Below are the changes for the current release. See the CHANGES file for changes in older releases. See the RELEASENOTES file for a summary of changes in each release. Version 3.0.10 (12 Jun 2016) ============================ 2016-06-06: mromberg [Python] Patch #698. Add support for -relativeimport for python 2.7, so -py3 is no longer also required for relative import support. 2016-06-05: mromberg [Python] Patch #694 - Fix package import regressions introduced in swig-3.0.9. 1) The code in 3.0.9 did not fall back to 'import _foo' if 'import bar._foo' failed (assuming bar.foo was the main module). Every place _foo is imported now first tries it from the package where foo was found and if that fails tries _foo as a global module. 2) The separate block of Python code that injected code to pull in the attributes from _foo when -builtin is used made use of the -py3 switch to either do 'from ._foo import *' or "from _foo import *". This block of code no longer does this and instead checks the Python version at runtime to switch between the two syntaxes. In summary, swig-3.0.10 has been modified to ease the creation of wrapper modules that can be fully made part of a Python package. SWIG no longer assumes the dynamically linked C module is a global module. The dynamic module can now be placed into either the same package as the pure Python module or as a global module. Both locations are used by the Python wrapper to locate the C module. However, this could cause a backwards incompatibility with some code that was relying on the ability of "from package import _module" to pull attributes out of the package directly. If your code populates a module (which is also a package) with attributes that are SWIG generated modules which were not loaded in a conventional way, swig-3.0.8 and earlier may have worked due to 'from package import _module' bypassing a real import and pulling your module in as an attribute. This will no longer work. Since this is not a common (or even recommended) practice, most folk should not be affected. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 2016-05-31: wsfulton Fix #690 - Smart pointer to %ignored class doesn't expose inherited methods. Regression introduced in swig-3.0.9.