- BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:
- Dropped support for EOL Pythons 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5
- Dropped support for LSB and uname back-ends when --root-dir is
specified
- Moved distro.py to src/distro/distro.py
- ENHANCEMENTS:
- Documented that distro.version() can return an empty string on
- rolling releases
- Documented support for Python 3.10
- Added official support for Rocky Linux distribution
- Added a shebang to distro.py to allow standalone execution
- Added support for AIX platforms
- Added compliance for PEP-561
- BUG FIXES:
- Fixed include_uname parameter oversight
- Fixed crash when uname -rs output is empty
- Fixed Amazon Linux identifier in distro.id() documentation
- Fixed OpenSuse >= 15 support
- Fixed encoding issues when opening distro release files
- Fixed linux_distribution regression
Signed-off-by: Javier Marcet <javier@marcet.info>
- BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY:
- Deprecated the distro.linux_distribution() function. Use
distro.id(), distro.version() and distro.name() instead [#296]
- Deprecated Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 support. Further releases will
only support Python 3.6+
- ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added type hints to distro module [#269]
- Added __version__ for checking distro version [#292]
- Added support for arbitrary rootfs via the root_dir parameter
[#247]
- Added the --root-dir option to CLI [#161]
- Added fallback to /usr/lib/os-release when /etc/os-release isn't
available [#262]
- BUG FIXES:
- Fixed subprocess.CalledProcessError when running lsb_release
[#261]
- Ignore /etc/iredmail-release file while parsing distribution
[#268]
- Use a binary file for /dev/null to avoid TextIOWrapper overhead
[#271]
- RELEASE:
- Moved repository from nir0s/distro to python-distro/distro on
GitHub.
Signed-off-by: Javier Marcet <javier@marcet.info>
