0.46.0

• Dropped support for Python 3.8
• Removed the bdist_wheel setuptools command implementation and entry point. The wheel.bdist_wheel module is now just an alias to setuptools.command.bdist_wheel, emitting a deprecation warning on import.
• Removed vendored packaging in favor of a run-time dependency on it
• Made the wheel.metadata module private (with a deprecation warning if it's imported
• Made the wheel.cli package private (no deprecation warning)
• Fixed an exception when calling the convert command with an empty description field

0.45.1

• Fixed pure Python wheels converted from eggs and wininst files having the ABI tag in the file name

0.45.0

• Refactored the convert command to not need setuptools to be installed

• Don't configure setuptools logging unless running bdist_wheel

• Added a redirection from wheel.bdist_wheel.bdist_wheel to setuptools.command.bdist_wheel.bdist_wheel to improve compatibility with setuptools' latest fixes.

  Projects are still advised to migrate away from the deprecated module and import the setuptools' implementation explicitly. (PR by @abravalheri)

0.44.0

• Canonicalized requirements in METADATA file (PR by Wim Jeantine-Glenn)
• Deprecated the bdist_wheel module, as the code was migrated to setuptools itself

0.43.0

• Dropped support for Python 3.7
• Updated vendored packaging to 24.0

0.42.0

• Allowed removing build tag with wheel tags --build ""
• Fixed wheel pack and wheel tags writing updated WHEEL fields after a blank line, causing other tools to ignore them
• Fixed wheel pack and wheel tags writing WHEEL with CRLF line endings or a mix of CRLF and LF
• Fixed wheel pack --build-number "" not removing build tag from WHEEL (above changes by Benjamin Gilbert)

0.41.3

• Updated vendored packaging to 23.2
• Fixed ABI tag generation for CPython 3.13a1 on Windows (PR by Sam Gross)