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* Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.5, and 3.6.

* Output changes:

HTML5:
 Wrap groups of footnotes in an ``<aside>`` for easier styling.

 The CSS rule ``.footnote-list { display: contents; }`` can be used to
 restore the behaviour of custom CSS styles.

* After package installation, the CLI commands ``python -m docutils`` and
``docutils`` start the `generic command line front end tool`__.

__ docs/user/tools.htmlgeneric-command-line-front-end

* Support parsing "Markdown" input with 3rd party parsers
myst_, pycmark_, or recommonmark_.

* The default values for the "pep-references", "rfc-base-url",
and "python-home" `configuration settings`_ now use the "https:" scheme.
The PEP-writer template's header is updated to fix links and
resemble the header of official PEPs.

* Various bugfixes and improvements (see HISTORY_).

.. _myst: https://pypi.org/project/myst-docutils
.. _pycmark: https://pypi.org/project/pycmark/
.. _recommonmark: https://pypi.org/project/recommonmark/
.. _configuration settings: docs/user/config.html

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Refreshed packaging.

Enrolled with Tidelift.