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49.5.0

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Changes
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* 2306: When running as a PEP 517 backend, setuptools does not try to install
``setup_requires`` itself. They are reported as build requirements for the
frontend to install.

49.4.0

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Changes
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* 2310: Updated vendored packaging version to 20.4.

49.3.2

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Documentation changes
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* 2300: Improve the ``safe_version`` function documentation

Misc
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* 2297: Once again, in stubs prefer exec_module to the deprecated load_module.

49.3.1

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Changes
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* 2316: Removed warning when ``distutils`` is imported before ``setuptools`` when ``distutils`` replacement is not enabled.

49.3.0

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Changes
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* 2259: Setuptools now provides a .pth file (except for editable installs of setuptools) to the target environment to ensure that when enabled, the setuptools-provided distutils is preferred before setuptools has been imported (and even if setuptools is never imported). Honors the SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS environment variable.

49.2.1

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Misc
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* 2257: Fixed two flaws in distutils._msvccompiler.MSVCCompiler.spawn.

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