Generate NEWS for 18.0

NEWS.rst

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 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+18.0 (2018-07-22)
+=================
+
+Process
+-------
+
+- Switch to a Calendar based versioning scheme.
+- Formally document our deprecation process as a minimum of 6 months of deprecation
+  warnings.
+- Adopt and document NEWS fragment writing style
+- Switch to releasing a new, non bug fix version of pip every 3 months.
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Remove the legacy format from pip list. (#3651, #3654)
+- Dropped support for Python 3.3. (#3796)
+- Remove support for cleaning up #egg fragment postfixes. (#4174)
+- Remove the shim for the old get-pip.py location.
+
+  For the past 2 years, it's only been redirecting users to use the newer
+  https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py location. (#5520)
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Introduce a new --prefer-binary flag, to prefer older wheels over newer source packages. (#3785)
+- Improve autocompletion function on file name completion after options
+  which have ``<file>``, ``<dir>`` or ``<path>`` as metavar. (#4842, #5125)
+- Add support for installing PEP 518 build dependencies from source. (#5229)
+- Improve status message when upgrade is skipped due to only-if-needed strategy. (#5319)
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+- Update pip's self-check logic to not use a virtualenv specific file and honor cache-dir. (#3905)
+- Remove compiled pyo files for wheel packages. (#4471)
+- Speed up printing of newly installed package versions. (#5127)
+- Restrict install time dependency warnings to directly-dependant packages.
+
+  Warning about the entire package set has resulted in users getting confused as
+  to why pip is printing these warnings. (#5196, #5457)
+- Improve handling of PEP 518 build requirements: support environment markers and extras. (#5230, #5265)
+- Remove username/password from log message when using index with basic auth. (#5249)
+- Remove trailing os.sep from PATH directories to avoid false negatives. (#5293)
+- Fix "pip wheel pip" being blocked by the "don't use pip to modify itself" check. (#5311, #5312)
+- Disable pip's version check (and upgrade message) when installed by a different package manager.
+
+  This works better with Linux distributions where pip's upgrade message may
+  result in users running pip in a manner that modifies files that should be
+  managed by the OS's package manager. (#5346)
+- Check for file existence and unlink first when clobbering existing files during a wheel install. (#5366)
+- Improve error message to be more specific when no files are found as listed in as listed in PKG-INFO. (#5381)
+- Always read ``pyproject.toml`` as UTF-8. This fixes Unicode handling on Windows and Python 2. (#5482)
+- Fix a crash that occurs when PATH not set, while generating script location warning. (#5558)
+- Disallow packages with ``pyproject.toml`` files that have an empty build-system table. (#5627)
+
+Vendored Libraries
+------------------
+
+- Update CacheControl to 0.12.5.
+- Update certifi to 2018.4.16.
+- Update distro to 1.3.0.
+- Update idna to 2.7.
+- Update ipaddress to 1.0.22.
+- Update pkg_resources to 39.2.0 (via setuptools).
+- Update progress to 1.4.
+- Update pytoml to 0.1.16.
+- Update requests to 2.19.1.
+- Update urllib3 to 1.23.
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Document how to use pip with a proxy server. (#512, #5574)
+- Document that the output of pip show is in RFC-compliant mail header format. (#5261)
+
 
 10.0.1 (2018-04-19)
 ===================

news/3651.removal

-Remove the legacy format from pip list.

news/3654.removal

-Remove the legacy format from pip list.

news/3785.feature

-Introduce a new --prefer-binary flag, to prefer older wheels over newer source packages.

news/3796.removal

-Dropped support for Python 3.3.

news/3905.bugfix

-Update pip's self-check logic to not use a virtualenv specific file and honor cache-dir.

news/4174.removal

-Remove support for cleaning up #egg fragment postfixes.

news/4471.bugfix

-Remove compiled pyo files for wheel packages.

news/4842.feature

-Improve autocompletion function on file name completion after options
-which have ``<file>``, ``<dir>`` or ``<path>`` as metavar.

news/512.doc

-Document how to use pip with a proxy server.

news/5125.feature

-Improve autocompletion function on file name completion after options
-which have ``<file>``, ``<dir>`` or ``<path>`` as metavar.

news/5127.bugfix

-Speed up printing of newly installed package versions.

news/5196.bugfix

-Restrict install time dependency warnings to directly-dependant packages.
-
-Warning about the entire package set has resulted in users getting confused as
-to why pip is printing these warnings.

news/5229.feature

-Add support for installing PEP 518 build dependencies from source.

news/5230.bugfix

-Improve handling of PEP 518 build requirements: support environment markers and extras.

news/5249.bugfix

-Remove username/password from log message when using index with basic auth.

news/5261.doc

-Document that the output of pip show is in RFC-compliant mail header format.

news/5265.bugfix

-Improve handling of PEP 518 build requirements: support environment markers and extras.

news/5293.bugfix

-Remove trailing os.sep from PATH directories to avoid false negatives.

news/5311.bugfix

-Fix "pip wheel pip" being blocked by the "don't use pip to modify itself" check.

news/5312.bugfix

-Fix "pip wheel pip" being blocked by the "don't use pip to modify itself" check.

news/5319.feature

-Improve status message when upgrade is skipped due to only-if-needed strategy.

news/5346.bugfix

-Disable pip's version check (and upgrade message) when installed by a different package manager.
-
-This works better with Linux distributions where pip's upgrade message may
-result in users running pip in a manner that modifies files that should be
-managed by the OS's package manager.

news/5366.bugfix

-Check for file existence and unlink first when clobbering existing files during a wheel install.

news/5381.bugfix

-Improve error message to be more specific when no files are found as listed in as listed in PKG-INFO.

news/5457.bugfix

-Restrict install time dependency warnings to directly-dependant packages.
-
-Warning about the entire package set has resulted in users getting confused as
-to why pip is printing these warnings.

news/5482.bugfix

-Always read ``pyproject.toml`` as UTF-8. This fixes Unicode handling on Windows and Python 2.

news/5520.removal

-Remove the shim for the old get-pip.py location.
-
-For the past 2 years, it's only been redirecting users to use the newer
-https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py location.

news/5558.bugfix

-Fix a crash that occurs when PATH not set, while generating script location warning.

news/5574.doc

-Document how to use pip with a proxy server.

news/5627.bugfix

-Disallow packages with ``pyproject.toml`` files that have an empty build-system table.

news/cachecontrol.vendor

-Update CacheControl to 0.12.5.

news/calver.process

-Switch to a Calendar based versioning scheme.

news/certifi.vendor

-Update certifi to 2018.4.16.

news/deprecation.process

-Formally document our deprecation process as a minimum of 6 months of deprecation
-warnings.

news/distro.vendor

-Update distro to 1.3.0.

news/f86bc245-7633-470a-a05e-925309ba648d.trivial

-

news/idna.vendor

-Update idna to 2.7.

news/ipaddress.vendor

-Update ipaddress to 1.0.22.

news/news-file-content.process

-Adopt and document NEWS fragment writing style

news/pkg_resources.vendor

-Update pkg_resources to 39.2.0 (via setuptools).

news/progress.vendor

-Update progress to 1.4.

news/pytoml.vendor

-Update pytoml to 0.1.16.

news/release-cadence.process

-Switch to releasing a new, non bug fix version of pip every 3 months.

news/requests.vendor

-Update requests to 2.19.1.

news/urllib3.vendor

-Update urllib3 to 1.23.