3.6.0 – 2018-10-23

You can view the 3.6.0 milestone on GitLab for more details.

New Dependency Information

• pycodestyle has been updated to >= 2.4.0, < 2.5.0 (See also GitLab#381, GitLab#415, GitLab!212, GitLab!230, GitLab!231)

• Pyflakes has been updated to >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.0 (See also GitLab#422, GitLab!239)

• flake8 requires python 2.x >= 2.7 or python 3.x >= 3.4 (See also GitLab!225)

Features

• Add paths to allow local plugins to exist outside of sys.path (See also GitLab#379, GitLab!211)

• Copy setup.cfg files to the temporary git hook execution directory (See also GitLab!215)

• Only skip a file if # flake8: noqa is on a line by itself (See also GitLab#453, GitLab!219)

• Provide a better user experience for broken plugins (See also GitLab!221)

• Report E902 when a file passed on the command line does not exist (See also GitLab#405, GitLab!227)

• Add --extend-ignore for extending the default ignore instead of overriding it (See also GitLab#365, GitLab!233)

Bugs Fixed

• Respect a formatter’s newline setting when printing (See also GitLab!222)

• Fix leaking of processes in the legacy api (See also GitLab#410, GitLab!228)

• Fix a SyntaxWarning for an invalid escape sequence (See also GitLab!244)

• Fix DeprecationWarning due to import of abc classes from the collections module (See also GitLab!249)

• Defer setuptools import to improve flake8 startup time (See also GitLab!250)

• Fix inconsistent line endings in FileProcessor.lines when running under python 3.x (See also GitLab#457, GitLab!255)