1.24.0 (31-Mar-2020)

• Feature: Add the needed command-line arguments to existing commands to provide information about host and build profiles. (#5594). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add markdown generator, it exposes useful information to consume the installed packages. (#6758). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add new tool cppstd_flag to retrieve the compiler flag for the given settings. (#6744). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Short paths feature is available for Cygwin. (#6741). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add Apple Clang as a base compiler for Intel C++. (#6740). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Make settings.get_safe and options.get_safe accept a default value. (#6739). Docs: 📃
• Feature: CONAN_V2_MODE deprecates two legacy ways of reusing python code: the <cache>/python path and the automatic PYTHONPATH environment variable. (#6737). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add the description field to the output of the conan info command. (#6724). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add more detailed information when there are missing packages. (#6700). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Support mirrors for tools.download and tools.get. (#6679). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Modify the default behaviour in SystemPackageTool to be able to create a recipe that does not install system requirements by default if the CONAN_SYSREQUIRES_MODE is not set. (#6677). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add cpp_info.components package creator interface to model internal dependencies inside a recipe. (#6653). Docs: 📃
• Feature: Add a new init() method to conanfile.py recipes that can be used to add extra logic when inheriting from python_requires classes. (#6614). Docs: 📃
• Fix: Add Sun C compiler version 5.15 into default settings.yml. (#6767)
• Fix: Raises ConanException when package folder is invalid for export-pkg. (#6720). Docs: 📃
• Fix: Added print to stderr and exit into pyinstaller script when it detects python usage of python 3.8 or higher as currently pyinstaller does not support python 3.8. (#6686)
• Fix: Improve the command line help for the conan install --build option. (#6681). Docs: 📃
• Fix: Add build policy help for --build argument when used in conan graph build-order command. (#6650)
• Fix: Remove file before copying in conan config install to avoid permission issues. (#6601)
• Fix: check_min_cppstd raises an exception for an unknown compiler. (#6548). Docs: 📃
• Fix: cmake_find_package no longer seeks to find packages which are already found. (#6389)
• Bugfix: Fixes the auto-detection of sun-cc compiler when it outputs Studio 12.5 Sun C. (#6757)
• Bugfix: Add values to definitions passed to MSBuild build helper which values are not None (0, False...). (#6730)
• Bugfix: Include name and version in the data from conanbuildinfo.txt, so it is available in self.deps_cpp_info["dep"].version and self.deps_cpp_info["dep"].name, so it can be used in conan build and in test_package/conanfile.py. (#6723). Docs: 📃
• Bugfix: Fix check_output_runner() to handle dirs with whitespaces. (#6703)
• Bugfix: Fix vcvars_arch usage before assignment, that can cause a crash in tools.vcvars_command() that is also used internally by MSBuild helper. (#6675)
• Bugfix: Silent output from cmake_find_package generator with CONAN_CMAKE_SILENT_OUTPUT. (#6672)
• Bugfix: Use always LF line separator for .sh scripts generated by virtualenv generators. (#6670)
• Bugfix: Use the real settings value to check the compiler and compiler version in the cmake generator local flow when the package_id() method changes values. (#6659)