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Build 311

A release with a number of incremental improvements

Install via pip:

pip install pywin32 --upgrade

More details in the README

Release 310

A release fixing a few regressions

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pip install pywin32 --upgrade

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Release 309

A release with a number of changes and fixes

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pip install pywin32 --upgrade

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Release 308

A release with a few bugfixes, specifically:

• Fix error running pywin32_postinstall.py
• Fix Pythonwin displaying syntax errors in Python 3.13

All changes

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Release 307

The changes

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pip install pywin32 --upgrade

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Build 311, released 2025/07/14

• Fix use-after-free in CertDeleteCertificateFromStore (mhammond#2637)
• Better support for COM identifiers with non-ascii characters (mhammond#2632)
• pywin32's own warnings will now refer to the caller, rather than to the internal source of warning itself (mhammond#2594, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• Fixed a regression that broke special __dunder__ methods with CoClass. (mhammond#1870, mhammond#2493, [@​Avasam][Avasam], [@​geppi][geppi])
• Fixed TypeError: cannot unpack non-iterable NoneType object when registering an axscript client ScriptItem (mhammond#2513, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• Fixed a memory leak when SafeArrays are used as out parameters ([@​the-snork][the-snork])
• Fixed dispatch handling for properties ([@​the-snork][the-snork])
• Resolved a handful of deprecation warnings (mhammond#2567, mhammond#2576, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• The following classes now produce a valid eval string representation when calling repr: (mhammond#2573, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
  • pywin.tools.browser.HLIPythonObject
  • win32com.server.exception.COMException
  • win32comext.axscript.client.error.AXScriptException
  • win32comext.axscript.client.pyscript.NamedScriptAttribute
• Added initial DECIMAL/VT_DECIMAL support (mhammond#1501, [@​gesslerpd][gesslerpd])

Build 310, released 2025/03/16

• Fixed a regression where win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents and win32com.client.WithEvents would throw a TypeError on the second call (mhammond#2491, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• Fixed regression causing win32com.shell.shell to be missing a number of IIDs. (mhammond#2487, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• As part of the above, Windows 7 is now minimum supported.

Build 309, released 2025/03/09

pywin32

• Fixed Access Violation crashes in 3.12 by moving PyWInObject_Free* methods so GIL is acquired (mhammond#2467, [@​Mscht][Mscht])
• Added support for relative path for pywin32_postinstall's -destination argument (mhammond#2454, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• The postinstall script is now available as a console script. You can invoke it in one of two new methods: (mhammond#2408, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
  1. python -m pywin32_postinstall -install (recommended)
  2. pywin32_postinstall -install (shorter but you don't have control over which python environment is used)
• Changed the implementation of 'com_record' to a subclassable Python type (mhammond#2437, mhammond#2361, [@​geppi][geppi])
• Removed param hIcon from win32comext.shell.ShellExecuteEx. It was unusable since Windows Vista (mhammond#2423, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• Fixed nbios.NCBStruct packing (mhammond#2406, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• Restored axdebug builds on Python 3.10 (mhammond#2416, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• Fix for Python 3.12 interpreter crashes when accessing a COM Record field (mhammond#2415, [@​geppi][geppi])
• Pythonwin: Bumped Scintilla from 1.77 to 4.4.6. The full changelog can be found here: https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html
• Fixed Pythonwin's editor failing due to invalid regex import (mhammond#2419, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• Last error wrongly set by some modules (mhammond#2302, [@​CristiFati][CristiFati])
• Dropped support for Python 3.7 (mhammond#2207, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• Implement the creation of SAFEARRAY(VT_RECORD) from a sequence of COM Records (mhammond#2317, [@​geppi][geppi])
• Implement record pointers as [in, out] method parameters of a Dispatch Interface (mhammond#2304, mhammond#2310, [@​geppi][geppi])
• Fix memory leak converting to PyObject from some SAFEARRAY elements (mhammond#2316)
• Fix bug where makepy support was unnecessarily generated (mhammond#2354, mhammond#2353, [@​geppi][geppi])
• Fail sooner on invalid win32timezone.TimeZoneInfo creation (mhammond#2338, [@​Avasam][Avasam])
• Removed temporary win32com.server.policy reexports hack (mhammond#2344, [@​Avasam][Avasam])

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