From aad93a50457b65b650d4608b1b939ecdb53af3b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: eine <eine@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 04:43:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Release 4.4.0

---
 docs/release_notes/4.4.0.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 vunit/about.py               |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/release_notes/4.4.0.rst

diff --git a/docs/release_notes/4.4.0.rst b/docs/release_notes/4.4.0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6cd015521
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release_notes/4.4.0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+- Update year and update license test to 2020.
+- Bump OSVVM to latest version.
+- Add possibility to configure random stalls for AXI Stream. :vunit_issue:`557`
+- JSON-for-VHDL: use base16 encodings :vunit_issue:`595`
+- First release requiring Python 3.6 or higher. Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 are not supported anymore. :vunit_issue:`596` :vunit_issue:`601`
+- Start adding type annotations to the Python sources; add mypy (a static type checker) to the list of linters. :vunit_issue:`601` :vunit_issue:`626`
+- Move co-simulation (VHPIDIRECT) sources (implementation and example) to `VUnit/cosim <https://github.com/VUnit/cosim>`_ :vunit_issue:`606`
+- ghdl interface: with ``ghdl_e``, save runtime args to JSON file :vunit_issue:`606`
+- Add missing mode assertions to ``-93`` sources of ``integer_vector_ptr`` and ``string_ptr``. :vunit_issue:`607`
+- Add method ``get_simulator_name()`` to public Python API. :vunit_issue:`610`
+- Start replacing ``join``, ``dirname``, etc. with ``pathlib`` :vunit_issue:`612` :vunit_issue:`626` :vunit_issue:`632`
+- Fix parsing adjacent hyphens in a literal. :vunit_issue:`616`
+- Fix ``ghdl.flags`` error in documentation. :vunit_issue:`620`
+- Rename compile option 'ghdl.flags' to 'ghdl.a_flags' :vunit_issue:`624`
+- Move ``project.Library`` to separate file
+- Remove Travis CI and AppVeyor, use GitHub Actions only
+- Remove Sphinx extension ABlog; handle posts as regular pages in subdir ``blog``
+- Update GHDL to v0.37 in Windows CI jobs.
+- Fix regression in GHDL (``prefix of array attribute must be an object name``) :vunit_issue:`631` :vunit_issue:`635`
+- Add code coverage support for GHDL :vunit_issue:`627`
diff --git a/vunit/about.py b/vunit/about.py
index 2748dae50..4229798e4 100644
--- a/vunit/about.py
+++ b/vunit/about.py
@@ -68,4 +68,4 @@ def version():
     return VERSION
 
 
-VERSION = "4.3.1rc0"
+VERSION = "4.4.0"