v2.0.0a2

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This version is currently in prerelease. The below release notes will be condensed into a single entry when we do a final release.

v2.0.0a2 (1 Jun 2021)

• 🌟 Added the ability to test building wheels on CPython 3.10! Because CPython 3.10 is in beta, these wheels should not be distributed, because they might not be compatible with the final release, but it's available to build for testing purposes. Use the flag --prerelease-pythons or CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS to test. (Add CPython 3.10 support #675)
• ✨ Added the ability to build CPython 3.8 wheels on Apple Silicon. (feat: support building universal/arm64 from x64_86 Python 3.8 #704)
• 🛠 Update to the latest build dependencies, including auditwheel 4. (test: update expected wheels when using auditwheel >= 4 #633)
• 🛠 Use the unified pypa/manylinux images to build PyPy (Update PyPy to 7.3.5 and use PyPA's manylinux images with PyPy #671)
• ⚠️ Removed support for building Python 2.7 and Python 3.5 wheels, for both CPython and PyPy. If you still need to build on these versions, please use the latest v1.x version. (Drop Python 2.7 & 3.5 #596)

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