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authorFlorian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org>2020-12-08 22:21:13 +0100
committerFlorian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org>2020-12-08 22:21:13 +0100
commited99cf123aaf27963f74074c2509b0c369232656 (patch)
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Update docs
-rw-r--r--README.asciidoc5
-rw-r--r--doc/changelog.asciidoc10
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index 6ab9784a8..5c254959e 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -125,13 +125,14 @@ The following software and libraries are required to run qutebrowser:
sensitive data.**
* https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro[PyQt] 5.12.0 or newer
for Python 3
-* https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/[pkg_resources/setuptools]
+* https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/[pkg_resources/setuptools] (being
+ phased out for qutebrowser v2.0.0)
* https://fdik.org/pyPEG/[pyPEG2]
* http://jinja.pocoo.org/[jinja2]
* http://pygments.org/[pygments]
* https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml[PyYAML]
* https://www.attrs.org/[attrs]
-* https://importlib-resources.readthedocs.io/[importlib_resources] (on python
+* https://importlib-resources.readthedocs.io/[importlib_resources] (on Python
3.8 or older)
The following libraries are optional:
diff --git a/doc/changelog.asciidoc b/doc/changelog.asciidoc
index 9f8cc9736..5a0ce3938 100644
--- a/doc/changelog.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/changelog.asciidoc
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ Major changes
still relying on it. The `cssutils` project is also dead upstream, with its
repository being gone after Bitbucket
https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket[removed Mercurial support].
+- TODO: The former dependency on the `pkg_resources` module (part of the
+ `setuptools` project) got dropped.
+- A new dependency on the `importlib_resources` module got introduced for
+ Python versions up to and including 3.8. Note that the stdlib
+ `importlib.resources` module for Python 3.7 and 3.8 is missing the needed APIs,
+ thus requiring the backports for those versions as well.
Removed
~~~~~~~
@@ -107,6 +113,10 @@ Fixed
`colors.downloads.*`), the alpha channel is now handled correctly.
- The `format_json` userscript now uses `env` in its shebang, making it work
correctly on systems where `bash` isn't located in `/bin`.
+- TODO: Due to a long-standing bug in the `pkg_resources` dependency, it caused
+ qutebrowser's startup to slow down by around 150ms-1s (heavily depending on
+ the system). Since the dependency is now removed, qutebrowser's startup time
+ thus improved.
v1.14.1 (2020-12-04)
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