Upcoming Release 2.5
In this document, we track the per-version changes and comments for the upcoming Nuitka 2.5 as a draft about hot-fixes of the current stable release as 2.4.8 as well.
Nuitka Release 2.5 (Draft)
Note
This a draft of the release notes for 2.5, which is supposed to add Nuitka standalone backend support and enhanced 3.12 performance and scalability in general.
The main focus shall be scalability and a few open issues for performance enhancements that later Python versions enable us to.
This release in not complete yet.
Bug Fixes
Windows: The onefile handling of
sys.argvwas seriously regressed for program and command line paths with spaces. Fixed in 2.4.4 already.Windows: Fix, console output handles were opened with close file handles, but that is not allowed. Fixed in 2.4.2 already.
Standalone: Fix, using trailing slashes to mark the target directory for data files no longer worked on Windows. Fixed in 2.4.2 already.
Fix, the
.pyiparser could fail for relative imports. This could break some packages that are extension modules, but with source code available too. Fixed in 2.4.3 already.Modules: Fix, extension modules didn’t load into packages with Python3.12. Fixed in 2.4.4 already.
Package Support
Standalone: Improved
arcadeconfiguration. Added in 2.4.3 already.
New Features
Optimization
Anti-Bloat
Avoid including
importlib_metadatafornumpypackage. Added in 2.4.2 already.
Organizational
Quality: Use
clang-format-20in GitHub actions.Release script tests for Debian and PyPI used old runner names, not the new ones. Changed in 2.4.1 already.
UI: Disable locking of progress bar, as Nuitka doesn’t use threads at this time.
Tests
Cleanups
WASI: Make sure C function getters and setters of compiled types have the correct signature that they are being called with. Cast locally to the compiled types only, rather than in the function signature.
Indentation of generated code was regressed and generating unaligned code in some cases.
Summary
This release is not done yet.