Announcing Poetry 1.2.0a2

The Poetry team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Poetry 1.2.0a2.

This release mainly adds support for dependency groups.

If you have a previous version of Poetry installed via the official installer, getting Poetry 1.2.0a2 is as easy as:

$ poetry self update --preview

For a complete list of changes, you can refer to the change log.

Dependency groups #

Poetry provides a way to organize your dependencies by groups. For instance, you might have dependencies that are only needed to test your project or to build the documentation.

To declare a new dependency group, use a tool.poetry.group.<group> section where <group> is the name of your dependency group (for instance, test):

[tool.poetry.group.test]  # This part can be left out

[tool.poetry.group.test.dependencies]
pytest = "^6.0.0"
pytest-mock = "*"

The dependencies declared in tool.poetry.dependencies are part of an implicit default group.

[tool.poetry.dependencies]  # Default dependency group
httpx = "*"
pendulum = "*"

[tool.poetry.group.test.dependencies]
pytest = "^6.0.0"
pytest-mock = "*"

[tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
pytest = "^6.0.0"
pytest-mock = "*"

[tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
pytest = "^6.0.0"
pytest-mock = "*"

Optional groups #

A dependency group can be declared as optional. This makes sense when you have a group of dependencies that are only required in a particular environment or for a specific purpose.

[tool.poetry.group.docs]
optional = true

[tool.poetry.group.docs.dependencies]
mkdocs = "*"

Optional groups can be installed in addition to the default dependencies by using the --with option of the install command.

poetry install --with docs

Adding a dependency to a group #

The add command is the preferred way to add dependencies to a group. This is done by using the --group (-G) option.

poetry add pytest --group test

If the group does not already exist, it will be created automatically.

Installing group dependencies #

By default, dependencies across all groups will be installed when executing poetry install.

You can exclude one or more groups with the --without option:

poetry install --without test,docs

You can also opt in optional groups by using the --with option:

poetry install --with docs

If you only want to install the default, non-grouped, dependencies, you can do so with the --default option:

poetry install --default

Finally, in some case you might want to install only specific groups of dependencies without installing the default dependencies. For that purpose, you can use the --only option.

poetry install --only docs

Removing dependencies from a group #

The remove command supports a --group option to remove packages from a specific group:

poetry remove mkdocs --group docs

Package operations and synchronization improvements #

The user experience when working with dependency groups when installing packages has been improved.

Packages currently installed in the project’s environment will no longer be removed by default.

To ensure that the lock file and the environment are synchronized, you may now use the new --sync option when executing the install command.

poetry install --sync

The --sync option can be combined with any dependency groups related options to synchronize the environment with specific groups.

poetry install --without dev --sync
poetry install --with docs --sync
poetry install --only dev