prepare for 1.18.0 release (#144)

Author: dgrove-oss

NOTICE.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Apache OpenWhisk Runtime Python
-Copyright 2016-2021 The Apache Software Foundation
+Copyright 2016-2023 The Apache Software Foundation
 
 This product includes software developed at
 The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

README.md

@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ The following Python runtime versions (with kind & image labels) are generated b
 - Python 3.9 (python:3.9 & openwhisk/action-python-v3.9)
 - Python 3.10 (python:3.10 & openwhisk/action-python-v3.10)
 - Python 3.11 (python:3.11 & openwhisk/action-python-v3.11)
-- Python 3.6 AI (python:3.6 & openwhisk/action-python-v3.6-ai)
 
 This README documents the build, customization and testing of these runtime images.
 
@@ -182,6 +181,6 @@ If you have an action in the format described before (with a `requirements.txt`)
 zip -j -r myaction | docker run -i action-python-v3.7 -compile main > myaction.zip
 ```
 
-You may use `v3.11`, `v3.10`, `v3.9` or `v3.6-ai` as well according to your Python version needs.
+You may use `v3.11`, `v3.10`, or `v3.9` as well according to your Python version needs.
 
-The resulting action includes a virtualenv already built for you and that is fast to deploy and start as all the dependencies are already resolved. Note that there is a limit on the size of the zip file and this approach will not work for installing large libraries like Pandas or Numpy, instead use the provide "v.3.6-ai"  runtime instead which provides these libraries already for you.
+The resulting action includes a virtualenv already built for you and that is fast to deploy and start as all the dependencies are already resolved. Note that there is a limit on the size of the zip file and this approach will not work for installing large libraries like Pandas or Numpy, instead build a custom docker image that includes these libraries.

core/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -18,8 +18,14 @@
 -->
 
 # Python 3 OpenWhisk Runtime Container
-## Next Release
-  - Golang Action loop updatetd to golang 1.20
+## 1.18.0
+  - Add Python 3.10 runtime. (#128)
+  - Add Python 3.11 Runtime (#140)
+  - Remove Python 3.6 based runtime (#143)
+  - Support array result include sequence action (#129)
+  - Install zip in docker images (#122)
+  - Build proxy from 1.22.0 release of openwhisk-runtime-go using GoLang 1.20
+  - Added script to build docker images locally (#135)
 
 ## 1.17.0
  - Build actionloop from [email protected] (#113)

tests/src/test/resources/build.sh

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ if [ -f ".built" ]; then
   exit 0
 fi
 
-for i in v3.7 v3.6-ai v3.9 v3.10 v3.11
+for i in v3.7 v3.9 v3.10 v3.11
 do echo "*** $i ***"
    zip -r -j - python_virtualenv | docker run -i action-python-$i -compile main >python-${i}_virtualenv.zip
    cp python-${i}_virtualenv.zip python-${i}_virtualenv_invalid_main.zip