Particularly Important Changes

These are likely to affect you, please do take a careful look.

• Issue and test deprecation warnings by @EliahKagan in #1886
• Fix version_info cache invalidation, typing, parsing, and serialization by @EliahKagan in #1838
• Document manual refresh path treatment by @EliahKagan in #1839
• Improve static typing and docstrings related to git object types by @EliahKagan in #1859

Other Changes

• Test in Docker with Alpine Linux on CI by @EliahKagan in #1826
• Build online docs (RTD) with -W and dependencies by @EliahKagan in #1843
• Suggest full-path refresh() in failure message by @EliahKagan in #1844
• repo.blame and repo.blame_incremental now accept None as the rev parameter. by @Gaubbe in #1846
• Make sure diff always uses the default diff driver when create_patch=True by @can-taslicukur in #1832
• Revise docstrings, comments, and a few messages by @EliahKagan in #1850
• Expand what is included in the API Reference by @EliahKagan in #1855
• Restore building of documentation downloads by @EliahKagan in #1856
• Revise type annotations slightly by @EliahKagan in #1860
• Updating regex pattern to handle unicode whitespaces. by @jcole-crowdstrike in #1853
• Use upgraded pip in test fixture virtual environment by @EliahKagan in #1864
• lint: replace flake8 with ruff check by @Borda in #1862
• lint: switch Black with ruff-format by @Borda in #1865
• Update readme and tox.ini for recent tooling changes by @EliahKagan in #1868
• Split tox lint env into three envs, all safe by @EliahKagan in #1870
• Slightly broaden Ruff, and update and clarify tool configuration by @EliahKagan in #1871
• Add a "doc" extra for documentation build dependencies by @EliahKagan in #1872
• Describe Submodule.__init__ parent_commit parameter by @EliahKagan in #1877
• Include TagObject in git.types.Tree_ish by @EliahKagan in #1878
• Improve Sphinx role usage, including linking Git manpages by @EliahKagan in #1879
• Replace all wildcard imports with explicit imports by @EliahKagan in #1880
• Clarify how tag objects are usually tree-ish and commit-ish by @EliahKagan in #1881

New Contributors

• @Gaubbe made their first contribution in #1846
• @can-taslicukur made their first contribution in #1832
• @jcole-crowdstrike made their first contribution in #1853
• @Borda made their first contribution in #1862

Full Changelog: 3.1.42...3.1.43