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Release Notes

0.47.0 (2026-04-22)

• Added the wheel info subcommand to display metadata about wheel files without unpacking them ([#639](https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/639) <https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/639>_)
• Fixed WheelFile raising Missing RECORD file when the wheel filename contains uppercase characters (e.g. Django-3.2.5.whl) but the .dist-info directory inside uses normalized lowercase naming ([#411](https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/411) <https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/411>_)

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) <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) <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

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• 6f1608d Created a new release
• cf8f5ef Moved news item from PR #484 to its proper place
• 9ec2016 Removed install dependency on setuptools (#483)
• 747e1f6 Fixed PyPy SOABI parsing (#484)
• 7627548 [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#480)
• 7b9e8e1 Test on Python 3.11 final
• a04dfef Updated the pypi-publish action
• 94bb62c Fixed docs not building due to code style changes
• d635664 Updated the codecov action to the latest version
• fcb94cd Updated version to match the release
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