Towncrier 24.8.0

[adiroiban]

Towncrier 24.8.0 (2024-08-23)

Features

• Add .gitkeep as an ignored filename.
  (#643)
• Config ignore option now supports
  wildcard matching via
  fnmatch.
  (#644)
• Add a config for enforcing issue names using regex.
  (#649)

Bugfixes

• The template file is now ignored based only on the file name.
  (#638)
• Control of the header formatting is once again completely up to the
  user when they are writing markdown files (fixes a regression
  introduced in
  [Refactor rendering of title via config.title_format #610](Refactor rendering of title via config.title_format #610)).
  (#651)
• Fixed an issue where issue_template
  failed recognizing the issue name of files with a non-category
  suffix (.md)
  (#654)
• Fixed a bug where orphan news fragments (e.g. +abc1234.feature)
  would fail when an issue_pattern is
  configured. Orphan news fragments are now excempt from issue_pattern checks.
  (#655)

Deprecations and Removals

• Moved towncrier version definition from src/towncrier/_version.py
  to pyproject.toml

  towncrier.__version__ was removed, after being deprecated in
  23.6.0. (#640)

Misc

• #640,
  #657

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This discussion was created from the release Towncrier 24.8.0.