Preparing release 21.8.0

CHANGES.rst

@@ -6,6 +6,36 @@
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+21.8.0 (2021-08-05)
+===================
+
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Update the embedded c-ares from 1.16.1 to 1.17.1.
+  See :issue:`1758`.
+- Add support for Python 3.10rc1 and newer.
+
+  As part of this, the minimum required greenlet version was increased
+  to 1.1.0 (on CPython), and the minimum version of Cython needed to
+  build gevent from a source checkout is 3.0a9.
+
+  Note that the dnspython resolver is not available on Python 3.10.
+  See :issue:`1790`.
+- Update from Cython 3.0a6 to 3.0a9.
+  See :issue:`1801`.
+
+
+Misc
+----
+
+- See :issue:`1789`.
+
+
+----
+
+
 21.1.2 (2021-01-20)
 ===================
 

docs/changes/1758.feature

-Update the embedded c-ares from 1.16.1 to 1.17.1.

docs/changes/1789.misc

-Fix build on the unsupported IBM i platform. Contributed in
-:pr:`1789` by Jesse Gorzinski.

docs/changes/1790.feature

-Add support for Python 3.10rc1 and newer.
-
-As part of this, the minimum required greenlet version was increased
-to 1.1.0 (on CPython), and the minimum version of Cython needed to
-build gevent from a source checkout is 3.0a9.
-
-Note that the dnspython resolver is not available on Python 3.10.

docs/changes/1801.feature

-Update from Cython 3.0a6 to 3.0a9.

src/gevent/__init__.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ version_info = _version_info(20, 0, 0, 'dev', 0) # XXX: Remove me
 #: Use ``pkg_resources.parse_version(__version__)`` or
 #: ``packaging.version.Version(__version__)`` to get a machine-usable
 #: value.
-__version__ = '21.1.3.dev0'
+__version__ = '21.8.0'
 
 
 __all__ = [