2.1.0 Release

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This issue tracks the progress of version 2.1.0 of Poetry. Please surface any blockers or concerns you have regarding this minor release here:

Blockers

• ?
• poetry-core release
• Changelog
• Release notes (blog)

Nice to have

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Important changes to surface

(This is intended to be the basis for the blog post and should cover new features or any manual steps/incompatibility when upgrading)

• feat(cli): make build command build-system agnostic #10059
• if ready: feat(cli): Support PEP 735 (Dependency Groups) #10130
• several performance improvements? (PRs related to Resolving dependencies in 2.0 takes forever #9956)
• poetry env use x.y on Windows? 😉
• feat(python): use findpython #10097
• if ready (call out experimental state): feat(cli): introduce python management commands #10112
• feat(config): installer.build-config-settings.pkg #10129 (call out experimental state)
• (optional) changes to new command default feat(cli): default new command to src layout #10135
• (this is a reversion of a previous dissalow of empty usernames) feat(auth): allow passwords with empty usernames #10088
• fix(keyring): make keyring unlock thread safe #10062
• fix(search): fallback to find packages for PyPI #10055 (PyPI search is broken, we workaround it but partial searches will no longer work)
• ...