Cocotb

This is a maintenance release in the 1.7 release series.

**Changes**
* Python 3.11 is now supported.
* find_libpython, a library to find (as the name indicates) libpython, is now a dependency of cocotb. Its latest version resolves an issue for users on RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and Python 3.8, where the correct Python library would not be detected. (3097)

**Bugfixes**
* Fixed a segmentation fault in Aldec Riviera-PRO that prevented mixed-language simulation from running. (3078).

Thanks to our users who helped us with high-quality bug reports and debugging.

This is a maintenance release in the 1.7 release series.

**Bugfixes**
- Fixed the packaging of the source distribution (sdist) to include all necessary files. ([3072](https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb/pull/3072))
- Documented the fact that libstdc++-static needs to be available on some Linux distributions to install cocotb from source. ([3082](https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb/pull/3082))

Release notes: https://docs.cocotb.org/en/v1.7.0/release_notes.html
Release announcement: https://www.cocotb.org/2022/09/06/v1.7.0.html
PyPI release: https://pypi.org/project/cocotb/1.7.0

This is a maintenance release in the 1.6 release series.

**Bugfixes:**
* Fix regression in [TestFactory](https://docs.cocotb.org/en/stable/library_reference.html#cocotb.regression.TestFactory) when using generator-based test coroutines. ([2839](https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb/issues/2839))

**Changes:**
* Change how [PYTHONHOME](https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONHOME) is populated to work with broken mingw environments. ([2739](https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb/issues/2739))

This is a maintenance release in the 1.6 release series.

**Bugfixes:**
* Fix regression in TestFactory wrt unique test names. (2781)

Release notes: https://docs.cocotb.org/en/v1.6.0/release_notes.html#cocotb-1-6-0-2021-10-20
Release announcement: https://www.fossi-foundation.org/2021/10/20/cocotb-1-6-0
PyPI release: https://pypi.org/project/cocotb/1.6.0