[Python-announce] PyCA cryptography 44.0.0 released

PyCA cryptography 44.0.0 has been released to PyPI. cryptography includes
both high level recipes and low level interfaces to common cryptographic
algorithms such as symmetric ciphers, asymmetric algorithms, message
digests, X.509, key derivation functions, and much more. We support Python
3.7+, and PyPy3 7.3.10+.

Changelog (https://cryptography.io/en/latest/changelog/#v44-0-0):
* BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: Dropped support for LibreSSL < 3.9.
* Deprecated Python 3.7 support. Python 3.7 is no longer supported by the
Python core team. Support for Python 3.7 will be removed in a future
cryptography release.
* Updated Windows, macOS, and Linux wheels to be compiled with OpenSSL
3.4.0.
* macOS wheels are now built against the macOS 10.13 SDK. Users on older
versions of macOS should upgrade, or they will need to build cryptography
themselves.
* Enforce the RFC 5280 requirement that extended key usage extensions must
not be empty.
* Added support for timestamp extraction to the MultiFernet class.
* Relax the Authority Key Identifier requirements on root CA certificates
during X.509 verification to allow fields permitted by RFC 5280 but
forbidden by the CA/Browser BRs.
* Added support for Argon2id when using OpenSSL 3.2.0+.
* Added support for the Admissions certificate extension.
* Added basic support for PKCS7 decryption (including S/MIME 3.2) via
pkcs7_decrypt_der(), pkcs7_decrypt_pem(), and pkcs7_decrypt_smime().

-Paul Kehrer (reaperhulk)