bpo-30450: Add NEWS and whatsnew (GH-2236)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index 83e1c61..db11954 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -317,6 +317,12 @@
:c:func:`PyOS_AfterFork_Child`. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in
:issue:`16500`.)
+* The Windows build process no longer depends on Subversion to pull in external
+ sources, a Python script is used to download zipfiles from GitHub instead.
+ If Python 3.6 is not found on the system (via ``py -3.6``), NuGet is used to
+ download a copy of 32-bit Python for this purpose. (Contributed by Zachary
+ Ware in :issue:`30450`.)
+
Deprecated
==========
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 95ae431..65e9376 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1134,6 +1134,11 @@
Windows
-------
+- bpo-30450: The build process on Windows no longer depends on Subversion,
+ instead pulling external code from GitHub via a Python script. If Python 3.6
+ is not found on the system (via ``py -3.6``), NuGet is used to download a
+ copy of 32-bit Python.
+
- bpo-29579: Removes readme.txt from the installer.
- Issue #25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)