Distro

ENHANCEMENTS:
* Refactor distro.info() method to return an InfoDict [[360](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/360)]
* Ignore the file '/etc/board-release' [[353](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/353)]
* Ignore the file '/etc/ec2_version' [[359](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/353)]

RELEASE:
* Run Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 20.04 for CI and bump isort [[355](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/355)]

TESTS:
* Test on modern versions of CPython and PyPy and macOS [[362](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/362)]
* Add support for ALT Linux Server 10.1 distribution [[354](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/354)]
* Add Debian Testing to the tests [[356](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/356)]
* Update archlinux resource for tests [[352](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/352)]

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:
* Replace `setup.py` with `build` [[342](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/342)]

ENHANCEMENTS:
* Lowered `LinuxDistribution._distro_release_info` method complexity [[327](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/327)]
* Added official support for Buildroot distribution [[329](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/329)]
* Added official support for Guix distribution [[330](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/330)]
* Added support for `/etc/debian_version` [[333](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/333)] & [[#349](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/349)]
* Fixed a typography in CONTRIBUTING.md [[340](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/340)]
* Improved README.md "Usage" code block [[343](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/343)]

RELEASE:
* Bumped black to v22.3.0 in pre-commit.ci configuration [[331](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/331)]
* Enabled GitHub Dependabot to keep GitHub Actions up to date [[335](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/335)]

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:
* Dropped support for EOL Pythons 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 [[281](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/281)]
* Dropped support for LSB and `uname` back-ends when `--root-dir` is specified [[311](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/311)]
* Moved `distro.py` to `src/distro/distro.py` [[315](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/315)]

ENHANCEMENTS:
* Documented that `distro.version()` can return an empty string on rolling releases [[312](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/312)]
* Documented support for Python 3.10 [[316](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/316)]
* Added official support for Rocky Linux distribution [[318](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/318)]
* Added a shebang to `distro.py` to allow standalone execution [[313](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/313)]
* Added support for AIX platforms [[311](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/311)]
* Added compliance for PEP-561 [[315](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/315)]

BUG FIXES:
* Fixed `include_uname` parameter oversight [[305](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/305)]
* Fixed crash when `uname -rs` output is empty [[304](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/304)]
* Fixed Amazon Linux identifier in `distro.id()` documentation [[318](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/318)]
* Fixed OpenSuse >= 15 support [[319](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/319)]
* Fixed encoding issues when opening distro release files [[324](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/324)]
* Fixed `linux_distribution` regression introduced in [[230](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/230)] [[#325](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/325)]

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY:
* Deprecated the `distro.linux_distribution()` function. Use
`distro.id()`, `distro.version()` and `distro.name()` instead
[[296](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/296)]
* Deprecated Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 support. Further releases
will only support Python 3.6+

ENHANCEMENTS:
* Added type hints to `distro` module [[269](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/269)]
* Added `__version__` for checking `distro` version [[292](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/292)]
* Added support for arbitrary rootfs via the `root_dir` parameter [[247](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/247)]
* Added the `--root-dir` option to CLI [[161](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/issues/161)]
* Added fallback to `/usr/lib/os-release` when `/etc/os-release` isn't available [[262](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/262)]

BUG FIXES:
* Fixed `subprocess.CalledProcessError` when running `lsb_release` [[261](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/261)]
* Ignore `/etc/iredmail-release` file while parsing distribution [[268](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/268)]
* Use a binary file for `/dev/null` to avoid `TextIOWrapper` overhead [[271](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/271)]

RELEASE:
* Moved repository from `nir0s/distro` to
[`python-distro/distro`](https://github.com/python-distro/distro) on GitHub.

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:
* Keep output as native string so we can compatible with python2 interface [[248](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/248)]

ENHANCEMENTS:

BUG FIXES:
* Fix detection of RHEL 6 ComputeNode [[255](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/issues/255)]
* Fix Oracle 4/5 lsb_release id and names [[250](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/250)]
* Ignore /etc/plesk-release file while parsing distribution [[246](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/246)]

TESTS:
* Test on MidnightBSD [[254](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/issues/254)]

RELEASE:
* Remove build testing on Python 3.3 and add pypy 3.5 and Python 3.7 and 3.8 [[244](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/244)]
* Fix Windows build due to Appveyor not supporting builds on Python 2.7 anymore [[257](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/257)]

Additionally, The Python2.6 branch was fixed to support distro version 1.4.0. It is now passing all tests. Thanks [abadger](https://github.com/abadger)!

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:
* Prefer the VERSION_CODENAME field of os-release to parsing it from VERSION [[230](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/230)]

BUG FIXES:
* Return _uname_info from the uname_info() method [[233](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/233)]
* Fixed CloudLinux id discovery [[234](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/234)]
* Update Oracle matching [[224](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/224)]

DOCS:
* Update Fedora package link [[225](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/225)]
* Distro is the recommended replacement for platform.linux_distribution [[220](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/220)]

RELEASE:
* Use Markdown for long description in setup.py [[219](https://github.com/python-distro/distro/pull/219)]

Additionally, The Python2.6 branch was fixed and rebased on top of master. It is now passing all tests. Thanks [abadger](https://github.com/abadger)!