Hi, It's taken a lot longer than we thought, but I expect the next release of xml2rfc to be 3.0.0. I currently plan to do the 3.0.0 release shortly after IETF 108. Best regards, Henrik On 2019-10-08 23:23, Russ Housley wrote: > Heads up! > > With the transition to xml2rfc vocabulary version 3, xml2rfc has gained > the ability to generate PDF output when the necessary system libraries > are installed. However, xml2rfc runs on Python 2.7, but the library > needed for PDF generation ended support for Python 2.7 about 10 > releases ago. This means that the need to end support for xml2rfc on > Python 2.7 is becoming urgent. Another factor is that bugfix support > for Python 2.7.x itself officially stops on 1 January 2020, so we need > to transition away from Python 2.7 soon in any case. > > The latest xml2rfc release is 2.32.0. There will most likely be one or > two additional xml2rfc releases in the 2.x series, but after that, the > plan is to transition to a 3.x release series, with two major changes: > > (1) xml2rfc will no longer run under Python 2.7; it will require > Python 3.5 or higher. If you cannot install and run Python 3 on > your system, the web service at xml2rfc.ietf.org can be used. > > (2) The default output formatters will change to v3. The v2 formatters > will still be available by using a --legacy switch. > > Expect the first xml2rfc 3.x series release before the end of the month. > > On behalf of the Tools Team, > Russ > >
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