From 6f1963de5a98118565f5198644bd023728637fad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Mueller <30130371+cdce8p@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 01:00:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add initial changelog entries for 1.17

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 01d58ce6a1b3..ff7d8ee85329 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,24 @@
 
 ## Next Release
 
+### Remove Support for targeting Python 3.8
+
+Mypy now requires `--python-version 3.9` or greater. Support for only Python `3.8` is
+fully removed now. Given an unsupported version, mypy will now default to the oldest
+supported one, currently `3.9`.
+
+Contributed by Marc Mueller
+(PR [19157](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/19157), PR [19162](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/19162)).
+
+### Initial support for Python 3.14
+
+Mypy is now tested on `3.14` and mypyc works with `3.14.0b3` and later.
+Mypyc compiled wheels of mypy itself will be available for new versions after `3.14.0rc1` is released.
+
+Note that not all new features might be supported just yet.
+
+Contributed by Marc Mueller (PR [19164](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/19164))
+
 ## Mypy 1.16
 
 We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.16 to the Python Package Index ([PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/mypy/)).

From 268269935dd47ba954c743faa00d966d5ead126e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Mueller <30130371+cdce8p@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 19:48:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Minor improvements

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ff7d8ee85329..73891d756082 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,17 +4,20 @@
 
 ### Remove Support for targeting Python 3.8
 
-Mypy now requires `--python-version 3.9` or greater. Support for only Python `3.8` is
-fully removed now. Given an unsupported version, mypy will now default to the oldest
-supported one, currently `3.9`.
+Mypy now requires `--python-version 3.9` or greater. Support for only Python 3.8 is
+fully removed now. Given an unsupported version, mypy will default to the oldest
+supported one, currently 3.9.
+
+This change is necessary because typeshed stopped supporting Python 3.8 after it
+reached its End of Life in October 2024.
 
 Contributed by Marc Mueller
 (PR [19157](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/19157), PR [19162](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/19162)).
 
-### Initial support for Python 3.14
+### Initial Support for Python 3.14
 
-Mypy is now tested on `3.14` and mypyc works with `3.14.0b3` and later.
-Mypyc compiled wheels of mypy itself will be available for new versions after `3.14.0rc1` is released.
+Mypy is now tested on 3.14 and mypyc works with 3.14.0b3 and later.
+Mypyc compiled wheels of mypy itself will be available for new versions after 3.14.0rc1 is released.
 
 Note that not all new features might be supported just yet.