<!-- Include any especially major or disruptive changes here -->
+- Runtime support for Python 3.7 has been removed. Formatting 3.7 code will still be
+ supported until further notice (#3765)
+
### Stable style
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- Fix a bug where an illegal trailing comma was added to return type annotations using
PEP 604 unions (#3735)
+- Fix several bugs and crashes where comments in stub files were removed or mishandled
+ under some circumstances. (#3745)
- Fix a bug where multi-line open parenthesis magic comment like `type: ignore` were not
correctly parsed (#3740)
+- Fix error in AST validation when Black removes trailing whitespace in a type comment
+ (#3773)
### Preview style
- `.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
+ `pyproject.toml`, instead of silently doing the wrong thing (#3764)
### Packaging
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- 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 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
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+- 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
+- Add a CITATION.cff file to the root of the repository, containing metadata on how to
+ cite this software (#3723)
+
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don't need a changelog entry. -->