v1.8.0

• Further remove support for unsupported versions of Python (#188, #191)
• Fix DeprecationWarnings in test suite under Python >= 3.12 (#196)
• Remove old version of NumPy from test suite (#195)
• Upgrade six to 1.16.0 in built-in test runners (#198)
• Remove unnecessary copy of six from unittest test runner (#199)
• Upgrade coverage to 7.6.4 in built-in test runners (#197)
• Add native-speed coverage tracing support for ARM64 platforms in built-in test runners (#209)
• Remove site-wide dependency on setuptools in test suite (#202)
• Fix distribution file enumeration under Python >= 3.12 in pex meta path finder (#208)

tools-v1.5.0

• Add native-speed coverage tracing support for ARM64 platforms in python_test (#209)
• Fix distribution file enumeration under Python >= 3.12 in please_pex meta path finder (#208)

tools-v1.4.2

• Upgrade coverage package to 7.6.4 in please_pex's bootstrap pex (#197)
  This drops native-speed tracing support for Python 3.8 and adds it for Python 3.13.
• Remove unnecessary six dependency in the unittest test runner dependency bundle (#199)
• Remove redundant requests dependency from wheel resolver (#200)
• Prevent Python >= 3.12 from emitting a DeprecationWarning when using importlib.metadata
  on modules in pex files (#203)

v1.7.4

• Remove stealth dependency on importlib-metadata in pex meta path finder (#176)
• Load distribution metadata for unimported modules in pex meta path finder (#178, #184)

tools-v1.4.1

• Handle empty contexts in please_pex meta path finder (#184)

tools-v1.4.0

• Drop support for Python < 3.8 in please_pex bootstrap code (#181)
• Remove stealth dependency on importlib-metadata in please_pex bootstrap code (#176)
• Allow loading of distribution metadata for unimported modules in please_pex meta path
  finder (#178)
• Rebuild tools with Go 1.23.2 (#179)

v1.7.3

• Updated xmlrunner package
• Specify default value for pip_compile_flags config option (#158)

tools-v1.3.5

• please_pex is now a statically linked binary for better compatibility (#172)

v1.7.2

• Allow the name_scheme argument to python_wheel to be a list instead of a single string.
• Update required Please version to 17.10.3 to avoid a memory consumption bug.

tools-v1.3.4

• Refactor wheel_resolver to allow for non-PyPI downloads (#167)