Release 1.7 planning

[JukkaL]

I'm planning to make a 1.7 release around Nov 2 to Nov 6 (tentative timeline).

Please post here any issues you'd like to see fixed in the release, or PRs you'd like to have merged. I'll cut the release branch around Oct 30.

This release will be the first one where we create the release blog post in the repo (either in CHANGELOG.md or in a temporary file which we'll add to CHANGELOG.md at the time of the release).

Here are some other major changes I'm hoping to include:

• Enable --new-type-inference by default (subject to no major known regressions).
• Enable TypeVarTuple by default.

[JukkaL]

I've encountered these (minor) regressions or potential regressions so far:

• Regression: inferred type too wide when using type variable bound #16331
• Regression: false positive about overload item never being matched #16338
• Changed strict-equality behavior with dict/Mapping #16340

[KRRT7]

i'm not sure if this the right place to mention this but, you might need to add setuptools as a dependency for python 3.12+

[AlexWaygood]

i'm not sure if this the right place to mention this but, you might need to add setuptools as a dependency for python 3.12+

Already done in ff7ac75

[wRAR]

#15913 please

[ilevkivskyi]

It would be great to have:

• Fix dmypy inspect on Windows #16355
• Fix dmypy inspect for namespace packages #16357
• Fix file reloading in dmypy with --export-types #16359

These are all fixes for dmypy inspect, they should be all low-risk, as they don't touch "regular" daemon logic.

[JukkaL]

#15913 please

This was merged a while ago, so it will be included.

[JukkaL]

I've now cut the release branch: https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/release-1.7

We can still cherry-pick important/low-risk fixes and documentation updates.

[ilevkivskyi]

May be good to add #16381 (Unpack crash fix)

[JukkaL]

Cherry-picked these PRs:

• Fix crash on unpack call special-casing #16381
• Fix file reloading in dmypy with --export-types #16359

[hauntsaninja]

I wouldn't mind a cherry pick of #16407