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Author: adiroiban

NEWS.rst

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 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+towncrier 25.8.0rc1 (2025-08-15)
+================================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Support was added for Mercurial SCM. (`#394 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/394>`_)
+- The `towncrier check` command now has a `--staged` flag to inspect the files staged for commit when checking for a news fragment: useful in a pre-commit hook (`#676 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/676>`_)
+- When used with an `pyproject.toml` file, when no explicit values are
+  defined for [tool.towncrier.name|package] they will now fallback to
+  the value of [project.name]. (`#687 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/687>`_)
+- More simple configuration for Keep a Changelog style changelogs (`#691 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/691>`_)
+- Added support for Python 3.13 and removed support for Python 3.8. (`#700 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/700>`_)
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Multi-line newsfragments that ends with a code block will now have a newline inserted before appending the link to the issue, to avoid breaking formatting. (`#614 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/614>`_)
+- Markdown header level is correctly inferred from ``title_format``. (`#695 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/695>`_)
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- The documentation RST source files are now included in the sdist package. (`#672 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/672>`_)
+- Refactor the default markdown template to make it easier to understand, extend, and customize. (`#706 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/706>`_)
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- When no sections are present,
+  the default Markdown template now renders the category headers as H2.
+  In previous versions it was rendered as H3. (`#663 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/663>`_)
+
+
+Misc
+----
+
+- `#667 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/667>`_, `#669 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/669>`_, `#679 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/679>`_, `#680 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/680>`_, `#682 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/682>`_, `#701 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/701>`_, `#702 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/702>`_, `#713 <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/713>`_
+
+
 Towncrier 24.8.0 (2024-08-23)
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