Added

• Add official support for Python 3.12 (#7803, #8544).
• Print a future warning that poetry-plugin-export will not be installed by default anymore (#8562).
• Add poetry-install pre-commit hook (#8327).
• Add --next-phase option to poetry version (#8089).
• Print a warning when overwriting files from another package at installation (#8386).
• Print a warning if the current project cannot be installed (#8369).
• Report more details on build backend exceptions (#8464).

Changed

• Set Poetry as user-agent for all HTTP requests (#8394).
• Do not install setuptools per default in Python 3.12 (#7803).
• Do not install wheel per default (#7803).
• Remove setuptools and wheel when running poetry install --sync if they are not required by the project (#8600).
• Improve error message about PEP-517 support (#8463).
• Improve keyring handling (#8227).
• Read the description field when extracting metadata from setup.py files (#8545).

Fixed

• Fix an issue where dependencies of inactive extras were locked and installed (#8399).
• Fix an issue where build requirements were not installed due to a race condition in the artifact cache (#8517).
• Fix an issue where packages included in the system site packages were installed even though virtualenvs.options.system-site-packages was set (#8359).
• Fix an issue where git dependencies' submodules with relative URLs were handled incorrectly (#8020).
• Fix an issue where a failed installation of build dependencies was not noticed directly (#8479).
• Fix an issue where poetry shell did not work completely with nushell (#8478).
• Fix an issue where a confusing error messages was displayed when running poetry config pypi-token.pypi without a value (#8502).
• Fix an issue where a cryptic error message is printed if there is no metadata entry in the lockfile (#8523).
• Fix an issue with the encoding with special characters in the virtualenv's path (#8565).
• Fix an issue where the connection pool size was not adjusted to the number of workers (#8559).

Docs

• Improve the wording regarding a project's supported Python range (#8423).
• Make pipx the preferred (first mentioned) installation method (#8090).
• Add a warning about poetry self on Windows (#8090).
• Fix example for poetry add with a git dependency (#8438).
• Add information about auto-included files in wheels and sdist (#8555).
• Fix documentation of the POETRY_REPOSITORIES_ variables docs (#8492).
• Add CITATION.cff file (#8510).

poetry-core (1.8.1)

• Add support for creating packages dynamically in the build script (#629).
• Improve marker logic for extra markers (#636).
• Update list of supported licenses (#635, #646).
• Fix an issue where projects with extension modules were not installed in editable mode (#633).
• Fix an issue where the wrong or no lib folder was added to the wheel (#634).

poetry-plugin-export (^1.6.0)

• Add an --all-extras option (#241).
• Fix an issue where git dependencies are exported with the branch name instead of the resolved commit hash (#213).