[ANNOUNCE] OfflineIMAP v7.0.0 released

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

OfflineIMAP v7.0.0 is out.

Downloads:
  http://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/archive/v7.0.0.tar.gz
  http://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/archive/v7.0.0.zip

Pip:
  wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/v7.0.0/requirements.txt" -O requirements.txt
  pip install -r ./requirements.txt --user git+https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap.git@v7.0.0



Finally, the new v7.0.0 is ready. This comes with breaking changes:

- Passwords are now expected in Unicode almost everywhere. They are used with
  the UTF-8 charset. However, some configuration options are not UTF-8 friendly
  mostly because of library limitations (e.g.: `remotepass`).

  Users with Unicode caracters in the passwords are recommended to use a file or
  `remotepasseval`.

- The sqlite database is the default.

  More information at:
  http://www.offlineimap.org/configuration/2016/05/19/sqlite-becomes-default.html

- The PID file is no longer used because offlineimap is able to run multiple
  instances.

Please read the intermediate changelogs.

Thanks to all the contributors who made bug reports for this release.


# Authors

- Nicolas Sebrecht (9)

# Features

- release.sh: learn to merge maint branch into next before releasing. [Nicolas Sebrecht]

# Fixes

- sqlite: close the database when no more threads need access. [Nicolas Sebrecht]
- Fix attribute name _utime_from_header. [Nicolas Sebrecht]
- Maildir: OfflineImapError is missing the severity argument. [Nicolas Sebrecht]
- Fix: configparser does not know about python types like u"". [Nicolas Sebrecht]
- Manual: offlineimapui: fix minor rendering issue. [Nicolas Sebrecht]

# Changes

- --info: allow user to enter a password. [Nicolas Sebrecht]
- Remove dead code: the description of the passes is never used. [Nicolas Sebrecht]
- offlineimap.conf: improve documentation for copy_ignore_eval. [Nicolas Sebrecht]

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Nicolas Sebrecht