Exasol-toolbox

🐞 Fixed

* Fixed the issue with publishing new documentation after releasing a new version
* Fixed the issue where master/main was not part of the multiversion documentation

✨ Added

* 149: Added nox task to lint imports
* Added support to manually trigger documentation build
* 248: Added security results to workflow summary
* 233: Added nox task to verify dependency declarations

🚨 Breaking Changes

* Dropped python 3.8 support
* Changed names of all nox tasks

| Old Name | New Name | Description |
|--------------------|------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
| fix | project:fix | Runs all automated fixes on the code base |
| check | project:check | Runs all available checks on the project |
| report | project:report | Collects and generates metrics summary for the workspace |
| unit-tests | test:unit | Runs all unit tests |
| integration-tests | test:integration | Runs all the integration tests |
| coverage | test:coverage | Runs all tests (unit + integration) and reports the code coverage |
| lint | lint:code | Runs the static code analyzer on the project |
| type-check | lint:typing | Runs the type checker on the project |
| security | lint:security | Runs the security linter on the project |
| build-build | docs:build | Builds the project documentation |
| open-open | docs:open | Opens the built project documentation |
| clean-docs | docs:clean | Removes the documentations build folder |
| prepare-release | release:prepare | Prepares the project for a new release |

✨ Added

* Added support for multi version Documentation
* Added nox tasks for building multi-version documentation

🐞 Fixed

* Fixed CD workflow template
* Fixed the selection of the latest version in Multi-Version Documentation

📚 Documentation

* Added Documentation on Metrics
* Added additional details regarding adjusted sphinx-multiversion
* Restructured documentation

🔩 Internal

* Relocked dependencies

✨ Added

* Added cookiecutter-template for creating new project
* [246](https://github.com/exasol/python-toolbox/issues/246): Added standard branch protection workflow

🐞 Bug Fixes

* [181](https://github.com/exasol/python-toolbox/issues/181): Updated metrics related workflows
* [225](https://github.com/exasol/python-toolbox/issues/225): Fixed broken reference to version file in workflow
* Fixed coverage for empty project

⚒️ Refactorings

* [219](https://github.com/exasol/python-toolbox/issues/219): Updated project template configuration
* Updated actions/checkout to v4

📚 Documentation
* Add Python Styleguide
* Add Issue Guide
* Updated User Documentation

🔩 Internal

* Update depdency constraints
* Relock dependencies

Doc

* 204: Added a guideline for removing `ci-job` from workflow `pr-merge.yml`

Internal

* Relock dependencies

🐞 Fixed

* Changed the default linter configuration in the Nox **lint** task to automatically generate a report. Previously, setting it in **pyproject.toml** was required.

✨ Feature

* 162: Updated templates for GitHub workflows to inherit secrets by default
* 52: Add support for caching python dependencies in GitHub workflows

📚 Documentation
* Updated information about nox tasks and `PYTHONPATH` setup

🔩 Internal
* Relocked and updated dependencies

🐞 Fixed
* Added missing artifact uploads to checks.yml

✨ Added
* **Added Support for Argument Forwarding to Test-Related Nox Tasks**

**Overview:**
With this new feature, it is now possible to forward additional arguments to the application (pytest) that executes the tests.

For example this feature now allows for easy execution of a subset of tests using pytest’s `-k` expression selection or `-m` marker selection (see usage examples below).

The forwarding will work for the following Nox tasks:
- unit-tests
- integration-tests
- coverage

**Usage:**

To prepare a release, simply execute a command in your terminal as shown in the examples below:

Filter tests based on pytest markers:
shell
nox -s unit-tests -- -m fast


Filter tests based on pytest expressions:
shell
nox -s unit-tests -- -k smoke_test