Merge branch 'main' into dev_v1.7.0

docs/source/release_notes.rst

@@ -23,13 +23,14 @@ v1.7.0 Feb 17, 2022
     * Changes
         * Update error message when DFS returns an empty list of features (:pr:`1919`)
         * Remove ``list_variable_types`` and related directories (:pr:`1929`)
-        * Transition to use pyproject.toml and setup.cfg (moving away from setup.py) (:pr:`1941`, :pr:`1950`, :pr:`1952`, :pr:`1954`, :pr:`1957`)
+        * Transition to use pyproject.toml and setup.cfg (moving away from setup.py) (:pr:`1941`, :pr:`1950`, :pr:`1952`, :pr:`1954`, :pr:`1957`, :pr:`1964`)
         * Replace Koalas with pandas API on Spark (:pr:`1949`)
     * Documentation Changes
         * Add time series guide (:pr:`1896`)
         * Update minimum nlp_primitives requirement for docs (:pr:`1925`)
         * Add GitHub URL for PyPi (:pr:`1928`)
         * Add backport release support (:pr:`1932`)
+        * Update instructions in ``release.md`` (:pr:`1963`)
     * Testing Changes
         * Update test cases to cover __main__.py file (:pr:`1927`)
         * Upgrade moto requirement (:pr:`1929`, :pr:`1938`)
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ v1.7.0 Feb 17, 2022
         * Fix non-deterministic test in ``test_es.py`` (:pr:`1961`)
 
     Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release:
-    :user:`andriyor`, :user:`jeff-hernandez`, :user:`kushal-gopal`, :user:`mingdavidqi`, :user:`rwedge`, :user:`tamargrey`, :user:`thehomebrewnerd`, :user:`tvdboom`
+    :user:`jeff-hernandez`, :user:`gsheni`, :user:`gsheni`, :user:`tamargrey`, :user:`kushal-gopal`, :user:`rwedge`, :user:`mingdavidqi`, :user:`andriyor`, :user:`thehomebrewnerd`, :user:`tvdboom`
 
 Breaking Changes
 ++++++++++++++++

release.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 1. Branch off of featuretools main. For the branch name, please use "release_vX.Y.Z" as the naming scheme (e.g. "release_v0.13.3"). Doing so will bypass our release notes checkin test which requires all other PRs to add a release note entry.
 
 #### Bump version number
-2. Bump version number in `setup.py`, `featuretools/version.py`, and `featuretools/tests/test_version.py`.
+2. Bump version number in `featuretools/version.py` and `featuretools/tests/test_version.py`.
 
 #### Update release notes
 1. Replace "Future Release" in `docs/source/release_notes.rst` with the current date, making sure the heading is fully underlined with `=` characters.

setup.cfg

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ classifier =
 license = BSD 3-clause
 description = a framework for automated feature engineering
 long_description = file: README.md
-long_description_content_type = 'text/markdown'; charset=UTF-8
+long_description_content_type = text/markdown
 keywords = feature engineering, data, science, machine learning
 platforms = any