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7 - Configuration files using TOML features higher than spec v0.5.0 are now supported
9 - Add primer support and test for code piped into black via STDIN (#2315)
10 - Fix internal error when `FORCE_OPTIONAL_PARENTHESES` feature is enabled (#2332)
11 - Accept empty stdin (#2346)
17 - Fix failure caused by `fmt: skip` and indentation (#2281)
18 - Account for += assignment when deciding whether to split string (#2312)
19 - Correct max string length calculation when there are string operators (#2292)
20 - Fixed option usage when using the `--code` flag (#2259)
21 - Do not call `uvloop.install()` when _Black_ is used as a library (#2303)
22 - Added `--required-version` option to require a specific version to be running (#2300)
23 - Fix incorrect custom breakpoint indices when string group contains fake f-strings
25 - Fix regression where `R` prefixes would be lowercased for docstrings (#2285)
26 - Fix handling of named escapes (`\N{...}`) when `--experimental-string-processing` is
31 - The vim plugin now searches upwards from the directory containing the current buffer
32 instead of the current working directory for pyproject.toml. (#1871)
36 - The vim plugin now reads the correct string normalization option in pyproject.toml
38 - The vim plugin no longer crashes Black when there's boolean values in pyproject.toml
45 - A space is no longer inserted into empty docstrings (#2249)
46 - Fix handling of .gitignore files containing non-ASCII characters on Windows (#2229)
47 - Respect `.gitignore` files in all levels, not only `root/.gitignore` file (apply
48 `.gitignore` rules like `git` does) (#2225)
49 - Restored compatibility with Click 8.0 on Python 3.6 when LANG=C used (#2227)
50 - Add extra uvloop install + import support if in python env (#2258)
51 - Fix --experimental-string-processing crash when matching parens are not found (#2283)
52 - Make sure to split lines that start with a string operator (#2286)
53 - Fix regular expression that black uses to identify f-expressions (#2287)
57 - Add a lower bound for the `aiohttp-cors` dependency. Only 0.4.0 or higher is
62 - The official Black action now supports choosing what version to use, and supports the
67 - Release self-contained x86_64 MacOS binaries as part of the GitHub release pipeline
69 - Always build binaries with the latest available Python (#2260)
73 - Add discussion of magic comments to FAQ page (#2272)
74 - `--experimental-string-processing` will be enabled by default in the future (#2273)
75 - Fix typos discovered by codespell (#2228)
76 - Fix Vim plugin installation instructions. (#2235)
77 - Add new Frequently Asked Questions page (#2247)
78 - Fix encoding + symlink issues preventing proper build on Windows (#2262)
84 - Refactor `src/black/__init__.py` into many files (#2206)
88 - Replaced all remaining references to the
89 [`master`](https://github.com/psf/black/tree/main) branch with the
90 [`main`](https://github.com/psf/black/tree/main) branch. Some additional changes in
91 the source code were also made. (#2210)
92 - Sigificantly reorganized the documentation to make much more sense. Check them out by
93 heading over to [the stable docs on RTD](https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).
100 - Set `--pyi` mode if `--stdin-filename` ends in `.pyi` (#2169)
101 - Stop detecting target version as Python 3.9+ with pre-PEP-614 decorators that are
102 being called but with no arguments (#2182)
106 - Add `--no-diff` to black-primer to suppress formatting changes (#2187)
112 - Fix crash if the user configuration directory is inaccessible. (#2158)
115 [circumstances](https://github.com/psf/black/blob/master/docs/the_black_code_style.md#pragmatism)
116 in which _Black_ may change the AST (#2159)
118 - Allow `.gitignore` rules to be overridden by specifying `exclude` in `pyproject.toml`
119 or on the command line. (#2170)
123 - Install `primer.json` (used by `black-primer` by default) with black. (#2154)
129 - Fix crash on docstrings ending with "\\ ". (#2142)
131 - Fix crash when atypical whitespace is cleaned out of dostrings (#2120)
133 - Reflect the `--skip-magic-trailing-comma` and `--experimental-string-processing` flags
134 in the name of the cache file. Without this fix, changes in these flags would not take
135 effect if the cache had already been populated. (#2131)
137 - Don't remove necessary parentheses from assignment expression containing assert /
138 return statements. (#2143)
142 - Bump pathspec to >= 0.8.1 to solve invalid .gitignore exclusion handling
148 - Fixed a rare but annoying formatting instability created by the combination of
149 optional trailing commas inserted by `Black` and optional parentheses looking at
150 pre-existing "magic" trailing commas. This fixes issue #1629 and all of its many many
153 - `Black` now processes one-line docstrings by stripping leading and trailing spaces,
154 and adding a padding space when needed to break up """". (#1740)
156 - `Black` now cleans up leading non-breaking spaces in comments (#2092)
158 - `Black` now respects `--skip-string-normalization` when normalizing multiline
159 docstring quotes (#1637)
161 - `Black` no longer removes all empty lines between non-function code and decorators
162 when formatting typing stubs. Now `Black` enforces a single empty line. (#1646)
164 - `Black` no longer adds an incorrect space after a parenthesized assignment expression
165 in if/while statements (#1655)
167 - Added `--skip-magic-trailing-comma` / `-C` to avoid using trailing commas as a reason
168 to split lines (#1824)
170 - fixed a crash when PWD=/ on POSIX (#1631)
172 - fixed "I/O operation on closed file" when using --diff (#1664)
174 - Prevent coloured diff output being interleaved with multiple files (#1673)
176 - Added support for PEP 614 relaxed decorator syntax on python 3.9 (#1711)
178 - Added parsing support for unparenthesized tuples and yield expressions in annotated
181 - added `--extend-exclude` argument (PR #2005)
183 - speed up caching by avoiding pathlib (#1950)
185 - `--diff` correctly indicates when a file doesn't end in a newline (#1662)
187 - Added `--stdin-filename` argument to allow stdin to respect `--force-exclude` rules
190 - Lines ending with `fmt: skip` will now be not formatted (#1800)
192 - PR #2053: Black no longer relies on typed-ast for Python 3.8 and higher
194 - PR #2053: Python 2 support is now optional, install with
195 `python3 -m pip install black[python2]` to maintain support.
197 - Exclude `venv` directory by default (#1683)
199 - Fixed "Black produced code that is not equivalent to the source" when formatting
200 Python 2 docstrings (#2037)
204 - Self-contained native _Black_ binaries are now provided for releases via GitHub
211 - explicitly depend on Click 7.1.2 or newer as `Black` no longer works with versions
218 - re-implemented support for explicit trailing commas: now it works consistently within
219 any bracket pair, including nested structures (#1288 and duplicates)
221 - `Black` now reindents docstrings when reindenting code around it (#1053)
223 - `Black` now shows colored diffs (#1266)
225 - `Black` is now packaged using 'py3' tagged wheels (#1388)
227 - `Black` now supports Python 3.8 code, e.g. star expressions in return statements
230 - `Black` no longer normalizes capital R-string prefixes as those have a
231 community-accepted meaning (#1244)
233 - `Black` now uses exit code 2 when specified configuration file doesn't exit (#1361)
235 - `Black` now works on AWS Lambda (#1141)
237 - added `--force-exclude` argument (#1032)
239 - removed deprecated `--py36` option (#1236)
241 - fixed `--diff` output when EOF is encountered (#526)
243 - fixed `# fmt: off` handling around decorators (#560)
245 - fixed unstable formatting with some `# type: ignore` comments (#1113)
247 - fixed invalid removal on organizing brackets followed by indexing (#1575)
249 - introduced `black-primer`, a CI tool that allows us to run regression tests against
250 existing open source users of Black (#1402)
252 - introduced property-based fuzzing to our test suite based on Hypothesis and
253 Hypothersmith (#1566)
255 - implemented experimental and disabled by default long string rewrapping (#1132),
256 hidden under a `--experimental-string-processing` flag while it's being worked on;
257 this is an undocumented and unsupported feature, you lose Internet points for
258 depending on it (#1609)
262 - prefer virtualenv packages over global packages (#1383)
266 - added support for PEP 572 assignment expressions (#711)
268 - added support for PEP 570 positional-only arguments (#943)
270 - added support for async generators (#593)
272 - added support for pre-splitting collections by putting an explicit trailing comma
275 - added `black -c` as a way to format code passed from the command line (#761)
277 - --safe now works with Python 2 code (#840)
279 - fixed grammar selection for Python 2-specific code (#765)
281 - fixed feature detection for trailing commas in function definitions and call sites
284 - `# fmt: off`/`# fmt: on` comment pairs placed multiple times within the same block of
285 code now behave correctly (#1005)
287 - _Black_ no longer crashes on Windows machines with more than 61 cores (#838)
289 - _Black_ no longer crashes on standalone comments prepended with a backslash (#767)
291 - _Black_ no longer crashes on `from` ... `import` blocks with comments (#829)
293 - _Black_ no longer crashes on Python 3.7 on some platform configurations (#494)
295 - _Black_ no longer fails on comments in from-imports (#671)
297 - _Black_ no longer fails when the file starts with a backslash (#922)
299 - _Black_ no longer merges regular comments with type comments (#1027)
301 - _Black_ no longer splits long lines that contain type comments (#997)
303 - removed unnecessary parentheses around `yield` expressions (#834)
305 - added parentheses around long tuples in unpacking assignments (#832)
307 - added parentheses around complex powers when they are prefixed by a unary operator
310 - fixed bug that led _Black_ format some code with a line length target of 1 (#762)
312 - _Black_ no longer introduces quotes in f-string subexpressions on string boundaries
315 - if _Black_ puts parenthesis around a single expression, it moves comments to the
316 wrapped expression instead of after the brackets (#872)
318 - `blackd` now returns the version of _Black_ in the response headers (#1013)
320 - `blackd` can now output the diff of formats on source code when the `X-Diff` header is
325 - new option `--target-version` to control which Python versions _Black_-formatted code
328 - deprecated `--py36` (use `--target-version=py36` instead) (#724)
330 - _Black_ no longer normalizes numeric literals to include `_` separators (#696)
332 - long `del` statements are now split into multiple lines (#698)
334 - type comments are no longer mangled in function signatures
336 - improved performance of formatting deeply nested data structures (#509)
338 - _Black_ now properly formats multiple files in parallel on Windows (#632)
340 - _Black_ now creates cache files atomically which allows it to be used in parallel
341 pipelines (like `xargs -P8`) (#673)
343 - _Black_ now correctly indents comments in files that were previously formatted with
346 - `blackd` now supports CORS (#622)
350 - numeric literals are now formatted by _Black_ (#452, #461, #464, #469):
352 - numeric literals are normalized to include `_` separators on Python 3.6+ code
354 - added `--skip-numeric-underscore-normalization` to disable the above behavior and
355 leave numeric underscores as they were in the input
357 - code with `_` in numeric literals is recognized as Python 3.6+
359 - most letters in numeric literals are lowercased (e.g., in `1e10`, `0x01`)
361 - hexadecimal digits are always uppercased (e.g. `0xBADC0DE`)
363 - added `blackd`, see
364 [its documentation](https://github.com/psf/black/blob/18.9b0/README.md#blackd) for
367 - adjacent string literals are now correctly split into multiple lines (#463)
369 - trailing comma is now added to single imports that don't fit on a line (#250)
371 - cache is now populated when `--check` is successful for a file which speeds up
372 consecutive checks of properly formatted unmodified files (#448)
374 - whitespace at the beginning of the file is now removed (#399)
376 - fixed mangling [pweave](http://mpastell.com/pweave/) and
377 [Spyder IDE](https://www.spyder-ide.org/) special comments (#532)
379 - fixed unstable formatting when unpacking big tuples (#267)
381 - fixed parsing of `__future__` imports with renames (#389)
383 - fixed scope of `# fmt: off` when directly preceding `yield` and other nodes (#385)
385 - fixed formatting of lambda expressions with default arguments (#468)
387 - fixed `async for` statements: _Black_ no longer breaks them into separate lines (#372)
389 - note: the Vim plugin stopped registering `,=` as a default chord as it turned out to
394 - hotfix: don't freeze when multiple comments directly precede `# fmt: off` (#371)
398 - typing stub files (`.pyi`) now have blank lines added after constants (#340)
400 - `# fmt: off` and `# fmt: on` are now much more dependable:
402 - they now work also within bracket pairs (#329)
404 - they now correctly work across function/class boundaries (#335)
406 - they now work when an indentation block starts with empty lines or misaligned
409 - made Click not fail on invalid environments; note that Click is right but the
410 likelihood we'll need to access non-ASCII file paths when dealing with Python source
413 - fixed improper formatting of f-strings with quotes inside interpolated expressions
416 - fixed unnecessary slowdown when long list literals where found in a file
418 - fixed unnecessary slowdown on AST nodes with very many siblings
420 - fixed cannibalizing backslashes during string normalization
422 - fixed a crash due to symbolic links pointing outside of the project directory (#338)
426 - added `--config` (#65)
428 - added `-h` equivalent to `--help` (#316)
430 - fixed improper unmodified file caching when `-S` was used
432 - fixed extra space in string unpacking (#305)
434 - fixed formatting of empty triple quoted strings (#313)
436 - fixed unnecessary slowdown in comment placement calculation on lines without comments
440 - hotfix: don't output human-facing information on stdout (#299)
442 - hotfix: don't output cake emoji on non-zero return code (#300)
446 - added `--include` and `--exclude` (#270)
448 - added `--skip-string-normalization` (#118)
450 - added `--verbose` (#283)
452 - the header output in `--diff` now actually conforms to the unified diff spec
454 - fixed long trivial assignments being wrapped in unnecessary parentheses (#273)
456 - fixed unnecessary parentheses when a line contained multiline strings (#232)
458 - fixed stdin handling not working correctly if an old version of Click was used (#276)
460 - _Black_ now preserves line endings when formatting a file in place (#258)
464 - added `--pyi` (#249)
466 - added `--py36` (#249)
468 - Python grammar pickle caches are stored with the formatting caches, making _Black_
469 work in environments where site-packages is not user-writable (#192)
471 - _Black_ now enforces a PEP 257 empty line after a class-level docstring (and/or
472 fields) and the first method
474 - fixed invalid code produced when standalone comments were present in a trailer that
475 was omitted from line splitting on a large expression (#237)
477 - fixed optional parentheses being removed within `# fmt: off` sections (#224)
479 - fixed invalid code produced when stars in very long imports were incorrectly wrapped
480 in optional parentheses (#234)
482 - fixed unstable formatting when inline comments were moved around in a trailer that was
483 omitted from line splitting on a large expression (#238)
485 - fixed extra empty line between a class declaration and the first method if no class
486 docstring or fields are present (#219)
488 - fixed extra empty line between a function signature and an inner function or inner
493 - call chains are now formatted according to the
494 [fluent interfaces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface) style (#67)
496 - data structure literals (tuples, lists, dictionaries, and sets) are now also always
497 exploded like imports when they don't fit in a single line (#152)
499 - slices are now formatted according to PEP 8 (#178)
501 - parentheses are now also managed automatically on the right-hand side of assignments
502 and return statements (#140)
504 - math operators now use their respective priorities for delimiting multiline
507 - optional parentheses are now omitted on expressions that start or end with a bracket
508 and only contain a single operator (#177)
510 - empty parentheses in a class definition are now removed (#145, #180)
512 - string prefixes are now standardized to lowercase and `u` is removed on Python 3.6+
513 only code and Python 2.7+ code with the `unicode_literals` future import (#188, #198,
516 - typing stub files (`.pyi`) are now formatted in a style that is consistent with PEP
519 - progress when reformatting many files is now reported incrementally
521 - fixed trailers (content with brackets) being unnecessarily exploded into their own
522 lines after a dedented closing bracket (#119)
524 - fixed an invalid trailing comma sometimes left in imports (#185)
526 - fixed non-deterministic formatting when multiple pairs of removable parentheses were
529 - fixed multiline strings being unnecessarily wrapped in optional parentheses in long
532 - fixed not splitting long from-imports with only a single name
534 - fixed Python 3.6+ file discovery by also looking at function calls with unpacking.
535 This fixed non-deterministic formatting if trailing commas where used both in function
536 signatures with stars and function calls with stars but the former would be
537 reformatted to a single line.
539 - fixed crash on dealing with optional parentheses (#193)
541 - fixed "is", "is not", "in", and "not in" not considered operators for splitting
544 - fixed crash when dead symlinks where encountered
548 - don't populate the cache on `--check` (#175)
552 - added a "cache"; files already reformatted that haven't changed on disk won't be
553 reformatted again (#109)
555 - `--check` and `--diff` are no longer mutually exclusive (#149)
557 - generalized star expression handling, including double stars; this fixes
558 multiplication making expressions "unsafe" for trailing commas (#132)
560 - _Black_ no longer enforces putting empty lines behind control flow statements (#90)
562 - _Black_ now splits imports like "Mode 3 + trailing comma" of isort (#127)
564 - fixed comment indentation when a standalone comment closes a block (#16, #32)
566 - fixed standalone comments receiving extra empty lines if immediately preceding a
567 class, def, or decorator (#56, #154)
569 - fixed `--diff` not showing entire path (#130)
571 - fixed parsing of complex expressions after star and double stars in function calls
574 - fixed invalid splitting on comma in lambda arguments (#133)
576 - fixed missing splits of ternary expressions (#141)
580 - fixed parsing of unaligned standalone comments (#99, #112)
582 - fixed placement of dictionary unpacking inside dictionary literals (#111)
584 - Vim plugin now works on Windows, too
586 - fixed unstable formatting when encountering unnecessarily escaped quotes in a string
591 - added `--quiet` (#78)
593 - added automatic parentheses management (#4)
595 - added [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) integration (#103, #104)
597 - fixed reporting on `--check` with multiple files (#101, #102)
599 - fixed removing backslash escapes from raw strings (#100, #105)
603 - added `--diff` (#87)
605 - add line breaks before all delimiters, except in cases like commas, to better comply
608 - standardize string literals to use double quotes (almost) everywhere (#75)
610 - fixed handling of standalone comments within nested bracketed expressions; _Black_
611 will no longer produce super long lines or put all standalone comments at the end of
614 - fixed 18.3a4 regression: don't crash and burn on empty lines with trailing whitespace
617 - fixed 18.3a4 regression: `# yapf: disable` usage as trailing comment would cause
618 _Black_ to not emit the rest of the file (#95)
620 - when CTRL+C is pressed while formatting many files, _Black_ no longer freaks out with
621 a flurry of asyncio-related exceptions
623 - only allow up to two empty lines on module level and only single empty lines within
628 - `# fmt: off` and `# fmt: on` are implemented (#5)
630 - automatic detection of deprecated Python 2 forms of print statements and exec
631 statements in the formatted file (#49)
633 - use proper spaces for complex expressions in default values of typed function
636 - only return exit code 1 when --check is used (#50)
638 - don't remove single trailing commas from square bracket indexing (#59)
640 - don't omit whitespace if the previous factor leaf wasn't a math operator (#55)
642 - omit extra space in kwarg unpacking if it's the first argument (#46)
644 - omit extra space in
645 [Sphinx auto-attribute comments](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/autodoc.html#directive-autoattribute)
650 - don't remove single empty lines outside of bracketed expressions (#19)
652 - added ability to pipe formatting from stdin to stdin (#25)
654 - restored ability to format code with legacy usage of `async` as a name (#20, #42)
656 - even better handling of numpy-style array indexing (#33, again)
660 - changed positioning of binary operators to occur at beginning of lines instead of at
662 [a recent change to PEP 8](https://github.com/python/peps/commit/c59c4376ad233a62ca4b3a6060c81368bd21e85b)
665 - ignore empty bracket pairs while splitting. This avoids very weirdly looking
666 formattings (#34, #35)
668 - remove a trailing comma if there is a single argument to a call
670 - if top level functions were separated by a comment, don't put four empty lines after
673 - fixed unstable formatting of newlines with imports
675 - fixed unintentional folding of post scriptum standalone comments into last statement
676 if it was a simple statement (#18, #28)
678 - fixed missing space in numpy-style array indexing (#33)
680 - fixed spurious space after star-based unary expressions (#31)
686 - only put trailing commas in function signatures and calls if it's safe to do so. If
687 the file is Python 3.6+ it's always safe, otherwise only safe if there are no `*args`
688 or `**kwargs` used in the signature or call. (#8)
690 - fixed invalid spacing of dots in relative imports (#6, #13)
692 - fixed invalid splitting after comma on unpacked variables in for-loops (#23)
694 - fixed spurious space in parenthesized set expressions (#7)
696 - fixed spurious space after opening parentheses and in default arguments (#14, #17)
698 - fixed spurious space after unary operators when the operand was a complex expression
703 - first published version, Happy 🍰 Day 2018!
707 - date-versioned (see: <https://calver.org/>)