- `Black` now respects `--skip-string-normalization` when normalizing multiline
docstring quotes (#1637)
+- `Black` no longer removes all empty lines between non-function code and decorators
+ when formatting typing stubs. Now `Black` enforces a single empty line. (#1646)
+
+- `Black` no longer adds an incorrect space after a parenthesized assignment expression
+ in if/while statements (#1655)
+
+- Added `--skip-magic-trailing-comma` / `-C` to avoid using trailing commas as a reason
+ to split lines (#1824)
+
- fixed a crash when PWD=/ on POSIX (#1631)
+- fixed "I/O operation on closed file" when using --diff (#1664)
+
+- Prevent coloured diff output being interleaved with multiple files (#1673)
+
+- Added support for PEP 614 relaxed decorator syntax on python 3.9 (#1711)
+
+- Added parsing support for unparenthesized tuples and yield expressions in annotated
+ assignments (#1835)
+
+- use lowercase hex strings (#1692)
+
+- added `--extend-exclude` argument (PR #2005)
+
+- speed up caching by avoiding pathlib (#1950)
+
+- `--diff` correctly indicates when a file doesn't end in a newline (#1662)
+
+- Added `--stdin-filename` argument to allow stdin to respect `--force-exclude` rules
+ (#1780)
+
+- Lines ending with `fmt: skip` will now be not formatted (#1800)
+
+- PR #2053: Black no longer relies on typed-ast for Python 3.8 and higher
+
+- PR #2053: Python 2 support is now optional, install with
+ `python3 -m pip install black[python2]` to maintain support.
+
+#### _Packaging_
+
+- Self-contained native _Black_ binaries are now provided for releases via GitHub
+ Releases (#1743)
+
### 20.8b1
#### _Packaging_