Towncrier 24.8.0rc1 (2024-08-19)

Features

• Add .gitkeep as an ignored filename. (#643)
• Config ignore option now supports wildcard matching via fnmatch. (#644)
• Add a config for enforcing issue names using regex. (#649)

Bugfixes

• The template file is now ignored based only on the file name. (#638)
• Control of the header formatting is once again completely up to the user when they are writing markdown files (fixes a regression introduced in [#610](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/pull/610)). (#651)
• Fixed an issue where issue_template failed recognizing the issue name of files with a non-category suffix (.md) (#654)
• Fixed a bug where orphan news fragments (e.g. +abc1234.feature) would fail when an issue_pattern is configured. Orphan news fragments are now excempt from issue_pattern checks. (#655)

Deprecations and Removals

• Moved towncrier version definition from src/towncrier/_version.py to pyproject.toml

  towncrier.__version__ was removed, after being deprecated in 23.6.0. (#640)

Misc

• #640, #657