Meltano

✨ New

- [7287](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7287) Add support for `annotations` to provide documentation and 3rd-party configurations in `meltano.yml`
- [7148](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7148) Add the `meltano compile` command to generate Meltano manifest files

🐛 Fixes

- [7331](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7331) Merge environment-level annotations into top level in manifest
- [7320](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7320) Correct trimming of state backend URIs for filesystem backends
- [7299](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7299) Respect `requests`/`curl` custom Certificate Authorities env vars

⚙️ Under the Hood

- [7273](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7273) Add `settings` and `plugins` attributes to `Project`

📚 Documentation Improvements

- [7322](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7322) State that the `meltano compile` command is in beta
- [7329](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7329) Update airbyte FAQ
- [7315](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7315) Escaping `$` in `meltano config <plugin> set`
- [7301](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7301) Refresh to prefer 'run' and 'invoke' over 'elt', and 'utilities' over 'transformers' and 'orchestrators'

🐛 Fixes

- [7294](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7294) Avoid casting settings before env var expansion

📚 Documentation Improvements

- [7050](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7050) Add "variant" prompt and description to custom plugin development docs
- [7292](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7292) Fix typo in settings reference

🐛 Fixes

- [7284](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7284) Use `$MELTANO_ENVIRONMENT` set in `.env`
- [7232](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7232) Cast setting values according to their setting definitions
- [7213](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7213) Omit local variables in `rich` tracebacks by default and add `show_locals` option to log formatter

📚 Documentation Improvements

- [7282](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7282) Add headers to global config section
- [7279](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7279) Change ref
- [7276](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7276) Correct small typo in `no-color.org` URL -- _**Thanks menzenski!**_
- [7274](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7274) Add links to glossary
- [7239](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7239) Add EDK details and context around switching to utilities
- [7258](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7258) Fix `virtualenvs.in-project` setting in custom extractor debugging doc -- _**Thanks chodera!**_

🐛 Fixes

- [7236](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7236) Invoke `virtualenv` as a module
- [7235](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7235) Avoid adding `LICENSE` file directly in `site-packages`

✨ New

- [7210](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7210) Support Python 3.11
- [7198](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7198) Replace `venv` with `virtualenv`

🐛 Fixes

- [7212](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7212) Do not log env vars passed to subprocesses

🐛 Fixes

- [7104](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7104) Support default boto3 auth for S3 state backend when AWS creds are unconfigured
- [7174](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7174) Support default auth for GCS and Azure state backends
- [7190](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7190) Make fully missing env var settings `None`

⚙️ Under the Hood

- [7182](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7182) Use JSONschema version `draft-2020-12` for `meltano.yml` & `discovery.yml`
- [7169](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7169) Use `$defs` instead of `definitions` in jsonschemas
- [7188](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7188) Add header with Meltano command to Hub request

📚 Documentation Improvements

- [7187](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7187) Fix YAML indent on getting started page and fix link to page source in GitHub -- _**Thanks jx2lee!**_
- [6699](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6699) Update `dbt` x `airflow` example project description
- [7177](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/7177) Add codespaces links to nav and ind