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Pants 2.30.0 is released!

· 3 min read
Benjy Weinberger
Benjy Weinberger
Pants Co-creator and Maintainer

We are pleased to announce Pants 2.30.0, the latest release of Pantsbuild, the scalable and ergonomic build system. To update, set pants_version = "2.30.0" in your pants.toml. If you're not using Pants yet, get started now.

Important note: Pants 2.30 is scheduled to be the last version to provide binaries for the MacOS Intel platform. This flows from the reduced support from GitHub and continued movement in the macOS ecosystem. If you are interested in maintaining or supporting x86_64 macOS binaries, please reach out.

Highlights in 2.30 include:

  • 🔒 Python lockfile metadata can now be stored in a sibling file to the lockfile - instead of as a prepended header in the lockfile itself.
  • 📛 The plugin API's Get() construct has been deprecated in favor of call-by-name. See here for how to update your plugins.
  • 🐞 And a whole bunch of updates, bugfixes, and general improvements!

Check out the full release notes for the accumulation of all those little improvements, and look forward to guidance for plugins to switch to call-by-name in 2.30.

Pants is an open-source project, and the changes are all contributed by our community. If you want to see something more in the next changelog, join us on GitHub and become a contributor.

We also offer formal sponsorship tiers for companies, as well as individual sponsorships via GitHub. These help pay for the ongoing development and hosting costs, and are managed by the Pants Build non-profit organization.

Some Pants maintainers also offer paid consulting for adopting and customizing Pants for your company's needs.

To see Pants in action, explore our example repositories:

And let us know what you think in Slack!

Pants wouldn't be possible without everyone who contributed to 2.30.0, including everyone who shared feedback on changes and who tested release candidates! Thank you very much!