v2.16.5

• 🐛 Fix an incompatibility with the GitHub Action and new GitHub Runner images for Windows that bundle Powershell 7.3+ (#1741)
• 🛠 Preliminary support for new macos-14 arm64 runners (#1743)

v2.16.4

🛠 Update manylinux pins to upgrade from a problematic PyPy version. (#1737)

v2.16.3

• 🐛 Fix a bug when building from sdist, where relative paths to files in the package didn't work because the working directory was wrong (#1687)
• 🛠 Adds the ability to disable mounting the host filesystem in containers to /host, through the disable_host_mount suboption on CIBW_CONTAINER_ENGINE.
• 📚 A lot of docs improvements! (#1708, #1705, #1686, #1679, #1667, #1665)

v2.16.2

• 🛠 Updates CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0, final release (#1635)
• ✨ Adds a debug option CIBW_DEBUG_KEEP_CONTAINER to stop cibuildwheel deleting build containers after the build finishes. (#1620)
• 📚 Adds support for [tool.cibuildwheel] checking by adding a schema compatible with the validate-pyproject tool (#1622, #1628, #1629)
• 🐛 Fix parsing of CIBW_CONTAINER_ENGINE and CIBW_BUILD_FRONTEND options to not break arguments on : characters (#1621)
• 🐛 Fix the evaluation order of CIBW_ENVIRONMENT and CIBW_ENVIRONMENT_PASS so that CIBW_ENVIRONMENT assignments can reference environment variables passed through from the host machine. (#1617)
• 🛠 Supports manylinux images' deferred installation of interpreters through the manylinux-interpreters tool (#1630)

v2.16.1

• 🛠 Updates the prerelease CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0rc3 (#1625)
• 🛠 Only calls linux32 in containers when necessary (#1599)

v2.16.0

• ✨ Add the ability to pass additional flags to a build frontend through the CIBW_BUILD_FRONTEND option (#1588).
• ✨ The environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is now automatically passed through to container Linux builds (useful for reproducible builds!) (#1589)
• 🛠 Updates the prerelease CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0rc2 (#1604)
• 🐛 Fix requires_python auto-detection from setup.py when the call to setup() is within an if __name__ == "__main__" block (#1613)
• 🐛 Fix a bug that prevented building Linux wheels in Docker on a Windows host (#1573)
• 🐛 --only can now select prerelease-pythons (#1564)
• 📚 Docs & examples updates (#1582, #1593, #1598, #1615)

v2.15.0

• 🌟 CPython 3.12 wheels are now built by default - without the CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS flag. It's time to build and upload these wheels to PyPI! This release includes CPython 3.12.0rc1, which is guaranteed to be ABI compatible with the final release. (#1565)
• ✨ Adds musllinux_1_2 support - this allows packagers to build for musl-based Linux distributions on a more recent Alpine image, and a newer musl libc. (#1561)

v2.14.1

• 🛠 Updates the prerelease CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0b4 (#1550)

v2.14.0

• ✨ Adds support for building PyPy 3.10 wheels. (#1525)
• 🛠 Updates the prerelease CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0b3.
• ✨ Allow the use of the {wheel} placeholder in CIBW_TEST_COMMAND (#1533)
• 📚 Docs & examples updates (#1532, #1416)
• ⚠️ Removed support for running cibuildwheel in Python 3.7. Python 3.7 is EOL. However, cibuildwheel continues to build Python 3.7 wheels for the moment. (#1175)

v2.13.1

• 🛠 Updates the prerelease CPython 3.12 version to 3.12.0b2. (#1516)
• 🛠 Adds a moving v<major>.<minor> tag for use in GitHub Actions workflow files. If you use this, you'll get the latest patch release within a minor version. Additionally, Dependabot won't send you PRs for patch releases. (#1517)