Amber,

Can we have a new Twisted release within the next two months, say in Nov./Dec. timeframe, or
sooner if you'd like?

In Twisted trunk, there are a lot of things that would be good to have in a new release.

Here are some of the high order items:

Python 3 Fixes

• twist dns --pyzone now works on Python 3   (I had a project 6 months ago where I would have liked to have this in a release)
  
• twisted.web.twcgi now works on Python 3
  

Python 3.8 Fixes

• all tests pass on all platforms on Python 3.8, including asyncio tests on Windows

Python 3.9 Fixes

• all tests pass on Python 3.9.0rc2 (at least on Mac and Linux), (thanks to Michał Górny)
  

Python 2.7

• Python 2.7 support has been dropped in trunk

Black

• black code formatter has been integrated into the CI for Twisted, and all Twisted code is now formatted with Black (thanks to Tom Most)

Mypy

• mypy is now run as part of Twisted CI and checks the code for every PR.  Type annotations compatible with Python 3.5+ are slowly being added to the codebase.

There are a lot of other small fixes and enhancements that people have contributed since the last Twisted release.

I would like this new release to be the last release supporting Python 3.5,
so that Python 3.5 support can be removed in trunk, and PEP-526 style variable annotations can be added in trunk.

Thanks for your consideration.