v7.5.1

2025-09-26

Bug fixes

• Fixed static parsing of pyproject.toml data when the pyproject.toml is supplied as a relative path -- by @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2215, #2221, #2233

• The "via" paths in pip-compile output for requirements discovered from pyproject.toml data are now written in POSIX format -- by @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2221

• Fixed a bug which removed slashes from URLs in -r and -c in the output of pip-compile -- by @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2223

• Fixed an incompatibility with click >= 8.3 which made pip-compile display incorrect options in the compile command in output headers -- by @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2235

Features

• pip-tools now officially supports pip version 25.2 -- by @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2214

Improved documentation

• ReadTheDocs builds for pip-tools no longer include htmlzip and pdf outputs -- by @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2218

Contributor-facing changes

• pip-tools now tests on pip version 25.2 -- by @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2214

• The changelog documentation for contributors now provides hyperlinks to the source of each example change note -- by @jayaddison (for OpenCulinary).

  PRs and issues: #2217

• The CPython versions tested in nightly CI runs are now separate from branch and PR CI, and don't include very old versions -- by @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2226

v7.5.0

2025-07-30

Bug fixes

• Fixed the ordering of format controls to preserve underlying pip behavior -- by @sethmlarson.

  PRs and issues: #2082

• Fixed NoCandidateFound exception to be compatible with pip >= 24.1 -- by @chrysle.

  PRs and issues: #2083

• pip-compile now produces relative paths for editable dependencies -- by @macro1.

  PRs and issues: #2087

• Fixed crash failures due to incompatibility with pip >= 25.1 -- by @gkreitz and @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2176, #2178

Features

• pip-compile now treats package versions requested on the command line as constraints for the underlying pip usage.
  This applies to build deps in addition to normal package requirements.

  -- by @chrysle

  PRs and issues: #2106

• pip-tools now tests on and officially supports Python 3.12 -- by @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2188

• Requirements file paths in pip-compile output are now normalized to POSIX-style, even when pip-compile is run on Windows.
  This provides more consistent output across various platforms.

  -- by @sirosen

  PRs and issues: #2195

• pip-tools now tests against and supports pip up to version 25.1 -- by @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2195

Removals and backward incompatible breaking changes

• pip-compile will now relativize the requirements paths which are recorded in its output.
  Paths are made relative to the working directory.
  This provides more consistent results across pip versions.

  -- by @sirosen

  PRs and issues: #2131, #2195

Packaging updates and notes for downstreams

• pip-tools releases are now configured via Trusted Publishing.
  This allows for signature and attestation verification via PyPI.

  -- by @webknjaz

  PRs and issues: #2149, #2209, #2210

Contributor-facing changes

• pip-tools's CI now runs against pinned pip versions, declared in tox configuration as the "supported" version.
  This does not change the support policy for pip versions, but declares what is tested and known to work.

  -- by @webknjaz

  PRs and issues: #2142

• pip-tools now tests against PyPy 3.10 as its supported PyPy version -- by @webknjaz.

  PRs and issues: #2146

• pip-tools now uses Towncrier to manage the changelog.

  -- by @sirosen and @webknjaz, with suggestions from @jayaddison

  PRs and issues: #2201, #2203

• pip-tools now uses sphinx-issues to link to issues, PRs, commits, and user accounts -- by @sirosen.

  PRs and issues: #2202

7.4.1

Bug Fixes:

• Skip constraint path check (#2038). Thanks @honnix
• Fix collecting deps for all extras in multiple input packages (#1981). Thanks @dragly

7.4.0

Features:

• Allow force-enabling or force-disabling colorized output (#2041). Thanks @aneeshusa
• Add support for command-specific configuration sections (#1966). Thanks @chrysle
• Add options for including build dependencies in compiled output (#1681). Thanks @apljungquist

Bug Fixes:

• Fix for src-files not being used when specified in a config file (#2015). Thanks @csalerno-asml
• Fix ignorance of inverted CLI options in config for pip-sync (#1989). Thanks @chrysle
• Filter out origin ireqs for extra requirements before writing output annotations (#2011). Thanks @chrysle
• Make BacktrackingResolver ignore extras when dropping existing constraints (#1984). Thanks @chludwig-haufe
• Display pyproject.toml's metatada parsing errors in verbose mode (#1979). Thanks @szobov

Other Changes:

• Add mention of pip-compile-multi in Other useful tools README section (#1986). Thanks @peterdemin

7.3.0

Features:

• Add --no-strip-extras and warn about strip extras by default (#1954). Thanks @ryanhiebert

Bug Fixes:

• Fix revealed default config in header if requirements in subfolder (#1904). Thanks @atugushev
• Direct references show extra requirements in .txt files (#1582). Thanks @FlorentJeannot

Other Changes:

• Document how to run under pipx run (#1951). Thanks @brettcannon
• Document that the backtracking resolver is the current default (#1948). Thanks @jeffwidman

7.2.0

Features:

• Add -c/--constraint option to pip-compile (#1936). Thanks @atugushev

Bug Fixes:

• Allow options in config from both pip-compile and pip-sync (#1933). Thanks @atugushev
• Fix rejection of negating CLI boolean flags in config (#1913). Thanks @chrysle

Other Changes:

• Add Command Line Reference section to docs (#1934). Thanks @atugushev

7.1.0

Features:

• Validate parsed config against CLI options (#1910). Thanks @atugushev

Bug Fixes:

• Fix a bug where pip-sync would unexpectedly uninstall some packages (#1919). Thanks @atugushev

7.0.0

Backwards Incompatible Changes:

• Default to --resolver=backtracking (#1897). Thanks @atugushev
• Drop support for Python 3.7 (#1879). Thanks @chrysle

Features:

• Add support for pip==23.2 where refactored out DEV_PKGS (#1906). Thanks @atugushev
• Add --no-config option (#1896). Thanks @atugushev

Bug Fixes:

• Sync direct references with hashes (#1885). Thanks @siddharthab
• Fix missing vias when more than two input files are used (#1890). Thanks @lpulley

6.14.0

Features:

• Support config defaults using .pip-tools.toml or pyproject.toml (#1863). Thanks @j00bar
• Log a warning if the user specifies -P and the output file is present but empty (#1822). Thanks @davidmreed
• Improve warning for pip-compile if no --allow-unsafe was passed (#1867). Thanks @chrysle

Other Changes:

• Correct in README pre-commit hook to run off requirements.in (#1847). Thanks @atugushev
• Add pyprojects.toml example for using setuptools (#1851). Thanks @shatakshiiii

6.13.0

Features:

• Add support for self-referential extras (#1791). Thanks @q0w
• Add support for pip==23.1 where removed FormatControl in WheelCache (#1834). Thanks @atugushev
• Add support for pip==23.1 where refactored requirement options (#1832). Thanks @atugushev
• Add support for pip==23.1 where deprecated --install-option has been removed (#1828). Thanks @atugushev

Bug Fixes:

• Pass --cache-dir to --pip-args for backtracking resolver (#1827). Thanks @q0w

Other Changes:

• Update examples in README (#1835). Thanks @lucaswerkmeister