3.6.0 -- 2018-10-23

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New Dependency Information

pycodestyle has been updated to >= 2.4.0, < 2.5.0 (See also :issue:`1068`, :issue:`652`, :issue:`869`, :issue:`881`, :issue:`1239`)
Pyflakes has been updated to >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.0 (See also :issue:`655`, :issue:`883`)
flake8 requires python 2.x >= 2.7 or python 3.x >= 3.4 (See also :issue:`876`)

Add paths to allow local plugins to exist outside of sys.path (See also :issue:`1067`, :issue:`1237`)
Copy setup.cfg files to the temporary git hook execution directory (See also :issue:`1299`)
Only skip a file if # flake8: noqa is on a line by itself (See also :issue:`259`, :issue:`873`)
Provide a better user experience for broken plugins (See also :issue:`1178`)
Report E902 when a file passed on the command line does not exist (See also :issue:`645`, :issue:`878`)
Add --extend-ignore for extending the default ignore instead of overriding it (See also :issue:`1061`, :issue:`1180`)

Respect a formatter's newline setting when printing (See also :issue:`1238`)
Fix leaking of processes in the legacy api (See also :issue:`650`, :issue:`879`)
Fix a SyntaxWarning for an invalid escape sequence (See also :issue:`1186`)
Fix DeprecationWarning due to import of abc classes from the collections module (See also :issue:`887`)
Defer setuptools import to improve flake8 startup time (See also :issue:`1190`)
Fix inconsistent line endings in FileProcessor.lines when running under python 3.x (See also :issue:`263`, :issue:`889`)