Attachment 16219 Details for Bug 14488 – patch for WHATSNEW for 4.13

[patch] patch for WHATSNEW for 4.13

0001-WHATSNEW-Announce-the-end-of-Python-2.6-2.7-support-.patch (text/plain), 1.51 KB, created by Andrew Bartlett on 2020-09-10 22:21:05 UTC

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Created: 2020-09-10 22:21:05 UTC

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>From cd7415c2f21e093cc02693e1f96392a35b47d20e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
>Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2020 18:07:29 +1200
>Subject: [PATCH] WHATSNEW: Announce the end of Python 2.6/2.7 support to build
> Samba
>
>This is a warning for 4.14, to give users the normal deprecation
>notice.
>
>BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14488
>
>Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
>---
> WHATSNEW.txt | 14 ++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
>index 6c0cd70e840..cf70c1df1c0 100644
>--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
>+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
>@@ -16,16 +16,22 @@ UPGRADING
> NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
> ====================
> 
>-Python 3.6 Required
>--------------------
>+Python 3.6 or later required
>+----------------------------
> 
> Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python
> 3.5 with samba 4.12.  Samba 4.13 raises this minimum version to Python
> 3.6 both to access new features and because this is the oldest version
> we test with in our CI infrastructure.
> 
>-(Build time support for the file server with Python 2.6 has not
>-changed)
>+This is also the last release where it will be possible to build Samba
>+(just the file server) with Python versions 2.6 and 2.7.
>+
>+As Python 2.7 has been End Of Life upstream since April 2020, Samba
>+is dropping ALL Python 2.x support in the NEXT release.
>+
>+Samba 4.14 to be released in March 2021 will require Python 3.6 or
>+later to build.
> 
> wide links functionality
> ------------------------
>-- 
>2.25.1
>

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