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-rwxr-xr-xvirtualenv.py2
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/news.txt b/docs/news.txt
index bf58275..9da236f 100644
--- a/docs/news.txt
+++ b/docs/news.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@ Changes & News
with the upgraded Python.
-master (unreleased)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+1.8 (2012-09-01)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* **Dropped support for Python 2.4** The minimum supported Python version is
+ now Python 2.5.
* Fix `--relocatable` on systems that use lib64. Fixes #78. Thanks Branden
Rolston.
@@ -27,6 +30,21 @@ master (unreleased)
* Fix ``--relocatable`` when a script uses ``__future__`` imports. Thanks
Branden Rolston.
+* Fix a bug in the config option parser that prevented setting negative
+ options with environemnt variables. Thanks Ralf Schmitt.
+
+* Allow setting ``--no-site-packages`` from the config file.
+
+* Use ``/usr/bin/multiarch-platform`` if available to figure out the include
+ directory. Thanks for the patch, Mika Laitio.
+
+* Fix ``install_name_tool`` replacement to work on Python 3.X.
+
+* Handle paths of users' site-packages on Mac OS X correctly when changing
+ the prefix.
+
+* Updated the embedded version of distribute to 0.6.28 and pip to 1.2.
+
1.7.2 (2012-06-22)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/virtualenv.py b/virtualenv.py
index 1e94bba..2316d7c 100755
--- a/virtualenv.py
+++ b/virtualenv.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
# If you change the version here, change it in setup.py
# and docs/conf.py as well.
-__version__ = "1.7.2" # following best practices
+__version__ = "1.8" # following best practices
virtualenv_version = __version__ # legacy, again
import base64