This issue tracks the progress of version 1.6.0 of Poetry. Please surface any blockers or concerns you have regarding this minor release here:

Blockers

• solver: tune heuristics for choosing the next dependency to resolve … #8255
  or solver: invert heuristics for choosing the next dependency to resolve… #8256
• installer: respect source if the same version of a package has been locked from different sources #8304
• release: bump version to 1.7.0 poetry-core#626
  • perf: cache results of cnf, dnf and _merge_single_markers poetry-core#609
  • Refresh and automate updating licenses list poetry-core#489
  • update vendored dependencies, cf Update vendor dependencies to support FIPS on older Python versions #8223
• Changelog release: bump version to 1.6.0 #8333
• Release notes (blog) blog: announce poetry 1.6.0 website#132

Nice to have

• release: bump version to 1.5.0 poetry-plugin-export#227

Important changes to surface

(This is intended to be the basis for the blog post and should cover new features or any manual steps/incompatibility when upgrading)

• official Poetry badge 1.6.0 Release #8232 (comment)
• Support non SHA256/SHA384/SHA512 HTTPRepository ?
• Poetry 1.6 will drop support for Python 3.7 as runtime.