Bug-fix / Minor Enhancements Release

• Fixed #175: Updated launcher executables to better handle the relationship between launcher and child process in the Job API.

Though no changes have been made to distlib code since the previous release, this release is to facilitate vendoring into pip.

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Bug-fix / Minor Enhancements Release

• Fixed #161: Updated test case.

• Fixed #164: Improved support for reproducible builds by allowing a fixed
  date/time to be inserted into created .exe files. Thanks to Somber Night for the
  patch.

• Fixed #169: Removed usage of deprecated imp module in favour of importlib.

• Fixed #170: Corrected implementation of get_required_dists().

• Fixed #172: Compute ABI correctly for Python < 3.8.

• Changed the default locator configuration.

• Made updates in support of PEP 643 / Metadata 2.2.

• Updated launcher executables. Thanks to Michael Bikovitsky for his help with
  the launcher changes.

• Updated to write archive path of RECORD to RECORD instead of staging path.
  Thanks to Pieter Pas for the patch.

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Bug-fix / Minor Enhancements Release

• Fixed #153: Raise warnings in get_distributions() if bad metadata seen, but keep going.

• Fixed #154: Determine Python versions correctly for Python >= 3.10.

• Updated launcher executables with changes to handle duplication logic.

Code relating to support for Python 2.6 was also removed (support for Python 2.6 was dropped in an earlier release, but supporting code wasn't removed until now).