[service-announce] Gear 0.16.0 has been released

[Clark Boylan]

I am happy to announce version 0.16.0 of Gear has been released.

Notable Changes
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  * The testsuite has been updated to support newer OpenSSL fixing issues like https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2009250.

  * TLS version negotiation is improved to prefer the newest version of TLS supported by both client and server excluding TLS 1.3.

  * Connections to gearman servers are now randomly distributed which should more evenly distribute load.

  * Timeout processing is improved to avoid a situation where a connection timeout could deadlock the client.

As always, the latest version of gear is available from PyPI:

    https://pypi.org/project/gear

Read the latest documentation:

    https://docs.opendev.org/opendev/gear/latest/

And source code can be obtained through the OpenDev Collaboratory:

    https://opendev.org/opendev/gear

Please don't hesitate to follow up through the service-discuss at lists.opendev.org mailing list or in the #opendev channel on the OFTC IRC network if you have any questions.

Clark