From e030af9fce7aefc3fe2773bd798730a361aa78ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sammi De Guzman <sammi@sammdot.ca>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:30:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] release 4.0.0rc1

---
 NEWS.md                        | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 news.d/bugfix/1571.ui.md       |  1 -
 news.d/bugfix/1599.windows.md  |  1 -
 news.d/feature/1404.ui.md      |  1 -
 news.d/feature/1592.core.md    |  1 -
 news.d/feature/1597.linux.md   |  1 -
 news.d/feature/1598.osx.md     |  1 -
 news.d/feature/1598.windows.md |  1 -
 news.d/feature/1611.core.md    |  1 -
 news.d/feature/1632.osx.md     |  1 -
 plover/__init__.py             |  2 +-
 setup.py                       |  2 +-
 12 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 news.d/bugfix/1571.ui.md
 delete mode 100644 news.d/bugfix/1599.windows.md
 delete mode 100644 news.d/feature/1404.ui.md
 delete mode 100644 news.d/feature/1592.core.md
 delete mode 100644 news.d/feature/1597.linux.md
 delete mode 100644 news.d/feature/1598.osx.md
 delete mode 100644 news.d/feature/1598.windows.md
 delete mode 100644 news.d/feature/1611.core.md
 delete mode 100644 news.d/feature/1632.osx.md

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index b37370b74..3434b610e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,46 @@
+# v4.0.0rc1 (2023-09-26)
+
+
+
+## Features
+
+### Core
+
+- updated config to use tox4 (#1592)
+- Implement first-up chord send for keyboard machine. (#1611)
+
+### User Interface
+
+- Added Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) translation. (#1404)
+
+### Linux
+
+- Update GitHub Actions from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04. (#1597)
+
+### macOS
+
+- Update GitHub Actions from macOS 10.15 to 12. (#1598)
+- Changes the Plover icon on macOS to match Big Sur-style icons. (#1632)
+
+### Windows
+
+- Update GitHub Actions from Windows 2019 to 2022. (#1598)
+
+## Bugfixes
+
+### User Interface
+
+- Fix "add translation" dialog ignoring the stylesheet's background color for the translation and stroke text. (#1571)
+
+### Windows
+
+- Fixed an issue which caused tests to fail on windows due to case sensitive filepaths. (#1599)
+
+## API
+
+No significant changes.
+
+
 # v4.0.0.dev12 (2022-08-09)
 
 ## Features
diff --git a/news.d/bugfix/1571.ui.md b/news.d/bugfix/1571.ui.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 20e510209..000000000
--- a/news.d/bugfix/1571.ui.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix "add translation" dialog ignoring the stylesheet's background color for the translation and stroke text.
diff --git a/news.d/bugfix/1599.windows.md b/news.d/bugfix/1599.windows.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f0f8de8f..000000000
--- a/news.d/bugfix/1599.windows.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed an issue which caused tests to fail on windows due to case sensitive filepaths.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/news.d/feature/1404.ui.md b/news.d/feature/1404.ui.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f9248318d..000000000
--- a/news.d/feature/1404.ui.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Added Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) translation.
diff --git a/news.d/feature/1592.core.md b/news.d/feature/1592.core.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 09dba915b..000000000
--- a/news.d/feature/1592.core.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-updated config to use tox4
diff --git a/news.d/feature/1597.linux.md b/news.d/feature/1597.linux.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e0a02224d..000000000
--- a/news.d/feature/1597.linux.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update GitHub Actions from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04.
diff --git a/news.d/feature/1598.osx.md b/news.d/feature/1598.osx.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0bda7d394..000000000
--- a/news.d/feature/1598.osx.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update GitHub Actions from macOS 10.15 to 12.
diff --git a/news.d/feature/1598.windows.md b/news.d/feature/1598.windows.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d52f894c..000000000
--- a/news.d/feature/1598.windows.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update GitHub Actions from Windows 2019 to 2022.
diff --git a/news.d/feature/1611.core.md b/news.d/feature/1611.core.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8db10aae6..000000000
--- a/news.d/feature/1611.core.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Implement first-up chord send for keyboard machine.
diff --git a/news.d/feature/1632.osx.md b/news.d/feature/1632.osx.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 059ba3bb3..000000000
--- a/news.d/feature/1632.osx.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Changes the Plover icon on macOS to match Big Sur-style icons.
diff --git a/plover/__init__.py b/plover/__init__.py
index 50902afe2..47baf27b9 100644
--- a/plover/__init__.py
+++ b/plover/__init__.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     # want to translate anyway.
     _ = lambda s: s
 
-__version__ = '4.0.0.dev12'
+__version__ = '4.0.0rc1'
 __copyright__ = '(C) Open Steno Project'
 __url__ = 'http://www.openstenoproject.org/'
 __download_url__ = 'http://www.openstenoproject.org/plover'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index beab2d759..2b2da2276 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def get_version():
     if not os.path.exists('.git'):
         return None
     version = subprocess.check_output('git describe --tags --match=v[0-9]*'.split()).strip().decode()
-    m = re.match(r'^v(\d[\d.]*(?:\.dev\d+)?)(-\d+-g[a-f0-9]*)?$', version)
+    m = re.match(r'^v(\d[\d.]*(?:(?:\.dev|rc)\d+)?)(-\d+-g[a-f0-9]*)?$', version)
     assert m is not None, version
     version = m.group(1)
     if m.group(2) is not None: