Summary

Add release notes for RBTools 4.0.

Review Request #12672 — Created Oct. 6, 2022 and submitted Oct. 24, 2022, 12:33 a.m.

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RBTools

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release-4.x

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Description

The release notes cover the new features and fixes, and get into some of
the more important technical changes for those using RBTools as a Python
API for their scripts.

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Checked for build errors, spelling errors, and bad links.

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Add release notes for RBTools 4.0. This is a large release that drops Python 2.7/3.6 compatibility, adds support for Apple Diff (coming in macOS Ventura), fixes and optimizes aspects of diff building, and modernizes much of the codebase. The release notes cover the new features and fixes, and get into some of the more important technical changes for those using RBTools as a Python API for their scripts.	58e1cb14948a5c549f0829e29121ca1c8e2c478d

Summary

Add release notes for RBTools 4.0.

This is a large release that drops Python 2.7/3.6 compatibility, adds support for Apple Diff (coming in macOS Ventura), fixes and optimizes aspects of diff building, and modernizes much of the codebase. The release notes cover the new features and fixes, and get into some of the more important technical changes for those using RBTools as a Python API for their scripts.

58e1cb14948a5c549f0829e29121ca1c8e2c478d

Issues

Description	From	Last Updated
The comma after "Now" is unnecessary.	david	Oct. 7, 2022, 3:08 p.m.
We should also mention in here that the LiveHTTPResponse and CachedHTTPResponse fields have had a few methods deprecated in order …	david	Oct. 23, 2022, 11:18 p.m.

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docs/releasenotes/4.0.rst (Diff revision 1)
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The comma after "Now" is unnecessary.
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docs/releasenotes/4.0.rst (Diff revision 1)

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We should also mention in here that the LiveHTTPResponse and CachedHTTPResponse fields have had a few methods deprecated in order to bring us in line with the modern http.client.HTTPResponse API.

Change Summary:

Added missing deprecations.

Commits:

	Summary	ID
	Add release notes for RBTools 4.0. This is a large release that drops Python 2.7/3.6 compatibility, adds support for Apple Diff (coming in macOS Ventura), fixes and optimizes aspects of diff building, and modernizes much of the codebase. The release notes cover the new features and fixes, and get into some of the more important technical changes for those using RBTools as a Python API for their scripts.	7b8fbcb6338a31679046b98d400f2ba57b373372
	Add release notes for RBTools 4.0. This is a large release that drops Python 2.7/3.6 compatibility, adds support for Apple Diff (coming in macOS Ventura), fixes and optimizes aspects of diff building, and modernizes much of the codebase. The release notes cover the new features and fixes, and get into some of the more important technical changes for those using RBTools as a Python API for their scripts.	58e1cb14948a5c549f0829e29121ca1c8e2c478d

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	docs/rbtools/api/coderef/index.rst
	docs/releasenotes/4.0.rst
	docs/releasenotes/conf.py
	docs/releasenotes/index.rst
	rbtools/clients/base/registry.py

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Status:: Completed
Change Summary:: Pushed to release-4.x (5107c03)