Merge pull request #236 from scrapy/relnotes-2.3.0

Release notes for 2.3.0.

Author: wRAR

NEWS

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 w3lib release notes
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+2.3.0 (YYYY-MM-DD)
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+- Dropped Python 3.8 support (#232).
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+- Added Python 3.13 support (#232).
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+- Fixed running tests with newer point releases of Python 3.10 and 3.11 (#233).
+
+- Removed the following functions, deprecated in 2.0.0:
+
+    - ``w3lib.util.str_to_unicode``
+    - ``w3lib.util.to_native_str``
+    - ``w3lib.util.unicode_to_str``
+
+- Cleanup and CI improvements (#232, #234).
+
 2.2.1 (2024-06-12)
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