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v74.0.0

Features

• Changed the type of error raised bysetuptools.command.easy_install.CommandSpec.from_param on unsupported argument fromAttributeError toTypeError -- by :user:Avasam (#4548)
• Added detection of ARM64 variant of MSVC -- by :user:saschanaz (#4553)
• Madesetuptools.package_index.Credential atyping.NamedTuple -- by :user:Avasam (#4585)
• Reraise error fromsetuptools.command.easy_install.auto_chmod instead of nonsensicalTypeError: 'Exception' object is not subscriptable -- by :user:Avasam (#4593)
• Fully typed all collection attributes inpkg_resources -- by :user:Avasam (#4598)
• Automatically exclude.tox|.nox|.venv directories fromsdist. (#4603)

Deprecations and Removals

• Removed the monkeypatching of distutils._msvccompiler. Now all compiler logic is consolidated in distutils. (#4600)
• Synced withpypa/distutils@58fe058e4, including consolidating Visual Studio 2017 support (#4600,pypa/distutils#289pypa/distutils#287#4606)

Misc

• #4592

• 98ad794 Bump version: 73.0.1 → 74.0.0
• b4fb917 Merge pull request#4600 from pypa/debt/msvc-monkey
• 18a44d8 Add news fragment.
• 5f8215d Merge pull request#4548 from Avasam/from_param-TypeError
• 6928048 Merge branch 'main' into debt/msvc-monkey
• 11a6b59 Merge pull request#4606 from pypa/distutils-58fe058e4
• 903604b Reraise sensible errors from auto_chmod (#4593)
• 8ec5b5a Add missing news fragment for PR 4603
• e90dfd5 Exclude top-level.tox|.nox|.venv from sdist (#4603)
• ef2957a Reraise sensible errors from auto_chmod
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