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authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2020-03-04 13:51:23 +1300
committerAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2020-03-09 22:03:26 +0000
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Require Python 3.6 for Samba 4.13
This allows Samba to use formatted string literals, which are quite handy. REF: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#whatsnew36-pep498 Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
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NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
====================
+Python 3.6 Required
+-------------------
+
+Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python
+3.5 with samba 4.12. Samba 4.13 raises this minimum version to Python
+3.6 both to access new features and because this is the oldest version
+we test with in our CI infrastructure.
+
+(Build time support for the file server with Python 2.6 has not
+changed)
+
REMOVED FEATURES
================