Release 9.0: Assorted bug fixes & enhancements

See the changelog update for details.
This fixes #30, #40 and #43.

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -11,6 +11,35 @@ Changelog`_. This project adheres to `semantic versioning`_.
 .. _Keep a Changelog: http://keepachangelog.com/
 .. _semantic versioning: http://semver.org/
 
+`Release 9.0`_ (2020-12-01)
+---------------------------
+
+The major version number was bumped because the bug fix for
+:func:`~humanfriendly.text.pluralize()` is backwards incompatible
+and (even though this seems like very "cosmetic" functionality)
+version numbers are cheap, so who cares 😉.
+
+**Bug fixes:**
+
+- Changed :func:`~humanfriendly.format_number()` to properly support negative
+  numbers (as suggested in `issue #40`_).
+
+- Changed :func:`~humanfriendly.text.pluralize()` to generate "1.5 seconds"
+  instead of "1.5 second" (as suggested in `issue #43`_).
+
+**Enhancements:**
+
+- Enhanced :func:`~humanfriendly.text.concatenate()` to support ``conjunction``
+  and ``serial_comma`` keyword arguments (as suggested in `issue #30`_).
+
+- Added :func:`~humanfriendly.text.pluralize_raw()` to select singular or
+  plural form without prefixing the count to the text that is returned.
+
+.. _Release 9.0: https://github.com/xolox/python-humanfriendly/compare/8.2...9.0
+.. _issue #30: https://github.com/xolox/python-humanfriendly/issues/30
+.. _issue #40: https://github.com/xolox/python-humanfriendly/issues/40
+.. _issue #43: https://github.com/xolox/python-humanfriendly/issues/43
+
 `Release 8.2`_ (2020-04-19)
 ---------------------------
 

humanfriendly/__init__.py

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 )
 
 # Semi-standard module versioning.
-__version__ = '8.2'
+__version__ = '9.0'
 
 # Named tuples to define units of size.
 SizeUnit = collections.namedtuple('SizeUnit', 'divider, symbol, name')