Update towncrier requirement from <24.7 to <24.9

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Updates the requirements on towncrier to permit the latest version.

Release notes

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Towncrier 24.8.0 (2024-08-23)

Features

• Add .gitkeep as an ignored filename. (#643)
• Config ignore option now supports wildcard matching via fnmatch. (#644)
• Add a config for enforcing issue names using regex. (#649)

Bugfixes

• The template file is now ignored based only on the file name. (#638)
• Control of the header formatting is once again completely up to the user when they are writing markdown files (fixes a regression introduced in [Much faster implementation of FileList, for big egg_info speedups #610](twisted/towncrier#610)). (#651)
• Fixed an issue where issue_template failed recognizing the issue name of files with a non-category suffix (.md) (#654)
• Fixed a bug where orphan news fragments (e.g. +abc1234.feature) would fail when an issue_pattern is configured. Orphan news fragments are now excempt from issue_pattern checks. (#655)

Deprecations and Removals

• Moved towncrier version definition from src/towncrier/_version.py to pyproject.toml

  towncrier.__version__ was removed, after being deprecated in 23.6.0. (#640)

Misc

• #640, #657

Changelog

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Towncrier 24.8.0 (2024-08-23)

No changes since the previous release candidate.

Features

• Add .gitkeep as an ignored filename. ([#643](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/643) <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/643>_)
• Config ignore option now supports wildcard matching via fnmatch <https://docs.python.org/3/library/fnmatch.html#fnmatch.fnmatch>. ([#644](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/644) <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/644>)
• Add a config for enforcing issue names using regex. ([#649](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/649) <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/649>_)

Bugfixes

• The template file is now ignored based only on the file name. ([#638](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/638) <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/638>_)
• Control of the header formatting is once again completely up to the user when they are writing markdown files (fixes a regression introduced in #610). ([#651](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/651) <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/651>_)
• Fixed an issue where issue_template failed recognizing the issue name of files with a non-category suffix (.md) ([#654](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/654) <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/654>_)
• Fixed a bug where orphan news fragments (e.g. +abc1234.feature) would fail when an issue_pattern is configured. Orphan news fragments are now excempt from issue_pattern checks. ([#655](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/655) <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/655>_)

Deprecations and Removals

• Moved towncrier version definition from src/towncrier/_version.py to pyproject.toml

  towncrier.version was removed, after being deprecated in 23.6.0. ([#640](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/640) <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/640>_)

Misc

• [#640](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/640) <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/640>, [#657](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/657) <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/657>

Towncrier 24.7.1 (2024-07-31)

No significant changes since the previous release candidate.

Bugfixes

• When the template file is stored in the same directory with the news fragments, it is automatically ignored when checking for valid fragment file names. ([#632](https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/632) <https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/issues/632>_)

Misc

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Commits

• 833647e Update final release.
• f944515 Update release docs.
• 261c8a2 venv/bin/towncrier build --yes
• 89ff29c Update version.
• cb09ddf Remove a stray "c" in the docs (#657)
• 4aa8174 handle empty issue names (#656)
• c24e5a1 Update src/towncrier/test/test_check.py
• 4d1cd36 Merge branch 'trunk' of https://github.com/dorschw/towncrier into trunk
• 51129c7 fix comment
• 4a94d4a Use terminology from tutorial
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