade pip to 8.0.0
- Upgrade argparse to 1.4.0
- Added support for
python-config script (PR #798)
- Updated activate.fish (PR #589) (PR #799)
- Account for a
site.pyo correctly in some python implementations (PR #759)
- Properly restore an empty PS1 (#407)
- Properly remove
pydoc when deactivating
- Remove workaround for very old Mageia / Mandriva linuxes (PR #472)
- Added a space after virtualenv name in the prompt:
(env) $PS1
- Make sure not to run a –user install when creating the virtualenv (PR #803)
- Remove virtualenv.py’s path from sys.path when executing with a new
python. Fixes issue #779, #763 (PR #805)
- Remove use of () in .bat files so
Program Files (x86) works #35
- Download new releases of the preinstalled software from PyPI when there are
new releases available. This behavior can be disabled using
--no-download.
- Make
--no-setuptools, --no-pip, and --no-wheel independent of
each other.
v13.1.1 (2015-08-20)¶
- Upgrade pip to 7.1.1.
- Upgrade setuptools to 18.2.
- Make the activate script safe to use when bash is running with
-u.
v13.1.0 (2015-06-30)¶
- Upgrade pip to 7.1.0
- Upgrade setuptools to 18.0.1
v13.0.2 (2015-06-01)¶
- Upgrade pip to 7.0.2
- Upgrade setuptools to 17.0
v13.0.0 (2015-05-21)¶
- Automatically install wheel when creating a new virutalenv. This can be
disabled by using the
--no-wheel option.
- Don’t trust the current directory as a location to discover files to install
packages from.
- Upgrade setuptools to 16.0.
- Upgrade pip to 7.0.0.
v12.1.0 (2015-04-07)¶
- Upgrade setuptools to 15.0
- Upgrade pip to 6.1.0
v12.0.6 (2015-01-28)¶
- Upgrade pip to 6.0.7
- Upgrade setuptools to 12.0.5
v12.0.5 (2015-01-03)¶
- Upgrade pip to 6.0.6
- Upgrade setuptools to 11.0
v12.0.4 (2014-12-23)¶
- Revert the fix to
-p on Debian based pythons as it was broken in other
situations.
- Revert several sys.path changes new in 12.0 which were breaking virtualenv.
v12.0.3 (2014-12-23)¶
- Fix an issue where Debian based Pythons would fail when using -p with the
host Python.
- Upgrade pip to 6.0.3
v12.0 (2014-12-22)¶
- PROCESS Version numbers are now simply
X.Y where the leading 1
has been dropped.
- Split up documentation into structured pages
- Now using pytest framework
- Correct sys.path ordering for debian, issue #461
- Correctly throws error on older Pythons, issue #619
- Allow for empty $PATH, pull #601
- Don’t set prompt if $env:VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT is set for Powershell
- Updated setuptools to 7.0
v1.11.6 (2014-05-16)¶
- Updated setuptools to 3.6
- Updated pip to 1.5.6
v1.11.3 (2014-02-20)¶
- Updated setuptools to 2.2
- Updated pip to 1.5.3
v1.11.2 (2014-01-26)¶
- Fixed easy_install installed virtualenvs by updated pip to 1.5.2
v1.11.1 (2014-01-20)¶
- Fixed an issue where pip and setuptools were not getting installed when using
the
--system-site-packages flag.
- Updated setuptools to fix an issue when installed with easy_install
- Fixed an issue with Python 3.4 and sys.stdout encoding being set to ascii
- Upgraded pip to v1.5.1
- Upgraded setuptools to v2.1
v1.11 (2014-01-02)¶
- BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE Switched to using wheels for the bundled copies of
setuptools and pip. Using sdists is no longer supported - users supplying
their own versions of pip/setuptools will need to provide wheels.
- BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE Modified the handling of
--extra-search-dirs.
This option now works like pip’s --find-links option, in that it adds
extra directories to search for compatible wheels for pip and setuptools.
The actual wheel selected is chosen based on version and compatibility, using
the same algorithm as pip install setuptools.
- Fixed #495, –always-copy was failing (#PR 511)
- Upgraded pip to v1.5
- Upgraded setuptools to v1.4
v1.10.1 (2013-08-07)¶
- New Signing Key Release 1.10.1 is using a different key than normal with
fingerprint: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
- Upgraded pip to v1.4.1
- Upgraded setuptools to v0.9.8
v1.10 (2013-07-23)¶
BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE Dropped support for Python 2.5. The minimum
supported Python version is now Python 2.6.
BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE Using virtualenv.py as an isolated script
(i.e. without an associated virtualenv_support directory) is no longer
supported for security reasons and will fail with an error.
Along with this, --never-download is now always pinned to True, and
is only being maintained in the short term for backward compatibility
(Pull #412).
IMPORTANT Switched to the new setuptools (v0.9.7) which has been merged
with Distribute again and works for Python 2 and 3 with one codebase.
The --distribute and --setuptools options are now no-op.
Updated to pip 1.4.
Added support for PyPy3k
Added --always-copy option to suppress use of symlinks (Pull #409)
Added the option to use a version number with the -p option to get the
system copy of that Python version (Windows only)
Removed embedded ez_setup.py, distribute_setup.py and
distribute_from_egg.py files as part of switching to merged setuptools.
Fixed --relocatable to work better on Windows.
Fixed issue with readline on Windows.
v1.9.1 (2013-03-08)¶
- Updated to pip 1.3.1 that fixed a major backward incompatible change of
parsing URLs to externally hosted packages that got accidentily included
in pip 1.3.
v1.9 (2013-03-07)¶
- Unset VIRTUAL_ENV environment variable in deactivate.bat (Pull #364)
- Upgraded distribute to 0.6.34.
- Added
--no-setuptools and --no-pip options (Pull #336).
- Fixed Issue #373. virtualenv-1.8.4 was failing in cygwin (Pull #382).
- Fixed Issue #378. virtualenv is now “multiarch” aware on debian/ubuntu (Pull #379).
- Fixed issue with readline module path on pypy and OSX (Pull #374).
- Made 64bit detection compatible with Python 2.5 (Pull #393).
v1.8.4 (2012-11-25)¶
- Updated distribute to 0.6.31. This fixes #359 (numpy install regression) on
UTF-8 platforms, and provides a workaround on other platforms:
PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 pip install numpy.
- When installing virtualenv via curl, don’t forget to filter out arguments
the distribute setup script won’t understand. Fixes #358.
- Added some more integration tests.
- Removed the unsupported embedded setuptools egg for Python 2.4 to reduce
file size.
v1.8.3 (2012-11-21)¶
- Fixed readline on OS X. Thanks minrk
- Updated distribute to 0.6.30 (improves our error reporting, plus new
distribute features and fixes). Thanks Gabriel (g2p)
- Added compatibility with multiarch Python (Python 3.3 for example). Added an
integration test. Thanks Gabriel (g2p)
- Added ability to install distribute from a user-provided egg, rather than the
bundled sdist, for better speed. Thanks Paul Moore.
- Make the creation of lib64 symlink smarter about already-existing symlink,
and more explicit about full paths. Fixes #334 and #330. Thanks Jeremy Orem.
- Give lib64 site-dir preference over lib on 64-bit systems, to avoid wrong
32-bit compiles in the venv. Fixes #328. Thanks Damien Nozay.
- Fix a bug with prompt-handling in
activate.csh in non-interactive csh
shells. Fixes #332. Thanks Benjamin Root for report and patch.
- Make it possible to create a virtualenv from within a Python
3.3. pyvenv. Thanks Chris McDonough for the report.
- Add optional –setuptools option to be able to switch to it in case
distribute is the default (like in Debian).
v1.8.2 (2012-09-06)¶
- Updated the included pip version to 1.2.1 to fix regressions introduced
there in 1.2.
v1.8.1 (2012-09-03)¶
- Fixed distribute version used with
--never-download. Thanks michr for
report and patch.
- Fix creating Python 3.3 based virtualenvs by unsetting the
__PYVENV_LAUNCHER__ environment variable in subprocesses.
v1.8 (2012-09-01)¶
- Dropped support for Python 2.4 The minimum supported Python version is
now Python 2.5.
- Fix
--relocatable on systems that use lib64. Fixes #78. Thanks Branden
Rolston.
- Symlink some additional modules under Python 3. Fixes #194. Thanks Vinay
Sajip, Ian Clelland, and Stefan Holek for the report.
- Fix
--relocatable when a script uses __future__ imports. Thanks
Branden Rolston.
- Fix a bug in the config option parser that prevented setting negative
options with environment variables. Thanks Ralf Schmitt.
- Allow setting
--no-site-packages from the config file.
- Use
/usr/bin/multiarch-platform if available to figure out the include
directory. Thanks for the patch, Mika Laitio.
- Fix
install_name_tool replacement to work on Python 3.X.
- Handle paths of users’ site-packages on Mac OS X correctly when changing
the prefix.
- Updated the embedded version of distribute to 0.6.28 and pip to 1.2.
v1.7.2 (2012-06-22)¶
- Updated to distribute 0.6.27.
- Fix activate.fish on OS X. Fixes #8. Thanks David Schoonover.
- Create a virtualenv-x.x script with the Python version when installing, so
virtualenv for multiple Python versions can be installed to the same
script location. Thanks Miki Tebeka.
- Restored ability to create a virtualenv with a path longer than 78
characters, without breaking creation of virtualenvs with non-ASCII paths.
Thanks, Bradley Ayers.
- Added ability to create virtualenvs without having installed Apple’s
developers tools (using an own implementation of
install_name_tool).
Thanks Mike Hommey.
- Fixed PyPy and Jython support on Windows. Thanks Konstantin Zemlyak.
- Added pydoc script to ease use. Thanks Marc Abramowitz. Fixes #149.
- Fixed creating a bootstrap script on Python 3. Thanks Raul Leal. Fixes #280.
- Fixed inconsistency when having set the
PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE env var
with the –distribute option or the VIRTUALENV_USE_DISTRIBUTE env var.
VIRTUALENV_USE_DISTRIBUTE is now considered again as a legacy alias.
v1.7.1.2 (2012-02-17)¶
- Fixed minor issue in
--relocatable. Thanks, Cap Petschulat.
v1.7.1.1 (2012-02-16)¶
- Bumped the version string in
virtualenv.py up, too.
- Fixed rST rendering bug of long description.
v1.7.1 (2012-02-16)¶
- Update embedded pip to version 1.1.
- Fix
--relocatable under Python 3. Thanks Doug Hellmann.
- Added environ PATH modification to activate_this.py. Thanks Doug
Napoleone. Fixes #14.
- Support creating virtualenvs directly from a Python build directory on
Windows. Thanks CBWhiz. Fixes #139.
- Use non-recursive symlinks to fix things up for posix_local install
scheme. Thanks michr.
- Made activate script available for use with msys and cygwin on Windows.
Thanks Greg Haskins, Cliff Xuan, Jonathan Griffin and Doug Napoleone.
Fixes #176.
- Fixed creation of virtualenvs on Windows when Python is not installed for
all users. Thanks Anatoly Techtonik for report and patch and Doug
Napoleone for testing and confirmation. Fixes #87.
- Fixed creation of virtualenvs using -p in installs where some modules
that ought to be in the standard library (e.g.
readline) are actually
installed in site-packages next to virtualenv.py. Thanks Greg Haskins
for report and fix. Fixes #167.
- Added activation script for Powershell (signed by Jannis Leidel). Many
thanks to Jason R. Coombs.
v1.7 (2011-11-30)¶
- Gave user-provided
--extra-search-dir priority over default dirs for
finding setuptools/distribute (it already had priority for finding pip).
Thanks Ethan Jucovy.
- Updated embedded Distribute release to 0.6.24. Thanks Alex Gronholm.
- Made
--no-site-packages behavior the default behavior. The
--no-site-packages flag is still permitted, but displays a warning when
used. Thanks Chris McDonough.
- New flag:
--system-site-packages; this flag should be passed to get the
previous default global-site-package-including behavior back.
- Added ability to set command options as environment variables and options
in a
virtualenv.ini file.
- Fixed various encoding related issues with paths. Thanks Gunnlaugur Thor Briem.
- Made
virtualenv.py script executable.
v1.6.4 (2011-07-21)¶
- Restored ability to run on Python 2.4, too.
v1.6.3 (2011-07-16)¶
- Restored ability to run on Python < 2.7.
v1.6.2 (2011-07-16)¶
- Updated embedded distribute release to 0.6.19.
- Updated embedded pip release to 1.0.2.
- Fixed #141 - Be smarter about finding pkg_resources when using the
non-default Python interpreter (by using the
-p option).
- Fixed #112 - Fixed path in docs.
- Fixed #109 - Corrected doctests of a Logger method.
- Fixed #118 - Fixed creating virtualenvs on platforms that use the
“posix_local” install scheme, such as Ubuntu with Python 2.7.
- Add missing library to Python 3 virtualenvs (
_dummy_thread).
v1.6.1 (2011-04-30)¶
- Start to use git-flow.
- Added support for PyPy 1.5
- Fixed #121 – added sanity-checking of the -p argument. Thanks Paul Nasrat.
- Added progress meter for pip installation as well as setuptools. Thanks Ethan
Jucovy.
- Added –never-download and –search-dir options. Thanks Ethan Jucovy.
v1.6¶
- Added Python 3 support! Huge thanks to Vinay Sajip and Vitaly Babiy.
- Fixed creation of virtualenvs on Mac OS X when standard library modules
(readline) are installed outside the standard library.
- Updated bundled pip to 1.0.
v1.5.1¶
- Added
_weakrefset requirement for Python 2.7.1.
- Fixed Windows regression in 1.5
v1.5¶
- Include pip 0.8.1.
- Add support for PyPy.
- Uses a proper temporary dir when installing environment requirements.
- Add
--prompt option to be able to override the default prompt prefix.
- Fix an issue with
--relocatable on Windows.
- Fix issue with installing the wrong version of distribute.
- Add fish and csh activate scripts.
v1.4.8¶
- Fix for Mac OS X Framework builds that use
--universal-archs=intel
- Fix
activate_this.py on Windows.
- Allow
$PYTHONHOME to be set, so long as you use source
bin/activate it will get unset; if you leave it set and do not
activate the environment it will still break the environment.
- Include pip 0.7.1
v1.4.6¶
- Allow
activate.sh to skip updating the prompt (by setting
$VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT).
v1.4.5¶
- Include pip 0.6.3
- Fix
activate.bat and deactivate.bat under Windows when
PATH contained a parenthesis
v1.4.4¶
- Include pip 0.6.2 and Distribute 0.6.10
- Create the
virtualenv script even when Setuptools isn’t
installed
- Fix problem with
virtualenv --relocate when bin/ has
subdirectories (e.g., bin/.svn/); from Alan Franzoni.
- If you set
$VIRTUALENV_DISTRIBUTE then virtualenv will use
Distribute by default (so you don’t have to remember to use
--distribute).
v1.4.2¶
- Fix pip installation on Windows
- Fix use of stand-alone
virtualenv.py (and boot scripts)
- Exclude ~/.local (user site-packages) from environments when using
--no-site-packages
v1.4¶
- Updated setuptools to 0.6c11
- Added the –distribute option
- Fixed packaging problem of support-files
v1.3.4¶
- Virtualenv now copies the actual embedded Python binary on
Mac OS X to fix a hang on Snow Leopard (10.6).
- Fail more gracefully on Windows when
win32api is not installed.
- Fix site-packages taking precedent over Jython’s
__classpath__
and also specially handle the new __pyclasspath__ entry in
sys.path.
- Now copies Jython’s
registry file to the virtualenv if it exists.
- Better find libraries when compiling extensions on Windows.
- Create
Scripts\pythonw.exe on Windows.
- Added support for the Debian/Ubuntu
/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages directory.
- Set
distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars()['LIBDIR'] (based on
sys.real_prefix) which is reported to help building on Windows.
- Make
deactivate work on ksh
- Fixes for
--python: make it work with --relocatable and the
symlink created to the exact Python version.
v1.3.3¶
- Use Windows newlines in
activate.bat, which has been reported to help
when using non-ASCII directory names.
- Fixed compatibility with Jython 2.5b1.
- Added a function
virtualenv.install_python for more fine-grained
access to what virtualenv.create_environment does.
- Fix a problem
with Windows and paths that contain spaces.
- If
/path/to/env/.pydistutils.cfg exists (or
/path/to/env/pydistutils.cfg on Windows systems) then ignore
~/.pydistutils.cfg and use that other file instead.
- Fix ` a problem
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/virtualenv/+bug/340050>`_ picking up
some
.so libraries in /usr/local.
v1.3.2¶
- Remove the
[install] prefix = ... setting from the virtualenv
distutils.cfg – this has been causing problems for a lot of
people, in rather obscure ways.
- If you use a boot script it will attempt to import
virtualenv
and find a pre-downloaded Setuptools egg using that.
- Added platform-specific paths, like
/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/plat-linux2
v1.3.1¶
- Real Python 2.6 compatibility. Backported the Python 2.6 updates to
site.py, including user directories
(this means older versions of Python will support user directories,
whether intended or not).
- Always set
[install] prefix in distutils.cfg – previously
on some platforms where a system-wide distutils.cfg was present
with a prefix setting, packages would be installed globally
(usually in /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages).
- Sometimes Cygwin seems to leave
.exe off sys.executable; a
workaround is added.
- Fix
--python option.
- Fixed handling of Jython environments that use a
jython-complete.jar.
v1.3¶
- Update to Setuptools 0.6c9
- Added an option
virtualenv --relocatable EXISTING_ENV, which
will make an existing environment “relocatable” – the paths will
not be absolute in scripts, .egg-info and .pth files. This
may assist in building environments that can be moved and copied.
You have to run this after any new packages installed.
- Added
bin/activate_this.py, a file you can use like
execfile("path_to/activate_this.py",
dict(__file__="path_to/activate_this.py")) – this will activate
the environment in place, similar to what the mod_wsgi example
does.
- For Mac framework builds of Python, the site-packages directory
/Library/Python/X.Y/site-packages is added to sys.path, from
Andrea Rech.
- Some platform-specific modules in Macs are added to the path now
(
plat-darwin/, plat-mac/, plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages),
from Andrea Rech.
- Fixed a small Bashism in the
bin/activate shell script.
- Added
__future__ to the list of required modules, for Python
2.3. You’ll still need to backport your own subprocess module.
- Fixed the
__classpath__ entry in Jython’s sys.path taking
precedent over virtualenv’s libs.
v1.2¶
- Added a
--python option to select the Python interpreter.
- Add
warnings to the modules copied over, for Python 2.6 support.
- Add
sets to the module copied over for Python 2.3 (though Python
2.3 still probably doesn’t work).
v1.1.1¶
- Added support for Jython 2.5.
v1.1¶
- Added support for Python 2.6.
- Fix a problem with missing
DLLs/zlib.pyd on Windows. Create
bin/python (or bin/python.exe) even when you run virtualenv
with an interpreter named, e.g., python2.4
- Fix MacPorts Python
- Added –unzip-setuptools option
- Update to Setuptools 0.6c8
- If the current directory is not writable, run ez_setup.py in
/tmp
- Copy or symlink over the
include directory so that packages will
more consistently compile.
v1.0¶
- Fix build on systems that use
/usr/lib64, distinct from
/usr/lib (specifically CentOS x64).
- Fixed bug in
--clear.
- Fixed typos in
deactivate.bat.
- Preserve
$PYTHONPATH when calling subprocesses.
v0.9.2¶
- Fix include dir copying on Windows (makes compiling possible).
- Include the main
lib-tk in the path.
- Patch
distutils.sysconfig: get_python_inc and
get_python_lib to point to the global locations.
- Install
distutils.cfg before Setuptools, so that system
customizations of distutils.cfg won’t effect the installation.
- Add
bin/pythonX.Y to the virtualenv (in addition to
bin/python).
- Fixed an issue with Mac Framework Python builds, and absolute paths
(from Ronald Oussoren).
v0.9.1¶
- Improve ability to create a virtualenv from inside a virtualenv.
- Fix a little bug in
bin/activate.
- Actually get
distutils.cfg to work reliably.
v0.9¶
- Added
lib-dynload and config to things that need to be
copied over in an environment.
- Copy over or symlink the
include directory, so that you can
build packages that need the C headers.
- Include a
distutils package, so you can locally update
distutils.cfg (in lib/pythonX.Y/distutils/distutils.cfg).
- Better avoid downloading Setuptools, and hitting PyPI on environment
creation.
- Fix a problem creating a
lib64/ directory.
- Should work on MacOSX Framework builds (the default Python
installations on Mac). Thanks to Ronald Oussoren.
v0.8.4¶
- Windows installs would sometimes give errors about
sys.prefix that
were inaccurate.
- Slightly prettier output.
v0.8.3¶
- Added support for Windows.
v0.8.2¶
- Give a better warning if you are on an unsupported platform (Mac
Framework Pythons, and Windows).
- Give error about running while inside a workingenv.
- Give better error message about Python 2.3.
v0.8.1¶
Fixed packaging of the library.
v0.8¶
Initial release. Everything is changed and new!