distro 1.7.0

v1.7.0

on Python PyPI

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:

• Dropped support for EOL Pythons 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 [#281]
• Dropped support for LSB and uname back-ends when --root-dir is specified [#311]
• Moved distro.py to src/distro/distro.py [#315]

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Documented that distro.version() can return an empty string on rolling releases [#312]
• Documented support for Python 3.10 [#316]
• Added official support for Rocky Linux distribution [#318]
• Added a shebang to distro.py to allow standalone execution [#313]
• Added support for AIX platforms [#311]
• Added compliance for PEP-561 [#315]

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed include_uname parameter oversight [#305]
• Fixed crash when uname -rs output is empty [#304]
• Fixed Amazon Linux identifier in distro.id() documentation [#318]
• Fixed OpenSuse >= 15 support [#319]
• Fixed encoding issues when opening distro release files [#324]
• Fixed linux_distribution regression introduced in [#230] [#325]