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Changelog

Changelog

v2.22.0

23 November 2024

🌟 Added a new CIBW_ENABLE/enable feature that replaces CIBW_FREETHREADED_SUPPORT/free-threaded-support and CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS with a system that supports both. In cibuildwheel 3, this will also include a PyPy setting and the deprecated options will be removed. (#2048)
🌟 Dependency groups are now supported for tests. Use CIBW_TEST_GROUPS/test-groups to specify groups in [dependency-groups] for testing. (#2063)
🌟 Support for the experimental Ubuntu-based ARMv7l manylinux image (#2052)
✨ Show a warning when cibuildwheel is run from Python 3.10 or older; cibuildwheel 3.0 will require Python 3.11 or newer as host (#2050)
🐛 Fix issue with stderr interfering with checking the docker version (#2074)
🛠 Python 3.9 is now used in CIBW_BEFORE_ALL/before-all on linux, replacing 3.8, which is now EoL (#2043)
🛠 Error messages for producing a pure-Python wheel are slightly more informative (#2044)
🛠 Better error when uname -m fails on ARM (#2049)
🛠 Better error when repair fails and docs for abi3audit on Windows (#2058)
🛠 Better error when manylinux-interpreters ensure fails (#2066)
🛠 Update Pyodide to 0.26.4, and adapt to the unbundled pyodide-build (now 0.29) (#2090)
🛠 Now cibuildwheel uses dependency-groups for development dependencies (#2064, #2085)
📚 Docs updates and tidy ups (#2061, #2067, #2072)

v2.21.3

9 October 2024

🛠 Update CPython 3.13 to 3.13.0 final release (#2032)
📚 Docs updates and tidy ups (#2035)

v2.21.2

2 October 2024

✨ Adds support for building 32-bit armv7l wheels on musllinux. On a Linux system with emulation set up, set CIBW_ARCHS to armv7l on Linux to try it out if you're interested! (#2017)
🐛 Fix Linux Podman builds on some systems (#2016)
✨ Adds official support for running on Python 3.13 (#2026)
🛠 Update CPython 3.13 to 3.13.0rc3 (#2029)

Note: the default manylinux image is scheduled to change from manylinux2014 to manylinux_2_28 in a cibuildwheel release on or after 6th May 2025 - you can set the value now to avoid getting upgraded if you want. (#1992)

v2.21.1

16 September 2024

🐛 Fix a bug in the Linux build, where files copied to the container would have invalid ownership permissions (#2007)
🐛 Fix a bug on Windows where cibuildwheel would call upon uv to install dependencies for versions of CPython that it does not support (#2005)
🐛 Fix a bug where uv 0.4.10 would not use the right Python when testing on Linux. (#2008)
🛠 Bump our documentation pins, fixes an issue with a missing package (#2011)

v2.21.0

13 September 2024

⚠️ Update CPython 3.12 to 3.12.6, which changes the macOS minimum deployment target on CPython 3.12 from macOS 10.9 to macOS 10.13 (#1998)
🛠 Changes the behaviour when inheriting config-settings in TOML overrides - rather than extending each key, which is rarely useful, individual keys will override previously set values. (#1803)
🛠 Update CPython 3.13 to 3.13.0rc2 (#1998)
✨ Adds support for multiarch OCI images (#1961)
🐛 Fixes some bugs building Linux wheels on macOS. (#1961)
⚠️ Changes the minimum version of Docker/Podman to Docker API version 1.43, Podman API version 3. The only mainstream runner this should affect is Travis Graviton2 runners - if so you can upgrade your version of Docker. (#1961)

v2.20.0

4 August 2024

🌟 CPython 3.13 wheels are now built by default - without the CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS flag. It's time to build and upload these wheels to PyPI! This release includes CPython 3.13.0rc1, which is guaranteed to be ABI compatible with the final release. Free-threading is still behind a flag/config option. (#1950)
✨ Provide a CIBW_ALLOW_EMPTY environment variable as an alternative to the command line flag. (#1937)
🐛 Don't use uv on PyPy3.8 on Windows, it stopped working starting in 0.2.25. Note that PyPy 3.8 is EoL. (#1868)
🛠 Set the VSCMD_ARG_TGT_ARCH variable based on target arch. (#1876)
🛠 Undo cleaner output on pytest 8-8.2 now that 8.3 is out. (#1943)
📚 Update examples to use Python 3.12 on host (cibuildwheel will require Python 3.11+ on the host machine starting in October 2024) (#1919)

v2.19.2

2 July 2024

🐛 Update manylinux2014 pins to versions that support past-EoL CentOS 7 mirrors. (#1917)
🐛 Support --no-isolation with build[uv] build-frontend. (#1889)
🛠 Provide attestations for releases at https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel/attestations. (#1916)
🛠 Provide CPython 3.13.0b3. (#1913)
🛠 Remove some workarounds now that pip 21.1 is available. (#1891, #1892)
📚 Remove nosetest from our docs. (#1821)
📚 Document the macOS ARM workaround for 3.8 on GHA. (#1871)
📚 GitLab CI + macOS is now a supported platform with an example. (#1911)

v2.19.1

13 June 2024

🐛 Don't require setup-python on GHA for Pyodide (#1868)
🐛 Specify full python path for uv (fixes issue in 0.2.10 & 0.2.11) (#1881)
🛠 Update for pip 24.1b2 on CPython 3.13. (#1879)
🛠 Fix a warning in our schema generation script. (#1866)
🛠 Cleaner output on pytest 8-8.2. (#1865)

v2.19.0

10 June 2024

See the release post for more info on new features!

🌟 Add Pyodide platform. Set with --platform pyodide or CIBW_PLATFORM: pyodide on Linux with a host Python 3.12 to build WebAssembly wheels. Not accepted on PyPI currently, but usable directly in a website using Pyodide, for live docs, etc. (#1456, #1859)
🌟 Add build[uv] backend, which will take a pre-existing uv install (or install cibuildwheel[uv]) and use uv for all environment setup and installs on Python 3.8+. This is significantly faster in most cases. (#1856)
✨ Add free-threaded macOS builds and update CPython to 3.13.0b2. (#1854)
🐛 Issue copying a wheel to a non-existent output dir fixed. (#1851, #1862)
🐛 Better determinism for the test environment seeding. (#1835)
🛠 VIRTUAL_ENV variable now set. (#1842)
🛠 Remove a pip<21.3 workaround. (#1842)
🛠 Error handling was refactored to use exceptions. (#1719)
🛠 Hardcoded paths in tests avoided. (#1834)
🛠 Single Python tests made more generic. (#1835)
🛠 Sped up our ci by splitting up emulation tests. (#1839)

v2.18.1

20 May 2024

🌟 Add free-threaded Linux and Windows builds for 3.13. New identifiers cp313t-*, new option CIBW_FREE_THREADED_SUPPORT/tool.cibuildwheel.free-threaded-support required to opt-in. See the docs for more information. (#1831)
✨ The container-engine is now a build (non-global) option. (#1792)
🛠 The build backend for cibuildwheel is now hatchling. (#1297)
🛠 Significant improvements and modernization to our noxfile. (#1823)
🛠 Use pylint's new GitHub Actions reporter instead of a custom matcher. (#1823)
🛠 Unpin virtualenv updates for Python 3.7+ (#1830)
🐛 Fix running linux tests from Windows or macOS ARM. (#1788)
📚 Fix our documentation build. (#1821)

v2.18.0

12 May 2024

✨ Adds CPython 3.13 support, under the prerelease flag CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS. This version of cibuildwheel uses 3.13.0b1. Free-threading mode is not available yet (#1657), waiting on official binaries (planned for beta 2) and pip support.

While CPython is in beta, the ABI can change, so your wheels might not be compatible with the final release. For this reason, we don't recommend distributing wheels until RC1, at which point 3.13 will be available in cibuildwheel without the flag. (#1815)
✨ Musllinux now defaults to musllinux_1_2. You can set the older musllinux_1_1 via config if needed. (#1817)
🛠 No longer pre-seed setuptools/wheel in virtual environments (#1819)
🛠 Respect the constraints file when building with pip, matching build (#1818)
🛠 Use uv to compile our pinned dependencies, 10x faster and doesn't require special setup (#1778)
🐛 Fix an issue with the schema (#1788)
📚 Document the new delocate error checking macOS versions (#1766)
📚 Document Rust builds (#1816)
📚 Speed up our readthedocs builds with uv, 26 seconds -> 6 seconds to install dependencies (#1816)

v2.17.0

11 March 2024

🌟 Adds the ability to inherit configuration in TOML overrides. This makes certain configurations much simpler. If you're overriding an option like before-build or environment, and you just want to add an extra command or environment variable, you can just append (or prepend) to the previous config. See the docs for more information. (#1730)
🌟 Adds official support for native arm64 macOS GitHub runners. To use them, just specify macos-14 as an os of your job in your workflow file. You can also keep macos-13 in your build matrix to build x86_64. Check out the new GitHub Actions example config.
✨ You no longer need to specify --platform to run cibuildwheel locally! Instead it will detect your platform automatically. This was a safety feature, no longer necessary. (#1727)
🛠 Removed setuptools and wheel pinned versions. This only affects old-style projects without a pyproject.toml, projects with pyproject.toml are already getting fresh versions of their build-system.requires installed into an isolated environment. (#1725)
🛠 Improve how the GitHub Action passes arguments (#1757)
🛠 Remove a system-wide install of pipx in the GitHub Action (#1745)
🐛 No longer will cibuildwheel override the PIP_CONSTRAINT environment variable when using the build frontend. Instead it will be extended. (#1675)
🐛 Fix a bug where building and testing both x86_86 and arm64 wheels on the same runner caused the wrong architectures in the test environment (#1750)
🐛 Fix a bug that prevented testing a CPython 3.8 wheel targeting macOS 11+ on x86_64 (#1768)
📚 Moved the docs onto the official PyPA domain - they're now available at https://cibuildwheel.pypa.io . (#1775)
📚 Docs and examples improvements (#1762, #1734)

v2.16.5

30 January 2024

🐛 Fix an incompatibility with the GitHub Action and new GitHub Runner images for Windows that bundle Powershell 7.3+ (#1741)
🛠 Preliminary support for new macos-14 arm64 runners (#1743)

v2.16.4

28 January 2024

🛠 Update manylinux pins to upgrade from a problematic PyPy version. (#1737)

v2.16.3

26 January 2024

🐛 Fix a bug when building from sdist, where relative paths to files in the package didn't work because the working directory was wrong (#1687)
🛠 Adds the ability to disable mounting the host filesystem in containers to /host, through the disable_host_mount suboption on CIBW_CONTAINER_ENGINE.
📚 A lot of docs improvements! (#1708, #1705, #1686, #1679, #1667, #1665)

v2.16.2

3 October 2023

🛠 Updates CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0, final release (#1635)
✨ Adds a debug option CIBW_DEBUG_KEEP_CONTAINER to stop cibuildwheel deleting build containers after the build finishes. (#1620)
📚 Adds support for [tool.cibuildwheel] checking by adding a schema compatible with the validate-pyproject tool (#1622, #1628, #1629)
🐛 Fix parsing of CIBW_CONTAINER_ENGINE and CIBW_BUILD_FRONTEND options to not break arguments on : characters (#1621)
🐛 Fix the evaluation order of CIBW_ENVIRONMENT and CIBW_ENVIRONMENT_PASS so that CIBW_ENVIRONMENT assignments can reference environment variables passed through from the host machine. (#1617)
🛠 Supports manylinux images' deferred installation of interpreters through the manylinux-interpreters tool (#1630)

v2.16.1

26 September 2023

🛠 Updates the prerelease CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0rc3 (#1625)
🛠 Only calls linux32 in containers when necessary (#1599)

v2.16.0

18 September 2023

✨ Add the ability to pass additional flags to a build frontend through the CIBW_BUILD_FRONTEND option (#1588).
✨ The environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is now automatically passed through to container Linux builds (useful for reproducible builds!) (#1589)
🛠 Updates the prerelease CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0rc2 (#1604)
🐛 Fix requires_python auto-detection from setup.py when the call to setup() is within an if __name__ == "__main__" block (#1613)
🐛 Fix a bug that prevented building Linux wheels in Docker on a Windows host (#1573)
🐛 --only can now select prerelease-pythons (#1564)
📚 Docs & examples updates (#1582, #1593, #1598, #1615)

v2.15.0

8 August 2023

🌟 CPython 3.12 wheels are now built by default - without the CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS flag. It's time to build and upload these wheels to PyPI! This release includes CPython 3.12.0rc1, which is guaranteed to be ABI compatible with the final release. (#1565)
✨ Adds musllinux_1_2 support - this allows packagers to build for musl-based Linux distributions on a more recent Alpine image, and a newer musl libc. (#1561)

v2.14.1

15 July 2023

🛠 Updates the prerelease CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0b4 (#1550)

v2.14.0

10 July 2023

✨ Adds support for building PyPy 3.10 wheels. (#1525)
🛠 Updates the prerelease CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0b3.
✨ Allow the use of the {wheel} placeholder in CIBW_TEST_COMMAND (#1533)
📚 Docs & examples updates (#1532, #1416)
⚠️ Removed support for running cibuildwheel in Python 3.7. Python 3.7 is EOL. However, cibuildwheel continues to build Python 3.7 wheels for the moment. (#1175)

v2.13.1

10 June 2023

🛠 Updates the prerelease CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0b2. (#1516)
🛠 Adds a moving v<major>.<minor> tag for use in GitHub Actions workflow files. If you use this, you'll get the latest patch release within a minor version. Additionally, Dependabot won't send you PRs for patch releases. (#1517)

v2.13.0

28 May 2023

✨ Adds CPython 3.12 support, under the prerelease flag CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS. This version of cibuildwheel uses 3.12.0b1.

While CPython is in beta, the ABI can change, so your wheels might not be compatible with the final release. For this reason, we don't recommend distributing wheels until RC1, at which point 3.12 will be available in cibuildwheel without the flag. (#1507)
✨ Adds the ability to pass arguments to the container engine when the container is created, using the CIBW_CONTAINER_ENGINE option. (#1499)

v2.12.3

19 April 2023

🐛 Fix an import error when running on Python 3.7. (#1479)

v2.12.2

18 April 2023

🐛 Fix a bug that caused an extra empty config-setting to be passed to the backend when CIBW_BUILD_FRONTEND is set to build. (#1474)
🐛 Fix a crash that occurred when overwriting an existing wheel on Windows. (#1464)
🛠 Pinned version updates, including CPython 3.10.11, 3.11.3, pip 23.1 and wheel 0.40.0.

v2.12.1

11 March 2023

🐛 Fix a bug that prevented the use of CIBW_CONFIG_SETTINGS with the 'pip' build backend. (#1430)

v2.12.0

16 Jan 2023

✨ Adds support for PyPy arm64 wheels. This means that you can build PyPy wheels for Apple Silicon machines. Cross-compilation is not supported for these wheels, so you'll have to build on an Apple Silicon machine. (#1372)
🛠 Pinned version updates, including PyPy to v7.3.11 and setuptools to 66.0.0.

v2.11.4

24 Dec 2022

🐛 Fix a bug that caused missing wheels on Windows when a test was skipped using CIBW_TEST_SKIP (#1377)
🛠 Updates CPython 3.11 to 3.11.1 (#1371)
🛠 Updates PyPy to 7.3.10, except on macOS which remains on 7.3.9 due to a bug on that platform. (#1371)
📚 Added a reference to abi3audit to the docs (#1347)

v2.11.3

5 Dec 2022

✨ Improves the 'build options' log output that's printed at the start of each run (#1352)
✨ Added a friendly error message to a common misconfiguration of the CIBW_TEST_COMMAND option - not specifying path using the {project} placeholder (#1336)
🛠 The GitHub Action now uses Powershell on Windows to avoid occasional incompabilities with bash (#1346)

v2.11.2

26 October 2022

🛠 Updates CPython 3.11 to 3.11.0 - final release (#1327)
🛠 Simplify the default macOS repair command (#1322)
🛠 Fix the default MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET on arm64 (#1312)
🛠 Hide irrelevant pip warnings on linux (#1311)
🐛 Fix a bug that caused the stdout and stderr of commands in containers to be in the wrong order Previously, stdout could appear after stderr. (#1324)
📚 Added a FAQ entry describing how to perform native builds of CPython 3.8 wheels on Apple Silicon. (#1323)
📚 Other docs improvements

v2.11.1

13 October 2022

🛠 Updates to the latest manylinux images, and updates CPython 3.10 to 3.10.8.

v2.11.0

13 October 2022

🌟 Adds support for cross-compiling Windows ARM64 wheels. To use this feature, add ARM64 to the CIBW_ARCHS option on a Windows Intel runner. (#1144)
✨ Adds support for building Linux aarch64 wheels on Circle CI. (#1307)
✨ Adds support for building Windows wheels on Gitlab CI. (#1295)
✨ Adds support for building Linux aarch64 wheels under emulation on Gitlab CI. (#1295)
✨ Adds the ability to test cp38-macosx_arm64 wheels on a native arm64 runner. To do this, you'll need to preinstall the (experimental) universal2 version of CPython 3.8 on your arm64 runner before invoking cibuildwheel. Note: it is not recommended to build x86_64 wheels with this setup, your wheels will have limited compatibility wrt macOS versions. (#1283)
🛠 Improved error messages when using custom Docker images and Python cannot be found at the correct path. (#1298)
📚 Sample configs for Azure Pipelines and Travis CI updated (#1296)
📚 Other docs improvements - including more information about using Homebrew for build dependencies (#1290)

v2.10.2

25 September 2022

🐛 Fix a bug that caused win32 identifiers to fail when used with --only. (#1282)
🐛 Fix computation of auto/auto64/auto32 archs when targeting a different platform to the one that you're running cibuildwheel on. (#1266)
📚 Fix an mistake in the 'how it works' diagram. (#1274)

v2.10.1

18 September 2022

🐛 Fix a bug that stopped environment variables specified in TOML from being expanded. (#1273)

v2.10.0

13 September 2022

🌟 Adds support for building wheels on Cirrus CI. This is exciting for us, as it's the first public CI platform that natively supports macOS Apple Silicon (aka. M1, arm64) runners. As such, it's the first platform that you can natively build and test macOS arm64 wheels. It also has native Linux ARM (aarch64) runners, for fast, native builds there. (#1191)
🌟 Adds support for running cibuildwheel on Apple Silicon machines. For a while, we've supported cross-compilation of Apple Silicon wheels on x86_64, but now that we have Cirrus CI we can run our test suite and officially support running cibuildwheel on arm64. (#1191)
✨ Adds the --only command line option, to specify a single build to run. Previously, it could be cumbersome to set all the build selection options to target a specific build - for example, you might have to run something like CIBW_BUILD=cp39-manylinux_x86_64 cibuildwheel --platform linux --archs x86_64. The new --only option overrides all the build selection options to simplify running a single build, which now looks like cibuildwheel --only cp39-manylinux_x86_64. (#1098)
✨ Adds the CIBW_CONFIG_SETTINGS option, so you can pass arguments to your package's build backend (#1244)
🛠 Updates the CPython 3.11 version to the latest release candidate - v3.11.0rc2. (#1265)
🐛 Fix a bug that can cause a RecursionError on Windows when building from an sdist. (#1253)
🛠 Add support for the s390x architecture on manylinux_2_28 (#1255)

v2.9.0

11 August 2022

🌟 CPython 3.11 wheels are now built by default - without the CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS flag. It's time to build and upload these wheels to PyPI! This release includes CPython 3.11.0rc1, which is guaranteed to be ABI compatible with the final release. (#1226)
⚠️ Removed support for running cibuildwheel in Python 3.6. Python 3.6 is EOL. However, cibuildwheel continues to build CPython 3.6 wheels for the moment. (#1175)
✨ Improved error messages when misspelling TOML options, suggesting close matches (#1205)
🛠 When running on Apple Silicon (so far, an unsupported mode of operation), cibuildwheel no longer builds universal2 wheels by default - just arm64. See #1204 for discussion. We hope to release official support for native builds on Apple Silicon soon! (#1217)

v2.8.1

18 July 2022

🐛 Fix a bug when building CPython 3.8 wheels on an Apple Silicon machine where testing would always fail. cibuildwheel will no longer attempt to test the arm64 part of CPython 3.8 wheels because we use the x86_64 installer of CPython 3.8 due to its macOS system version backward-compatibility. See #1169 for more details. (#1171)
🛠 Update the prerelease CPython 3.11 to 3.11.0b4. (#1180)
🛠 The GitHub Action will ensure a compatible version of Python is installed on the runner (#1114)
📚 A few docs improvements

v2.8.0

5 July 2022

✨ You can now run cibuildwheel on Podman, as an alternate container engine to Docker (which remains the default). This is useful in environments where a Docker daemon isn't available, for example, it can be run inside a Docker container, or without root access. To use Podman, set the CIBW_CONTAINER_ENGINE option. (#966)
✨ Adds support for building py3-none-{platform} wheels. This works the same as ABI3 - wheels won't be rebuilt, but tests will still be run across all selected versions of Python.

These wheels contain native extension code, but don't use the Python APIs. Typically, they're bridged to Python using a FFI module like ctypes or cffi. Because they don't use Python ABI, the wheels are more compatible - they work across many Python versions.

Check out this example ctypes project to see an example of how it works. (#1151)
🛠 cibuildwheel will now error if multiple builds in a single run produce the same wheel filename, as this indicates a misconfiguration. (#1152)
📚 A few docs improvements and updates to keep things up-to-date.

v2.7.0

17 June 2022

🌟 Added support for the new manylinux_2_28 images. These new images are based on AlmaLinux, the community-driven successor to CentOS, unlike manylinux_2_24, which was based on Debian. To build on these images, set your CIBW_MANYLINUX_*_IMAGE option to manylinux_2_28. (#1026)
🐛 Fix a bug where tests were not being run on CPython 3.11 (when CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS was set) (#1138)
✨ You can now build Linux wheels on Windows, as long as you have Docker installed and set to 'Linux containers' (#1117)
🐛 Fix a bug on macOS that caused cibuildwheel to crash trying to overwrite a previously-built wheel of the same name. (#1129)

v2.6.1

7 June 2022

🛠 Update the prerelease CPython 3.11 to 3.11.0b3

v2.6.0

25 May 2022

🌟 Added the ability to test building wheels on CPython 3.11! Because CPython 3.11 is in beta, these wheels should not be distributed, because they might not be compatible with the final release, but it's available to build for testing purposes. Use the flag --prerelease-pythons or CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS to test. This version of cibuildwheel includes CPython 3.11.0b1. (#1109)
📚 Added an interactive diagram showing how cibuildwheel works to the docs (#1100)

v2.5.0

29 April 2022

✨ Added support for building ABI3 wheels. cibuildwheel will now recognise when an ABI3 wheel was produced, and skip subsequent build steps where the previously built wheel is compatible. Tests still will run on all selected versions of Python, using the ABI3 wheel. Check this entry in the docs for more info. (#1091)
✨ You can now build wheels directly from sdist archives, in addition to source directories. Just call cibuildwheel with an sdist argument on the command line, like cibuildwheel mypackage-1.0.0.tar.gz. For more details, check the --help output (#1096)
🐛 Fix a bug where cibuildwheel would crash when no builds are selected and --allow-empty is passed (#1086)
🐛 Workaround a permissions issue on Linux relating to newer versions of git and setuptools_scm (#1095)
📚 Minor docs improvements

v2.4.0

2 April 2022

✨ cibuildwheel now supports running locally on Windows and macOS (as well as Linux). On macOS, you'll have to install the versions of Pythons that you want to use from Python.org, and cibuildwheel will use them. On Windows, cibuildwheel will install it's own versions of Python. Check out the documentation for instructions. (#974)
✨ Added support for building PyPy 3.9 wheels. (#1031)
✨ Listing at the end of the build now displays the size of each wheel (#975)
🐛 Workaround a connection timeout bug on Travis CI ppc64le runners (#906)
🐛 Fix an encoding error when reading setup.py in the wrong encoding (#977)
🛠 Setuptools updated to 61.3.0, including experimental support for reading config from pyproject.toml(PEP 621). This could change the behaviour of your build if you have a pyproject.toml with a [project] table, because that takes precedence over setup.py and setup.cfg. Check out the setuptools docs and the project metadata specification for more info.
🛠 Many other dependency updates.
📚 Minor docs improvements

v2.3.1

14 December 2021

🐛 Setting pip options like PIP_USE_DEPRECATED in CIBW_ENVIRONMENT no longer adversely affects cibuildwheel's ability to set up a Python environment (#956)
📚 Docs fixes and improvements

v2.3.0

26 November 2021

📈 cibuildwheel now defaults to manylinux2014 image for linux builds, rather than manylinux2010. If you want to stick with manylinux2010, it's simple to set this using the image options. (#926)
✨ You can now pass environment variables from the host machine into the Docker container during a Linux build. Check out the docs for CIBW_ENVIRONMENT_PASS_LINUX for the details. (#914)
✨ Added support for building PyPy 3.8 wheels. (#881)
✨ Added support for building Windows arm64 CPython wheels on a Windows arm64 runner. We can't test this in CI yet, so for now, this is experimental. (#920)
📚 Improved the deployment documentation (#911)
🛠 Changed the escaping behaviour inside cibuildwheel's option placeholders e.g. {project} in before_build or {dest_dir} in repair_wheel_command. This allows bash syntax like ${SOME_VAR} to passthrough without being interpreted as a placeholder by cibuildwheel. See this section in the docs for more info. (#889)
🛠 Pip updated to 21.3, meaning it now defaults to in-tree builds again. If this causes an issue with your project, setting environment variable PIP_USE_DEPRECATED=out-of-tree-build is available as a temporary flag to restore the old behaviour. However, be aware that this flag will probably be removed soon. (#881)
🐛 You can now access the current Python interpreter using python3 within a build on Windows (#917)

v2.2.2

26 October 2021

🐛 Fix bug in the GitHub Action step causing a syntax error (#895)

v2.2.1

26 October 2021

🛠 Added a config-file option on the GitHub Action to specify something other than pyproject.toml in your GitHub Workflow file. (#883)
🐛 Fix missing resources in sdist and released wheel on PyPI. We've also made some internal changes to our release processes to make them more reliable. (#893, #894)

v2.2.0

22 October 2021

🌟 Added support for musllinux. Support for this new wheel format lets projects build wheels for Linux distributions that use musl libc, notably, Alpine Docker containers. (#768)

Musllinux builds are enabled by default. If you're not ready to build musllinux, add *-musllinux_* to your CIBW_SKIP/skip option. Or, you might have to make some changes to your options - to simplify that process, you can use...
🌟 TOML option overrides! This provides much greater flexibility in configuration via pyproject.toml. (#854)

You can now set build options for any subset of your builds using a match pattern. So, for example, you can customise CPython 3.8 builds with an override on cp38-* or musllinux builds by selecting *musllinux*. Check out the docs for more info on the specifics.
🛠 Added support for building PyPy wheels on macOS 11 CI runners. (#875)
🛠 Setting an empty string for the CIBW_*_IMAGE option will now fallthrough to the config file or cibuildwheel's default, rather than causing an error. This makes the option easier to use in CI build matrices. (#829)
🛠 Support for TOML 1.0 when reading config files, via the tomli package. (#876)

^{Note: This version is not available on PyPI due to some missing resources in the release files. Please use a later version instead.}

v2.1.3

6 October 2021

🛠 Updated CPython 3.10 to the 3.10.0 final release

v2.1.2

14 September 2021

🛠 Updated CPython 3.10 to 3.10.0rc2
📚 Multiple docs updates
🐛 Improved warnings when built binaries are bundled into the container on Linux. (#807)

v2.1.1

7 August 2021

✨ Corresponding with the release of CPython 3.10.0rc1, which is ABI stable, cibuildwheel now builds CPython 3.10 by default - without the CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS flag.

^{Note: v2.1.0 was a bad release, it was yanked from PyPI.}

v2.0.1

25 July 2021

📚 Docs improvements (#767)
🛠 Dependency updates, including delocate 0.9.0.

v2.0.0 🎉

16 July 2021

🌟 You can now configure cibuildwheel options inside your project's pyproject.toml! Environment variables still work of course. Check out the documentation for more info.
🌟 Added support for building wheels with build, as well as pip. This feature is controlled with the CIBW_BUILD_FRONTEND option.
🌟 Added the ability to test building wheels on CPython 3.10! Because CPython 3.10 is in beta, these wheels should not be distributed, because they might not be compatible with the final release, but it's available to build for testing purposes. Use the flag --prerelease-pythons or CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS to test. (#675) This version of cibuildwheel includes CPython 3.10.0b4.
⚠️ Removed support for building Python 2.7 and Python 3.5 wheels, for both CPython and PyPy. If you still need to build on these versions, please use the latest v1.x version. (#596)
✨ Added the ability to build CPython 3.8 wheels for Apple Silicon. (#704)
🛠 Update to the latest build dependencies, including Auditwheel 4. (#633)
🛠 Use the unified pypa/manylinux images to build PyPy (#671)
🐛 Numerous bug fixes & docs improvements

v1.12.0

22 June 2021

✨ Adds support building macOS universal2/arm64 wheels on Python 3.8.

v1.11.1

28 May 2021

✨ cibuildwheel is now part of the PyPA!
📚 Minor docs changes, fixing links related to the above transition
🛠 Update manylinux pins to the last version containing Python 2.7 and 3.5. (#674)

v1.11.0

1 May 2021

📚 Lots of docs improvements! (#650, #623, #616, #609, #606)
🐛 Fix nuget "Package is not found" error on Windows. (#653)
⚠️ cibuildwheel will no longer build Windows 2.7 wheels, unless you specify a custom toolchain using DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1 and MSSdk=1. This is because Microsoft have stopped distributing Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7. See this FAQ entry for more details. (#649)
🐛 Fix crash on Windows due to missing which command (#641).

v1.10.0

22 Feb 2021

✨ Added manylinux_2_24 support. To use these new Debian-based manylinux images, set your manylinux image options to manylinux_2_24.
🛠 On macOS, we now set MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET in before running CIBW_BEFORE_ALL. This is useful when using CIBW_BEFORE_ALL to build a shared library.
🛠 An empty CIBW_BUILD option is now the same as being unset i.e, *. This makes some build matrix configuration easier. (#588)
📚 Neatened up documentation - added tabs to a few places (#576), fixed some formatting issues.

v1.9.0

5 February 2021

🌟 Added support for Apple Silicon wheels on macOS! You can now cross-compile universal2 and arm64 wheels on your existing macOS Intel runners, by setting CIBW_ARCHS_MACOS. Xcode 12.2 or later is required, but you don't need macOS 11.0 - you can still build on macOS 10.15. See this FAQ entry for more information. (#484)
🌟 Added auto-detection of your package's Python compatibility, via declared requires-python in your pyproject.toml, or python_requires in setup.cfg or setup.py. If your project has these set, cibuildwheel will automatically skip builds on versions of Python that your package doesn't support. Hopefully this makes the first-run experience of cibuildwheel a bit easier. If you need to override this for any reason, look at CIBW_PROJECT_REQUIRES_PYTHON. (#536)
🌟 cibuildwheel can now be invoked as a native GitHub Action! You can now invoke cibuildwheel in a GHA build step like:
```
- name: Build wheels
  uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@version # e.g. v1.9.0
  with:
    output-dir: wheelhouse
  # env:
  #   CIBW_SOME_OPTION: value
```
This saves a bit of boilerplate, and you can use Dependabot to keep the pinned version up-to-date.
✨ Added auto64 and auto32 shortcuts to the CIBW_ARCHS option. (#553)
✨ cibuildwheel now prints a list of the wheels built at the end of each run. (#570)
📚 Lots of minor docs improvements.

1.8.0

22 January 2021

🌟 Added support for emulated builds! You can now build manylinux wheels on ARM64aarch64, as well as ppc64le and 's390x'. To build under emulation, register QEMU via binfmt_misc and set the CIBW_ARCHS_LINUX option to the architectures you want to run. See this FAQ entry for more information. (#482)
✨ Added CIBW_TEST_SKIP option. This allows you to choose certain builds whose tests you'd like to skip. This might be useful when running a slow test suite under emulation, for example. (#537)
✨ Added curly-{brace,bracket,paren} style globbing to CIBW_BUILD and CIBW_SKIP. This gives more expressivity, letting you do things like CIBW_BUILD=cp39-manylinux_{aarch64,ppc64le}. (#527)
🛠 cibuildwheel will now exit with an error if it's called with options that skip all builds on a platform. This feature can be disabled by adding --allow-empty on the command line. (#545)

1.7.4

2 January 2021

🐛 Fix the PyPy virtualenv patch to work on macOS 10.14 (#506)

1.7.3

1 January 2021

🛠 Added a patch for Pypy to ensure header files are available for building in a virtualenv. (#502)
🛠 Some preparatory work towards using cibuildwheel as a GitHub Action. Check out the FAQ for information on how to use it. We'll be fully updating the docs to this approach in a subsequent release (#494)

1.7.2

21 December 2020

🛠 Update dependencies, notably wheel==0.36.2 and pip==20.3.3, and CPython to their latest bugfix releases (#489)
📚 Switch to a GitHub example in the README (#479)
📚 Create Working Examples table, with many projects that use cibuildwheel (#474)
📚 Import Working Examples table and Changelog to docs

1.7.1

3 December 2020

🛠 Update manylinux2010 image to resolve issues with 'yum' repositories (#472)

1.7.0

26 November 2020

✨ New logging format, that uses 'fold groups' in CI services that support it. (#458)
🛠 Update PyPy to 7.3.3 (#460)
🐛 Fix a bug where CIBW_BEFORE_ALL runs with a very old version of Python on Linux. (#464)

1.6.4

31 October 2020

🐛 Fix crash on Appveyor during nuget install due to old system CA certificates. We now use certifi's CA certs to download files. (#455)

1.6.3

12 October 2020

🐛 Fix missing SSL certificates on macOS (#447)
🛠 Update OpenSSL Python 3.5 patch to 1.1.1h on macOS (#449)

1.6.2

9 October 2020

✨ Python 3.9 updated to the final release version - v3.9.0 (#440)
🛠 Pypy updated to v7.3.2, adding alpha support for Python 3.7 (#430)

1.6.1

20 September 2020

🛠 Add PPC64LE manylinux image supporting Python 3.9. (#436)
📚 Add project URLs to PyPI listing (#428)

1.6.0

9 September 2020

🌟 Add Python 3.9 support! This initial support uses release candidate builds. You can start publishing wheels for Python 3.9 now, ahead of the official release. (#382)

Minor note - if you're building PPC64LE wheels, the manylinux image pinned by this version is still on Python 3.9b3, not a release candidate. We'd advise holding off on distributing 3.9 ppc64le wheels until a subsequent version of cibuildwheel.
🌟 Add Gitlab CI support. Gitlab CI can now build Linux wheels, using cibuildwheel. (#419)
🐛 Fix a bug that causes pyproject.toml dependencies to fail to install on Windows (#420)
📚 Added some information about Windows VC++ runtimes and how they relate to wheels.

1.5.5

22 July 2020

🐛 Fix a bug that would cause command substitutions in CIBW_ENVIRONMENT to produce no output on Linux (#411)
🐛 Fix regression (introduced in 1.5.3) which caused BEFORE_BUILD and BEFORE_ALL to be executed in the wrong directory (#410)

1.5.4

19 June 2020

🐛 Fix a bug that would cause command substitutions in CIBW_ENVIRONMENT variables to not interpret quotes in commands correctly (#406, #408)

1.5.3

19 July 2020

🛠 Update CPython 3.8 to 3.8.3 (#405)
🛠 Internal refactoring of Linux build, to move control flow into Python (#386)

1.5.2

8 July 2020

🐛 Fix an issue on Windows where pyproject.toml would cause an error when some requirements formats were used. (#401)
🛠 Update CPython 3.7 to 3.7.8 (#394)

1.5.1

25 June 2020

🐛 Fix "OSError: [WinError 17] The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive" on GitHub Actions (#388, #389)

1.5.0

24 June 2020

🌟 Add CIBW_BEFORE_ALL option, which lets you run a command on the build machine before any wheels are built. This is especially useful when building on Linux, to make something external to Python, or to yum install a dependency. (#342)
✨ Added support for projects using pyproject.toml instead of setup.py (#360, #358)
✨ Added workaround to allow Python 3.5 on Windows to pull dependencies from pyproject.toml. (#358)
📚 Improved GitHub Actions examples and docs (#354, #362)
🐛 Ensure pip wheel uses the specified package, and doesn't build a wheel from PyPI (#369)
🛠 Internal changes: using pathlib.Path, precommit hooks, testing improvements.

1.4.2

25 May 2020

🛠 Dependency updates, including CPython 3.8.3 & manylinux images.
🛠 Lots of internal updates - type annotations and checking using mypy, and a new integration testing system.
⚠️ Removed support for running cibuildwheel using Python 3.5. cibuildwheel will continue to build Python 3.5 wheels until EOL.

1.4.1

4 May 2020

🐛 Fix a bug causing programs running inside the i686 manylinux images to think they were running x86_64 and target the wrong architecture. (#336, #338)

1.4.0

2 May 2020

🌟 Deterministic builds. cibuildwheel now locks the versions of the tools it uses. This means that pinning your version of cibuildwheel pins the versions of pip, setuptools, manylinux etc. that are used under the hood. This should make things more reliable. But note that we don't control the entire build environment on macOS and Windows, where the version of Xcode and Visual Studio can still effect things.

This can be controlled using the CIBW_DEPENDENCY_VERSIONS and manylinux image options - if you always want to use the latest toolchain, you can still do that, or you can specify your own pip constraints file and manylinux image. (#256)
✨ Added package_dir command line option, meaning we now support building a package that lives in a subdirectory and pulls in files from the wider project. See the package_dir option help for more information.

Note that this change makes the working directory (where you call cibuildwheel from) relevant on Linux, as it's considered the 'project' and will be copied into the Docker container. If your builds are slower on this version, that's likely the reason. cd to your project and then call cibuildwheel from there. (#319, #295)
🛠 On macOS, we make MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET default to 10.9 if it's not set. This should make things more consistent between Python versions.
🛠 Dependency updates - CPython 3.7.7, CPython 2.7.18, Pypy 7.3.1.

1.3.0

12 March 2020

🌟 Add support for building on GitHub Actions! Check out the docs for information on how to set it up. (#194)
✨ Add the CIBW_BEFORE_TEST option, which lets you run a command to prepare the environment before your tests are run. (#242)

1.2.0

8 March 2020

🌟 Add support for building PyPy wheels, across Manylinux, macOS, and Windows. (#185)
🌟 Added the ability to build ARM64 (aarch64), ppc64le, and s390x wheels, using manylinux2014 and Travis CI. (#273)
✨ You can now build macOS wheels on Appveyor. (#230)
🛠 Changed default macOS minimum target to 10.9, from 10.6. This allows the use of more modern C++ libraries, among other things. (#156)
🛠 Stop building universal binaries on macOS. We now only build x86_64 wheels on macOS. (#220)
✨ Allow chaining of commands using && and || on Windows inside CIBW_BEFORE_BUILD and CIBW_TEST_COMMAND. (#293)
🛠 Improved error reporting for failed Cython builds due to stale .so files (#263)
🛠 Update CPython from 3.7.5 to 3.7.6 and from 3.8.0 to 3.8.2 on Mac/Windows
🛠 Improved error messages when a bad config breaks cibuildwheel's PATH variable. (#264)
⚠️ Removed support for running cibuildwheel on Python 2.7. cibuildwheel will continue to build Python 2.7 wheels for a little while. (#265)

1.1.0

7 December 2019

🌟 Add support for building manylinux2014 wheels. To use, set CIBW_MANYLINUX_X86_64_IMAGE and CIBW_MANYLINUX_I686_IMAGE to manylinux2014.
✨ Add support for Linux on Appveyor (#204, #207)
✨ Add CIBW_REPAIR_WHEEL_COMMAND env variable, for changing how auditwheel or delocate are invoked, or testing an equivalent on Windows. (#211)
📚 Added some travis example configs - these are available in /examples. (#228)

1.0.0

10 November 2019

🌟 Add support for building Python 3.8 wheels! (#180)
🌟 Add support for building manylinux2010 wheels. cibuildwheel will now build using the manylinux2010 images by default. If your project is still manylinux1 compatible, you should get both manylinux1 and manylinux2010 wheels - you can upload both to PyPI. If you always require manylinux1 wheels, you can build using the old manylinux1 image using the manylinux image option. (#155)
📚 Documentation is now on its own mini-site, rather than on the README (#169)
✨ Add support for building Windows wheels on Travis CI. (#160)
🛠 If you set CIBW_TEST_COMMAND, your tests now run in a virtualenv. (#164)
🛠 Windows now uses Python as installed by nuget, rather than the versions installed by the various CI providers. (#180)
🛠 Update Python from 2.7.16 to 2.7.17 and 3.7.4 to 3.7.5 on macOS (#171)
⚠️ Removed support for Python 3.4 (#168)

0.12.0

29 September 2019

✨ Add CIBW_TEST_EXTRAS option, to allow testing using extra_require options. For example, set CIBW_TEST_EXTRAS=test,qt to make the wheel installed with pip install <wheel_file>[test,qt]
🛠 Update Python from 3.7.2 to 3.7.4 on macOS
🛠 Update OpenSSL patch to 1.0.2t on macOS

0.11.1

28 May 2019

🐛 Fix missing file in the release tarball, that was causing problems with Windows builds (#141)

0.11.0

26 May 2019

🌟 Add support for building on Azure pipelines! This lets you build all Linux, Mac and Windows wheels on one service, so it promises to be the easiest to set up! Check out the quickstart in the docs, or cibuildwheel-azure-example for an example project. (#126, #132)
🛠 Internal change - the end-to-end test projects format was updated, so we can more precisely assert what should be produced for each one. (#136, #137).

0.10.2

10 March 2019

🛠 Revert temporary fix in macOS, that was working around a bug in pip 19 (#129)
🛠 Update Python to 2.7.16 on macOS
🛠 Update OpenSSL patch to 1.0.2r on macOS

0.10.1

3 February 2019

🐛 Fix build stalling on macOS (that was introduced in pip 19) (#122)
🐛 Fix "AttributeError: 'Popen' object has no attribute 'args'" on Python 2.7 for Linux builds (#108)
🛠 Update Python from 3.6.7, 3.7.1 to 3.6.8, 3.7.2 on macOS
🛠 Update openssl patch from 1.0.2p to 1.0.2q on macOS
🛠 Sorting build options dict items when printing preamble (#114)

0.10.0

23 September 2018

🌟 Add CIBW_BUILD option, for specifying which specific builds to perform (#101)
🌟 Add support for building Mac and Linux on CircleCI (#91, #97)
🛠 Improved support for building universal wheels (#95)
🛠 Ensure log output is unbuffered and therefore in the correct order (#92)
🛠 Improved error reporting for errors that occur inside a package's setup.py (#88)
⚠️ Removed support for Python 3.3 on Windows.

0.9.4

29 July 2018

🛠 CIBW_TEST_COMMAND now runs in a shell on Mac (as well as Linux) (#81)

0.9.3

10 July 2018

🛠 Update to Python 3.6.6 on macOS (#82)
✨ Add support for building Python 3.7 wheels on Windows (#76)
⚠️ Deprecated support for Python 3.3 on Windows.

0.9.2

1 July 2018

🛠 Update Python 3.7.0rc1 to 3.7.0 on macOS (#79)

0.9.1

18 June 2018

🛠 Removed the need to use {python} and {pip} in CIBW_BEFORE_BUILD statements, by ensuring the correct version is always on the path at python and pip instead. (#60)
🛠 We now patch the _ssl module on Python 3.4 and 3.5 so these versions can still make SSL web requests using TLS 1.2 while building. (#71)

0.9.0