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GrahamDumpleton · Oct 2, 2023 · 960bd7e · 960bd7e
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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ The mod_wsgi package provides an Apache module that implements a WSGI
 compliant interface for hosting Python based web applications on top of the
 Apache web server.
 
+*Note that a new major version is being used not because of any new major
+features but because from version 5.0.0 onwards compatability with Python 2.7 is
+no longer guaranteed. A minimum Python version of 3.8 will be enforced by the
+Python package installation configuration.*
+
 Installation of mod_wsgi from source code can be performed in one of two
 ways.
 

diff --git a/docs/release-notes/version-4.9.5.rst b/docs/release-notes/version-4.9.5.rst
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/version-5.0.0.rst b/docs/release-notes/version-5.0.0.rst
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+=============
+Version 5.0.0
+=============
+
+Version 5.0.0 of mod_wsgi can be obtained from:
+
+  https://codeload.github.com/GrahamDumpleton/mod_wsgi/tar.gz/5.0.0
+
+*Note that the major version 5.0 was introduced not because of any new major
+features but because from version 5.0 onwards compatability with Python 2.7 is
+no longer guaranteed. A minimum Python version of 3.8 will be enforced by the
+Python package installation configuration.*
+
+Features Changed
+----------------
+
+* The `setuptools` package is now required to be installed in order to use the
+  `pip install` method to install mod_wsgi. This is because `distutils` has been
+  removed in Python 3.12.
+
+Bugs Fixed
+----------
+
+* Fix ability to build mod_wsgi against Apache 2.2. Do note that in general only
+  recent versions of Apache 2.4 are supported