1.16 Release Planning

[jhance]

I am planning to release 1.16 in the coming weeks.

If there are any PRs you would like to ensure are included, please mention here.

This issue will be updated once the release branch is cut.

[hauntsaninja]

Note there's a crash on mypy master we may want to address #18764

Update: fixed by Ivan

[ilevkivskyi]

FWIW worth including two low-risk crash fixes in the release:

• Fix crash on type inference against non-normal callables #18858
• Fix crash on multiple unpacks in a bare type application #18857

[cdce8p]

What's the current status here? Has the release branch been cut already?

If not, I'd suggest to do it after the current typeshed sync #18880. This is the last commit with support for type checking Python 3.8. For the next typeshed sync, we'll need to drop support for --python-version 3.8 completely. Might be great to get one last release out before that.

[svalentin]

If possible, we should include #18906 in the new release. It fixes high pri daemon bug

[jorenham]

If not, I'd suggest to do it after the current typeshed sync #18880. This is the last commit with support for type checking Python 3.8. For the next typeshed sync, we'll need to drop support for --python-version 3.8 completely. Might be great to get one last release out before that.

Why not just drop 3.8? It has been EOL for over 6 months now

[cdce8p]

Why not just drop 3.8? It has been EOL for over 6 months now

We already dropped 3.8. It's just that mypy still supports checking 3.8 code with --python-version 3.8 for now. This will become impossible with the next typeshed update #18930.

[jorenham]

Hmm that's too bad. Because #18930 contains ctypes improvements (python/typeshed#13777 and python/typeshed#13760) that matter to numpy.

[cdce8p]

Hmm that's too bad. Because #18930 contains ctypes improvements (python/typeshed#13777 and python/typeshed#13760) that matter to numpy.

I'd be fine with dropping it now as well. The idea just was to do one last release before then. The release branch could have even been cut already. I just don't know.