v25.11.0

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Highlights

• Enable base 3.14 support (#​4804)
• Add support for the new Python 3.14 t-string syntax introduced by PEP 750 (#​4805)

Stable style

• Fix bug where comments between # fmt: off and # fmt: on were reformatted (#​4811)
• Comments containing fmt directives now preserve their exact formatting instead of
  being normalized (#​4811)

Preview style

• Move multiline_string_handling from --unstable to --preview (#​4760)
• Fix bug where module docstrings would be treated as normal strings if preceded by
  comments (#​4764)
• Fix bug where python 3.12 generics syntax split line happens weirdly (#​4777)
• Standardize type comments to form # type: <value> (#​4645)
• Fix fix_fmt_skip_in_one_liners preview feature to respect # fmt: skip for compound
  statements with semicolon-separated bodies (#​4800)

Configuration

• Add no_cache option to control caching behavior. (#​4803)

Packaging

• Releases now include arm64 Linux binaries (#​4773)

Output

• Write unchanged content to stdout when excluding formatting from stdin using pipes
  (#​4610)

Blackd

• Implemented BlackDClient. This simple python client allows to easily send formatting
  requests to blackd (#​4774)

Integrations

• Enable 3.14 base CI (#​4804)
• Enhance GitHub Action psf/black to support the required-version major-version-only
  "stability" format when using pyproject.toml (#​4770)
• Improve error message for vim plugin users. It now handles independently vim version
• Vim: Warn on unsupported Vim and Python versions independently (#​4772)
• Vim: Print the import paths when importing black fails (#​4675)
• Vim: Fix handling of virtualenvs that have a different Python version (#​4675)

v25.9.0

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Highlights

• Remove support for pre-python 3.7 await/async as soft keywords/variable names
  (#​4676)

Stable style

• Fix crash while formatting a long del statement containing tuples (#​4628)
• Fix crash while formatting expressions using the walrus operator in complex with
  statements (#​4630)
• Handle # fmt: skip followed by a comment at the end of file (#​4635)
• Fix crash when a tuple appears in the as clause of a with statement (#​4634)
• Fix crash when tuple is used as a context manager inside a with statement (#​4646)
• Fix crash when formatting a \ followed by a \r followed by a comment (#​4663)
• Fix crash on a \\r\n (#​4673)
• Fix crash on await ... (where ... is a literal Ellipsis) (#​4676)
• Fix crash on parenthesized expression inside a type parameter bound (#​4684)
• Fix crash when using line ranges excluding indented single line decorated items
  (#​4670)

Preview style

• Fix a bug where one-liner functions/conditionals marked with # fmt: skip would still
  be formatted (#​4552)
• Improve multiline_string_handling with ternaries and dictionaries (#​4657)
• Fix a bug where string_processing would not split f-strings directly after
  expressions (#​4680)
• Wrap the in clause of comprehensions across lines if necessary (#​4699)
• Remove parentheses around multiple exception types in except and except* without
  as. (#​4720)
• Add \r style newlines to the potential newlines to normalize file newlines both from
  and to (#​4710)

Parser

• Rewrite tokenizer to improve performance and compliance (#​4536)
• Fix bug where certain unusual expressions (e.g., lambdas) were not accepted in type
  parameter bounds and defaults. (#​4602)

Performance

• Avoid using an extra process when running with only one worker (#​4734)

Integrations

• Fix the version check in the vim file to reject Python 3.8 (#​4567)
• Enhance GitHub Action psf/black to read Black version from an additional section in
  pyproject.toml: [project.dependency-groups] (#​4606)
• Build gallery docker image with python3-slim and reduce image size (#​4686)

Documentation

• Add FAQ entry for windows emoji not displaying (#​4714)