v2.6.0

• Add support for an external signing tool
  • The feature enables to use of an external signing tool for signing the manifest.
  • Add a new CLI option --signing-tool to the manifest-dev-tool init command.
  • The --key CLI option of the manifest-dev-tool init command can receive an identifier private key
    or a private key file name that will be used to sign the manifest with the external signing tool provided.
  • Add a new configuration option signing-tool that is used by the manifest-tool create command.
  • The --key CLI option of the manifest-tool create or manifest-tool create-v1 command can receive
    an identifier private key or a private key file name that will be used to sign the manifest with
    the external signing tool provided.
• Update requests to 2.31.0.
• Update cryptography to 41.0.4.
• Add support for Python 3.11 (super inits, imports with try, tox additions etc.).
• Update dev-requirements:
  • Update pytest to the latest 7.4.2.
  • Update pylint to 2.17.7 (3.0.2 does not support older versions of Python).
• Remove the --force CLI option that was deprecated already.