This issue tracks the progress of version 1.7.0 of Poetry. Please surface any blockers or concerns you have regarding this minor release here:

Blockers

• solver: ignore dependencies that are only relevant for inactive extras #8399 (just waits for the poetry-core release)
• installer: report more details on build failures #8479
• Fix race condition in artifact cache #8517
• release: bump version to 1.8.0 poetry-core#656
• Changelog release: bump version to 1.7.0 #8599
• Release notes (blog) blog: announce poetry 1.7.0 website#138

Nice to have

• fix: remove exception when keyring is locked #8227
• release: bump version to 1.6.0 poetry-plugin-export#243
• Release Cleo 2.1 cleo#380

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 support for Python 3.12, mention behavior change for implicit setuptools and wheel, see python 3.12 in pipelines #7803 (comment)
• improved handling of dependencies with extras during dependency resolution solver: ignore dependencies that are only relevant for inactive extras #8399
• Fix race condition in artifact cache #8517
• print a future warning that poetry-plugin-export will not be installed by default anymore #8562