- Update to 5.6
Features
- Add official support for Python 3.11. (Note that PyInstaller v5.5 is also expected to work but
- has only been tested with a pre-release of Python 3.11.) (#6783)
Implement a new hook utility function, collect_delvewheel_libs_directory(), intended for dealing with external shared
library in delvewheel-enabled PyPI wheels for Windows. (#7170)
Bugfix
- (macOS) Fix OpenCV (cv2) loader error in generated macOS .app bundles, caused by the relocation of package’s source .py files. (#7180)
- (Windows) Improve compatibility with scipy 1.9.2, whose Windows wheels switched to delvewheel, and therefore have shared
libraries located in external .libs directory. (#7168)
- (Windows) Limit the DLL parent path preservation behavior from #7028 to files collected from site-packages directories
(as returned by site.getsitepackages() and site.getusersitepackages()) instead of all paths in sys.path, to avoid unintended
behavior in corner cases, such as sys.path containing the drive root or user’s home directory. (#7155)
- Fix compatibility with PySide6 6.4.0, where the deprecated Qml2ImportsPath location key is not available anymore;
use the new QmlImportsPath key when it is available. (#7164)
- Prevent PyInstaller runtime hook for setuptools from attempting to override distutils with setuptools-provided
version when setuptools is collected and its version is lower than 60.0. This both mimics the unfrozen behavior and
prevents errors on versions between 50.0 and 60.0, where we do not explicitly collect setuptools._distutils. (#7172)
Incompatible Changes
- (macOS) In generated macOS .app bundles, the collected source .py files are not relocated from Contents/MacOS to Contents/Resources anymore,
to avoid issues when the path to a .py file is supposed to resolve to the same directory as adjacent binary extensions.
On the other hand, this change might result in regressions w.r.t. bundle signing and/or notarization. (#7180)
Bootloader
- (Windows) Update the bundled zlib sources to v1.2.13. (#7166)
- Update to 5.5
Features
- (Windows) Support embedding multiple icons in the executable. (#7103)
Bugfix
- (Windows) Fix a regression introduced in PyInstaller 5.4 (#6925), where incorrect copy of python3.dll
(and consequently an additional, incorrect copy of python3X.dll from the same directory) is collected when additional python