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v2.18.1

• 🌟 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)

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title: Changelog

Changelog

v2.18.1

• 🌟 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)

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• ba8be0d Bump version: v2.18.1
• 90dd476 doc: add documentation for the CIBW_FREE_THREADED_SUPPORT option
• b613249 chore: pass a PythonConfiguration to install_cpython
• 3992d57 feat: add option to opt-in free-threaded builds
• 345467c feat: add support for free-threaded (no-gil) Python 3.13
• 791e41c [Bot] Update dependencies (#1832)
• 9d5f5e6 Make container-engine a build (non-global) option (#1792)
• 1b354cf chore: move to hatchling (#1297)
• d1a4c9c chore: un-pin virtualenv update (#1830)
• 78bca57 fix(tests): linux tests from macOS/Windows arm64 (#1829)
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