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NEWS.rst

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+Release 1.18.0 (2022-10-02)
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+Backwards Incompatible Changes
+------------------------------
+
+- Python 3.6 is no longer supported, as it has reached end-of-life and is no longer receiving security updates. (`#3865 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3865>`_)
+- Python 3.7 or later is now required; Python 2 is no longer supported. (`#3873 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3873>`_)
+- Share corruption reports stored on disk are now always encoded in UTF-8. (`#3879 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3879>`_)
+- Record both the PID and the process creation-time:
+
+  a new kind of pidfile in `running.process` records both
+  the PID and the creation-time of the process. This facilitates
+  automatic discovery of a "stale" pidfile that points to a
+  currently-running process. If the recorded creation-time matches
+  the creation-time of the running process, then it is a still-running
+  `tahoe run` process. Otherwise, the file is stale.
+
+  The `twistd.pid` file is no longer present. (`#3926 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3926>`_)
+
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- The implementation of SDMF and MDMF (mutables) now requires RSA keys to be exactly 2048 bits, aligning them with the specification.
+
+  Some code existed to allow tests to shorten this and it's
+  conceptually possible a modified client produced mutables
+  with different key-sizes. However, the spec says that they
+  must be 2048 bits. If you happen to have a capability with
+  a key-size different from 2048 you may use 1.17.1 or earlier
+  to read the content. (`#3828 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3828>`_)
+- "make" based release automation (`#3846 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3846>`_)
+
+
+Misc/Other
+----------
+
+- `#3327 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3327>`_, `#3526 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3526>`_, `#3697 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3697>`_, `#3709 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3709>`_, `#3786 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3786>`_, `#3788 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3788>`_, `#3802 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3802>`_, `#3816 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3816>`_, `#3855 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3855>`_, `#3858 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3858>`_, `#3859 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3859>`_, `#3860 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3860>`_, `#3867 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3867>`_, `#3868 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3868>`_, `#3871 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3871>`_, `#3872 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3872>`_, `#3875 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3875>`_, `#3876 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3876>`_, `#3877 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3877>`_, `#3881 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3881>`_, `#3882 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3882>`_, `#3883 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3883>`_, `#3889 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3889>`_, `#3890 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3890>`_, `#3891 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3891>`_, `#3893 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3893>`_, `#3895 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3895>`_, `#3896 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3896>`_, `#3898 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3898>`_, `#3900 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3900>`_, `#3909 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3909>`_, `#3913 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3913>`_, `#3915 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3915>`_, `#3916 <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3916>`_
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+
 Release 1.17.1 (2022-01-07)
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newsfragments/3697.minor

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-Added support for Python 3.10. Added support for PyPy3 (3.7 and 3.8, on Linux only).

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-Added re-structured text documentation for the OpenMetrics format statistics endpoint.

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-The implementation of SDMF and MDMF (mutables) now requires RSA keys to be exactly 2048 bits, aligning them with the specification.
-
-Some code existed to allow tests to shorten this and it's
-conceptually possible a modified client produced mutables
-with different key-sizes. However, the spec says that they
-must be 2048 bits. If you happen to have a capability with
-a key-size different from 2048 you may use 1.17.1 or earlier
-to read the content.

newsfragments/3846.feature

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-"make" based release automation

newsfragments/3865.incompat

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-Python 3.6 is no longer supported, as it has reached end-of-life and is no longer receiving security updates.

newsfragments/3873.incompat

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-Python 3.7 or later is now required; Python 2 is no longer supported.

newsfragments/3879.incompat

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-Share corruption reports stored on disk are now always encoded in UTF-8.

newsfragments/3926.incompat

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-Record both the PID and the process creation-time:
-
-a new kind of pidfile in `running.process` records both
-the PID and the creation-time of the process. This facilitates
-automatic discovery of a "stale" pidfile that points to a
-currently-running process. If the recorded creation-time matches
-the creation-time of the running process, then it is a still-running
-`tahoe run` process. Otherwise, the file is stale.
-
-The `twistd.pid` file is no longer present.