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0.39.0 - 2023-01-31
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- SUPPORT FOR PYTHON 2 HAS BEEN DEPRECATED AND IT WILL BE
  COMPLETELY REMOVED IN THE NEXT RELEASE.
- Remove dependency on parameterized and use unittest.subTest
  instead.
- Upgrade embedded six.py module to 1.16.0 (really tiny
  inconsequential changes).
- Make tests working on MacOS again (test_bio_membuf: Use fork)
- Use OpenSSL_version_num() instead of unrealiable parsing of .h
  file.
- Mitigate the Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA
  decryption API (CVE-2020-25657)
- Add functionality to extract EC key from public key + Update
  tests
- Worked around compatibility issues with OpenSSL 3.*
- Support for Twisted has been deprecated (they have their own
  SSL support anyway).
- Generate TAP while testing.
- Stop using GitHub for testing.
- Accept a small deviation from time in the testsuite (for
  systems with non-standard HZ kernel parameter).
- Use the default BIO.__del__ rather tha overriding in BIO.File
  (avoid a memleak).
- Resolve "X509_Name.as_der() method from X509.py -> class
  X509_Name caused segmentation fault"