MSAL Python 1.17.0

[Ray Luo (rayluo)]

• New: Define some Cloud Instance constants and the usage pattern of using them (Add public convenience string constants for endpoints of each cloud (sovereign and public) #221, Define some Cloud Instance constants and the usage pattern of using them #433)
• Enhancement: Lazy-load dependencies so that the start-up and run time will usually be faster. (MSAL can consider using lazy import for request, jwt #423, Lazy load dependencies #454)
• Enhancement: Bubble up token refresh exceptions (Raise the original error when refreshing token fails #431, Bubble up refresh exception when we cannot recover #434)
• Enhancement: Documents a simpler http_cache usage pattern (Fine tune http_cache usage pattern #439)
• Enhancement: Expose authority discovery error for troubleshooting (Descriptive error messages for troubleshooting #443)
• Enhancement: Actionable exception message when local machine time error is detected ("RuntimeError: 0. The ID token is not yet valid." can be refined #446, Actionable suggestion for ID token validation failures #449, Time suggestion #453)
• Enhancement: Actionable exception message when username password flow encounters errors with ADFS (Actionable exception from ADFS username password flow #456, Removes the middle-layer exception #458)

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This discussion was created from the release MSAL Python 1.17.0.