feat(release): Bumps version to v0.17.0

Removes unnecessary import on connection_tpp_abstract.py
Removes unnecessary ignore instruction on docker-entrypoint.sh
Adds missing version history to version_history.md

docker-entrypoint.sh

@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ bandit -r vcert/
 
 # ID 40291 is pip, ignore so we can still test python 2.7
 #Ignoring false-positive issue with pytest. ref: https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/issues/287
-#Ignoring cryptography issue 59473 The cryptography package before 41.0.2 for Python mishandles SSH certificates that have critical options.
-# If we upgrade to cryptography 41.0.2 or higher we get `pyo3 modules may only be initialized once per interpreter process` and tests cannot run
-safety check -i 40291 -i 51457 -i 59473
+safety check -i 40291 -i 51457
 
 pytest -v --junit-xml=junit.xml --junit-prefix=`python -V | tr ' ' '_'` --cov=vcert --cov=vcert.parser --cov=vcert.policy --cov-report term --cov-report xml

docs/version_history.md

@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 # VCert Python
 
 ## Version History
-
+#### 0.17.0
+* Added ability to retire certificates in both TLSPDC and TLSPC
+* Dropped certvalidator dependency as it has not been needed for a long time
+#### 0.16.2
+* Fixed an issue whereby retrieving a certificate may fail in TLSPC when the CA takes too much time to process a certificate request
+* #### 0.16.1
+* CertificateType set to Auto by default when requesting certificates to TLSPDC 
 #### 0.16.0
 * Fixed **[Issue 124](https://github.com/Venafi/vcert-python/issues/124)**: Fixed an issue where adding a Certificate Issuing Template to an existing Application failed
 * Upgraded cryptography dependency to 40.0.2 to cover a security risk CVE-2023-23931

setup.py

@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
     long_description = f.read()
 
 setup(name='vcert',
-      version='0.16.2',
+      version='0.17.0',
       url="https://github.com/Venafi/vcert-python",
       packages=['vcert', 'vcert.parser', 'vcert.policy'],
-      install_requires=['requests==2.31.0', 'python-dateutil==2.8.2', 'certvalidator<=0.11.1', 'six==1.16.0',
+      install_requires=['requests==2.31.0', 'python-dateutil==2.8.2', 'six==1.16.0',
                         'cryptography==42.0.2', 'ruamel.yaml==0.18.5', 'pynacl==1.5.0'],
       description='Python client library for Venafi Trust Protection Platform and Venafi Cloud.',
       long_description=long_description,

vcert/connection_tpp_abstract.py

@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend
 from cryptography.x509 import SignatureAlgorithmOID as AlgOID
 from six.moves.urllib import parse as url_parse
-from types import SimpleNamespace
 
 from .common import CertField, CommonConnection, CertificateRequest, CSR_ORIGIN_LOCAL, CSR_ORIGIN_PROVIDED, \
     CSR_ORIGIN_SERVICE, KeyType, CHAIN_OPTION_LAST, CHAIN_OPTION_FIRST, CHAIN_OPTION_IGNORE, Policy, ZoneConfig