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- Remove
indent_size_str(See also :pull:`1411`). - Remove some dead code (See also :pull:`1453`, :pull:`1540`, :pull:`1541`).
- Missing explicitly-specified configuration is now an error (See also :issue:`1497`, :pull:`1498`).
- Always read configuration files as UTF-8 (See also :issue:`1532`, :pull:`1533`).
- Remove manpage from docs -- use
help2manor related tools instead (See also :pull:`1557`). - Forbid invalid plugin codes (See also :issue:`325`, :pull:`1579`).
- Deprecate
--diffoption (See also :issue:`1389`, :pull:`1441`).
- pycodestyle has been updated to >= 2.9.0, < 2.10.0 (See also :pull:`1626`).
- Pyflakes has been updated to >= 2.5.0, < 2.6.0 (See also :pull:`1625`).
- mccabe has been updated to >= 0.7.0, < 0.8.0 (See also :pull:`1542`).
- Add colors to output, configurable via
--color(See also :issue:`1379`, :pull:`1440`). - Add
.noxto the default exclude list (See also :issue:`1442`, :pull:`1443`). - Don't consider a config file which does not contain flake8 settings (See also :issue:`199`, :pull:`1472`).
- Duplicate
local-pluginsnames are now allowed (See also :issue:`362`, :pull:`1504`). - Consider
.to be a path in config files (See also :issue:`1494`, :pull:`1508`) - Add
--require-pluginsoption taking distribution names (See also :issue:`283`, :pull:`1535`). - Improve performance by removing debug logs (See also :pull:`1537`, :pull:`1544`).
- Include failing file path in plugin execution error (See also :issue:`265`, :pull:`1543`).
- Improve performance by pre-generating a
pycodestyleplugin (See also :pull:`1545`). - Properly differentiate between explicitly ignored / selected and default ignored / selected options (See also :issue:`284`, :pull:`1576`, :pull:`1609`).
- Fix physical line plugins not receiving all lines in the case of triple-quoted strings (See also :issue:`1534`, :pull:`1536`).
- Fix duplicate error logging in the case of plugin issues (See also :pull:`1538`).
- Fix inconsistent ordering of
--ignorein--help(See also :issue:`1550`, :pull:`1552`). - Fix memory leak of style guides by avoiding
@lru_cacheof a method (See also :pull:`1573`). - Fix ignoring of configuration files exactly in the home directory (See also :issue:`1617`, :pull:`1618`).