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svn commit: r1871897 - in /libcloud/site/trunk: generated/ generated/blog/
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generated/blog/archives/2019/12/ generated/blog/tags/ source/ source/_posts/
Author: tomaz
Date: Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
New Revision: 1871897
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1871897&view=rev
Log:
Fix invalid date in the file name, make sure old link still works.
Added:
libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/2019/12/09/
libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html
libcloud/site/trunk/source/_posts/2019-12-09-libcloud-2-7-0-released.md
Removed:
libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/2019/12/19/
libcloud/site/trunk/source/_posts/2019-12-19-libcloud-2-7-0-released.md
Modified:
libcloud/site/trunk/generated/.htaccess
libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/archives/2019/12/index.html
libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/atom.xml
libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/index.html
libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/tags/news.html
libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/tags/release announcement.html
libcloud/site/trunk/generated/index.html
libcloud/site/trunk/generated/sitemap.xml
libcloud/site/trunk/source/.htaccess
Modified: libcloud/site/trunk/generated/.htaccess
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/site/trunk/generated/.htaccess?rev=1871897&r1=1871896&r2=1871897&view=diff
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--- libcloud/site/trunk/generated/.htaccess (original)
+++ libcloud/site/trunk/generated/.htaccess Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
@@ -39,4 +39,7 @@ Redirect 301 /docs/dns-overview.html htt
Redirect 301 /docs/dns-base-api.html https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dns/api.html
Redirect 301 /docs/dns-examples.html https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dns/examples.html
+# Redirect because of the wrong file name used
+Redirect 301 /blog/2019/12/19/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html /blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html
+
Redirect 301 /docs https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html?rev=1871897&view=auto
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--- libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html (added)
+++ libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
@@ -0,0 +1,285 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+ <head>
+ <meta charset="utf-8">
+ <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
+
+
+
+ <meta name="author" content="The Apache Software Foundation">
+
+
+ <meta name="keywords" content="news,release announcement" />
+
+
+
+ <title>Libcloud 2.7.0 released | Apache Libcloud</title>
+
+
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+ <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/favicon.png" />
+ <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/images/apple-touch-icon.png" />
+ <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/images/apple-touch-icon.png" />
+
+ <link href="/blog/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Apache Libcloud Blog Feed" />
+
+ <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,400italic' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
+ <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Inconsolata' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
+
+ <!-- Facebook OpenGraph tags -->
+ <meta content="Apache Libcloud" property="og:site_name">
+
+ <meta content="Libcloud 2.7.0 released" property="og:title">
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ <meta content="article" property="og:type">
+
+
+
+ <meta content="https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html" property="og:url">
+
+
+ <meta content="2019-12-09T00:00:00+01:00" property="article:published_time">
+ <meta content="https://libcloud.apache.org/about.html" property="article:author">
+
+
+
+
+ <meta content="news" property="article:tag">
+
+ <meta content="release announcement" property="article:tag">
+
+
+
+ <link href='/assets/global-73ae5b95993dad7a856dae3f60df3e3c.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />
+
+ </head>
+
+ <body data-spy="scroll" data-target=".sidebar-nav" data-offset="80">
+ <nav class="navbar navbar-fixed-top navbar-inverse" role="navigation">
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+ </div>
+ <div class="collapse navbar-collapse navbar-ex1-collapse">
+ <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
+
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+
+ <li ><a href="/about.html" >About</a></li>
+
+ <li ><a href="/getting-started.html" >Quick Start</a></li>
+
+ <li ><a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/" target="_blank">Documentation</a></li>
+
+ <li ><a href="/downloads.html" >Downloads</a></li>
+
+ <li ><a href="/community.html" >Community</a></li>
+
+ <li ><a href="/blog/" >Blog</a></li>
+
+ </ul>
+ </div><!-- /.navbar-collapse -->
+ </div><!-- /.container -->
+ </nav>
+
+ <div class="container main-container">
+ <div class="row section page-content">
+ <div class="col-lg-8 col-lg-offset-2">
+
+<div class="post">
+
+ <h2>Libcloud 2.7.0 released</h2>
+
+
+
+
+
+ <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus <span style="display:none">(<a href="https://plus.google.com/+TomazMuraus?rel=author">Google+</a>)</span>on Dec 09, 2019</span>
+
+ <div class="post-content">
+ <p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 2.7.0.</p>
+
+<p>Among various smaller bug fixes, this release also includes a couple of big
+new features.</p>
+
+<p>Highlights include:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Initial type annotations / hints support for the base Libcloud compute API.</li>
+<li>S3 driver class has been updated to support <code>region</code> argument in the same
+manner as other drivers which support multiple regions (no more messy class
+per region approach). For backward compatibility reasons, "class per region"
+approach will still be supported until the next major release.</li>
+<li>New <code>start_node()</code> and <code>stop_node()</code> method have been added to the base
+Libcloud compute API and the existing drivers which implement
+<code>ex_start_node()</code> and <code>ex_stop_node()</code> methods have been updated to
+implement those new methods. Old <code>ex_</code> methods will continue to work for
+backward compatibility reasons.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Full change log can be found at
+<a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-in-apache-libcloud-2.7.0">http://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-in-apache-libcloud-2.7.0</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>Dropping support for Python 2.7 and Python 3.4</h3>
+
+<p>Libcloud was among some of the other early larger Python projects which have
+supported Python 2.x and Python 3.x simultaneously using a single code base
+from 2011.</p>
+
+<p>Over the years, the landscape has changed a lot. A lot of the users now use
+Python 3 as a default and a lot of the popular Python projects now not only
+support Python 3, but also make Python 3 the only supported Python version.</p>
+
+<p>In addition to that, <a href="https://pythonclock.org/">Python 2.7 will not be maintained past January 2020</a>.</p>
+
+<p>We have decided to sign the <a href="https://python3statement.org/">Python 3 statement</a> and drop support for Python
+2.7 and Python 3.4 in the next major release (v3.0.0) which will coincide
+with Python 2.7 EOL early next year.</p>
+
+<p>This means that Libcloud v2.7.0 will be the last major release which still
+supports Python 2.7 and 3.4.</p>
+
+<p>The change itself is still work in progress. People who are interested in it
+can check the following PR <a href="https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/1377">https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/1377</a>.</p>
+
+<h4>How does this affect me?</h4>
+
+<p>If you still need to use Python 2.7 or Python 3.4 after Libcloud v3.0.0 is
+out, you will be able to do that by utilizing one of the older Libcloud
+releases which still supports that Python version.</p>
+
+<p>All the new feature development and improvements will land in new release
+which support Python >= 3.5 only, but we may still do a release in the
+v2.7.x release series if a major bug or a security issue is found.</p>
+
+<h4>How does this affect the Libcloud development team?</h4>
+
+<p>Supporting Python 2.x and Python 3.x through a single code base was never
+totally trivial.</p>
+
+<p>This is especially true for our project which doesn't use <code>six</code> Python 2
+/ 3 compatibility library, but uses custom glue / wrapper code for that.</p>
+
+<p>There are multiple reasons why we didn't use <code>six</code> - one is that we still
+needed to support Python 2.5 which is not supported by <code>six</code> and another
+one is that we didn't want to introduce another dependency on the end user in
+the days where Python packaging was still very much in the infancy.</p>
+
+<p>Dropping support for Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 will allow us to streamline our
+code and remove a lot of the code which is not needed anymore.</p>
+
+<p>This will result in easier development and cleaner code.</p>
+
+<h3>Download</h3>
+
+<p>The release can can be downloaded from
+<a href="https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html">https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html</a> or installed using pip:</p>
+
+<pre>
+pip install apache-libcloud==2.7.0
+</pre>
+
+<h3>Upgrading</h3>
+
+<p>If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:</p>
+
+<pre>
+pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==2.7.0
+</pre>
+
+<h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
+
+<p>A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
+changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
+can be found at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html</a></p>
+
+<h3>Documentation</h3>
+
+<p>Regular and API documentation is available at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v2.7.0/">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v2.7.0/</a></p>
+
+<h3>Bugs / Issues</h3>
+
+<p>If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
+<a href="https://github.com/apache/libcloud/issues">https://github.com/apache/libcloud/issues</a>.
+Don't forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your
+problem.</p>
+
+<h3>Thanks</h3>
+
+<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
+list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the
+<a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v2.7.1/changelog.html">CHANGES file</a>.</p>
+
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="row section post-meta">
+ <div class="col-md-12 post-tags">
+ <p>Tags: <a href="/blog/tags/news.html" rel="tag">news</a>, <a href="/blog/tags/release%20announcement.html" rel="tag">release announcement</a></p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+Share : <a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button"{count} data-via="libcloud" data-size="large" data-hashtags="cloud">Tweet</a>
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Modified: libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/archives/2019/12/index.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/archives/2019/12/index.html?rev=1871897&r1=1871896&r2=1871897&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/archives/2019/12/index.html (original)
+++ libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/archives/2019/12/index.html Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
@@ -95,13 +95,13 @@
<div class="post">
- <h2><a href="/blog/2019/12/19/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html">Libcloud 2.7.0 released</a></h2>
+ <h2><a href="/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html">Libcloud 2.7.0 released</a></h2>
- <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus <span style="display:none">(<a href="https://plus.google.com/+TomazMuraus?rel=author">Google+</a>)</span>on Dec 19, 2019</span>
+ <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus <span style="display:none">(<a href="https://plus.google.com/+TomazMuraus?rel=author">Google+</a>)</span>on Dec 09, 2019</span>
<div class="post-content">
<p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 2.7.0.</p>
Modified: libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/atom.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/atom.xml?rev=1871897&r1=1871896&r2=1871897&view=diff
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--- libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/atom.xml (original)
+++ libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/atom.xml Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<link href="https://libcloud.apache.org" rel="self" />
<link href="https://libcloud.apache.org" />
<id>https://libcloud.apache.org</id>
- <updated>2019-12-09T21:05:10+01:00</updated>
+ <updated>2019-12-21T19:34:26+01:00</updated>
<author>
<name>The Apache Software Foundation</name>
</author>
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
<entry>
<title>Libcloud 2.7.0 released</title>
- <link href="https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2019/12/19/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html" />
- <id>https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2019/12/19/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html</id>
- <updated>2019-12-19T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
+ <link href="https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html" />
+ <id>https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html</id>
+ <updated>2019-12-09T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomaz Muraus</name>
</author>
Modified: libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/index.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/index.html?rev=1871897&r1=1871896&r2=1871897&view=diff
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--- libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/index.html (original)
+++ libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/index.html Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
@@ -97,13 +97,13 @@
<div class="post">
- <h2><a href="/blog/2019/12/19/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html">Libcloud 2.7.0 released</a></h2>
+ <h2><a href="/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html">Libcloud 2.7.0 released</a></h2>
- <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus <span style="display:none">(<a href="https://plus.google.com/+TomazMuraus?rel=author">Google+</a>)</span>on Dec 19, 2019</span>
+ <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus <span style="display:none">(<a href="https://plus.google.com/+TomazMuraus?rel=author">Google+</a>)</span>on Dec 09, 2019</span>
<div class="post-content">
<p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 2.7.0.</p>
Modified: libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/tags/news.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/tags/news.html?rev=1871897&r1=1871896&r2=1871897&view=diff
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--- libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/tags/news.html (original)
+++ libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/tags/news.html Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
@@ -96,13 +96,13 @@
<div class="post">
- <h2><a href="/blog/2019/12/19/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html">Libcloud 2.7.0 released</a></h2>
+ <h2><a href="/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html">Libcloud 2.7.0 released</a></h2>
- <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus <span style="display:none">(<a href="https://plus.google.com/+TomazMuraus?rel=author">Google+</a>)</span>on Dec 19, 2019</span>
+ <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus <span style="display:none">(<a href="https://plus.google.com/+TomazMuraus?rel=author">Google+</a>)</span>on Dec 09, 2019</span>
<div class="post-content">
<p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 2.7.0.</p>
Modified: libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/tags/release announcement.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/tags/release%20announcement.html?rev=1871897&r1=1871896&r2=1871897&view=diff
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--- libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/tags/release announcement.html (original)
+++ libcloud/site/trunk/generated/blog/tags/release announcement.html Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
@@ -96,13 +96,13 @@
<div class="post">
- <h2><a href="/blog/2019/12/19/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html">Libcloud 2.7.0 released</a></h2>
+ <h2><a href="/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html">Libcloud 2.7.0 released</a></h2>
- <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus <span style="display:none">(<a href="https://plus.google.com/+TomazMuraus?rel=author">Google+</a>)</span>on Dec 19, 2019</span>
+ <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus <span style="display:none">(<a href="https://plus.google.com/+TomazMuraus?rel=author">Google+</a>)</span>on Dec 09, 2019</span>
<div class="post-content">
<p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 2.7.0.</p>
Modified: libcloud/site/trunk/generated/index.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/site/trunk/generated/index.html?rev=1871897&r1=1871896&r2=1871897&view=diff
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--- libcloud/site/trunk/generated/index.html (original)
+++ libcloud/site/trunk/generated/index.html Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@
<h3>Latest Blog Posts</h3>
- <p><a href="/blog/2019/12/19/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html">Libcloud 2.7.0 released</a>
+ <p><a href="/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html">Libcloud 2.7.0 released</a>
Modified: libcloud/site/trunk/generated/sitemap.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/site/trunk/generated/sitemap.xml?rev=1871897&r1=1871896&r2=1871897&view=diff
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--- libcloud/site/trunk/generated/sitemap.xml (original)
+++ libcloud/site/trunk/generated/sitemap.xml Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
@@ -403,8 +403,8 @@
<lastmod>2019-11-18T00:00:00+01:00</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
- <loc>https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2019/12/19/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html</loc>
- <lastmod>2019-12-19T00:00:00+01:00</lastmod>
+ <loc>https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html</loc>
+ <lastmod>2019-12-09T00:00:00+01:00</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://libcloud.apache.org/community-resources.html</loc>
Modified: libcloud/site/trunk/source/.htaccess
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/site/trunk/source/.htaccess?rev=1871897&r1=1871896&r2=1871897&view=diff
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--- libcloud/site/trunk/source/.htaccess (original)
+++ libcloud/site/trunk/source/.htaccess Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
@@ -39,4 +39,7 @@ Redirect 301 /docs/dns-overview.html htt
Redirect 301 /docs/dns-base-api.html https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dns/api.html
Redirect 301 /docs/dns-examples.html https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dns/examples.html
+# Redirect because of the wrong file name used
+Redirect 301 /blog/2019/12/19/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html /blog/2019/12/09/libcloud-2-7-0-released.html
+
Redirect 301 /docs https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/site/trunk/source/_posts/2019-12-09-libcloud-2-7-0-released.md?rev=1871897&view=auto
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--- libcloud/site/trunk/source/_posts/2019-12-09-libcloud-2-7-0-released.md (added)
+++ libcloud/site/trunk/source/_posts/2019-12-09-libcloud-2-7-0-released.md Sat Dec 21 18:38:33 2019
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: Libcloud 2.7.0 released
+author: Tomaz Muraus
+tags:
+ - news
+ - release announcement
+---
+
+We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 2.7.0.
+
+Among various smaller bug fixes, this release also includes a couple of big
+new features.
+
+Highlights include:
+
+* Initial type annotations / hints support for the base Libcloud compute API.
+* S3 driver class has been updated to support ``region`` argument in the same
+ manner as other drivers which support multiple regions (no more messy class
+ per region approach). For backward compatibility reasons, "class per region"
+ approach will still be supported until the next major release.
+* New ``start_node()`` and ``stop_node()`` method have been added to the base
+ Libcloud compute API and the existing drivers which implement
+ ``ex_start_node()`` and ``ex_stop_node()`` methods have been updated to
+ implement those new methods. Old ``ex_`` methods will continue to work for
+ backward compatibility reasons.
+
+Full change log can be found at
+<http://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-in-apache-libcloud-2.7.0>.
+
+### Dropping support for Python 2.7 and Python 3.4
+
+Libcloud was among some of the other early larger Python projects which have
+supported Python 2.x and Python 3.x simultaneously using a single code base
+from 2011.
+
+Over the years, the landscape has changed a lot. A lot of the users now use
+Python 3 as a default and a lot of the popular Python projects now not only
+support Python 3, but also make Python 3 the only supported Python version.
+
+In addition to that, [Python 2.7 will not be maintained past January 2020][3].
+
+We have decided to sign the [Python 3 statement][2] and drop support for Python
+2.7 and Python 3.4 in the next major release (v3.0.0) which will coincide
+with Python 2.7 EOL early next year.
+
+This means that Libcloud v2.7.0 will be the last major release which still
+supports Python 2.7 and 3.4.
+
+The change itself is still work in progress. People who are interested in it
+can check the following PR <https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/1377>.
+
+#### How does this affect me?
+
+If you still need to use Python 2.7 or Python 3.4 after Libcloud v3.0.0 is
+out, you will be able to do that by utilizing one of the older Libcloud
+releases which still supports that Python version.
+
+All the new feature development and improvements will land in new release
+which support Python >= 3.5 only, but we may still do a release in the
+v2.7.x release series if a major bug or a security issue is found.
+
+#### How does this affect the Libcloud development team?
+
+Supporting Python 2.x and Python 3.x through a single code base was never
+totally trivial.
+
+This is especially true for our project which doesn't use ``six`` Python 2
+/ 3 compatibility library, but uses custom glue / wrapper code for that.
+
+There are multiple reasons why we didn't use ``six`` - one is that we still
+needed to support Python 2.5 which is not supported by ``six`` and another
+one is that we didn't want to introduce another dependency on the end user in
+the days where Python packaging was still very much in the infancy.
+
+Dropping support for Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 will allow us to streamline our
+code and remove a lot of the code which is not needed anymore.
+
+This will result in easier development and cleaner code.
+
+### Download
+
+The release can can be downloaded from
+<https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html> or installed using pip:
+
+<pre>
+pip install apache-libcloud==2.7.0
+</pre>
+
+### Upgrading
+
+If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:
+
+<pre>
+pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==2.7.0
+</pre>
+
+### Upgrade notes
+
+A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
+changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
+can be found at <https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html>
+
+### Documentation
+
+Regular and API documentation is available at <https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v2.7.0/>
+
+### Bugs / Issues
+
+If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
+<https://github.com/apache/libcloud/issues>.
+Don't forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your
+problem.
+
+### Thanks
+
+Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
+list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the
+[CHANGES file][1].
+
+[1]: https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v2.7.1/changelog.html
+[2]: https://python3statement.org/
+[3]: https://pythonclock.org/