Sourced from wheel's releases.

0.46.2

• Restored the bdist_wheel command for compatibility with setuptools older than v70.1
• Importing wheel.bdist_wheel now emits a FutureWarning instead of a DeprecationWarning
• Fixed wheel unpack potentially altering the permissions of files outside of the destination tree with maliciously crafted wheels (CVE-2026-24049)

0.46.1

• Temporarily restored the wheel.macosx_libfile module (#659)

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)

Sourced from wheel's changelog.

Release Notes

UNRELEASED

• Added the wheel info subcommand to display metadata about wheel files without unpacking them ([#639](https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/639) _)

0.46.3 (2026-01-22)

• Fixed ImportError: cannot import name '_setuptools_logging' from 'wheel' when installed alongside an old version of setuptools and running the bdist_wheel command ([#676](https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/676) _)

0.46.2 (2026-01-22)

• Restored the bdist_wheel command for compatibility with setuptools older than v70.1
• Importing wheel.bdist_wheel now emits a FutureWarning instead of a DeprecationWarning
• Fixed wheel unpack potentially altering the permissions of files outside of the destination tree with maliciously crafted wheels (CVE-2026-24049)

0.46.1 (2025-04-08)

• Temporarily restored the wheel.macosx_libfile module ([#659](https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/659) _)

0.46.0 (2025-04-03)

• 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 (2024-11-23)

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

0.45.0 (2024-11-08)

• Refactored the convert command to not need setuptools to be installed
• Don't configure setuptools logging unless running bdist_wheel

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• eba4036 Updated the version number for v0.46.2
• 557fb54 Created a new release
• 7a7d2de Fixed security issue around wheel unpack (#675)
• 41418fa Fixed test failures due to metadata normalization changes
• c1d442b [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#674)
• 0bac882 Update github actions environments (#673)
• be9f45b [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#667)
• 6244f08 Update pre-commit ruff legacy alias (#668)
• 15b7577 PEP 639 compliance (#670)
• fc8cb41 Revert "Removed redundant Python version from the publish workflow (#666)"
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