Release notes

towncrier issues are filed on GitHub, and each ticket number here corresponds to a closed GitHub issue.

towncrier 23.11.0 (2023-11-08)

No significant changes since the previous release candidate.

Bugfixes

  • build now treats a missing fragments directory the same as an empty one, consistent with other operations. (#538)

  • Fragments with filenames like fix-1.2.3.feature are now associated with the ticket fix-1.2.3. In previous versions they were incorrectly associated to ticket 3. (#562)

  • Orphan newsfragments containing numeric values are no longer accidentally associated to tickets. In previous versions the orphan marker was ignored and the newsfragment was associated to a ticket having the last numerical value from the filename. (#562)

Misc

towncrier 23.10.0 (2023-10-24)

No significant changes since the previous release candidate.

Features

  • Python 3.12 is now officially supported. (#541)

  • Initial support was added for monorepo-style setup. One project with multiple independent news files stored in separate sub-directories, that share the same towncrier config. (#548)

  • Two newlines are no longer always added between the current release notes and the previous content. The newlines are now defined only inside the template.

    Important! If you’re using a custom template and want to keep the same whitespace between releases, you may have to modify your template. (#552)

Bugfixes

  • Towncrier now vendors the click-default-group package that prevented installations on modern Pips. (#540)

Improved Documentation

  • The markdown docs now use the default markdown template rather than a simpler custom one. (#545)

  • Cleanup a duplicate backtick in the tutorial. (#551)

Deprecations and Removals

  • The support for Python 3.7 has been dropped. (#521)

Misc

towncrier 23.6.0 (2023-06-06)

This is the last release to support Python 3.7.

Features

  • Make towncrier create use the fragment counter rather than failing on existing fragment names.

    For example, if there is an existing fragment named 123.feature, then towncrier create 123.feature will now create a fragment named 123.feature.1. (#475)

  • Provide a default Markdown template if the configured filename ends with .md.

    The Markdown template uses the same rendered format as the default reStructuredText template, but with a Markdown syntax. (#483)

  • Towncrier no longer depends on setuptools & uses importlib.resources (or its backport) instead. (#496)

  • Added pre-commit hooks for checking and updating news in projects using pre-commit. (#498)

  • Calling towncrier check without an existing configuration, will just show only an error message.

    In previous versions, a traceback was generated instead of the error message. (#501)

Bugfixes

  • Fix creating fragment in a section not adding random characters.

    For example, towncrier create some_section/+.feature should end up as a fragment named something like news/some_section/+a4e22da1.feature. (#468)

  • Fix the ReadTheDocs build for towncrier which was broken due to the python version in use being 3.8. Upgrade to 3.11. (#509)

Improved Documentation

  • Moved man page to correct section (#470)

  • Update link to Quick Start in configuration.html to point to Tutorial instead. (#504)

  • Add a note about the build command’s --version requiring the command to be explicitly passed. (#511)

  • Fix typos in the Pre-Commit docs. (#512)

Misc

towncrier 22.12.0 (2022-12-21)

No changes since the previous release candidate.

towncrier 22.12.0rc1 (2022-12-20)

Features

  • Added --keep option to the build command that allows generating a newsfile, but keeps the newsfragments in place. This option can not be used together with --yes. (#129)

  • Python 3.11 is now officially supported. (#427)

  • You can now create fragments that are not associated with issues. Start the name of the fragment with + (e.g. +anything.feature). The content of these orphan news fragments will be included in the release notes, at the end of the category corresponding to the file extension.

    To help quickly create a unique orphan news fragment, towncrier create +.feature will append a random string to the base name of the file, to avoid name collisions. (#428)

Improved Documentation

  • Improved contribution documentation. (#415)

  • Correct a typo in the readme that incorrectly documented custom fragments in a format that does not work. (#424)

  • The documentation has been restructured and (hopefully) improved. (#435)

  • Added a Markdown-based how-to guide. (#436)

  • Defining custom fragments using a TOML array is not deprecated anymore. (#438)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Default branch for towncrier check is now “origin/main” instead of “origin/master”. If “origin/main” does not exist, fallback to “origin/master” with a deprecation warning. (#400)

Misc

towncrier 22.8.0 (2022-08-29)

No significant changes since the previous release candidate.

towncrier 22.8.0.rc1 (2022-08-28)

Features

  • Make the check subcommand succeed for branches that change the news file

    This should enable the check subcommand to be used as a CI lint step and not fail when a pull request only modifies the configured news file (i.e. when the news file is being assembled for the next release). (#337)

  • Added support to tables in toml settings, which provides a more intuitive way to configure custom types. (#369)

  • The towncrier create command line now has a new -m TEXT argument that is used to define the content of the newly created fragment. (#374)

Bugfixes

  • The extra newline between the title and rendered content when using --draft is no longer inserted. (#105)

  • The detection of duplicate release notes was fixed and recording changes of same version is no longer triggered.

    Support for having the release notes for each version in a separate file is working again. This is a regression introduced in VERSION 19.9.0rc1. (#391)

Improved Documentation

  • Improve CONTRIBUTING.rst and add PR template. (#342)

  • Move docs too the main branch and document custom fragment types. (#367)

  • The CLI help messages were updated to contain more information. (#384)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Support for all Python versions older than 3.7 has been dropped. (#378)

Misc

towncrier 21.9.0 (2022-02-04)

Features

  • towncrier –version` was added to the command line interface to show the product version. (#339)

  • Support Toml v1 syntax with tomli on Python 3.6+ (#354)

Bugfixes

  • Stop writing title twice when title_format is specified. (#346)

  • Disable universal newlines when reading TOML (#359)

Misc

towncrier 21.3.0 (2021-04-02)

No significant changes since the previous release candidate.

towncrier 21.3.0.rc1 (2021-03-21)

Features

  • Ticket number from file names will be stripped down to avoid ticket links such as #007. (#126)

  • Allow definition of the project version and name in the configuration file. This allows use of towncrier seamlessly with non-Python projects. (#165)

  • Improve news fragment file name parsing to allow using file names like 123.feature.1.ext which are convenient when one wants to use an appropriate extension (e.g. rst, md) to enable syntax highlighting. (#173)

  • The new --edit option of the create subcommand launches an editor for entering the contents of the newsfragment. (#275)

  • CPython 3.8 and 3.9 are now part of our automated test matrix and are officially supported. (#291)

  • When searching for the project, first check for an existing importable instance. This helps if the version is only available in the installed version and not the source. (#297)

  • Support building with PEP 517. (#314)

Bugfixes

  • Configuration errors found during command line execution now trigger a message to stderr and no longer show a traceback. (#84)

  • A configuration error is triggered when the newsfragment files couldn’t be discovered. (#85)

  • Invoking towncrier as python -m towncrier works. (#163)

  • check subcommand defaults to UTF-8 encoding when sys.stdout.encoding is None. This happens, for example, with Python 2 on GitHub Actions or when the output is piped. (#175)

  • Specifying title_format disables default top line creation to avoid duplication. (#180)

Improved Documentation

  • The README now mentions the possibility to name the configuration file towncrier.toml (in addition to pyproject.toml). (#172)

  • start_line corrected to start_string in the readme to match the long standing implementation. (#277)

towncrier 19.9.0 (2021-03-20)

No significant changes.

towncrier 19.9.0rc1 (2019-09-16)

Features

  • Add create subcommand, which can be used to quickly create a news fragment command in the location defined by config. (#4)

  • Add support for subcommands, meaning the functionality of the towncrier executable is now replaced by the build subcommand:

    $ towncrier build --draft

    A new check subcommand is exposed. This is an alternative to calling the towncrier.check module manually:

    $ towncrier check

    Calling towncrier without a subcommand will result in a call to the build subcommand to ensure backwards compatibility. This may be removed in a future release. (#144)

  • Towncrier’s templating now allows configuration of the version header. CUSTOM TEMPLATE USERS PLEASE NOTE: You will need to add the version header information to your template! (#147)

  • towncrier now accepts the –config argument to specify a custom configuration file (#157)

  • There is now the option for all_bullets = false in the configuration. Setting all_bullets to false means that news fragments have to include the bullet point if they should be rendered as enumerations, otherwise they are rendered directly (this means fragments can include a header.). It is necessary to set this option to avoid (incorrect) automatic indentation of multiline fragments that do not include bullet points. The single-file-no-bullets.rst template gives an example of using these options. (#158)

  • The single_file option can now be added to the configuration file. When set to true, the filename key can now be formattable with the name, version, and project_date format variables. This allows subsequent versions to be written out to new files instead of appended to an existing one. (#161)

  • You can now specify Towncrier-bundled templates in your configuration file. Available templates are default, hr-between-versions (as used in attrs), and single-file-no-bullets. (#162)

Bugfixes

  • Accept newsfragment filenames with multiple dots, like fix-1.2.3.bugfix. (#142)

Deprecations and Removals

  • The –pyproject option for towncrier check is now replaced with –config, for consistency with other commands. (#162)

towncrier 19.2.0 (2019-02-15)

Features

  • Add support for multiple fragements per issue/type pair. This extends the naming pattern of the fragments to issuenumber.type(.counter) where counter is an optional integer. (#119)

  • Python 2.7 is now supported. (#121)

  • python -m towncrier.check now accepts an option to give the configuration file location. (#123)

  • towncrier.check now reports git output when it encounters a git failure. (#124)

towncrier 18.6.0 (2018-07-05)

Features

  • python -m towncrier.check, which will check a Git branch for the presence of added newsfiles, to be used in a CI system. (#75)

  • wrap is now an optional configuration option (which is False by default) which controls line wrapping of news files. Towncrier will now also not attempt to normalise (wiping newlines) from the input, but will strip leading and ending whitespace. (#80)

  • Towncrier can now be invoked by python -m towncrier. (#115)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Towncrier now supports Python 3.5+ as a script runtime. Python 2.7 will not function. (#80)

towncrier 18.5.0 (2018-05-16)

Features

  • Python 3.3 is no longer supported. (#103)

  • Made package optional. When the version is passed on the command line, and the title_format does not use the package name, and it is not used for the path to the news fragments, then no package name is needed, so we should not enforce it. (#111)

Bugfixes

  • When cleaning up old newsfragments, if a newsfragment is named “123.feature.rst”, then remove that file instead of trying to remove the non-existent “123.feature”. (#99)

  • If there are two newsfragments with the same name (example: “123.bugfix.rst” and “123.bugfix.rst~”), then raise an error instead of silently picking one at random. (#101)

towncrier 17.8.0 (2017-08-19)

Features

  • Added new option issue_format. For example, this can be used to make issue text in the NEWS file be formatted as ReST links to the issue tracker. (#52)

  • Add --yes option to run non-interactively. (#56)

  • You can now name newsfragments like 123.feature.rst, or 123.feature.txt, or 123.feature.whatever.you.want, and towncrier will ignore the extension. (#62)

  • New option in pyproject.toml: underlines = ["=", "-", "~"] to specify the ReST underline hierarchy in towncrier’s generated text. (#63)

  • Instead of sorting sections/types alphabetically (e.g. “bugfix” before “feature” because “b” < “f”), sections/types will now have the same order in the output as they have in your config file. (#70)

Bugfixes

  • When rewrapping text, don’t break words or at hyphens – they might be inside a URL (#68)

Deprecations and Removals

  • towncrier.ini config file support has been removed in preference to pyproject.toml configuration. (#71)

towncrier 17.4.0 (2017-04-15)

Misc

  • #46

towncrier 17.1.0

Bugfixes

  • fix –date being ignored (#43)

towncrier 16.12.0

Bugfixes

  • Towncrier will now import the local version of the package and not the global one. (#38)

Features

  • Allow configration of the template file, title text and “magic comment” (#35)

  • Towncrier now uses pyproject.toml, as defined in PEP-518. (#40)

towncrier 16.1.0 (2016-03-25)

Features

  • Ported to Python 2.7. (#27)

  • towncrier now supports non-numerical news fragment names. (#32)

Bugfixes

  • towncrier would spew an unhelpful exception if it failed importing your project when autodiscovering, now it does not. (#22)

  • incremental is now added as a runtime dependency for towncrier. (#25)

Misc

  • #33

towncrier 16.0.0 (2016-01-06)

Features

  • towncrier now automatically puts a date beside the version as it is generated, using today’s date. For repeatable builds, use the --date switch and provide a date. For no date, use --date=. (#11)

  • towncrier will now add the version logs after .. towncrier release notes start, if it is in the file, allowing you to preserve text at the top of the file. (#15)

Improved Documentation

  • The README now mentions how to manually provide the version number, for non-Py3 compatible projects. (#19)

towncrier 15.1.0

Features

  • towncrier now supports reading __version__ attributes that are tuples of numbers (e.g. (15, 4, 0)). (#3)

  • towncrier now has support for testing via Tox and each commit is now ran on Travis CI. (#6)

Bugfixes

  • towncrier now defaults to the current working directory for the package_dir settings variable. (#2)

towncrier 15.0.0

Features

  • Basic functionality has been implemented. This includes configuring towncrier to find your project, having a set of preconfigured news fragment categories, and assembling a newsfile from them. (#1)