idlelib/NEWS.txt for 3.10.0 and backports

[terryjreedy]

BPO	41841
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @miss-islington
PRs	bpo-41841: Prepare IDLE News for 3.10 #22379 [3.9] bpo-41841: Prepare IDLE News for 3.9 #22380 [3.8] bpo-41841: Prepare IDLE News for 3.8.7 #22381 [3.9] bpo-41841: Prepare IDLE NEWS for 3.9.2 #24343 [3.8] bpo-41841: Prepare IDLE NEWS for 3.8.8 #24344 bpo-41841: Revise header #24633 [3.9] bpo-41841: revise header #24634 [3.8] bpo-41841: prepare for 3.8.9 #24635 bpo-41841: update idlelib News up to 3.10.0. #30868 [3.10] bpo-41841: update idlelib News up to 3.10.0. (GH-30868) #30870 [3.9] bpo-41841: update idlelib News up to 3.10.0 #30871
Superseder	bpo-46496: idlelib/NEWS.txt for 3.11.0 and backports

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title = 'idlelib/NEWS.txt for 3.10.0 and backports'
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[terryjreedy]

Master became 3.10 as of 3.9.0 beta 1: Monday, 2020-05-18.
However, backported IDLE issues continued going under What's New 3.9
on both master and 3.9 until 3.9.0rc1, Tuesday, 2020-08-11.
Subsequent merges go under
What's New 3.10.0 on master
What's New 3.9.1 on 3.9

In other words, News is handled as if master were still branched off as of .0rc1. This is different from the changelog attached to What's New in 3.x.

Release peps -- needed for proposed and actual release dates.
3.8 PEP-569 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0569/
3.9 PEP-596 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0596/
3.10 PEP-619 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0619/

[terryjreedy]

New changeset 7af072c by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'master':
bpo-41841: Prepare IDLE News for 3.10 (GH-22379)
7af072c

[terryjreedy]

New changeset d7a4e5d by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.9':
[3.9] bpo-41841: Prepare IDLE News for 3.9 (GH-22380)
d7a4e5d

[terryjreedy]

New changeset 0a2e11a by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.8':
[3.8] bpo-41841: Prepare IDLE News for 3.8.7 (GH-22381)
0a2e11a

[terryjreedy]

New changeset fd668bc by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.9':
[3.9] bpo-41841: Prepare IDLE NEWS for 3.9.2 (#GH-4343)
fd668bc

[terryjreedy]

New changeset a178473 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.8':
[3.8] bpo-41841: Prepare IDLE NEWS for 3.8.8 (GH-24344)
a178473

[terryjreedy]

Everything before x.y.0 is in one section. Multiple sections thereafter are a nuisance. Idea: Put everything thereafter in one also. So file is set once header revised after 3.x.0 is released.

Thought of 'x.y.z: date' separator, with one line above and below, but not many users update each bugfix or so and we would be back to same problem.

[terryjreedy]

New changeset b9fe16a by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'master':
bpo-41841: Revise header (GH-24633)
b9fe16a

[terryjreedy]

New changeset d81a204 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.9':
[3.9] bpo-41841: revise header (GH-24634)
d81a204

[terryjreedy]

New changeset 653e17b by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.8':
[3.8] bpo-41841: prepare for 3.8.9 (GH-24635)
653e17b

[terryjreedy]

New changeset 9d3c978 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'main':
bpo-41841: update idlelib News up to 3.10.0. (GH-30868)
9d3c978

[terryjreedy]

New changeset 98cabce by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.9':
bpo-41841: update idlelib News up to 3.10.0 (GH-30871)
98cabce

[terryjreedy]

New changeset ce79b50 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.10':
bpo-41841: update idlelib News up to 3.10.0. (GH-30868) (GH-30870)
ce79b50

[terryjreedy]

The changes on Jan 24/25, 2022 are those that should have been merged before 3.10.0 was released Oct 4, 2021.
The followup issue for 3.11 is #90654.