Release Notes
v6.10.0
Introspection of the sip module ABI version
SIP_ABI_VERSION has been added as a module attribute of the sip module.
This is an integer that represents the ABI version that the module implements
as a 3 part hexadecimal number.
This has been implemented in ABIs v12.17 and v13.10.
Resolves #62
sip-module support for older ABI versions
The ability of sip-module to generate sdists for older ABI versions has been
restored. The oldest that can be generated are v12.9 and v13.1 which are the
oldest non-deprecated versions.
The documentation now contains brief histories of these versions.
Resolves #61
Default ABI version
The default minor ABI version to use is now the latest minor version for a
particular major version (rather than 0 as it was previously).
Resolves #63
Specify the ABI version on the command line
The --abi-version command line option has been added to sip-build,
sip-install and sip-wheel to specify the ABI version of the sip module to
generate code for.
Resolves #64
Added the %MinimumABIVersion directive
The %MinimumABIVersion directive is used to specify the minimum sip module
ABI to target in order to ensure that all calls to the public API from
handwritten code are available.
A consequence of this change is that passing string values to the
/Deprecated/ annotation no longer requires an ABI version that supports them
to be targeted. If the targeted ABI version does not support them they are
simply ignored.
Resolves #65
Escaping special characters in string annotations
The value of a string annotation uses the ; and : characters to allow
platform- and feature-specific values to be defined. These special characters
can now be escaped using a leading \\. This capability has now been
documented.
Resolves #59
Bug fixes
The license designator in
setup.pyfor the latest versions of thesipmodule are now correctly specified asBSD-2-Clause.The code generation has been fixed for classes created by instantiating mapped type templates using a
typedefwith the/NoTypeName/annotation. Resolves #66
v6.9.1
sip-sdist creates PEP 625 compatible file names
The sdists created by sip-sdist are now compatible with PEP 625 in that
they have lower case names. This ensures that they will still be able to
be uploaded to PyPI.
Resolves #23
Update the minimum version of setuptools
The minimum version of setuptools used by SIP and by the generated sip
module sdists has been set to v69.5. This is the oldest version that
supports PEP 625.
Resolves #55
sip module sdist Requires-Python is incorrect
The minimum Python version in the generated sip module metadata is now
set to v3.9.
Resolves #56
v6.9.0
Removal of support for Python v3.8
Generated bindings now require Python v3.9 or later.
Type hints now conform to PEP 585.
The latest
sipmodule ABI versions are v12.16 and v13.9.
Resolves #37
Added support for the deprecated() decorator in .pyi files
.pyifiles now use thedeprecated()decorator when the/Deprecated/annotation is specified.The
/Deprecated/annotation may now specify an optional string which will be appended to the default deprecation warning.
Resolves #8
PyQt-specific support for registering QFlags types
Calls to qMetaTypeId() for all QFlags mapped types are now automatically
generated for PyQt using ABI v13.
Resolves #43
Bug fixes
The handling of the SIP versions timeline was fixed. (Resolves #47)
Annotations are now only validated if they are known to be needed.
The buffer protocol support for byte objects was fixed. (Resolves #36)
All outstanding compiler warnings were eliminated when building the
sipmodule. (Resolves #32)Redundant
%in trace output ofthispointer in were removed. (Pull request #33)
v6.8.6
Handle single number macOS deployment targets
If the macOS deployment target (as returned by sysconfig.get_platform())
was just a major version number then SIP would crash.
Resolves #31
Support for architectures where char is unsigned
Conversions to and from char and Python integer objects on architectures
where char was unsigned (eg. Linux on ARM) have been fixed.
The latest sip module ABI versions are v12.15 and v13.8.
Resolves #29
Support for building from git archives
.git_archival.txt and .gitattributes were added so that git archives
contain the necessary metadata for setuptools-scm.
Pull request #30
Run the tests using the current Python version
The tests are run using the current Python version instead of the default one to make it easier to test using multiple Python versions.
Pull request #27
v6.8.5
Missing dependency in pyproject.toml
Added setuptools as a project dependency.
Resolves #26
V6.8.4 release notes are incorrect
The incorrect entries in the v6.8.4 release notes regarding the latest ABI version numbers were removed.
Resolves #24
v6.8.4
Added support for Python v3.13
Python v3.13 raises the minimum macOS version to 10.13. Ensure that this minimum is used for wheel names for projects where all modules use the limited ABI, no matter what the minimum requirement of the version of Python being used to build the wheel is.
Eliminated all compiler warnings on all platforms when building the sip
module.
Removed calls to all deprecated parts of the Python API.
Resolves #22
Make all tools accessable using python -m
sip-distinfo can now also be run using python -m sipbuild.tools.distinfo.
sip-module can now also be run using python -m sipbuild.tools.module.
Resolves #21
Assume C99 support
_Bool and stdbool.h are assumed to be available on all supported platforms.
va_copy is assumed to be available on all supported platforms.
Resolves #13
Object map incorrect size assumptions for Windows 64
uintptr_t is now used as the hash key in the object map rather than
unsigned long.
Resolves #14
%MappedType documentation error
The documentation for the MappedType directive incorrectly stated that the
type was type rather than base-type.
Resolves #10
Missing import affecting XML generation
The generation of XML (used by PyQt documentation) failed because of a missing import.
Resolves #18
Fixed the generation of module-level attributes
This is a regression in SIP v6.8 and only affects attributes defined in hidden namespaces.
Resolves #19
Documentation updates
The documentation is now hosted at Read the Docs.
Resolves #2
Completion of the migration from Mercurial
SIP is now licensed under the BSD-2-Clause license.
README.md now reflects the state of the migration.
The project has now been migrated from setup.py to setuptools_scm and
pyproject.toml.
Resolves #1