This is a maintenance release with the following changes:
- If available, use
time.monotonic
instead oftime.time
. - Dropped support for RHEL 7 and 8. RPM packages for these distros are nolonger included. Added support for RHEL9 instead.
- On RHEL9-based distros, Python 3.12 is required.
- Updated Windows dependencies to their latest versions: Pyinstaller, Pywin32, Python 3.13, OpenSSL and several C runtimes.
This is the last version compatible with Python 2.7. Planned changes for future releases involve importing external modules only compatible with Python 3.