Credits

Thanks goes to all the kind PyInstaller contributors who have contributed new code, bug reports, fixes, comments and ideas. A brief list follows, please let us know if your name is omitted by accident:

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.13.2

  • Rok Mandeljc

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.13.1

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • James Gerity

  • Lorenzo Villani

  • coolcatco888

  • gentlegiantJGC

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.13.0

  • Dan Yeaw

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Fabian Dröge

  • Levin Ma

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.12.0

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Joshua Bronson

  • caption

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.11.0

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • cat (also known as 0xb8)

  • eduardomotta-emottasistemas

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.10.1

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Christian Clauss

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.10.0

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Michael Shigorin

    1. Armando Solé

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.9.0

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Hugo van Kemenade

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Ievgen Popovych

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.8.0

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Arjan Molenaar

  • Breeze

  • Ievgen Popovych

  • João Vitor

  • bersbersbers

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.7.0

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Dan Yeaw

  • Rumbelows

  • Shoshana Berleant

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.6.2

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • bersbersbers

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.6.1

  • Timmy Welch

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.6

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Padsala Tushal

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.5

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Jasper Harrison

  • Alex

  • Andreas Schwab

  • jsagarribay

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.4.1

  • Rok Mandeljc

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.4

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Efrem Braun

  • Samuel T

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.3

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Dan Yeaw

  • Tim Gates

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.2

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Florian Bruhin

  • Zev Lee

  • Highfire1

  • Jasper Harrison

  • KnockKnockWho

  • Temerold

  • relativisticelectron

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.1

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Jasper Harrison

  • byehack

  • ARNTechnology

  • James Gerity

  • Kian-Meng Ang

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.0.1

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Abdelhakim Qbaich

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Jasper Harrison

Contributions to PyInstaller 5.0

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Jasper Harrison

  • Starbuck5

  • Chris Hillery

  • Dan Yeaw

  • eric15342335

  • 谭九鼎

  • AdrianIssott

  • Andreas Schwab

  • Andrii Oriekhov

  • Anssi Alahuhta

  • Brian Teague

  • Charlie Hayden

  • Emil Berg

  • Eric Missimer

  • GoldinGuy

  • James Gerity

  • Melvin Wang

  • Sapphire Becker

  • dennisvang

  • gentlegiantJGC

  • johnthagen

  • luc-x41

  • wangling12

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.10

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Andreas Schwab

  • GoldinGuy

  • Sapphire Becker

  • dennisvang

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.9

  • Rok Mandeljc - Core Developer

  • Brénainn Woodsend - Core Developer

  • Jasper Harrison - Core Develop, Maintainer, Release Manager

  • gentlegiantJGC

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.8

  • Rok Mandeljc - Core Developer

  • Jasper Harrison - Core Develop, Maintainer, Release Manager

  • Brénainn Woodsend - Core Developer

  • Ankith, Safihre, luc-x41

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.7

  • Rok Mandeljc - Core Developer

  • Brénainn Woodsend - Core Developer

  • Jasper Harrison - Core Develop, Maintainer, Release Manager

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.6

  • Rok Mandeljc - Core Developer

  • Brénainn Woodsend - Core Developer

  • Jasper Harrison - Maintainer, Release Manager

  • Anssi Alahutta, Dan Yeaw, Eric Missimer, Chris Hillery, Melvin Wang, wangling12, eric15342335

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.5.1

  • Jasper Harrison - Maintainer, Release Manager

  • ankith26

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.5

  • Rok Mandeljc - Core Developer

  • Brénainn Woodsend - Core Developer

  • Jasper Harrison - Maintainer, Release Manager

  • Dave Dykstra

  • Andy Hobbs

  • Nicholas Ollinger

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.4

  • Rok Mandeljc - Core Developer

  • Brénainn Woodsend - Core Developer

  • Jasper Harrison - Core Developer, Maintainer, Release Manager

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core Developer

  • xoviat

  • Chrisg2000

  • Alex Gembe, James Duley, Jeffrey, Kenny Huynh, Maxim Mazurok, mozbugbox

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.3

  • Rok Mandeljc - Core Developer

  • Brénainn Woodsend - Core Developer

  • Jasper Harrison (Legorooj) - Core Developer, Maintainer, Release Manager

  • Hartmut Goebel, Core Developer, Maintainer

  • xoviat

  • Dan Yeaw, Bruno Oliveira, Maxim Kalinchenko, Max Mäusezahl, Olivier FAURAX, richardsheridan, memo-off

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.2

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer, maintainer and release manager.

  • Legorooj - Core developer.

  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer and PyQt5-tamer.

  • Mickaël Schoentgen

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Damien Elmes, Dan Yeaw, hdf, Diggy, Filip Gospodinov, Kyle Altendorf, Matt Simpson, Nathan Summers, Phoenix, Starbuck5, Tom Hu, rockwalrus

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.1

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer, maintainer and release manager.

  • Legorooj - Core developer.

  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer and PyQt5-tamer.

  • Rok Mandeljc

  • Mickaël Schoentgen

  • Brénainn Woodsend

  • Aaron Althauser, Alex, Andrew Nelson, Benedikt Brückmann, Brénainn Woodsend, Calin Culianu, Dan Yeaw, Ievgen Popovych, Loïc Messal, Łukasz Stolcman, Matt, Mohamed, Petrus, Riz, Riz Syed, Santi Santichaivekin, Sid Gupta, Victor Stinner, byehack, dcgloe, johnthagen, ozelikov,

Contributions to PyInstaller 4.0

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer, maintainer and release manager.

  • Legorooj - Core developer.

  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer and PyQt5-tamer.

  • M Felt aka aixtools, jonnyhsu, Corey Dexter, Rok Mandeljc, Dan Yeaw, Florian Baumann, Ievgen Popovych, Ram Rachum, coreydexter, AndCycle, Dan Cutright, David Kiliani, David Maiden Mueller, FeralRobot, Frederico, Ilya Orson, ItsCinnabar, Juan Sotomayor, Matt M, Matteo Bertini, Michael Felt, Mohamed Feddad, Nehal J Wani, Or Groman, Sebastian Hohmann, Vaclav Dvorak, Ville Ilvonen, bwoodsend, eldadr, jeremyd2019, kraptor, seedgou.

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.6

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer, maintainer and release manager.

  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer and PyQt5-tamer.

  • Dan Yeaw, Amir Rossert, Hugo Martins, Felix Schwarz, Giuseppe Corbelli, HoLuLuLu, Jonathan Springer, Matt Khan, Min’an, Oracizan, Victor Stinner, Andres, Andrew Chow, Bernát Gábor, Charles Duffy, Chris, Chrisg2000, FranzPio, Lee Jeonghun, Lukasz Stolcman, Lyux, László Kiss Kollár, Mathias Lohne, Michael Felt, Noodle-Head, Ogi Moore, Patryk, RedFantom, Rémy Roy, Sean McGuire, Thomas Robitaille, Tim, Toby, Tuomo, V.Shkaberda, Vojtěch Drábek, Wilmar den Ouden, david, ethframe, lnv42, ripdog, satvidh, thisisivanfong

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.5

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer, maintainer and release manager.

  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer and PyQt5-tamer.

  • Dave Cortesi, Kuisong Tong, melvyn2, Giuseppe Corbelli, Florian Bruhin, Amir Ramezani, Cesar Vandevelde, Paul Müller, Thomas Robitaille, zachbateman, Addison Elliott, Amir Rossert, AndCycle, Atomfighter10101, Chris Berthiaume, Craig Younkins (bot), Don Krueger, Edward Chen, Exane Server Team, Hannes, Iwan, Jakob Schnitzer, Janzert, Jendrik Seipp, Jonathan Springer, Kirill German, Laszlo Kiss-Kollar, Loran425, Lori J, M*C*O, Nikita Melentev, Peter Bittner, RedFantom, Roman, Roman Yurchak, Ruslan Kuprieiev, Spencer Brown, Suzumizaki, Tobias Gruetzmacher, Tobias V. Langhoff, TobiasRzepka, Tom Hacohen, Yuval Shkolar, cclauss, charlesoblack, djl197, matias morant, satejkhedekar, zhu

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.4

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer, maintainer and release manager.

  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer and PyQt5-tamer.

  • David Vierra - Core developer and encoding specialist.

  • xoviat - brave contributor

  • Hugo vk - brave contributor

  • Mickaël Schoentgen, Charles Nicholson, Jonathan Springer, Benoît Vinot, Brett Higgins, Dustin Spicuzza, Marco Nenciarini, Aaron Hampton, Cody Scot, Dave Cortesi, Helder Eijs, Innokenty Lebedev, Joshua Klein, Matthew Clapp, Misha Turnbull, ethframe, Amir Ramezani, Arthur Silva, Blue, Craig MacEachern, Cédric RICARD, Fredrik Ahlberg, Glenn Ramsey, Jack Mordaunt, Johann Bauer, Joseph Heck, Kyle Stewart, Lev Maximov, Luo Shawn, Marco Nenciarini, Mario Costa, Matt Reynolds, Matthieu Gautier, Michael Herrmann, Moritz Kassner, Natanael Arndt, Nejc Habjan, Paweł Kowalik, Pedro de Medeiros, Peter Conerly, Peter Würtz, Rémy Roy, Saurabh Yadav, Siva Prasad, Steve Peak, Steven M. Vascellaro, Steven M. Vascellaro, Suzumizaki-Kimitaka, ThomasV, Timothée Lecomte, Torsten Sommer, Weliton Freitas, Zhen Zhang, dimitriepirghie, lneuhaus, s3goat, satarsa,

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.3.1

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer and release manager.

  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer.

  • David Vierra - Core developer and encoding specialist.

  • xoviat - brave contributor

  • Dave Cortesi, David Hoese, John Daytona, Nejc Habjan, Addison Elliott, Bharath Upadhya, Bill Dengler, Chris Norman, Miles Erickson, Nick Dimou, Thomas Waldmann, David Weil, Placinta

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.3

Special Thanks xiovat for implementing Python3.6 support and to Jonathan Springer and xoviat for stabilizing the continuous integration tests.

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer and release manager.

  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer.

  • David Vierra - Core developer and encoding specialist.

  • xoviat - brave programmer

  • Jonathan Springer

  • Vito Kortbeek

  • Dustin Spicuzza

  • Ben Hagen

  • Paavo

  • Brian Teague

  • Chris Norman

  • Jonathan Stewmon

  • Guillaume Thiolliere

  • Justin Harris

  • Kenneth Zhao

  • Paul Müller

  • giumas

  • y2kbugger

  • 肖寅东

  • Adam Clark, AndCycle, Andreas Schiefer, Arthur Silva, Aswa Paul, Bharath Upadhya, Brian Teague, Charles Duffy, Chris Coutinho, Cody Scott, Czarek Tomczak, Dang Mai, Daniel Hyams, David Hoese, Eelco van Vliet, Eric Drechsel, Erik Bjäreholt, Hatem AlSum, Henry Senyondo, Jan Čapek, Jeremy T. Hetzel, Jonathan Dan, Julie Marchant, Luke Lee, Marc Abramowitz, Matt Wilkie, Matthew Einhorn, Michael Herrmann, Niklas Rosenstein, Philippe Ombredanne, Piotr Radkowski, Ronald Oussoren, Ruslan Kuprieiev, Segev Finer, Shengjing Zhu 朱晟菁, Steve, Steven Noonan, Tibor Csonka, Till Bey, Tobias Gruetzmacher, 陳鵬宇 (float)

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.2.1

Special Thanks to Thomas Waldmann and David Vierra for support when working on the new build system.

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer and release manager.

  • Martin Zibricky - Core developer.

  • David Cortesi - Core developer and documentation manager.

  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer.

  • David Vierra - Core developer and encoding specialist.

  • Cecil Curry - brave bug-fixing and code-refactoring

  • Amane Suzuki

  • Andy Cycle

  • Axel Huebl

  • Bruno Oliveira

  • Dan Auerbach

  • Daniel Hyams

  • Denis Akhiyarov

  • Dror Asaf

  • Dustin Spicuzza

  • Emanuele Bertoldi

  • Glenn Ramsey

  • Hugh Dowling

  • Jesse Suen

  • Jonathan Dan

  • Jonathan Springer

  • Jonathan Stewmon

  • Julie Marchant

  • Kenneth Zhao

  • Linus Groh

  • Mansour Moufid

  • Martin Zibricky

  • Matteo Bertini

  • Nicolas Dickreuter

  • Peter Würtz

  • Ronald Oussoren

  • Santiago Reig

  • Sean Fisk

  • Sergei Litvinchuk

  • Stephen Rauch

  • Thomas Waldmann

  • Till Bald

  • xoviat

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.2

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer and release manager.

  • Martin Zibricky - Core developer.

  • David Cortesi - Core developer and documentation manager.

  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer.

  • David Vierra - Core developer and encoding specialist.

  • Cecil Curry - brave bug-fixing and code-refactoring

  • And Cycle - unicode fixes.

  • Chris Hager - QtQuick hook.

  • David Schoorisse - wrong icon parameter in Windows example.

  • Florian Bruhin - typo hunting.

  • Garth Bushell - Support for objcopy.

  • Insoleet - lib2to3 hook

  • Jonathan Springer - hook fixes, brave works on PyQt.

  • Matteo Bertini - code refactoring.

  • Jonathan Stewmon - bug hunting.

  • Kenneth Zhao - waf update.

  • Leonid Rozenberg - typo hunting.

  • Merlijn Wajer - bug fixing.

  • Nicholas Chammas - cleanups.

  • nih - hook fixes.

  • Olli-Pekka Heinisuo - CherryPy hook.

  • Rui Carmo - cygwin fixes.

  • Stephen Rauch - hooks and fixes for unnecessary rebuilds.

  • Tim Stumbaugh - bug hunting.

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.1.1

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer and release manager.

  • David Vierra - Core developer and encoding specialist.

  • Torsten Landschoff - Fix problems with setuptools

  • Peter Inglesby - resolve symlinks in modulegraph.py

  • syradium - bug hunting

  • dessant - bug hunting

  • Joker Qyou - bug hunting

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.1

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer and release manager.

  • Martin Zibricky - Core developer.

  • David Cortesi - Core developer and documentation manager.

  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer.

  • David Vierra - Core developer and encoding specialist.

  • Andrei Kopats - Windows fixes.

  • Andrey Malkov - Django runtime hooks.

  • Ben Hagen - kivy hook, GStreamer realtime hook.

  • Cecil Curry - Module Version Comparisons and and reworking hooks.

  • Dustin Spicuzza - Hooks for GLib, GIntrospection, Gstreamer, etc.

  • giumas - lxml.isoschematron hook.

  • Jonathan Stewmon - Hooks for botocore, boto, boto3 and gevent.monkey.

  • Kenneth Zhao - Solaris fixes.

  • Matthew Einhorn - kivy hook.

  • mementum - pubsub.core hook.

  • Nicholas Chammas - Documentation updates.

  • Nico Galoppo - Hooks for skimage and sklearn.

  • Panagiotis H.M. Issaris - weasyprint hook.

  • Penaz - shelve hook.

  • Roman Yurchak - scipy.linalg hook.

  • Starwarsfan2099 - Distorm3 hook.

  • Thomas Waldmann - Fixes for Bootloader and FreeBSD.

  • Tim Stumbaugh - Bug fixes.

  • zpin - Bug fixes.

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.0

  • Martin Zibricky - Core developer and release manager.

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer.

  • David Cortesi - Initial work on Python 3 support, Python 3 fixes, documentation updates, various hook fixes.

  • Cecil Curry - ‘six’ hook for Python 3, various modulegraph improvements, wxPython hook fixes,

  • David Vierra - unicode support in bootloader, Windows SxS Assembly Manifest fixes and many other Windows improvements.

  • Michael Mulley - keyring, PyNaCl import hook.

  • Rainer Dreyer - OS X fixes, hook fixes.

  • Bryan A. Jones - test suite fixes, various hook fixes.

  • Philippe Pepiot - Linux fixes.

  • Emanuele Bertoldi - pycountry import hook, Django import hook fixes.

  • Glenn Ramsey - PyQt5 import hook - support for QtWebEngine on OSX, various hook fixes, Windows fixes.

  • Karol Woźniak - import hook fixes.

  • Jonathan Springer - PyGObject hooks. ctypes, PyEnchant hook fixes, OS X fixes.

  • Giuseppe Masetti - osgeo, mpl_toolkits.basemap and netCDF4 import hooks.

  • Yuu Yamashita - OS X fixes.

  • Thomas Waldmann - FreeBSD fixes.

  • Boris Savelev - FreeBSD and Solaris fixes.

  • Guillermo Gutiérrez - Python 3 fixes.

  • Jasper Geurtz - gui fixes, hook fixes.

  • Holger Pandel - Windows fixes.

  • Anthony Zhang - SpeechRecognition import hook.

  • Andrei Fokau - Python 3.5 fixes.

  • Kenneth Zhao - AIX fixes.

  • Maik Riechert - lensfunpy, rawpy import hooks.

  • Tim Stumbaugh - hook fixes.

  • Andrew Leech - Windows fixes.

  • Patrick Robertson - tkinter import hook fixes.

  • Yaron de Leeuw - import hook fixes.

  • Bryan Cort - PsychoPy import hook.

  • Phoebus Veiz - bootloader fixes.

  • Sean Johnston - version fix.

  • Kevin Zhang - PyExcelerate import hook.

  • Paulo Matias - unicode fixes.

  • Lorenzo Villani - crypto feature, various fixes.

  • Janusz Skonieczny - hook fixes.

  • Martin Gamwell Dawids - Solaris fixes.

  • Volodymyr Vitvitskyi - typo fixes.

  • Thomas Kho - django import hook fixes.

  • Konstantinos Koukopoulos - FreeBSD support.

  • Jonathan Beezley - PyQt5 import hook fixes.

  • Andraz Vrhovec - various fixes.

  • Noah Treuhaft - OpenCV import hook.

  • Michael Hipp - reportlab import hook.

  • Michael Sverdlik - certifi, httplib2, requests, jsonschema import hooks.

  • Santiago Reig - apply import hook.

Contributions to PyInstaller 2.1 and older

  • Glenn Ramsey - PyQt5 import hook.

  • David Cortesi - PyInstaller manual rewrite.

  • Vaclav Smilauer - IPython import hook.

  • Shane Hansen - Linux arm support.

  • Bryan A. Jones - docutils, jinja2, sphinx, pytz, idlelib import hooks.

  • Patrick Stewart <patstew at gmail dot com> - scipy import hook.

  • Georg Schoelly <mail at georg-schoelly dot com> - storm ORM import hook.

  • Vinay Sajip - zmq import hook.

  • Martin Gamwell Dawids - AIX support.

  • Hywel Richards - Solaris support.

  • Brandyn White - packaged executable return code fix.

  • Chien-An “Zero” Cho - PyUSB import hook.

  • Daniel Hyams - h2py, wx.lib.pubsub import hooks.

  • Hartmut Goebel - Python logging system for message output. Option –log-level.

  • Florian Hoech - full Python 2.6 support on Windows including automatic handling of DLLs, CRT, manifest, etc. Read and write resources from/to Win32 PE files.

  • Martin Zibricky - rewrite the build system for the bootloader using waf. LSB compliant precompiled bootloaders for Linux. Windows 64-bit support.

  • Peter Burgers - matplotlib import hook.

  • Nathan Weston - Python architecture detection on OS X.

  • Isaac Wagner - various OS X fixes.

  • Matteo Bertini - OS X support.

  • Daniele Zannotti - OS X support.

  • David Mugnai - Linux support improvements.

  • Arve Knudsen - absolute imports in Python 2.5+

  • Pascal Veret - PyQt4 import hook with Qt4 plugins.

  • Don Dwiggins - pyodbc import hook.

  • Allan Green - refactoring and improved in-process COM servers.

  • Daniele Varrazzo - various bootloader and OS X fixes.

  • Greg Copeland - sqlalchemy import hook.

  • Seth Remington - PyGTK hook improvements.

  • Marco Bonifazi - PyGTK hook improvements. PyOpenGL import hook.

  • Jamie Kirkpatrick - paste import hook.

  • Lorenzo Mancini - PyXML import hook fixes under Windows. OS X support. App bundle creation on OS X. Tkinter on OS X. Precompiled bootloaders for OS X.

  • Lorenzo Berni - django import hook.

  • Louai Al-Khanji - fixes with optparse module.

  • Thomas Heller - set custom icon of Windows exe files.

  • Eugene Prigorodov <eprigorodov at naumen dot ru> - KInterasDB import hook.

  • David C. Morrill - vtkpython import hook.

  • Alan James Salmoni - Tkinter interface to PyInstaller.