chore: release notes

HISTORY.md

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 # Release History - open AEA
 
 
+## 1.40.0 (2023-09-26)
+
+AEA:
+- Fixes the source repository validation regex
+- Updates the `generate-key` command to prompt before overwriting the existing keys file
+- Fixes the inconsistent hashing caused by the `CRLF` line endings
+- Updates the component loader to ignore the test modules when loading the component
+- Adds support for overriding dependencies
+- Updates the `sync` command to download missing dependencies and update `packages.json`
+- Updates the error messages for missing ledger plugins on `generate-key` command
+
+Plugins:
+- Adds missing `py.typed` markers
+- Backports the changes from the `agent-academy-2` repository on the ledger connection
+- Ports `http_server` as a valory connection
+
 ## 1.40.0 (2023-09-26)
 
 AEA:

SECURITY.md

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 | Version   | Supported          |
 | --------- | ------------------ |
-| `1.40.x`   | :white_check_mark: |
-| `< 1.40.0` | :x:                |
+| `1.41.x`   | :white_check_mark: |
+| `< 1.41.0` | :x:                |
 
 ## Reporting a Vulnerability
 

docs/upgrading.md

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 ### Upgrade guide
 
-## `v1.40.0` to `v1.40.1`
+## `v1.40.0` to `v1.41.0`
 
 - The way the dependencies will be selected for installation when running `aea install` has changed. Before this version, the versions were being merging all of the versions for a python package and using the most compatible version specifier possible. With this release, this behaviour will be replaced by overriding the dependencies in the following order `extra dependencies provided by flag > agent > skill > connection > contract > protocol` what this means is, let's say you have 3 packages with a same python package as a dependency