Release 22.1 (April 2022)

[pradyunsg]

Oh wow, March is almost over. Time flies. Well, the doctype drama from the last release is what made it last longer than I'd have liked.

x-ref pypi/warehouse#10726

So... who wants to be the release manager this time @pypa/pip-committers? :)

[pradyunsg]

I can pick this up -- I'll likely cut this early next month. I think this will end up being a fairly tame release, looking at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/news/.

[sbidoul]

Thanks @pradyunsg !

There are a few gone_in="22.1". Do we confirm we want to remove --out-of-tree-build in this release ? In which case I can prepare the PR.

[pradyunsg]

Alrighty, assigning myself as the RM for this release as well then!

There are a few gone_in="22.1".

Yup, I'll file PRs for them over the course of today.

Do we confirm we want to remove --out-of-tree-build in this release ? In which case I can prepare the PR.

Whelp, turns out I don't read carefully, and this is the first PR I've filed. 😅

[pradyunsg]

pypi/warehouse#11014 should be an easy review! :)

It also seems at the moment, that pypi/warehouse#10962 might have introduced a regression -- jazzband/pip-tools#1539 (comment).

[atugushev]

It also seems at the moment, that pypi/warehouse#10962 might have introduced a regression -- jazzband/pip-tools#1539 (comment).

See also pypi/warehouse#11019.

[pradyunsg]

Ok, I've marked that as a release blocker. I'll make a beta release before the end of the month, with the current state of main.

[pfmoore]

Am I OK to try to get pypi/warehouse#11059 into the release, or would you prefer me to wait? I think it's just a matter of me merging, but if you're concerned about last-minute changes I can defer it to the next release.

[pradyunsg]

Let's get that in. :)

[pradyunsg]

Ok, beta1 is out and uploaded to PyPI!

I won't be updating get-pip.py and won't be making any specific announcement posts for the beta right now.

[notatallshaw]

Tested it at home no issues so far.

Unable to test it at work as it's not appearing available on our artifactory pypi mirror. I am not sure if this is because it's a little slow to mirror pypi results or we filter out pre-releases, I will need to check Monday morning.

Edit: It was just slowness of the mirror, I have done basic tests from my works workflow and don't see any issues. I have asked colleagues to also test and will report back if there are any issues.

[pradyunsg]

Alright, one last remaining last-minute item: Enabling the importlib.metadata based metadata backend, on Python 3.11+ -- pypi/warehouse#11044

[pradyunsg]

OK, with #11044 landed, I'm gonna cut 22.1 in the next few hours.

[pradyunsg]

Alright, 22.1 is live and get-pip.py has been updated.

[pradyunsg]

Please file an issue on https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools for issues around pip-sync and pip-compile. They're not maintained by the pip maintainers, but rather a different group.

[pradyunsg]

Actually, an issue for pip 22.1 compatibility in pip-tools has already been filed: jazzband/pip-tools#1617

[pradyunsg]

python/cpython#92689 for CPython. That I don't have to use bugs.python.org makes me really happy. :)

[pradyunsg]

Released the bugfix, after a night spent being stuck at the airport for 10 hours. 🌈

pypa/get-pip#155 is for get-pip.py updates.

[pradyunsg]

And, with 22.1.2 out the door, I'm going to close this out. Barring any security issues reported to security@python.org, this release cycle is done. :)