This will be the final release of the pep8 package, all future usage should be of the pycodestyle package instead (version 2.x + of this repository).

Changes:

• Prominently note via warning message that the tool is no longer released as
  pep8 and will only be fixed in the pycodestyle package

Bugs:

• Fix regression in detection of E302 and E306; #618, #620

New Checks:

• Add E722 warning for bare except clauses
• Report E704 for async function definitions (async def)

Bugs:

• Fix another E305 false positive for variables beginning with "class" or
  "def"
• Fix detection of multiple spaces betwen async and def
• Fix handling of variable annotations. Stop reporting E701 on Python 3.6 for
  variable annotations.

Announcements:

• Added Make target to obtain proper tarball file permissions; #599

Bugs:

• Fixed E305 regression caused by #400; #593