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Subject: Re: Beta release of pip version 10
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Unfortunately there was an issue in one of the release files (the CA
Certificate bundle contained Windows line endings instead of Unix line
endings) which caused crashes on older versions of MacOS. As a result
we have just released 10.0.0b2, fixing this issue.

Anyone on older MacOS versions who have had problems with the 10.0.0b1
release should upgrade to 10.0.0b2.

Thanks,
Paul

On 31 March 2018 at 12:11, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
> On behalf of the PyPA, I am pleased to announce that a beta release
> 10.0.0b1 of pip has just been released for testing by the community.
> We're planning on a final release in 2 weeks' time, over the weekend
> of 14/15 April.
>
> To install pip 10.0.0.b1, you can run
>
>     python -m pip install --upgrade --pre pip
>
> (obviously, you should not do this in a production environment!)
>
> We would be grateful for all testing that users could do, to ensure
> that when pip 10 is released it's as solid as we can make it.
>
> Highlights of the new release:
>
> * Python 2.6 is no longer supported - if you need pip on Python 2.6,
> you should stay on pip 9, which is the last version to support Python
> 2.6.
> * Support for PEP 518, which allows projects to specify what packages
> they require in order to build from source. (PEP 518 support is
> currently limited, with full support coming in future versions - see
> the documentation for details).
> * Significant improvements in Unicode handling for non-ASCII locales on Windows.
> * A new "pip config" command.
> * The default upgrade strategy has become "only-if-needed"
> * Many bug fixes and minor improvements.
>
> In addition, the previously announced reorganisation of pip's
> internals has now taken place. Unless you are the author of code that
> imports the pip module (or a user of such code), this change will not
> affect you. If you are, please report the issue to the author of the
> affected code (refer them to
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-October/031642.html
> for the details of the announcement).
>
> Please note that there is a minor issue with the NEWS file for this
> release - the new features in 10.0.0b1 are reported as being for
> "9.0.3 (2018-03-31)".
>
> If you discover any bugs while testing the new release, please report
> them at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues.
>
> Thanks to everyone who put so much effort into the new release. Many
> of the contributions came from community members, whether in the form
> of code, participation in design discussions, or bug reports. The pip
> development team is extremely grateful to everyone in the community
> for their contributions.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul