[Python-checkins] bpo-44613: Make importlib.metadata non-provisional (GH-27101) (#27106)

[warsaw]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7223ce3b3f50ec8a825e317437ea0359b6ad6856
commit: 7223ce3b3f50ec8a825e317437ea0359b6ad6856
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: warsaw <barry at python.org>
date: 2021-07-12T17:40:51-07:00
summary:

bpo-44613: Make importlib.metadata non-provisional (GH-27101) (#27106)

* importlib.metadata is no longer provisional as of 3.10
* Add NEWS entry
(cherry picked from commit f6954cdfc50060a54318fb2aea4d80408381243a)

Co-authored-by: Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>

Co-authored-by: Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-07-12-11-39-20.bpo-44613.DIXNzc.rst
M Doc/library/importlib.metadata.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.metadata.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.metadata.rst
index 9bedee5af28f69..c43457a3850678 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.metadata.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.metadata.rst
@@ -8,13 +8,11 @@
    :synopsis: The implementation of the importlib metadata.
 
 .. versionadded:: 3.8
+.. versionchanged:: 3.10
+   ``importlib.metadata`` is no longer provisional.
 
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/importlib/metadata.py`
 
-.. note::
-   This functionality is provisional and may deviate from the usual
-   version semantics of the standard library.
-
 ``importlib.metadata`` is a library that provides for access to installed
 package metadata.  Built in part on Python's import system, this library
 intends to replace similar functionality in the `entry point
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-07-12-11-39-20.bpo-44613.DIXNzc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-07-12-11-39-20.bpo-44613.DIXNzc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..baf591073620c8
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+importlib.metadata is no longer provisional.