Release candidate (#16847)

* Update version

* Update change log

* Update TPN

Author: karthiknadig

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,76 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 2021.8.0-rc (2 August 2021)
+
+### Enhancements
+
+1. Add new getting started page using VS Code's API
+   ([#16678](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/16678))
+1. Replace deprecated vscode-test with @vscode/test-electron for CI. (thanks [iChenLei](https://github.com/iChenLei))
+   ([#16765](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/16765))
+
+### Code Health
+
+1. Sort Settings Alphabetically (thanks [bfarahdel](https://github.com/bfarahdel))
+   ([#8406](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/8406))
+1. Changed default language server to `Pylance` for extension development. (thanks [jasleen101010](https://github.com/jasleen101010))
+   ([#13007](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/13007))
+
+### Thanks
+
+Thanks to the following projects which we fully rely on to provide some of
+our features:
+
+-   [debugpy](https://pypi.org/project/debugpy/)
+-   [isort](https://pypi.org/project/isort/)
+-   [jedi](https://pypi.org/project/jedi/)
+    and [parso](https://pypi.org/project/parso/)
+-   [jedi-language-server](https://pypi.org/project/jedi-language-server/)
+-   [Microsoft Python Language Server](https://github.com/microsoft/python-language-server)
+-   [Pylance](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release)
+-   [exuberant ctags](http://ctags.sourceforge.net/) (user-installed)
+-   [rope](https://pypi.org/project/rope/) (user-installed)
+
+Also thanks to the various projects we provide integrations with which help
+make this extension useful:
+
+-   Debugging support:
+    [Django](https://pypi.org/project/Django/),
+    [Flask](https://pypi.org/project/Flask/),
+    [gevent](https://pypi.org/project/gevent/),
+    [Jinja](https://pypi.org/project/Jinja/),
+    [Pyramid](https://pypi.org/project/pyramid/),
+    [PySpark](https://pypi.org/project/pyspark/),
+    [Scrapy](https://pypi.org/project/Scrapy/),
+    [Watson](https://pypi.org/project/Watson/)
+-   Formatting:
+    [autopep8](https://pypi.org/project/autopep8/),
+    [black](https://pypi.org/project/black/),
+    [yapf](https://pypi.org/project/yapf/)
+-   Interpreter support:
+    [conda](https://conda.io/),
+    [direnv](https://direnv.net/),
+    [pipenv](https://pypi.org/project/pipenv/),
+    [pyenv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv),
+    [venv](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html#module-venv),
+    [virtualenv](https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/)
+-   Linting:
+    [bandit](https://pypi.org/project/bandit/),
+    [flake8](https://pypi.org/project/flake8/),
+    [mypy](https://pypi.org/project/mypy/),
+    [prospector](https://pypi.org/project/prospector/),
+    [pylint](https://pypi.org/project/pylint/),
+    [pydocstyle](https://pypi.org/project/pydocstyle/),
+    [pylama](https://pypi.org/project/pylama/)
+-   Testing:
+    [nose](https://pypi.org/project/nose/),
+    [pytest](https://pypi.org/project/pytest/),
+    [unittest](https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#module-unittest)
+
+And finally thanks to the [Python](https://www.python.org/) development team and
+community for creating a fantastic programming language and community to be a
+part of!
+
 ## 2021.7.2 (23 July 2021)
 
 ### Enhancements

ThirdPartyNotices-Distribution.txt

@@ -8046,7 +8046,7 @@ THE SOFTWARE.
 
 ---------------------------------------------------------
 
-isort 5.8.0 - MIT
+isort 5.9.3 - MIT
 
 
 Copyright 2017 Jack Evans
@@ -12581,3 +12581,4 @@ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLI
 For more information, please refer to <http://unlicense.org/>
 
 ---------------------------------------------------------
+

news/1 Enhancements/13007.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     "name": "python",
     "displayName": "Python",
     "description": "IntelliSense (Pylance), Linting, Debugging (multi-threaded, remote), Jupyter Notebooks, code formatting, refactoring, unit tests, and more.",
-    "version": "2021.8.0-dev",
+    "version": "2021.8.0-rc",
     "featureFlags": {
         "usingNewInterpreterStorage": true
     },
@@ -230,9 +230,9 @@
                         "description": "To create a new Jupyter Notebook, you can right click in the file explorer and create a new file with an .ipynb extension anytime.\n \nAlternatively, you can open the [Command Palette](command:workbench.action.showCommands) and run the command \n``Jupyter: Create New Blank Notebook``.\n[Create new Jupyter Notebook](command:toSide:jupyter.createnewnotebook)",
                         "media": {
                             "image": {
-                             "light": "resources/walkthrough/new-notebook-light.png",
-                             "dark": "resources/walkthrough/new-notebook-dark.png",
-                             "hc": "resources/walkthrough/new-notebook-hc.png"
+                                "light": "resources/walkthrough/new-notebook-light.png",
+                                "dark": "resources/walkthrough/new-notebook-dark.png",
+                                "hc": "resources/walkthrough/new-notebook-hc.png"
                             },
                             "altText": "Creating a new Jupyter notebook"
                         },