<!-- Include any especially major or disruptive changes here -->
+### Stable style
+
+<!-- Changes that affect Black's stable style -->
+
+### Preview style
+
+<!-- Changes that affect Black's preview style -->
+
+### Configuration
+
+<!-- Changes to how Black can be configured -->
+
+### Packaging
+
+<!-- Changes to how Black is packaged, such as dependency requirements -->
+
+### Parser
+
+<!-- Changes to the parser or to version autodetection -->
+
+### Performance
+
+<!-- Changes that improve Black's performance. -->
+
+### Output
+
+<!-- Changes to Black's terminal output and error messages -->
+
+### _Blackd_
+
+<!-- Changes to blackd -->
+
+### Integrations
+
+<!-- For example, Docker, GitHub Actions, pre-commit, editors -->
+
+### Documentation
+
+<!-- Major changes to documentation and policies. Small docs changes
+ don't need a changelog entry. -->
+
+## 23.7.0
+
+### Highlights
+
- Runtime support for Python 3.7 has been removed. Formatting 3.7 code will still be
supported until further notice (#3765)
### Stable style
-<!-- Changes that affect Black's stable style -->
-
- Fix a bug where an illegal trailing comma was added to return type annotations using
PEP 604 unions (#3735)
-- Fix a bug where multi-line open parenthesis magic comment like `type: ignore` were not
- correctly parsed (#3740)
+- Fix several bugs and crashes where comments in stub files were removed or mishandled
+ under some circumstances (#3745)
+- Fix a crash with multi-line magic comments like `type: ignore` within parentheses
+ (#3740)
+- Fix error in AST validation when _Black_ removes trailing whitespace in a type comment
+ (#3773)
### Preview style
-<!-- Changes that affect Black's preview style -->
-
- Implicitly concatenated strings used as function args are no longer wrapped inside
parentheses (#3640)
- Remove blank lines between a class definition and its docstring (#3692)
### Configuration
-<!-- Changes to how Black can be configured -->
-
-- The `--workers` argument to Black can now be specified via the `BLACK_NUM_WORKERS`
+- The `--workers` argument to _Black_ can now be specified via the `BLACK_NUM_WORKERS`
environment variable (#3743)
- `.pytest_cache`, `.ruff_cache` and `.vscode` are now excluded by default (#3691)
-- Fix black not honouring `pyproject.toml` settings when running `--stdin-filename` and
- the `pyproject.toml` found isn't in the current working directory (#3719)
-- Black will now error if `exclude` and `extend-exclude` have invalid data types in
+- Fix _Black_ not honouring `pyproject.toml` settings when running `--stdin-filename`
+ and the `pyproject.toml` found isn't in the current working directory (#3719)
+- _Black_ will now error if `exclude` and `extend-exclude` have invalid data types in
`pyproject.toml`, instead of silently doing the wrong thing (#3764)
### Packaging
-<!-- Changes to how Black is packaged, such as dependency requirements -->
-
- Upgrade mypyc from 0.991 to 1.3 (#3697)
- Remove patching of Click that mitigated errors on Python 3.6 with `LANG=C` (#3768)
### Parser
-<!-- Changes to the parser or to version autodetection -->
-
- Add support for the new PEP 695 syntax in Python 3.12 (#3703)
### Performance
-<!-- Changes that improve Black's performance. -->
-
+- Speed up _Black_ significantly when the cache is full (#3751)
- Avoid importing `IPython` in a case where we wouldn't need it (#3748)
### Output
-<!-- Changes to Black's terminal output and error messages -->
-
- Use aware UTC datetimes internally, avoids deprecation warning on Python 3.12 (#3728)
- Change verbose logging to exactly mirror _Black_'s logic for source discovery (#3749)
### _Blackd_
-<!-- Changes to blackd -->
-
- The `blackd` argument parser now shows the default values for options in their help
text (#3712)
### Integrations
-<!-- For example, Docker, GitHub Actions, pre-commit, editors -->
-
- Black is now tested with
[`PYTHONWARNDEFAULTENCODING = 1`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io-encoding-warning)
(#3763)
- Update GitHub Action to display black output in the job summary (#3688)
-- Deprecated `set-output` command in CI test to keep up to date with GitHub's
- deprecation announcement (#3757)
### Documentation
-<!-- Major changes to documentation and policies. Small docs changes
- don't need a changelog entry. -->
-
-- Updated the _classes_ and _exceptions_ documentation in Developer reference to match
- the latest ccode base. (#3755)
+- Add a CITATION.cff file to the root of the repository, containing metadata on how to
+ cite this software (#3723)
+- Update the _classes_ and _exceptions_ documentation in Developer reference to match
+ the latest code base (#3755)
## 23.3.0