pantsbuild.pants 2.12.0rc1

The ergonomic and hermetic software build system for Python, Java, Scala, Go, and Shell. Pants lets you fearlessly scale up your codebase.

Pants is an Apache2 licensed build tool written in Python and Rust.

The latest documentation can be found at pantsbuild.org.

2.12.x Release Series

2.12.0rc1 (May 23, 2022)

New Features

• Allow turning off export of Python tools like black (Cherry-pick of #15509) (#15511)

• Support relative address syntax for JVM compiler plugin artifacts (Cherry-pick of #15462) (#15468)

User API Changes

• Upgrade Pex to 2.1.88. (Cherry-pick of #15484) (#15485)

Bug fixes

• Fix incorrect digest for JVM multiple jvm_artifact(.., jar=..) entries (Cherry-pick of #15571) (#15611)

• Record Scala package object as provided name (Cherry-pick of #15582) (#15608)

• Don't give a subsequent formatter an empty snapshot after skipping (Cherry-pick of #15483) (#15602)

• Fix lockfile generation for Docker and Terraform to not require Python backend (Cherry-pick of #15453) (#15604)

• Fix Scala inference not inferring a symbol name after a function call (Cherry-pick of #15565) (#15603)

• Fix non-deterministic order of jvm_artifact(.., excludes=..) (Cherry-pick of #15542) (#15575)

• Fix JVM resource classification and artifact grouping (Cherry-pick of #15567) (#15573)

• Fix tag filtering with --changed-dependees (Cherry-pick of #15546) (#15564)

• Improve name= used for python_requirements target generators with tailor (Cherry-pick of #15507) (#15519)

• jvm: don't generate default tool lockfiles (Cherry pick of #15488) (#15498)

• jvm: fix incorrect check for root-only ClasspathEntryRequest implementations (Cherry pick of #15494) (#15496)

• kotlin: the plugin_id field on kotlinc_plugin target is optional (Cherry-pick of #15459) (#15466)

• kotlin: remove stray scala references (Cherry-pick of #15461) (#15465)

Performance

• lint only finds targets and files if the relevant linters were specified (Cherry-pick of #15579) (#15601)

2.12.0rc0 (May 13, 2022)

User API Changes

• Upgrade default Protoc version to 3.20.1 (native Apple Silicon support) (Cherry-pick of #15424) (#15441)

• Require that a target's interpreter_constraints are a subset of their dependencies' (Cherry-pick of #15373) (#15407)

Plugin API Changes

• Move get_git deprecation to start in 2.14.0.dev0 (Cherry-pick of #15423) (#15437)

Bug fixes

• Fix tags to work with filesystem arguments, overrides field, and python_tests (Cherry-pick of #15394) (#15412)

• Support the {chroot} env placeholder for all interactive processes that are not executed in the workspace. (Cherry-pick of #15401) (#15405)

• Fix [] in file names with target generators (Cherry-pick of #15383) (#15403)

• Fix tailor detection of existing python_requirements targets (Cherry-pick of #15363) (#15372)

• Add the "named args explanation" to other relevant parametrize error messages. (Cherry-pick of #15362) (#15370)

• Use abspath to sandbox in PATH for docker tool shims. (Cherry-pick of #15341) (#15356)

• Fix non-determinism of package_data in generated setup.py files (Cherry-pick of #15292) (#15299)

• Fix a bug in the python venv export logic. (#15294) (#15297)

Performance

• Eagerly skip tools with default lockfiles in export-lockfiles goal (Cherry-pick of #15304) (#15308)

Documentation

• Improve error message for dependencies on incompatible Python resolves (Cherry-pick of #15416) (#15439)

• Improve help and error message for [python-infer].unowned_dependency_behavior (Cherry-pick of #15334) (#15391)

• Disallow ! patterns in build_ignore. (Cherry-pick of #15366) (#15368)

• Improve error message for resolves x interpreter constraints issues (Cherry-pick of #15314) (#15364)

• Fix error output of parametrize() (Cherry-pick of #15339) (#15348)

2.12.0a0 (Apr 29, 2022)

New Features

• Support poetry wildcard requirements. (#15213)

• Implement tailor goal for Helm charts (#15192)

User API Changes

• Upgrade Pex to 2.1.84. (#15288)

Plugin API Changes

• Allow for arbitrary suffixes when extracting (#15257)

• Add lz4 support to archive extraction (#15245)

Bug fixes

• Simplify BSP metadata merging, and handle the empty list. (#15283)

• BSP resolve filtering observes computed default values of resolve fields (#15282)

• Memoize equality for CoarsenedTarget(s) to avoid exponential runtime in check. (#15277)

• Fix ambiguity of Scala package objects with class or object definitions (#15265)

• Fix issue with Docker publish when using [docker] tools. (#15255)

• Do not lowercase Docker image tags. (#15254)

• Fix the placement of the pex verbosity args. (#15243)

• Fix use of @ in path names. (#15226)

• Fix lockfile generation for duplicate jvm_artifact targets with jar fields. (#15219)

• golang: add more cache keys based on tool IDs (#15205)

• Mention resolve when partitioning Mypy and Pylint (#15172)

Performance

• MyPy and Pylint partition inputs via CoarsenedTarget (#15141)

Documentation

• Fix ProtobufSourcesOverridesField help message (#15272)

• Update help for python resolves with recent improvements (#15228)

• Improve cache-related error message to be less confusing (#15202)

• Show experimental-bsp goal in help (#15208)

2.12.0.dev3 (Apr 16, 2022)

New Features

• Address specs for parametrized target templates expand to their created targets (#15126)

• Implement publish goal for Helm charts (#15042)

• add experimental kotlin backend to distribution (#15109)

• Support pip-style VCS requirements. (#15097)

User API Changes

• Upgrade Pex to 2.1.79. (#15125)

• Ban terraform_module referring to subdirectories (#15106)

Plugin API Changes

• Throw a DuplicateRuleError when there are conflicting rules in a module. (#15073)

• Expose GitWorktree as an @rule (#15030)

Bug fixes

• Fix Requires-Python for pantsbuild.pants wheel. (#15149)

• Allow dashes in inferred asset strings (#15123)

• Fix when the same python_requirement defines both type stub and implementation (#15121)

• Fix missing field check in go protobuf rules (#15105)

Documentation

• Last round of softwrapping help strings (#15142)

• Softwrapping a few more files (#15138)

• Softwrap python backend help strings (#15137)

2.12.0.dev2 (Apr 11, 2022)

New Features

• Support for env var interpolation in config files. (#15087)

• Support for finer control over which Docker images to push. (#15000)

• Add a helpful hint to lint if a formatter fails (#15048)

• Add support for Helm 3rd party dependencies (#14964)

User API Changes

• Default [python].lockfile_generator to Pex (#15074)

• Upgrade Pex to 2.1.78. (#15078)

• terraform: remove terraform_modules generator target type (#15035)

• Upgrade to Pex 2.1.77. (#15015)

• Change JVM defaults to use Temurin JDK distribution (#15009)

Plugin API Changes

• Remove deprecated register_options support. (#15090)

• Remove deprecated target generator API affordances. (#15091)

• Add @rule_helper decorator, which participates in awaitable collection (#15025)

Bug fixes

• Enable codegen on relocated files (#15100)

• Preserve tombstones for workunits which complete while they still have children (#15088)

• Clean the export dir under dist/ before populating it. (#15068)

• Do not use a repository-PEX if a PEX has platforms specified (#15031)

• Fix default layout and use of PEX-repositories for legacy lockfiles (#15014)

• Pin pytest 7.0.1 (#14997)

Documentation

• files/dirs swapped in Snapshot's repr (#15101)

• Tweak deprecation messages. (#15027)

• Add some codegen and terraform backends to docs generator (#15036)

• Text in angle brackets needs to be escaped for the docsite. (#15046)

• Fix presented provider backend for rules/subsystems. (#14999)

2.12.0.dev1 (Apr 05, 2022)

New Features

• Support restricting specific requirements to just wheels or just sdists. (#14985)

• Add support for Helm unittest (#14849)

• Add support for parsing address parameters to CLI specs parsing (#14949)

User API Changes

• Merge list values across config files. (#14850)

• Write test reports to a standard location under the distdir. (#14929)

• Upgrade Pex to 2.1.76. (#14992)

• Upgrade coursier to v2.1.0-M5-18-gfebf9838c (#14978)

Plugin API Changes

• "Unify" fmt and lint rules for formatters (#14903)

• Refactor prior_formatter_result and its usage (#14987)

• Deprecate not implementing TargetGenerator in GenerateTargetsRequest implementors. (#14959)

Bug fixes

• add go protobuf backend to init/BUILD (#14979)

• Fix Pylint config check strings (#14946)

• Fix missing check output by allowing disabled workunits to re-enable themselves (#14934)

• Fix unrecognized field error and update-build-files to handle target generator moved fields (#14847)

Performance

• Make PEX lockfile subsetting incremental (#14944)

Documentation

• Don't warn if no relevant targets in glob or --changed. (#14904)

2.12.0.dev0 (Mar 25, 2022)

New Features

• Add Protobuf formatting using buf format (#14907)

• add registration for the Go Protobuf backend (#14874)

User API Changes

• Remove --use-deprecated-python-macros in favor of always using target generators (#14842)

• Add django-dotenv, django-safedelete and factory-boy to default Python module mapping (#14848)

• Add cattrs to Python's DEFAULT_MODULE_MAPPING (#14845)

• hcl parser 3.0.5 (#14878)

Plugin API Changes

• FmtResult now operates on Snapshots (#14865)

Bug fixes

• add cache key for all Go SDK invocations (#14897)

• Unify glob-matching implementations to fix malformed snapshot created by subsetting (#14889)

• Adds ClasspathEntryRequest classification for codegen target generators (#14893)

• Adds jvm_jdk field to protobufs when the Scala backend is enabled (#14891)