Preparing to release cx_Oracle 8.0.0.

Author: anthony-tuininga

README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# cx_Oracle version 8.0 (Development)
+# cx_Oracle version 8.0
 
 cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that enables access to Oracle
 Database.  It conforms to the [Python database API 2.0

doc/src/conf.py

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '8.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '8.0.0-dev'
+release = '8.0.0'
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used:

doc/src/release_notes.rst

@@ -5,12 +5,14 @@
 cx_Oracle Release Notes
 =======================
 
-Version 8.0 (TBD)
------------------
+Version 8.0 (June 2020)
+-----------------------
 
-#)  Dropped support for Python 2.7.
+#)  Dropped support for Python 2. For those still requiring Python 2, see
+    :ref:`python2`.
 #)  Updated embedded ODPI-C to `version 4.0
-    <https://oracle.github.io/odpi/doc/releasenotes.html#version-4-0-tbd>`__.
+    <https://oracle.github.io/odpi/doc/releasenotes.html#
+    version-4-0-june-25-2020>`__.
 #)  Reworked type management to clarify and simplify code
 
     - Added :ref:`constants <dbtypes>` for all database types. The database
@@ -46,6 +48,8 @@ Version 8.0 (TBD)
 
 #)  Added function :meth:`cx_Oracle.init_oracle_client()` in order to enable
     programmatic control of the initialization of the Oracle Client library.
+#)  The default encoding for all character data is now UTF-8 and any character
+    set specified in the environment variable ``NLS_LANG`` is ignored.
 #)  Added functions :meth:`SodaCollection.save()`,
     :meth:`SodaCollection.saveAndGet()` and :meth:`SodaCollection.truncate()`
     available in Oracle Client 20 and higher.

setup.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     from distutils.extension import Extension
 
 # define build constants
-BUILD_VERSION = "8.0.0-dev"
+BUILD_VERSION = "8.0.0"
 
 # setup extra link and compile args
 extraLinkArgs = []
@@ -64,9 +64,7 @@ def run(self):
         "Natural Language :: English",
         "Operating System :: OS Independent",
         "Programming Language :: C",
-        "Programming Language :: Python",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 2",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
         "Topic :: Database"
 ]