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20.8

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* Revert back to setuptools for compatibility purposes for some Linux distros (:issue:`363`)
* Do not insert an underscore in wheel tags when the interpreter version number
is more than 2 digits (:issue:`372`)

20.7

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No unreleased changes.

20.6

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.. note:: This release was subsequently yanked, and these changes were included in 20.7.

* Fix flit configuration, to include LICENSE files (:issue:`357`)
* Make `intel` a recognized CPU architecture for the `universal` macOS platform tag (:issue:`361`)
* Add some missing type hints to `packaging.requirements` (issue:`350`)

20.5

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* Officially support Python 3.9 (:issue:`343`)
* Deprecate the ``LegacyVersion`` and ``LegacySpecifier`` classes (:issue:`321`)
* Handle ``OSError`` on non-dynamic executables when attempting to resolve
the glibc version string.

20.4

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* Canonicalize version before comparing specifiers. (:issue:`282`)
* Change type hint for ``canonicalize_name`` to return
``packaging.utils.NormalizedName``.
This enables the use of static typing tools (like mypy) to detect mixing of
normalized and un-normalized names.

20.3

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* Fix changelog for 20.2.

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