This release is published to https://pypi.org/project/sphinxcontrib-towncrier/0.5.0a0.
This release has been produced by the following workflow run: https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/sphinxcontrib-towncrier/actions/runs/13579622041.
🐛 What's Fixed
The main improvement is that bennyrowland[💰](https://github.com/sponsors/bennyrowland) added support for Towncrier 24.7.0rc1 and higher via #96. Towncrier versions of year 2024 are now integrated into the CI as well (93).
There are a few more corner case adjustments and fixes that we didn't bother recording as they aren't met in the “happy path”. They handle missing configs, files and directories.
🛠️ Internal Updates
dvzrv[💰](https://github.com/sponsors/dvzrv) upgraded `setuptools-scm` in packaging to rely on modern handling of `git archives` in #80
webknjaz[💰](https://github.com/sponsors/webknjaz) heavily refactored the CI/CD, introducing a reusable workflow generalizing tox invocations https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/sphinxcontrib-towncrier/pull/106 and a few direct commits.
As a part of the testing improvements, the code coverage level has been raised to about 20% higher than before. Additionally, a typing has been fixed here and there.
☣️ Anything else I might care about?
> [!caution]
> This release heavily reduced the support matrix. The minimum supported Python version is now 3.9. And the lowest required Towncrier is 23.
💪 New Contributors
* dvzrv[💰](https://github.com/sponsors/dvzrv) made their first contribution in #80
* bennyrowland[💰](https://github.com/sponsors/bennyrowland) made their first contribution in #96
**🪞 Full Diff**: https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/sphinxcontrib-towncrier/compare/v0.4.0a0...v0.5.0a0
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**🙏 Special Thanks** to bennyrowland[💰](https://github.com/sponsors/bennyrowland) for driving the Towncrier compatibility research and proposing fixes! They laid the foundation for this entire release.
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