<!-- Changes that affect Black's preview style -->
-- Enforce empty lines before classes and functions with sticky leading comments (#3302)
+- Fix a crash in preview style with assert + parenthesized string (#3415)
### Configuration
<!-- 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).
-
### Performance
<!-- Changes that improve Black's performance. -->
<!-- Changes to Black's terminal output and error messages -->
+- Verbose logging now shows the values of `pyproject.toml` configuration variables
+ (#3392)
+
### _Blackd_
<!-- Changes to blackd -->
<!-- Major changes to documentation and policies. Small docs changes
don't need a changelog entry. -->
+## 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)
+- 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