pypa · pradyunsg · Jun 12, 2024 · Jun 12, 2024 · Jun 12, 2024 · Jun 12, 2024
diff --git a/AUTHORS.txt b/AUTHORS.txt
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ Florian Briand
 Florian Rathgeber
 Francesco
 Francesco Montesano
+Fredrik Orderud
 Frost Ming
 Gabriel Curio
 Gabriel de Perthuis
@@ -511,6 +512,7 @@ Miro Hrončok
 Monica Baluna
 montefra
 Monty Taylor
+mrKazzila
 Muha Ajjan
 Nadav Wexler
 Nahuel Ambrosini
@@ -665,6 +667,7 @@ Shantanu
 shenxianpeng
 shireenrao
 Shivansh-007
+Shixian Sheng
 Shlomi Fish
 Shovan Maity
 Simeon Visser

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,33 @@
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+24.1b2 (2024-06-12)
+===================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Report informative messages about invalid requirements. (`#12713 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12713>`_)
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+- Eagerly import the self version check logic to avoid crashes while upgrading or downgrading pip at the same time. (`#12675 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12675>`_)
+- Accommodate for mismatches between different sources of truth for extra names, for packages generated by ``setuptools``. (`#12688 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12688>`_)
+- Accommodate for development versions of CPython ending in ``+`` in the version string. (`#12691 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12691>`_)
+
+Vendored Libraries
+------------------
+
+- Upgrade packaging to 24.1
+- Upgrade requests to 2.32.0
+- Remove vendored colorama
+- Remove vendored six
+- Remove vendored webencodings
+- Remove vendored charset_normalizer
+
+  ``requests`` provides optional character detection support on some APIs when processing ambiguous bytes. This isn't relevant for pip to function and we're able to remove it due to recent upstream changes.
+
 24.1b1 (2024-05-06)
 ===================
 

diff --git a/news/12675.bugfix.rst b/news/12675.bugfix.rst
diff --git a/news/12688.bugfix.rst b/news/12688.bugfix.rst
diff --git a/news/12702.feature.rst b/news/12702.feature.rst
diff --git a/news/12713.feature.rst b/news/12713.feature.rst
diff --git a/news/9be41686-c40a-4e08-84e1-936b65b74fc7.trivial.rst b/news/9be41686-c40a-4e08-84e1-936b65b74fc7.trivial.rst
diff --git a/news/charset_normalizer.vendor.rst b/news/charset_normalizer.vendor.rst
diff --git a/news/packaging.vendor.rst b/news/packaging.vendor.rst
diff --git a/news/requests.vendor.rst b/news/requests.vendor.rst
diff --git a/news/six.vendor.rst b/news/six.vendor.rst
diff --git a/news/webencodings.vendor.rst b/news/webencodings.vendor.rst
diff --git a/src/pip/__init__.py b/src/pip/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from typing import List, Optional
 
-__version__ = "24.1.dev1"
+__version__ = "24.1.dev2"
 
 
 def main(args: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> int: