Changelog

For a more detailed description of the major changes that Conan 2 brings, compared with Conan 1.X, please read What’s new in Conan 2

2.9.3 (21-Nov-2024)

• Bugfix: Fixing is_test computation affecting to components checks. #17338

2.9.2 (07-Nov-2024)

• Feature: Use center2.conan.io as new default remote and warn about having the old one. #17284 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Fix ROSEnv quotes for CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE variable. #17270

2.9.1 (30-Oct-2024)

• Bugfix: Fix deduce_subsystem when scope=None assuming the scope is build. #17251

• Bugfix: Fixed false positives of profile.py plugin checks over c++26 for latest compiler versions #17250

2.9.0 (29-Oct-2024)

• Feature: Add missing major OS/compiler version support in settings.yml. #17240 . Docs here

• Feature: conan new learned defaults -d name=mypkg -d version=0.1 for simpler UX. #17186 . Docs here

• Feature: Warn when patching files and the recipe has no_copy_source = True, which could lead to unforseen issues #17162

• Feature: Add self.generator_info for tool_requires to propagate generators to their direct dependencies. #17129 . Docs here

• Feature: Add support for including paths that are ignored in .conanignore. #17123 . Docs here

• Feature: New tools.graph:skip_build conf to be able to skip the expansion of tool_requires. #17117 . Docs here

• Feature: New tools.graph:skip_test conf to be able to skip the expansion of test_requires. #17117 . Docs here

• Feature: Add ROSEnv generator integration for ROS2 (Robot Operating System). #17110

• Feature: Add profile arguments information to conan graph build-order to improve UX and usage in CI systems. #17102 . Docs here

• Feature: Add C++26 support for gcc, clang, and apple-clang. #17092 . Docs here

• Feature: Add Configuration and Platform keys for MSBuildDeps property sheets. #17076 . Docs here

• Feature: New CMakeDeps generator activated by tools.cmake.cmakedeps:new conf with value will_break_next for evaluation. This new generator deduces or use cpp_info.location/link_location to define STATIC; SHARED, INTERFACE imported targets. It will also define the IMPORTED_LOCATION, the IMPORTED_CONFIGURATION, etc. #16964

• Feature: Use cpp_info.languages, that default to the recipe languages to propagate “link-language” requirements to consumers of the packages. #16964

• Feature: Define cpp_info.default_components for the new CMakeDeps generator only. #16964

• Feature: Model cpp_info.exes field for executable applications, used only by the new CMakeDeps generator, that generate IMPORTED executable targets in CMakeDeps for cpp_info.exes. #16964

• Fix: Use a valid prefix path for meson.configure() on Windows, to avoid failures in Python 3.13. #17206

• Fix: Allow cmake_target_aliases to be set in CMakeDeps. #17200 . Docs here

• Fix: Adding the startup options to each Bazel command. #17183

• Fix: Add remote name to login prompt. #17178

• Fix: Get credentials and re-authenticate when an expired token gives AuthenticationException. #17127

• Fix: Moved exceptions from the legacy from conans.error to documented from conan.error. #17126 . Docs here

• Fix: Pacman as package manager shouldn’t be used for tools.microsoft.bash:subsystem=msys2, but when the target platform is actually msys2 os.subsystem=msys2 (as a setting). #17103

• Fix: Properly deduce RuntimeLibrary from profile in MSBuildToolchain. #17100

• Fix: Set C++20 flag to {gnu}c++20 for gcc >= 10 instead of c++2a until gcc 12. #17092 . Docs here

• Fix: Set C++23 flag to {gnu}c++23 for gcc >= 11 instead of c++2b. #17092 . Docs here

• Fix: Avoid repeated login attempts to the server for 401 when the credentials come from env-vars or credentials.json file, only repeated login attempts for user interactive prompt. #17083

• Fix: Align CMakeToolchain and AutotoolsToolchain to automatically define cl compiler for compiler=msvc if not defined (only when necessary, as when using Ninja generator in CMake). #16875 . Docs here

• Fix: Quote build_args in conan graph build-order -f=json to avoid issues with options with spaces. #16594

• Bugfix: Improved bazeldeps._get_libs() mechanism. #17233

• Bugfix: Improve cstd check for different compiler versions at profile load time. #17157

• Bugfix: Fix cppstd/cstd variable_watch when they are not defined. #17156

• Bugfix: Fix cstd error reporting when a recipe does not support the required version. #17156

• Bugfix: Drop the username permission validation bypass in conan_server, it could be a potential security issue. #17132

• Bugfix: Listing recipes with equal versions under semver rules but different representation (ie 1.0 & 1.0.0) now returns both references. #17121

• Bugfix: Conan Server: Do not return duplicated references for each revision of the same recipe reference when searching them. #17121

• Bugfix: Empty version range results in empty condition set. #17116

• Bugfix: Adding the # do not sort comment to deps section. Regression since Conan 1.61. #17109

• Bugfix: Restore ConanOutput global state when using Commands API. #17095

• Bugfix: build_args options in graph build-order now respect the context of the reference. #16594

2.8.1 (17-Oct-2024)

• Bugfix: Avoid raising an error for required components for test_requires also required as transitive requires. #17174

2.8.0 (30-Sept-2024)

• Feature: Add support for iOS 18, watchOS 11, tvOS 18, visionOS 2 & macos 15. #17012 . Docs here

• Feature: Add Clang 19 support. #17010 . Docs here

• Feature: conan config list <pattern> to filter available configurations. #17000 . Docs here

• Feature: New auth_remote.py plugin for custom user authentication to Conan remotes. #16942 . Docs here

• Feature: New auth_source.py plugin for custom user authentication for generic downloads of sources. #16942 . Docs here

• Feature: Add –envs-generation={false} to conan install and conan build to disable the generation of virtualenvs (conanbuildenv.sh|bat and conanrunenv.sh|bat). #16935 . Docs here

• Feature: New tools.files.unzip:filter conf that allows to define data, tar and fully_trusted extraction policies for tgz files. #16918 . Docs here

• Feature: get() and unzip() tools for source() learned a new extract_filter argument to define data, tar and fully_trusted extraction policies for tgz files. #16918 . Docs here

• Feature: Add progress updates for large uploads (>100Mbs) every 10 seconds. #16913

• Feature: Implement conan config install-pkg --url=<repo-url> for initial definition of remote URL when no remotes are defined yet. #16876 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow building a compatible package still of the current profile one. #16871

• Feature: Allow bootstrapping (depending on another variant of yourself), even for the same version. #16870

• Feature: Allow [replace_requires] to replace the package name and self.dependencies still works with the old name. #16443

• Fix: Let CMakeToolchain defining CMAKE_SYSTEM_XXX even if user_toolchain is defined, but protected in case the toolchain really defines them. #17036 . Docs here

• Fix: Replace | character in generated CMake and Environment files. #17024

• Fix: Redirect the PkgConfig stderr to the exception raised. #17020

• Fix: Use always forward slashes in Windows subsystems bash path. #16997

• Fix: Better error messages when conan list --graph=<graph-json-file> file has issues. #16936

• Bugfix: PkgConfigDeps.set_property() was not setting properly all the available properties. #17051

• Bugfix: BazelDeps did not find DLL files as Conan does not model them in the Windows platform. #17045

• Bugfix: Do not skip dependencies of a package if it is not going to be skipped due to tools.graph:skip_binaries=False. #17033

• Bugfix: Allow requires(..., package_id_mode) trait in case of diamonds to always use the recipe defined one irrespective of requires() order. #16987

• Bugfix: Propagate include_prerelease flag to intersection of VersionRange. #16986

• Bugfix: Raise error if invalid value passed to conf.get(check_type=bool). #16976

• Bugfix: Allow remote_login accept patterns. #16942 . Docs here

2.7.1 (11-Sept-2024)

• Feature: Add support apple-clang 16. #16972

• Fix: Add test for #19960. #16974

• Bugfix: Revert “Define compiler variables in CMakePresets.json” commit 60df72cf75254608ebe6a447106e60be4d8c05a4. #16971

2.7.0 (28-Aug-2024)

• Feature: Added Git.is_dirty(repository=False) new argument #16892

• Feature: Add variable_watch for CMAKE_{C,CXX}_STANDARD in conan_toolchain.cmake. #16879

• Feature: Add check_type to get_property for CMakeDeps. #16854 . Docs here

• Feature: Propagate run trait requirement information in the “build” context downstream when visible trait is True. #16849 . Docs here

• Feature: Add check_type on components get_property. #16848 . Docs here

• Feature: Add set_property for PkgConfigDeps to set properties for requirements from consumer recipes. #16789

• Feature: Define CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER variables in CMakePresets.json. #16762

• Feature: Add support for gcc 14.2. #16760

• Feature: Rework QbsProfile to support Conan 2. #16742

• Feature: Add finalize() method for local cache final adjustments of packages. #16646 . Docs here

• Feature: Add tricore compiler architecture support. #16317 . Docs here

• Feature: Describe here your pull request #16317 . Docs here

• Fix: Propagate repository argument from Git.get_url_and_commit(repository=True) to Git.is_dirty(). #16892

• Fix: Improve error when accessing cpp_info shorthand methods. #16847

• Fix: Improve error message when a lockfile fails to lock a requirement, specifying its type. #16841

• Fix: Update patch-ng 1.18.0 to avoid SyntaxWarning spam. #16766

• Bugfix: Avoid CMakeToolchain error when both architecture flags and tools.build:linker_scripts are defined, due to missing space. #16883

• Bugfix: When using Visual Studio’s llvm-clang, set the correct Platform Toolset in MSBuildToolchain. #16844

• Bugfix: Fix export_sources for non-existent recipes in a local recipes index. #16776

2.6.0 (01-Aug-2024)

• Feature: Add build_folder_vars=["const.myvalue"] to create presets for user “myvalue” arbitrary values. #16633 . Docs here

• Feature: Added outputRootDir as an optional definition in Bazel new templates. #16620

• Feature: MakeDeps generator generates make variables for dependencies and their components. #16613 . Docs here

• Feature: Add html output for graph build-order and graph build-order-merge #16611 . Docs here

• Feature: Introduce core.scm:local_url=allow|block to control local folder URLs in conandata scm. #16597 . Docs here

• Feature: Added XXX_FOR_BUILD flags and Android extra ones to extra_env attribute in GnuToolchain. #16596

• Feature: Support python_requires in local-recipes-index. #16420 . Docs here

• Fix: Avoid runtime_deployer to deploy dependencies with run=False trait. #16724

• Fix: Improve error message when passing a --deployer-folder=xxx argument of an incorrect folder. #16723

• Fix: Change requirements.txt so it install distro package in FreeBSD too. #16700

• Fix: Better error messages when loading an inexistent or broken “package list” file. #16685

• Fix: Remove unsupported ld and ar entries from tools.build:compiler_executables, they had no effect in every Conan integration. #16647

• Fix: Ensure direct tool requires conflicts are properly reported instead of hanging. #16619

• Fix: Update docker dependency version for the runners feature #16610

• Fix: Raise an error when trying to upload a package with a local folder URL in conandata scm. #16597 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Fix profile include() with per-package [settings] with partial definition. #16720

• Bugfix: The MakeDeps generator was missing some aggregated variables when packages have components. #16715

• Bugfix: Avoid settings.update_values() failing when deducing compatibility. #16642

• Bugfix: Fix handling of tools.build:defines for Ninja Multi-Config CMake. #16637

• Bugfix: Make conan graph <subcommand> a real “install” dry-run. Return same errors and give same messages #16415

2.5.0 (03-Jul-2024)

• Feature: New tools.cmake.cmaketoolchain:enabled_blocks configuration to define which blocks of CMakeToolchain should be active or not. #16563 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow –filter-options in conan list to use &: scope to refer to all packages being listed. #16559

• Feature: Highlight missing or invalid requirements while computing dependency graph. #16520

• Feature: New conan lock update subcommand to remove + add a reference in the same command. #16511 . Docs here

• Feature: Add support for GCC 12.4. #16506 . Docs here

• Feature: Honoring tools.android:ndk_path conf. Setting the needed flags to cross-build for Android. #16502 . Docs here

• Feature: Add os.ndk_version for Android. #16494 . Docs here

• Feature: Qbs helper now invokes Conan provider automatically. #16486

• Feature: Added force option to tools.cmake.cmaketoolchain:extra_variables. #16481 . Docs here

• Feature: Raising a ConanException if any section is duplicated in the same Conan profile file. #16454

• Feature: Added resolve() method to the Qbs toolchain. #16449

• Feature: Make MSBuildDeps generation with deployer relocatable. #16441

• Feature: Add QbsDeps class to be used with Qbs Conan module provider. #16334

• Feature: Add built in runtime_deploy deployer. #15382 . Docs here

• Fix: Fix provides conflict error message not showing conflicting provides when a named reference matches a provider. #16562

• Fix: Set correct testpaths for pytest. #16530

• Fix: Allow .conanrc file in the root of a filesystem. #16514

• Fix: Add support for non default docker hosts in conan runners #16477

• Fix: Don’t fail when we can’t overwrite the summary file in the backup upload. #16452

• Fix: Make source_credentials.json do not apply to Conan server repos protocol. #16425 . Docs here

• Fix: Allow packages to have empty folders. #16424

• Bugfix: Fix detect_msvc_compiler() from detect_api to properly detect VS 17.10 with compiler.version=194. #16581

• Bugfix: Fix unexpected error when a recipe performs package_id() info erasure and is used as a compatibility candidate. #16575

• Bugfix: Ensure msvc cppstd compatibility fallback does not ignore 194 binaries. #16573

• Bugfix: XXXDeps generators did not include an absolute path in their generated files if –deployer-folder=xxxx param was used. #16552

• Bugfix: Fix conan list … –format=compact for package revisions. #16490

• Bugfix: Fix XcodeToolchain when only defines are set. #16429

2.4.1 (10-Jun-2024)

• Fix: Avoid find_package’s of transitive dependencies on test_package generated by cmake_lib template. #16451

• Fix: Fix back migration of default compatibility.py from a clean install. #16417

• Bugfix: Solve issue with setuptools (distributed Conan packages in Python) packaging the “test” folder. #16446

• Bugfix: Fixed regression in CMakeToolchain with --deployer=full_deploy creating wrong escaping. #16434

2.4.0 (05-Jun-2024)

• Feature: Added support for MacOS sdk_version 14.5 #16400 . Docs here

• Feature: Added CC_FOR_BUILD and CXX_FOR_BUILD environment variable to AutotoolsToolchain. #16391 . Docs here

• Feature: Added extra_xxxx flags to MesonToolchain as done in other toolchains like AutotoolsToolchain, CMakeToolchain, etc. #16389

• Feature: Add new qbs_lib template for the conan new command. #16382

• Feature: new detect_api.detect_sdk_version() method #16355 . Docs here

• Feature: Add excludes parameter to tools.files.rm to void removing pattern. #16350 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow multiple --build=missing:~pattern1 --build=missing:~pattern2 patterns. #16327

• Feature: Deprecate use of path accessors in ConanFile. #16247

• Feature: add support for setting tools.cmake.cmaketoolchain:extra_variables #16242 . Docs here

• Feature: Add cmake_additional_variables_prefixes variable to CMakeDeps generator to allow adding extra names for declared CMake variables. #16231 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow GNUInstallDirs definition in CMakeToolchain for the local conan install/build flow too. #16214

• Feature: Let conan cache save listen to the core.gzip:compresslevel conf. #16211

• Feature: Add support for Bazel >= 7.1. #16196 . Docs here

• Feature: Add new revision_mode including everything down to the recipe-revision, but not the package_id. #16195 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow a recipe to requires(..., visible=False) a previous version of itself without raising a loop error. #16132

• Feature: New vendor=True package creation and build isolation strategy #16073 . Docs here

• Feature: New compiler.cstd setting for C standard #16028 . Docs here

• Feature: Implemented compatibility.py default compatibility for different C standards #16028 . Docs here

• Feature: Implement check_min_cstd, check_max_cstd, valid_max_cstd, valid_min_cstd, supported_cstd tools #16028 . Docs here

• Feature: New languages = "C", "C++" class attribute to further automate settings management #16028 . Docs here

• Feature: Add CONAN_RUNTIME_LIB_DIRS variable to the conan_toolchain.cmake. #15914 . Docs here

• Fix: Implement a back migration to <2.3 for default compatibility.py plugin. #16405

• Fix: Add missing [replace_requires] and [platform_requires] to serialization/dump of profiles. #16401

• Fix: Fix handling spaces in paths in Qbs helper. #16382

• Fix: Make cc version detection more robust #16362

• Fix: Allow --build=missing:& pattern to build only the consumer if missing, but not others. #16344

• Fix: Allow “local-recipes-index” to conan list packages with custom user/channel. #16342

• Fix: Fixing docstrings for cppstd functions. #16341

• Fix: Change autodetect of CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION to use the Darwin version. #16335 . Docs here

• Fix: Fix require syntax in output in graph build-order. #16308

• Fix: Improve some commands help documentation strings by adding double quotes. #16292

• Fix: Better error message for incorrect version-ranges definitions. #16289

• Fix: Only print info about cached recipe revision being newer when it truly is. #16275

• Fix: Warn when using options without pattern scope, to improve UX of users expecting -o shared=True to apply to dependencies. #16233 . Docs here

• Fix: Fix CommandAPI usage when not used by Conan custom commands. #16213

• Fix: Avoid datetime deprecated calls in Python 3.12. #16095

• Fix: Handle tools.build:sysroot on Meson toolchain. #16011 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Fix LLVM/Clang enablement of vcvars for latest v14.4 toolset version after VS 17.10 update #16374 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Fix profile errors when using a docker runner of type=shared #16364

• Bugfix: conan graph info .. --build=pkg doesn’t download pkg sources unless tools.build:download_source is defined. #16349

• Bugfix: Solved problem with relativization of paths in CMakeToolchain and CMakeDeps. #16316

• Bugfix: Avoid sanitizing tools.build:compiler_executables value in MesonToolchain. #16307

• Bugfix: Solved incorrect paths in conan cache save/restore tgz files that crashed when using storage_path custom configuration. #16293

• Bugfix: Fix stacktrace with nonexistent graph file in conan list. #16291

• Bugfix: Let CMakeDeps generator overwrite the xxxConfig.cmake when it already exists. #16279

• Bugfix: Disallow self.info access in source() method. #16272

2.3.2 (28-May-2024)

• Feature: New tools.microsoft:msvc_update configuration to define the MSVC compiler update even when compiler.update is not defined. Can be used to use compiler.version=193 once VS2022 is updated to 17.10, which changes the default compiler to compiler.version=194. #16332

• Bugfix: Allow default compatibility.py plugin to fallback from MSVC compiler.version=194->193 and to other cppstd values. #16346

• Bugfix: Skip dot folders in local recipe index layouts. #16345

• Bugfix: Remove extra backslash in generated conanvcvars.ps1. #16322

2.3.1 (16-May-2024)

• Feature: Add GCC 13.3 support. #16246 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow opt-out for CMakeToolchain default use of absolute paths for CMakeUserPresets->CMakePreset and CMakePresets->toolchainFile path. #16244 . Docs here

• Fix: Fix config container name for Docker runner. #16243

• Bugfix: Make compatibility checks understand update flag patterns. #16252

• Bugfix: Solve bug with overrides from lockfiles in case of diamond structures. #16235

• Bugfix: Allow export-pkg --version=xxx to be passed to recipes with python_requires inheriting set_version from base class. #16224

2.3.0 (06-May-2024)

• Feature: Allow * wildcard as subsetting in in rm_safe. #16105 . Docs here

• Feature: Show recipe and package sizes when running conan upload. #16103

• Feature: Extend conan version to report current python and system for troubleshooting. #16102 . Docs here

• Feature: Add detect_xxxx_compiler() for mainstream compilers as gcc, msvc, clang. to the public detect_api. #16092 . Docs here

• Feature: Add comment support for .conanignore file. #16087

• Feature: In graph html search bar now takes in multiple search patterns separated by commas. #16083

• Feature: In graph html added ‘filter packages’ bar that takes in multiple search patterns separated by comma and hides filters them from graph. #16083

• Feature: Add an argument hide_url to Git operations to allow logging of the repository URL. By default, URLs will stay <hidden>, but users may opt-out of this. #16038

• Feature: Allow .conf access (exclusively to global.conf information, not to profile information) in the export() and export_sources() methods. #16034 . Docs here

• Feature: Avoid copying identical existing files in copy(). #16031

• Feature: New conan pkglist merge command to merge multiple package lists. #16022 . Docs here

• Feature: New conan pkglist find-remote command to find matching in remotes for list of packages in the cache. #16022 . Docs here

• Feature: Relativize paths in CMakePresets generation. #16015

• Feature: Add new test_package_folder attribute to conanfile.py to define a different custom location and name rather than test_package default. #16013 . Docs here

• Feature: New conan create --test-missing syntax to optionally run the test_package only when the package is actually created (useful with --build=missing). #15999 . Docs here

• Feature: Add tools.gnu:build_triplet to conf. #15965

• Feature: Add --exist-ok argument to conan profile detect to not fail if the profile already exists, without overwriting it. #15933

• Feature: MesonToolchain can generate a native file if native=True (only makes sense when cross-building). #15919 . Docs here

• Feature: Meson helper injects native and cross files if both exist. #15919 . Docs here

• Feature: Add support for meson subproject. #15916 . Docs here

• Feature: Added transparent support for running Conan within a Docker container. #15856 . Docs here

• Fix: Allow defining CC=/usr/bin/cc (and for CXX) for conan profile detect auto-detection. #16187

• Fix: Solve issue in pyinstaller.py script, it will no longer install pip install pyinstaller, having it installed will be a precondition #16186

• Fix: Use backslash in CMake helper for the CMakeLists.txt folder, fixes issue when project is in the drive root, like X: #16180

• Fix: Allowing conan editable remove <path> even when the path has been already deleted. #16170

• Fix: Fix conan new –help formatting issue. #16155

• Fix: Improved error message when there are conflicts in the graph. #16137

• Fix: Improve error message when one URL is not a valid server but still returns 200-ok under a Conan “ping” API call. #16126

• Fix: Solve sqlite3 issues in FreeBSD due to queries with double quotes. #16123

• Fix: Clean error message for conan cache restore <non-existing-file>. #16113

• Fix: Improve UX and error messages when a remotes or credentials file in the cache is invalid/empty. #16091

• Fix: Use cc executable in Linux systems for autodetect compiler (conan profile detect and detect_api). #16074

• Fix: Improve the definition of version ranges UX with better error message for invalid ==, ~=, ^= operators. #16069

• Fix: Improve error message UX when incorrect settings.yml or settings_user.yml. #16065

• Fix: Print a warning for Python 3.6 usage which is EOL since 2021. #16003

• Fix: Remove duplicated printing of command line in Autotools helper. #15991

• Fix: Add response error message output to HTTP Status 401 Errors in FileDownloader. #15983

• Fix: Add gcc 14 to default settings.yml. #15958

• Fix: Make VCVars use the compiler.update to specify the toolset. #15947

• Fix: Add rc to AutotoolsToolchain mapping of compiler_executables for cross-build Linux->Windows. #15946

• Fix: Add Pop!_OS to the distros using apt-get as system package manager. #15931

• Fix: Do not warn with package names containing the - character. #15920

• Fix: Fix html escaping of new --format=html graph output, and pass the graph serialized object instead of the string. #15915

• Bugfix: Make MesonToolchain listen to tools.build:defines conf variable. #16172 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Disallow self.cpp_info access in validate_build() method. #16135

• Bugfix: Don’t show a trace when .conanrc’s conan_home is invalid. #16134

• Bugfix: Avoid the propagation of transitive dependencies of tool_requires to generators information even if they are marked as visible=True. #16077

• Bugfix: BazelDeps now uses the requirement.build property instead of dependency.context one. #16025

• Bugfix: Make conan cache restore work correctly when restoring over a package already in the local cache. #15950

2.2.3 (17-Apr-2024)

• Fix: Fix to_apple_archs method when using architectures from settings_user. #16090

2.2.2 (25-Mar-2024)

• Fix: Avoid issues with recipe print(..., file=fileobj). #15934

• Fix: Fix broken calls to print(x, file=y) with duplicate keyword arguments. #15912

• Bugfix: Fix handling of tools.build:defines for multiconfig CMake. #15924

2.2.1 (20-Mar-2024)

• Fix: Add copytree_compat method for compatibility with Python>=3.12 after distutils removal. #15906

2.2.0 (20-Mar-2024)

• Feature: Raise for toolchains different than CMakeToolchain if using universal binary syntax. #15896

• Feature: Warn on misplaced requirement function calls #15888

• Feature: Print options conflicts in the graph caused by different branches recipes defining options values. #15876 . Docs here

• Feature: Add macOS versions 14.2, 14.3, 14.4 to settings.yml. #15859 . Docs here

• Feature: New graph html: more information, test-requires, hiding/showing different packages (build, test). #15846 . Docs here

• Feature: Add –backup-sources flag to conan cache clean. #15845

• Feature: Add conan graph outdated command that lists the dependencies that have newer versions in remotes #15838 . Docs here

• Feature: Set CMAKE_VS_DEBUGGER_ENVIRONMENT from CMakeToolchain to point to all binary directories when using Visual Studio. This negates the need to copy DLLs to launch executables from the Visual Studio IDE (requires CMake 3.27 or newer). #15830 . Docs here

• Feature: Add a parameter to trim_conandata to avoid raising an exception when conandata.yml file doesn’t exist. #15829 . Docs here

• Feature: Added build_context_folder ` to PkgConfigDeps. `#15813 . Docs here

• Feature: Included build.pkg_config_path ` in the built-in options section in the MesonToolchain template. `#15813 . Docs here

• Feature: Update _meson_cpu_family_map to support arm64ec. #15812

• Feature: Added support for Clang 18. #15806 . Docs here

• Feature: Add basic support in CMakeToolchain for universal binaries. #15775 . Docs here

• Feature: New tools.cmake.cmake_layout:build_folder config that allows re-defining cmake_layout local build-folder. #15767 . Docs here

• Feature: New tools.cmake.cmake_layout:test_folder config that allows re-defining cmake_layout output build folder for test_package, including a $TMP placeholder to create a temporary folder in system tmp. #15767 . Docs here

• Feature: (Experimental) Add conan config install-pkg myconf/[*] new configuration inside Conan packages with new package_type = "configuration". #15748 . Docs here

• Feature: (Experimental) New core.package_id:config_mode that allows configuration package reference to affect the package_id of all packages built with that configuration. #15748 . Docs here

• Feature: Make cppstd_flag public to return the corresponding C++ standard flag based on the settings. #15710 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow self.name and self.version in build_folder_vars attribute and conf. #15705 . Docs here

• Feature: Add conan list --filter-xxx arguments to list package binaries that match settings+options. #15697 . Docs here

• Feature: Add detect_libc to the detect_api to get the name and version of the C library. #15683 . Docs here

• Feature: New CommandAPI subapi in the ConanAPI that allows calling other commands. #15630 . Docs here

• Fix: Avoid unnecessary build of tool_requires when --build=missing and repeated tool_requires. #15885

• Fix: Fix CMakeDeps set_property(... APPEND argument order. #15877

• Fix: Raising an error when an infinite loop is found in the install graph (ill-formed dependency graph with loops). #15835

• Fix: Make sure detect_default_compiler() always returns a 3-tuple. #15832

• Fix: Print a clear message for conan graph explain when no binaries exist for one revision. #15823

• Fix: Add package_type="static-library" to the conan new msbuild_lib template. #15807

• Fix: Avoid platform_requires to fail when explicit options are being passed via requires(.., options={}). #15804

• Fix: Make CMakeToolchain end with newline. #15788

• Fix: Do not allow conan list binary filters or package query if a binary pattern is not provided. #15781

• Fix: Avoid CMakeToolchain.preprocessor_definition definitions to "None" literal string when it has no value (Python None). #15756

• Fix: Improved conan install <path> --deployer-package=* case that was crashing when using self.package_folder. #15737

• Fix: Fix conan graph info –format=html for large dependency graphs. #15724

• Fix: Make all recipe and plugins python file print() to stderr, so json outputs to stdout are not broken. #15704

• Fix: Fix getting the gnu triplet for Linux x86. #15699

• Bugfix: Solve backslash issues with conan_home_folder in global.conf when used in strings inside lists. #15870

• Bugfix: Fix CMakeDeps multi-config when there are conditional dependencies on the build_type. #15853

• Bugfix: Move get_backup_sources() method to expected CacheAPI from UploadAPI. #15845

• Bugfix: Avoid TypeError when a version in conandata.yml lists no patches. #15842

• Bugfix: Solve package_type=build-scripts issue with lockfiles and conan create. #15802

• Bugfix: Allow --channel command line argument if the recipe specifies user attribute. #15794

• Bugfix: Fix cross-compilation to Android from Windows when using MesonToolchain. #15790

• Bugfix: Fix CMakeToolchain GENERATOR_TOOLSET when compiler.update is defined. #15789

• Bugfix: Solved evaluation of conf items when they matched a Python module #15779

• Bugfix: Fix PkgConfigDeps generating .pc files for its tool_requires when it is in the build context already. #15763

• Bugfix: Adding VISIBILITY flags to CONAN_C_FLAGS too. #15762

• Bugfix: Fix conan profile show –format=json for profiles with scoped confs. #15747

• Bugfix: Fix legacy usage of update argument in Conan API. #15743

• Bugfix: Solve broken profile [conf] when strings contains Windows backslash. #15727

• Bugfix: Fix version precendence for metadata version ranges. #15653

2.1.0 (15-Feb-2024)

• Feature: Implement multi-config tools.build:xxxx flags in CMakeToolchain. #15654

• Feature: Add ability to pass patterns to –update flag. #15652 . Docs here

• Feature: Add –format=json formatter to conan build. #15651

• Feature: Added tools.build.cross_building:cross_build to decide whether cross-building or not regardless of the internal Conan mechanism. #15616

• Feature: Add –format=json option to conan cache path. #15613

• Feature: Add the –order-by argument for conan graph build-order. #15602 . Docs here

• Feature: Provide a new graph build-order --reduce argument to reduce the order exclusively to packages that need to be built from source. #15573 . Docs here

• Feature: Add configuration to specify desired CUDA Toolkit in CMakeToolchain for Visual Studio CMake generators. #15572 . Docs here

• Feature: New “important” options values definition, with higher precedence over regular option value definitions. #15571 . Docs here

• Feature: Display message when calling deactivate_conanvcvars. #15557

• Feature: Add self.info information of package_id to serialized output in the graph, and forward it to package-lists. #15553 . Docs here

• Feature: Log Git tool commands when running in verbose mode. #15514

• Feature: Add verbose debug information (with -vvv) for conan.tools.files.copy() calls. #15513

• Feature: Define python_requires = "tested_reference_str" for explicit test_package of python_requires. #15485 . Docs here

• Feature: Adding CMakeToolchain.presets_build/run_environment to modify CMakePresets environment in generate() method. #15470 . Docs here

• Feature: Add –allowed-packges to remotes to limit what references a remote can supply. #15464 . Docs here

• Feature: Initial documentation to make RemotesAPI publicly available (experimental). #15462

• Feature: Add support for use of vcvars env variables when calling from powershell. #15461 . Docs here

• Feature: New Git(..., excluded=[]) feature to avoid “dirty” errors in Git helper. #15457 . Docs here

• Feature: New core.scm:excluded feature to avoid “dirty” errors in Git helper and revision_mode = "scm". #15457 . Docs here

• Feature: Recipe python_package_id_mode for python_requires recipes, to define per-recipe effect on consumers package_id. #15453 . Docs here

• Feature: Add cmakeExecutable to configure preset. #15447 . Docs here

• Feature: Add new --core-conf command line argument to allow passing core. confs via CLI. #15441 . Docs here

• Feature: Add detect_api.detect_msvc_update(version) helper to detect_api. #15435 . Docs here

• Feature: CMakeToolchain defines jobs in generated CMakePresets.json buildPresets. #15422

• Feature: Allow nested “ANY” definitions in settings.yml. #15415 . Docs here

• Feature: Helpers Git().coordinates_to_conandata() and Git().checkout_from_conandata_coordinates() to simplify scm based flows. #15377

• Feature: AutotoolsToolchain automatically inject -FS for VS. #15375

• Feature: New conan upload core.upload:parallel for faster parallel uploads. #15360 . Docs here

• Feature: Intel oneAPI compiler detection improvement. #15358

• Feature: Display progress for long conan list commands. #15354

• Feature: Add extension_properties attribute to pass information to extensions from recipes. #15348 . Docs here

• Feature: Implement compatibility_cppstd in extension_properties for the compatibility.py plugin to disable fallback to other cppstd for the recipe. #15348 . Docs here

• Feature: Add Git.get_commit(..., repository=True) to obtain the repository commit, not the folder commit. #15304

• Feature: Ensure --build=editable and --build=cascade works together. #15300 . Docs here

• Feature: New conan graph build-order --order=configuration to output a different order, sorted by package binaries/configurations, not grouped by recipe revisions. #15270 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow copy&paste of recipe revisions with timestamps from --format=compact into conan lock add. #15262 . Docs here

• Fix: Guarantee order of generators attribute execution. #15678

• Fix: Solve issue with [platform_tool_requires] in the build profile and context. Discard [platform_requires] in build profile. #15665

• Fix: Fix gcc detection in conda environments. #15664

• Fix: Improve handling of .dirty download files when uploading backup sources. #15601

• Fix: Fix relativize paths in generated files. #15592

• Fix: Allow None values for CMakeToolchain.preprocessor_definitions that will map to definitions without values. #15545 . Docs here

• Fix: Fix graph build-order –order=configuration text format output. #15538

• Fix: Raise a helpful error when the remote is not reachable in case the user wants to work in offline mode. #15516

• Fix: Avoid missing file stacktrace when no metadata exists for a source backup. #15501

• Fix: Remove --lockfile-packages argument, it was not documented as it is was not intended for public usage. #15499 . Docs here

• Fix: Raise if check_type=int and conf value is set to bool. #15378

• Fix: Add pkg-config entry to machine file generated by MesonToolchain, due to pkgconfig entry being deprecated since Meson 1.3.0. #15369

• Fix: Fix graph explain not showing some differences in requirements if missing. #15355

• Fix: Fix tools.info.package_id:confs when pattern did not match any defined conf. #15353

• Fix: Fix upload_policy=skip with --build=missing issues. #15336

• Fix: Accept conan download/upload --list=.. --only-recipe to download only the recipes. #15312

• Fix: Allow cmake.build(build_type="Release") for recipes built with multi-config systems but without build_type setting. #14780

• Bugfix: Fix MSBuildDeps with components and skipped dependencies. #15626

• Bugfix: Avoid provides raising an error for packages that self tool_requires to themselves to cross-build. #15575

• Bugfix: Fix build scope OS detection in tools.microsoft.visual.VCVars. #15568

• Bugfix: Fix wrong propagation over visible=False when dependency is header-only. #15564

• Bugfix: Store the temporary cache folders inside core.cache:storage_path, so conan cache clean also finds and clean them correctly. #15505

• Bugfix: The conan export-pkg --format=json output now returns recipe = "cache" status, as the recipe is in the cache after the command. #15504

• Bugfix: The conan export-pkg command stores the lockfile excluding the test_package, following the same behavior as conan create. #15504

• Bugfix: Avoid conan test failing for python_requires test-package. #15485 . Docs here

• Bugfix: MesonToolchain calculates a valid apple_min_version_flag. #15465

• Bugfix: Allow to limit os, compiler and other settings with subsettings in build_id() and package_id() methods. #15439

• Bugfix: Fix getting environment variable CONAN_LOGIN_USERNAME_REMOTE. #15388

• Bugfix: Don’t take . folder into consideration for tools.files.copy() excludes patterns. #15349

• Bugfix: Disable creating editables without name and version. #15337

• Bugfix: Fix Git.get_url_and_commit raising for some Git configs. #15271

• Bugfix: Direct dependencies in the “host” context of packages being built shouldn’t be skipped. This allows for non C/C++ libraries artifacts, like images, in the “host” context, to be used as build-time resources. #15128

2.0.17 (10-Jan-2024)

• Fix: Automatically create folder if conan cache save --file=subfolder/file.tgz subfolder doesn’t exist. #15409

• Bugfix: Fix libcxx detection when using CC/CXX env vars. #15418 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Solve winsdk_version bug in CMakeToolchain generator for cmake_minimum_required(3.27). #15373

• Bugfix: Fix visible trait propagation with build=True trait. #15357

• Bugfix: Fix package_id calculation when including conf values thru tools.info.package_id:confs. #15356

• Bugfix: Order conf items when dumping them to allow reproducible package_id independent of the order the confs were declared. #15356

2.0.16 (21-Dec-2023)

• Bugfix: Revert the default of source_buildenv, make it False by default. #15319 . Docs here

2.0.15 (20-Dec-2023)

• Feature: New conan lock remove command to remove requires from lockfiles. #15284 . Docs here

• Feature: New CMake.ctest() helper method to launch directly ctest instead of via cmake --target=RUN_TEST. #15282

• Feature: Add tracking syntax in <host_version> for different references. #15274 . Docs here

• Feature: Adding tools.microsoft:winsdk_version conf to make VCVars generator to use the given winsdk_version. #15272 . Docs here

• Feature: Add pkglist formatter for conan export command. #15266 . Docs here

• Feature: Define CONAN_LOG_LEVEL env-var to be able to change verbosity at a global level. #15263 . Docs here

• Feature: conan cache path xxx –folder xxxx raises an error if the folder requested does not exist. #15257

• Feature: Add in operator support for ConanFile’s self.dependencies. #15221 . Docs here

• Feature: Make CMakeDeps generator create a conandeps.cmake that aggregates all direct dependencies in a cmake-like generator style. #15207 . Docs here

• Feature: Add build environment information to CMake configure preset and run environment information to CMake test presets. #15192 . Docs here

• Feature: Removed a warning about a potential issue with conan migration that would print every time a build failed. #15174

• Feature: New deploy() method in recipes for explicit per-recipe deployment. #15172 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow tool-requires to be used in source() method injecting environment. #15153 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow accessing the contents of settings.yml (and settings_user!) from ConfigAPI. #15151

• Feature: Add builtin conf access from ConfigAPI. #15151

• Feature: Add redirect_stdout to CMake integration methods. #15150

• Feature: Add core:warnings_as_errors configuration option to make Conan raise on warnings and errors. #15149 . Docs here

• Feature: Added FTP_TLS option using secure argument in ftp_download for secure communication. #15137

• Feature: New [replace_requires] and [replace_tool_requires] in profile for redefining requires, useful for package replacements like zlibng/zlib, to solve conflicts, and to replace some dependencies by system alternatives wrapped in another Conan package recipe. #15136 . Docs here

• Feature: Add stderr capture argument to conanfile’s run() method. #15121 . Docs here

• Feature: New [platform_requires] profile definition to be able to replace Conan dependencies by platform-provided dependencies. #14871 . Docs here

• Feature: New conan graph explain command to search, compare and explain missing binaries. #14694 . Docs here

• Feature: Global cpp_info can be used to initialize components values. #13994

• Fix: Make core:warnings_as_errors accept a list #15297

• Fix: Fix user confs package scoping when no separator was given #15296

• Fix: Fix range escaping in conflict reports involving ranges. #15222

• Fix: Allow hard set_name() and set_version() to mutate name and version provided in command line. #15211 . Docs here

• Fix: Make conan graph info –format=text print to stdout. #15170

• Fix: Avoid warning in CMake output due to CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP0091 unused variable. #15127

• Fix: Deprecate [system_tools] in favor of [platform_tool_requires] to align with [platform_requires] for regular dependencies. Changed output from “System tool” to “Platform”. #14871 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Ensure user confs have at least 1 : separator #15296

• Bugfix: Git.is_dirty() will use git status . -s to make sure it only process the current path, not the whole repo, similarly to other Git methods. #15289

• Bugfix: Make self.info.clear() and header-only packages to remove python_requires and tool_requires. #15285 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Make conan cache save/restore portable across Windows and other OSs. #15253

• Bugfix: Do not relativize absolute paths in deployers. #15244

• Bugfix: Add architecture to CMakePresets to avoid cmake ignoring toolchain definitions when using presets. #15215

• Bugfix: Fix conan graph info –format=html reporting misleading conflicting nodes. #15196

• Bugfix: Fix serialization of tool_requires in conan profile show –format=json. #15185

• Bugfix: Fix NMakeDeps quoting issues. #15140

• Bugfix: Fix the 2.0.14 migration to add LRU data to the cache when storage_path conf is defined. #15135

• Bugfix: Fix definition of package_metadata_folder for conan export-pkg command. #15126

• Bugfix: pyinstaller.py was broken for Python 3.12 due to a useless distutils import. #15116

• Bugfix: Fix backup sources error when no core.sources:download_cache is set. #15109

2.0.14 (14-Nov-2023)

• Feature: Added riscv64, riscv32 architectures to default settings.yml and management of them in Meson and Autotools. #15053

• Feature: Allow only one simultaneous database connection. #15029

• Feature: Add conan cache backup-upload to upload all the backup sources in the cache, regardless of which references they are from #15013 . Docs here

• Feature: New conan list --format=compact for better UX. #15011 . Docs here

• Feature: Ignore metadata upload by passing –metadata=”” #15007 . Docs here

• Feature: Better output messages in conan upload #14984

• Feature: Add extra flags to CMakeToolchain. #14966 . Docs here

• Feature: Implement package load/restore from the cache, for CI workflows and moving packages over air-gaps. #14923 . Docs here

• Feature: Compute version-ranges intersection to avoid graph version conflicts for compatible ranges #14912

• Feature: CMake helper can use multiple targets in target argument. #14883

• Feature: Add Macos 13.6 to settings.yml. #14858 . Docs here

• Feature: Add CMakeDeps and PkgConfigDeps generators listening to system_package_version property. #14808 . Docs here

• Feature: Add shorthand syntax in cli to specify host and build in 1 argument #14727 . Docs here

• Feature: Implement cache LRU control for cleaning of unused artifacts. #14054 . Docs here

• Fix: Avoid CMakeToolchain overwriting user CMakePresets.json when no layout nor output-folder is defined #15058

• Fix: Add astra, elbrus and altlinux as distribution using apt in SystemPackageManager #15051

• Fix: Default to apt-get package manager in Linux Mint #15026 . Docs here

• Fix: Make Git() check commits in remote server even for shallow clones. #15023

• Fix: Add new Apple OS versions to settings.yml #15015

• Fix: Fix AutotoolsToolchain extraflags priority. #15005 . Docs here

• Fix: Remove colors from conan --version output #15002

• Fix: Add an error message if the sqlite3 version is unsupported (less than 3.7.11 from 2012) #14950

• Fix: Make cache DB always use forward slash for paths, to be uniform across Windows and Linux #14940

• Fix: Solve re-build of an existing package revision (like forcing rebuild of a an existing header-only package), while previous folder was still used by other projects. #14938

• Fix: Avoid a recipe mutating a conf to affect other recipes. #14932 . Docs here

• Fix: The output of system packages via Apt.install() or PkgConfig.fill_cpp_info, like xorg/system was very noisy to the Conan output, making it more quiet #14924

• Fix: Serialize the path information of python_requires, necessary for computing buildinfo #14886

• Fix: Define remotes in conan source command in case recipe has python_requires that need to be downloaded from remotes. #14852

• Fix: Fix min target flag for xros and xros-simulator. #14776

• Bugfix: --build=missing was doing unnecessary builds of packages that were not needed and could be skipped, in the case of tool_requires having transitive dependencies. #15082

• BugFix: Add package revision to format=json in ‘conan export-pkg’ command #15042

• Bugfix: tools.build:download_source=True will not fail when there are editable packages. #15004 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Transitive dependencies were incorrectly added to conandeps.xcconfig. #14898

• Bugfix: Fix integrity-check (upload --check or cache check-integrity) when the export_source has not been downloaded #14850

• Bugfix: Properly lock release candidates of python requires #14846

• BugFix: Version ranges ending with - do not automatically activate pre-releases resolution in the full range. #14814 . Docs here

• BugFix: Fix version ranges so pre-releases are correctly included in the lower bound and excluded in the upper bound. #14814 . Docs here

2.0.13 (28-Sept-2023)

• Bugfix: Fix wrong cppstd detection for newer apple-clang versions introduced in 2.0.11. #14837

2.0.12 (26-Sept-2023)

• Feature: Add support for Clang 17. #14781 . Docs here

• Feature: Add –dry-run for conan remove. #14760 . Docs here

• Feature: Add host_tool to install() method in package_manager to indicate whether the package is a host tool or a library. #14752 . Docs here

• Fix: Better error message when trying to export-pkg a python-require package, and avoid it being exported and then failing. #14819

• Fix: CMakeDeps allows set_property() on all properties. #14813

• Fix: Add minor version for Apple clang 15.0. #14797 . Docs here

• Fix: conan build command prettier error when <path> argument not provided. #14787

• Bugfix: fix compatibility() over settings_target making it None #14825

• Bugfix: compatible packages look first in the cache, and only if not found, the servers, to allow offline installs when there are compatible packages. #14800

• BugFix: Reuse session in ConanRequester to speed up requests. #14795

• Bugfix: Fix relative paths of editable packages when they have components partially defining directories. #14782

2.0.11 (18-Sept-2023)

• Feature: Add --format=json formatter to conan profile show command #14743 . Docs here

• Feature: add new –deployer –generators args to ‘conan build’ cmd #14737 . Docs here

• Feature: Better CMakeToolchain blocks interface. Added new .blocks.select(), .blocks.keys(). #14731 . Docs here

• Feature: Add message when copying large files from download cache instead of downloading from server. #14716

• Feature: MesonToolchain shows a warning message if any options are used directly. #14692 . Docs here

• Feature: Support clang-cl in default profile plugin. #14682 . Docs here

• Feature: Added mechanism to transform c, cpp, and/or ld binaries variables from Meson into lists if declared blank-separated strings. #14676

• Feature: Add nobara distro to dnf package manager mapping. #14668

• Feature: Ensure meson toolchain sets b_vscrt with clang-cl. #14664

• Feature: Supporting regex pattern for conf tools.info.package_id:confs #14621 . Docs here

• Feature: MakeDeps: Provide “require” information, and more styling tweaks. #14605

• Feature: New detect_api to be used in profiles jinja templates. #14578 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow access to settings_target in compatibility method. #14532

• Fix: Add missing minor macos versions #14740 . Docs here

• Fix: Improve error messages in ConanApi init failures, #14735

• Fix: CMakeDeps: Remove “Target name … already exists” warning about duplicating aliases. #14644

• Bugfix: Fix regression in Git.run() when win_bash=True. #14756

• Bugfix: Change the default check=False in conan.tools.system.package_manager.Apt to True as the other package manager tools. #14728 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Solved propagation of transitive shared dependencies of test_requires with diamonds. #14721

• Bugfix: Solve crash with conan export-pkg with test_package doing calls to remotes. #14712

• Bugfix: Do not binary-skip packages that have transitive dependencies that are not skipped, otherwise the build chain of build systems to those transitive dependencies like CMakeDeps generated files are broken. #14673

• Bugfix: Fix detected CPU architecture when running conan profile detect on native ARM64 Windows. #14667

• Bugfix: conan lock create --update now correctly updates references from servers if newer than cache ones. #14643

• Bugfix: Fix unnecessarily decorating command stdout with escape sequences. #14642

• Bugfix: tools.info.package_id:confs shouldn’t affect header-only libraries. #14622

2.0.10 (29-Aug-2023)

• Feature: Allow patch_user in conandata.yml definition for user patches, not handled by apply_conandata_patches(). #14576 . Docs here

• Feature: Support for Xcode 15, iOS 17, tvOS 17, watchOS 10, macOS 14. #14538

• Feature: Raise an error if users are adding incorrect ConanCenter web URL as remote. #14531

• Feature: Serialization of graph with --format=json adds information to python_requires so conan list --graph can list python_requires too. #14529

• Feature: Add rrev, rrev_timestamp and prev_timestamp to the graph json serialization. #14526

• Feature: Allow version-ranges to resolve to editable packages too. #14510

• Feature: Add tools.files.download:verify. #14508 . Docs here

• Feature: Add support for Apple visionOS. #14504

• Feature: Warn of unknown version range options. #14493

• Feature: Add tools.graph:skip_binaries to control binary skipping in the graph. #14466 . Docs here

• Feature: New tools.deployer:symlinks configuration to disable symlinks copy in deployers. #14461 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow remotes to automatically resolve missing python_requires in ‘editable add’. #14413 . Docs here

• Feature: Add cli_args argument for CMake.install(). #14397 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow test_requires(..., force=True). #14394 . Docs here

• Feature: New credentials.json file to store credentials for Conan remotes. #14392 . Docs here

• Feature: Added support for apk package manager and Alpine Linux #14382 . Docs here

• Feature: conan profile detect can now detect the version of msvc when invoked within a Visual Studio prompt where CC or CXX are defined and pointing to the cl compiler executable #14364

• Feature: Properly document --build=editable build mode. #14358 . Docs here

• Feature: conan create --build-test=missing new argument to control what is being built as dependencies of the test_package folder. #14347 . Docs here

• Feature: Provide new default_build_options attribute for defining options for tool_requires in recipes. #14340 . Docs here

• Feature: Implement ...@ as a pattern for indicating matches with packages without user/channel. #14338 . Docs here

• Feature: Add support to Makefile by the new MakeDeps generator #14133 . Docs here

• Fix: Allow –format=json in conan create for python-requires #14594

• Fix: Remove conan v2 ready conan-center link. #14593

• Fix: Make conan inspect use all remotes by default. #14572 . Docs here

• Fix: Allow extra hyphens in versions pre-releases. #14561

• Fix: Allow confs for tools.cmake.cmaketoolchain to be used if defined even if tools.cmake.cmaketoolchain:user_toolchain is defined. #14556 . Docs here

• Fix: Serialize booleans of dependencies in --format=json for graphs as booleans, not strings. #14530 . Docs here

• Fix: Avoid errors in conan upload when python_requires are not in the cache and need to be downloaded. #14511

• Fix: Improve error check of lock add adding a full package reference instead of a recipe reference. #14491

• Fix: Better error message when a built-in deployer failed to copy files. #14461 . Docs here

• Fix: Do not print non-captured stacktraces to stdout but to stderr. #14444

• Fix: Serialize conf_info in --format=json output. #14442

• Fix: MSBuildToolchain/MSBuildDeps: Avoid passing C/C++ compiler options as options for ResourceCompile. #14378

• Fix: Removal of plugin files result in a better error message instead of stacktrace. #14376

• Fix: Fix CMake system processor name on armv8/aarch64. #14362

• Fix: Make backup sources core.sources conf not mandate the final slash. #14342

• Fix: Correctly propagate options defined in recipe default_options to test_requires. #14340 . Docs here

• Fix: Invoke XCRun using conanfile.run() so that environment is injected. #14326

• Fix: Use abspath for conan config install to avoid symlinks issues. #14183

• Bugfix: Solve build_id() issues, when multiple different package_ids reusing same build-folder. #14555

• Bugfix: Avoid DB errors when timestamp is not provided to conan download when using package lists. #14526

• Bugfix: Print exception stacktrace (when -vtrace is set) into stderr instead of stdout #14522

• Bugfix: Print only packages confirmed interactively in conan upload. #14512

• Bugfix: ‘conan remove’ was outputting all entries in the cache matching the filter not just the once which where confirmed by the user. #14478

• Bugfix: Better error when passing –channel without –user. #14443

• Bugfix: Fix settings_target computation for tool_requires of packages already in the “build” context. #14441

• Bugfix: Avoid DB is locked error when core.download:parallel is defined. #14410

• Bugfix: Make generated powershell environment scripts relative when using deployers. #14391

• Bugfix: fix profile [tool_requires] using revisions that were ignored. #14337

2.0.9 (19-Jul-2023)

• Feature: Add implements attribute in ConanFile to provide automatic management of some options and settings. #14320 . Docs here

• Feature: Add apple-clang 15. #14302

• Fix: Allow repository being dirty outside of conanfile.py folder when using revision_mode = “scm_folder”. #14330

• Fix: Improve the error messages and provide Conan traces for errors in compatibility.py and profile.py plugins. #14322

• Fix: flush() output streams after every message write. #14310

• Bugfix: Fix Package signing plugin not verifying the downloaded sources. #14331 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Fix CMakeUserPresets inherits from conan generated presets due to typo. #14325

• Bugfix: ConanPresets.json contains duplicate presets if multiple user presets inherit from the same conan presets. #14296

• Bugfix: Meson prefix param is passed as UNIX path. #14295

• Bugfix: Fix CMake Error: Invalid level specified for –loglevel when tools.build:verbosity is set to quiet. #14289

2.0.8 (13-Jul-2023)

• Feature: Add GCC 10.5 to default settings.yml. #14252

• Feature: Let pkg_config_custom_content overwrite default *.pc variables created by PkgConfigDeps. #14233 . Docs here

• Feature: Let pkg_config_custom_content be a dict-like object too. #14233 . Docs here

• Feature: The fix_apple_shared_install_name tool now uses xcrun to resolve the otool and install_name_tool programs. #14195

• Feature: Manage shared, fPIC, and header_only options automatically. #14194 . Docs here

• Feature: Manage package ID for header-library package type automatically. #14194 . Docs here

• Feature: New cpp_info.set_property("cmake_package_version_compat" , "AnyNewerVersion") for CMakeDeps generator. #14176 . Docs here

• Feature: Metadata improvements. #14152

• Fix: Improve error message when missing binaries with conan test command. #14272

• Fix: Make conan download command no longer need to load conanfile, won’t fail for 1.X recipes or missing python_requires. #14261

• Fix: Using upload with the –list argument now permits empty recipe lists. #14254

• Fix: Guarantee that Options.rm_safe never raises. #14238

• Fix: Allow tools.gnu:make_program to affect every CMake configuration. #14223

• Fix: Add missing package_type to conan new lib templates. #14215

• Fix: Add clarification for the default folder shown when querying a package reference. #14199 . Docs here

• Fix: Enable existing status-message code in the patch() function. #14177

• Fix: Use configuration in XcodeDeps instead of always build_type. #14168

• Fix: Respect symlinked path for cache location. #14164

• Fix: PkgConfig uses conanfile.run() instead of internal runner to get full Conan environment from profiles and dependencies. #13985

• Bugfix: Fix leaking of CMakeDeps CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES variable. #14253

• Bugfix: Fix conan not finding generator by name when multiple custom global generators are detected. #14227

• Bugfix: Improve display of graph conflicts in conan graph info in html format. #14190

• Bugfix: Fix CMakeToolchain cross-building from Linux to OSX. #14187

• Bugfix: Fix KeyError in backup sources when no package is selected. #14185

2.0.7 (21-Jun-2023)

• Feature: Add new arm64ec architecture, used to define CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM. #14114 . Docs here

• Feature: Make CppInfo a public, documented, importable tool for generators that need to aggregate them. #14101 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow conan remove --list=pkglist to remove package-lists. #14082 . Docs here

• Feature: Output for conan remove --format both text (summary of deleted things) and json. #14082 . Docs here

• Feature: Add core.sources:excluded_urls to backup sources. #14020

• Feature: conan test command learned the --format=json formatter. #14011 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow pkg/[version-range] expressions in conan list (and download, upload, remove) patterns. #14004 . Docs here

• Feature: Add conan upload --dry-run equivalent to 1.X conan upload --skip-upload. #14002 . Docs here

• Feature: Add new command conan version to format the output. #13999 . Docs here

• Feature: Small UX improvement to print some info while downloading large files. #13989

• Feature: Use PackagesList as input argument for conan upload --list=pkglist.json. #13928 . Docs here

• Feature: Use --graph input for conan list to create a PackagesList that can be used as input for conan upload. #13928 . Docs here

• Feature: New metadata files associated to recipes and packages that can be uploaded, downloaded and added after the package exists. #13918

• Feature: Allow to specify a custom deployer output folder. #13757 . Docs here

• Feature: Split build & compilation verbosity control to two confs. #13729 . Docs here

• Feature: Added bindir to generated .pc file in PkgConfigDeps. #13623 . Docs here

• Fix: Deprecate AutoPackage remnant from Conan 1.X. #14083 . Docs here

• Fix: Fix description for the conf entry for default build profile used. #14075 . Docs here

• Fix: Allow spaces in path in Git helper. #14063 . Docs here

• Fix: Remove trailing . in conanfile.xxx_folder that is breaking subsystems like msys2. #14061

• Fix: Avoid caching issues when some intermediate package in the graph calls aggregated_components() over some dependency and using --deployer, generators still pointed to the Conan cache and not deployed copy. #14060

• Fix: Allow internal Cli object to be called more than once. #14053

• Fix: Force pyyaml>=6 for Python 3.10, as previous versions broke. #13990

• Fix: Improve graph conflict message when Conan can’t show one of the conflicting recipes. #13946

• Bugfix: Solve bug in timestamp of non-latest revision download from the server. #14110

• Bugfix: Fix double base path setup in editable packages. #14109

• Bugfix: Raise if conan graph build-order graph has any errors, instead of quietly doing nothing and outputting and empty json. #14106

• Bugfix: Avoid incorrect path replacements for editable packages when folders have overlapping matching names. #14095

• Bugfix: Set clang as the default FreeBSD detected compiler. #14065

• Bugfix: Add prefix var and any custom content (through the pkg_config_custom_content property) to already generated pkg-config root .pc files by PkgConfigDeps. #14051

• Bugfix: conan create command returns always the same output for --format=json result graph, irrespective of test_package existence. #14011 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Fix problem with editable packages when defining self.folders.root=".." parent directory. #13983

• Bugfix: Removed libdir1 and includedir1 as the default index. Now, PkgConfigDeps creates the libdir and includedir variables by default in .pc files. #13623 . Docs here

2.0.6 (26-May-2023)

• Feature: Add a tools.cmake:cmake_program configuration item to allow specifying the location of the desired CMake executable. #13940 . Docs here

• Fix: Output “id” property in graph json output as str instead of int. #13964 . Docs here

• Fix: Fix custom commands in a layer not able to do a local import. #13944

• Fix: Improve the output of download + unzip. #13937

• Fix: Add missing values to package_manager:mode in conan config install. #13929

• Bugfix: Ensuring the same graph-info JSON output for graph info, create, export-pkg, and install. #13967 . Docs here

• Bugfix: test_requires were affecting the package_id of consumers as regular requires, but they shouldn’t. #13966

• Bugfix: Define source_folder correctly in the json output when -c tools.build:download_source=True. #13953

• Bugfix: Fixed and completed the graph info xxxx –format json output, to publicly document it. #13934 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Fix “double” absolute paths in premakedeps. #13926

• Bugfix: Fix regression from 2.0.5 https://github.com/conan-io/conan/pull/13898, in which overrides of packages and components specification was failing #13923

2.0.5 (18-May-2023)

• Feature: -v argument defaults to the VERBOSE level. #13839

• Feature: Avoid showing unnecessary skipped dependencies. Now, it only shows a list of reference names if exists skipped binaries. They can be completely listed by adding -v (verbose mode) to the current command. #13836

• Feature: Allow step-into dependencies debugging for packages built locally with --build #13833 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow non relocatable, locally built packages with upload_policy="skip" and build_policy="missing" #13833 . Docs here

• Feature: Do not move “build” folders in cache when package-revision is computed to allow locating sources for dependencies debuggability with step-into #13810

• Feature: New settings.possible_values() method to query the range of possible values for a setting. #13796 . Docs here

• Feature: Optimize and avoid hitting servers for binaries when upload_policy=skip #13771

• Feature: Partially relativize generated environment .sh shell scripts #13764

• Feature: Improve settings.yml error messages #13748

• Feature: Auto create empty global.conf to improve UX looking for file in home. #13746 . Docs here

• Feature: Render the profile file name as profile_name #13721 . Docs here

• Feature: New global custom generators in cache “extensions/generators” that can be used by name. #13718 . Docs here

• Feature: Improve conan inspect output, it now understands set_name/set_version. #13716 . Docs here

• Feature: Define new self.tool_requires("pkg/<host_version>") to allow some tool-requires to follow and use the same version as the “host” regular requires do. #13712 . Docs here

• Feature: Introduce new core:skip_warns configuration to be able to silence some warnings in the output. #13706 . Docs here

• Feature: Add info_invalid to graph node serialization #13688

• Feature: Computing and reporting the overrides in the graph, and in the graph build-order #13680

• Feature: New revision_mode = "scm_folder" for mono-repo projects that want to use scm revisions. #13562 . Docs here

• Feature: Demonstrate that it is possible to tool_requires different versions of the same package. #13529 . Docs here

• Fix: build_scripts now set the run trait to True by default #13901 . Docs here

• Fix: Fix XcodeDeps includes skipped dependencies. #13880

• Fix: Do not allow line feeds into pkg/version reference fields #13870

• Fix: Fix AutotoolsToolchain definition of tools.build:compiler_executable for Windows subsystems #13867

• Fix: Speed up the CMakeDeps generation #13857

• Fix: Fix imported library config suffix. #13841

• Fix: Fail when defining an unkown conf #13832

• Fix: Fix incorrect printing of “skipped” binaries in the conan install/create commands, when they are used by some other dependencies. #13778

• Fix: Renaming the cache “deploy” folder to “deployers” and allow -d, --deployer cli arg. (“deploy” folder will not break but will warn as deprecated). #13740 . Docs here

• Fix: Omit -L libpaths in CMakeDeps for header-only libraries. #13704

• Bugfix: Fix when a test_requires is also a regular transitive “host” requires and consumer defines components. #13898

• Bugfix: Fix propagation of options like *:shared=True defined in recipes #13855

• Bugfix: Fix --lockfile-out paths for ‘graph build-order’ and ‘test’ commands #13853

• Bugfix: Ensure backup sources are uploaded in more cases #13846

• Bugfix: fix settings.yml definition of intel-cc cppstd=03 #13844

• Bugfix: Fix conan upload with backup sources for exported-only recipes #13779

• Bugfix: Fix conan lock merge of lockfiles containing alias #13763

• Bugfix: Fix python_requires in transitive deps with version ranges #13762

• Bugfix: fix CMakeToolchain CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Generic for baremetal #13739

• Bugfix: Fix incorrect environment scripts deactivation order #13707

• Bugfix: Solve failing lockfiles when graph has requirements with override=True #13597

2.0.4 (11-Apr-2023)

• Feature: extend --build-require to more commands (graph info, lock create, install) and cases. #13669 . Docs here

• Feature: Add -d tool_requires to conan new. #13608 . Docs here

• Feature: Make CMakeDeps, CMakeToolchain and Environment (.bat, Windows only) generated files have relative paths. #13607

• Feature: Adding preliminary (non documented, dev-only) support for premake5 deps (PremakeDeps). #13390

• Fix: Update old conan user references to conan remote login. #13671

• Fix: Improve dependencies options changed in requirements() error msg. #13668

• Fix: [system_tools] was not reporting the correct resolved version, but still the original range. #13667

• Fix: Improve provides conflict message error. #13661

• Fix: When server responds Forbidden to the download of 1 file in a recipe/package, make sure other files and DB are cleaned. #13626

• Fix: Add error in conan remove when using –package-query without providing a pattern that matches packages. #13622

• Fix: Add direct_deploy subfolder for the direct_deploy deployer. #13612 . Docs here

• Fix: Fix html output when pattern does not list package revisions, like: conan list "*#*:*". #13605

• Bugfix: conan list -p <package-query> failed when a package had no settings or options. #13662

• Bugfix: python_requires now properly loads remote requirements. #13657

• Bugfix: Fix crash when override is used in a node of the graph that is also the closing node of a diamond. #13631

• Bugfix: Fix the --package-query argument for options. #13618

• Bugfix: Add full_deploy subfolder for the full_deploy deployer to avoid collision with “build” folder. #13612 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Make STATUS the default log level. #13610

• Bugfix: Fix double delete error in conan cache clean. #13601

2.0.3 (03-Apr-2023)

• Feature: conan cache clean learned the --all and --temp to clean everything (sources, builds) and also the temporary folders. #13581 . Docs here

• Feature: Introduce the conf dictionary update semantics with *= operator. #13571 . Docs here

• Feature: Support MacOS SDK 13.1 (available in Xcode 14.2). #13531

• Feature: The full_deploy deployer together with CMakeDeps generator learned to create relative paths deploys, so they are relocatable. #13526

• Feature: Introduce the conan remove *#!latest (also for package-revisions), to remove all revisions except the latest one. #13505 . Docs here

• Feature: New conan cache check-integrity command to replace 1.X legacy conan upload --skip-upload --check. #13502 . Docs here

• Feature: Add filtering for options and settings in conan list html output. #13470

• Feature: Automatic server side source backups for third parties. #13461

• Feature: Add tools.android:cmake_legacy_toolchain configuration useful when building CMake projects for Android. If defined, this will set the value of ANDROID_USE_LEGACY_TOOLCHAIN_FILE. It may be useful to set this to False if compiler flags are defined via tools.build:cflags or tools.build:cxxflags to prevent Android’s legacy CMake toolchain from overriding the values. #13459 . Docs here

• Feature: Default tools.files.download:download_cache to core.download:download_cache, so it is only necessary to define one. #13458

• Feature: Authentication for tools.files.download(). #13421 . Docs here

• Fix: Define a way to update default_options in python_requires_extend extension. #13487 . Docs here

• Fix: Allow again to specify self.options["mydep"].someoption=value, equivalent to "mydep/*". #13467

• Fix: Generate cpp_std=vc++20 for c++20 with meson with VS2019 and VS2022, rather than vc++latest. #13450

• Bugfix: Fixed CMakeDeps not clearing CONAN_SHARED_FOUND_LIBRARY var in find_library(). #13596

• Bugfix: Do not allow adding more than 1 remote with the same remote name. #13574

• Bugfix: cmd_wrapper added missing parameter conanfile. #13564 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Avoid generators errors because dependencies binaries of editable packages were “skip”. #13544

• Bugfix: Fix subcommands names when the parent command has underscores. #13516

• Bugfix: Fix python-requires in remotes when running conan export-pkg. #13496

• Bugfix: Editable packages now also follow build_folder_vars configuration. #13488

• Bugfix: Fix [system_tools] profile composition. #13468

2.0.2 (15-Mar-2023)

• Feature: Allow relative paths to the Conan home folder in the global.conf. #13415 . Docs here

• Feature: Some improvements for html formatter in conan list command. #13409 . Docs here

• Feature: Adds an optional “build_script_folder” argument to the autoreconf method of the Autotools class. It mirrors the same argument and behavior of the configure method of the same class. That is, it allows one to override where the tool is run (by default it runs in the source_folder. #13403

• Feature: Create summary of cached content. #13386

• Feature: Add conan config show <conf> command. #13354 . Docs here

• Feature: Allow global.conf jinja2 inclusion of other files. #13336

• Feature: Add conan export-pkg --skip-binaries to allow exporting without binaries of dependencies. #13324 . Docs here

• Feature: Add core.version_ranges:resolve_prereleases conf to control whether version ranges can resolve to prerelease versions #13321

• Fix: Allow automatic processing of package_type = "build-scripts" in conan create as --build-require. #13433

• Fix: Improve the detection and messages of server side package corruption. #13432

• Fix: Fix conan download help typo. #13430

• Fix: Remove profile arguments from conan profile path. #13423 . Docs here

• Fix: Fix typo in _detect_compiler_version. #13396

• Fix: Fix conan profile detect detection of libc++ for clang compiler on OSX. #13359

• Fix: Allow internal vswhere calls to detect and use VS pre-releases too. #13355

• Fix: Allow conan export-pkg to use remotes to install missing dependencies not in the cache. #13324 . Docs here

• Fix: Allow conversion to dict of settings.yml lists when settings_user.yml define a dict. #13323

• Fix: Fix flags passed by AutotoolsToolchain when cross compiling from macOS to a non-Apple OS. #13230

• BugFix: Fix issues in MSBuild with custom configurations when custom configurations has spaces. #13435

• Bugfix: Solve bug in conan profile path <nonexisting> that was crashing. #13434

• Bugfix: Add global verbosity conf tools.build:verbosity instead of individual ones. #13428 . Docs here

• Bugfix: Avoid raising fatal exceptions for malformed custom commands. #13365

• Bugfix: Do not omit system_libs from dependencies even if they are header-only. #13364

• Bugfix: Fix VirtualBuildEnv environment not being created when MesonToolchain is instantiated. #13346

• Bugfix: Nicer error in the compatibility plugin with custom compilers. #13328

• Bugfix: adds qcc cppstd compatibility info to allow dep graph to be calculated. #13326

2.0.1 (03-Mar-2023)

• Feature: Add –insecure alias to –verify-ssl in config install. #13270 . Docs here

• Feature: Add .conanignore support to conan config install. #13269 . Docs here

• Feature: Make verbose tracebacks on exception be shown for -vv and -vvv, instead of custom env-var used in 1.X. #13226

• Fix: Minor improvements to conan install and 2.0-readiness error messages. #13299

• Fix: Remove vcvars.bat VS telemetry env-var, to avoid Conan hanging. #13293

• Fix: Remove legacy CMakeToolchain support for CMakePresets schema2 for CMakeUserPresets.json. #13288 . Docs here

• Fix: Remove --logger json logging and legacy traces. #13287 . Docs here

• Fix: Fix typo in conan remote auth help. #13285 . Docs here

• Fix: Raise arg error if conan config list unexpected-arg. #13282

• Fix: Do not auto-detect compiler.runtime_type for msvc, rely on profile plugin. #13277

• Fix: Fix conanfile.txt options parsing error message. #13266

• Fix: Improve error message for unified patterns in options. #13264

• Fix: Allow conan remote add --force to force re-definition of an existing remote name. #13249

• Fix: Restore printing of profiles for build command. #13214

• Fix: Change conan build argument description for “path” to indicate it is only for conanfile.py and explicitly state that it does not work with conanfile.txt. #13211 . Docs here

• Fix: Better error message when dependencies options are defined in requirements() method. #13207

• Fix: Fix broken links to docs from error messages and readme. #13186

• Bugfix: Ensure that topics are always serialized as lists. #13298

• Bugfix: Ensure that provides are always serialized as lists. #13298

• Bugfix: Fixed the detection of certain visual c++ installations. #13284

• Bugfix: Fix supported cppstd values for msvc compiler. #13278

• Bugfix: CMakeDeps generate files for tool_requires with the same build_type as the “host” context. #13267

• Bugfix: Fix definition of patterns for dependencies options in configure(). #13263

• Bugfix: Fix CMakeToolchain error when output folder in different Win drive. #13248

• Bugfix: Do not raise errors if a test_requires is not used by components .requires. #13191

2.0.0 (22-Feb-2023)

• Feature: Change default profile cppstd for apple-clang to gnu17. #13185

• Feature: New conan remote auth command to force authentication in the remotes #13180

• Fix: Allow defining options trait in test_requires(..., options={}) #13178

• Fix: Unifying Conan commands help messages. #13176

• Bugfix: Fix MesonToolchain wrong cppstd in apple-clang #13172

• Feature: Improved global Conan output messages (create, install, export, etc.) #12746

2.0.0-beta10 (16-Feb-2023)

• Feature: Add basic html output to conan list command. #13135

• Feature: Allow test_package to process --build arguments (computing –build=never for the main, non test_package graph). #13117

• Feature: Add –force argument to remote add. #13112

• Feature: Validate if the input configurations exist, to avoid typos. #13110

• Feature: Allow defining self.folders.build_folder_vars in recipes layout(). #13109

• Feature: Block settings assignment. #13099

• Feature: Improve conan editable ui. #13093

• Feature: Provide the ability for users to extend Conan generated CMakePresets. #13090

• Feature: Add error messages to help with the migration of recipes to 2.0, both from ConanCenter and from user repos. #13074

• Feature: Remove option.fPIC for shared in conan new templates. #13066

• Feature: Add conan cache clean subcommand to clean build and source folders. #13050

• Feature: Implement customizable CMakeToolchain.presets_prefix so presets name prepend this. #13015

• Feature: Add [system_tools] section to profiles to use your own installed tools instead of the packages declared in the requires. #10166

• Fix: Fixes in powershell escaping. #13084

• Fix: Define CMakeToolchain.presets_prefix="conan" by default, to avoid conflict with other users presets. #13015

2.0.0-beta9 (31-Jan-2023)

• Feature: Add package names in Conan cache hash paths. #13011

• Feature: Implement tools.build:download_source conf to force the installation of sources in conan install or conan graph info. #13003

• Feature: Users can define their own settings in settings_user.yml that will be merged with the Conan settings.yml. #12980

• Feature: List disabled remotes too. #12937

• Fix: PkgConfiDeps is using the wrong dependencies.host from dependencies instead of get_transitive_requires() computation. #13013

• Fix: Fixing transitive shared linux libraries in CMakeDeps. #13010

• Fix: Fixing issues with test_package output folder. #12992

• Fix: Improve error messages for wrong methods. #12962

• Fix: Fix fail in parallel packages download due to database concurrency issues. #12930

• Fix: Enable authentication against disabled remotes. #12913

• Fix: Improving system_requirements. #12912

• Fix: Change tar format to PAX, which is the Python3.8 default. #12899

2.0.0-beta8 (12-Jan-2023)

• Feature: Add unix_path_package_info_legacy function for those cases in which it is used in package_info in recipes that require compatibility with Conan 1.x. In Conan 2, path conversions should not be performed in the package_info method. #12886

• Feature: New serialization json and printing for conan list. #12883

• Feature: Add requirements to conan new cmake_{lib,exe} #12875

• Feature: Allow --no-remotes to force temporal disabling of remotes #12808

• Feature: Add barebones template option to conan new. #12802

• Feature: Avoid requesting package configuration if PkgID is passed. #12801

• Feature: Implemented conan list *#latest and conan list *:*#latest. Basically, this command can show the latest RREVs and PREVs for all the matching references. #12781

• Feature: Allow chaining of self.output write methods #12780

• Fix: Make graph info filters to work on json output too #12836

• Bugfix: Fix bug to pass a valid GNU triplet when using AutotoolsToolchain and cross-building on Windows. #12881

• Bugfix: Ordering if same ref.name but different versions. #12801

2.0.0-beta7 (22-Dec-2022)

• Feature: Raise an error when a generator is both defined in generators attribute and instantiated in generate() method #12722

• Feature: test_requires improvements, including allowing it in conanfile.txt #12699

• Feature: Improve errors for when required_conan_version has spaces between the operator and the version #12695

• Feature: ConanAPI cleanup and organization #12666

2.0.0-beta6 (02-Dec-2022)

• Feature: Use --confirm to not request confirmation when removing instead of --force #12636

• Feature: Simplify loading conaninfo.txt for search results #12616

• Feature: Renamed ConanAPIV2 to ConanAPI #12615

• Feature: Refactor ConanAPI #12615

• Feature: Improve conan cache path command #12554

• Feature: Improve #latest and pattern selection from remove/upload/download #12572

• Feature: Add build_modules to provided deprecated warning to allow migration from 1.x #12578

• Feature: Lockfiles alias support #12525

2.0.0-beta5 (11-Nov-2022)

• Feature: Improvements in the remotes management and API #12468

• Feature: Implement env_info and user_info as fake attributes in Conan 2.0 #12351

• Feature: Improve settings.rm_safe() #12379

• Feature: New RecipeReference equality #12506

• Feature: Simplifying compress and uncompress of .tgz files #12378

• Feature: conan source command does not require a default profile #12475

• Feature: Created a proper LockfileAPI, with detailed methods (update, save, etc), instead of several loose methods #12502

• Feature: The conan export can also produce lockfiles, necessary for users doing a 2 step (export + install–build) process #12502

• Feature: Drop compat_app #12484

• Fix: Fix transitive propagation of transitive_headers=True #12508

• Fix: Fix transitive propagation of transitive_libs=False for static libraries #12508

• Fix: Fix test_package for python_requires #12508

2.0.0-beta4 (11-Oct-2022)

• Feature: Do not allow doing conan create/export with uncommitted changes using revision_mode=scm #12267

• Feature: Simplify conan inspect command, removing path subcommand #12263

• Feature: Add –deploy argument to graph info command #12243

• Feature: Pass graph object to deployers instead of ConanFile #12243

• Feature: Add included_files method to conan.tools.scm.Git #12246

• Feature: Improve detection of clang libcxx #12251

• Feature: Remove old profile variables system in favor of Jinja2 syntax in profiles #12152

• Fix: Update command to follow Conan 2.0 conventions about CLI output #12235

• Fix: Fix aggregation of test trait in diamonds #12080

2.0.0-beta3 (12-Sept-2022)

• Feature: Decouple test_package from create. #12046

• Feature: Warn if special chars in exported refs. #12053

• Feature: Improvements in MSBuildDeps traits. #12032

• Feature: Added support for CLICOLOR_FORCE env var, that will activate the colors in the output if the value is declared and different to 0. #12028

• Fix: Call source() just once for all configurations. #12050

• Fix: Fix deployers not creating output_folder. #11977

• Fix: Fix build_id() removal of require. #12019

• Fix: If Conan fails to load a custom command now it fails with a useful error message. #11720

• Bugfix: If the ‘os’ is not specified in the build profile and a recipe, in Windows, wanted to run a command. #11728

2.0.0-beta2 (27-Jul-2022)

• Feature: Add traits support in MSBuildDeps. #11680

• Feature: Add traits support in XcodeDeps. #11615

• Feature: Let dependency define package_id modes. #

• Feature: Add conan.conanrc file to setup the conan user home. #11675

• Feature: Add core.cache:storage_path to declare the absolute path where you want to store the Conan packages. #11672

• Feature: Add tools for checking max cppstd version. #11610

• Feature: Add a post_build_fail hook that is called when a build fails. #11593

• Feature: Add pre_generate and post_generate hook, covering the generation of files around the generate() method call. #11593

• Feature: Brought conan config list command back and other conf improvements. #11575

• Feature: Added two new arguments for all commands -v for controlling the verbosity of the output and –logger to output the contents in a json log format for log processors. #11522

2.0.0-beta1 (20-Jun-2022)

• Feature: New graph model to better support C and C++ binaries relationships, compilation, and linkage.

• Feature: New documented public Python API, for user automation

• Feature: New build system integrations, more flexible and powerful, and providing transparent integration when possible, like CMakeDeps and CMakeToolchain

• Feature: New custom user commands, that can be built using the public PythonAPI and can be shared and installed with conan config install

• Feature: New CLI interface, with cleaner commands and more structured output

• Feature: New deployers mechanism to copy artifacts from the cache to user folders, and consume those copies while building.

• Feature: Improved package_id computation, taking into account the new more detailed graph model.

• Feature: Added compatibility.py extension mechanism to allow users to define binary compatibility globally.

• Feature: Simpler and more powerful lockfiles to provide reproducibility over time.

• Feature: Better configuration with [conf] and better environment management with the new conan.tools.env tools.

• Feature: Conan cache now can store multiple revisions simultaneously.

• Feature: New extensions plugins to implement profile checking, package signing, and build commands wrapping.

• Feature: Used the package immutability for an improved update, install and upload flows.