CHANGELOG.rst

2026.5 (2026-05-04)

New hooks

• Add a hook for plum, to automatically discover and collect the {id}__mypyc top-level module. (#1008)
• Add a hook for tensorrt, which loads dynamic libraries. (#1005)
• Add hook for psycopg_c (C-extension installation of Psycopg 3) to ensure that psycopg_c._uuid module is collected, in order to prevent missing-module error when working with data of UUID data type. (#1010)

Updated hooks

• Rework the findlibs run-time hook to improve compatibility with findlibs >= 0.1.0 and avoid problems with contemporary versions of eccodes / eccodeslib. (#1014)
• Update trame_client hook to collect package's metadata, which is required by trame-client v3.12.0 and later. (#1015)

2026.4 (2026-03-31)

New hooks

• Add a hook for imagingcontrol4, which loads dynamic libraries. (#1001)

Updated hooks

• Update chardet hook for compatibility with chardet v7.4.0. (#1004)
• Update hook for weasyprint to collect the harfbuzz-subset shared library when building with WeasyPrint v63.0 or later. (#999)

2026.3 (2026-03-09)

New hooks

• Add hook for chardet, required for compatibility with chardet v7.0.0 and later. (#995)

Updated hooks

• Update charset_normalizer hook for compatibility with charset-normalizer v3.4.5. (#995)
• Update psutil hook for compatibility with psutil installed in a Termux environment with python 3.13 or later. (#996)

2026.2 (2026-03-02)

New hooks

• Add hook for adbc_driver_manager package. (#990)
• Add hook for rich to ensure that modules from rich._unicode_data are collected for rich v14.3.0 and later. (#991)

2026.1 (2026-02-18)

Updated hooks

• Update langchain hook for compatibility with langchain 1.2.10. (#987)
• Update vtkmodules hooks for compatibility with vtk 9.6.0. (#987)

2026.0 (2026-01-20)

New hooks

• Add hook for ddgs. (#978)
• Add hook for fake_useragent. (#978)
• Add hook for pytokens to automatically discover and collect the {id}__mypyc top-level module that was introduced in pytokens 0.4.0. (#982)

Updated hooks

• Update langchain hook for compatibility with langchain >= 1.2.1; ensure that installed optional add-on packages continue being automatically collected. (#980)

2025.11 (2025-12-23)

New hooks

• Add a hook for tkinterweb-tkhtml-extras. (#972)
• Add hook for pymeshlab. (#975)

Updated hooks

• Update skimage hooks for compatibility with scikit-image 0.26.0. (#976)

Incompatible Changes

• The hooks for following modules/packages have been ported to PyInstaller.isolated framework and therefore require PyInstaller >= 5.0: - win32com - wx.lib.activex - enchant - sentry_sdk - ffpyplayer If you are still using PyInstaller 4.x and any of these packages, make sure to pin an older version of pyinstaller-hooks-contrib. (#970)

2025.10 (2025-11-22)

New hooks

• Add hook for dateparser to collect the data file that was introduced in dateparser v.1.2.2. (#958)
• Add hook for duckdb to ensure that inspect module is collected (might end up missing with python < 3.10 otherwise), and that the package's metadata is collected for duckdb >= 1.4.0. (#952)
• Add hook for nicegui to collect the data files of the package. (#962)
• Add hook for psycopg_binary (binary installation Psycopg 3) to ensure that psycopg_binary._uuid module is collected, in order to prevent missing-module error when working with data of UUID data type. (#956)
• Add hook for pyecharts to collect the data files of the package. (#963)

Updated hooks

• Update langchain hooks for langchain v.1.0.x. (#960)

2025.9 (2025-09-24)

New hooks

• Add hook for cumm to ensure that header files from cumm/include directory are collected. (#941)
• Add hook for globus_sdk package. (#940)
• Add hook for pointcept to collect its source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#941)

Updated hooks

• Harden blib2to3 and torch hooks against missing RECORD in the corresponding distributions' metadata, which would lead to a 'NoneType' object is not iterable error when the hook tries to iterate over distribution's file list. (#942)
• Update numba hook for changes made in numba v0.62.0 (i.e., removal of the new type system that was previously introduced in v0.61 series). (#949)
• Update torch hook to check whether torch is installed via Anaconda pytorch package, and collect DLLs from Anaconda mkl package and its dependencies, if necessary. (#941)

2025.8 (2025-07-27)

New hooks

• Add hook for uuid6, which, starting with version 2025.0.1, requires its metadata to be collected. (#929)

Updated hooks

• shapely hook: extend the search for geos_c DLL to also look for an alternative name with lib prefix (i.e., libgeos_c), which is used in MSYS2 environment. (#927)
• Adjust the value of automatically-raised recursion limit (which :issue:`925` set at 5000); for Windows builds of python 3.8 - 3.10 and python 3.9 available under Cygwin, the value needs to be lowered to 1900, as higher values lead to python interpreter crash in scenarios when recursion level actually approaches the limit (for example, the recursion limit test in the main PyInstaller repository). (#928)
• Update gribapi hook for compatibility with eccodes 2.43.0; add hooks for eccodeslib, eckitlib, and fckitlib, which now provide the bundled shared libraries on non-Windows systems. (#930)
• Update the run-time hook for findlibs for improved compatibility with findlibs > 1.0.0; avoid providing a default value for pkg_name argument in our findlibs.find() override, and instead forward the original value (i.e., None) to the original find() implementation. (#930)

2025.7 (2025-07-22)

Updated hooks

• Automatically raise the recursion limit to at least 5000 when the _pyinstaller_hooks_contrib module is loaded, rather than raising the recursion limit on per-hook basis. (#925)
• Update sklearn hooks for compatibility with scikit-learn 1.7.1. (#925)

2025.6 (2025-07-14)

New hooks

• Add a hook for pynng, which has a hidden import. (#922)
• Add hook for torchao to collect its source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#917)
• Add hooks for new modules that were introduced in vtk 9.5.0: vtkmodules.vtkIOAvmesh, vtkmodules.vtkIOLANLX3D, vtkmodules.vtkRenderingGridAxes, and vtkmodules.vtkTestingSerialization. (#919)

Updated hooks

• Update plotly hook for compatibility with plotly 6.2.0. (#919)
• Update pylsl hook for compatibility with pylsl >= 1.17.0. (#924)
• Update toga hook for compatibility with toga 0.5.2: ensure that toga/__init__.pyi file is collected. (#923)

2025.5 (2025-06-08)

New hooks

• Extend hooks for slearn to fix compatibility with scikit-learn v1.7.0; add hooks for sklearn.externals.array_api_compat.cupy, sklearn.externals.array_api_compat.dask.array, sklearn.externals.array_api_compat.numpy, and sklearn.externals.array_api_compat.torch that specify hidden imports for corresponding .linalg and .fft sub-modules, which are imported with using __import__() function and programmatically-generated names. (#915)

Updated hooks

• usb hook: fix shared library collection on Windows. (#906)
• Have the _load_library override installed by the usb run-time hook honor the passed find_library argument. (#913)

2025.4 (2025-05-03)

Updated hooks

• Fix error in narwhals hook when typing-extensions is not available in the build environment (neither stand-alone version is installed nor it is provided as part of setuptools). (#908)

2025.3 (2025-04-16)

New hooks

• Add hook for apkutils which requries to collect its XML file. (#894)
• Add hook for emoji. (#891)
• Add hook for frictionless to collect package's data files, and programmatically imported modules from frictionless.plugins. (#897)
• Add hook for narwhals to collect metadata for typing-extensions, which is required starting with narwhals v1.35.0. (#901)
• Add hooks for black and blikb2to3 packages from the black dist to collect hidden imports and data files. (#897)
• Add hooks for tkinterweb, to collect data files, and tkinterweb-tkhtml, to collect extra data files and binaries. (#899)
• Add hooks for urllib3 and urllib3_future to handle indirect imports made by the urllib3-future implementation of the urllib3 package and its own urllib3_future package. (#893)
• Add hooks for all submodules of vtkmodules package, which is installed by the vtk dist (currently targeting v9.4.2). (#896)

Updated hooks

• Update hook for pydantic to always collect submodules from the package, in order to properly handle redirections and programmatic imports found in contemporary versions of pydantic. (#897)

2025.2 (2025-03-23)

New hooks

• Add hook for distributed package (i.e., dask.distributed) to collect its data files and modules from distributed.http. (#877)
• Add hook for niquests. (#888)
• Add hook for python-dateutil to collect data files from the package. (#881)
• Add hook for tkinterdnd2 (>= 0.4.0) that collects shared library and .tcl files from platform-specific sub-directory under tkinterdnd2/tkdnd. (#868)

Updated hooks

• Fix pyqtgraph.multiprocess in combination with PyInstaller >= v6.10.0. (#886)
• Fix path matching for MKL DLLs in torch hook to work with either POSIX-style or Windows-style separators, as either can appear in the metadata's RECORD entries. (#879)
• Update h5py hook to handle Debian's python3-h5py distribution of h5py. (#873)
• Update pyproj hook to handle non pip/PyPI distributions' devendoring its data directory. (#873)
• Update rtree hook for compatibility with rtree 1.4.0 (renamed shared library directory in Linux PyPI wheels). (#875)
• Update toga hook for compatibility with toga v0.5.0. Due to refactor of the main module that introduced lazy import of package's submodules, we now need to explicitly collect the said submodules using the collect_submodules helper. (#878)
• Update hook for travertino to explicitly collect the package's metadata in order to fix compatibility with travertino v0.5.0. (#878)
• Update the findlibs run-time hook to gracefully handle TypeError when using findlibs v0.1.0 with python < 3.10. This prevents the frozen application from crashing on the run-time hook when the main code might never end up using/importing findlibs at all (for example, gribapi module from eccodes when binary wheel with bundled shared libraries is used). (#865)

2025.1 (2025-01-31)

New hooks

• Add hooks for pypdfium2 and pypdfium2_raw. (#860)

Updated hooks

• Update numba hook for compatibility with numba v0.61.0. (#857)
• Update numcodecs hook for compatibility with numcodecs v0.15.0. (#858)

2025.0 (2025-01-16)

New hooks

• Add hook for fsspec to collect the package's submodules and ensure the protocol plugins are working. (#856)
• Add hook for intake to collect its plugins (registered via the intake.drivers entry-point). (#853)
• Add hook for ruamel.yaml to collect its plugins, and ensure that plugins' __plug_in__ modules are collected as source .py files (which is necessary for their discovery). (#844)
• Add hook for sam2 (Segment Anything Model 2). (#847)
• Add hook for zarr to collect the package's metadata. (#855)

Updated hooks

• Revise the search for OpenSSL shared library and ossl-modules directory in the cryptography hook, in order to mitigate issues with unrelated copies of OpenSSL ending up being pulled into the build. Most notably, the hook should not be searching for OpenSSL shared library when cryptography PyPI wheel is installed, because those ship with extensions that are statically linked against OpenSSL. (#846)
• Rewrite pygraphviz hook to fix discovery and collection of graphviz files under various Linux distributions, in Anaconda environments (Windows, Linux, and macOS), and msys2 environments (Windows). (#849)
• Update dask hook to collect template files from dask/widgets/templates directory; these file become mandatory when using dask.array and jinja2 is available. (#852)
• Update triton hook for compatibility with triton >= 3.0.0; the hook should now collect backend-specific modules and data files from triton.backends. (#848)

2024.11 (2024-12-23)

New hooks

• Add hook for selectolax to collect its data files. (#841)

Updated hooks

• (Linux) Update torch hook to suppress creation of symbolic links to the top-level application directory for the shared libraries discovered during binary dependency analysis in torch/lib directory. This fixes issues with libtorch_cuda_linalg.so not being found in spite of it being collected, as observed with certain torch builds provided by https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch (e.g., 1.13.1+cu117, 2.0.1+cu117, and 2.1.2+cu118). (#834)
• Update sklearn.tree hook for compatibility with scikit-learn v1.6.0 (add sklearn.tree._partitioner to hidden imports). (#838)

2024.10 (2024-11-10)

New hooks

• Add hook for h3 to collect its metadata (required with h3 v4.0.0 and later). (#825)
• Add hook for numbers_parser to ensure that package's data file is collected. (#823)
• Add hook for sv_ttk to ensure that its resources (.tcl files and images) are collected. (#826)

Updated hooks

• Update falcon hook for compatibility with falcon v4.0.0. (#820)
• Update tensorflow hook to automatically raise recursion limit to 5000 (if not already set to a higher value) in order to avoid recursion limit errors in certain import chains (dependent on build environment and other packages installed in it). (#825)

2024.9 (2024-10-15)

New hooks

• Add a hook for comtypes to ensure compatibility with comtypes >= 1.4.5. (#807)
• Add analysis hook for slixmpp library (#784)
• Add hook for capstone package. (#787)
• Add hook for grapheme to collect its data files. (#793)
• Add hook for onnxruntime to ensure that provider plugins are collected. (#817)
• Add hook for saml2 package which has XSD files and hidden imports. (#798)
• Add hook for setuptools_scm that collects metadata of setuptools dist in order to avoid run-time warning about unknown/incompatible setuptools version. (#805)
• Add hook for ultralytics package. (#786)
• Add hook for xmlschema package which has XSD files. (#797)
• Add hook for yapf_third_party (part of yapf) to collect its data files. (#792)
• Add hooks for toga widget toolkit and its backends. (#804)
• Add run-time hook for findlibs that overrides the findlibs.find function with custom implementation in order to ensure that the top-level application directory is searched first. This prevents a system-wide copy of the library being found and loaded instead of the bundled copy when the system-wide copy happens to be available in one of fixed locations that is scanned by the original implementation of findlibs.find (for example, Homebrew directory on macOS). (#799)

Updated hooks

• (Linux) Update tensorflow hook to suppress creation of symbolic links to the top-level application directory for the following shared libraries discovered during binary dependency analysis: libtensorflow_cc.so.2, libtensorflow_framework.so.2, and _pywrap_tensorflow_internal.so. This fixes run-time discovery of CUDA shared libraries from nvidia.cu* packages. This fix requires PyInstaller >= 6.11 to work, and is no-op in earlier PyInstaller versions. (#786)
• (Linux) Update hooks for nvidia.cu* packages to suppress creation of symbolic links to the top-level application directory for all shared libraries collected from the packages. This fixes run-time discovery of other shared libraries from those packages, which are dynamically loaded at run-time (as opposed to being linked against). Specifically, this fixes the Unable to load any of {libcudnn_engines_precompiled.so.9.1.0, libcudnn_engines_precompiled.so.9.1, libcudnn_engines_precompiled.so.9, libcudnn_engines_precompiled.so} and subsequent RuntimeError: CUDNN_BACKEND_TENSOR_DESCRIPTOR cudnnFinalize failed cudnn_status: CUDNN_STATUS_NOT_INITIALIZED when trying to use ultralytics package. This fix requires PyInstaller >= 6.11 to work, and is no-op in earlier PyInstaller versions. (#786)
• Update av hook for compatibility with av v13.0.0. (#794)
• Update av hook for compatibility with av v13.1.0. (#814)
• Update gribapi hook for compatibility with eccodes v2.37.0, to account for possibility of bundles eccodes shared library, which is provided by newly-introduced binary wheels for Linux and macOS 13+. (#799)
• Update pydicom hook for compatibility with pydicom v.3.0.0. (#796)
• Update xarray hook to collect xarray.chunkmanagers entry-points. (#800)

2024.8 (2024-08-09)

New hooks

• Add a hook for cmocean, which has text data files. (#769)
• Add a hook for pydicom, which has hidden imports. (#776)
• Add a hook for tzwhere, which has data files. (#772)
• Add hook for monai to collect its source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#778)
• Add hooks for itk to work around the package's requirements about the itk/Configuration directory. (#778)
• Added hooks for the trame suite of libraries, which has data files and hidden imports. (#775)

Updated hooks

• Rework the OpenSSL version check in cryptography hook to fix compatibility with cryptography 43.0.0. (#768)
• Update hydra hook to include work-around for hydra's plugin manager, which under python < 3.10 (still) uses deprecated PEP-302 that was removed from PyInstaller's PyiFrozenImporter in PyInstaller 5.8. When building using python < 3.10 and PyInstaller >= 5.8, the modules collected from hydra._internal.core_plugins and hydra_plugins packages are now collected as source .py files only; this way, they are handled by built-in python's finder/importer instead of PyInstaller's PyiFrozenImporter. (#760)
• Update imageio_ffmpeg hook for compatibility with imageio-ffmpeg 0.5.0 and later. (#766)
• Update pyexcel_ods hook to add missing hidden import and add tests. (#779)

Project & Process

• Released sdists and tagged GitHub source archives contain the changelog entries for their current release. (#761)

2024.7 (2024-06-08)

New hooks

• Add hook for dbus_fast in order to collect submodules that are imported from cythonized extensions. (#600)
• Add hook for gribapi package from eccodes dist, in order to collect bundled headers and ensure that the eccodes shared library is collected from the build environment. (#744)
• Add hook for patoolib to collect dynamically-imported modules from the patoolib.programs sub-package. (#748)

Updated hooks

• Extend the xarray hook to collect additional backend plugins that are registered via the xarray.backends entry-point (e.g., cfgrib). (#744)

2024.6 (2024-05-10)

New hooks

• Add hook for schwifty. Requires schwifty >= 2024.5.1 due to issues with data search path in earlier versions. (#742)

2024.5 (2024-04-23)

New hooks

• Add hook for backports package, to accommodate the pkgutil-style backports namespace package provided by backports.functools-lru-cache and the latest release of backports.tarfile. (#735)
• Add hook for opentelemetry that collects all entry-points with opentelemetry_ prefix. (#725)
• Add hook for skimage.metrics to account for lazy loading of the skimage.metrics that was introduced in scikit-image 0.23.0. (#723)
• Add hook for xarray, which ensures that metadata for numpy (required by xarray) is collected. (#728)

Updated hooks

• (Windows) Update pyproj hook to explicitly collect DLLs and load-order file (if present) from pyproj.libs directory. This fixes DLL load failed while importing _network error when using Anaconda python 3.8 or 3.9, where delvewheel (used by pyproj) needs to load DLLs via load-order file due to defunct os.add_dll_directory function. (#726)
• Extend cryptography hook to collect OpenSSL modules (the ossl-modules directory) when available. Add a run-time hook that overrides OpenSSL module search path by setting the OPENSSL_MODULES environment variable to the bundled ossl-modules directory. This fixes RuntimeError: OpenSSL 3.0's legacy provider failed to load. error when using cryptography with OpenSSL >= 3.0 builds that have modules enabled (e.g., most Linux distributions, msys/MinGW on Windows, and Homebrew on macOS). (#724)
• Suppress errors in gcloud hook that occur when the hook is triggered by the gcloud namespace package from gcloud-aio-* and gcloud-rest-* dists instead of the gcloud package from the gcloud dist. (#731)
• Update hook for tables (PyTables) to collect bundled blosc2 shared library, if available. On Windows, explicitly collect DLLs and load-order file (if present) from tables.libs directory. (#732)

2024.4 (2024-04-13)

New hooks

• Add a hook for python-pptx, including required template files. (#719)
• Add hook for cloudpickle to ensure that cloudpickle.cloudpickle_fast is collected when using cloudpickle v3.0.0 or later. (#716)
• Add hook for hexbytes that collects package's metadata (required starting with hexbytes v.1.1.0). (#714)

Updated hooks

• (Windows) Update netCDF4 hook to explicitly collect DLLs and load-order file (if present) from netCDF4.libs directory. This fixes DLL load failed while importing _netCDF4 error when using Anaconda python 3.8 or 3.9, where delvewheel (used by netCDF4) needs to load DLLs via load-order file due to defunct os.add_dll_directory function. (#722)
• Update adbutils hooks for compatibility with adbutils v2.2.2 and later. (#717)
• Update numba hook to ensure that numba.cloudpickle.cloudpickle_fast is collected when using numba v0.59.0 or later. (#716)
• Update tensorflow hooks for compatibility with tensorflow v2.16.0. (#714)

2024.3 (2024-03-09)

Updated hooks

• Update torch hook to add support for MKL-enabled torch builds on Windows (e.g., the nightly 2.3.0.dev20240308+cpu build). The hook now attempts to discover and collect DLLs from MKL and its dependencies (mkl, tbb, intel-openmp). (#712)

2024.2 (2024-02-29)

New hooks

• Add a hook for iso639-lang, to collect data files (#707)
• Add hook for falcon, which has hidden imports. (#703)

Updated hooks

• Update pyqtgraph hook to use the helper for automatic Qt bindings selection and exclusion from PyInstaller >= 6.5 (no-op with earlier versions). This should help preventing multiple Qt bindings from being collected into frozen application. (#710)
• Update the exclude list for GUI frameworks in the IPython hook with additional contemporary Qt bindings (PySide2, PySide6, and PyQt6). (#708)

2024.1 (2024-02-10)

Updated hooks

• Fix hook for osgeo, to include proj data files. (#693)
• Update the hook for sklearn.neighbors to account for removed hidden import neighbors._typedef (#698)

2024.0 (2024-01-18)

New hooks

• Add hook for cel-python. (#687)
• Add hook for eth_keys that collects package metadata for eth-keys >= 0.5.0. (#688)
• Add hook for fairscale to collect its source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#692)
• Add hook for pygwalker that collects data files from the package. (#690)
• Add hook for PyTaskbar (#684)

Updated hooks

• Collect package metadata for eth-hash (fixes PackageNotFoundError). (#688)
• Update pypylon hook for compatibility with PyInstaller 6.0 and later. (#691)

2023.12 (2024-01-03)

New hooks

• Add hook for detectron2 to collect its source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#676)
• Add hook for fastai to collect its source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#676)
• Add hook for fvcore.nn to collect its source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#676)
• Add hook for langchain that collects data files from the package. (#681)
• Add hook for lightning (PyTorch Lightning) to ensure that its version.info data file is collected. (#676)
• Add hook for linear_operator to collect its source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#676)
• Add hook for seedir that collects the words.txt data file from the package. (#681)
• Add hook for timm (Hugging Face PyTorch Image Models) to collect its source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#676)
• Add hook for torchaudio that collects dynamically-loaded extensions, as well as source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#676)
• Add hook for torchtext that collects dynamically-loaded extensions, as well as source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#676)
• Add hook for torchvision.io.image to ensure that dynamically-loaded extension, required by this module, is collected. (#676)
• Add hook for VADER. (#679)
• Add hook for Hugging Face datasets to collect its source .py files for TorchScript/JIT. (#676)
• Add hook for Hugging Face transformers. The hook attempts to automatically collect the metadata of all dependencies (as declared in deps dictionary in the transformers.dependency_versions_table module), in order to make dependencies available at build time visible to transformers at run time. The hook also collects source .py files as some of the package's functionality uses TorchScript/JIT. (#676)
• Add hooks for bitsandbytes, and its dependency triton. Both packages have dynamically-loaded extension libraries that need to be collected, and both require collection of source .py files for (triton's) JIT module. Some submodules of triton need to be collected only as source .py files (bypassing PYZ archive), because the code naively assumes that __file__ attribute points to the source .py file. (#676)
• Add hooks for nvidia.* packages, which provide a way of installing CUDA via PyPI wheels (e.g., nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12). (#676)

Updated hooks

• (Linux) Extend tensorflow hook to automatically collect CUDA libraries distributed via nvidia-* packages (such as nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12) if they are specified among the requirements in the tensorflow distribution's metadata. (#676)
• (Linux) Extend torch hook to automatically collect CUDA libraries distributed via nvidia-* packages (such as nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12) if they are specified among the requirements in the torch distribution's metadata. (#676)
• (Linux) Remove the tensorflow.python._pywrap_tensorflow_internal hack in the tensorflow hook (i.e., adding it to excluded modules to avoid duplication) when using PyInstaller >= 6.0, where the duplication issue is alleviated thanks to the binary dependency analysis preserving the parent directory layout of discovered/collected shared libraries. This should fix the problem with tensorflow builds where the _pywrap_tensorflow_internal module is not used as a shared library, as seen in tensorflow builds for Raspberry Pi. (#676)
• (Linux) Update torch hook to explicitly collect versioned .so files in the new PyInstaller >= 6.0 codepath. (#676)
• Extend tensorflow hook to collect plugins installed in the tensorflow-plugins directory/package. Have the run-time tensorflow hook provide an override for site.getsitepackages() that allows us to work around a broken module file location check and trick tensorflow into loading the collected plugins. (#676)
• Update tensorflow hook to attempt to resolve the top-level distribution name and infer the package version from it, in order to improve version handling when the "top-level" tensorflow dist is not installed (for example, user installs only tensorflow-intel or tensorflow-macos) or has a different name (e.g., tf-nightly). (#676)
• Update tensorflow hook to collect source .py files for tensorflow.python.autograph in order to silence a run-time warning about AutoGraph not being available. (#676)
• Update torchvision hook to collect source .py files for TorchScript/JIT (requires PyInstaller >= 5.3 to take effect). (#676)
• Update hook for skimage.feature to collect the orb_descriptor_positions.txt data file, which is required by the skimage.feature.ORB class. (#675)

Removed hooks

• Remove hook for google.api, which erroneously assumes that presence of the google.api namespace package implies availability of the google-api-core dist. (#682)

2023.11 (2023-12-20)

New hooks

• Add a hook for freetype that collects the shared library that is bundled with freetype-py PyPI wheels. (#674)
• Add a hook for z3c.rml that collects the required subset of Bitstream Vera TTF fonts from the reportlab package. (#674)
• Add hook for eth_rlp. (#672)
• Add hook for eth_typing which requires its package metadata. (#656)
• Add hook for eth_utils to collect its embedded JSON files. (#656)
• Add hook for rlp. (#672)
• Add hook for sspilib that collects submodules of sspilib.raw, most of which are cythonized extensions. (#669)

Updated hooks

• Modernize the hook for torch and reduce the amount of unnecessarily collected data files (header files and static libraries). Requires PyInstaller >= 6.0. (#666)
• Update `pyarrow` hook to collect all of the package's submodules. (#662)
• Update rtree hook for compatibility with Rtree >= 1.1.0. (#657)
• Update sudachipy hook for sudachipy 0.6.8. (#673)

2023.10 (2023-10-13)

New hooks

• Add hook for gmsh. (#650)

Updated hooks

• If nltk_data can be found both in the frozen program and under the default location specified by NLTK, the former should be preferred to the latter. (#646)
• Update skimage hooks for compatibility with scikit-image 0.22.0. (#652)
• Update tensorflow hook for compatibility with tensorflow 2.14.0. (#647)

2023.9 (2023-09-26)

New hooks

• Add hook for LaoNLP. (#644)
• Add hook for PyThaiNLP. (#644)

2023.8 (2023-08-29)

New hooks

• Add hook for eng_to_ipa. (#631)
• Add hook for jieba. (#628)
• Add hook for khmer-nltk. (#633)
• Add hook for Lingua. (#626)
• Add hook for opencc-python. (#627)
• Add hook for pymorphy3. (#634)
• Add hook for python-crfsuite. (#633)
• Add hook for python-mecab-ko. (#632)
• Add hook for simplemma. (#629)
• Add hook for SudachiPy. (#635)
• Add hook for wordcloud. (#630)

Updated hooks

• Fix an issue with enchant 2 using a different directory (in MacPorts) (#636)

2023.7 (2023-08-18)

New hooks

• Add a hook for psutil, which has platform-dependent exclude list. (#623)
• Add hook for CtkMessagebox. (#619)
• Add hook for Litestar (#625)

Updated hooks

• Update graphql_query hook for compatibility with graphql-query v1.2.0. (#621)

2023.6 (2023-07-20)

New hooks

• Add hook for ens package, required by web3 v6.6.0 and later. (#617)
• Add hook for jsonschema_specifications to collect the data files that jsonschema v4.18.0 moved into a separate package. (#614)

2023.5 (2023-07-05)

New hooks

• Add a hook for astropy-iers-data, which includes data. (#608)
• Add a hook for skyfield, which includes data. (#607)

Updated hooks

• Update pydantic hook for compatibility with pydantic v2.0.0. (#611)

2023.4 (2023-06-27)

New hooks

• Add hook for customtkinter (#542)
• Add hook for fastparquet. (#583)
• Add hook for librosa. (#582)
• Add hook for mistune that collects plugin modules, which are indirectly loaded starting with mistune v3.0.0. (#605)
• Add hook for sympy that automatically raises recursion limit to 5000 if sympy >= 1.12 is detected. (#587)
• Add hook for xyzservices. (#590)
• Add hook for pylibmagic (#581)

Updated hooks

• Turn the hook for google.cloud into hook for google.cloud.core by renaming it. This hook is trying to collect metadata for google-cloud-core, whereas google.cloud is a namespace package that can be populated by other dists as well. Specifically, googleapis-common-protos puts some files there, and when google-cloud-core is not installed, the mis-named hook triggered a missing-metadata error. (#605)
• Update cairocffi hook for compatibility with cairocffi v1.6.0. (#599)
• Update netCDF4 hook for compatibility with netCDF4 v1.6.4. (#599)
• Update scikit-image hooks for compatibility with version 0.21.0. (#594)
• Update hook for bokeh to collect metadata for bokeh >= 3.0.0. (#588)
• Update hook for googleapiclient.model, fixing missing discovery docs and improving test. (#596)

2023.3 (2023-05-11)

New hooks

• Add hook for graphql_query (#579)
• Add hook for pylsl (#573)

Updated hooks

• Remove no longer needed py hidden imports for pyshark >= 0.6. (#575)
• Update pydantic hook hidden imports to include the optional dependency email_validator. (#576)

2023.2 (2023-04-07)

New hooks

• Add hooks for moviepy.audio.fx.all and moviepy.video.fx.all that collect all corresponding submodules, so that importing moviepy.editor from MoviePy works out-of-the-box in the frozen application. (#559)

Updated hooks

• Add automatic increase of recursion limit in the torch hook to ensure that recursion limit is at least 5000 if torch 2.0.0 or later is detected. (#570)
• Extend cv2 hook with support for OpenCV built manually from source and for OpenCV installed using the official Windows installer. This support requires PyInstaller >= 5.3 to work properly. (#557)
• Update scikit-image hooks for compatibility with the 0.19.x series; account for lazy module loading in skimage.filters. (#565)
• Update scikit-image hooks for compatibility with the 0.20.x series; account for switch to lazy_module in skimage.data and skimage.filters as well as in main package. Collect new data files that are now required by skimage.morphology. (#565)
• Update the hook for tensorflow to be compatible with TensorFlow 2.12. (#564)

2023.1 (2023-03-16)

Updated hooks

• Add work-around for ffpyplayer 4.3.5 and 4.4.0 trying to use site.USER_BASE, which is None in PyInstaller 5.5 and later due to removal of PyInstaller's fake site module. (#545)
• Add work-around for tensorflow < 2.3.0 trying to use site.USER_SITE, which is None in PyInstaller 5.5 and later due to removal of PyInstaller's fake site module. (#546)
• Prevent pyqtgraph hook from recursing into pyqgraph.examples while scanning for submodules. (#551)
• Update sklearn hooks for compatibility with scikit-learn 1.2.0 and 1.2.1. (#547)

Removed hooks

• Delete hook for yt_dlp which fixed the offending hidden import upstream in yt_dlp>=2022.07.18. (#556)

2023.0 (2023-02-13)

New hooks

• Add hook for minecraft-launcher-lib (#536)
• Add hook for nbt (#537)

Updated hooks

• Have fiona hook collect the package's data files (e.g., the projections database). (#541)
• Update fiona hook for compatibility with fiona 1.9.0. (#541)

2022.15 (2023-01-15)

New hooks

• Add a hook for easyocr, which imports recognition backends via imporlib.import_module() and has a number of datafiles for different languages.

  Users can set which languages to include datafiles for with a hook option. (#530)

• Add hook for charset-normalizer to fix ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'charset_normalizer.md__mypyc'. (#534)

Updated hooks

• Update shapely hook for compatibility with shapely >= 2.0.0. (#527)

Project & Process

• Added hooks-config.rst document which documents hook options. It is referred to from README.md. (#530)

2022.14 (2022-12-04)

New hooks

• Add hook for cf_units. (#521)
• Add hook for cftime. (#521)
• Add hook for compliance_checker. (#521)

Updated hooks

• Update netCDF4 hook for compatibility with v1.4.0 and later, where netcdftime has been renamed to cftime. (#521)
• Update pydantic hook to include dotenv optional dependency. (#524)

2022.13 (2022-11-08)

Updated hooks

• Update pyproj hook for compatibility with pyproj v3.4.0. (#505)

2022.12 (2022-11-05)

New hooks

• Add hook for discid. (#506)
• Add hook for exchangelib. (#508)

2022.11 (2022-10-27)

New hooks

• Add a hook for spiceypy, which has binary files. (#482)
• Added a hook for ldfparser. (#483)

Updated hooks

• Extend the sounddevice and soundfile hooks to collect system-installed shared libraries in cases when the libraries are not bundled with the package (i.e., linux PyPI wheels, Anaconda on all OSes). (#487)
• Fix a TypeError raised by the clr hook when pythonnet dist lacks the file list metadata. (#486)
• Have clr hook check for availability of the pythonnet before trying to query its metadata. Fixes an importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError raised by the clr hook when the hook is triggered by a module or a package named clr other than the clr extension module from pythonnet. (#486)
• Have the pyqtgraph hook collect the colormap files and their license files from the package. (#501)
• Implement preliminary support for handling subprocesses used by pyqtgraph.multiprocess, for example in pyqtgraph RemoteGraphicsView widget. The user is still required to ensure that stdlib's multiprocessing.freeze_support is called in the entry-point script before using pyqtgraph. In addition, with onefile builds, the user must set the _MEIPASS2 environment variable to the value of sys._MEIPASS before using pyqtgraph. (#501)
• In clr hook for pythonnet collect the Python.Runtime.dll as a data file on non-Windows OSes to prevent errors during binary dependency analysis. (#500)

2022.10 (2022-08-31)

New hooks

• Add geopandas data files for geopandas==0.10.2. (#400)

2022.9 (2022-08-26)

New hooks

• Add hook for Hydra config system (hydra-core). (#424)

Updated hooks

• Fixed pyqtgraph hook for PyInstaller 5.2. (#465)
• Update cv2 hook to add support for versions that attempt to perform module substitution via sys.path manipulation (== 4.5.4.58, >= 4.6.0.66) when used in combination with PyInstaller that supports setting module collection mode in hooks (> 5.2). The contents of the cv2 package are now collected in source form to bypass PYZ archive and avoid compatibility issues with PyInstaller's FrozenImporter (#468)
• Update pyshark hook to be compatible with versions >=0.5.2. (#477)
• Update pywintypes and pythoncom hooks for compatibility with upcoming changes in PyInstaller's attempt at preserving DLL parent directory structure. (#474)
• Update tensorflow hook to opt-out of generating warnings for missing hidden imports, using hook variable introduced in PyInstaller >= 5.2. On earlier releases, this is no-op. (#458)

2022.8 (2022-07-08)

New hooks

• Add hook for great_expectations. (#445)
• Add hook for hdf5plugin. (#461)
• Add hook for pandas_flavor to handle hidden imports in version 0.3.0 of the package. (#455)
• Add hook for pyshark. (#449)

Updated hooks

• (Linux) Ensure that OpenCV hook collects Qt plugins and font files that are bundled with linux versions of opencv-python PyPI wheels. (#453)
• Fix tensorflow not being collected at all when using tensorflow 2.8.0 or newer and importing only from the tensorflow.keras subpackage. (#451)
• Update clr (pythonnet-2.5.x) hook to ensure platform and warnings modules are collected via hidden imports. Starting with PyInstaller 5.1, these may not be collected as part of optional imports of other modules, so they need to be explicitly collected by this hook. (#444)
• Update mariadb hook for compatibility with 1.1.x series. (#463)
• Update scikit-learn hooks for compatibility with 1.0.x and 1.1.x series. (#456)

2022.7 (2022-06-07)

New hooks

• Add a hook for limits, which has a data files to collect. (#442)
• Add hook for yt_dlp to handle indirect import in yt-dlp v2022.05.18. (#438)
• Add libraries for pypemicro==0.1.9 (#417)

Updated hooks

• Update weasyprint hook with required binaries. (#439)

2022.6 (2022-05-26)

Updated hooks

• Fix the filter function used with collect_submodules in the pylint hook to properly exclude pylint.testutils. (#435)
• Update sounddevice and soundfile hooks for PyInstaller 5.1 compatibility. (#432)

2022.5 (2022-05-16)

New hooks

• Add a hook for numcodecs, which has a hidden import. (#420)
• Add hook for grpc roots.pem file which is used by grpc. (#419)
• Add hook for python-stdnum. (#412)

Updated hooks

• Update mariadb hook to always include the decimal module as a hidden import, instead of implicitly relying on it being picked up due to import in some other, unrelated module. (#426)

2022.4 (2022-04-17)

New hooks

• Add a hook for clr_loader (used by upcoming pythonnet 3.x) that collects the DLLs required by the default runtime (.NET Framework) loader on Windows. (#406)
• Add a hook for lark (used by commentjson and others) that loads the needed grammar files. (#409)
• Add fiona hidden imports for fiona==1.8.21. (#399)

Updated hooks

• Update the av hook for compatibility with the new DLL directory layout used by Windows PyPI wheels from version 9.1.1 on. (#408)

2022.3 (2022-03-24)

New hooks

• Add a hook for altair, which has data files. (#387)
• Add a hook for cassandra, which has Cython files. (#391)
• Add a hook for fabric, which has data files. (#390)
• Add a hook for gitlab, which has data files. (#392)

Updated hooks

• Update shapely hooks with compatibility fixes for version 1.8.1, where PyPI wheels have changed the shipped libgeos_c shared library location and/or name. (#394)
• Update imageio hooks to include the lazily-loaded plugins submodule. (#396)

2022.2 (2022-02-15)

Updated hooks

• Fix hook for azurerm when pyinstaller >= 4.4". (#283)
• Fix hook for astropy when astropy >= 5.0. (#381)

2022.1 (2022-02-10)

New hooks

• Add a hook for py which has dynamically loaded vendored submodules. This fixes compatibility with pytest >= 7.0.0. (#376)
• Added a hook for orjson, which has hidden imports. (#378)

2022.0 (2022-01-24)

New hooks

• Add a hook for pypsexec, which has a data files. (#366)

Updated hooks

• Update tensorflow hook to add support for tensorflow 2.6.x and later. (#371)

Test-suite and Continuous Integration

• Add a test for mimesis hook. (#367)

2021.5 (2022-01-07)

New hooks

• Add a hook for mimesis, which has a data files. (#365)

Updated hooks

• Add a runtime hook for pygraphviz that modifies the search behavior for graphviz programs, in order to ensure that the collected programs in sys._MEIPASS are found and used. (#357)

2021.4 (2021-11-29)

New hooks

• Add a hook for adbutils to collect dynamic libraries. (#323)
• Add a hook for branca to collect data files. (#318)
• Add a hook for dash to collect data files required by the new dash v2.0. (#314)
• Add a hook for doc2xpdf to collect qss data files. (#310)
• Add a hook for ffpyplayer. (#348)
• Add a hook for pyppeteer. (#329)
• Add a hook for pyvjoy to collect dynamic libraries. (#321)
• Add a hook for qtmodern to collect qss data files. (#305)
• Add a hook for tableauhyperapi to collect dynamic libraries. (#316)
• Add a hook for websockets which lazily loads its submodules. (#301)
• Add hook for folium. (#62)
• Add hook for metpy. (#60)
• Add hook for panel. (#338)
• Add hook for platformdirs. This in turn fixes compatibility with pylint >= 2.10.2. (#301)
• Add hook for pymediainfo. (#324)
• Add hook for pyviz_comms. (#338)
• Add hook for sacremoses. (#325)
• Add hook for tzdata. (#339)
• Add hooks for cairocffi and CairoSVG. (#347)
• Add hooks for pyphen and kaleido. (#345)
• Add hooks for zoneinfo and backports.zoneinfo. (#339)

Updated hooks

• Removed the certifi run-time hook because it was not required for certifi to function in a frozen application. It was sometimes setting the SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable which causes applications to behave differently when frozen. In particular the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method loads the certificates from certifi when the SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable is set. (#335)
• Update cv2 hook to collect extra config files and modules for compatibility with OpenCV 4.5.4.60. (#354)
• Update markdown hook to include package metadata, enabling the use of short names for built-in extensions, such as extra or toc. (#336)
• Update hiddenimports for APScheduler > 3.8.0. (#333)
• Update hiddenimports for pymssql > 2.1.5. (#315)

2021.3 (2021-08-25)

New hooks

• Add a hook for dash-uploader to collect data files (#280)
• Add a hook for langdetect to collect data files. (#285)
• Add a hook for mariadb to collect hidden imports. (#279)
• Add a hook for mnemonic to collect data files (#284)
• Add a hook for msoffcrypto to collect metadata. (#139)
• Add a hook for pingouin to collect data files. (#292)
• Add a hook for pystray to collect hidden imports. (#288)
• Add a hook for rtree to collect dynamic libraries. (#291)
• Add a hook for shotgun_api3 to collect data files and hidden imports. (#138)
• Add a hook for swagger_spec_validator to collect data files. (#296)
• Add a hook for timezonefinder to collect data files. (#294)
• Add a hook for uvicorn to collect data files. (#300)
• Add a hook for cloudscraper to collect data files (#281)
• Add a hook for pynput to collect hidden imports. (#287)
• Added a standard hook for SunPy. (#134)
• Added hook to get data for the parso package (needed for IPython autocomplete) (#275)

Updated hooks

• Update clr hook to set the correct path for pythonnet 3.0 (#295)
• Update scikit-learn and scikit-image hooks to perform version checks based on distribution name instead of package name, to prevent failures when sklearn dummy distribution is installed. (#276)
• Fix harmless missing modules warnings when using scikit-learn >= 0.22 (#276).

2021.2 (2021-06-26)

New hooks

• Add a hook for Azurerm which is using pkg_resources internally. (#123)

• Add a hook for Office365-REST-Python-Client which uses data files in some methods (#125)

• Add a hook for spacy which contains hidden imports and data files (#1)

• Add a standard hook for PyPylon. (#114)

• Add hook for blspy that collects MPIR DLLs on Windows. (#119)

• Add hook for flirpy that collects data files on Windows. (#120)

• Add hook for jsonrpcserver to collect missing request-schema.json data file. (#126)

• Add hook for plotly to collect data files and hidden pandas, cmath, and plotly.validator imports

  Add hooks for dash and related packages to collect data files and hook for meta-data from flask-compress

  Add hook for dash_bootstrap_components to collect data files (#103)

• Add hook for pyttsx3 whose drivers are hidden imports. (#101)

• Add hook for srsly.msgpack._packer which contains a hidden import (#3)

• Add hook for humanize to include required metadata. (#122)

• Add hooks for thinc and thinc.banckends.numpy_ops which contain data files and hidden imports (#2)

• Added a hook for statsmodels, which adds statsmodels.tsa.statespace as a hidden import (#100)

Updated hooks

• (Windows) Update zmq hook for compatibility with new shared libraries location in Windows build of pyzmq 22.0.0 and later. (#98)
• Add `googleapiclient.discovery` json files to work with services like Blogger v3 on the `build()` method. (#97)
• Remove win32ctypes.core hook, as an improved copy is provided as part of main PyInstaller's hooks collection. (#124)
• Update scikit-image hooks for compatibility with 0.18.x series. (#107)
• Update scikit-learn hooks for compatibility with 0.24.x series. (#108)
• Update hook for PyPylon to include data files. (#116)
• Update the hook for pycountry to copy metadata, in addition to collecting data files. (#113)

2021.1 (2021-03-07)

New hooks

• Add a hook for googleapiclient.model that collects the required metadata from the google-api-python-client package. (#82)
• Add hook for pyqtgraph. (#88)
• Add hook for rpy2. (#87)
• Added a hook for 'pdfminer.six' library (#83)
• Added a hook for the 'pygraphviz' library (#86)

Updated hooks

• Add missing dataclasses hidden import to pydantic hook. Add missing distutils.version hidden import to pydantic hook for versions of pydantic prior to 1.4. (#81)
• Update pydantic hook for compatibility with v.1.8.0 and later. (#90)

2020.11 (2020-12-21)

New hooks

• Add a hook for gcloud which requires its distribution metadata. (#68)
• Add a hook for prettytable which requires its distribution metadata. (#77)
• Add hook for pydantic to improve support for its extension-compiled distribution (default on PyPi). (#78)
• Add hook for torchvision.ops to ensure that the required extension module (torchvision._C) is collected. (#80)
• Add hook for afmformats. (#69)
• Add hook for ijson which has dynamically loaded backends. (#64)
• Add hook for lxml which has hidden imports. (#66)
• Collect metadata and data files for countryinfo to support version 0.1.2. (#76)

Updated hooks

• (Windows) Fix the win32com pre-safe-import hook to avoid printing the ModuleNotFoundError when the module is not available. (#67)
• Add default enabled sentry integrations dynamically to hidden imports. (#71)
• Update pyproj hook to improve compatibility across different versions of pyproj (from 2.1.3 to 3.0.0). (#70)

2020.10 (2020-10-29)

New hooks

• (Windows) Add a hook for win32ctypes.core. (#58)

Updated hooks

• (Windows) Avoid collecting tensorflow import libraries. (#55)
• Avoid collecting non-functional zmq.backend.cffi backend in the zmq hook, and thus also prevent an attempt at compilation of its C extension during module collection. (#59)
• Change hook for tinycss2, no longer needed after version 1.0.0. (#54)
• Compatibility fix for markdown 3.3. (#56)
• Update hooks for scikit-learn. Supported versions are 0.21.x, 0.22.x, and 0.23.x. (#53)

2020.9 (2020-10-02)

New hooks

• Add a hook for flask_restx which contains template data files. (#48)
• Add hooks for skimage.feature and skimage.graph to fix issues with missing imports. (#52)

Updated hooks

• Fix shared library duplication in tensorflow v.2.3. Avoid packaging unnecessary data files (e.g., development headers) on all tensorflow versions. (#50)
• Fix the tensorflow hook to be compatible across tensorflow versions from <1.15.0 up to 2.3.0 (current latest). (#46)

2020.8 (2020-09-12)

New hooks

• Add a hook for iminuit which has hidden imports. (#26)
• Add a hook for publicsuffix2 which has some data files. (#40)
• Add a hook for pyav(av) which has hidden imports. (#29)
• Add a hook for pydivert which has some data files. (#41)
• Add a hook for pyproj which has some data files. (#33)
• Add a hook for spnego which has hidden imports. (#37)

Updated hooks

• Add a missing hidden import for passlib. (#39)

2020.7 (2020-08-09)

New hooks

• Add a hook for gmplot, which has some data files. (#21)
• Add a hook for tinycss2, which is missing data files. (#16)
• Add a hook for workflow, which is missing version information contained in metadata. (#17)
• Add hook for AnyIO which dynamically imports its backend modules. (#22)
• Add hook for APScheduler which requires entry points and dynamic imports. (#23)
• Add hook for trimesh which requires importing resource files. (#25)

Updated hooks

• Rewrite the hooks for PyPubSub and wx.lib.pubsub so they work properly.

2020.6 (2020-07-21)

New hooks

• Add a hook for html-testRunner, which has a hidden import. (#8)
• Add a hook for parsedatetime, which has hidden imports. (#11)
• Add hook for dask, which includes .yaml data files. (#12)

Updated hooks

• (Windows) cv2: bundle the opencv_videoio_ffmpeg*.dll, if available. (#13)

2020.5 (2020-06-28)

No significant changes.

2020.4 (2020-06-28)

New hooks

• Adding a hook for sentry which has hidden imports for its integrations (#7)

2020.3 (2020-06-21)

New hooks

• Add a hook for eel, which needs to pull in eel.js and an extra library. (#6)
• Add a hook for sklearn, which needs a dynamic library including. (#5)
• Add hook for jinxed, which has hidden backends.