Sphinxcontrib-needs

* Improvement: Adds :ref:`needservice_debug` flag for :ref:`needservice`.
* Improvement: Better css table handling.
* Improvement: Adds :ref:`needtable_class` to :ref:`needtable` to set own css classes for tables.
(`421 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/421>`_)
* Improvement: Adds :ref:`needs_string_links` to support easy string2link transformations.
(`404 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/404>`_)
* Improvement: Adds :ref:`needtable_colwidths` to :ref:`needtable` directive, to allow the definition of column widths.
(`402 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/402>`_)

* Improvement: Parent needs of nested needs get collected and are available in filters.
(`249 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/249>`_)
* Bugfix: Copying static files during sphinx build is working again.
(`252 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/252>`_)
* Bugfix: Link function for layouts setting correct text.
(`251 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/251>`_)

* Improvement: Provides line number info for needs node.
(`499 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/499>`_)
* Bugfix: :ref:`needpie` causing a crash in some cases on newer matplotlib versions.
(`513 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/513>`_,
`517 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/517>`_)
* Bugfix: :ref:`needpie` takes need-parts in account for filtering.
(`514 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/514>`_)
* Bugfix: Empty and invalid ``need.json`` files throw user-friendly exceptions.
(`441 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/441>`_)

* Improvement: :ref:`filter_func` support arguments.
(`429 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/429>`_)
* Improvement: Adds :ref:`needs_build_json` config option to build ``needs.json`` in parallel to other output formats.
(`485 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/485>`_)
* Improvement: Migrate tests to Pytest and Sphinx internal testing structure.
(`471 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/471>`_)
* Bugfix: :ref:`needs_builder` supports incremental build (no doctree deletion).
(`481 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/481>`_)
* Bugfix: :ref:`needs_external_needs` working with :ref:`role_need`.
(`483 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/483>`_)

* Support: Removes support for Sphinx version <3.0 (Sphinx 2.x may still work, but it gets not tested).
* Improvement: Internal change to poetry, nox and github actions.
(`216 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/216>`_)
* Bugfix: Need-service calls get mocked during tests, so that tests don't need reachable external services anymore.
* Bugfix: No warning is thrown anymore, if :ref:`needservice` can't find a service config in ``conf.py``
(`168 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/168>`_)
* Bugfix: Needs nodes get ``ids`` set directly, to avoid empty ids given by sphinx or other extensions for need-nodes.
(`193 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/193>`_)
* Bugfix: :ref:`needimport` supports extra options and extra fields.
(`227 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/227>`_)
* Bugfix: Checking for ending `/` of given github api url.
(`187 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/187>`_)
* Bugfix: Using correct indention for pre and post_template function of needs.
* Bugfix: Certain log message don't use python internal `id` anymore.
(`257 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/225>`_)
* Bugfix: JS-code for meta area collapse is working again.
(`242 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/242>`_)

* Improvement: Support for parallel sphinx-build when using ``-j`` option
(`319 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/319>`_)
* Improvement: Better ``eval()`` handling for filter strings
(`328 <https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/issues/328>`_)
* Improvement: Internal :ref:`performance measurement <performance>` script
* Improvement: :ref:`Profiling support <profiling>` for selected functions