Added all Avasam authored changes to changelog (#2255)

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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Maintained by hand, so what's "notable" is subjective! Contributors are
 encouraged to add entries for their work.
 
-All changes can be found via git - eg, for all changes afer a build:
+All changes can be found via git - eg, for all changes after a build:
     git log -rb3xx:
 or
     https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/compare/b3xx...main
@@ -13,7 +13,135 @@ https://mhammond.github.io/pywin32_installers.html.
 
 Coming in build 307, as yet unreleased
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+### pywin32
 * Release GIL when calling CreateService or StartService
+* Drop support for Internet Explorer 10 (#2229, @Avasam)
+* Removed considerations for never-built Windows CE (#2218, @Avasam)
+* Stopped building `winxpgui` (#2217, @Avasam)
+  * Raise `DeprecationWarning` when importing `winxpgui`
+  * Added `GetWindowRgnBox` to `win32gui`
+  * `winxpgui.GetConsoleWindow` now aliases `win32console.GetConsoleWindow`
+  * Everything else is re-exported from `win32gui`
+* Fixed the `win32com.demos.ietoolbar` demo (#2217, @Avasam)
+* Fixed undefined names reported by Flake8/Ruff (#2101, @Avasam, @kxrob)
+  Fixed the following public API:
+    * Fixed `NameError` in `pywin.Demos`'s `fontdemo.FontView.SetFont`
+    * The `Pythonwin/pywin/Demos/ocx/msoffice` demo now uses the docName argument
+    * Fixed `NameError` in `WordFrame.Create`, even though it wasn't used
+    * Fixed a handful of `NameError` in `pywin.dialogs.ideoptions.OptionsPropPage` with format
+    * Fixed `AttributeError` in `pywin.framework.dlgappcore.AppDialog.OnPaint`
+    * Fixed trying to write banner to `sdterr` in `pywin.framework.interact.InteractiveCore.Init`
+    * Fixed a `NameError` in `pywin.framework.mdi_pychecker.TheDocument.doSearch`
+    * Removes unusable `HandleToUlong`, `UlongToHandle`, `UlongToPtr` and `UintToPtr` from `pywin.scintilla.scintillacon`
+    * Fixed a `NameError` in `win32comext.axscript.client.pydumper.Register`
+    * Fixed a `NameError` in `win32comext.shell.demos.servers.context_menu.ShellExtension.QueryContextMenu`
+    * Fixed a `NameError` in `win32comext.shell.demos.servers.shell_view.ScintillaShellView.CreateViewWindow`
+  The following methods no longer throw errors (although their implementation is still unvalidated):
+    * `mmsystem.MEVT_EVENTTYPE`
+    * `mmsystem.MEVT_EVENTPARM`
+    * `mmsystem.MCI_MSF_MINUTE`
+    * `mmsystem.MCI_MSF_SECOND`
+    * `mmsystem.MCI_TMSF_TRACK`
+    * `mmsystem.MCI_TMSF_MINUTE`
+    * `mmsystem.MCI_TMSF_SECOND`
+    * `mmsystem.MCI_TMSF_FRAME`
+    * `mmsystem.MCI_HMS_HOUR`
+    * `mmsystem.MCI_HMS_MINUTE`
+    * `mmsystem.MCI_HMS_SECOND`
+    * `mmsystem.DIBINDEX`
+    * `winnt.IMAGE_SNAP_BY_ORDINAL`
+    * `winnt.IMAGE_ORDINAL`
+* Removed `Unicode` and `UnicodeType` from `pywintypes` and `win32api` (#2200, @Avasam)
+* Deprecate `afxres` in favor of `pywin.mfc.afxres`. The modules were identical (#2177, @Avasam)
+* Improved `DispatcherWin32dbg`'s deprecation warning and raise an error when used (#2145, @Avasam)
+* Removed obsolete/legacy way of registering a Pythonwin app and its Idle handlers from `pywin.framework.app` (#2144, @Avasam)
+* Removed unused `win32comext.axscript.server.error` (#2202, @Avasam)
+* Removed deprecated `win32com.server.exception.Exception` (#2142, @Avasam)
+* Removed long-deprecated `UnicodeToString` param from multiple methods (#2143, @Avasam)
+* Fixed `win32api.SetClassWord` being overwritten by `win32api.SetWindowWord` (#2199, @Avasam)
+  * If you were using `win32api.SetClassWord` for its current behaviour, use `win32api.SetWindowWord` instead.
+  * This also adds missing support for `win32api.SetWindowWord`
+* Annotated module-level variables with ambiguous typing (#2175, @Avasam)
+* `win32com.client.build.NoTranslateMap` is now a `set` (#2176, @Avasam)
+* Fixed `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dialog'` in `pywin.tools.regpy` (#2187, @Avasam)
+* Fixed passing a `float` to `range` in `win32pdhquery.Query.collectdatafor` (#2170, @Avasam)
+* Check that the filename w/o extension ends with `_d` rather than checking for `_d` anywhere in the file path (#2169, @Avasam)
+* Cleaned up and fixed Axdebug (#2126, @Avasam)
+    * `win32comext.axdebug.codecontainer.SourceCodeContainer` now uses the `debugDocument` parameter 
+    * `win32comext.axdebug.codecontainer` script can now be run independent of location
+    * Fixed Method Resolution Order issue in `win32comext.axdebug.documents`
+    * Fixed undefined names (`NameError`) in `win32comext.axdebug.expressions.DebugProperty.GetPropertyInfo`
+    * Removed unused `win32comext.axdebug.util.all_wrapped`
+    * Fixed multiple `ModuleNotFoundError` in `win32comext.axdebug` (#1983, @Avasam)
+* Change `mbcs` encoding to `utf-8` in `com.win32com.client` (#2097, @Avasam)
+* Avoid using `importlib` directly (#2123, @Avasam)
+* Replace most usages of deprecated `distutils`:
+    * Replace distutils.dep_util with setuptools.modified (#2148, @Avasam)
+    * Replaced `distutils.FileList` usage with `pathlib` (#2138, @Avasam)
+    * Replace `distutils.log` with `logging` (#2134, @Avasam)
+    * Replace `distutils` with direct `setuptools` equivalents where possible (#2134, @Avasam)
+* Replaced usages of the removed (in Python 3.12) `imp` module (#2113, @Avasam)
+  * Fixed registering Python as a scripting language for `axscript`
+  * Fixed `isapi` install
+* Use collection literals and comprehensions where applicable (slight performance improvement) (#2108, @Avasam)
+* Cleanup obsolete code for unsupported Python versions (#1990, #2127, #2205, @Avasam)
+  The following public names have been removed:
+    * `pywin.framework.app.Win32RawInput`
+    * `win32com.client.makepy.error`
+    * Long obsoleted `dbi` module, use the `odbc` module instead
+  Added support for the following Python 3 methods:
+    * `pywin.mfc.dialog.Dialog.__contains__`
+    * `win32com.client.CoClassBaseClass.__bool__`
+    * `win32com.client.combrowse.HLIRoot.__lt__`
+    * `win32com.client.genpy.WritableItem.__lt__`
+    * `__bool__` in classes generated by `win32com.client.genpy.WritableItem.WriteClassBody`
+    * `win32/Demos`'s `win32clipboardDemo.Foo.__lt__`
+    * `win32timezone._SimpleStruct.__le__` (subclassed by `SYSTEMTIME`, `TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION`, `DYNAMIC_TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION`, `TimeZoneDefinition`)
+  The following methods no longer throw errors (although their implementation is still unvalidated):
+    * `winnt.PRIMARYLANGID`
+    * `winnt.SUBLANGID`
+    * `winnt.LANGIDFROMLCID`
+    * `winnt.SORTIDFROMLCID`
+* Removed obsolete compatibility aliases (#2087, @Avasam)
+  The following public names have been removed:
+    * `win32comext.mapi.mapiutil.TupleType`
+    * `win32comext.mapi.mapiutil.ListType`
+    * `win32comext.mapi.mapiutil.IntType`
+    * `netbios.byte_to_int`
+* Resolved invalid string escapes warnings (#2045, #2124, @Avasam)
+* Idiomatic type comparisons. Better handling of subclasses. (#1991, @Avasam)
+* Cleaned up obsolete and redundant code (this should not directly affect the end-user):
+  * Update and standardise obsolete `OSError` aliases (#2107, @Avasam)
+  * Removed redundant and obsolete references to older python unicode compatibility (#2085, @Avasam)
+  * Use byte-string (`b""`) for constant bytes values instead of superfluous `.encode` calls (#2046, @Avasam)
+  * Cleaned up unused imports (#1986, #2051, #1990, #2124, #2126, @Avasam)
+  * Removed duplicated declarations, constants and definitions (#2050 , #1950, #1990, @Avasam)
+* General speed and size improvements due to all the removed code. (#2046, #1986, #2050, #1950, #2085, #2087, #2051, #1990, #2106, #2127, #2124, #2126, #2177, #2218, #2202, #2205, #2217)
+
+### adodbapi
+* Remove references to outdated IronPython (#2049)
+  This removes the following public names:
+  * `adodbapi.adodbapi.onWin32`
+  * `adodbapi.apibase.onIronPython`
+  * `adodbapi.apibase.NullTypes`
+  * `adodbapi.apibase.DateTime`
+* Remove references to outdated `mxDateTime` (#2048)
+  This removes the following public names:
+  * `adodbapi.apibase.mxDateTime`
+  * `adodbapi.apibase.mxDateTimeConverter`
+* Removed obsolete Python 2 aliases (#2088)
+  This removes the following public names:
+  * `adodbapi.adodbapi.unicodeType`
+  * `adodbapi.adodbapi.longType`
+  * `adodbapi.adodbapi.StringTypes`
+  * `adodbapi.adodbapi.maxint`
+  * `adodbapi.apibase.unicodeType`
+  * `adodbapi.apibase.longType`
+  * `adodbapi.apibase.StringTypes`
+  * `adodbapi.apibase.makeByteBuffer`
+  * `adodbapi.apibase.memoryViewType`
+* Remove outdated and unused remote feature (#2098)
+* Migrated from `distutils` to `setuptools` (#2133)
 
 Build 306, released 2023-03-26
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