Version 1.7.0

[fingolfin]

There have been a ton of fixes and improvements since the last release, so we should make a release now.

Any objections or concerns @timholy @oxinabox or anyone else?

There are a couple other open issues that I think are easy enough to fix, but I don't think that's any reason to delay a release?

Draft of release notes for JuliaRegistrator bot:

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Release notes:

New features

• Add sort! method for unfrozen LittleDict (#136)
• Add mergewith method for LittleDict (#119)

Bug fixes

• Fix rehash! for OrderedDict (for example delete!(d, nothing) could produce nonsense or even crash) (#120)
• Avoid iterating twice over generators when there is an exception, at least in Julia >= 1.11 (#137)

Other changes

• Remove all uses ccall (#121)
• Remove convert method for Type{OrderedDict}, the generic Julia method does the same, except for a deprecation warning our method produced (#139)
• Several other janitorial changes

[timholy]

I like the idea of making a release.

Did GitHub eliminate that link to see all the changes since the last release? It was a little broken anyway if one made non-increasing releases (e.g., 1.2.0 followed by 1.1.6), so perhaps they just dropped it.

[fingolfin]

Such links exist on e.g. releases. One can also make one manually. E.g. to list all changes since the last release 1.6.3.

[fingolfin]

I will make the release later today; I first want to prepare some manual release notes that summarize in a useful way (there are 43 commits but many of them could be summarized under "maintenance changes" or so). This would also be practice for a potential 2.0.0 release (which still needs a bunch of preparation before it could happen)