July 2021 Release

[sbidoul]

@pypa/pip-committers here is the tracking issue for 21.2.

For reasons outside of my control I will not be able to wear the release manager hat for this one, so who wants to take it ?

[uranusjr]

I think I will have some time to do this, if nobody is able to pick this up (it seems like the case…) There are a couple of big-ish resolver changes I want to keep an eye on for the release.

[pradyunsg]

(Oh, looks like I never posted my reply)

FWIW, I'll be available on most days of the month. I do prefer someone else do the RM'y bits but I should have the capacity to help out with that, and with any issues that the release automation hits.

From #9282:

I'm becoming a little wary that I'm becoming the SPOF for our release processes and, I'd like to avoid that. :)

This is still true, although we're still only at 3/7 pip maintainers having made a release with the newer release process -- so, @uranusjr as the RM sounds great to me because it pushes us over 50% here! :)

[pradyunsg]

Whomever wants to volunteer to be the RM, I suggest that you just assign yourself here. :)

[uranusjr]

I've resolved almost all pending issues where I can (and sent a ping to PRs that have not been finished yet). I'll take a look at the release process this weekend and maybe work on the platformdirs switch if viable. If everything goes well, we should have something releasable by next Monday.

[uranusjr]

So the platformdirs switch doesn't work out as easily as I hoped, so I dropped that. The release process went well for me, but I think I need permissions to actually upload the sdist and wheel files.

[pradyunsg]

LOL. Lemme get that fixed.

[pradyunsg]

Invited! Please make sure to also have 2FA enabled! :)

[uranusjr]

Alright, 21.2.1 is now live. (I made an error in 21.2 and it’s now yanked, see #10198.)

I’m going to first update the documentation and maybe the build script a bit before submitting updates to get-pip and cpython.

[uranusjr]

One PR away to 21.2.2. The plan is to release it this weekend (as soon as possible so I can use the rest of the weekend to respond if there’s any urgent issue).

[uranusjr]

21.2.3 has been released. There is still one distutils-sysconfig issue I am not sure how to fix, so maybe there won’t be a 21.2.4. Let’s see how things go.

[potiuk]

21.2.3 has been released. There is still one distutils-sysconfig issue I am not sure how to fix, so maybe there won’t be a 21.2.4. Let’s see how things go.

Just when I bumped to 21.2.2 in Airflow ;)

[uranusjr]

21.2.4 has been released (because #10280). Hopefully this is the last one…

[pradyunsg]

Did we ever file a PR for adding 21.2.4 to Python 3.10?

[hugovk]

I guess not, the Python 3.10.0 RC2 was tagged 3 hours ago, still with pip 21.2.3:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.10.0rc2/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py#L15

[pradyunsg]

Thanks for looking that up @hugovk! 21.2.3 is close enough. ;)

[hugovk]

Will a newer pip be added for Python 3.10.0 final?

Reminder that 3.10.0 final is due Monday, 2021-10-04.

• https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0619/#schedule

[pfmoore]

As 3.10 is at rc stage now, I doubt the release manager would accept a PR updating pip. Nor do I think it's a worthwhile risk at this point.

We can aim to get a newer version of pip into 3.10.1, but I'd just let that happen naturally, as part of the October pip release cycle.

[uranusjr]

21.2.4 only has one fix for compatibility, so I didn’t feel a need to disrupt the RC process.

[pradyunsg]

Cool cool, FWIW, the 3.10 branch is now for 3.10.1, so whenever we file a PR from now until that release, it should be all good. :)

[pradyunsg]

@uranusjr If we're not going to have a 21.2.5, let's close this one out?