py2exe is a distutils extension which allows to build standalone Windows executable programs (32-bit and 64-bit) from Python scripts. Python versions included in the official development cycle are supported. py2exe can build console executables and windows (GUI) executables.

Development of py2exe is hosted here: https://github.com/py2exe/py2exe.

Detailed changelog is published on GitHub.

Version 0.11.1.0:

• Drop support for Python 3.6
• Include package metadata in the bundle archive (to be used by e.g. importlib.metadata)
• Fixed a bug that prevented to use the optimize option when six was in the bundle
• Fixed a bug that ignored the optimize flag for some packages

Version 0.11.0.1:

• Show again relative paths in Tracebacks that happen from the frozen application (#12 and #114)

Version 0.11.0.0:

• New module finder mf310 written as a wrapper around CPython modulefinder.ModuleFinder
• Add support for Python 3.10
• New hook for scipy
• zipextimporter can now be built as a standalone extension via its own setup script

Version 0.10.4.1:

• ModuleFinder: add support for the pkg_resources.extern.VendorImporter loader
• New hooks for pkg_resources and infi

Version 0.10.4.0:

• zipextimporter supports external modules that use multi-phase initialization (PEP 489)
• New hook for selenium
• dllfinder provides a new method to add data files in the zip archive

Version 0.10.3.1:

• New hook for pycryptodomex
• ModuleFinder: respect excludes list in import_package
• Updated hook for matplotlib >= 3.4.0

Version 0.10.3.0:

• New hook for supporting matplotlib 3.2 and higher.
• Fix for including implicit namespace packages as per PEP420.

Version 0.10.2.1:

• Patch MyLoadLibrary to support ssl with bundle_files=0.

Version 0.10.2.0:

• New module finder with support for implicit namespace packages (PEP 420).
• DLLFinder automatically excludes VC++ redist and Windows CRT DLLs from bundles.
• Several fixes for bundling software with bundle_files<=2 (only the standard library is supported, other dependencies may or may not work).
• New hooks for pycryptodome and shapely.

Version 0.10.1.0:

• Add support for Python 3.9.
• Drop support for Python 3.5.
• New hooks for urllib3 and pandas.

Version 0.10.0.2 (from versions 0.9.x):

• Introduce compatibility with Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8.
• Drop compatibility with Python 3.4 and earlier.
• New or updated hooks for certifi, numpy, tkinter, socket, ssl, and six.
• build_exe: the zipfile=None option has been removed.
• runtime: the Python interpreter DLL is no longer altered before being inserted in the executable bundle.
• Several bugfixes, better error messages.

pip install py2exe

Documentation about the setup-script and other usage tips are in the wiki pages at http://www.py2exe.org.

The build_exe CLI is not actively supported at the moment. Users are encouraged to create their own setup.py files. Documentation on how to use the CLI can be found here.

• Building isapi extensions is not supported.
• High-level methods or hooks to embed Qt plugins in the bundle (needed by PySide2/PyQt5) are missing.

Further informations about the original development of py2exe and other usage guidelines can be found in the original README.