- Update to 3.8.1
* Fix --output-file (regression in 3.8.0) (See also GitLab!427,
GitLab#637)
- Update notes for 3.8.0
* Fix logical checks which report positions out of bounds (See also
GitLab!422, GitLab#635)
* Fix --exclude=.* accidentally matching . and .. (See also GitLab!424,
GitLab#632)
* Add deprecation message for vcs hooks (See also GitLab!420, GitLab#568)
- Update notes for 3.8.0a2
* Fix type="str" optparse options (See also GitLab!419)
- Update notes for 3.8.0a1
New Dependency Information
* Remove dependency on entrypoints and add dependency on importlib-metadata
(only for python<3.8) (See also GitLab!388, GitLab#569)
* Pyflakes has been updated to >= 2.2.0, < 2.3.0 (See also GitLab!417)
* pycodestyle has been updated to >= 2.6.0a1, < 2.7.0 (See also GitLab!418)
Features
* Add --extend-exclude option to add to --exclude without overwriting (See
also GitLab!315, GitLab#535)
* Move argument parsing from optparse to argparse (See also GitLab!341
* Group plugin options in --help (See also GitLab!342, GitLab#565)
* Remove parsing of verbose from configuration files as it was not
consistently applied (See also GitLab!360, GitLab#439)
* Remove parsing of output_file from configuration files as it was not
consistently applied (See also GitLab!361)
* Resolve configuration files relative to cwd instead of common prefix of
passed filenames. You may need to change flake8 subproject to cd subproject
&& flake8 . (See also GitLab!363)
* Officially support python3.8 (See also GitLab!377)