<!-- Changes that affect Black's stable style -->
+- Fix a crash when a colon line is marked between `# fmt: off` and `# fmt: on` (#3439)
+
### Preview style
<!-- Changes that affect Black's preview style -->
+- Format hex code in unicode escape sequences in string literals (#2916)
+- Add parentheses around `if`-`else` expressions (#2278)
+- Improve the performance on large expressions that contain many strings (#3467)
+- Fix a crash in preview style with assert + parenthesized string (#3415)
+- Fix crashes in preview style with walrus operators used in function return annotations
+ and except clauses (#3423)
+- Fix a crash in preview advanced string processing where mixed implicitly concatenated
+ regular and f-strings start with an empty span (#3463)
+- Fix a crash in preview advanced string processing where a standalone comment is placed
+ before a dict's value (#3469)
+- Fix an issue where extra empty lines are added when a decorator has `# fmt: skip`
+ applied or there is a standalone comment between decorators (#3470)
+- Do not put the closing quotes in a docstring on a separate line, even if the line is
+ too long (#3430)
+- Long values in dict literals are now wrapped in parentheses; correspondingly
+ unnecessary parentheses around short values in dict literals are now removed; long
+ string lambda values are now wrapped in parentheses (#3440)
+- Fix two crashes in preview style involving edge cases with docstrings (#3451)
+- Exclude string type annotations from improved string processing; fix crash when the
+ return type annotation is stringified and spans across multiple lines (#3462)
+- Wrap multiple context managers in parentheses when targeting Python 3.9+ (#3489)
+- Fix several crashes in preview style with walrus operators used in `with` statements
+ or tuples (#3473)
+- Fix an invalid quote escaping bug in f-string expressions where it produced invalid
+ code. Implicitly concatenated f-strings with different quotes can now be merged or
+ quote-normalized by changing the quotes used in expressions. (#3509)
+
### Configuration
<!-- Changes to how Black can be configured -->
<!-- Changes to how Black is packaged, such as dependency requirements -->
+- Upgrade mypyc from `0.971` to `0.991` so mypycified _Black_ can be built on armv7
+ (#3380)
+- Drop specific support for the `tomli` requirement on 3.11 alpha releases, working
+ around a bug that would cause the requirement not to be installed on any non-final
+ Python releases (#3448)
+
### Parser
<!-- Changes to the parser or to version autodetection -->
<!-- Changes to Black's terminal output and error messages -->
+- Calling `black --help` multiple times will return the same help contents each time
+ (#3516)
+- Verbose logging now shows the values of `pyproject.toml` configuration variables
+ (#3392)
+- Fix false symlink detection messages in verbose output due to using an incorrect
+ relative path to the project root (#3385)
+
### _Blackd_
<!-- Changes to blackd -->
<!-- For example, Docker, GitHub Actions, pre-commit, editors -->
+- Move 3.11 CI to normal flow now all dependencies support 3.11 (#3446)
+- Docker: Add new `latest_prerelease` tag automation to follow latest black alpha
+ release on docker images (#3465)
+
### Documentation
<!-- Major changes to documentation and policies. Small docs changes
don't need a changelog entry. -->
+- Expand `vim-plug` installation instructions to offer more explicit options (#3468)
+
+## 22.12.0
+
+### Preview style
+
+<!-- Changes that affect Black's preview style -->
+
+- Enforce empty lines before classes and functions with sticky leading comments (#3302)
+- Reformat empty and whitespace-only files as either an empty file (if no newline is
+ present) or as a single newline character (if a newline is present) (#3348)
+- Implicitly concatenated strings used as function args are now wrapped inside
+ parentheses (#3307)
+- For assignment statements, prefer splitting the right hand side if the left hand side
+ fits on a single line (#3368)
+- Correctly handle trailing commas that are inside a line's leading non-nested parens
+ (#3370)
+
+### Configuration
+
+<!-- Changes to how Black can be configured -->
+
+- Fix incorrectly applied `.gitignore` rules by considering the `.gitignore` location
+ and the relative path to the target file (#3338)
+- Fix incorrectly ignoring `.gitignore` presence when more than one source directory is
+ specified (#3336)
+
+### Parser
+
+<!-- Changes to the parser or to version autodetection -->
+
+- Parsing support has been added for walruses inside generator expression that are
+ passed as function args (for example,
+ `any(match := my_re.match(text) for text in texts)`) (#3327).
+
+### Integrations
+
+<!-- For example, Docker, GitHub Actions, pre-commit, editors -->
+
+- Vim plugin: Optionally allow using the system installation of Black via
+ `let g:black_use_virtualenv = 0`(#3309)
+
+## 22.10.0
+
+### Highlights
+
+- Runtime support for Python 3.6 has been removed. Formatting 3.6 code will still be
+ supported until further notice.
+
+### Stable style
+
+- Fix a crash when `# fmt: on` is used on a different block level than `# fmt: off`
+ (#3281)
+
+### Preview style
+
+- Fix a crash when formatting some dicts with parenthesis-wrapped long string keys
+ (#3262)
+
+### Configuration
+
+- `.ipynb_checkpoints` directories are now excluded by default (#3293)
+- Add `--skip-source-first-line` / `-x` option to ignore the first line of source code
+ while formatting (#3299)
+
+### Packaging
+
+- Executables made with PyInstaller will no longer crash when formatting several files
+ at once on macOS. Native x86-64 executables for macOS are available once again.
+ (#3275)
+- Hatchling is now used as the build backend. This will not have any effect for users
+ who install Black with its wheels from PyPI. (#3233)
+- Faster compiled wheels are now available for CPython 3.11 (#3276)
+
+### _Blackd_
+
+- Windows style (CRLF) newlines will be preserved (#3257).
+
+### Integrations
+
+- Vim plugin: add flag (`g:black_preview`) to enable/disable the preview style (#3246)
+- Update GitHub Action to support formatting of Jupyter Notebook files via a `jupyter`
+ option (#3282)
+- Update GitHub Action to support use of version specifiers (e.g. `<23`) for Black
+ version (#3265)
+
## 22.8.0
### Highlights