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v80.9.0

Features

• Set a deadline for the removal of pkg_resources later this year (December). (#3085)
• Removed reliance on pkg_resources in test_wheel. (#3085)

v80.8.0

Features

• Replaced more references to pkg_resources with importlib equivalents in wheel odule. (#3085)
• Restore explicit LICENSE file. (#5001)
• Removed no longer used build dependency on coherent.licensed. (#5003)

v80.7.1

Bugfixes

• Only attempt to fetch eggs for unsatisfied requirements. (#4998)
• In installer, when discovering egg dists, let metadata discovery search each egg. (#4998)

v80.7.0

Features

• Removed usage of pkg_resources from installer. Set an official deadline on the installer deprecation to 2025-10-31. (#4997)

Misc

• #4996

v80.6.0

Features

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• 9c4d383 Bump version: 80.8.0 → 80.9.0
• 05cb3c8 Merge pull request #5014 from pypa/debt/pkg_resources-deadline
• 3b0bf5b Adjust ignore
• 9c28cdf Set a deadline for the removal of pkg_resources later this year (December).
• a3bfef9 Merge pull request #5013 from DimitriPapadopoulos/ISC
• 64bf9d0 Enforce ruff/flake8-implicit-str-concat rules (ISC)
• 3250c25 Fix broken link in docs (#4947)
• 5ccf50e Merge pull request #5006 from pypa/feature/remove-more-pkg_resources
• 134e587 Suppress nitpicky typecheck in pyright.
• 0bf2663 Add news fragment.
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