towncrier 23.6.0rc1 (2023-06-05)

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

• #459, #462, #472, #485, #486, #487, #488, #495, #497, #507, #1117, #513