What's Changed

• 🐛 Fix schema rule severity by @ubmarco in #1535
• 📚 Co-locate dynamic and variant function docs by @chrisjsewell in #1544
• 🧪 Add snapshot test for field schema by @chrisjsewell in #1545
• 🔧 Derive core FieldSchema from NeedsCoreFields by @chrisjsewell in #1546
• 👌 Make incoming/outgoing keys optional in needs_extra_links by @chrisjsewell in #1548
• 🔧 Removed unused code by @chrisjsewell in #1550
• 📚 Enable link to full schema example by @ubmarco in #1538
• 🔧 Variable typo by @ubmarco in #1555
• 📚 Improve schema docs by @ubmarco in #1554
• 📚 Fix linkchecks by @ubmarco in #1556
• 🔧 Run new ubc action on docs by @ubmarco in #1541
• 👌 Improve schema severity handling by @ubmarco in #1561
• ♻️ Early resolution of schema_debug_path by @ubmarco in #1563
• 🚀 Release v6.1.0 by @ubmarco in #1565

Full Changelog: 6.0.1...6.1.0

What's Changed

• 📚 Add release labels to changelog by @ubmarco in #1523
• 🔧 Improve error for variant options by @ubmarco in #1524
• 🔧 Fix schema json missing exc message by @ubmarco in #1526
• 👌 Add schema to add_extra_option by @ubmarco in #1527
• 🐛 Fix name error schema_path_contains by @ubmarco in #1530
• 🐛 Inject build_tags to variant filter strings by @ubmarco in #1531
• 🚀 Release v6.0.1 by @ubmarco in #1532

Full Changelog: 6.0.0...6.0.1

What's Changed

• 👌 Re-allow dynamic functions for layout field by @chrisjsewell in #1423
• 🔧 Centralise allowed variant core need fields by @chrisjsewell in #1424
• 🐛 Warn on dynamic function with surrounding text by @chrisjsewell in #1426
• 🔧 Allow pre/post template global_options by @chrisjsewell in #1428
• ✨ Add is_import need field by @chrisjsewell in #1429
• 📚 update tox version to py39 by @ubmarco in #1438
• 🔧 Use ubuntu-latest in CI by @ubmarco in #1439
• 🔧 Added yamlfmt pre-commit by @ubmarco in #1446
• 🐛 Fix cyclic imports by @ubmarco in #1443
• 🔧 benchmark group non win32 by @ubmarco in #1450
• ⬆️ Drop Sphinx<7.4, test against Python 3.13 by @ubmarco in #1447
• 🔧 Allow template global_options by @chrisjsewell in #1454
• Allow collapse and hide in needs_global_options by @chrisjsewell in #1456
• 👌 Reset directive option specs at start of build by @ubmarco in #1448
• ⬆️ Drop Python 3.9 by @ubmarco in #1468
• 👌 Improve need part processing by @chrisjsewell in #1469
• 📚 Fix escape sequences by @ubmarco in #1470
• 📚 Format configuration.rst by @chrisjsewell in #1473
• ✨ Schema validation v2 by @ubmarco in #1467
• 📚 Clarify c.this_doc() for needextend by @ubmarco in #1475
• ‼️ Disallow add_extra_option overriding an internal field by @chrisjsewell in #1477
• ‼️ Improve needs default field application (via needs_global_options) by @chrisjsewell in #1478
• ♻️ Lazily assess directive options by @chrisjsewell in #1482
• 🔧 Split import item filtering to separate function by @chrisjsewell in #1484
• ♻️ Store needs as NeedItem / NeedPartItem, rather than standard dict by @chrisjsewell in #1485
• ♻️ Set some core need fields to nullable by @chrisjsewell in #1488
• 🐛 Fix: disallow need variants for list type fields by @chrisjsewell in #1489
• ♻️ split NeedItem internal data into core, extras, links and backlinks by @chrisjsewell in #1490
• ♻️ split off source fields in NeedItem internal data by @chrisjsewell in #1491
• ♻️ Auto-compute certain need fields by @chrisjsewell in #1496
• 📚 Fix needs_extra_links name by @HolgerPeters in #1501
• 👌 Capture more information about modifications on NeedItem by @chrisjsewell in #1502
• 🔧 Improve storage of constraint results on NeedItem by @chrisjsewell in #1504
• ♻️ Exclude is_need / is_part from needs.json output by @chrisjsewell in #1505
• 🔧 Improve storage of content generation on NeedItem by @chrisjsewell in #1506
• 🧪 Improve test for need parts by @chrisjsewell in #1507
• ♻️ Improve storage of part data on NeedItem by @chrisjsewell in #1509
• 👌 Write schema violations into a JSON file by @iSOLveIT in #1503
• Always generate schema violations.json report file by @iSOLveIT in #1511
• 🐛 Avoid leaking auth credentials for ext. need warnings by @cedossan in #1512
• 🔧 Add DynamicFunctionParsed dataclass by @chrisjsewell in #1514
• 🔧 Add VariantFunctionParsed dataclass by @chrisjsewell in #1515
• ‼️ remove parsing of deprecated needs_global_options format by @chrisjsewell in #1517
• 🧪 Move to snapshot testing for test_schema by @chrisjsewell in #1519
• ♻️ Allow for typed needs_extra_options fields by @chrisjsewell in #1516
• ♻️ Warn for missing needimport files by @PhilipPartsch in #1510
• 🔧 Improve plantuml check + add tests by @ubmarco in #1521
• 🚀 Release v6.0.0 by @ubmarco in #1522

New Contributors

• @HolgerPeters made their first contribution in #1501
• @cedossan made their first contribution in #1512

Full Changelog: 5.1.0...6.0.0

What's Changed

• ♻️ Improve validation and docs for needs_global_options by @chrisjsewell in #1410
• ♻️ Change needs_global_options format by @chrisjsewell in #1413

Full Changelog: 5.0.0...5.1.0

What's Changed

• ✨ Add c.this_doc() check for needextend filters by @chrisjsewell in #1393

• ✨ Extend c.this_doc() to all directives with filter option by @chrisjsewell in #1405

• ♻️ Remove back link manipulation from needextend by @chrisjsewell in #1386

• 🔧 Synchronize list splitting behaviour in need and needextend directives by @chrisjsewell in #1385

• 👌 Add type warnings of extra options in external/import reads by @chrisjsewell in #1389

• 🔧 Centralise extendable core need fields by @chrisjsewell in #1388

• ♻️ Don't process dynamic functions on internal need fields by @chrisjsewell in #1387

• ♻️ Make needextend argument declarative by @chrisjsewell in #1391

• 🔧 Remove constraints_passed/constraints_results directive options by @chrisjsewell in #1396

• ♻️ Remove delete from internal needs and needs.json by @chrisjsewell in #1347

• ♻️ Remove full_title need field and only trim generated titles by @chrisjsewell in #1407

• 🔧 Deprecate use of dynamic functions in need type fields by @chrisjsewell in #1406

• 🐛 Fix CSS for need table colors by @chrisjsewell in #1403

• 📚 clarify needimport argument format by @chrisjsewell in #1384

• 📚 Fix markup for dynamic functions by @ubmarco in #1382

• 📚 Update license year by @ubmarco in #1394

Full Changelog: 4.2.0...5.0.0

What's Changed

• 🔧 Add lineno to default output of needs.json by @chrisjsewell in #1346
• 🔧 Replace poetry with flit/uv by @chrisjsewell in #1355
• 🔧 Release needs data mutation lock at end of process by @chrisjsewell in #1359
• Allow filter-func in need-pie to have multiple dots in the import path. by @Aymen-Soussi-01 in #1373
• Fix typo in layout_styles.rst by @interifter in #1374
• 🐛 Fix: make external paths relative to confdir, not srcdir by @chrisjsewell in #1378
• ✨ Add needs_import_keys configuration by @chrisjsewell in #1379

New Contributors

• @Aymen-Soussi-01 made their first contribution in #1373
• @interifter made their first contribution in #1374

Full Changelog: 4.1.0...4.2.0

What's Changed

• ✨ Add needs_from_toml configuration by @chrisjsewell in #1337
• ✨ Allow configuring description of extra option by @chrisjsewell in #1338
• 🐛 FIX needflow graphviz links by @chrisjsewell in #1339
• 🐛 Fix plantuml top-level import by @chrisjsewell in #1328
• ♻️ Improve access to dynamic configs: extra_options, functions, warnings by @chrisjsewell in #1332
• 🔧 Merge defaults into config earlier by @chrisjsewell in #1341
• 🔧 Remove some internal fields from needs layout by @chrisjsewell in #1330
• 📚 Docs: Fix API package by @ubmarco in #1327

Full Changelog: 4.0.0...4.1.0

See https://sphinx-needs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html

New Contributors

• @christopheseyler made their first contribution in #1296

Full Changelog: 3.0.0...4.0.0

What's Changed

See https://sphinx-needs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html

New Contributors

• @pre-commit-ci made their first contribution in #1179
• @AlexanderLanin made their first contribution in #1239

Full Changelog: 2.1.0...3.0.0

What's Changed

Improvements

• 👌 Default to warning for missing needextend ID by @chrisjsewell in #1066
• 👌 Make needtable titles more permissive by @chrisjsewell in #1102
• 👌 Add filter_warning directive option, to replace default warning text by @kreuzberger in #1093
• 👌 Improve and test github needservice directive by @chrisjsewell in #1113
• 👌 Improve warnings for invalid filters (add source location and subtype) by @chrisjsewell in #1128
• 👌 Exclude external needs from needs_id_regex check by @David-Le-Nir in #1108
• 👌 Fail and emit warning on filters that do not return a boolean result by @big1hc in #964
• 👌 Improve Need node creation and content parsing by @chrisjsewell in #1168
• 👌 Add loading message to permalink.html by @csIcaK in #1081
• 👌 Remove hard-coding of completion and duration need fields by @chrisjsewell in #1127

Bug fixes

• 🐛 Image layout function by @danwos in #1135
• 🐛 Centralise splitting of need ID by @chrisjsewell in #1101
• 🐛 Centralise need missing link reporting by @chrisjsewell in #1104

Internal improvements

• 🔧 Use future annotations in all modules by @chrisjsewell in #1111

• 🔧 Replace black/isort/pyupgrade/flake8 with ruff by @chrisjsewell in #1080

• 🔧 Add better typing for extra_links config variable by @chrisjsewell in #1131

• 🔧 Centralise need parts creation and strongly type needs by @chrisjsewell in #1129

• 🔧 Fix typing of need docname/lineno by @chrisjsewell in #1134

• 🔧 Type ExternalSource config dict by @chrisjsewell in #1115

• 🔧 Enforce type checking in needuml.py by @chrisjsewell in #1116

• 🔧 Enforce type checking in api/need.py by @chrisjsewell in #1117

• 🔧 Add better typing for global_options config variable by @chrisjsewell in #1120

• 🔧 Move dead link need fields to internals by @chrisjsewell in #1119

• 🔧 Remove usage of hide_status and hide_tags by @chrisjsewell in #1130

• 🔧 Remove hidden field from extra_options by @chrisjsewell in #1124

• 🔧 Remove constraints from extra_options by @chrisjsewell in #1123

• 🔧 Remove use of deprecated needs_extra_options as dict by @chrisjsewell in #1126

New Contributors

• @csIcaK made their first contribution in #1081
• @big1hc made their first contribution in #964

Full Changelog: 2.0.0...2.1.0