Release miniirc v1.7.0

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,12 +8,15 @@ Notes:
  - This changelog may contain typographical errors, it is still a
     work-in-progress.
 
-## 1.7.0 - Unreleased
+## 1.7.0 - 2021-09-26
 
 ### Added
 
  - The ability to make miniirc run handlers in thread pools using the
-    "executor" keyword argument.
+    "executor" keyword argument. I strongly recommend using this
+    (`executor=concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor()`) if you plan to support
+    Python 3.7 to 3.8 because of a memory leak
+    (see [BPO 36402](https://bugs.python.org/issue36402) for more information).
 
 ### Changed
 

README.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ You don't need to add every argument, and the `ip`, `port`, `nick`, and
 `channels` arguments should be specified as positional arguments.
 
 ```py
-irc = miniirc.IRC('irc.example.com', 6697, 'my-bot', ['#my-channel'], ns_identity=('my-bot', 'hunter2'))
+irc = miniirc.IRC('irc.example.com', 6697, 'my-bot', ['#my-channel'], ns_identity=('my-bot', 'hunter2'), executor=concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor())
 ```
 
 ### Parameter descriptions

miniirc.py

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 import atexit, errno, threading, time, socket, ssl, sys
 
 # The version string and tuple
-ver = __version_info__ = (1,7,0,'a0')
-version = 'miniirc IRC framework v1.7.0a0'
+ver = __version_info__ = (1,7,0)
+version = 'miniirc IRC framework v1.7.0'
 __version__ = '1.7.0'
 
 # __all__ and _default_caps

setup.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name        = 'miniirc',
-    version     = '1.6.3',
+    version     = '1.7.0',
     py_modules  = ['miniirc'],
     author      = 'luk3yx',
     description = 'A lightweight IRC framework.',