From 325e93bf8bdc3ffb6d1d1f0aec20e763c0a333a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Panos <danst@tutanota.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 14:39:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Updated readme, docs

---
 README.rst           | 7 +++----
 doc/installation.rst | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 161d14c8..271c0809 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Bindings for libssh_ C library.
 Installation
 _____________
 
-Binary wheels are provided for Linux (manylinux 2014, x86_64 and aarch64), OSX (12, 13 and 14 for brew Python), and Windows 64-bit (Python 3.7+).
+Binary wheels are provided for Linux (manylinux 2014, x86_64 and aarch64), OSX (12, 13 and 14 for brew Python), and Windows 64-bit (Python 3.8+).
 
 Wheels have *no dependencies*.
 
@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ See `command execution script <https://github.com/ParallelSSH/ssh-python/blob/ma
 Features
 _________
 
-The library uses `Cython`_ based native code extensions as wrappers to ``libssh``.
+The library provides Python bindings to the ``libssh`` C library.
 
 * Thread safe - GIL released as much as possible
 
   * libssh threading limitations apply - anything not supported in C is not supported in Python
-* Very low overhead thin wrapper
+* Very low overhead bindings
 * Object oriented
 
   * Memory freed automatically and safely as objects are garbage collected by Python
@@ -69,4 +69,3 @@ The library uses `Cython`_ based native code extensions as wrappers to ``libssh`
 
 
 .. _libssh: https://www.libssh.org
-.. _Cython: https://www.cython.org
diff --git a/doc/installation.rst b/doc/installation.rst
index 2756cf0a..5699c3aa 100644
--- a/doc/installation.rst
+++ b/doc/installation.rst
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Building on Windows
 
 Requirements:
 
-* Python >= 3.6
+* Python >= 3.8
 * Visual Studio 14 or above
 * OpenSSL 1.1
 * Zlib
@@ -60,3 +60,5 @@ Steps
 Note dependencies will need to be built statically to be distributable to other Windows systems.
 
 Cygwin/MingW probably do not work.
+
+No support is offered for building on Windows from source.

From 56a2ec8864d6549d144482986b055567b4804f09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Panos <danst@tutanota.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 14:48:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Updated docs

---
 doc/installation.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/installation.rst b/doc/installation.rst
index 5699c3aa..d15b6bef 100644
--- a/doc/installation.rst
+++ b/doc/installation.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ By default, the package will try to build against an embedded version of ``libss
 
 To build against a system library, export the ``SYSTEM_LIBSSH=1`` environment variable prior to building.
 
+Note that the library supports its embedded ``libssh`` version and only that version. Use previous ``ssh-python`` versions if wanting to build against older ``libssh`` versions. See `Changelog <Changelog.html>`_.
+
 The following libraries are required:
 
 * OpenSSL 1.0 or 1.1, >=1.1 for Ed25519 support

From e8901895ea3e19e0b4f10bfb636ef32c3c272aae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Panos <danst@tutanota.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 15:10:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Updated changelog

---
 Changelog.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Changelog.rst b/Changelog.rst
index 15f2ea88..104331ad 100644
--- a/Changelog.rst
+++ b/Changelog.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ Changes
 * Added `ssh.channel.Channel.get_exit_status` implementation and tests.
 
 
+Packaging
+----------
+
+* OSX wheel builds now use embedded `libssh` rather than brew package.
+* Dropped Windows Python 3.7 builds.
+* Added Python 3.14 manylinux wheels.
+
+
 1.1.1
 +++++