Migrating from older maturin versions

This guide can help you upgrade code through breaking changes from one maturin version to the next. For a detailed list of all changes, see the CHANGELOG.

From 0.14.* to 0.15

Build with --no-default-features by default when bootstrapping from sdist

When bootstrapping maturin from sdist, maturin 0.15 will build with --no-default-features by default, which means that for distro packaging, you might want to set the environment variable MATURIN_SETUP_ARGS="--features full,rustls" to enable full features.

Remove [tool.maturin.sdist-include]

Use [tool.maturin.include] option instead.

Remove [package.metadata.maturin] from Cargo.toml

Package metadata is now specified in [tool.maturin] section of pyproject.toml instead of Cargo.toml. Note that the replacement for package.metadata.maturin.name is tool.maturin.module-name.

Require uniffi-bindgen CLI to building uniffi bindings

maturin 0.15 requires uniffi-bindgen CLI to build uniffi bindings, you can install it with pip install uniffi-bindgen.

From 0.13.* to 0.14

Remove support for specifying python package metadata in Cargo.toml

maturin 0.14 removed support for specifying python package metadata in Cargo.toml, Python package metadata should be specified in the project section of pyproject.toml instead as PEP 621 specifies.

Deprecate [tool.maturin.sdist-include]

maturin 0.14 added [tool.maturin.include] and [tool.maturin.exclude] to replace [tool.maturin.sdist-include] which was sdist only, the new options can be configured to apply to sdist and/or wheel.

macOS deployment target version defaults what rustc supports

If you don't set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable, maturin 0.14 will use the default target version acquired from rustc, this may cause build issue for projects that depend on C/C++ code, usually you can fix it by setting a correct MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET, for example

export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.9

Deprecate python-source option in Cargo.toml

maturin 0.14 deprecated the python-source option in Cargo.toml, use [tool.maturin.python-source] option in pyproject.toml instead.

From 0.12.* to 0.13

Drop support for Python 3.6

maturin 0.13 has dropped support for Python 3.6, to support Python 3.6 you can use the old 0.12 versions.

Removed --cargo-extra-args and --rustc-extra-args

maturin 0.13 added most of the cargo rustc options so you can just use them directly, for example --cargo-extra-args="--no-default-features" becomes --no-default-features.

To pass extra arguments to rustc, add them after --, for example use maturin build -- -Clink-arg=-s instead of --rustc-extra-args="-Clink-arg=-s".

Source distributions are not built by default

maturin 0.13 replaced --no-sdist with the new --sdist option in maturin build command, source distributions are now only built when --sdist is specified.

Only build wheels for current Python interpreter in PATH by default

maturin 0.13 no longer searches for Python interpreters by default and only build wheels for the current Python interpreter (i.e. python3) in PATH.

To enable the old behavior, use the new --find-interpreter option.

--repository-url only accepts full URL now

Previously --repository-url option in maturin upload and maturin publish commands accepts both repository name and URL. maturin 0.13 changed --repository-url to only accept full URL and added a new --repository for the repository name. This new behavior matches twine upload.