Changes

2.6.0 - 2016-06-15

  • Requirements Change Switch to pycodestyle as all future pep8 releases will use that package name
  • Improvement Allow for Windows users on select versions of Python to use --jobs and multiprocessing
  • Improvement Update bounds on McCabe
  • Improvement Update bounds on PyFlakes and blacklist known broken versions
  • Improvement Handle new PyFlakes warning with a new error code: F405

2.5.5 - 2016-06-14

  • Bug Fix setuptools integration when parsing config files
  • Bug Don’t pass the user’s config path as the config_file when creating a StyleGuide

2.5.4 - 2016-02-11

  • Bug Missed an attribute rename during the v2.5.3 release.

2.5.3 - 2016-02-11

  • Bug Actually parse output_file and enable_extensions from config files

2.5.2 - 2016-01-30

  • Bug Parse output_file and enable_extensions from config files
  • Improvement Raise upper bound on mccabe plugin to allow for version 0.4.0

2.5.1 - 2015-12-08

  • Bug Properly look for .flake8 in current working directory (GitLab#103)
  • Bug Monkey-patch pep8.stdin_get_value to cache the actual value in stdin. This helps plugins relying on the function when run with multiprocessing. (GitLab#105, GitLab#107)

2.5.0 - 2015-10-26

  • Improvement Raise cap on PyFlakes for Python 3.5 support
  • Improvement Avoid deprecation warnings when loading extensions (GitLab#59, GitLab#90)
  • Improvement Separate logic to enable “off-by-default” extensions (GitLab#67)
  • Bug Properly parse options to setuptools Flake8 command (GitLab!41)
  • Bug Fix exceptions when output on stdout is truncated before Flake8 finishes writing the output (GitLab#69)
  • Bug Fix error on OS X where Flake8 can no longer acquire or create new semaphores (GitLab#74)

2.4.1 - 2015-05-18

  • Bug Do not raise a SystemError unless there were errors in the setuptools command. (GitLab#39, GitLab!23)
  • Bug Do not verify dependencies of extensions loaded via entry-points.
  • Improvement Blacklist versions of pep8 we know are broken

2.4.0 - 2015-03-07

  • Bug Print filenames when using multiprocessing and -q option. (GitLab#31)

  • Bug Put upper cap on dependencies. The caps for 2.4.0 are:

    • pep8 < 1.6 (Related to GitLab#35)
    • mccabe < 0.4
    • pyflakes < 0.9

    See also GitLab#32

  • Bug Files excluded in a config file were not being excluded when flake8 was run from a git hook. (GitHub#2)

  • Improvement Print warnings for users who are providing mutually exclusive options to flake8. (GitLab#8, GitLab!18)

  • Feature Allow git hook configuration to live in .git/config. See the updated VCS hooks docs for more details. (GitLab!20)

2.3.0 - 2015-01-04

  • Feature: Add --output-file option to specify a file to write to instead of stdout.
  • Bug Fix interleaving of output while using multiprocessing (GitLab#17)

2.2.5 - 2014-10-19

  • Flush standard out when using multiprocessing
  • Make the check for “# flake8: noqa” more strict

2.2.4 - 2014-10-09

  • Fix bugs triggered by turning multiprocessing on by default (again)

    Multiprocessing is forcibly disabled in the following cases:

    • Passing something in via stdin
    • Analyzing a diff
    • Using windows
  • Fix –install-hook when there are no config files present for pep8 or flake8.

  • Fix how the setuptools command parses excludes in config files

  • Fix how the git hook determines which files to analyze (Thanks Chris Buccella!)

2.2.3 - 2014-08-25

  • Actually turn multiprocessing on by default

2.2.2 - 2014-07-04

  • Re-enable multiprocessing by default while fixing the issue Windows users were seeing.

2.2.1 - 2014-06-30

  • Turn off multiple jobs by default. To enable automatic use of all CPUs, use --jobs=auto. Fixes #155 and #154.

2.2.0 - 2014-06-22

  • New option doctests to run Pyflakes checks on doctests too
  • New option jobs to launch multiple jobs in parallel
  • Turn on using multiple jobs by default using the CPU count
  • Add support for python -m flake8 on Python 2.7 and Python 3
  • Fix Git and Mercurial hooks: issues #88, #133, #148 and #149
  • Fix crashes with Python 3.4 by upgrading dependencies
  • Fix traceback when running tests with Python 2.6
  • Fix the setuptools command python setup.py flake8 to read the project configuration

2.1.0 - 2013-10-26

  • Add FLAKE8_LAZY and FLAKE8_IGNORE environment variable support to git and mercurial hooks
  • Force git and mercurial hooks to repsect configuration in setup.cfg
  • Only check staged files if that is specified
  • Fix hook file permissions
  • Fix the git hook on python 3
  • Ignore non-python files when running the git hook
  • Ignore .tox directories by default
  • Flake8 now reports the column number for PyFlakes messages

2.0.0 - 2013-02-23

  • Pyflakes errors are prefixed by an F instead of an E
  • McCabe complexity warnings are prefixed by a C instead of a W
  • Flake8 supports extensions through entry points
  • Due to the above support, we require setuptools
  • We publish the documentation
  • Fixes #13: pep8, pyflakes and mccabe become external dependencies
  • Split run.py into main.py, engine.py and hooks.py for better logic
  • Expose our parser for our users
  • New feature: Install git and hg hooks automagically
  • By relying on pyflakes (0.6.1), we also fixed #45 and #35

1.7.0 - 2012-12-21

  • Fixes part of #35: Exception for no WITHITEM being an attribute of Checker for Python 3.3
  • Support stdin
  • Incorporate @phd’s builtins pull request
  • Fix the git hook
  • Update pep8.py to the latest version

1.6.2 - 2012-11-25

  • fixed the NameError: global name ‘message’ is not defined (#46)

1.6.1 - 2012-11-24

  • fixed the mercurial hook, a change from a previous patch was not properly applied
  • fixed an assumption about warnings/error messages that caused an exception to be thrown when McCabe is used

1.6 - 2012-11-16

  • changed the signatures of the check_file function in flake8/run.py, skip_warning in flake8/util.py and the check, checkPath functions in flake8/pyflakes.py.
  • fix --exclude and --ignore command flags (#14, #19)
  • fix the git hook that wasn’t catching files not already added to the index (#29)
  • pre-emptively includes the addition to pep8 to ignore certain lines. Add # nopep8 to the end of a line to ignore it. (#37)
  • check_file can now be used without any special prior setup (#21)
  • unpacking exceptions will no longer cause an exception (#20)
  • fixed crash on non-existent file (#38)

1.5 - 2012-10-13

  • fixed the stdin
  • make sure mccabe catches the syntax errors as warnings
  • pep8 upgrade
  • added max_line_length default value
  • added Flake8Command and entry points if setuptools is around
  • using the setuptools console wrapper when available

1.4 - 2012-07-12

  • git_hook: Only check staged changes for compliance
  • use pep8 1.2

1.3.1 - 2012-05-19

  • fixed support for Python 2.5

1.3 - 2012-03-12

  • fixed false W402 warning on exception blocks.

1.2 - 2012-02-12

  • added a git hook
  • now Python 3 compatible
  • mccabe and pyflakes have warning codes like pep8 now

1.1 - 2012-02-14

  • fixed the value returned by –version
  • allow the flake8: header to be more generic
  • fixed the “hg hook raises ‘physical lines’” bug
  • allow three argument form of raise
  • now uses setuptools if available, for ‘develop’ command

1.0 - 2011-11-29

  • Deactivates by default the complexity checker
  • Introduces the complexity option in the HG hook and the command line.

0.9 - 2011-11-09

  • update pep8 version to 0.6.1
  • mccabe check: gracefully handle compile failure

0.8 - 2011-02-27

  • fixed hg hook
  • discard unexisting files on hook check

0.7 - 2010-02-18

  • Fix pep8 initialization when run through Hg
  • Make pep8 short options work when run through the command line
  • Skip duplicates when controlling files via Hg

0.6 - 2010-02-15

  • Fix the McCabe metric on some loops