(+ user visible changes, * internal stuff)

PyInstaller 1.3

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 + Fix bug with user-provided icons disappearing from built executables

   when these were compressed with UPX.

 + Fix problems with packaging of applications using PIL (that was broken

   because of a bug in Python's import machinery, in recent Python

   versions). Also add a workaround including Tcl/Tk with PIL unless

   ImageTk is imported.

 + (Windows) When used under Windows XP, packaged programs now have

   the correct look & feel and follow user's themes (thanks to the manifest

   file being linked within the generated executable). This is especially

   useful for applications using wxPython.

 + Fix a buffer overrun in the bootloader (which could lead to a crash)

   when the built executable is run from within a deep directory (more than

   70-80 characters in the pathname).

 * Bootstrap modules are now compressed in the executable (so that they

   are not visible in plaintext by just looking at it with a hex editor).

 * Fixed a regression introduced in 1.1: under Linux, the bootloader does

   not depend on libpythonX.X.so anymore.

PyInstaller 1.2

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 + Fix a crash when invoking UPX with certain kinds of builds.

 + Fix icon support by re-adding a resource section in the bootloader

   executable.

PyInstaller 1.1

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 + (Windows) Make single-file packages not depend on MSVCRT71.DLL anymore,

   even under Python 2.4. You can eventually ship your programs really as

   single-file executables, even when using the newest Python version!

 + Fix problem with incorrect python path detection. Now using helpers from

   distutils.

 + Fix problem with rare encodings introduced in newer Python versions: now all

   the encodings are automatically found and included, so this problem should

   be gone forever.

 + Fix building of COM servers (was broken in 1.0 because of the new build

   system).

 + Mimic Python 2.4 behaviour with broken imports: sys.modules is cleaned up

   afterwise. This allows to package SQLObject applications under Windows

   with Python 2.4 and above.

 + Add import hook for the following packages:

     + GTK

     + PyOpenGL (tested 2.0.1.09)

     + dsnpython (tested 1.3.4)

     + KInterasDB (courtesy of Eugene Prigorodov)

 + Fix packaging of code using "time.strptime" under Python 2.3+.

 + (Linux) Ignore linux-gate.so while calculating dependencies (fix provided

   by Vikram Aggarwal).

 + (Windows) With Python 2.4, setup UPX properly so to be able to compress

   binaries generated with Visual Studio .NET 2003 (such as most of the

   extensions). UPX 1.92+ is needed for this.

PyInstaller 1.0 (with respect to McMillan's Python Installer 5b5):

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 + Add support for Python 2.3 (fix packaging of codecs).

 + Add support for Python 2.4 (under Windows, needed to recompiled the

   bootloader with a different compiler version).

 + Fix support for Python 1.5.2, should be fully functional now (required

   to rewrite some parts of the string module for the bootloader).

 + Fix a rare bug in extracting the dependencies of a DLL (bug in PE header

   parser).

 + Fix packaging of PyQt programs (needed an import hook for a hidden import).

 + Fix imports calculation for modules using the "from __init__ import" syntax.

 + Fix a packaging bug when a module was being import both through binary

   dependency and direct import.

 * Restyle documentation (now using docutils and reStructuredText).

 * New Windows build system for automatic compilations of bootloader in all

   the required flavours (using Scons)