Release Pillow 6.2.2 on January 2, 2020

[radarhere]

Purpose

This is a security release. This is the last release to support Python 2.7.

Point Release

Released as needed for security, installation or critical bug fixes.

• Make necessary changes in master branch.

• Update CHANGES.rst.

• Check out release branch e.g.:

  git checkout -t remotes/origin/5.2.x

• Cherry pick individual commits from master branch to release branch e.g. 5.2.x.

• Check Travis CI to confirm passing tests in release branch e.g. 5.2.x.

• In compliance with PEP 440, update version identifier in src/PIL/_version.py

• Run pre-release check via make release-test.

• Create tag for release e.g.:

  git tag 5.2.1
  git push --tags

• Create source distributions e.g.:

  make sdist

• Create binary distributions

Binary Distributions

Windows

• Contact @cgohlke for Windows binaries via release ticket e.g. Release 2.9.0 on July 1, 2015 #1174.
• Download and extract tarball from @cgohlke and twine upload *.

Mac and Linux

• Use the Pillow Wheel Builder:

  git clone https://github.com/python-pillow/pillow-wheels
  cd pillow-wheels
  ./update-pillow-tag.sh [[release tag]]

• Download distributions from the Pillow Wheel Builder container.

  wget -m -A 'Pillow-<VERSION>-*' \
  http://a365fff413fe338398b6-1c8a9b3114517dc5fe17b7c3f8c63a43.r19.cf2.rackcdn.com

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• Upload all binaries and source distributions e.g. twine upload dist/Pillow-5.2.0*

• Create a new release on GitHub

Publicize Release

• Announce release availability via Twitter e.g. https://twitter.com/PythonPillow/status/1013789184354603010

Documentation

• Make sure the default version for Read the Docs is up-to-date with the release changes

[cgohlke]

I built Windows binaries for Pillow-6.2.2 and Pillow-7.0.0 in case you still need them.

[radarhere]

Yes @cgohlke, thanks for being proactive! If you could just assure me that you've included the 'Release notes for 6.2.2' commits that I added after the version bump, then yes, please upload the files. Although then again, maybe that doesn't matter for the binaries, since they're documentation changes.

Yes, it doesn't matter, and I've just realised that you already linked to the files. Thanks.

[hugovk]

Thank you very much @radarhere for making this double release, and @cgohlke for the binaries!