Meltano

✨ New

- [5983](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/5983) Add support for env var inheritance across config layers
- [!6167](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6167) Add systemdb support for MS SQL Server
- [6494](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6494) **core**: Report how `send_anonymous_usage_stats` was configured
- [6116](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6116) Ignore setting values when selecting store location and `store=auto`

🐛 Fixes

- [6383](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6383) Test DB Creation when meltano install is ran
- [6360](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6360) Lock plugins using the latest Hub definition if plugin has no variant name and no lock file exists
- [!6557](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6557) Remove broken unused method `PluginsTrackingContext.append_plugin_context`
- [6532](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6532) **core**: Timeout Snowplow requests
- [5982](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/5982) **core**: Update env var tests to be in line with correct reading of spec
- [6189](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6189) Validating Mapper and Mappings names and alerting if necessary
- [6240](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6240) **ui**: When feature flag `enable_uvicorn` is true require write lock when accessing Project.meltano attribute
- [6469](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6469) **deps**: Pin werkzeug to <2.2.0

📚 Documentation Improvements

- [!6535](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6535) Update broken doc link in `meltano.schema.json`
- [!6456](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6456) Update for Windows and for using pipx --python version
- [6491](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6491) Update style doc to note that MyPy is not run in CI
- [6107](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6107) Document YAML syntax for Hub plugins
- [!6465](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6465) Move 'v2 migration guide' under 'guides'

✨ New

- [6150](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6150) meltano now surfaces full stderr output for catalog discovery failures
- [3419](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/3419) Change default meltano config behavior to --no-environment
- [2133](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/2133) Preserve comments and flow style in `meltano.yml`
- [6207](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6207) Add env as first-class attribute of MeltanoFile and ProjectPlugin classes (not an extra)

🐛 Fixes

- [6188](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6188) Allow `meltano run` to run without providing subcommand
- [6380](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6380) **core**: Extras of kind `object` not honored in inherited plugins
- [3322](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/3322) Extras of kind `object` not honored in environments
- [6301](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6301) Swap add_related for add_required in api v1 plugins
- [6359](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6359) Do not attempt to lock inherited plugins when using `meltano lock`
- [6136](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6136) clarify job/task relation to airflow
- [6234](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6234) Emit `RuntimeWarning` if a setting uses the default value
- [6357](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6357) typo in `meltano-basics` example link
- [6354](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6354) removed run preview references

⚙️ Under the Hood

- [6324](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6324) update to automatically fire start AND end events

📚 Documentation Improvements

- [6283](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6283) Document overriding capabilities and extending settings
- [6420](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6420) Windows installation old gitlab link
- [6367](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6367) Fix typo etl -> elt

---

New

- [2830](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/2830) Add support for Python 3.10.
- [3452](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3452) Add `copy` and `move` commands to `meltano state`

Changes

- [3174](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3174) We now recommend pipx over manually created virtual environments.
- [3450](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3450) Added installation instructions for Windows.
- [3367](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3367) Windows now covered in CI for some basic cases.
- [3135](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/3135) Formalize settings alias behavior and disallow conflicting values between setting name and aliases.
- [2035](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/2035) Rename `job` table and `job_id` column in backend db.

Fixes

- [5985](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/5985) - Address warning in Airflow plugin version check by using recommended `packaging.version.Version`.

---

New

- [5961](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/5961) - Add `meltano lock` command to create or update plugin lock artifacts.
- [6199](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6199/) - Restore project_id from analytics.json & improve analytics.json handling.
- [6203](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6203) - Fire exit event exactly once & include detailed exception context.
- [6141](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6141) - Add tracking for job command.
- [6137](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6137) - Add telemetry for meltano config.
- [6114](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6114) - Add meltano lock.

Changes

- [3473](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3473) - Python Virtual Environments advanced concept added to docs by splitting it out from the Installation instructions.

Fixes

- [6216](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6216) - Replace all `jobId` with `stateId` to fix pipeline running bug.

---

Changes

- [6186](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6186) Improve CLI startup performance

---

Fixes

- [6174](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6174) Fix issue where loading schedules could cause Meltano UI to crash.

Docs

- [6184](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6184) Bugfix in getting-started guide installation instructions - _Thanks, **[Martin Morset (dingobar)](https://github.com/dingobar)**!_

Misc

- [6149](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6149),[#6142](https://github.com/meltano/meltano/pull/6142) Add anonymized telemetry handling for exceptions.