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2.2.1

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2023-01-01 • `full history <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/compare/v2.2.0...v2.2.1>`__

- Enable ``mypy`` to discover type hints as specified in PEP 561 (`933 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/933>`__)
- [ci] Set the expected Python version when building release files
- [ci] Update actions versions in use
- [watchmedo] [regression] Fix usage of missing ``signal.SIGHUP`` attribute on non-Unix OSes (`935 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/935>`__)
- Thanks to our beloved contributors: BoboTiG, simon04, piotrpdev

2.2.0

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2022-12-05 • `full history <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/compare/v2.1.9...v2.2.0>`__

- [build] Wheels are now available for Python 3.11 (`932 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/932>`__)
- [documentation] HTML documentation builds are now tested for errors (`902 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/902>`__)
- [documentation] Fix typos here, and there (`910 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/910>`__)
- [fsevents2] The ``fsevents2`` observer is now deprecated (`909 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/909>`__)
- [tests] The error message returned by musl libc for error code ``-1`` is now allowed (`923 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/923>`__)
- [utils] Remove unnecessary code in ``dirsnapshot.py`` (`930 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/930>`__)
- [watchmedo] Handle shutdown events from ``SIGHUP`` (`912 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/912>`__)
- Thanks to our beloved contributors: kurtmckee, babymastodon, QuantumEnergyE, timgates42, BoboTiG

2.1.9

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2022-06-10 • `full history <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/compare/v2.1.8...v2.1.9>`__

- [fsevents] Fix flakey test to assert that there are no errors when stopping the emitter.
- [inotify] Suppress occasional ``OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor`` at shutdown. (`805 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/805>`__)
- [watchmedo] Make ``auto-restart`` restart the sub-process if it terminates. (`896 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/896>`__)
- [watchmedo] Avoid zombie sub-processes when running ``shell-command`` without ``--wait``. (`405 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/405>`__)
- Thanks to our beloved contributors: samschott, taleinat, altendky, BoboTiG

2.1.8

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2022-05-15 • `full history <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/compare/v2.1.7...v2.1.8>`__

- Fix adding failed emitters on observer schedule. (`872 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/872>`__)
- [inotify] Fix hang when unscheduling watch on a path in an unmounted filesystem. (`869 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/869>`__)
- [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of ``--kill-after`` argument for the ``auto-restart`` command. (`870 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/870>`__)
- [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of boolean arguments. (`887 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/887>`__)
- [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of commands from ``auto-restart``, and ``shell-command``. (`888 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/888>`__)
- [watchmedo] Support setting verbosity level via ``-q/--quiet`` and ``-v/--verbose`` arguments. (`889 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/889>`__)
- Thanks to our beloved contributors: taleinat, kianmeng, palfrey, IlayRosenberg, BoboTiG

2.1.7

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2022-03-25 • `full history <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/compare/v2.1.6...v2.1.7>`__

- Eliminate timeout in waiting on event queue. (`861 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/861>`__)
- [inotify] Fix ``not`` equality implementation for ``InotifyEvent``. (`848 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/848>`__)
- [watchmedo] Fix calling commands from within a Python script. (`879 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/879>`__)
- [watchmedo] ``PyYAML`` is loaded only when strictly necessary. Simple usages of ``watchmedo`` are possible without the module being installed. (`847 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/847>`__)
- Thanks to our beloved contributors: sattlerc, JanzenLiu, BoboTiG

2.1.6

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2021-10-01 • `full history <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/compare/v2.1.5...v2.1.6>`__

- [bsd] Fixed returned paths in ``kqueue.py`` and restored the overall results of the test suite. (`842 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/842>`__)
- [bsd] Updated FreeBSD CI support .(`841 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/841>`__)
- [watchmedo] Removed the ``argh`` dependency in favor of the builtin ``argparse`` module. (`836 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/836>`__)
- [watchmedo] Removed unexistant ``WindowsApiAsyncObserver`` references and ``--debug-force-winapi-async`` arguments.
- [watchmedo] Improved the help output.
- Thanks to our beloved contributors: knobix, AndreaRe9, BoboTiG

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