Changelog

2.6.0 (2026-03-16)

Bug fixes:

• Allow maintenance branches to run GHA workflows from meta.yml @gforcada #337

• Add workflow_dispatch trigger for generated test-matrix workflows. @mauritsvanrees

Internal:

• Remove outdated GitHub workflow @gforcada

Documentation:

• Add documentation following Diataxis framework @jensens

Tests:

• Add test suite and code coverage @jensens @gforcada

2.5.1 (2026-03-09)

Bug fixes:

• Bump isort version @gforcada

2.5.0 (2026-03-09)

New features:

• Update black and pyupgrade to use the lowest python version supported from the test matrix @gforcada #285

• Detect upper bound for setuptools in build-system. For pkg_resources namespaces, use setuptools<82, otherwise setuptools<83. @mauritsvanrees

Bug fixes:

• Add missing newline on news entry files @gforcada

• Adjust indentation on gitlab-ci.yml @gforcada

• Do not add trailing colons on changes subheadings @gforcada

• GHA: Fix platforms input not being passed to docker/build-push-action. @ericof

2.4.0 (2026-02-27)

New features:

• Add Python 3.14 to the test matrix of Plone 6.2. @mauritsvanrees

• Add option use_test_matrix, default true. When false, don’t use the test matrix.

• Switch to Debian Trixie, more updates to Python 3.14.

  Use Debian Trixie for all Platforms, remove the 3.9 image reference and add more updates Python 3.14 support. [thet]

Bug fixes:

• Set constrain_package_deps to true when not explicitly set, even when using mxdev. @mauritsvanrees #316

• Add tox option skip_test_extra. Packages that don’t have the standard test extra should set this option. Otherwise tests fail latest tox. @mauritsvanrees #325

2.3.2 (2026-02-11)

Bug fixes:

• Handle repositories without towncrier, when converting them to native namespace @gforcada #312

• pin setuptools to version < 82.0.0 in the tox-qa template [testenv:dependencies] this fix ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources' if run tox -e dependencies in a project z3c.dependencychecker is not ready for PEP 420 native namespace @1letter #320

2.3.1 (2025-12-15)

Bug fixes:

• Remove Python 3.9 from testing matrix as it went EOL @gforcada

• Update GHA version pins @gforcada

2.3.0 (2025-12-06)

New features:

• Replace pkg_resources namespace with PEP 420 native namespace. Support only Plone 6.2 and Python 3.10+. #3928

2.2.2 (2025-11-11)

Bug fixes:

• switch-to-pep420 script: remove setuptools dependency. @mauritsvanrees #3982

2.2.1 (2025-11-08)

Bug fixes:

• Fix switch to native namespace script to expect bumpversion to be globally available @gforcada

2.2.0 (2025-11-08)

New features:

• Add and adapt switch-to-pep420 script from zope meta. #3982

• Setup uv in frontend shared workflows – used by repoplone. @ericof

• Support github options extra_lines and extra_lines_after_os_dependencies. @mauritsvanrees

Bug fixes:

• Do not add test_deps_additional to circular and release-check tox envs. @mauritsvanrees #293

2.1.0 (2025-09-12)

New features:

• Support combinations of multiple versions of Plone and Python in tox. @gforcada #234

• Add Plone 6.2 on the default test matrix generated by plone.meta @gforcada #255

• Add reusable workflows and composite actions to be used with projects generate via Cookieplone. @ericof #277

• Test matrix: allow specifying ["*"] as Python list. We replace it with the default Python versions list supported on the given Plone version. @mauritsvanrees

Bug fixes:

• Handle custom test_matrix with only a single Python version @gforcada #260

• Restrict setuptools to less than 80 when building a package. Require wheel as well in the build-system. See also pep 517 and pep 518. [maurits] #267

• Fix testing with PyPy in the testing matrix.

Documentation:

• Add an upgrade guide. @gforcada #234

• Document the new composite actions and reusable workflows. @ericof #277

2.0.0 (2025-02-11)

New features

• Allow to configure extra options on i18ndude’s pre-commit configuration @Akshat2Jain #133

• Install browsers (for playwright) on packages that run plone.app.robotframework tests @gforcada #155

• Allow setting GHA environment variables @ericof #164

• Implement conditional towncrier configuration depending on existing news/ folder @petschki #170

• Allow customizing enabled gitlab-ci jobs @petschki #171

• In generated pyproject.toml files, add build-system requiring setuptools 68.2+. Also, build the package in isolation, so the build is free to use the required setuptools version. This combination fixes possible ModuleNotFoundErrors for plone.app.* packages @mauritsvanrees #172

• Ignore .*project in git @wesleybl #179

• tox: allow to configure what gets in testenv environment @gforcada #185

• Configure dependabot to get GHA updates. @gforcada #201

• GHA: Allow to run tox -e test with multiple python versions @gforcada #210

• Made pytest-plone test dependency in tox.ini optional. Specify use_pytest_plone = false if you don’t want to use it. Also added check_manifest_extra_lines for pyproject.toml, you can use it for specifying corner cases like ignore-bad-ideas @reinout #212

• Use tomlkit for TOML read/write operations it allow custom regexes with backslahes in meta.toml it is a port of https://github.com/zopefoundation/meta/pull/215 #229

• Turn this repository into a proper Python distribution. @gforcada #239

• Make plone.meta an actual python distribution releasable in PyPI @gforcada #248

• When creating a branch, use the git commit hash from meta repository @gforcada

Bug fixes

• Only run a GHA on Linux, while we wait for a counterpart for Windows @gforcada #180

• Moved inline comments in .editorconfig to their own lines: the spec at https://spec.editorconfig.org/#no-inline-comments forbids it @reinout #208

• Stop relying on GitHub repository/organization variables @gforcada #210

• Preventing lines with only spaces in the generated tox.ini @reinout #212

• On .meta.toml file installed by plone.meta, write plone.meta’s version on commit-id rather than a commit. We are no longer running plone.meta out of a checkout, but rather from a release version @gforcada #248

• Fix dependabot.yml location @gforcada #252

• Do not track packages on packages.txt by default @gforcada

• Ensure that prettier’s default line length is respected @gforcada

• Mark old shared-workflows GHA as deprecated @gforcada

Internal

• Add .gitignore @wesleybl #178

• Editorconfig: Restructure the frontend config.

  • Add an xml type to the xml section.

  • Move the HTML type to the xml section.

  This allows more easily for frontend related files except HTML files to be reconfigured for an 4-space indentation. 4 spaces for JS/CSS related code is the default style in Patternslib/Mockup. style @thet #197

Documentation

• Add a note on how to disable i18ndude checks. Add a note on how to apply a customized configuration. @thet #200

1.0.0 (2023-07-12)

New features:

• Allow passing arguments to tox -e test. [@mauritsvanrees] #0

• Run robot tests as well (pass --all to zope.testrunner) [@mauritsvanrees] #0

• Generate XML coverage reports. [@gforcada] #0

• Handle repositories that do not have towncrier configured. [@petschki] #0

• Add skip option to codespell. [@petschki] #0

• Fix deletion of old files. [@mauritsvanrees] #0

• Use pre-commit to manage most of QA/linting tools. [@mauritsvanrees] #0

• Make tox fail if the environment is not defined. [@mauritsvanrees] #0

• Allow to install extra dependencies on tox environments. [@gforcada] #0

• Allow updating the current branch, rather than creating a new one. [@mauritsvanrees] #0

• Update pre-commit configuration. [@ale-rt] #0

• Allow repositories to not be recorded in packages.txt. [@gforcada] #0

• Report branch coverage. [@gforcada] #0

• Major update on the documentation. [@gforcada] #0

• Decide on standard towncrier snippets. [@gforcada] #2

• Do not push repository changes by default. [@gforcada] #3

• Do not run tox in parallel mode, when first configuring a repository. [@gforcada] #4

• New linting tool: check-manifest. [@gforcada] #6

• Use git ls-files to get the files that need to be linted. [@gforcada] #11

• Display project dependencies in a visual graph. [@gforcada] #14

• Run distributions’ tests. [@gforcada] #15

• Add automatic (towncrier) news entry when configuring a repository. [@gforcada] #20

• Keep setup.metadata and setup.options in .meta.toml. [@mauritsvanrees] #24

• Add another linter: pyroma. [@gforcada] #28

• Analyze package dependencies with z3c.dependencychecker. [@gforcada] #34

• New formatter: zpretty. [@gforcada] #35

• New linter: pipforester (find circular dependencies). [@gforcada] #42

• New linter: check-python-versions [@gforcada] #44

• Generate coverage reports. [@gforcada] #45

• Support markdown for towncrier news snippets. [@gforcada] #49

• Add default dependency mappings for z3c.dependencychecker. [@gforcada] #52

• New linter: i18ndude. [@gforcada] #60

• Manage .gitignore as well. [@gforcada] #62

• Allow to configure OS dependencies to be installed (for CI jobs). [@gforcada] #65

• Allow to specify extra configuration options for flake8, like exclude files, plugins, etc.. [@gforcada] #71

• Show coverage reports on GHA job summaries. [@gforcada] #72

• Improve documentation of all options, and ensure all options are documented. [@gforcada] #82

• Do not rely on a centralized workflow, but rather install shim GHA workflows. [@gforcada] #87

• New linter: twine to ensure repositories are always ready to be released. [@gforcada] #98

• Automatically detect if pytest or zope.testrunner is used. [@ericof] #120

• Add support for GitLab CI. [@gforcada] #131

• Allow to extend all sections of pyproject.toml. [@gforcada] #135

• Allow to specify a custom constraints.txt for tox environments to use. [@gforcada] #136

• Allow to specify environment variables on tox.ini. [@gforcada] #143

• Allow to specify towncrier issue format. [@ericof] #147

• Allow to customize GHA shim. [@ericof] #150

• Add mxdev support. [@ericof] #151

Bug fixes:

• Do not ignore setuptools on plone.base mapping. [@mauritsvanrees] #0

• Use constrain_package_deps = true on tox.ini. [@mauritsvanrees] #0

• Fix changelog template to have a leading dot. [@mauritsvanrees] #0

• Add ExtensionClass namespaces on Zope mapping. [@jensens] #0

• Update .gitignore defaults. [@petschki] #0, #111

• Ignore tox.ini from check-manifest. [@gforcada] #5

• Adjust flake8 configuration to be compatible with black. [@mauritsvanrees] #23

• Allow to configure codespell to ignore some words. [@gforcada] #29

• Specify, on pyupgrade, which python version to lint. [@mauritsvanrees] #41

• Add a missing codespell dependency. [@gforcada] #47

• Move check-manifest configuration over to pyproject.toml. [@gforcada] #56

• Improve codespell default configuration options by providing sane defaults. [@gforcada] #57

• Enforce pipforester to be run always. [@gforcada] #77

• Do not install dependencies on z3c.dependencychecker tox environment. [@gforcada] #84

• Ignore coverage errors when generating reports. [@mauritsvanrees] #110

• Update .editorconfig defaults. [@ericof] #116

• Update .gitignore defaults. [@ericof] #123