devpi-client 7.3.0

devpi upload/install/... workflow commands for Python developers

devpi-client: manage devpi-server, Python packaging and testing

The devpi command line tool is typically used in conjunction with devpi-server. It allows to upload, test and install packages from devpi indexes.

See https://doc.devpi.net for quickstart and more documentation.

Support

If you find a bug, use the issue tracker at Github.

For general questions use GitHub Discussions or the [e-mail] mailing list.

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Changelog

7.3.0 (2026-04-30)

Features

• Allow patchjson to read from stdin with - as JSON filename.

7.2.1 (2026-03-17)

Bug Fixes

• Work around missing support for metadata 2.4 in pkginfo with Python 3.7.

• The stored basic authentication credentials are now correctly applied to HTTP API URLs containing a query string.

7.2.0 (2024-10-16)

Features

• Support --no-docs and --only-docs for push command with devpi-server >= 6.14.0.

• Support --register-project for push command to external index with devpi-server >= 6.14.0.

• Add support for uv.conf to devpi use --set-cfg.

Bug Fixes

• fix #682: fixed encoding issues when decoding output of subprocesses.

• Fix #1052: require pkginfo >= 1.10.0 which supports newer metadata versions.

• Fix #1057: PermissionError during upload due to trying to copy a folder like a file.

7.1.0 (2024-07-17)

Features

• Support upload command configuration from pyproject.toml in [tool.devpi.upload] section.

• The --fallback-ini option of devpi test can now be relative to the package root. This allows using pyproject.toml or similar instead of tox.ini.

• Add sdist and wheel options for setup.cfg.

• Add detection of tox configs in pyproject.toml and setup.cfg for devpi test.

Bug Fixes

• In setup.cfg any value for upload settings was interpreted as True, now a warning is printed if it looks like False was meant and how to fix that. For backward compatibility the behavior wasn’t changed.

7.0.3 (2024-04-20)

Bug Fixes

• Require build>=0.7.0 to prevent import error with older versions.

• Fix check for extracted path when testing packages related to PEP 625 changes in setuptools.

• If the server returns a message on toxresult upload, then print it as a warning.

• Provide proper error message if the API request for devpi use fails.

• Fix #1011: change HTTP status codes >=400 to use self.fatal instead of raw SystemExit, protect 403 and 404 errors from SystemExit