Jumping bumping up this thread. Would be good to get some more votes as soon as 
possible since it fixes a breaking change in v3.4.0.

Thanks.

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On Friday, November 12th, 2021 at 4:26 PM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@tomaz.me> wrote:

> This is a voting thread for Libcloud v3.4.1 
> (28d3785c996bd8ff56b508518bb06dbe3f4466eb, 
> https://github.com/apache/libcloud/tree/v3.4.1-tentative, 
> https://github.com/apache/libcloud/compare/v3.4.0...3.4.x).
>
> As described in a voting thread for v3.4.0, that release contains a 
> regression which breaks installation under Python 3.5.
>
> In addition to that, setup.py metadata contains a very strict requirement for 
> the requests library which means that release can't be installed in a lot of 
> places where they already have a conflicting dependency on older requests 
> version (that's quite common).
>
> This release fixes both of the issues by relaxing requests minimum version 
> requirement (aka we now depend on >= 2.5.0 which is the same thing was we did 
> in the past).
>
> There is still an ongoing discussion as far as requests chardet dependency 
> license issue goes without a clear conclusion yet 
> (https://github.com/apache/libcloud/issues/1594#issuecomment-966627964, 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-572?focusedCommentId=17442504&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel).
>
> Depending on the outcome there, we may not have a choice, but need to do 
> another release which requires `requests >= 2.26.0`, but that would mean we 
> can't support Python 3.5 anymore (which we still planned to do for the v3.4.x 
> series) and also break installation of the latest Libcloud version in a lot 
> of environments where they depend on a conflicting requests version.
>
> Release artifacts can be found at 
> https://www.tomaz.me/misc/libcloud/v3.4.1/index.html
>
> Please test the release and post your votes. Since it's a bug fix release, I 
> would like to get it out as soon as possible.
>
> +/- 1
>
> [ ] Release Apache Libcloud 3.4.1

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