Prepare for (pre) release: v5.6.0b2 (celery#9938)

* Bump version: 5.6.0b1 → 5.6.0b2

* Added Changelog for v5.6.0b2

* Remove Python 3.8 support from the release docs and update Kombu to v5.6.0rc2 (minimum version)

Author: Nusnus

.bumpversion.cfg

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 5.6.0b1
+current_version = 5.6.0b2
 commit = True
 tag = True
 parse = (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<patch>\d+)(?P<releaselevel>[a-z\d]+)?

Changelog.rst

@@ -8,6 +8,45 @@ This document contains change notes for bugfix & new features
 in the main branch & 5.6.x series, please see :ref:`whatsnew-5.6` for
 an overview of what's new in Celery 5.6.
 
+.. _version-5.6.0b2:
+
+5.6.0b2
+=======
+
+:release-date: 2025-10-20
+:release-by: Tomer Nosrati
+
+Celery v5.6.0 Beta 2 is now available for testing.
+Please help us test this version and report any issues.
+
+What's Changed
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- GitHub Actions: Test on Python 3.14 release candidate 2 (#9891)
+- Update pypy to python 3.11 (#9896)
+- Feature: Add support credential_provider to Redis Backend (#9879)
+- Celery.timezone: try tzlocal.get_localzone() before using LocalTimezone (#9862)
+- Run integration tests on Python 3.14 (#9903)
+- Fix arithmetic overflow for MSSQL result backend (#9904)
+- Add documentation for task_id param for apply_async function (#9906)
+- Support redis client name (#9900)
+- Bump Kombu to v5.6.0rc1 (#9918)
+- Fix broker connection retry attempt counter in the error log (#9911)
+- fix: restrict disable-prefetch feature to Redis brokers only (#9919)
+- fix(): preserve group order in replaced signature (#9910)
+- Remove Python 3.8 from CI workflow (#9930)
+- Update default Python versions in integration tests (#9931)
+- Update tox.ini to remove Python 3.8 (#9932)
+- Remove Python 3.8 from Dockerfile (#9933)
+- Update Python version requirement to 3.9 (#9935)
+- Update pypy version from 3.10 to 3.11 in Dockerfile (#9934)
+- Flake8 fixes (#9955)
+- Remove test-pypy3.txt from Dockerfile dependencies (#9939)
+- Remove backports.zoneinfo for Python 3.9 compatibility (#9956)
+- Update pytest-cov version for Python compatibility (#9957)
+- Update pytest-rerunfailures and pre-commit versions (#9958)
+- Prepare for (pre) release: v5.6.0b2 (#9938)
+
 .. _version-5.6.0b1:
 
 5.6.0b1

README.rst

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 |build-status| |coverage| |license| |wheel| |semgrep| |pyversion| |pyimp| |ocbackerbadge| |ocsponsorbadge|
 
-:Version: 5.6.0b1 (recovery)
+:Version: 5.6.0b2 (recovery)
 :Web: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/index.html
 :Download: https://pypi.org/project/celery/
 :Source: https://github.com/celery/celery/

celery/__init__.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 SERIES = 'recovery'
 
-__version__ = '5.6.0b1'
+__version__ = '5.6.0b2'
 __author__ = 'Ask Solem'
 __contact__ = '[email protected]'
 __homepage__ = 'https://docs.celeryq.dev/'

docs/history/changelog-5.6.rst

@@ -8,6 +8,45 @@ This document contains change notes for bugfix & new features
 in the main branch & 5.6.x series, please see :ref:`whatsnew-5.6` for
 an overview of what's new in Celery 5.6.
 
+.. _version-5.6.0b2:
+
+5.6.0b2
+=======
+
+:release-date: 2025-10-20
+:release-by: Tomer Nosrati
+
+Celery v5.6.0 Beta 2 is now available for testing.
+Please help us test this version and report any issues.
+
+What's Changed
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- GitHub Actions: Test on Python 3.14 release candidate 2 (#9891)
+- Update pypy to python 3.11 (#9896)
+- Feature: Add support credential_provider to Redis Backend (#9879)
+- Celery.timezone: try tzlocal.get_localzone() before using LocalTimezone (#9862)
+- Run integration tests on Python 3.14 (#9903)
+- Fix arithmetic overflow for MSSQL result backend (#9904)
+- Add documentation for task_id param for apply_async function (#9906)
+- Support redis client name (#9900)
+- Bump Kombu to v5.6.0rc1 (#9918)
+- Fix broker connection retry attempt counter in the error log (#9911)
+- fix: restrict disable-prefetch feature to Redis brokers only (#9919)
+- fix(): preserve group order in replaced signature (#9910)
+- Remove Python 3.8 from CI workflow (#9930)
+- Update default Python versions in integration tests (#9931)
+- Update tox.ini to remove Python 3.8 (#9932)
+- Remove Python 3.8 from Dockerfile (#9933)
+- Update Python version requirement to 3.9 (#9935)
+- Update pypy version from 3.10 to 3.11 in Dockerfile (#9934)
+- Flake8 fixes (#9955)
+- Remove test-pypy3.txt from Dockerfile dependencies (#9939)
+- Remove backports.zoneinfo for Python 3.9 compatibility (#9956)
+- Update pytest-cov version for Python compatibility (#9957)
+- Update pytest-rerunfailures and pre-commit versions (#9958)
+- Prepare for (pre) release: v5.6.0b2 (#9938)
+
 .. _version-5.6.0b1:
 
 5.6.0b1

docs/history/whatsnew-5.6.rst

@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ The 5.6.0 release is a new feature release for Celery.
 Releases in the 5.x series are codenamed after songs of `Jon Hopkins <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hopkins>`_.
 This release has been codenamed `Recovery <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaqlsAmlbzo>`_.
 
-This is the last version to support Python 3.8.
+This is the last version to support Python 3.9.
+Support for Python 3.8 was removed after v5.6.0b1.
 
 *— Tomer Nosrati*
 
@@ -145,18 +146,17 @@ Supported Python Versions
 
 The supported Python versions are:
 
-- CPython 3.8
 - CPython 3.9
 - CPython 3.10
 - CPython 3.11
 - CPython 3.12
 - CPython 3.13
 - PyPy3.10 (``pypy3``)
 
-Python 3.8 Support
+Python 3.9 Support
 ------------------
 
-Python 3.8 will reach EOL in October, 2024.
+Python 3.9 will reach EOL in October, 2025.
 
 Minimum Dependencies
 --------------------

docs/includes/introduction.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-:Version: 5.6.0b1 (recovery)
+:Version: 5.6.0b2 (recovery)
 :Web: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/index.html
 :Download: https://pypi.org/project/celery/
 :Source: https://github.com/celery/celery/

requirements/default.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 billiard>=4.2.1,<5.0
-kombu>=5.6.0rc1,<5.7
+kombu>=5.6.0rc2,<5.7
 vine>=5.1.0,<6.0
 click>=8.1.2,<9.0
 click-didyoumean>=0.3.0