Releases · pypa/wheel

Dropped support for Python 3.8
Removed the bdist_wheel setuptools command implementation and entry point. The wheel.bdist_wheel module is now just an alias to setuptools.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

Fixed pure Python wheels converted from eggs and wininst files having the ABI tag in the file name

Refactored the convert command to not need setuptools to be installed
Don't configure setuptools logging unless running bdist_wheel
Added a redirection from wheel.bdist_wheel.bdist_wheel to setuptools.command.bdist_wheel.bdist_wheel to improve compatibility with setuptools' latest fixes.

Projects are still advised to migrate away from the deprecated module and import the setuptools' implementation explicitly. (PR by @abravalheri)

Canonicalized requirements in METADATA file (PR by Wim Jeantine-Glenn)
Deprecated the bdist_wheel module, as the code was migrated to setuptools itself

Allowed removing build tag with wheel tags --build ""
Fixed wheel pack and wheel tags writing updated WHEEL fields after a blank line, causing other tools to ignore them
Fixed wheel pack and wheel tags writing WHEEL with CRLF line endings or a mix of CRLF and LF
Fixed wheel pack --build-number "" not removing build tag from WHEEL (above changes by Benjamin Gilbert)

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