0.48.0

• Added a --local-version option to wheel pack to add, replace, or remove a PEP 440 local version identifier from a wheel (#570)
• Fixed wheel convert unnecessarily upgrading compatible core metadata versions (#643)
• Fixed wheel tags producing invalid archives when retagging wheels whose entries use ZIP64, by dropping the central-directory ZIP64 extra field that is not valid in a local file header (#692)
• Fixed wheel convert writing the converted wheel outside the destination directory when the input archive contained a maliciously crafted project name or version with path separators (arbitrary file write / path traversal) (GHSA-vgq5-9859-3mmw)

0.47.0

• Added the wheel info subcommand to display metadata about wheel files without unpacking them (#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)

0.46.3

• Fixed ImportError: cannot import name '_setuptools_logging' from 'wheel' when installed alongside an old version of setuptools and running the bdist_wheel command (#676)

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)

0.44.0

• Canonicalized requirements in METADATA file (PR by Wim Jeantine-Glenn)
• Deprecated the bdist_wheel module, as the code was migrated to setuptools itself

0.43.0

• Dropped support for Python 3.7
• Updated vendored packaging to 24.0