v8.1.8 Release Plan

[AndreasBackx]

Summary of the status of v8.1.8 included issues and pull requests. I think I'd want to move this to a GitHub project, but this is good enough for now as I don't have access to that.

Pull Requests & Issues

• Fix colored output on Windows (#2606) #2607
  • Needs an additional CHANGES.rst mention.
• Deduplicate --help option definition #2563
• Use subprocess instead of os.system #1477
  • Mostly ready, awaiting a tiny question before ready to merge.
• Pass 'color' explicitly in error echoing #2273
  • Straightforward and includes necessary tests.
• core.py: Make error messages more verbose #2453
  • Straightforward, 2 better error messages.
• Fixes issue #2606 by making color=True behavior agnostic of Operating System. #2731

Potentially Included

• ensure context __exit__ is called during shell completion #2767
  • Moved to 8.2.0 because failing tests and not worth delaying 8.1.8 for.
• More robust check of bash version #2639