Suggestion: new command to bump versions of dependencies in `pyproject.toml`

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Issue

It would be awesome if Poetry had a command (let’s call it upgrade) that bumped the version constraints of dependencies in pyproject.toml (as opposed to update, which afaict updates the lock file to the newest version within the constraint specified in pyproject.toml).

Some examples for how this command could behave:

• poetry upgrade django: Upgrade Django to the newest version that still works with other dependencies; equivalent to poetry remove django; poetry add django.
• poetry upgrade django djangorestframework: As above, but with more than one package at a time.
• poetry upgrade django=^2.1: Set the version of django to ^2.1, equivalent to poetry remove django; poetry add django=^2.1.
• poetry upgrade: Upgrade every dependency to the newest possible version. Equivalent to deleting the entire [tool.poetry.dependencies] section of pyproject.toml and running poetry add with a list of the names (but not versions) of every package previously in the list. (This one would be good for cookiecutter templates for projects, to make it easy to start a new project with the latest versions of everything.)

Currently, when I want to bump the version of something, I’m either running poetry remove ...; poetry add ... which moves the package to the bottom of the list in pyproject.toml, and results in uninstalling a bunch of dependencies which sometimes just get reinstalled again at the same version; or I’m manually editing pyproject.toml which means I have to look up the latest version manually, and I can’t use Poetry’s version resolution when I want to upgrade more than one package at a time.

[MousaZeidBaker]

I’ve created a PyPI package called poetryup that does this seamlessly. Simply run poetryup and it will update dependencies and bump their version in the pyproject.toml file. Enjoy!

Edit 1: poetryup v0.5.0 can update dependencies to their LATEST available version by setting a flag as following: poetryup --latest

Edit 2: poetryup v0.8.0 can update specific dependencies or dependencies in specific groups

Edit 3:

With the announcement of Poetry 1.2.0 and its support for plugin support, poetryup have been ported to poetry-plugin-up. Instead of being a standalone tool, the plugin provides an up command to Poetry itself in order to update dependencies and bump pyproject.toml. I strongly recommend using the plugin since it provides a more native experience and comes with new features such as dry-run, no-install etc.

Install the up plugin with:

poetry self add poetry-plugin-up

Usage:

poetry up --help

For more details visit poetry-plugin-up

[finswimmer]

I thinks the request about an upgrade command to update all dependencies to the latest available version is valid. So I reopen it.