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-
-====
-NEWS
-====
-
-Highlights of what's new in each release.
-
-Issues noted as "'ssh' #NN" can be found at https://github.com/bitprophet/ssh/.
-
-Issues noted as "Fabric #NN" can be found at https://github.com/fabric/fabric/.
-
-
-**PLEASE NOTE:** For changes in 1.10.x and newer releases, please see
-www.paramiko.org's changelog page, or the source file, sites/www/changelog.rst
-
-
-Releases
-========
-
-v1.9.0 (6th Nov 2012)
----------------------
-
-* #97 (with a little #93): Improve config parsing of `ProxyCommand` directives
-  and provide a wrapper class to allow subprocess-driven proxy commands to be
-  used as `sock=` arguments for `SSHClient.connect`.
-* #77: Allow `SSHClient.connect()` to take an explicit `sock` parameter
-  overriding creation of an internal, implicit socket object.
-* Thanks in no particular order to Erwin Bolwidt, Oskari Saarenmaa, Steven
-  Noonan, Vladimir Lazarenko, Lincoln de Sousa, Valentino Volonghi, Olle
-  Lundberg, and Github user `@acrish` for the various and sundry patches
-  leading to the above changes.
-
-v1.8.1 (6th Nov 2012)
----------------------
-
-* #90: Ensure that callbacks handed to `SFTPClient.get()` always fire at least
-  once, even for zero-length files downloaded. Thanks to Github user `@enB` for
-  the catch.
-* #85: Paramiko's test suite overrides
-  `unittest.TestCase.assertTrue/assertFalse` to provide these modern assertions
-  to Python 2.2/2.3, which lacked them. However on newer Pythons such as 2.7,
-  this now causes deprecation warnings. The overrides have been patched to only
-  execute when necessary. Thanks to `@Arfrever` for catch & patch.
-
-
-v1.8.0 (3rd Oct 2012)
----------------------
-
-* #17 ('ssh' 28): Fix spurious `NoneType has no attribute 'error'` and similar
-  exceptions that crop up on interpreter exit.
-* 'ssh' 32: Raise a more useful error explaining which `known_hosts` key line was
-  problematic, when encountering `binascii` issues decoding known host keys.
-  Thanks to `@thomasvs` for catch & patch.
-* 'ssh' 33: Bring `ssh_config` parsing more in line with OpenSSH spec, re: order of
-  setting overrides by `Host` specifiers. Specifically, the overrides now go by
-  file order instead of automatically sorting by `Host` value length. In
-  addition, the first value found per config key (e.g. `Port`, `User` etc)
-  wins, instead of the last. Thanks to Jan Brauer for the contribution.
-* 'ssh' 36: Support new server two-factor authentication option
-  (`RequiredAuthentications2`), at least re: combining key-based & password
-  auth. Thanks to Github user `bninja`.
-* 'ssh' 11: When raising an exception for hosts not listed in
-  `known_hosts` (when `RejectPolicy` is in effect) the exception message was
-  confusing/vague. This has been improved somewhat. Thanks to Cal Leeming for
-  highlighting the issue.
-* 'ssh' 40: Fixed up & expanded EINTR signal handling. Thanks to Douglas Turk.
-* 'ssh' 15: Implemented parameter substitution in SSHConfig, matching the
-  implementation of `ssh_config(5)`. Thanks to Olle Lundberg for the patch.
-* 'ssh' 24: Switch some internal type checking to use `isinstance` to help prevent
-  problems with client libraries using subclasses of builtin types. Thanks to
-  Alex Morega for the patch.
-* Fabric #562: Agent forwarding would error out (with `Authentication response
-  too long`) or freeze, when more than one remote connection to the local agent
-  was active at the same time.  This has been fixed. Thanks to Steven McDonald
-  for assisting in troubleshooting/patching, and to GitHub user `@lynxis` for
-  providing the final version of the patch.
-* 'ssh' 5: Moved a `fcntl` import closer to where it's used to help avoid
-  `ImportError` problems on Windows platforms. Thanks to Jason Coombs for the
-  catch + suggested fix.
-* 'ssh' 4: Updated implementation of WinPageant integration to work on 64-bit
-  Windows. Thanks again to Jason Coombs for the patch.
-* Added an IO loop sleep() call to avoid needless CPU usage when agent
-  forwarding is in use.
-* Handful of internal tweaks to version number storage.
-* Updated `setup.py` with `==dev` install URL for `pip` users.
-* Updated `setup.py` to account for packaging problems in PyCrypto 2.4.0
-* Added an extra `atfork()` call to help prevent spurious RNG errors when
-  running under high parallel (multiprocess) load.
-* Merge PR #28: https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/pull/28 which adds a
-  ssh-keygen like demo module. (Sofian Brabez)
-
-v1.7.7.2 16may12
-----------------
-  * Merge pull request #63: https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/pull/63 which
-    fixes exceptions that occur when re-keying over fast connections. (Dwayne
-    Litzenberger)
-
-v1.7.7.1 (George) 21may11
--------------------------
-  * Make the verification phase of SFTP.put optional (Larry Wright)
-  * Patches to fix AIX support (anonymous)
-  * Patch from Michele Bertoldi to allow compression to be turned on in the
-    client constructor.
-  * Patch from Shad Sharma to raise an exception if the transport isn't active
-    when you try to open a new channel.
-  * Stop leaking file descriptors in the SSH agent (John Adams)
-  * More fixes for Windows address family support (Andrew Bennetts)
-  * Use Crypto.Random rather than Crypto.Util.RandomPool
-    (Gary van der Merwe, #271791)
-  * Support for openssl keys (tehfink)
-  * Fix multi-process support by calling Random.atfork (sugarc0de)
-
-v1.7.6 (Fanny) 1nov09
----------------------
-  * fixed bugs 411099 (sftp chdir isn't unicode-safe), 363163 & 411910 (more
-    IPv6 problems on windows), 413850 (race when server closes the channel),
-    426925 (support port numbers in host keys)
-
-v1.7.5 (Ernest) 19jul09
------------------------
-  * added support for ARC4 cipher and CTR block chaining (Denis Bernard)
-  * made transport threads daemonize, to fix python 2.6 atexit behavior
-  * support unicode hostnames, and IP6 addresses (Maxime Ripard, Shikhar
-    Bhushan)
-  * various small bug fixes
-
-v1.7.4 (Desmond) 06jul08
-------------------------
-  * more randpool fixes for windows, from Dwayne Litzenberger
-    (NOTE: this may require a pycrypto upgrade on windows)
-  * fix potential deadlock during key exchange (Dwayne Litzenberger)
-  * remove MFC dependency from windows (Mark Hammond)
-  * added some optional API improvements for SFTPClient get() and put()
-
-v1.7.3 (Clara) 23mar08
-----------------------
-  * SSHClient can be asked not to use an SSH agent now, and not to search
-    for private keys
-  * added WarningPolicy option for SSHClient (warn, but allow, on unknown
-    server keys)
-  * added Channel.exit_status_ready to poll if a channel has received an
-    exit status yet
-  * new demo for reverse port forwarding
-  * (bug 177117) fix UTF-8 passwords
-  * (bug 189466) fix typo in osrandom.py
-  * (bug 191657) potentially fix a race at channel shutdown
-  * (bug 192749) document that SSHClient.connect may raise socket.error
-  * (bug 193779) translate EOFError into AuthException during authentication
-  * (bug 200416) don't create a new logger object for each channel
-
-v1.7.2 (Basil) 21jan08
-----------------------
-  * (bug 137219) catch EINTR and handle correctly
-  * (bug 157205) fix select() to trigger on stderr for a channel too
-  * added SSHClient.get_transport()
-  * added Channel.send_ready()
-  * added direct-tcpip forwarding [patch from david guerizec]
-  * fixed the PRNG to be more secure on windows and in cases where fork() is
-    called [patch from dwayne litzenberger]
-
-v1.7.1 (Amy) 10jun07
---------------------
-  * windows SSH agent support can use the 'ctypes' module now if 'win32all' is
-    not available [patch from alexander belchenko]
-  * SFTPClient.listdir_attr() now preserves the 'longname' field [patch from
-    wesley augur]
-  * SFTPClient.get_channel() API added
-  * SSHClient constructor takes an optional 'timeout' parameter [patch from
-    james bardin]
-
-v1.7 (zubat) 18feb07
---------------------
-  * added x11 channel support (patch from david guerizec)
-  * added reverse port forwarding support
-  * (bug 75370) raise an exception when contacting a broken SFTP server
-  * (bug 80295) SSHClient shouldn't expand the user directory twice when reading
-    RSA/DSS keys
-  * (bug 82383) typo in DSS key in SSHClient
-  * (bug 83523) python 2.5 warning when encoding a file's modification time
-  * if connecting to an SSH agent fails, silently fallback instead of raising
-    an exception
-
-v1.6.4 (yanma) 19nov06
-----------------------
-  * fix setup.py on osx (oops!)
-  * (bug 69330) check for the existence of RSA/DSA keys before trying to open
-    them in SFTPClient
-  * (bug 69222) catch EAGAIN in socket code to workaround a bug in recent
-    Linux 2.6 kernels
-  * (bug 70398) improve dict emulation in HostKeys objects
-  * try harder to make sure all worker threads are joined on Transport.close()
-
-v1.6.3 (xatu) 14oct06
----------------------
-  * fixed bug where HostKeys.__setitem__ wouldn't always do the right thing
-  * fixed bug in SFTPClient.chdir and SFTPAttributes.__str__ [patch from
-    mike barber]
-  * try harder not to raise EOFError from within SFTPClient
-  * fixed bug where a thread waiting in accept() could block forever if the
-    transport dies [patch from mike looijmans]
-
-v1.6.2 (weedle) 16aug06
------------------------
-  * added support for "old" group-exchange server mode, for compatibility
-    with the windows putty client
-  * fixed some more interactions with SFTP file readv() and prefetch()
-  * when saving the known_hosts file, preserve the original order [patch from
-    warren young]
-  * fix a couple of broken lines when exporting classes (bug 55946)
-
-v1.6.1 (vulpix) 10jul06
------------------------
-  * more unit tests fixed for windows/cygwin (thanks to alexander belchenko)
-  * a couple of fixes related to exceptions leaking out of SFTPClient
-  * added ability to set items in HostKeys via __setitem__
-  * HostKeys now retains order and has a save() method
-  * added PKey.write_private_key and PKey.from_private_key
-
-v1.6 (umbreon) 10may06
-----------------------
-  * pageant support on Windows thanks to john arbash meinel and todd whiteman
-  * fixed unit tests to work under windows and cygwin (thanks to alexander
-    belchenko for debugging)
-  * various bugfixes/tweaks to SFTP file prefetch
-  * added SSHClient for a higher-level API
-  * SFTP readv() now yields results as it gets them
-  * several APIs changed to throw an exception instead of "False" on failure
-
-v1.5.4 (tentacool) 11mar06
---------------------------
-  * fixed HostKeys to more correctly emulate a python dict
-  * fixed a bug where file read buffering was too aggressive
-  * improved prefetching so that out-of-order reads still use the prefetch
-    buffer
-  * added experimental SFTPFile.readv() call
-  * more unit tests
-
-v1.5.3 (squirtle) 19feb06
--------------------------
-  * a few performance enhancements
-  * added HostKeys, for dealing with openssh style "known_hosts" files, and
-    added support for hashed hostnames
-  * added Transport.atfork() for dealing with forked children
-  * added SFTPClient.truncate, SFTPFile.chmod, SFTPFile.chown, SFTPFile.utime,
-    and SFTPFile.truncate
-  * improved windows demos [patch from mike looijmans], added an sftp demo, and
-    moved demos to the demos/ folder
-  * fixed a few interoperability bugs
-  * cleaned up logging a bit
-  * fixed a bug where EOF on a Channel might not be detected by select [found
-    by thomas steinacher]
-  * fixed python 2.4-ism that crept in [patch by jan hudec]
-  * fixed a few reference loops that could have interacted badly with the python
-    garbage collector
-  * fixed a bunch of pychecker warnings, some of which were bugs
-
-v1.5.2 (rhydon) 04dec05
------------------------
-  * compression support (opt-in via Transport.use_compression)
-  * sftp files may be opened with mode flag 'x' for O_EXCL (exclusive-open)
-    behavior, which has no direct python equivalent
-  * added experimental util functions for parsing openssh config files
-  * fixed a few bugs (and potential deadlocks) with key renegotiation
-  * fixed a bug that caused SFTPFile.prefetch to occasionally lock up
-  * fixed an sftp bug which affected van dyke sftp servers
-  * fixed the behavior of select()ing on a closed channel, such that it will
-    always trigger as readable
-
-v1.5.1 (quilava) 31oct05
-------------------------
-  * SFTPFile.prefetch() added to dramatically speed up downloads (automatically
-    turned on in SFTPClient.get())
-  * fixed bug where garbage-collected Channels could trigger the Transport to
-    close the session (reported by gordon good)
-  * fixed a deadlock in rekeying (reported by wendell wood)
-  * fixed some windows bugs and SFTPAttributes.__str__() (reported by grzegorz
-    makarewicz)
-  * better sftp error reporting by adding fake "errno" info to IOErrors
-
-v1.5 (paras) 02oct05
---------------------
-  * added support for "keyboard-interactive" authentication
-  * added mode (on by default) where password authentication will try to
-    fallback to "keyboard-interactive" if it's supported
-  * added pipelining to SFTPFile.write and SFTPClient.put
-  * fixed bug with SFTPFile.close() not guarding against being called more
-    than once (thanks to Nathaniel Smith)
-  * fixed broken 'a' flag in SFTPClient.file() (thanks to Nathaniel Smith)
-  * fixed up epydocs to look nicer
-  * reorganized auth_transport into auth_handler, which seems to be a cleaner
-    separation
-  * demo scripts fixed to have a better chance of loading the host keys
-    correctly on windows/cygwin
-
-v1.4 (oddish) 17jul05
----------------------
-  * added SSH-agent support (for posix) from john rochester
-  * added chdir() and getcwd() to SFTPClient, to emulate a "working directory"
-  * added get() and put() to SFTPClient, to emulate ftp whole-file transfers
-  * added check() to SFTPFile (a file hashing protocol extension)
-  * fixed Channels and SFTPFiles (among others) to auto-close when GC'd
-  * fixed Channel.fileno() for Windows, this time really
-  * don't log socket errors as "unknown exception"
-  * some misc. backward-compatible API improvements (like allowing
-    Transport.start_client() and start_server() to be called in a blocking way)
-
-v1.3.1 (nidoran) 28jun05
-------------------------
-  * added SFTPClient.close()
-  * fixed up some outdated documentation
-  * made SFTPClient.file() an alias for open()
-  * added Transport.open_sftp_client() for convenience
-  * refactored packetizing out of Transport
-  * fixed bug (reported by alain s.) where connecting to a non-SSH host could
-    cause paramiko to freeze up
-  * fixed Channel.fileno() for Windows (again)
-  * some more unit tests
-
-v1.3 (marowak) 09apr05
-----------------------
-  * fixed a bug where packets larger than about 12KB would cause the session
-    to die on all platforms except osx
-  * added a potential workaround for windows to let Channel.fileno() (and
-    therefore the select module) work!
-  * changed API for subsystem handlers (sorry!) to pass more info and make it
-    easier to write a functional SFTP server
-
-v1.2 (lapras) 28feb05
----------------------
-  * added SFTPClient.listdir_attr() for fetching a list of files and their
-    attributes in one call
-  * added Channel.recv_exit_status() and Channel.send_exit_status() for
-    manipulating the exit status of a command from either client or server
-    mode
-  * moved check_global_request into ServerInterface, where it should've been
-    all along (oops)
-  * SFTPHandle's default implementations are fleshed out more
-  * made logging a bit more consistent, and started logging thread ids
-  * fixed a few race conditions, one of which would sometimes cause a Transport
-    to fail to start on slow machines
-  * more unit tests
-
-v1.1 (kabuto) 12dec04
----------------------
-  * server-side SFTP support
-  * added support for stderr streams on client & server channels
-  * added a new distinct exception for failed client authentication
-    when caused by the server rejecting that *type* of auth
-  * added support for multi-part authentication
-  * fixed bug where get_username() wasn't working in server mode
-
-v1.0 (jigglypuff) 06nov04
--------------------------
-  * fixed bug that broke server-mode authentication by private key
-  * fixed bug where closing a Channel could end up killing the entire
-    Transport
-  * actually include demo_windows.py this time (oops!)
-  * fixed recently-introduced bug in group-exchange key negotiation that
-    would generate the wrong hash (and therefore fail the initial handshake)
-  * server-mode subsystem handler is a bit more flexible
-
-v0.9 (ivysaur) 22oct04
-----------------------
-  * new ServerInterface class for implementing server policy, so it's no
-    longer necessary to subclass Transport or Channel -- server code will
-    need to be updated to follow this new API!  (see demo_server.py)
-  * some bugfixes for re-keying an active session
-  * Transport.get_security_options() allows fine-tuned control over the
-    crypto negotiation on a new session
-  * Transport.connect() takes a single hostkey object now instead of two
-    string parameters
-  * the Channel request methods (like 'exec_command') now return True on
-    success or False on failure
-  * added a mechanism for providing subsystems in server mode (and a new
-    class to be subclassed: SubsystemHandler)
-  * renamed SFTP -> SFTPClient (but left an alias for existing code)
-  * added SFTPClient.normalize() to resolve paths on the server
-  * fleshed out the API a bit more for SFTPClient and private keys
-  * a bunch of new unit tests!
-
-v0.9 (horsea) 27jun04
----------------------
-  * fixed a lockup that could happen if the channel was closed while the
-    send window was full
-  * better checking of maximum packet sizes
-  * better line buffering for file objects
-  * now chops sftp requests into smaller packets for some older servers
-  * more sftp unit tests
-
-v0.9 (gyarados) 31may04
------------------------
-  * Transport.open_channel() -- supports local & remote port forwarding now
-  * now imports UTF-8 encodings explicitly as a hint to "freeze" utilities
-  * no longer rejects older SFTP servers
-  * default packet size bumped to 8kB
-  * fixed deadlock in closing a channel
-  * Transport.connect() -- fixed bug where it would always fail when given a
-    host key to verify
-
-v0.9 (fearow) 23apr04
----------------------
-  * Transport.send_ignore() -- send random ignored bytes
-  * RSAKey/DSSKey added from_private_key_file() as a factory constructor;
-    write_private_key_file() & generate() to create and save ssh2 keys;
-    get_base64() to retrieve the exported public key
-  * Transport added global_request() [client] and check_global_request()
-    [server]
-  * Transport.get_remove_server_key() now returns a PKey object instead of a
-    tuple of strings
-  * Transport.get_username() -- return the username you auth'd as [client]
-  * Transport.set_keepalive() -- makes paramiko send periodic junk packets
-    to the remote host, to keep the session active
-  * python 2.2 support (thanks to Roger Binns)
-  * misc. bug fixes
-
-v0.9 (eevee) 08mar04
---------------------
-
-v0.9 (doduo) 04jan04
---------------------
-
-v0.1 (charmander) 10nov03
--------------------------
-
-v0.1 (bulbasaur) 18sep03
-------------------------
-
-v0.1 (aerodactyl) 13sep03
--------------------------
diff --git a/NOTES b/NOTES
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-
-                         +-------------------+       +-----------------+
-(Socket)InputStream ---> |  ssh2 transport   | <===> |  ssh2 channel   |
-(Socket)OutputStream --> |  (auth, pipe)     |   N   |  (buffer)       |
-                         +-------------------+       +-----------------+
-                          @  feeder thread             | |
-                             - read InputStream        | +-> InputStream
-                             - feed into channel       +---> OutputStream
-                               buffers
-
-SIS <-- @ --> (parse, find chan) --> ssh2 chan: buffer <-- SSHInputStream
-SSHOutputStream --> ssh2 chan --> ssh2 transport --> SOS   [no thread]
-
diff --git a/sites/www/changelog.rst b/sites/www/changelog.rst
index afdf23d3..28474d43 100644
--- a/sites/www/changelog.rst
+++ b/sites/www/changelog.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+- :bug:`-` Cleaned up some very old root level files, mostly just to exercise
+  some of our doc build and release machinery. This changelog entry
+  intentionally left blank! ``nothing-to-see-here-move-along.gif``
 - :release:`3.3.0 <2023-07-28>`
 - :feature:`1907` (solves :issue:`1992`) Add support and tests for ``Match
   final …`` (frequently used in ProxyJump configurations to exclude the jump
diff --git a/sites/www/contributing.rst b/sites/www/contributing.rst
index a44414e8..9cf0f34b 100644
--- a/sites/www/contributing.rst
+++ b/sites/www/contributing.rst
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ Please see `this project-agnostic contribution guide
 <http://contribution-guide.org>`_ - we follow it explicitly. Again, our code
 repository and bug tracker is `on Github`_.
 
-Our current changelog is located in ``sites/www/changelog.rst`` - the top
-level files like ``ChangeLog.*`` and ``NEWS`` are historical only.
+Our changelog is located in ``sites/www/changelog.rst``.
 
 
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