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A Python Progressbar library to provide visual (yet text based) progress to long running operations.

Last release 1 months ago
14 Aug 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 8 days to 2.0 years
Some releases are documented
notes for 35 of the last 60 stable releases
1 version withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing
13 years old
111 releases · first in 2013

Release timeline

111 releases since 2013

2013201520172019

Releases

4.6.014 Aug 2026
progressbar.progressbar() now auto-dispatches to a lean fast path for the common wrap-a-loop case, and an integer update gate keeps gated iterations t
Highlights since 4.5.0:

Performance

progressbar.progressbar() now auto-dispatches to a lean fast path for the common wrap-a-loop case, and an integer update gate keeps gated iterations to an increment, a compare and a store (#316).

Optional native iterator accelerator: pip install 'progressbar2[fast]'. See benchmarks/report.md for the numbers against tqdm, rich, alive-progress and click.

Features

tqdm-style arguments on progressbar(): desc, total, unit, unit_scale and postfix.

MultiBar(join_timeout=...) bounds the wait for unfinished bars on with-block exit.

TERM-based color detection generalized beyond xterm variants (#318), plus a truecolor-terminal allowlist for stripped COLORTERM environments.

AttributeDict is generic over its value type.

Fixes

28 bugs found in a full audit of the bar, widgets, MultiBar and the CLI (#315), plus regression coverage for #212, #295 and #301 (#317, #326).

16-color mapping no longer collapses mid-intensity colors (e.g. maroon) to black.

The wheel no longer ships the repo-level benchmarks/, scripts/ and tools/ directories.

Documentation

Rebuilt as an interactive site: a tutorial, task-focused how-tos, per-widget pages with animated demos, and an in-browser Python console that runs every example live: https://progressbar-2.readthedocs.io/

Full API docstring coverage, enforced in CI.

Compatibility

Requires Python 3.10+ (was 3.8).

Still backwards compatible with the original progressbar package.

Full changelog: v4.5.0...v4.6.0

One column per quarter.

4.5.028 Aug 2024

Improved build system with many more (and improved) type hints.

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4.4.323 Aug 2024withdrawn: SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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4.4.25 Mar 2024

Fixed visible control characters issue on Windows. Fixes #293

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4.4.125 Feb 2024

Included fix for the progressbar command

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4.4.025 Feb 2024

Greatly improved Windows (colour) support and fixed several Windows bugs

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4.3.218 Dec 2023

disabling run-command until it is properly finished

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4.3.118 Dec 2023

fixed typeerror on Windows thanks to @eachimei , excluded docs from install thanks to @mgorny and added readthedocs configuration file

fixed typeerror on Windows thanks to @eachimei, excluded docs from install thanks to @mgorny and added readthedocs configuration file

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4.3.018 Dec 2023

Added support for multithreading, multiprocessing, colors (16, 256 and full color) and many interactive terminal features such as continuous printing

Added support for multithreading, multiprocessing, colors (16, 256 and full color) and many interactive terminal features such as continuous printing for a live ETA

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4.3b01 Nov 2022pre-release

Added fully tested type hinting using pyright and mypy. Also fixed a …

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4.2.026 Oct 2022

Added increment() method for easy usage as callback from libraries such as boto

Added increment() method for easy usage as callback from libraries such as boto

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4.1.118 Oct 2022

Fixed backwards compatibility with original progressbar library

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4.1.018 Oct 2022

Delegate unknown attrs to target in WrappingIO thanks to @william-andre. Added threaded progress bar example

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4.0.05 Jan 2022

Updated to Python 3.10 including type hinting

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3.55.015 Oct 2021

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3.54.012 Oct 2021

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3.53.314 Sept 2021

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