This release was produced to test the GitHub automation for publishing
to PyPI, but also includes some of the breaking changes that will
appear in the final 6.0.0 release.
> **The last release of virtualenvwrapper was 4.8.4 in February
> of 2019. If you rely on virtualenvwrapper for your daily workflow,
> please try out this pre-release version and let us know if there are
> any issues by [filing a
> ticket](https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/issues).**
Breaking Changes
- formally drop Python 2 support
- remove python2 from startup logic for finding the python interpreter
- drop ksh support
- remove `toggleglobalsitepackages` command, since virtualenv seems to
have removed that capability
Fixes
- packaging: fix indentation of trove classifier for audience
- fix wipeenv for editable packages
- skip some tempfile tests on macos
- adjust error message detection in hook tests
- update lssitepackages tests to not need easy_install
- remove tests and features relying on --no-site-packages
- remove the test for making virtualenvs relocatable
- replace deprecated `egrep` with `grep -E` (contributions by Alexander Huynh)
- Updating to support virtualenv 20+ (contributions by Jason Myers)
- fixup! Find the highest Python version with installed virtualenvwrapper (contributions by Lumir Balhar)
- Find the highest Python version with installed virtualenvwrapper (contributions by Lumir Balhar)
- Make mkvirtualenv work with interpreters whose paths have spaces (contributions by Audrey Dutcher)
- Fixes Issues 248 (contributions by Jason Myers)
Documentation and Packaging
- Updated tested Python versions in README. (contributions by Carlton Gibson)
- docs: fix or remove broken links
- docs: remove broken link from tips list
- docs: clean up trailing whitespace
- docs: update language that implies there is only 1 maintainer
- Fixing bitbucket in projects (contributions by Jason Myers)
- Updating template docs (contributions by Jason Myers)
- missed ones (contributions by Jason Myers)
- Updating references to bitbucket (contributions by Jason Myers)
- Updating references to bitbucket (contributions by Jason Myers)
- update trove classifiers with more modern python versions
- Fixing readme.txt (contributions by Jason Myers)
- fix link to screencast
- improve some of the wording in the readme
- Improve Zsh prompt tip (contributions by Stephan Sokolow)
- index.rst edited online with Bitbucket (contributions by Shailesh Vashishth)
Maintainer Automation and Tests
- add github action for publishing packages
- tox: update doc build commands
- mergify: add rules to label PRs based on pbr sem-ver data
- require at least one reviewer to approve PRs
- ci(Mergify): configuration update
- pass user and home through from tox instead of using id to derive them
- update tox config to not set basepython for zsh
- update tox to only use default python version
- update test runner to use python3
- add a "fast" environment in tox to exit as soon as any test fails
- run all of the tests and accumulate errors
- expand the relative path for envdir to the full path
- add pkglint test and fix some warnings
- set python version for zsh job in ci
- update tox config for tox 4
- do not specify python version for docs env in tox settings
- set the version of python to use for linter jobs
- fix linter action config
- add github action configuration for test jobs
Merged Pull Requests
* add github action configuration for test jobs by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/12
* fix linter action config by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/14
* add pkglint test and fix some warnings by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/18
* ci(Mergify): configuration update by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/23
* updates to make CI jobs pass by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/21
* require at least one reviewer to approve PRs by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/24
* Updating references to bitbucket by jasonamyers in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/20
* mergify: add rules to label PRs based on pbr sem-ver data by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/29
* drop ksh support by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/27
* remove python2 from startup logic for finding the python interpreter by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/28
* tox: update doc build commands by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/30
* Updated tested Python versions in README. by carltongibson in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/37
* add github action for publishing packages by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/38
* update publishing action settings by dhellmann in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/40
New Contributors
* jasonamyers made their first contribution in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/20
* carltongibson made their first contribution in https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/pull/37
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/python-virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper/commits/6.0.0.0a1