1.64.1 (14-May-2024)

• Bugfix: Solved inefficiency in conan info that could make the command order of magnitude slower in slow drive systems with large dependency graphs. (#16236)

2.3.0 (06-May-2024)

• Feature: Allow * wildcard as subsetting in in rm_safe. (#16105). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Show recipe and package sizes when running conan upload. (#16103)
• Feature: Extend conan version to report current python and system for troubleshooting. (#16102). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add detect_xxxx_compiler() for mainstream compilers as gcc, msvc, clang. to the public detect_api. (#16092). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add comment support for .conanignore file. (#16087)
• Feature: In graph html search bar now takes in multiple search patterns separated by commas. (#16083)
• Feature: In graph html added 'filter packages' bar that takes in multiple search patterns separated by comma and hides filters them from graph. (#16083)
• Feature: Add an argument hide_url to Git operations to allow logging of the repository URL. By default, URLs will stay <hidden>, but users may opt-out of this. (#16038)
• Feature: Allow .conf access (exclusively to global.conf information, not to profile information) in the export() and export_sources() methods. (#16034). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Avoid copying identical existing files in copy(). (#16031)
• Feature: New conan pkglist merge command to merge multiple package lists. (#16022). Docs: 📃
• Feature: New conan pkglist find-remote command to find matching in remotes for list of packages in the cache. (#16022). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Relativize paths in CMakePresets generation. (#16015)
• Feature: Add new test_package_folder attribute to conanfile.py to define a different custom location and name rather than test_package default. (#16013). Docs: 📃
• Feature: New conan create --test-missing syntax to optionally run the test_package only when the package is actually created (useful with --build=missing). (#15999). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add tools.gnu:build_triplet to conf. (#15965)
• Feature: Add --exist-ok argument to conan profile detect to not fail if the profile already exists, without overwriting it. (#15933)
• Feature: MesonToolchain can generate a native file if native=True (only makes sense when cross-building). (#15919). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Meson helper injects native and cross files if both exist. (#15919). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add support for meson subproject. (#15916). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Added transparent support for running Conan within a Docker container. (#15856). Docs: 📃
• Fix: Allow defining CC=/usr/bin/cc (and for CXX) for conan profile detect auto-detection. (#16187)
• Fix: Solve issue in pyinstaller.py script, it will no longer install pip install pyinstaller, having it installed will be a precondition (#16186)
• Fix: Use backslash in CMake helper for the CMakeLists.txt folder, fixes issue when project is in the drive root, like X: (#16180)
• Fix: Allowing conan editable remove <path> even when the path has been already deleted. (#16170)
• Fix: Fix conan new --help formatting issue. (#16155)
• Fix: Improved error message when there are conflicts in the graph. (#16137)
• Fix: Improve error message when one URL is not a valid server but still returns 200-ok under a Conan "ping" API call. (#16126)
• Fix: Solve sqlite3 issues in FreeBSD due to queries with double quotes. (#16123)
• Fix: Clean error message for conan cache restore <non-existing-file>. (#16113)
• Fix: Improve UX and error messages when a remotes or credentials file in the cache is invalid/empty. (#16091)
• Fix: Use cc executable in Linux systems for autodetect compiler (conan profile detect and detect_api). (#16074)
• Fix: Improve the definition of version ranges UX with better error message for invalid ==, ~=, ^= operators. (#16069)
• Fix: Improve error message UX when incorrect settings.yml or settings_user.yml. (#16065)
• Fix: Print a warning for Python 3.6 usage which is EOL since 2021. (#16003)
• Fix: Remove duplicated printing of command line in Autotools helper. (#15991)
• Fix: Add response error message output to HTTP Status 401 Errors in FileDownloader. (#15983)
• Fix: Add gcc 14 to default settings.yml. (#15958)
• Fix: Make VCVars use the compiler.update to specify the toolset. (#15947)
• Fix: Add rc to AutotoolsToolchain mapping of compiler_executables for cross-build Linux->Windows. (#15946)
• Fix: Add Pop!_OS to the distros using apt-get as system package manager. (#15931)
• Fix: Do not warn with package names containing the - character. (#15920)
• Fix: Fix html escaping of new --format=html graph output, and pass the graph serialized object instead of the string. (#15915)
• Bugfix: Make MesonToolchain listen to tools.build:defines conf variable. (#16172). Docs: 📃
• Bugfix: Disallow self.cpp_info access in validate_build() method. (#16135)
• Bugfix: Don't show a trace when .conanrc's conan_home is invalid. (#16134)
• Bugfix: Avoid the propagation of transitive dependencies of tool_requires to generators information even if they are marked as visible=True. (#16077)
• Bugfix: BazelDeps now uses the requirement.build property instead of dependency.context one. (#16025)
• Bugfix: Make conan cache restore work correctly when restoring over a package already in the local cache. (#15950)

2.2.3 (17-Apr-2024)

• Fix: Fix to_apple_archs method when using architectures from settings_user. (#16090)

1.64.0 (04-Apr-2024)

• Feature: Add --output-folder to export-pkg command to be used when layout() is declared. (#15741). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Promote cppstd_flag in the new conan.tools.build module. (#15731). Docs: 📃
• Feature: conan.tools.meson helper requires meson >= 0.57.0. (#15706). Docs: 📃
• Fix: Fix flags passed by AutotoolsToolchain when cross compiling from macOS to a non-Apple OS. Backported from Conan 2. (#15948)
• Fix: Avoiding reconfigure process. Using --destdir param instead. Deprecated reconfigure param in Meson.configure() function. (#15706). Docs: 📃

2.2.2 (25-Mar-2024)

• Fix: Avoid issues with recipe print(..., file=fileobj). (#15934)
• Fix: Fix broken calls to print(x, file=y) with duplicate keyword arguments. (#15912)
• Bugfix: Fix handling of tools.build:defines for multiconfig CMake. (#15924)

2.2.1 (20-Mar-2024)

• Fix: Add copytree_compat method for compatibility with Python>=3.12 after distutils removal. (#15906)

2.2.0 (20-Mar-2024)

• Feature: Raise for toolchains different than CMakeToolchain if using universal binary syntax. (#15896)
• Feature: Warn on misplaced requirement function calls (#15888)
• Feature: Print options conflicts in the graph caused by different branches recipes defining options values. (#15876). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add macOS versions 14.2, 14.3, 14.4 to settings.yml. (#15859). Docs: 📃
• Feature: New graph html: more information, test-requires, hiding/showing different packages (build, test). (#15846). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add --backup-sources flag to conan cache clean. (#15845)
• Feature: Add conan graph outdated command that lists the dependencies that have newer versions in remotes (#15838). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Set CMAKE_VS_DEBUGGER_ENVIRONMENT from CMakeToolchain to point to all binary directories when using Visual Studio. This negates the need to copy DLLs to launch executables from the Visual Studio IDE (requires CMake 3.27 or newer). (#15830). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add a parameter to trim_conandata to avoid raising an exception when conandata.yml file doesn't exist. (#15829). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Added build_context_folder to PkgConfigDeps. (#15813). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Included build.pkg_config_path in the built-in options section in the MesonToolchain template. (#15813). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Update _meson_cpu_family_map to support arm64ec. (#15812)
• Feature: Added support for Clang 18. (#15806). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add basic support in CMakeToolchain for universal binaries. (#15775). Docs: 📃
• Feature: New tools.cmake.cmake_layout:build_folder config that allows re-defining cmake_layout local build-folder. (#15767). Docs: 📃
• Feature: New tools.cmake.cmake_layout:test_folder config that allows re-defining cmake_layout output build folder for test_package, including a $TMP placeholder to create a temporary folder in system tmp. (#15767). Docs: 📃
• Feature: (Experimental) Add conan config install-pkg myconf/[*] new configuration inside Conan packages with new package_type = "configuration". (#15748). Docs: 📃
• Feature: (Experimental) New core.package_id:config_mode that allows configuration package reference to affect the package_id of all packages built with that configuration. (#15748). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Make cppstd_flag public to return the corresponding C++ standard flag based on the settings. (#15710). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Allow self.name and self.version in build_folder_vars attribute and conf. (#15705). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add conan list --filter-xxx arguments to list package binaries that match settings+options. (#15697). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add detect_libc to the detect_api to get the name and version of the C library. (#15683). Docs: 📃
• Feature: New CommandAPI subapi in the ConanAPI that allows calling other commands. (#15630). Docs: 📃
• Fix: Avoid unnecessary build of tool_requires when --build=missing and repeated tool_requires. (#15885)
• Fix: Fix CMakeDeps set_property(... APPEND argument order. (#15877)
• Fix: Raising an error when an infinite loop is found in the install graph (ill-formed dependency graph with loops). (#15835)
• Fix: Make sure detect_default_compiler() always returns a 3-tuple. (#15832)
• Fix: Print a clear message for conan graph explain when no binaries exist for one revision. (#15823)
• Fix: Add package_type="static-library" to the conan new msbuild_lib template. (#15807)
• Fix: Avoid platform_requires to fail when explicit options are being passed via requires(.., options={}). (#15804)
• Fix: Make CMakeToolchain end with newline. (#15788)
• Fix: Do not allow conan list binary filters or package query if a binary pattern is not provided. (#15781)
• Fix: Avoid CMakeToolchain.preprocessor_definition definitions to "None" literal string when it has no value (Python None). (#15756)
• Fix: Improved conan install <path> --deployer-package=* case that was crashing when using self.package_folder. (#15737)
• Fix: Fix conan graph info --format=html for large dependency graphs. (#15724)
• Fix: Make all recipe and plugins python file print() to stderr, so json outputs to stdout are not broken. (#15704)
• Fix: Fix getting the gnu triplet for Linux x86. (#15699)
• Bugfix: Solve backslash issues with conan_home_folder in global.conf when used in strings inside lists. (#15870)
• Bugfix: Fix CMakeDeps multi-config when there are conditional dependencies on the build_type. (#15853)
• Bugfix: Move get_backup_sources() method to expected CacheAPI from UploadAPI. (#15845)
• Bugfix: Avoid TypeError when a version in conandata.yml lists no patches. (#15842)
• Bugfix: Solve package_type=build-scripts issue with lockfiles and conan create. (#15802)
• Bugfix: Allow --channel command line argument if the recipe specifies user attribute. (#15794)
• Bugfix: Fix cross-compilation to Android from Windows when using MesonToolchain. (#15790)
• Bugfix: Fix CMakeToolchain GENERATOR_TOOLSET when compiler.update is defined. (#15789)
• Bugfix: Solved evaluation of conf items when they matched a Python module (#15779)
• Bugfix: Fix PkgConfigDeps generating .pc files for its tool_requires when it is in the build context already. (#15763)
• Bugfix: Adding VISIBILITY flags to CONAN_C_FLAGS too. (#15762)
• Bugfix: Fix conan profile show --format=json for profiles with scoped confs. (#15747)
• Bugfix: Fix legacy usage of update argument in Conan API. (#15743)
• Bugfix: Solve broken profile [conf] when strings contains Windows backslash. (#15727)
• Bugfix: Fix version precendence for metadata version ranges. (#15653)

2.1.0 (15-Feb-2024)

• Feature: Implement multi-config tools.build:xxxx flags in CMakeToolchain. (#15654)
• Feature: Add ability to pass patterns to --update flag. (#15652). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add --format=json formatter to conan build. (#15651)
• Feature: Added tools.build.cross_building:cross_build to decide whether cross-building or not regardless of the internal Conan mechanism. (#15616)
• Feature: Add --format=json option to conan cache path. (#15613)
• Feature: Add the --order-by argument for conan graph build-order. (#15602). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Provide a new graph build-order --reduce argument to reduce the order exclusively to packages that need to be built from source. (#15573). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add configuration to specify desired CUDA Toolkit in CMakeToolchain for Visual Studio CMake generators. (#15572). Docs: 📃
• Feature: New "important" options values definition, with higher precedence over regular option value definitions. (#15571). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Display message when calling deactivate_conanvcvars. (#15557)
• Feature: Add self.info information of package_id to serialized output in the graph, and forward it to package-lists. (#15553). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Log Git tool commands when running in verbose mode. (#15514)
• Feature: Add verbose debug information (with -vvv) for conan.tools.files.copy() calls. (#15513)
• Feature: Define python_requires = "tested_reference_str" for explicit test_package of python_requires. (#15485). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Adding CMakeToolchain.presets_build/run_environment to modify CMakePresets environment in generate() method. (#15470). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add --allowed-packges to remotes to limit what references a remote can supply. (#15464). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Initial documentation to make RemotesAPI publicly available (experimental). (#15462)
• Feature: Add support for use of vcvars env variables when calling from powershell. (#15461). Docs: 📃
• Feature: New Git(..., excluded=[]) feature to avoid "dirty" errors in Git helper. (#15457). Docs: 📃
• Feature: New core.scm:excluded feature to avoid "dirty" errors in Git helper and revision_mode = "scm". (#15457). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Recipe python_package_id_mode for python_requires recipes, to define per-recipe effect on consumers package_id. (#15453). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add cmakeExecutable to configure preset. (#15447). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add new --core-conf command line argument to allow passing core. confs via CLI. (#15441). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add detect_api.detect_msvc_update(version) helper to detect_api. (#15435). Docs: 📃
• Feature: CMakeToolchain defines jobs in generated CMakePresets.json buildPresets. (#15422)
• Feature: Allow nested "ANY" definitions in settings.yml. (#15415). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Helpers Git().coordinates_to_conandata() and Git().checkout_from_conandata_coordinates() to simplify scm based flows. (#15377)
• Feature: AutotoolsToolchain automatically inject -FS for VS. (#15375)
• Feature: New conan upload core.upload:parallel for faster parallel uploads. (#15360). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Intel oneAPI compiler detection improvement. (#15358)
• Feature: Display progress for long conan list commands. (#15354)
• Feature: Add extension_properties attribute to pass information to extensions from recipes. (#15348). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Implement compatibility_cppstd in extension_properties for the compatibility.py plugin to disable fallback to other cppstd for the recipe. (#15348). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add Git.get_commit(..., repository=True) to obtain the repository commit, not the folder commit. (#15304)
• Feature: Ensure --build=editable and --build=cascade works together. (#15300). Docs: 📃
• Feature: New conan graph build-order --order=configuration to output a different order, sorted by package binaries/configurations, not grouped by recipe revisions. (#15270). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Allow copy&paste of recipe revisions with timestamps from --format=compact into conan lock add. (#15262). Docs: 📃
• Fix: Guarantee order of generators attribute execution. (#15678)
• Fix: Solve issue with [platform_tool_requires] in the build profile and context. Discard [platform_requires] in build profile. (#15665)
• Fix: Fix gcc detection in conda environments. (#15664)
• Fix: Improve handling of .dirty download files when uploading backup sources. (#15601)
• Fix: Fix relativize paths in generated files. (#15592)
• Fix: Allow None values for CMakeToolchain.preprocessor_definitions that will map to definitions without values. (#15545). Docs: 📃
• Fix: Fix graph build-order --order=configuration text format output. (#15538)
• Fix: Raise a helpful error when the remote is not reachable in case the user wants to work in offline mode. (#15516)
• Fix: Avoid missing file stacktrace when no metadata exists for a source backup. (#15501)
• Fix: Remove --lockfile-packages argument, it was not documented as it is was not intended for public usage. (#15499). Docs: 📃
• Fix: Raise if check_type=int and conf value is set to bool. (#15378)
• Fix: Add pkg-config entry to machine file generated by MesonToolchain, due to pkgconfig entry being deprecated since Meson 1.3.0. (#15369)
• Fix: Fix graph explain not showing some differences in requirements if missing. (#15355)
• Fix: Fix tools.info.package_id:confs when pattern did not match any defined conf. (#15353)
• Fix: Fix upload_policy=skip with --build=missing issues. (#15336)
• Fix: Accept conan download/upload --list=.. --only-recipe to download only the recipes. (#15312)
• Fix: Allow cmake.build(build_type="Release") for recipes built with multi-config systems but without build_type setting. (#14780)
• Bugfix: Fix MSBuildDeps with components and skipped dependencies. (#15626)
• Bugfix: Avoid provides raising an error for packages that self tool_requires to themselves to cross-build. (#15575)
• Bugfix: Fix build scope OS detection in tools.microsoft.visual.VCVars. (#15568)
• Bugfix: Fix wrong propagation over visible=False when dependency is header-only. (https://github.com/conan...

1.63.0 (12-Feb-2024)

• Feature: Improved get_libs algorithm for BazelDeps. (#15299)
• Feature: Changed shared lib name in conan-new templates. (#15299)
• Feature: Add tracking of different ref to <host_version>. (#15287). Docs: 📃
• Fix: Adding a workaround to avoid tqdm failing on macOS. (#15628)
• Bugfix: BazelDeps._get_libs() was gathering binary names. (#15410)
• Bugfix: Non-visible transitive dependencies are not included in the requires (PkgConfigDeps). (#15320)
• Bugfix: from_old_cppinfo helper checks if the old cpp_info is not None before merging. (#15320)
• Bugfix: Fix NMakeDeps quoting issues. (#15288)
• Bugfix: Make <host_version> only track for same user/channel. (#15287). Docs: 📃

2.0.17 (10-Jan-2024)

• Fix: Automatically create folder if conan cache save --file=subfolder/file.tgz subfolder doesn't exist. (#15409)
• Bugfix: Fix libcxx detection when using CC/CXX env vars. (#15418). Docs: 📃
• Bugfix: Solve winsdk_version bug in CMakeToolchain generator for cmake_minimum_required(3.27). (#15373)
• Bugfix: Fix visible trait propagation with build=True trait. (#15357)
• Bugfix: Fix package_id calculation when including conf values thru tools.info.package_id:confs. (#15356)
• Bugfix: Order conf items when dumping them to allow reproducible package_id independent of the order the confs were declared. (#15356)