pantsbuild.pants 2.17.0.dev1

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.

2.17.x Release Series

2.17.0.dev1 (Mar 24, 2023)

New Features

• engine: add an option to clear the destination directory when writing digest to disk (#18534)

• javascript: NodeJS bootstrapping via binary paths, PATH, asdf or nvm (#18520)

• javascript: Initial NPM support (#18326)

• Always provide Python-for-Pants-scripts (#18433)

User API Changes

• Upgrade Pex to 2.1.130. (#18576)

• Deprecate old-style custom tool lockfiles. (#18494)

• Let a user resolve shadow a tool lockfile of the same name (#18481)

Bug fixes

• Ensure that a symlinked exported venv exists and is valid. (#18575)

• Fail fast for attempts to use test --debug with a docker environment (#18560)

• Declare ruff outputs as files. (#18551)

• Add support for Docker registry auth (#18541)

• Fix Poetry req synthesis for URLs with markers. (#18535)

• Re-enable hardlinking using fclonefileat on macOS. (#18501)

Performance

• Materialize "large" files in a new store location and hardlink them in sandboxes (#18153)

• Finish parallelizing materialization of Process inputs (#18469)

Documentation

• First pass at adhoc_tool documentation (#18531)

• Add Tobias Nilsson to team page (#18571)

• docs: fix an f-string in help (#18539)

• Clarify that experimental_ shell functions are deprecated and replaced (#18529)

• Update docs on running pants from sources with scie-pants. (#18513)

• Add ExoFlare to user list. (#18496)

• Fix malformed pantsbuild/example-python link in documentation (#18484)

• update scie-jump cache directory reference (#18485)

• Expand lockfile documentation to its own page. (#18471)

2.17.0.dev0 (Mar 10, 2023)

New Features

• Expose environment information on process metadata (#18458)

• Support running pants from anywhere in the project. (#18412)

User API Changes

• Audit and update requirements for Python tools. (#18431)

• Upgrade Pex to 2.1.128. (#18453)

Bug fixes

• Preserve environment variables in pantsd to allow Docker auth. (#18465)

• Only expose the equiv of from typing import * in prelude files (#18452)

• Support type hints in prelude files. (#18442)

• Synthesized lockfile targets should never err on missing lockfiles. (#18406)

• Fixes to visualisations for xdot (#18421)