v1.9.0

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Refactor distro.info() method to return an InfoDict [#360]
• Ignore the file /etc/board-release [#353]
• Ignore the file /etc/ec2_version [#359]

RELEASE:

• Run Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 20.04 for CI and bump isort [#355]

TESTS:

• Test on modern versions of CPython and PyPy and macOS [#362]
• Add support for ALT Linux Server 10.1 distribution [#354]
• Add Debian Testing to the tests [#356]
• Update ArchLinux resource for tests [#352]

v1.8.0

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:

• Replace setup.py with build [#342]

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Lowered LinuxDistribution._distro_release_info method complexity [#327]
• Added official support for Buildroot distribution [#329]
• Added official support for Guix distribution [#330]
• Added support for /etc/debian_version [#333] & [#349]
• Fixed a typography in CONTRIBUTING.md [#340]
• Improved README.md "Usage" code block [#343]

RELEASE:

• Bumped black to v22.3.0 in pre-commit.ci configuration [#331]
• Enabled GitHub Dependabot to keep GitHub Actions up to date [#335]

v1.7.0

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:

• Dropped support for EOL Pythons 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 [#281]
• Dropped support for LSB and uname back-ends when --root-dir is specified [#311]
• Moved distro.py to src/distro/distro.py [#315]

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Documented that distro.version() can return an empty string on rolling releases [#312]
• Documented support for Python 3.10 [#316]
• Added official support for Rocky Linux distribution [#318]
• Added a shebang to distro.py to allow standalone execution [#313]
• Added support for AIX platforms [#311]
• Added compliance for PEP-561 [#315]

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed include_uname parameter oversight [#305]
• Fixed crash when uname -rs output is empty [#304]
• Fixed Amazon Linux identifier in distro.id() documentation [#318]
• Fixed OpenSuse >= 15 support [#319]
• Fixed encoding issues when opening distro release files [#324]
• Fixed linux_distribution regression introduced in [#230] [#325]

v1.6.0

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY:

• Deprecated the distro.linux_distribution() function. Use distro.id(), distro.version() and distro.name() instead [#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]
• Added __version__ for checking distro version [#292]
• Added support for arbitrary rootfs via the root_dir parameter [#247]
• Added the --root-dir option to CLI [#161]
• Added fallback to /usr/lib/os-release when /etc/os-release isn't available [#262]

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed subprocess.CalledProcessError when running lsb_release [#261]
• Ignore /etc/iredmail-release file while parsing distribution [#268]
• Use a binary file for /dev/null to avoid TextIOWrapper overhead [#271]

RELEASE:

• Moved repository from nir0s/distro to python-distro/distro on GitHub.

v1.5.0

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:

• Keep output as native string so we can compatible with python2 interface [#248]

ENHANCEMENTS:

BUG FIXES:

• Fix detection of RHEL 6 ComputeNode [#255]
• Fix Oracle 4/5 lsb_release id and names [#250]
• Ignore /etc/plesk-release file while parsing distribution [#246]

TESTS:

• Test on MidnightBSD [#254]

RELEASE:

• Remove build testing on Python 3.3 and add pypy 3.5 and Python 3.7 and 3.8 [#244]
• Fix Windows build due to Appveyor not supporting builds on Python 2.7 anymore [#257]

Additionally, The Python2.6 branch was fixed to support distro version 1.4.0. It is now passing all tests. Thanks @abadger!

v1.4.0

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:

• Prefer the VERSION_CODENAME field of os-release to parsing it from VERSION [#230]

BUG FIXES:

• Return _uname_info from the uname_info() method [#233]
• Fixed CloudLinux id discovery [#234]
• Update Oracle matching [#224]

DOCS:

• Update Fedora package link [#225]
• Distro is the recommended replacement for platform.linux_distribution [#220]

RELEASE:

• Use Markdown for long description in setup.py [#219]

Additionally, The Python2.6 branch was fixed and rebased on top of master. It is now passing all tests. Thanks abadger!

v1.3.0

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Added support for OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD [#207]

TESTS:

• Add test for Kali Linux Rolling [#214]

DOCS:

• Update docs with regards to #207 [#209]
• Add Ansible reference implementation and fix arch-linux link [#213]
• Add facter reference implementation [#213]

v1.2.0

• Lazily load parsers to speed up import time.
• Don't raise import error on non-linux os.
• Decode stdout of shell sys.getfilesystemencoding().
• Explicitly set Python versions for flake8 tests.

v1.1.0

Note: This version removes official support for Python 2.6. If you need a version that is tested on Python 2.6, please use distro<=1.0.4.

In addition:

• Add tests for MandrivaLinux, CloudLinux 5,6,7
• Modify MANIFEST to include resources for tests and docs in source tarballs (https://github.com/nir0s/distro/pull/189/files#diff-97c91a104c431d0c365565d3ac03ac13)

v1.0.4

1.0.4 (2017.04.01)

• Fix not being able to read /etc/ and yet able to read release files inside it.