2025.9.4

• 2025.09.04
  • download_python: removed the default stripped keyword
  • test_utils.py: now uses the test_cache/ folder to avoid conflicts
  • Fixed Linux test cases
  • download_python
    • removed the default stripped keyword
    • Linux is now the default platform for auto mode
  • Added scripts entry point to zipapps's pyproject.toml
    • Can also be used as uvx zipapps ...
    • Or zipapps.exe ... on Windows, or zipapps on Unix
  • Added --uv option to accept a path to uv, speeding up pip install
    • --uv=uv or --uv=path/to/uv
  • Added --freeze-deps as an alias for --freeze-reqs
  • fix deprecated warning since 3.10 zipimporter.load_module
  • add uvx use case to test_utils.py
    • uvx zipapps six
    • python -m zipapps six --uv=uv

2024.08.07

• 2024.08.07
  • [Compatible WARNING]: update sys_paths insert index from -1 to 0
  • disable --download-python, use python -m zipapps.download_python instead
    • add -a/--auto
      • auto download the latest version matched the current platform: x86_64+install_only
      • python -m zipapps.download_python -a
    • add -k/--keywords, filt with keywords split by ,
      • python -m zipapps.download_python -a -k 3.11
    • add -u/--unzip, unzip the .tar.gz
      • python -m zipapps.download_python -a -k 3.11 -u
        • download and unzip the .tar.gz

2024.06.04

changelog

• add arg --download-python: interactive download standalone python interpreter (https://www.github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone)
• custom --rm-patterns to remove useless files . fixed #28 #29
• add pip_install_target to install requirements and insert to sys.path, cache support
  • from zipapps import pip_install_target
  • pip_install_target(Path("./mock_dir"), ["six"], force=False, sys_path=0); import six

test env update:

        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        strategy:
            matrix:
                python-version: ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.x"]
        runs-on: macos-latest
        strategy:
            matrix:
                python-version: ["3.x"]
        runs-on: windows-latest
        strategy:
            matrix:
                python-version: ["3.x"]

2024.04.22

• fix get_data __name__ of module
• remove py36 test
• add this package to morebuiltins

2023.09.12

• 2023.09.12
  • add --download-pip-pyz to download pip.pyz
    • install pip module to win32 embeded exe
      • win32 embeded ./python.exe xxx/xxx/zipapps.pyz auto download pip.pyz and append to _pth
  • fix main.py docs
• 2023.06.04
  • save zipapps_config.json to pyz file

2022.10.28

• 2022.08.28
  • add -q for quiet mode
    • -qqqqq to mute all the logs
  • -m support source code mode while not matched module.submodule:function format
    • like python -c "python code"
    • demo: python -m zipapps -m "import six; print(six.__file__)"
    • WARN: only when -m not matched regex r'^\w+(\.\w+)?(:\w+)?$'

2022.08.29

fix warning WARNING: pip is being invoked by an old script wrapper.

fix #25 pip install failed but build success

2022.04.27

• 2022.04.27
  • handle PermissionError for chmod
  • support --dump-config and --load-config #24 fixed
  • support --freeze-reqs close #22
    • Freeze package versions of pip args with venv, output to the given file path.
      • - equals to stdout
      • logs will be redirect to stderr
    • Based on pip + venv
      • the work folder is tempfile.TemporaryDirectory, prefix='zipapps_'
  • support clear self pyz after running fix #21
  • refactor environment variables template and interval variables(with string.Template) #23
    • change TEMP/HOME/SELF prefixes with $TEMP/$HOME/$SELF
      • backward compatibility is preserved
    • support $PID, $CWD
  • normalize the map of environment variables
    • use these envs to reset build args at runtime

    •   'unzip': 'ZIPAPPS_UNZIP',
        'unzip_exclude': 'ZIPAPPS_UNZIP_EXCLUDE',
        'unzip_path': 'ZIPAPPS_CACHE',
        'ignore_system_python_path': 'STRICT_PYTHON_PATH',
        'python_version_slice': 'PYTHON_VERSION_SLICE',
        'clear_zipapps_cache': 'CLEAR_ZIPAPPS_CACHE',
        'clear_zipapps_self': 'CLEAR_ZIPAPPS_SELF',
        'unzip_chmod': 'UNZIP_CHMOD',
      

• 2022.03.17
  • fix --chmod forget the parent folder and .pyz self
• 2022.03.13
  • check is_zipfile before activate
  • --ensure-zipapps as the alias of --activate-zipapps
  • fix the conflict between -d mode and -u
  • add --chmod for unzipped files, fix #17

2022.03.10

• fix bug of sys.path missing the parent of __file__ while running python venv.pyz xx.py

2022.03.07

• 2022.03.07
  • fix bug of version 2022.03.06
    • file xxx.template not found