4.0.0

• Drop support for Python 3.7.
• Add support for Python 3.12.
• [snapshot] Add typing to dirsnapshot (#1012)
• [snapshot] Added DirectorySnapshotDiff.ContextManager (#1011)
• [events] FileSystemEvent, and subclasses, are now dataclasses, and their repr() has changed
• [windows] WinAPINativeEvent is now a dataclass, and its repr() has changed
• [events] Log FileOpenedEvent, and FileClosedEvent, events in LoggingEventHandler
• [tests] Improve FileSystemEvent coverage
• [watchmedo] Log all events in LoggerTrick
• [windows] The observers.read_directory_changes.WATCHDOG_TRAVERSE_MOVED_DIR_DELAY hack was removed. The constant will be kept to prevent breaking other softwares.
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @BoboTiG, @msabramo

3.0.0

• Drop support for Python 3.6.
• watchdog is now PEP 561 compatible, and tested with mypy
• Fix missing > in FileSystemEvent.__repr__() (#980)
• [ci] Lots of improvements
• [inotify] Return from InotifyEmitter.queue_events() if not launched when thread is inactive (#963)
• [tests] Stability improvements
• [utils] Remove handling of threading.Event.isSet spelling (#962)
• [watchmedo] Fixed tricks YAML generation (#965)

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @kurtmckee, @altendky, @agroszer, @BoboTiG

2.3.1

• Run black on the entire source code
• Bundle the requirements-tests.txt file in the source distribution (#939)
• [watchmedo] Exclude FileOpenedEvent events from AutoRestartTrick, and ShellCommandTrick, to restore watchdog < 2.3.0 behavior. A better solution should be found in the future. (#949)
• [watchmedo] Log FileOpenedEvent, and FileClosedEvent, events in LoggerTrick

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @BoboTiG

2.3.0

• [inotify] Add support for IN_OPEN events: a FileOpenedEvent event will be fired (#941)
• [watchmedo] Add optional event debouncing for auto-restart, only restarting once if many events happen in quick succession (--debounce-interval) (#940)
• [watchmedo] Add option to not auto-restart the command after it exits (--no-restart-on-command-exit) (#946)
• [watchmedo] Exit gracefully on KeyboardInterrupt exception (Ctrl+C) (#945)

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @BoboTiG, @dstaple, @taleinat, @cernekj

2.2.1

• Enable mypy to discover type hints as specified in PEP 561 (#933)
• [ci] Set the expected Python version when building release files
• [ci] Update actions versions in use
• [watchmedo] [regression] Fix usage of missing signal.SIGHUP attribute on non-Unix OSes (#935)

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @BoboTiG, @simon04, @piotrpdev

2.2.0

• [build] Wheels are now available for Python 3.11 (#932)
• [documentation] HTML documentation builds are now tested for errors (#902)
• [documentation] Fix typos here, and there (#910)
• [fsevents2] The fsevents2 observer is now deprecated (#909)
• [tests] The error message returned by musl libc for error code -1 is now allowed (#923)
• [utils] Remove unnecessary code in dirsnapshot.py (#930)
• [watchmedo] Handle shutdown events from SIGHUP (#912)

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @kurtmckee, @babymastodon, @QuantumEnergyE, @timgates42, @BoboTiG

2.1.6

• [bsd] Fixed returned paths in kqueue.py and restored the overall results of the test suite. (#842)
• [bsd] Updated FreeBSD CI support .(#841)
• [watchmedo] Removed the argh dependency in favor of the builtin argparse module. (#836)
• [watchmedo] Removed unexistant WindowsApiAsyncObserver references and --debug-force-winapi-async arguments.
• [watchmedo] Improved the help output.

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @knobix, @AndreaRe9, @BoboTiG

2.1.9

• [fsevents] Fix flakey test to assert that there are no errors when stopping the emitter.
• [inotify] Suppress occasional OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor at shutdown. #805
• [watchmedo] Make auto-restart restart the sub-process if it terminates. #896
• [watchmedo] Avoid zombie sub-processes when running shell-command without --wait. #405

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @samschott, @taleinat, @altendky, @BoboTiG

2.1.8

• Fix adding failed emitters on observer schedule. (#872)
• [inotify] Fix hang when unscheduling watch on a path in an unmounted filesystem. (#869)
• [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of --kill-after argument for the auto-restart command. (#870)
• [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of boolean arguments. (#887)
• [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of commands from auto-restart, and shell-command. (#888)
• [watchmedo] Support setting verbosity level via -q/--quiet and -v/--verbose arguments. (#889)

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @taleinat, @kianmeng, @palfrey, @IlayRosenberg, @BoboTiG

2.1.7

• Eliminate timeout in waiting on event queue. (#861)
• [inotify] Fix not equality implementation for InotifyEvent. (#848)
• [watchmedo] Fix calling commands from within a Python script. (#879)
• [watchmedo] PyYAML is loaded only when strictly necessary. Simple usages of watchmedo are possible without the module being installed. (#847)

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @sattlerc, @JanzenLiu, @BoboTiG