PyInstaller v3.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-05-03 // almost 8 years ago
    • 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 objcopy to 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

    • 🏁 Apps built with Windows 10 and Python 3.5 may not run on Windows versions earlier than 10 (#1566).
    • 📦 The multipackage (MERGE) feature (#1527) is currently broken.
    • 👍 (OSX) Support for OpenDocument events (#1309) is broken.